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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 78 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,484 824 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.37% 3.11% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.42% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 565 707
10th Percentile £358 £363 £359
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -6.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 12
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.69 £30.83
25th Percentile £30.96 £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +15.38% -32.59%
75th Percentile £59.75 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £89.73 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% +5.49% -30.00%

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 37,627 24,117 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.34% 90.98% 85.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,684 15,510 20,711
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,203 2,295
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.93 £16.18
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.80
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.30 £72.95
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +74.79% -33.38% +0.67%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +7 739 £520 -3.91% 220
Midlands +24 269 £459 +1.89% 52
West Midlands +41 234 £455 -8.54% 30
North of England -20 181 £463 -2.63% 65
South East +16 139 £473 -5.50% 98
North West -17 90 £450 -10.00% 40
Yorkshire -28 70 £500 +18.34% 15
South West -15 65 £523 +10.00% 44
East of England -10 46 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -14 34 £525 +18.89% 22
North East -22 21 £550 +30.95% 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
1 129 (8.69%) Apache Spark
2 109 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (4.85%) SAS
4 68 (4.58%) Apache
5 51 (3.44%) Confluence
6 18 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.88%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
8 10 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.40%) Appian
10 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.067%) Apache Pig
14 1 (0.067%) CMS
Applications
1 39 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
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%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.74%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 598 (40.30%) Azure
2 446 (30.05%) AWS
3 357 (24.06%) Power Platform
4 208 (14.02%) Azure Data Factory
5 176 (11.86%) GCP
6 162 (10.92%) Snowflake
7 140 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 129 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
9 124 (8.36%) Amazon S3
10 113 (7.61%) Serverless
11 108 (7.28%) dbt
12 94 (6.33%) GitHub
13 87 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (2.83%) Collibra
16 33 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (1.89%) Power Automate
18 25 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.68%) Matillion
19 23 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) 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
1 453 (30.53%) Data Warehouse
2 338 (22.78%) Power BI
3 219 (14.76%) Data Lake
4 160 (10.78%) SQL Server
5 123 (8.29%) Metadata
6 95 (6.40%) Delta Lake
7 94 (6.33%) Tableau
8 93 (6.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 90 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 81 (5.46%) Pentaho
11 80 (5.39%) Relational Database
12 74 (4.99%) NoSQL
13 73 (4.92%) BigQuery
14 72 (4.85%) Big Data
15 68 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
16 63 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
17 62 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
18 61 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
19 50 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
20 47 (3.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (11.19%) Git
2 131 (8.83%) JIRA
3 83 (5.59%) GitLab
4 62 (4.18%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.76%) Postman
6 36 (2.43%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.15%) MLflow
8 11 (0.74%) Selenium
9 7 (0.47%) ERwin
10 6 (0.40%) Gatling
10 6 (0.40%) JMeter
10 6 (0.40%) NeoLoad
11 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Flyway
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) LSMW
12 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 379 (25.54%) Finance
2 361 (24.33%) Social Skills
3 258 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.94%) Banking
6 39 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.95%) Marketing
8 28 (1.89%) Retail
9 21 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.42%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.35%) Legal
10 20 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.21%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.67%) Billing
13 9 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.61%) Law
14 8 (0.54%) Military
15 7 (0.47%) Front Office
16 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 609 (41.04%) Data Engineer
2 209 (14.08%) Developer
3 180 (12.13%) Architect
4 176 (11.86%) Senior
5 164 (11.05%) Lead
6 121 (8.15%) Senior Data Engineer
7 110 (7.41%) Analyst
8 105 (7.08%) Data Architect
9 60 (4.04%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 45 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (2.70%) SQL Developer
13 39 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
14 37 (2.49%) Lead Data Engineer
15 36 (2.43%) Azure Data Engineer
16 34 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
16 34 (2.29%) Data Migration Lead
16 34 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
17 33 (2.22%) Oracle Developer
18 32 (2.16%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (11.05%) PySpark
2 122 (8.22%) Kafka
3 69 (4.65%) REST
4 44 (2.96%) JSON
5 38 (2.56%) .NET
6 37 (2.49%) Pandas
7 30 (2.02%) XML
8 27 (1.82%) Spring
9 26 (1.75%) Middleware
10 25 (1.68%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
11 18 (1.21%) React
11 18 (1.21%) YAML
12 17 (1.15%) RESTful
12 17 (1.15%) Web Services
13 16 (1.08%) PyTorch
14 15 (1.01%) Great Expectations
14 15 (1.01%) OAuth
14 15 (1.01%) pytest
15 14 (0.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.03%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 74 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.16%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 21 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.42%) NHS
9 19 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.15%) Clustering
12 15 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 13 (0.88%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.81%) IoT
14 12 (0.81%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.81%) Replication
15 11 (0.74%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.43%) Unix
2 31 (2.09%) Linux
3 16 (1.08%) Windows
4 8 (0.54%) Solaris
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
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
1 699 (47.10%) Data Modelling
2 587 (39.56%) Data Pipeline
3 563 (37.94%) Analytics
4 466 (31.40%) Data Engineering
5 434 (29.25%) CI/CD
6 421 (28.37%) Business Intelligence
7 378 (25.47%) Migration
8 365 (24.60%) Agile
9 320 (21.56%) DevOps
10 294 (19.81%) Data Governance
10 294 (19.81%) Validation
11 279 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
12 258 (17.39%) Data Integration
13 249 (16.78%) AI
14 235 (15.84%) Data Migration
15 217 (14.62%) Data Architecture
16 204 (13.75%) Decision-Making
17 199 (13.41%) Test Automation
18 163 (10.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 158 (10.65%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (67.65%) SQL
2 596 (40.16%) Python
3 128 (8.63%) Java
4 82 (5.53%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 67 (4.51%) PL/SQL
7 55 (3.71%) C#
8 53 (3.57%) Scala
9 33 (2.22%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.22%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.82%) Bash
11 24 (1.62%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.48%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.08%) Bicep
13 16 (1.08%) R
14 10 (0.67%) Cypher
15 8 (0.54%) VBA
16 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 395 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 325 (21.90%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.59%) Degree
4 43 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 25 (1.68%) ISTQB
8 20 (1.35%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.21%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.88%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.61%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 496 (33.42%) Data Quality
2 136 (9.16%) QA
3 99 (6.67%) GDPR
4 15 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.94%) IFRS
5 14 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (0.88%) PMO
7 11 (0.74%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.67%) SLA
9 8 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.54%) FATCA
9 8 (0.54%) GRC
10 7 (0.47%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.27%) GMP
12 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.20%) GAAP
13 3 (0.20%) HL7
13 3 (0.20%) WCAG
14 2 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 105 (7.08%) Docker
2 6 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) HDFS
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.067%) RACF
5 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (9.30%) Terraform
2 114 (7.68%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.55%) Grafana
4 15 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.88%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
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
1 294 (19.81%) Databricks
2 274 (18.46%) Oracle
3 262 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 134 (9.03%) Informatica
5 125 (8.42%) Talend
6 68 (4.58%) SAP
7 58 (3.91%) Denodo
8 51 (3.44%) Google
9 41 (2.76%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.02%) IBM
10 30 (2.02%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.89%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.48%) Sage
13 18 (1.21%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.15%) Splunk
15 15 (1.01%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.88%) Palantir
17 12 (0.81%) Workday
18 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
19 10 (0.67%) Red Hat