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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 79 81
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,482 793 939
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 3.19% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 3.49% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,092 553 708
10th Percentile £358 £363 £362
25th Percentile £413 £425 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% -5.12%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £632
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 11
10th Percentile £33.61 £38.42 £30.37
25th Percentile £35.44 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.53% -39.29%
75th Percentile £62.75 £78.70 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.87 £90.71 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%

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 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +11 755 £513 -4.47% 145
Midlands +33 259 £460 +2.22% 39
West Midlands +40 227 £459 -7.27% 29
North of England -17 176 £460 -3.16% 52
South East +2 134 £463 -7.50% 83
North West -12 94 £450 -10.00% 34
South West -10 66 £524 +10.26% 29
Yorkshire -31 63 £500 +20.48% 8
East of England -8 44 £488 - 9
East Midlands -18 31 £525 +23.67% 10
North East -24 19 £550 +26.44% 11
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
1 126 (8.50%) Apache Spark
2 101 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.72%) SAS
4 60 (4.05%) Apache
5 51 (3.44%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) Oracle Application Server
7 14 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
8 10 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.54%) Appian
11 7 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Camunda
14 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
16 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 41 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.88%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.61%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.20%) Actimize
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 609 (41.09%) Azure
2 435 (29.35%) AWS
3 372 (25.10%) Power Platform
4 222 (14.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 167 (11.27%) GCP
6 149 (10.05%) Snowflake
7 143 (9.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 134 (9.04%) Azure DevOps
9 123 (8.30%) Amazon S3
10 116 (7.83%) Serverless
11 96 (6.48%) dbt
11 96 (6.48%) GitHub
12 86 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (2.83%) Collibra
15 28 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.89%) Power Automate
16 27 (1.82%) Amazon EMR
17 25 (1.69%) Matillion
18 23 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.74%) Firewall
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.067%) 4G
4 1 (0.067%) 5G
4 1 (0.067%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.067%) DHCP
4 1 (0.067%) DNS
4 1 (0.067%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.067%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (29.49%) Data Warehouse
2 353 (23.82%) Power BI
3 234 (15.79%) Data Lake
4 176 (11.88%) SQL Server
5 127 (8.57%) Metadata
6 98 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.41%) Tableau
8 87 (5.87%) Delta Lake
9 84 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 82 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (5.47%) Pentaho
12 80 (5.40%) Relational Database
13 73 (4.93%) NoSQL
14 71 (4.79%) Big Data
15 66 (4.45%) BigQuery
16 60 (4.05%) Oracle Reports
17 59 (3.98%) Snowflake Schema
18 57 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
19 50 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
20 47 (3.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 172 (11.61%) Git
2 131 (8.84%) JIRA
3 83 (5.60%) GitLab
4 61 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.63%) Postman
6 34 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.15%) MLflow
8 10 (0.67%) Selenium
9 9 (0.61%) ERwin
10 7 (0.47%) JMeter
11 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Flyway
12 4 (0.27%) Gatling
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) LSMW
12 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.20%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 393 (26.52%) Finance
2 373 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 247 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.35%) Banking
6 37 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.02%) Marketing
8 24 (1.62%) Retail
9 22 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.28%) Legal
11 17 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.81%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.61%) Law
14 8 (0.54%) Billing
14 8 (0.54%) Front Office
14 8 (0.54%) Military
15 7 (0.47%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 603 (40.69%) Data Engineer
2 201 (13.56%) Developer
3 174 (11.74%) Senior
4 172 (11.61%) Architect
5 169 (11.40%) Lead
6 122 (8.23%) Senior Data Engineer
7 109 (7.35%) Analyst
8 97 (6.55%) Data Architect
9 68 (4.59%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (2.56%) SQL Developer
13 36 (2.43%) AWS Engineer
14 35 (2.36%) Consultant
14 35 (2.36%) Data Migration Lead
15 33 (2.23%) Lead Data Engineer
16 32 (2.16%) AWS Data Engineer
16 32 (2.16%) Oracle Developer
17 30 (2.02%) Snowflake Engineer
18 29 (1.96%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (10.86%) PySpark
2 112 (7.56%) Kafka
3 76 (5.13%) REST
4 42 (2.83%) Pandas
5 39 (2.63%) .NET
6 37 (2.50%) JSON
7 36 (2.43%) XML
8 30 (2.02%) Middleware
9 27 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (1.69%) Spring
11 23 (1.55%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.28%) PyTorch
12 19 (1.28%) RESTful
13 18 (1.21%) NumPy
13 18 (1.21%) Web Services
14 17 (1.15%) OAuth
14 17 (1.15%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.08%) Great Expectations
16 15 (1.01%) React
16 15 (1.01%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.41%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.47%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.09%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.62%) AI Agents
7 24 (1.62%) Distributed Computing
8 23 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.08%) Clustering
12 15 (1.01%) NHS
12 15 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.94%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.81%) Replication
16 11 (0.74%) IoT
16 11 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.29%) Unix
2 31 (2.09%) Linux
3 18 (1.21%) Windows
4 8 (0.54%) Solaris
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (47.10%) Data Modelling
2 569 (38.39%) Data Pipeline
3 564 (38.06%) Analytics
4 454 (30.63%) Data Engineering
5 437 (29.49%) Business Intelligence
6 415 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 365 (24.63%) Migration
8 359 (24.22%) Agile
9 327 (22.06%) DevOps
10 285 (19.23%) Validation
11 279 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
12 276 (18.62%) Data Governance
13 249 (16.80%) AI
14 247 (16.67%) Data Integration
15 232 (15.65%) Data Migration
16 220 (14.84%) Data Architecture
17 200 (13.50%) Decision-Making
18 190 (12.82%) Test Automation
19 158 (10.66%) Stakeholder Management
20 153 (10.32%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,000 (67.48%) SQL
2 595 (40.15%) Python
3 126 (8.50%) Java
4 84 (5.67%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 70 (4.72%) PL/SQL
7 58 (3.91%) C#
8 50 (3.37%) Scala
9 36 (2.43%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.23%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.75%) Bash
12 21 (1.42%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.42%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.21%) R
14 15 (1.01%) Bicep
15 8 (0.54%) VBA
16 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.40%) Cypher
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 394 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 326 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.53%) Degree
4 41 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.89%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.27%) PMP
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 492 (33.20%) Data Quality
2 139 (9.38%) QA
3 95 (6.41%) GDPR
4 21 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.28%) IFRS
6 17 (1.15%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.88%) PMO
7 13 (0.88%) SLA
8 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.54%) FATCA
10 7 (0.47%) GRC
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.34%) GAAP
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.34%) Solvency II
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.20%) HL7
14 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.34%) HDFS
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.067%) RACF
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 129 (8.70%) Terraform
2 111 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.35%) Grafana
4 14 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.88%) Ansible
6 8 (0.54%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.067%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.067%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 293 (19.77%) Databricks
2 283 (19.10%) Microsoft
3 276 (18.62%) Oracle
4 132 (8.91%) Informatica
5 123 (8.30%) Talend
6 67 (4.52%) SAP
7 59 (3.98%) Denodo
8 46 (3.10%) ServiceNow
9 45 (3.04%) Google
10 33 (2.23%) IBM
11 26 (1.75%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.48%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.42%) MuleSoft
14 20 (1.35%) Sage
15 17 (1.15%) Splunk
15 17 (1.15%) Workday
16 16 (1.08%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
18 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
19 9 (0.61%) Teradata