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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 81 81
Rank change year-on-year +13 0 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,556 833 890
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 3.02% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.33% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 570 651
10th Percentile £360 £359 £358
25th Percentile £422 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +0.20% -7.27%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £623
90th Percentile £688 £718 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.52 £27.78
25th Percentile £29.96 £41.43 £33.84
Median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £52.50 £67.49 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £87.75 -
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -20.72% +12.26% -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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +2 773 £525 - 257
Midlands +20 287 £459 -0.76% 54
West Midlands +34 252 £459 -8.20% 43
North of England -8 185 £466 -1.84% 60
South East +13 145 £459 - 75
Yorkshire -5 81 £469 +7.76% 15
North West -15 80 £445 -11.00% 34
South West -18 66 £523 +14.84% 30
East of England +5 54 £469 -14.77% 16
East Midlands -15 34 £490 +11.48% 11
North East -20 25 £520 +15.56% 12
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
1 128 (8.23%) Apache Spark
2 115 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (7.07%) SAS
4 76 (4.88%) Apache
5 56 (3.60%) Confluence
6 24 (1.54%) Oracle Application Server
6 24 (1.54%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.64%) nginx
7 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 7 (0.45%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.13%) Appian
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.064%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.32%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.71%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.64%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.19%) Actimize
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 609 (39.14%) Azure
2 453 (29.11%) AWS
3 368 (23.65%) Power Platform
4 218 (14.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 197 (12.66%) GCP
6 185 (11.89%) Snowflake
7 138 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 131 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
9 116 (7.46%) dbt
10 115 (7.39%) Amazon S3
11 113 (7.26%) Serverless
12 93 (5.98%) GitHub
13 88 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (2.51%) Collibra
16 31 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (1.93%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (1.67%) Matillion
19 25 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.77%) Firewall
2 8 (0.51%) HTTP
3 5 (0.32%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 5 (0.32%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.19%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.19%) DHCP
4 3 (0.19%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 519 (33.35%) Data Warehouse
2 353 (22.69%) Power BI
3 226 (14.52%) Data Lake
4 159 (10.22%) SQL Server
5 140 (9.00%) Metadata
6 96 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.11%) Tableau
8 89 (5.72%) Relational Database
9 88 (5.66%) BigQuery
9 88 (5.66%) Delta Lake
10 87 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (5.33%) Pentaho
12 73 (4.69%) Big Data
13 70 (4.50%) NoSQL
14 69 (4.43%) Oracle Reports
15 60 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 60 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
16 55 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 47 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (2.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 177 (11.38%) Git
2 133 (8.55%) JIRA
3 85 (5.46%) GitLab
4 67 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.70%) Zephyr
6 40 (2.57%) Postman
7 12 (0.77%) Selenium
8 9 (0.58%) MLflow
9 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
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%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.19%) ERwin
12 3 (0.19%) JMeter
12 3 (0.19%) NeoLoad
General
1 369 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 368 (23.65%) Finance
3 285 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 165 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 115 (7.39%) Banking
6 30 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
6 30 (1.93%) Marketing
7 29 (1.86%) Retail
8 26 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.16%) Financial Institution
11 18 (1.16%) Legal
12 13 (0.84%) Front Office
13 12 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 12 (0.77%) Law
14 10 (0.64%) Billing
14 10 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.58%) Military
16 7 (0.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 614 (39.46%) Data Engineer
2 233 (14.97%) Developer
3 206 (13.24%) Architect
4 194 (12.47%) Senior
5 162 (10.41%) Lead
6 130 (8.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 111 (7.13%) Analyst
8 107 (6.88%) Data Architect
9 53 (3.41%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 45 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
14 41 (2.63%) SQL Developer
14 41 (2.63%) Tester
15 36 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
15 36 (2.31%) Snowflake Engineer
16 34 (2.19%) Data Migration Lead
16 34 (2.19%) Oracle Developer
17 33 (2.12%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (10.09%) PySpark
2 118 (7.58%) Kafka
3 66 (4.24%) REST
4 48 (3.08%) JSON
5 42 (2.70%) .NET
6 31 (1.99%) Pandas
7 26 (1.67%) React
8 25 (1.61%) Middleware
9 22 (1.41%) Spring
10 20 (1.29%) Spring Boot
10 20 (1.29%) XML
11 17 (1.09%) YAML
12 15 (0.96%) RESTful
13 14 (0.90%) pytest
14 13 (0.84%) Great Expectations
14 13 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
15 12 (0.77%) Apache Avro
15 12 (0.77%) OAuth
15 12 (0.77%) Web Services
16 11 (0.71%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 71 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.21%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 22 (1.41%) NHS
8 21 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.16%) Clustering
9 18 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 12 (0.77%) Replication
13 11 (0.71%) IoT
14 10 (0.64%) SCADA
14 10 (0.64%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.58%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 51 (3.28%) Linux
2 47 (3.02%) Unix
3 18 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.51%) Solaris
4 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 739 (47.49%) Data Modelling
2 636 (40.87%) Data Pipeline
3 609 (39.14%) Analytics
4 483 (31.04%) Data Engineering
5 475 (30.53%) CI/CD
6 449 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
7 422 (27.12%) Agile
8 407 (26.16%) Migration
9 345 (22.17%) DevOps
10 323 (20.76%) Data Integration
11 315 (20.24%) Data Governance
12 299 (19.22%) Validation
13 285 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
14 249 (16.00%) Data Migration
15 243 (15.62%) AI
16 224 (14.40%) Test Automation
17 223 (14.33%) Data Architecture
18 211 (13.56%) Decision-Making
19 197 (12.66%) Data Transformation
20 196 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,035 (66.52%) SQL
2 582 (37.40%) Python
3 136 (8.74%) Java
4 83 (5.33%) T-SQL
5 74 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 72 (4.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 53 (3.41%) C#
8 46 (2.96%) Scala
9 41 (2.63%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.51%) PowerShell
11 34 (2.19%) Bash
12 27 (1.74%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.16%) R
15 15 (0.96%) Bicep
16 9 (0.58%) Cypher
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 7 (0.45%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 443 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 373 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.50%) Degree
4 37 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 35 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 26 (1.67%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 19 (1.22%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.45%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (34.58%) Data Quality
2 138 (8.87%) QA
3 90 (5.78%) GDPR
4 35 (2.25%) GRC
5 24 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.77%) PMO
8 10 (0.64%) IFRS
9 9 (0.58%) SLA
10 8 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 8 (0.51%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.51%) WCAG
11 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.32%) FATCA
12 5 (0.32%) HL7
12 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.26%) GAAP
13 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.19%) GMP
System Software
1 118 (7.58%) Docker
2 10 (0.64%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) HDFS
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (8.61%) Terraform
2 122 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.67%) Grafana
4 18 (1.16%) Ansible
5 14 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.58%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.064%) Argo
9 1 (0.064%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.064%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 306 (19.67%) Oracle
2 302 (19.41%) Databricks
3 273 (17.54%) Microsoft
4 128 (8.23%) Informatica
5 120 (7.71%) Talend
6 78 (5.01%) SAP
7 65 (4.18%) Google
8 64 (4.11%) Denodo
9 41 (2.63%) IBM
10 36 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.86%) Alteryx
11 29 (1.86%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.41%) Sage
13 20 (1.29%) Palantir
14 15 (0.96%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.90%) Foundry
16 13 (0.84%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.77%) Splunk
18 11 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.71%) Workday