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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 71 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,137 806 870
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.29% 3.12% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.76% 3.47% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 534 673
10th Percentile £363 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £694 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -3.15% -1.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 16
10th Percentile £34.43 - £31.38
25th Percentile £47.22 £26.25 £45.44
Median hourly rate £68.39 £42.50 £51.78
Median % change year-on-year +60.92% -17.92% +45.85%
75th Percentile £75.45 £96.64 £65.40
90th Percentile £79.75 £102.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +82.86% -38.05% +61.43%

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 30,243 23,214 32,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.45% 89.92% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,352 14,394 21,863
10th Percentile £311 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,888 728 2,002
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.32
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.04% - -
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £61.04
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.33 £72.90
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% -

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 18 February 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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +21 695 £525 -4.55% 164
Midlands -1 134 £513 +7.44% 79
North of England -34 132 £450 +2.86% 71
West Midlands -1 111 £514 +4.26% 55
North West -7 82 £447 -3.35% 41
South East -39 62 £475 -18.80% 118
South West -11 59 £525 -14.29% 35
Yorkshire -54 37 £475 +33.80% 23
East Midlands -15 23 £473 +21.94% 24
East of England -26 19 £535 +1.95% 24
North East -8 12 £450 -10.00% 7
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
1 107 (9.41%) Apache Spark
2 81 (7.12%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (5.89%) Apache
4 46 (4.05%) SAS
5 13 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.06%) Confluence
7 8 (0.70%) Appian
7 8 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.53%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.35%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.26%) CMS
12 3 (0.26%) IIS
12 3 (0.26%) nginx
12 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
Applications
1 45 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.62%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.26%) Trello
5 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.088%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.44%) Maximo
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.35%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.18%) Actimize
8 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 494 (43.45%) Azure
2 351 (30.87%) AWS
3 267 (23.48%) Power Platform
4 187 (16.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 147 (12.93%) GCP
6 133 (11.70%) Snowflake
7 123 (10.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 111 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 101 (8.88%) Serverless
10 88 (7.74%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (6.77%) GitHub
12 70 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
13 64 (5.63%) dbt
14 36 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (3.17%) SaaS
15 34 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.64%) Collibra
17 24 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
17 24 (2.11%) Power Automate
18 23 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.62%) 5G
2 6 (0.53%) 2G
2 6 (0.53%) 4G
2 6 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.18%) BGP
3 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.18%) DSL
3 2 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.18%) OSPF
3 2 (0.18%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.088%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.088%) Firewall
4 1 (0.088%) HTTP
4 1 (0.088%) Multicast
4 1 (0.088%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 314 (27.62%) Data Warehouse
2 250 (21.99%) Power BI
3 181 (15.92%) Data Lake
4 141 (12.40%) SQL Server
5 108 (9.50%) Metadata
6 87 (7.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 77 (6.77%) Relational Database
8 71 (6.24%) Big Data
9 69 (6.07%) Tableau
10 66 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
11 64 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
12 60 (5.28%) Delta Lake
13 58 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 49 (4.31%) NoSQL
15 48 (4.22%) Pentaho
16 46 (4.05%) BigQuery
16 46 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
17 44 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
17 44 (3.87%) Oracle Database
18 32 (2.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (11.17%) Git
2 77 (6.77%) JIRA
3 56 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 40 (3.52%) GitLab
5 20 (1.76%) MLflow
6 17 (1.50%) Postman
7 15 (1.32%) ERwin
8 14 (1.23%) Selenium
9 7 (0.62%) JMeter
9 7 (0.62%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.53%) TestRail
11 5 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.44%) DBeaver
11 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.35%) Gatling
12 4 (0.35%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.35%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.35%) Toad
13 3 (0.26%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.26%) SoapUI
General
1 357 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 319 (28.06%) Finance
3 187 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 90 (7.92%) Banking
6 28 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.11%) Retail
8 21 (1.85%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.41%) Marketing
