ETL Contracts in England

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 92 101
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing ETL 747 876 1,242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.07% 2.36% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.72% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 665 902
10th Percentile £359 £366 £388
25th Percentile £436 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 16
10th Percentile £49.25 £28.54 £35.00
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.00 £35.75
Median hourly rate £78.70 £49.50 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year +58.99% +5.74% +4.03%
75th Percentile £98.56 £53.25 £66.25
90th Percentile £102.00 £63.70 £76.75
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year +6.06% +13.45% +5.13%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in England.

Daily rate trend for ETL in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in England.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in England

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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 1 May 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 -13 408 £538 +2.38% 523
North of England +26 113 £463 -9.31% 79
North West +11 67 £475 -9.52% 51
South East +50 60 £521 +4.20% 168
Midlands +4 53 £475 +2.70% 76
South West +56 51 £500 -4.76% 59
Yorkshire +20 37 £350 -28.21% 22
West Midlands -4 33 £497 +16.82% 50
East Midlands +11 19 £415 -19.02% 21
East of England +27 17 £494 +3.95% 28
North East +4 9 £475 +21.17% 8
ETL
UK

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 60 (8.03%) Apache
3 57 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.41%) SAS
5 16 (2.14%) Confluence
6 9 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.40%) nginx
8 3 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) CICS
9 2 (0.27%) Luigi
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 20 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.94%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.27%) Actimize
6 2 (0.27%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.27%) Maximo
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.13%) Magento
7 1 (0.13%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.13%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.13%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 268 (35.88%) Azure
2 223 (29.85%) AWS
3 142 (19.01%) Power Platform
4 119 (15.93%) GCP
5 92 (12.32%) Snowflake
6 80 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 54 (7.23%) dbt
7 54 (7.23%) Serverless
8 50 (6.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 48 (6.43%) Amazon S3
10 40 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (4.55%) GitHub
13 21 (2.81%) PowerApps
14 18 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.01%) Matillion
16 14 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
17 13 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
17 13 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (1.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.07%) Firewall
1 8 (1.07%) VPN
2 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 1 (0.13%) Internet
3 1 (0.13%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (34.14%) Data Warehouse
2 130 (17.40%) Power BI
3 98 (13.12%) Data Lake
4 82 (10.98%) Big Data
5 64 (8.57%) SQL Server
6 58 (7.76%) Tableau
7 56 (7.50%) Relational Database
8 54 (7.23%) NoSQL
9 50 (6.69%) Hadoop
10 47 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 45 (6.02%) BigQuery
11 45 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
12 39 (5.22%) Metadata
13 35 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
15 28 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 27 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
17 21 (2.81%) MySQL
18 19 (2.54%) Apache Hive
18 19 (2.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (3.75%) JIRA
2 26 (3.48%) Git
3 23 (3.08%) ERwin
4 12 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.34%) GitLab
6 8 (1.07%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.07%) Selenium
7 7 (0.94%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.54%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.54%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.40%) Postman
9 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.27%) LSMW
10 2 (0.27%) MLflow
10 2 (0.27%) SOAtest
10 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.27%) TestRail
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 249 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 170 (22.76%) Finance
3 121 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.03%) Banking
5 53 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.88%) Marketing
7 24 (3.21%) Retail
8 18 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 12 (1.61%) Legal
12 11 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.20%) Retail Banking
15 7 (0.94%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
16 6 (0.80%) Local Government
17 5 (0.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 253 (33.87%) Data Engineer
2 112 (14.99%) Architect
3 85 (11.38%) Developer
4 81 (10.84%) Senior
