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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 74 105
Rank change year-on-year -15 +31 -5
Contract jobs citing ETL 876 915 898
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.93% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.38% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 613 677
10th Percentile £359 £358 £382
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -4.25% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 13
10th Percentile £32.78 - £47.00
25th Percentile £35.81 £26.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £41.23 £35.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.80% -44.44% +47.37%
75th Percentile £58.88 £47.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £80.78 £55.35 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.23 £27.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +49.93% -57.69% +52.05%

All Process and 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 26,929 27,070 35,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.54% 86.59% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,119 16,517 24,223
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,746 975 1,480
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.38 £74.48 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 -6 517 £525 - 747
Midlands -7 113 £508 +14.04% 93
North of England -34 95 £450 -5.26% 116
West Midlands -13 82 £519 +8.70% 66
South West +11 50 £500 -13.04% 51
North West -21 49 £413 -6.52% 68
South East -30 42 £438 -18.60% 514
Yorkshire -34 40 £475 -2.06% 28
East Midlands -11 29 £435 +5.45% 24
East of England -4 28 £550 +4.76% 58
North East -12 6 £450 -5.26% 21
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 86 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (9.25%) Apache Spark
3 59 (6.74%) Apache
4 37 (4.22%) SAS
5 8 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
6 7 (0.80%) Confluence
6 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.57%) IIS
8 4 (0.46%) Luigi
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.23%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 50 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.34%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (1.03%) SAP PM
3 7 (0.80%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.80%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.34%) Maximo
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.23%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 341 (38.93%) Azure
2 291 (33.22%) AWS
3 185 (21.12%) Power Platform
4 139 (15.87%) GCP
5 127 (14.50%) Snowflake
6 121 (13.81%) Azure Data Factory
7 79 (9.02%) Amazon S3
8 78 (8.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 76 (8.68%) Serverless
10 62 (7.08%) dbt
11 54 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 53 (6.05%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (5.25%) GitHub
14 34 (3.88%) SaaS
15 29 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.85%) PaaS
17 21 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.28%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (2.17%) IaaS
20 18 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) 2G
1 6 (0.68%) 5G
1 6 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.57%) 4G
2 5 (0.57%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
4 3 (0.34%) SSL
4 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) BGP
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) DMZ
5 2 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) OSPF
5 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (32.76%) Data Warehouse
2 174 (19.86%) Power BI
3 119 (13.58%) Data Lake
4 105 (11.99%) SQL Server
5 91 (10.39%) Relational Database
6 74 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 68 (7.76%) Big Data
7 68 (7.76%) BigQuery
8 65 (7.42%) Metadata
9 60 (6.85%) Tableau
10 54 (6.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 53 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
12 51 (5.82%) NoSQL
13 42 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 40 (4.57%) Delta Lake
15 38 (4.34%) Pentaho
16 35 (4.00%) Hadoop
17 33 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (3.65%) Oracle Database
19 28 (3.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 103 (11.76%) Git
2 59 (6.74%) JIRA
3 54 (6.16%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.05%) ERwin
5 10 (1.14%) GitLab
6 8 (0.91%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.80%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.80%) MLflow
7 7 (0.80%) Postman
7 7 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.68%) Selenium
8 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.34%) Maven
10 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.23%) JMeter
11 2 (0.23%) LSMW
11 2 (0.23%) PROIV
11 2 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 262 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 214 (24.43%) Finance
3 160 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.76%) Banking
6 25 (2.85%) Retail
7 17 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.71%) Marketing
