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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 75 105
Rank change year-on-year -8 +30 -5
Contract jobs citing ETL 854 918 938
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 2.87% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.32% 3.32% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 628 697
10th Percentile £361 £358 £382
25th Percentile £419 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.30% +0.53%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £710 £700 £727
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £525
% change year-on-year -1.19% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 12
10th Percentile £32.50 - £50.00
25th Percentile £35.63 £26.25 £50.40
Median hourly rate £38.96 £35.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.31% -45.31% +42.22%
75th Percentile £49.25 £43.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £48.55 £88.80
UK median hourly rate £38.90 £31.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +24.49% -51.92% +44.44%

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 25,685 27,640 36,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.97% 86.49% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,284 16,837 25,172
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,621 1,092 1,481
10th Percentile £14.63 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +33.65%
75th Percentile £45.00 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.31% -10.11% +36.92%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -2 502 £525 - 259
North of England -29 99 £450 -5.26% 88
Midlands -9 98 £500 +25.00% 71
West Midlands -11 72 £513 +28.13% 51
North West -16 55 £475 +6.74% 43
South West +26 47 £475 -17.39% 34
South East -15 46 £450 -14.29% 212
Yorkshire -30 39 £460 -6.60% 36
East of England +2 29 £550 +4.76% 23
East Midlands -6 24 £442 +3.91% 19
North East -8 6 £438 +4.79% 10
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 84 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
2 66 (7.73%) Apache Spark
3 51 (5.97%) Apache
4 24 (2.81%) SAS
5 8 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
6 7 (0.82%) Confluence
6 7 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.59%) IIS
7 5 (0.59%) Luigi
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.35%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) CMS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 49 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.12%) Maple
5 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.29%) SAP PM
3 9 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
4 8 (0.94%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.82%) SAP HR
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
9 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
10 2 (0.23%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 345 (40.40%) Azure
2 276 (32.32%) AWS
3 180 (21.08%) Power Platform
4 141 (16.51%) GCP
5 126 (14.75%) Snowflake
6 122 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 81 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 73 (8.55%) Serverless
9 67 (7.85%) dbt
10 63 (7.38%) Amazon S3
11 58 (6.79%) Azure DevOps
12 47 (5.50%) GitHub
13 45 (5.27%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (3.63%) SaaS
15 26 (3.04%) PaaS
16 23 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (2.46%) IaaS
19 18 (2.11%) Azure Functions
20 17 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.70%) 2G
1 6 (0.70%) 5G
1 6 (0.70%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.59%) 4G
2 5 (0.59%) Firewall
2 5 (0.59%) Internet
3 4 (0.47%) DNS
4 3 (0.35%) SSH
4 3 (0.35%) SSL
4 3 (0.35%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.23%) BGP
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) DMZ
5 2 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.23%) OSPF
5 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.12%) DSL
6 1 (0.12%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.12%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (32.32%) Data Warehouse
2 168 (19.67%) Power BI
3 117 (13.70%) SQL Server
4 109 (12.76%) Data Lake
5 85 (9.95%) Relational Database
6 68 (7.96%) BigQuery
7 67 (7.85%) Big Data
8 64 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 57 (6.67%) Metadata
10 55 (6.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 55 (6.44%) Tableau
11 52 (6.09%) PostgreSQL
12 47 (5.50%) NoSQL
13 45 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 41 (4.80%) Delta Lake
15 35 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
16 33 (3.86%) Hadoop
16 33 (3.86%) Oracle Database
17 30 (3.51%) Power Query
18 25 (2.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 86 (10.07%) Git
2 49 (5.74%) JIRA
3 44 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.87%) ERwin
5 10 (1.17%) GitLab
6 8 (0.94%) Selenium
7 7 (0.82%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.82%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.82%) Postman
8 6 (0.70%) MLflow
8 6 (0.70%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.59%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.47%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.35%) Maven
12 2 (0.23%) Gradle
12 2 (0.23%) SOAtest
12 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 254 (29.74%) Social Skills
2 215 (25.18%) Finance
3 151 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (8.20%) Banking
5 66 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.40%) Retail
7 16 (1.87%) Marketing
7 16 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 15 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.41%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.29%) Legal
