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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,538 838 924
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 3.04% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.35% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 573 692
10th Percentile £358 £363 £358
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £511
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -1.42% -7.05%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £687 £711 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 8
10th Percentile £27.35 £38.69 £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £44.50 £33.84
Median hourly rate £35.86 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £54.38 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.46 £89.73 -
UK median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -12.96% +23.87% -40.38%

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 38,601 25,022 29,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 90.73% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,205 16,045 19,444
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £421 £405 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,390 1,351 1,859
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.50 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +5 763 £525 -0.94% 159
Midlands +25 281 £459 +2.00% 40
West Midlands +44 246 £450 -6.25% 26
North of England -11 185 £463 -2.63% 68
South East +3 138 £459 -2.13% 57
North West -19 83 £460 -8.00% 33
Yorkshire -15 78 £463 +8.82% 20
South West -22 69 £523 +10.00% 32
East of England +5 54 £481 -3.75% 9
East Midlands -14 34 £490 +10.96% 14
North East -22 25 £531 +11.79% 18
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
1 132 (8.58%) Apache Spark
2 112 (7.28%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (6.31%) SAS
4 75 (4.88%) Apache
5 55 (3.58%) Confluence
6 21 (1.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 18 (1.17%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) nginx
8 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.26%) Appian
12 4 (0.26%) Camunda
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 39 (2.54%) 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 (0.065%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.72%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.65%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.33%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
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
1 595 (38.69%) Azure
2 446 (29.00%) AWS
3 359 (23.34%) Power Platform
4 209 (13.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 189 (12.29%) GCP
6 171 (11.12%) Snowflake
7 139 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 122 (7.93%) Amazon S3
8 122 (7.93%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (7.54%) dbt
9 116 (7.54%) Serverless
10 90 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
11 87 (5.66%) GitHub
12 46 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
13 42 (2.73%) Collibra
14 32 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
15 27 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 26 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (1.69%) Power Automate
17 24 (1.56%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.78%) Firewall
2 8 (0.52%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.065%) 4G
4 1 (0.065%) 5G
4 1 (0.065%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.065%) DHCP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.065%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 493 (32.05%) Data Warehouse
2 343 (22.30%) Power BI
3 226 (14.69%) Data Lake
4 159 (10.34%) SQL Server
5 138 (8.97%) Metadata
6 100 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (6.37%) Tableau
8 90 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (5.79%) Relational Database
10 86 (5.59%) Delta Lake
11 83 (5.40%) BigQuery
12 79 (5.14%) Pentaho
13 75 (4.88%) Big Data
14 69 (4.49%) NoSQL
15 65 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
16 63 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
17 60 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 57 (3.71%) Snowflake Schema
19 49 (3.19%) Oracle Database
20 48 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 167 (10.86%) Git
2 131 (8.52%) JIRA
3 77 (5.01%) GitLab
4 57 (3.71%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.60%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.41%) 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
1 372 (24.19%) Finance
2 365 (23.73%) Social Skills
3 278 (18.08%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.22%) Banking
6 38 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.02%) Marketing
8 23 (1.50%) Retail
9 22 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.24%) Legal
13 15 (0.98%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.85%) Front Office
14 13 (0.85%) Law
15 12 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.65%) Billing
18 9 (0.59%) Military
19 8 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 607 (39.47%) Data Engineer
2 229 (14.89%) Developer
3 200 (13.00%) Architect
4 185 (12.03%) Senior
5 160 (10.40%) Lead
6 127 (8.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 119 (7.74%) Analyst
8 107 (6.96%) Data Architect
9 63 (4.10%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 43 (2.80%) SQL Developer
13 42 (2.73%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (2.73%) Tester
14 41 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
15 36 (2.34%) Snowflake Engineer
16 34 (2.21%) AWS Data Engineer
16 34 (2.21%) Data Migration Lead
17 32 (2.08%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (10.53%) PySpark
2 123 (8.00%) Kafka
3 69 (4.49%) REST
4 55 (3.58%) JSON
5 40 (2.60%) .NET
6 37 (2.41%) Pandas
7 27 (1.76%) XML
8 26 (1.69%) Middleware
9 24 (1.56%) React
10 23 (1.50%) Spring
11 21 (1.37%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.17%) Web Services
12 18 (1.17%) YAML
13 17 (1.11%) RESTful
14 15 (0.98%) Apache Avro
14 15 (0.98%) Great Expectations
15 14 (0.91%) NumPy
16 13 (0.85%) OAuth
16 13 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
16 13 (0.85%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.37%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (3.12%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 23 (1.50%) NHS
8 22 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.24%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.04%) Clustering
13 15 (0.98%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.78%) IoT
14 12 (0.78%) Replication
15 11 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.06%) Unix
2 46 (2.99%) Linux
3 18 (1.17%) Windows
4 8 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.52%) 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
1 721 (46.88%) Data Modelling
2 615 (39.99%) Data Pipeline
3 590 (38.36%) Analytics
4 473 (30.75%) Data Engineering
5 450 (29.26%) CI/CD
6 434 (28.22%) Business Intelligence
7 410 (26.66%) Migration
8 394 (25.62%) Agile
9 319 (20.74%) DevOps
10 314 (20.42%) Data Governance
11 309 (20.09%) Validation
12 296 (19.25%) Data Integration
13 279 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
14 252 (16.38%) Data Migration
15 243 (15.80%) AI
16 220 (14.30%) Data Architecture
17 211 (13.72%) Test Automation
18 203 (13.20%) Decision-Making
19 188 (12.22%) Data Transformation
20 170 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (67.36%) SQL
2 589 (38.30%) Python
3 135 (8.78%) Java
4 83 (5.40%) T-SQL
5 74 (4.81%) PL/SQL
6 70 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.38%) C#
8 47 (3.06%) Scala
9 38 (2.47%) PowerShell
10 36 (2.34%) JavaScript
11 30 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.89%) Bash
13 20 (1.30%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.11%) R
15 16 (1.04%) 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
1 426 (27.70%) Security Cleared
2 354 (23.02%) SC Cleared
3 77 (5.01%) Degree
4 39 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 34 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 20 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 8 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.13%) CISSP
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 524 (34.07%) Data Quality
2 138 (8.97%) QA
3 96 (6.24%) GDPR
4 29 (1.89%) GRC
5 23 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.91%) PMO
7 13 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) IFRS
9 9 (0.59%) SLA
10 8 (0.52%) 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
1 107 (6.96%) Docker
2 8 (0.52%) 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 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (8.45%) Terraform
2 115 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.69%) Grafana
4 16 (1.04%) Ansible
4 16 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.52%) Control-M
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) Foglight
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.065%) Argo
8 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.065%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 299 (19.44%) Oracle
2 291 (18.92%) Databricks
3 267 (17.36%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.78%) Informatica
5 123 (8.00%) Talend
6 77 (5.01%) SAP
7 61 (3.97%) Google
8 59 (3.84%) Denodo
9 42 (2.73%) IBM
10 37 (2.41%) ServiceNow
11 33 (2.15%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.82%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.50%) Sage
14 19 (1.24%) Palantir
15 17 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.11%) Splunk
16 13 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.78%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.78%) Foundry
18 11 (0.72%) Red Hat