9 14 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.26%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.14%) Local Government
12 10 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.80%) Front Office
14 7 (0.80%) Publishing
15 6 (0.68%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 281 (32.08%) Data Engineer
2 123 (14.04%) Developer
3 119 (13.58%) Architect
4 94 (10.73%) Senior
5 91 (10.39%) Lead
6 90 (10.27%) Analyst
7 63 (7.19%) Data Architect
8 55 (6.28%) Data Analyst
9 48 (5.48%) Senior Data Engineer
10 40 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
12 29 (3.31%) Business Analyst
13 26 (2.97%) Consultant
14 25 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (2.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 22 (2.51%) Senior Developer
16 19 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (2.05%) AWS Data Engineer
17 18 (2.05%) Python Engineer
18 17 (1.94%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (8.33%) PySpark
2 70 (7.99%) Kafka
3 40 (4.57%) XML
4 30 (3.42%) REST
5 28 (3.20%) Node.js
6 27 (3.08%) JSON
7 17 (1.94%) Pandas
7 17 (1.94%) RESTful
8 15 (1.71%) Middleware
8 15 (1.71%) NumPy
9 14 (1.60%) .NET
10 13 (1.48%) GraphQL
10 13 (1.48%) OAuth
11 12 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.26%) SOAP
13 10 (1.14%) React
14 8 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (0.80%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.31%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.48%) Data Structures
3 32 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.28%) Algorithms
6 17 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 15 (1.71%) Replication
8 14 (1.60%) IoT
8 14 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.48%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.03%) Reinsurance
13 8 (0.91%) NHS
14 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.88%) Linux
2 15 (1.71%) Windows
3 6 (0.68%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (43.84%) Data Modelling
2 327 (37.33%) Analytics
3 322 (36.76%) Data Pipeline
4 263 (30.02%) Business Intelligence
5 245 (27.97%) Data Engineering
6 220 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
7 217 (24.77%) CI/CD
8 209 (23.86%) Data Governance
9 206 (23.52%) Agile
10 191 (21.80%) DevOps
11 188 (21.46%) Data Integration
12 186 (21.23%) Migration
13 137 (15.64%) Data Architecture
14 129 (14.73%) Data Migration
15 117 (13.36%) Data Transformation
16 116 (13.24%) Visualisation
17 113 (12.90%) Validation
18 102 (11.64%) Data Science
19 94 (10.73%) Machine Learning
20 88 (10.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 559 (63.81%) SQL
2 420 (47.95%) Python
3 85 (9.70%) Java
4 50 (5.71%) Scala
5 43 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (3.65%) C#
7 31 (3.54%) T-SQL
8 25 (2.85%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.94%) PowerShell
10 16 (1.83%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.83%) VBA
11 15 (1.71%) Bash
12 13 (1.48%) R
13 12 (1.37%) PHP
14 11 (1.26%) Go
15 10 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.68%) Bicep
16 6 (0.68%) Korn
Qualifications
1 140 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 103 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.42%) Degree
4 39 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.54%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.14%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.57%) PMP
12 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.34%) CISSP
13 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.34%) MCSE
14 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.23%) MCP
15 1 (0.11%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (30.94%) Data Quality
2 59 (6.74%) QA
3 56 (6.39%) GDPR
4 21 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.46%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) EMIR
8 3 (0.34%) GAAP
8 3 (0.34%) HL7
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.23%) IFRS
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.23%) MiFID
9 2 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 102 (11.64%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) zsh
4 4 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.23%) KVM
6 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 93 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 63 (7.19%) Terraform
3 13 (1.48%) Grafana
4 9 (1.03%) Control-M
5 8 (0.91%) Ansible
6 5 (0.57%) Kibana
6 5 (0.57%) logstash
6 5 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.34%) Argo
8 3 (0.34%) Istio
9 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 145 (16.55%) Databricks
2 137 (15.64%) Microsoft
3 122 (13.93%) Oracle
4 58 (6.62%) Google
5 56 (6.39%) Talend
6 50 (5.71%) Informatica
7 39 (4.45%) SAP
8 33 (3.77%) Denodo
9 18 (2.05%) IBM
10 17 (1.94%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.60%) Palantir
12 10 (1.14%) AppDynamics
12 10 (1.14%) Foundry
12 10 (1.14%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.14%) Workday
13 8 (0.91%) Cognos
13 8 (0.91%) VMware
14 7 (0.80%) Alteryx
14 7 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.68%) Teradata