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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 77 104
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -6
Contract jobs citing ETL 898 900 883
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 2.96% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.37% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 659 596 681
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £627 £650
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £43.99
25th Percentile £35.44 £30.63 £50.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -29.75% +68.06%
75th Percentile £66.88 £78.70 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.23 £102.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £61.43
% change year-on-year -4.71% -30.81% +70.63%

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 27,644 26,739 33,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.47% 87.82% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,602 16,417 23,106
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,428
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +2 537 £525 - 184
Midlands -5 119 £515 +8.42% 40
North of England -46 97 £438 -2.78% 54
West Midlands -7 91 £520 +9.01% 28
North West -11 58 £413 -5.71% 34
South West +9 50 £525 -8.70% 34
South East -38 39 £450 -18.18% 152
Yorkshire -42 33 £475 +5.56% 12
East Midlands -5 28 £438 +15.13% 12
East of England -11 23 £563 +9.76% 22
North East -10 5 £444 -6.58% 8
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 87 (9.69%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (9.58%) Apache Spark
3 64 (7.13%) Apache
4 48 (5.35%) SAS
5 12 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.78%) Confluence
8 5 (0.56%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 52 (5.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.78%) SAP HR
3 6 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.67%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Maximo
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Actimize
6 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 342 (38.08%) Azure
2 285 (31.74%) AWS
3 180 (20.04%) Power Platform
4 138 (15.37%) Snowflake
5 137 (15.26%) GCP
6 123 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 87 (9.69%) Amazon S3
8 84 (9.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 72 (8.02%) Serverless
10 62 (6.90%) dbt
11 55 (6.12%) GitHub
12 51 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (3.12%) SaaS
15 26 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.78%) PaaS
19 15 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.67%) 2G
1 6 (0.67%) 5G
1 6 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.56%) 4G
3 4 (0.45%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
4 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) DSL
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (31.74%) Data Warehouse
2 170 (18.93%) Power BI
3 117 (13.03%) Data Lake
4 91 (10.13%) SQL Server
5 84 (9.35%) Relational Database
6 82 (9.13%) Metadata
7 70 (7.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 67 (7.46%) Big Data
9 63 (7.02%) BigQuery
10 62 (6.90%) Tableau
11 59 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (6.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (5.23%) NoSQL
13 45 (5.01%) Pentaho
14 39 (4.34%) Delta Lake
15 36 (4.01%) Azure SQL Database
16 35 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
17 32 (3.56%) Oracle Database
18 29 (3.23%) DataStage
18 29 (3.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 110 (12.25%) Git
2 63 (7.02%) JIRA
3 58 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.67%) GitLab
5 14 (1.56%) ERwin
6 10 (1.11%) MLflow
7 8 (0.89%) DBeaver
7 8 (0.89%) Postman
7 8 (0.89%) Selenium
8 7 (0.78%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.45%) Toad
10 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.33%) Poetry
11 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.22%) PyCharm
General
1 272 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 228 (25.39%) Finance
3 168 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 62 (6.90%) Banking
6 19 (2.12%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.00%) Retail
8 14 (1.56%) Marketing
9 13 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.11%) Legal
10 10 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.00%) Local Government
11 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.78%) Front Office
13 7 (0.78%) Law
13 7 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 300 (33.41%) Data Engineer
2 134 (14.92%) Developer
3 101 (11.25%) Architect
4 97 (10.80%) Analyst
5 92 (10.24%) Lead
5 92 (10.24%) Senior
6 64 (7.13%) Data Analyst
7 55 (6.12%) Data Architect
8 48 (5.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 42 (4.68%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (4.12%) Azure Data Engineer
11 28 (3.12%) Business Analyst
12 27 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (3.01%) Consultant
13 21 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 21 (2.34%) Snowflake Engineer
14 20 (2.23%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (2.12%) Senior Developer
16 18 (2.00%) Lead Data Engineer
16 18 (2.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (8.91%) PySpark
2 75 (8.35%) Kafka
3 39 (4.34%) XML
4 31 (3.45%) Node.js
5 29 (3.23%) REST
6 27 (3.01%) JSON
7 20 (2.23%) RESTful
8 19 (2.12%) Pandas
9 16 (1.78%) NumPy
10 13 (1.45%) OAuth
11 12 (1.34%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.34%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.22%) .NET
12 11 (1.22%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.22%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.22%) React
13 10 (1.11%) Middleware
14 9 (1.00%) SOAP
15 8 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
15 8 (0.89%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.80%) Cloud Native
2 54 (6.01%) Data Structures
3 29 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 20 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.56%) Replication
9 13 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.34%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.22%) IoT
11 11 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.89%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.78%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.78%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.23%) Linux
2 12 (1.34%) Windows
3 9 (1.00%) Unix
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (43.88%) Data Modelling
2 352 (39.20%) Analytics
3 346 (38.53%) Data Pipeline
4 263 (29.29%) Data Engineering
5 257 (28.62%) Business Intelligence
6 241 (26.84%) CI/CD
7 230 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (24.94%) Agile
9 219 (24.39%) Data Governance
10 197 (21.94%) DevOps
11 193 (21.49%) Migration
12 175 (19.49%) Data Integration
13 144 (16.04%) Data Architecture
14 136 (15.14%) Data Migration
15 119 (13.25%) Data Transformation
16 118 (13.14%) Validation
17 106 (11.80%) Data Science
18 105 (11.69%) Visualisation
19 95 (10.58%) Decision-Making
20 92 (10.24%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 579 (64.48%) SQL
2 443 (49.33%) Python
3 77 (8.57%) Java
4 44 (4.90%) Scala
5 36 (4.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 33 (3.67%) C#
7 29 (3.23%) PL/SQL
8 27 (3.01%) T-SQL
9 20 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 17 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.78%) R
12 15 (1.67%) Go
12 15 (1.67%) PHP
12 15 (1.67%) VBA
13 14 (1.56%) Bash
14 11 (1.22%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.00%) Perl
15 9 (1.00%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.78%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 155 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 114 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.02%) Degree
4 38 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.67%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 16 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.11%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.56%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.56%) PMP
10 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.33%) CISSP
11 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.22%) MCP
13 1 (0.11%) CCIE
13 1 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (30.85%) Data Quality
2 63 (7.02%) QA
3 60 (6.68%) GDPR
4 17 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.56%) IFRS
6 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) MiFID
7 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.22%) EMIR
9 2 (0.22%) HL7
9 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (12.03%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.56%) zsh
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) KVM
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (11.02%) Kubernetes
2 70 (7.80%) Terraform
3 13 (1.45%) Grafana
4 9 (1.00%) Ansible
5 5 (0.56%) 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 (0.33%) Argo
7 3 (0.33%) Istio
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 162 (18.04%) Databricks
2 137 (15.26%) Microsoft
3 126 (14.03%) Oracle
4 67 (7.46%) Talend
5 56 (6.24%) Informatica
6 51 (5.68%) Google
7 42 (4.68%) SAP
8 37 (4.12%) Denodo
9 27 (3.01%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.67%) IBM
10 15 (1.67%) Palantir
11 12 (1.34%) Foundry
12 11 (1.22%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.11%) AppDynamics
14 9 (1.00%) Teradata
14 9 (1.00%) VMware
15 8 (0.89%) Cognos
15 8 (0.89%) Workday
16 7 (0.78%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.67%) Ab Initio