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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 81 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,522 836 928
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.06% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.37% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 573 689
10th Percentile £358 £365 £360
25th Percentile £416 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 9
10th Percentile £27.35 £38.69 £28.64
25th Percentile £30.21 £44.50 -
Median hourly rate £35.86 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% +50.00% -48.15%
75th Percentile £54.38 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.46 £89.73 -
UK median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.96% +37.14% -46.15%

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 38,297 24,783 30,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.63% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 15,884 19,726
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £645
90th Percentile £737 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,330 1,950
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.29 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.23 £71.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £39.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -36.33% -7.06%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +4 751 £525 -0.94% 190
Midlands +26 276 £455 +1.05% 42
West Midlands +34 241 £450 -9.09% 26
North of England -11 187 £463 -2.63% 67
South East +6 139 £459 -2.86% 56
North West -18 84 £460 -8.00% 34
Yorkshire -18 79 £469 +10.29% 19
South West -22 69 £523 +10.00% 34
East of England +3 52 £494 -1.25% 9
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +10.96% 16
North East -17 25 £531 +11.79% 16
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
1 127 (8.34%) Apache Spark
2 112 (7.36%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (5.98%) SAS
4 72 (4.73%) Apache
5 55 (3.61%) Confluence
6 21 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 18 (1.18%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) nginx
8 10 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.26%) Appian
11 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 39 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.066%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.72%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.59%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 589 (38.70%) Azure
2 441 (28.98%) AWS
3 353 (23.19%) Power Platform
4 208 (13.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 183 (12.02%) GCP
6 174 (11.43%) Snowflake
7 141 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 124 (8.15%) Amazon S3
9 121 (7.95%) Azure DevOps
10 118 (7.75%) Serverless
11 117 (7.69%) dbt
12 92 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
13 87 (5.72%) GitHub
14 46 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (2.76%) Collibra
16 33 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
17 26 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
17 26 (1.71%) Matillion
17 26 (1.71%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 8 (0.53%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.066%) 4G
4 1 (0.066%) 5G
4 1 (0.066%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.066%) DHCP
4 1 (0.066%) DNS
4 1 (0.066%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.066%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 487 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 337 (22.14%) Power BI
3 220 (14.45%) Data Lake
4 157 (10.32%) SQL Server
5 134 (8.80%) Metadata
6 99 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 99 (6.50%) Tableau
7 90 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 87 (5.72%) Relational Database
9 85 (5.58%) Delta Lake
10 82 (5.39%) BigQuery
11 76 (4.99%) Pentaho
12 73 (4.80%) Big Data
13 66 (4.34%) NoSQL
14 65 (4.27%) Oracle Reports
15 63 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 58 (3.81%) Snowflake Schema
18 49 (3.22%) Oracle Database
19 47 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 167 (10.97%) Git
2 131 (8.61%) JIRA
3 77 (5.06%) GitLab
4 57 (3.75%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.63%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.43%) Postman
7 13 (0.85%) MLflow
8 11 (0.72%) Selenium
9 6 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.26%) Flyway
11 4 (0.26%) LSMW
11 4 (0.26%) Newman
11 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) ERwin
12 3 (0.20%) Gatling
12 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 368 (24.18%) Finance
2 359 (23.59%) Social Skills
3 274 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.03%) Banking
6 38 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.97%) Marketing
8 22 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (1.45%) Retail
9 21 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.25%) Legal
12 13 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.72%) Front Office
13 11 (0.72%) Law
14 10 (0.66%) Billing
14 10 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.59%) Military
16 8 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 603 (39.62%) Data Engineer
