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 6 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 84 78
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,474 810 882
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 2.94% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.24% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 561 627
10th Percentile £363 £359 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £631
90th Percentile £675 £718 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 3
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.60 £42.85
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.13 £45.25
Median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% -13.86% -26.28%
75th Percentile £57.38 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.39 £84.73 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £50.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -22.85% -29.86%

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 38,985 25,002 28,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.76% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,023 15,883 17,863
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,626 1,462 1,386
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.28 £17.61 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.09% +2.13%

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 6 September 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 6 September 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 6 September 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 +1 777 £525 - 475
Midlands +19 235 £469 +1.41% 54
West Midlands +29 201 £469 -6.20% 38
North of England -7 175 £475 - 78
South East +15 136 £450 -4.05% 93
Yorkshire +5 79 £463 +9.47% 16
North West -25 76 £475 -5.00% 49
South West -26 63 £523 +10.00% 63
East of England -3 46 £488 -7.14% 17
East Midlands -15 33 £490 +13.10% 16
North East -24 21 £510 +16.57% 13
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
1 124 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 123 (8.34%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (5.90%) Apache
4 85 (5.77%) SAS
5 53 (3.60%) Confluence
6 26 (1.76%) Oracle Application Server
7 23 (1.56%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.75%) nginx
9 9 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.14%) Camunda
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.068%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 33 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.47%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.20%) Actimize
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.14%) Maximo
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 587 (39.82%) Azure
2 436 (29.58%) AWS
3 332 (22.52%) Power Platform
4 214 (14.52%) Azure Data Factory
5 203 (13.77%) Snowflake
6 192 (13.03%) GCP
7 137 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
8 129 (8.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 126 (8.55%) dbt
10 114 (7.73%) Serverless
11 113 (7.67%) Amazon S3
12 107 (7.26%) GitHub
13 89 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (2.78%) Azure Databricks
16 34 (2.31%) Collibra
17 31 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
18 29 (1.97%) Power Automate
19 25 (1.70%) SaaS
20 24 (1.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) Firewall
2 8 (0.54%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.20%) DHCP
4 3 (0.20%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 509 (34.53%) Data Warehouse
2 323 (21.91%) Power BI
3 220 (14.93%) Data Lake
4 157 (10.65%) SQL Server
5 152 (10.31%) Metadata
6 96 (6.51%) Relational Database
7 91 (6.17%) Delta Lake
8 89 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 86 (5.83%) BigQuery
10 80 (5.43%) Tableau
11 78 (5.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 74 (5.02%) Big Data
13 64 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
14 63 (4.27%) Oracle Reports
15 59 (4.00%) NoSQL
16 58 (3.93%) Pentaho
17 54 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
18 52 (3.53%) Oracle Database
19 46 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
20 44 (2.99%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 156 (10.58%) Git
2 124 (8.41%) JIRA
3 86 (5.83%) GitLab
4 51 (3.46%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.51%) Zephyr
6 33 (2.24%) Postman
7 13 (0.88%) Selenium
8 10 (0.68%) MLflow
9 7 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.47%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.27%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.27%) ERwin
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
12 3 (0.20%) JMeter
12 3 (0.20%) JUnit
12 3 (0.20%) LSMW
12 3 (0.20%) NeoLoad
General
1 358 (24.29%) Social Skills
2 348 (23.61%) Finance
3 279 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.38%) Public Sector
5 131 (8.89%) Banking
6 35 (2.37%) Retail
7 27 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (1.76%) Marketing
9 23 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.22%) Legal
12 17 (1.15%) Law
13 14 (0.95%) Billing