10 11 (1.29%) Local Government
10 11 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.05%) General Ledger
12 8 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.82%) Front Office
14 6 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 257 (30.09%) Data Engineer
2 127 (14.87%) Architect
3 124 (14.52%) Developer
4 92 (10.77%) Senior
5 83 (9.72%) Lead
6 79 (9.25%) Analyst
7 70 (8.20%) Data Architect
8 48 (5.62%) Data Analyst
9 46 (5.39%) Senior Data Engineer
10 42 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (4.33%) Azure Data Engineer
12 29 (3.40%) Consultant
13 26 (3.04%) Business Analyst
13 26 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 23 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
15 22 (2.58%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.46%) Azure Architect
17 18 (2.11%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (2.11%) Data Modeller
17 18 (2.11%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (8.67%) PySpark
2 65 (7.61%) Kafka
3 40 (4.68%) XML
4 28 (3.28%) JSON
5 27 (3.16%) Node.js
5 27 (3.16%) REST
6 21 (2.46%) RESTful
7 17 (1.99%) .NET
8 15 (1.76%) GraphQL
8 15 (1.76%) Middleware
9 14 (1.64%) Pandas
10 12 (1.41%) NumPy
10 12 (1.41%) OAuth
11 11 (1.29%) AngularJS
12 10 (1.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 9 (1.05%) React
13 9 (1.05%) SOAP
13 9 (1.05%) Web Services
14 8 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (0.94%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 64 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.39%) Data Structures
3 39 (4.57%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 18 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 17 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (1.76%) Algorithms
7 15 (1.76%) IoT
8 14 (1.64%) Replication
9 13 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.41%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.17%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 8 (0.94%) Reinsurance
13 8 (0.94%) SCADA
14 6 (0.70%) Data Fabric
15 5 (0.59%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.86%) Linux
2 15 (1.76%) Windows
3 6 (0.70%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (41.92%) Data Modelling
2 313 (36.65%) Analytics
3 300 (35.13%) Data Pipeline
4 246 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
5 230 (26.93%) Data Engineering
6 221 (25.88%) Problem-Solving
7 205 (24.00%) Data Governance
8 199 (23.30%) CI/CD
9 191 (22.37%) Migration
10 183 (21.43%) Agile
11 181 (21.19%) Data Integration
12 175 (20.49%) DevOps
13 127 (14.87%) Data Migration
14 120 (14.05%) Visualisation
15 117 (13.70%) Data Architecture
16 114 (13.35%) Data Transformation
17 110 (12.88%) Validation
18 95 (11.12%) Data Science
19 94 (11.01%) Machine Learning
20 86 (10.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 539 (63.11%) SQL
2 397 (46.49%) Python
3 78 (9.13%) Java
4 47 (5.50%) Scala
5 45 (5.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (3.98%) C#
7 30 (3.51%) T-SQL
8 27 (3.16%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.99%) JavaScript
9 17 (1.99%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.99%) VBA
10 14 (1.64%) R
11 13 (1.52%) Bash
12 12 (1.41%) PHP
13 11 (1.29%) Go
14 9 (1.05%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.94%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.94%) Bicep
15 8 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.59%) Korn
Qualifications
1 117 (13.70%) Security Cleared
2 82 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.49%) Degree
4 36 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 24 (2.81%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.52%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.29%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.70%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.70%) PMP
13 5 (0.59%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.35%) MCSE
15 2 (0.23%) CISSP
15 2 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.23%) MCP
16 1 (0.12%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (29.74%) Data Quality
2 60 (7.03%) GDPR
3 55 (6.44%) QA
4 18 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.17%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.59%) SLA
8 4 (0.47%) EMIR
8 4 (0.47%) IFRS
8 4 (0.47%) WCAG
9 3 (0.35%) GAAP
9 3 (0.35%) HL7
9 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.35%) MiFID
10 2 (0.23%) Basel III
10 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 83 (9.72%) Docker
2 8 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.59%) zsh
5 4 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.23%) KVM
6 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 77 (9.02%) Kubernetes
2 55 (6.44%) Terraform
3 15 (1.76%) Grafana
4 9 (1.05%) Control-M
5 7 (0.82%) Ansible
5 7 (0.82%) Kibana
6 5 (0.59%) logstash
6 5 (0.59%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 4 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.35%) Argo
8 3 (0.35%) Istio
9 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 146 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 138 (16.16%) Databricks
3 118 (13.82%) Oracle
4 61 (7.14%) Google
5 54 (6.32%) Informatica
6 50 (5.85%) SAP
7 45 (5.27%) Talend
8 19 (2.22%) Salesforce
9 18 (2.11%) Denodo
10 14 (1.64%) IBM
11 12 (1.41%) Palantir
12 10 (1.17%) AppDynamics
13 9 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.94%) Cognos
14 8 (0.94%) Foundry
14 8 (0.94%) VMware
14 8 (0.94%) Workday
15 7 (0.82%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.82%) StreamSets
15 7 (0.82%) Teradata