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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 74 109
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -10
Contract jobs citing ETL 887 907 892
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.90% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.35% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 603 678
10th Percentile £360 £358 £382
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £32.50 - £47.00
25th Percentile £35.63 £26.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -32.54% +57.50%
75th Percentile £64.01 £51.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £67.93 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -46.15% +62.50%

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 27,324 27,092 35,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.37% 86.76% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,372 16,558 24,038
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 983 1,478
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -6 518 £525 - 429
Midlands -7 121 £500 +12.36% 67
North of England -44 95 £450 -5.26% 62
West Midlands -10 87 £519 +8.70% 50
South West +9 52 £520 -9.57% 33
North West -12 50 £413 -5.71% 33
South East -34 42 £448 -18.64% 111
Yorkshire -45 38 £475 -2.06% 22
East Midlands -2 33 £442 +7.05% 17
East of England -5 28 £550 +10.00% 27
North East -12 6 £450 -5.26% 7
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 88 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (9.36%) Apache Spark
3 63 (7.10%) Apache
4 38 (4.28%) SAS
5 8 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.68%) Confluence
8 5 (0.56%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 52 (5.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.79%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.68%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.45%) Maximo
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.23%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 336 (37.88%) Azure
2 298 (33.60%) AWS
3 187 (21.08%) Power Platform
4 140 (15.78%) GCP
5 132 (14.88%) Snowflake
6 115 (12.97%) Azure Data Factory
7 83 (9.36%) Amazon S3
8 77 (8.68%) Serverless
9 74 (8.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 62 (6.99%) dbt
11 54 (6.09%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (5.41%) GitHub
14 33 (3.72%) SaaS
15 30 (3.38%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.82%) PaaS
17 23 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
18 20 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.25%) IaaS
19 18 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) 2G
1 6 (0.68%) 5G
1 6 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.56%) 4G
2 5 (0.56%) Internet
3 4 (0.45%) 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%) Hyperconnected
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%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (32.36%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (19.84%) Power BI
3 121 (13.64%) Data Lake
4 100 (11.27%) SQL Server
5 91 (10.26%) Relational Database
6 73 (8.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 68 (7.67%) Metadata
8 67 (7.55%) Big Data
9 64 (7.22%) BigQuery
10 60 (6.76%) Tableau
11 57 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
12 56 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (5.75%) NoSQL
14 42 (4.74%) Pentaho
15 37 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
16 35 (3.95%) Delta Lake
16 35 (3.95%) Hadoop
17 32 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
18 28 (3.16%) Power Query
19 27 (3.04%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 103 (11.61%) Git
2 59 (6.65%) JIRA
3 54 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.03%) ERwin
5 11 (1.24%) GitLab
6 8 (0.90%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.79%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.79%) MLflow
7 7 (0.79%) Postman
7 7 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.68%) Selenium
9 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.23%) JMeter
12 2 (0.23%) LSMW
12 2 (0.23%) PROIV
12 2 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 270 (30.44%) Social Skills
2 220 (24.80%) Finance
3 161 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.44%) Banking
6 25 (2.82%) Retail
7 17 (1.92%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.69%) Marketing
10 14 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.35%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.24%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (1.13%) Legal
13 10 (1.13%) Local Government
14 8 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 7 (0.79%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.79%) Front Office
15 7 (0.79%) Publishing
16 6 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 283 (31.91%) Data Engineer
2 132 (14.88%) Developer
3 117 (13.19%) Architect
4 97 (10.94%) Lead
5 96 (10.82%) Senior
6 92 (10.37%) Analyst
7 62 (6.99%) Data Architect
8 58 (6.54%) Data Analyst
9 47 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 38 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
11 33 (3.72%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (3.16%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (2.93%) Consultant
15 24 (2.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 22 (2.48%) Senior Developer
17 19 (2.14%) AWS Data Engineer
17 19 (2.14%) Azure Architect
18 18 (2.03%) Lead Data Engineer
18 18 (2.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (8.23%) PySpark
2 72 (8.12%) Kafka
3 41 (4.62%) XML
4 31 (3.49%) REST
5 29 (3.27%) Node.js
6 26 (2.93%) JSON
7 19 (2.14%) RESTful
8 17 (1.92%) Pandas
9 15 (1.69%) NumPy
10 14 (1.58%) .NET
11 13 (1.47%) GraphQL
11 13 (1.47%) Middleware
11 13 (1.47%) OAuth
12 12 (1.35%) AngularJS
13 11 (1.24%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 11 (1.24%) React
13 11 (1.24%) SOAP
14 8 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (0.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 66 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 48 (5.41%) Data Structures
3 31 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.71%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.69%) Replication
9 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.47%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.24%) IoT
10 11 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.01%) Data Fabric
12 9 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (1.01%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.83%) Linux
2 15 (1.69%) 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
1 385 (43.40%) Data Modelling
2 335 (37.77%) Analytics
3 328 (36.98%) Data Pipeline
4 264 (29.76%) Business Intelligence
5 248 (27.96%) Data Engineering
6 228 (25.70%) CI/CD
7 222 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
8 212 (23.90%) Agile
8 212 (23.90%) Data Governance
9 194 (21.87%) DevOps
10 185 (20.86%) Migration
11 184 (20.74%) Data Integration
12 138 (15.56%) Data Architecture
13 128 (14.43%) Data Migration
14 118 (13.30%) Data Transformation
15 117 (13.19%) Visualisation
16 110 (12.40%) Validation
17 108 (12.18%) Data Science
18 95 (10.71%) Machine Learning
19 87 (9.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 565 (63.70%) SQL
2 425 (47.91%) Python
3 88 (9.92%) Java
4 48 (5.41%) Scala
5 43 (4.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (3.61%) C#
7 29 (3.27%) T-SQL
8 24 (2.71%) PL/SQL
9 18 (2.03%) JavaScript
10 17 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.80%) VBA
12 15 (1.69%) Bash
13 14 (1.58%) R
14 12 (1.35%) Go
14 12 (1.35%) PHP
15 10 (1.13%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.13%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.79%) Korn
17 6 (0.68%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 141 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 107 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.22%) Degree
4 38 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.95%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.58%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (1.01%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.56%) PMP
11 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.34%) CISSP
12 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.34%) MCSE
13 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.23%) MCP
14 1 (0.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (30.33%) Data Quality
2 61 (6.88%) QA
3 59 (6.65%) GDPR
4 22 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.01%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) HL7
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
8 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.23%) EMIR
9 2 (0.23%) GAAP
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 104 (11.72%) Docker
2 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.56%) zsh
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) KVM
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 95 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 67 (7.55%) Terraform
3 13 (1.47%) Grafana
4 9 (1.01%) Ansible
4 9 (1.01%) Control-M
5 5 (0.56%) Kibana
5 5 (0.56%) logstash
5 5 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Istio
8 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 142 (16.01%) Databricks
2 137 (15.45%) Microsoft
3 121 (13.64%) Oracle
4 64 (7.22%) Talend
5 57 (6.43%) Informatica
6 54 (6.09%) Google
7 40 (4.51%) SAP
8 33 (3.72%) Denodo
9 20 (2.25%) Salesforce
10 19 (2.14%) IBM
11 14 (1.58%) Palantir
12 11 (1.24%) Foundry
13 10 (1.13%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.13%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.13%) Workday
14 9 (1.01%) VMware
15 8 (0.90%) Cognos
16 7 (0.79%) Alteryx
16 7 (0.79%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.68%) Teradata