13 14 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.95%) Front Office
14 12 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.68%) Military
16 8 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 8 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 579 (39.28%) Data Engineer
2 220 (14.93%) Developer
3 207 (14.04%) Senior
4 186 (12.62%) Architect
5 147 (9.97%) Lead
6 139 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
7 111 (7.53%) Analyst
8 98 (6.65%) Data Architect
9 57 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (3.66%) Data Analyst
11 45 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
11 45 (3.05%) Databricks Engineer
12 41 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
12 41 (2.78%) Tester
13 39 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 38 (2.58%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 37 (2.51%) Oracle Developer
15 37 (2.51%) Snowflake Engineer
16 35 (2.37%) SQL Developer
17 33 (2.24%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (10.45%) PySpark
2 139 (9.43%) Terraform
3 117 (7.94%) Kafka
4 60 (4.07%) REST
5 49 (3.32%) .NET
6 47 (3.19%) JSON
7 28 (1.90%) React
8 22 (1.49%) Pandas
9 21 (1.42%) Middleware
9 21 (1.42%) XML
10 20 (1.36%) Spring
10 20 (1.36%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.02%) YAML
12 11 (0.75%) Playwright
12 11 (0.75%) Web Services
13 10 (0.68%) Apache Avro
13 10 (0.68%) Great Expectations
13 10 (0.68%) HTML
13 10 (0.68%) LangChain
13 10 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.31%) Data Structures
3 63 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 21 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.36%) NHS
10 19 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.29%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
13 14 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.95%) IoT
13 14 (0.95%) Replication
14 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.88%) Clustering
15 11 (0.75%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 59 (4.00%) Linux
2 51 (3.46%) Unix
3 18 (1.22%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (47.49%) Data Modelling
2 612 (41.52%) Data Pipeline
3 551 (37.38%) Analytics
4 486 (32.97%) Data Engineering
5 470 (31.89%) CI/CD
6 411 (27.88%) Agile
7 397 (26.93%) Business Intelligence
8 385 (26.12%) Migration
9 342 (23.20%) DevOps
10 331 (22.46%) Data Integration
11 306 (20.76%) Data Governance
12 290 (19.67%) Validation
13 265 (17.98%) AI
14 261 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
15 232 (15.74%) Data Migration
16 231 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
17 212 (14.38%) Data Architecture
17 212 (14.38%) Data Transformation
18 197 (13.36%) Test Automation
19 178 (12.08%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 982 (66.62%) SQL
2 554 (37.58%) Python
3 129 (8.75%) Java
4 77 (5.22%) PL/SQL
5 76 (5.16%) T-SQL
6 56 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 50 (3.39%) C#
8 49 (3.32%) Scala
9 42 (2.85%) PowerShell
10 40 (2.71%) JavaScript
11 33 (2.24%) Shell Script
12 31 (2.10%) Bash
13 18 (1.22%) R
14 17 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 15 (1.02%) Bicep
16 11 (0.75%) Cypher
17 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.34%) Perl
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
19 4 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 402 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 339 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 66 (4.48%) Degree
4 38 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.10%) Azure Certification
5 31 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 17 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.54%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (36.43%) Data Quality
2 127 (8.62%) QA
3 73 (4.95%) GDPR
4 36 (2.44%) GRC
5 23 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.54%) IFRS
8 8 (0.54%) PMO
8 8 (0.54%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.54%) WCAG
9 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.41%) HL7
10 5 (0.34%) FATCA
10 5 (0.34%) SLA
11 4 (0.27%) GAAP
11 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 108 (7.33%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 102 (6.92%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.56%) Grafana
3 18 (1.22%) Ansible
4 14 (0.95%) Control-M
5 11 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.068%) Foglight
9 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.068%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.068%) Kibana
9 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 322 (21.85%) Databricks
2 285 (19.34%) Oracle
3 265 (17.98%) Microsoft
4 119 (8.07%) Informatica
5 100 (6.78%) Talend
6 68 (4.61%) SAP
7 66 (4.48%) Google
8 50 (3.39%) Denodo
9 44 (2.99%) IBM
10 32 (2.17%) ServiceNow
11 28 (1.90%) Alteryx
12 27 (1.83%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.22%) Palantir
14 16 (1.09%) Foundry
14 16 (1.09%) Teradata
15 13 (0.88%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.75%) Cloudera
16 11 (0.75%) Sage
17 10 (0.68%) MuleSoft
18 8 (0.54%) SnapLogic