10 14 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.14%) Law
12 12 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (0.97%) Legal
14 7 (0.62%) Publishing
15 6 (0.53%) General Ledger
16 5 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.44%) Local Government
16 5 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 443 (38.96%) Data Engineer
2 153 (13.46%) Developer
3 134 (11.79%) Lead
4 118 (10.38%) Senior
5 112 (9.85%) Analyst
6 105 (9.23%) Architect
7 80 (7.04%) Data Analyst
8 79 (6.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 63 (5.54%) Data Architect
10 42 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 32 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
13 31 (2.73%) Snowflake Engineer
14 28 (2.46%) Business Analyst
15 27 (2.37%) Lead Data Engineer
16 25 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 24 (2.11%) Python Engineer
18 23 (2.02%) Senior Developer
19 21 (1.85%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (11.35%) PySpark
2 106 (9.32%) Kafka
3 63 (5.54%) REST
4 43 (3.78%) XML
5 35 (3.08%) Pandas
6 31 (2.73%) JSON
7 27 (2.37%) .NET
8 25 (2.20%) NumPy
9 23 (2.02%) PyTorch
10 22 (1.93%) RESTful
11 21 (1.85%) Middleware
12 20 (1.76%) TensorFlow
13 19 (1.67%) Node.js
14 18 (1.58%) OAuth
14 18 (1.58%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.50%) pytest
16 16 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
17 15 (1.32%) Great Expectations
18 14 (1.23%) YAML
19 13 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 76 (6.68%) Data Structures
3 56 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.11%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 17 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.50%) Reinsurance
8 16 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.32%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.32%) Product Ownership
10 13 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.06%) IoT
11 12 (1.06%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.97%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.97%) Replication
13 10 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.85%) Linux
2 15 (1.32%) Unix
3 10 (0.88%) Windows
4 4 (0.35%) VMS
4 4 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.18%) Solaris
6 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (46.53%) Data Modelling
2 479 (42.13%) Analytics
3 425 (37.38%) Data Pipeline
4 380 (33.42%) Data Engineering
5 357 (31.40%) Business Intelligence
6 312 (27.44%) CI/CD
7 267 (23.48%) Data Governance
8 264 (23.22%) Agile
9 260 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
10 248 (21.81%) DevOps
11 223 (19.61%) Migration
12 195 (17.15%) Data Architecture
13 179 (15.74%) Data Integration
14 178 (15.66%) Validation
15 154 (13.54%) AI
16 153 (13.46%) Data Migration
17 150 (13.19%) Data Science
18 140 (12.31%) Decision-Making
19 138 (12.14%) Machine Learning
20 125 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 743 (65.35%) SQL
2 561 (49.34%) Python
3 91 (8.00%) Java
4 52 (4.57%) C#
5 50 (4.40%) Scala
6 43 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 43 (3.78%) T-SQL
7 40 (3.52%) PL/SQL
8 38 (3.34%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.76%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.50%) Bicep
11 16 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 14 (1.23%) Bash
13 14 (1.23%) Go
13 14 (1.23%) R
14 11 (0.97%) PHP
14 11 (0.97%) VBA
15 5 (0.44%) Cypher
15 5 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 222 (19.53%) Security Cleared
2 172 (15.13%) SC Cleared
3 81 (7.12%) Degree
4 49 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.81%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.62%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.53%) PMP
13 5 (0.44%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.44%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.088%) CCIE
16 1 (0.088%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 375 (32.98%) Data Quality
2 90 (7.92%) GDPR
3 89 (7.83%) QA
4 21 (1.85%) IFRS
5 19 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.50%) IFRS 17
7 12 (1.06%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.70%) PMO
9 5 (0.44%) GAAP
9 5 (0.44%) MiFID
9 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.35%) SLA
11 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.26%) Basel III
11 3 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.26%) FATCA
11 3 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.26%) NIST
12 2 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 107 (9.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.44%) zsh
3 4 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.18%) HDFS
5 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.18%) KVM
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.088%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 118 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 110 (9.67%) Terraform
3 13 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.70%) Ansible
5 7 (0.62%) Grafana
6 5 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.35%) Kibana
7 4 (0.35%) logstash
8 2 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.18%) SCCM
9 1 (0.088%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.088%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.088%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.088%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 246 (21.64%) Databricks
2 187 (16.45%) Microsoft
3 144 (12.66%) Oracle
4 83 (7.30%) Informatica
5 73 (6.42%) Talend
6 45 (3.96%) SAP
7 39 (3.43%) Google
8 32 (2.81%) Denodo
9 30 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 26 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.67%) IBM
11 19 (1.67%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.32%) Workday
13 14 (1.23%) Palantir
14 13 (1.14%) OpenAI
15 12 (1.06%) Alteryx
15 12 (1.06%) Cognos
16 11 (0.97%) Ab Initio
16 11 (0.97%) Foundry
16 11 (0.97%) Splunk