ETL Contract Job Trends in England

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 81 90
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,406 749 881
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 3.06% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 3.36% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 506 678
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile £35.18 £49.25 £29.06
25th Percentile £47.60 £60.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.92 £78.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +58.99% +13.62%
75th Percentile £75.45 £98.56 £55.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £56.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +13.27% +14.14% +13.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ETL job vacancy trend in England

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ETL

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in England

ETL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ETL

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in England over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in England

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 ETL within the England region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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 +30 756 £514 -4.15% 180
Midlands +20 235 £469 -1.17% 64
West Midlands +26 201 £469 -5.49% 39
North of England -20 168 £460 -0.54% 77
South East -11 93 £475 -5.94% 91
North West -22 88 £447 -5.89% 50
South West -14 65 £525 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -29 64 £500 +42.86% 21
East of England -3 44 £500 +8.11% 24
East Midlands -20 34 £470 +14.63% 25
North East -7 15 £538 +13.16% 8
ETL
UK

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
1 129 (9.17%) Apache Spark
2 104 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (5.33%) SAS
4 72 (5.12%) Apache
5 36 (2.56%) Confluence
6 14 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.64%) Appian
8 9 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.43%) nginx
11 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.28%) Camunda
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
14 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 44 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.36%) Notepad++
6 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.36%) Maximo
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 573 (40.75%) Azure
2 420 (29.87%) AWS
3 342 (24.32%) Power Platform
4 221 (15.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 164 (11.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 158 (11.24%) GCP
7 140 (9.96%) Amazon S3
8 134 (9.53%) Snowflake
9 114 (8.11%) Serverless
10 110 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (7.04%) GitHub
12 88 (6.26%) dbt
13 86 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (3.41%) Collibra
15 45 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
17 30 (2.13%) SaaS
18 29 (2.06%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 23 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.36%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) DSL
5 1 (0.071%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (29.80%) Data Warehouse
2 320 (22.76%) Power BI
3 210 (14.94%) Data Lake
4 176 (12.52%) SQL Server
5 146 (10.38%) Metadata
6 98 (6.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.40%) Tableau
8 86 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 81 (5.76%) Delta Lake
10 77 (5.48%) Pentaho
11 75 (5.33%) Relational Database
12 71 (5.05%) Big Data
13 70 (4.98%) NoSQL
14 64 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
15 62 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
16 55 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
16 55 (3.91%) BigQuery
17 48 (3.41%) Star Schema
18 46 (3.27%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 162 (11.52%) Git
2 124 (8.82%) JIRA
3 72 (5.12%) Jenkins
4 67 (4.77%) GitLab
5 39 (2.77%) Postman
6 26 (1.85%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.56%) MLflow
8 19 (1.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.78%) ERwin
10 7 (0.50%) JMeter
10 7 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.36%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
12 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 392 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 381 (27.10%) Finance
3 237 (16.86%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.69%) Banking
6 28 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 23 (1.64%) Marketing
9 21 (1.49%) Legal
9 21 (1.49%) Retail
10 16 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.07%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.00%) Law
12 14 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.50%) Front Office
15 7 (0.50%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 578 (41.11%) Data Engineer
2 192 (13.66%) Developer
3 161 (11.45%) Senior
4 157 (11.17%) Lead
5 137 (9.74%) Architect
6 130 (9.25%) Analyst
7 108 (7.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 80 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 77 (5.48%) Data Architect
10 46 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 43 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
14 34 (2.42%) AWS Data Engineer
15 33 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
15 33 (2.35%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (2.28%) Azure Data Engineer
16 32 (2.28%) Consultant
17 29 (2.06%) Senior Developer
18 25 (1.78%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (11.10%) PySpark
2 132 (9.39%) Kafka
3 79 (5.62%) REST
4 42 (2.99%) Pandas
5 35 (2.49%) JSON
6 33 (2.35%) XML
7 32 (2.28%) .NET
8 26 (1.85%) RESTful
9 24 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
10 22 (1.56%) Middleware
10 22 (1.56%) NumPy
11 20 (1.42%) Great Expectations
11 20 (1.42%) OAuth
12 18 (1.28%) PyTorch
13 17 (1.21%) Spring
13 17 (1.21%) YAML
14 16 (1.14%) pytest
14 16 (1.14%) Web Services
15 15 (1.07%) scikit-learn
15 15 (1.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.39%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.69%) Data Structures
3 73 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 28 (1.99%) Product Ownership
7 23 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.07%) NHS
11 14 (1.00%) Clustering
12 13 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.92%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.85%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.78%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.06%) Unix
2 19 (1.35%) Linux
3 14 (1.00%) Windows
4 7 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.43%) Solaris
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (48.44%) Data Modelling
2 588 (41.82%) Analytics
3 528 (37.55%) Data Pipeline
4 465 (33.07%) Data Engineering
5 437 (31.08%) Business Intelligence
6 393 (27.95%) CI/CD
7 340 (24.18%) Agile
8 319 (22.69%) DevOps
9 317 (22.55%) Data Governance
10 316 (22.48%) Migration
11 286 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
12 255 (18.14%) Validation
13 224 (15.93%) Data Architecture
14 216 (15.36%) Data Integration
15 213 (15.15%) Data Migration
16 204 (14.51%) AI
17 188 (13.37%) Decision-Making
18 165 (11.74%) Test Automation
19 152 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
20 146 (10.38%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 950 (67.57%) SQL
2 607 (43.17%) Python
3 122 (8.68%) Java
4 65 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.55%) C#
6 61 (4.34%) PL/SQL
7 58 (4.13%) T-SQL
8 54 (3.84%) Scala
9 34 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 29 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.35%) R
13 18 (1.28%) Bash
13 18 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.21%) Bicep
15 9 (0.64%) Go
15 9 (0.64%) PHP
16 8 (0.57%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.57%) VBA
17 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 349 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 282 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 86 (6.12%) Degree
4 52 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.49%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.43%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.28%) PMP
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.14%) CISSP
14 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (33.85%) Data Quality
2 131 (9.32%) QA
3 105 (7.47%) GDPR
4 22 (1.56%) IFRS
5 20 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 15 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.85%) PMO
9 9 (0.64%) SLA
10 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.36%) FATCA
11 5 (0.36%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.28%) MiFID
13 3 (0.21%) HL7
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 127 (9.03%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.36%) HDFS
3 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.071%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.071%) RACF
6 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (9.60%) Terraform
2 128 (9.10%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.35%) Grafana
4 17 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.71%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.071%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.071%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.071%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.071%) Kibana
10 1 (0.071%) logstash
10 1 (0.071%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 285 (20.27%) Databricks
2 258 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 234 (16.64%) Oracle
4 128 (9.10%) Informatica
5 115 (8.18%) Talend
6 64 (4.55%) SAP
7 62 (4.41%) Denodo
8 50 (3.56%) Google
9 49 (3.49%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.85%) IBM
12 25 (1.78%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.35%) Workday
14 18 (1.28%) Splunk
15 16 (1.14%) Sage
16 15 (1.07%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.92%) Ab Initio
18 12 (0.85%) Palantir
19 11 (0.78%) OpenAI
20 10 (0.71%) Teradata