5 76 (10.17%) Data Architect
6 72 (9.64%) Analyst
7 60 (8.03%) Lead
8 54 (7.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 51 (6.83%) Data Analyst
10 36 (4.82%) Consultant
11 32 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
12 31 (4.15%) Data Manager
13 26 (3.48%) Data Modeller
14 24 (3.21%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (3.08%) AWS Data Engineer
16 22 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
17 21 (2.81%) Business Analyst
17 21 (2.81%) Data Consultant
18 18 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
19 17 (2.28%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.57%) PySpark
2 59 (7.90%) Kafka
3 14 (1.87%) JSON
3 14 (1.87%) REST
4 11 (1.47%) OAuth
4 11 (1.47%) XML
5 10 (1.34%) Web Services
6 9 (1.20%) Apache Avro
6 9 (1.20%) Pandas
7 8 (1.07%) .NET
7 8 (1.07%) Middleware
7 8 (1.07%) scikit-learn
8 7 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.94%) HTML
8 7 (0.94%) Lightning Web Components
8 7 (0.94%) pytest
8 7 (0.94%) RESTful
8 7 (0.94%) YAML
9 6 (0.80%) React
10 5 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.63%) Data Structures
2 45 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.41%) Cloud Native
4 13 (1.74%) Product Ownership
5 10 (1.34%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.07%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (1.07%) Reference Data
8 7 (0.94%) Clustering
8 7 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.80%) Public Cloud
9 6 (0.80%) Replication
10 5 (0.67%) NHS
10 5 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.54%) FMCG
11 4 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.54%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.68%) Unix
2 18 (2.41%) Linux
3 5 (0.67%) Windows
4 2 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (37.35%) Data Modelling
2 226 (30.25%) Data Pipeline
3 224 (29.99%) Analytics
4 195 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
5 172 (23.03%) Migration
6 170 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
7 168 (22.49%) Data Engineering
8 158 (21.15%) Data Governance
9 145 (19.41%) Data Integration
10 126 (16.87%) Data Migration
11 119 (15.93%) Agile
12 115 (15.39%) CI/CD
13 112 (14.99%) Visualisation
14 101 (13.52%) DevOps
15 100 (13.39%) Data Architecture
16 83 (11.11%) Data Management
16 83 (11.11%) Data Transformation
17 81 (10.84%) Validation
18 75 (10.04%) Data Science
19 72 (9.64%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 457 (61.18%) SQL
2 311 (41.63%) Python
3 63 (8.43%) Java
4 44 (5.89%) Scala
5 28 (3.75%) R
6 24 (3.21%) PL/SQL
7 23 (3.08%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 20 (2.68%) JavaScript
10 17 (2.28%) C#
11 15 (2.01%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.74%) Bash
13 8 (1.07%) ABAP
13 8 (1.07%) Bicep
14 7 (0.94%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.80%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.80%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.54%) Perl
16 4 (0.54%) PHP
16 4 (0.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 99 (13.25%) Security Cleared
2 64 (8.57%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.35%) Degree
4 25 (3.35%) Azure Certification
5 20 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.34%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMP
12 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.13%) CITP
13 1 (0.13%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.13%) ISEB
13 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.13%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (24.23%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.28%) QA
3 30 (4.02%) GDPR
4 17 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.07%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.54%) IFRS
7 4 (0.54%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.40%) SLA
9 2 (0.27%) Basel III
9 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) HL7
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.13%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (5.89%) Docker
2 6 (0.80%) HDFS
3 5 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.13%) NFS
4 1 (0.13%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 68 (9.10%) Terraform
2 55 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.47%) Ansible
3 11 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (1.07%) Grafana
5 5 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.27%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) logstash
8 1 (0.13%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) SCOM
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.13%) VxRail
Vendors
1 105 (14.06%) Databricks
2 95 (12.72%) Microsoft
3 71 (9.50%) Oracle
4 66 (8.84%) Google
5 52 (6.96%) Informatica
6 49 (6.56%) SAP
7 27 (3.61%) Talend
8 21 (2.81%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.87%) IBM
10 13 (1.74%) Alteryx
11 12 (1.61%) Teradata
12 10 (1.34%) Adobe
13 9 (1.20%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.94%) Ab Initio
15 6 (0.80%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.80%) Palantir
16 5 (0.67%) Splunk
16 5 (0.67%) UiPath
17 4 (0.54%) Sparx
17 4 (0.54%) Workday