ETL Contracts in Edinburgh

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 55 47
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 +30
Contract jobs citing ETL 30 17 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.80% 2.09% 5.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 2.36% 5.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 60
10th Percentile - £480 £406
25th Percentile £413 £485 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.15% -2.34%
75th Percentile £491 £507 £508
90th Percentile £538 £538 £550
Scotland median daily rate £425 £486 £490
% change year-on-year -12.51% -0.87% -2.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for ETL in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Confluence
2 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (3.33%) Apache
5 1 (3.33%) GeoServer
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (73.33%) AWS
2 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 9 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
3 9 (30.00%) Serverless
4 7 (23.33%) Azure
5 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (10.00%) GCP
8 2 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (70.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle Database
3 6 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (20.00%) Power BI
4 5 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.67%) Big Data
6 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.67%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (6.67%) PowerCenter
7 1 (3.33%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (3.33%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.33%) GIS
7 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 5 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (3.33%) ER Studio
4 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.33%) Selenium
4 1 (3.33%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 6 (20.00%) Banking
5 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
6 1 (3.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Data Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Data Analyst
4 6 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) ETL Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (6.67%) Senior
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Lead
8 1 (3.33%) Open Source Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 2 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) Great Expectations
2 1 (3.33%) Pandas
2 1 (3.33%) PostGIS
2 1 (3.33%) React
2 1 (3.33%) Spring
2 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.33%) NHS
2 1 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Analytics
1 13 (43.33%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (36.67%) Data Migration
2 11 (36.67%) Migration
2 11 (36.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 9 (30.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (30.00%) Data Transformation
4 8 (26.67%) Business Analysis
4 8 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 7 (23.33%) Computer Science
5 7 (23.33%) Data Integration
5 7 (23.33%) DevOps
5 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.00%) Business Analytics
6 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 6 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (23.33%) QA
3 5 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) Informatica
4 2 (6.67%) Teradata
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) IBM
5 1 (3.33%) IDERA
5 1 (3.33%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.33%) TSYS