2 228 (14.98%) Developer
3 194 (12.75%) Architect
4 185 (12.16%) Senior
5 159 (10.45%) Lead
6 127 (8.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 116 (7.62%) Analyst
8 103 (6.77%) Data Architect
9 61 (4.01%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (2.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 43 (2.83%) Azure Data Engineer
12 43 (2.83%) SQL Developer
13 41 (2.69%) Tester
14 40 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.37%) Snowflake Engineer
16 35 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (2.23%) Data Migration Lead
18 33 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
19 32 (2.10%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (10.32%) PySpark
2 123 (8.08%) Kafka
3 68 (4.47%) REST
4 53 (3.48%) JSON
5 40 (2.63%) .NET
6 34 (2.23%) Pandas
7 27 (1.77%) XML
8 26 (1.71%) Middleware
9 24 (1.58%) React
10 23 (1.51%) Spring
11 21 (1.38%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.12%) RESTful
12 17 (1.12%) Web Services
12 17 (1.12%) YAML
13 16 (1.05%) Great Expectations
14 15 (0.99%) Apache Avro
15 13 (0.85%) OAuth
15 13 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
15 13 (0.85%) pytest
16 12 (0.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 97 (6.37%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 39 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 23 (1.51%) NHS
8 22 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.12%) Clustering
11 17 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 15 (0.99%) Management Information System
13 12 (0.79%) IoT
13 12 (0.79%) Replication
14 11 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
15 10 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.66%) Taxonomies
16 9 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.09%) Unix
2 45 (2.96%) Linux
3 18 (1.18%) Windows
4 8 (0.53%) Solaris
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (46.91%) Data Modelling
2 611 (40.14%) Data Pipeline
3 579 (38.04%) Analytics
4 470 (30.88%) Data Engineering
5 443 (29.11%) CI/CD
6 428 (28.12%) Business Intelligence
7 403 (26.48%) Migration
8 383 (25.16%) Agile
9 313 (20.57%) DevOps
10 312 (20.50%) Data Governance
11 306 (20.11%) Validation
12 286 (18.79%) Data Integration
13 274 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
14 248 (16.29%) Data Migration
15 238 (15.64%) AI
16 218 (14.32%) Data Architecture
17 208 (13.67%) Test Automation
18 199 (13.07%) Decision-Making
19 177 (11.63%) Data Transformation
20 167 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,025 (67.35%) SQL
2 583 (38.30%) Python
3 132 (8.67%) Java
4 83 (5.45%) T-SQL
5 74 (4.86%) PL/SQL
6 69 (4.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.42%) C#
8 46 (3.02%) Scala
9 37 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 34 (2.23%) JavaScript
11 30 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.91%) Bash
13 20 (1.31%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.12%) R
15 16 (1.05%) Bicep
16 9 (0.59%) VBA
17 7 (0.46%) Cypher
17 7 (0.46%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 416 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 345 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 77 (5.06%) Degree
4 39 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.23%) Azure Certification
5 34 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (1.58%) ISTQB
7 20 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 17 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 9 (0.59%) SnowPro
10 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.13%) CISSP
14 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (33.84%) Data Quality
2 139 (9.13%) QA
3 98 (6.44%) GDPR
4 26 (1.71%) GRC
5 23 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.92%) PMO
7 13 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) IFRS
9 9 (0.59%) SLA
10 8 (0.53%) FATCA
11 7 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.39%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.39%) WCAG
13 4 (0.26%) GAAP
13 4 (0.26%) GMP
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 105 (6.90%) Docker
2 9 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) HDFS
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (8.54%) Terraform
2 112 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.71%) Grafana
4 16 (1.05%) Ansible
4 16 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.53%) Control-M
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) Foglight
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.066%) Argo
8 1 (0.066%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.066%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 296 (19.45%) Oracle
2 289 (18.99%) Databricks
3 269 (17.67%) Microsoft
4 136 (8.94%) Informatica
5 121 (7.95%) Talend
6 76 (4.99%) SAP
7 59 (3.88%) Google
8 56 (3.68%) Denodo
9 40 (2.63%) IBM
10 37 (2.43%) ServiceNow
11 32 (2.10%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.91%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.51%) Sage
14 17 (1.12%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.12%) Splunk
15 16 (1.05%) Palantir
16 13 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.79%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.79%) Workday
18 11 (0.72%) Red Hat