Complex ETL Contract Job Trends in England

Complex Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Complex ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 509 561
Rank change year-on-year -20 +52 +179
Contract jobs citing Complex ETL 10 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.032% 0.014% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.036% 0.016% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £413 £201 -
25th Percentile £422 £244 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £675
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -39.42% +21.35%
75th Percentile - £563 £688
90th Percentile £530 £585 -
UK median daily rate £500 £409 £675
% change year-on-year +22.28% -39.42% +21.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Complex 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,018 25,529 32,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.67% 88.68% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,807 15,764 21,976
10th Percentile £300 £312 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 837 1,391
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Complex ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Complex ETL job vacancy trend in England

Complex ETL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Complex ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Complex ETL

Complex ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Complex ETL in England over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Complex ETL in England

Complex ETL
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Complex ETL within the England region over the 6 months to 24 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -10 4 £500 +86.69% 3
Midlands -41 3 £430 -21.82%
North West - 3 £500 -
North of England - 3 £500 -
East Midlands - 2 £428 -
West Midlands -25 1 £500 -9.09%
Complex ETL
UK

Complex ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (50.00%) Big Data
3 3 (30.00%) Power BI
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (20.00%) Metadata
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Power Query
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Playwright
1 3 (30.00%) pytest
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Beautiful Soup
3 1 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) MACH
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (10.00%) Pandas
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 5 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Coaching
5 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (30.00%) Data Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) User Stories
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (20.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) MiFID
2 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Proofpoint
2 1 (10.00%) Refinitiv
2 1 (10.00%) Veritas