ETL Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring ETL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 60 59
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing ETL 15 17 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.40% 2.07% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.43% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 38
10th Percentile - £486 £413
25th Percentile £450 £493 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +1.11% -1.10%
75th Percentile £469 - £508
90th Percentile £488 - £550
Scotland median daily rate £456 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -5.68% -3.25% -

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 588 699 1,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.93% 85.24% 91.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 375 652
10th Percentile £306 £215 £225
25th Percentile £413 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.00% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 24 6
10th Percentile - £13.30 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.13 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £21.80 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.01% -54.12% +160.49%
75th Percentile £45.80 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.25 £45.75 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.80 £21.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -3.68% +21.84% -15.62%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ETL

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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 9 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (33.33%) Apache
3 4 (26.67%) Confluence
4 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
4 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) Snowflake
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) GCP
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 2 (13.33%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (6.67%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (13.33%) Big Data
4 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI
4 2 (13.33%) PowerCenter
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (6.67%) Data Mart
5 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Informatica Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Re-Platforming Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Open Source Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (13.33%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) boto
3 1 (6.67%) FastAPI
3 1 (6.67%) Great Expectations
3 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
3 1 (6.67%) JWT
3 1 (6.67%) NumPy
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OpenCV
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) NHS
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (40.00%) Data Integration
1 6 (40.00%) Data Migration
1 6 (40.00%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Analytics
2 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Data Management
3 4 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (20.00%) Service Design
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (13.33%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Teradata
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) StreamSets
3 1 (6.67%) TSYS