ETL Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 27 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 12 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 5.74% 0.62% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.45% 0.75% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% - -
75th Percentile - £538 -
90th Percentile £471 - -
County Antrim median daily rate £400 £525 -
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

ETL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 186 134 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 89.00% 82.72% 87.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 60 71
10th Percentile £263 £145 £200
25th Percentile £325 £166 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +15.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £534
90th Percentile £638 £628 £638
County Antrim median daily rate £475 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +2.70% +15.63% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 11
10th Percentile £12.31 £21.19 £11.08
25th Percentile £13.60 - £12.74
Median hourly rate £15.67 £24.18 £13.46
Median % change year-on-year -35.22% +79.64% +31.70%
75th Percentile £17.30 - £13.91
90th Percentile £24.50 £37.88 £16.00
County Antrim median hourly rate £17.30 £24.18 £13.69
% change year-on-year -28.45% +76.69% +29.13%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

ETL job vacancy trend in Belfast

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing ETL

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Amazon QuickSight
1 5 (41.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) Parquet
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
3 1 (8.33%) GIS
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Test Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Data Migration Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Migration Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Senior
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (25.00%) Test Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 4 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) SQL Optimisation
2 4 (33.33%) Validation
3 3 (25.00%) API Development
3 3 (25.00%) API Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (25.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (8.33%) Data Acquisition
5 1 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (8.33%) Data Science
5 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Ab Initio
1 1 (8.33%) Fujitsu