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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 76 95
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,089 794 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 3.06% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.41% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 530 672
10th Percentile £363 £356 £382
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £631
90th Percentile £688 £696 £704
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 16
10th Percentile £34.43 - £39.01
25th Percentile £47.22 £26.25 £46.63
Median hourly rate £68.39 £42.50 £51.78
Median % change year-on-year +60.92% -17.92% +30.26%
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% +42.14%

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 29,666 23,261 33,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.57% 89.75% 87.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,990 14,365 22,049
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £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 1,857 734 1,965
10th Percentile £15.14 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.05 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £72.84
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -2.99% +2.48%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +22 667 £525 -2.23% 158
North of England -34 126 £450 - 63
Midlands -3 121 £515 +7.97% 61
West Midlands -9 98 £515 +4.78% 41
North West -3 80 £450 -2.70% 40
South East -48 63 £475 -18.80% 99
South West -14 58 £525 -14.29% 38
Yorkshire -62 34 £500 +38.89% 17
East Midlands -12 23 £473 +22.33% 20
East of England -22 18 £551 +10.10% 17
North East -10 11 £450 -10.00% 6
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
1 106 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 84 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (6.34%) Apache
4 38 (3.49%) SAS
5 13 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.01%) Confluence
7 8 (0.73%) Appian
7 8 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) IIS
11 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.092%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.092%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.092%) Luigi
Applications
1 40 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.37%) Trello
5 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.092%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.55%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.46%) Maximo
6 5 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
9 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 475 (43.62%) Azure
2 334 (30.67%) AWS
3 254 (23.32%) Power Platform
4 184 (16.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 144 (13.22%) GCP
6 133 (12.21%) Snowflake
7 118 (10.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 105 (9.64%) Amazon S3
9 95 (8.72%) Serverless
10 86 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (7.07%) GitHub
12 64 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (5.79%) dbt
14 35 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (3.12%) SaaS
16 33 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
17 28 (2.57%) Collibra
18 23 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
18 23 (2.11%) Power Automate
19 21 (1.93%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.55%) 2G
1 6 (0.55%) 5G
1 6 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.46%) 4G
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 (0.092%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.092%) Firewall
4 1 (0.092%) Multicast
4 1 (0.092%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (27.46%) Data Warehouse
2 241 (22.13%) Power BI
3 175 (16.07%) Data Lake
4 133 (12.21%) SQL Server
5 103 (9.46%) Metadata
6 78 (7.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 75 (6.89%) Relational Database
8 70 (6.43%) Big Data
9 66 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 66 (6.06%) Tableau
10 63 (5.79%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 56 (5.14%) Delta Lake
13 47 (4.32%) NoSQL
14 45 (4.13%) BigQuery
14 45 (4.13%) Oracle Database
15 43 (3.95%) Pentaho
15 43 (3.95%) Snowflake Schema
16 41 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
17 33 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (10.74%) Git
2 76 (6.98%) JIRA
3 55 (5.05%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.58%) GitLab
5 19 (1.74%) MLflow
6 15 (1.38%) ERwin
6 15 (1.38%) Postman
7 13 (1.19%) Selenium
8 7 (0.64%) JMeter
8 7 (0.64%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.64%) TestRail
9 6 (0.55%) DBeaver
9 6 (0.55%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.37%) Gatling
11 4 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.37%) Toad
12 3 (0.28%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
General
1 338 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 299 (27.46%) Finance
3 174 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (7.90%) Banking
5 82 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 25 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.11%) Retail
8 19 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 16 (1.47%) Marketing
10 13 (1.19%) Law
11 12 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.10%) Telecoms
12 11 (1.01%) Legal
13 10 (0.92%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.64%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.64%) Publishing
15 6 (0.55%) Front Office
16 5 (0.46%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 414 (38.02%) Data Engineer
2 147 (13.50%) Developer
3 132 (12.12%) Lead
4 112 (10.28%) Senior
5 103 (9.46%) Analyst
6 101 (9.27%) Architect
7 74 (6.80%) Data Analyst
7 74 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 59 (5.42%) Data Architect
9 43 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
10 35 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 33 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
12 32 (2.94%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (2.57%) Business Analyst
14 26 (2.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 25 (2.30%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
16 23 (2.11%) Senior Developer
17 22 (2.02%) Python Engineer
18 21 (1.93%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (11.11%) PySpark
2 101 (9.27%) Kafka
3 65 (5.97%) REST
4 43 (3.95%) XML
5 32 (2.94%) Pandas
6 30 (2.75%) JSON
7 27 (2.48%) .NET
8 23 (2.11%) NumPy
8 23 (2.11%) PyTorch
9 22 (2.02%) RESTful
10 21 (1.93%) Node.js
11 20 (1.84%) Middleware
12 19 (1.74%) OAuth
12 19 (1.74%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (1.47%) pytest
14 16 (1.47%) scikit-learn
15 14 (1.29%) Great Expectations
16 13 (1.19%) Spark Streaming
16 13 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 74 (6.80%) Data Structures
3 54 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
5 20 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 19 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.56%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.38%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.29%) Product Ownership
10 14 (1.29%) Replication
11 13 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.10%) Low-Code
13 11 (1.01%) IoT
14 10 (0.92%) Data Fabric
14 10 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.93%) Linux
2 14 (1.29%) Unix
3 8 (0.73%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (45.73%) Data Modelling
2 459 (42.15%) Analytics
3 405 (37.19%) Data Pipeline
4 357 (32.78%) Data Engineering
5 344 (31.59%) Business Intelligence
6 305 (28.01%) CI/CD
7 254 (23.32%) Data Governance
8 252 (23.14%) Agile
9 248 (22.77%) DevOps
10 247 (22.68%) Problem-Solving
11 212 (19.47%) Migration
12 190 (17.45%) Data Architecture
13 172 (15.79%) Data Integration
14 161 (14.78%) Validation
15 148 (13.59%) Data Migration
16 144 (13.22%) AI
16 144 (13.22%) Data Science
17 136 (12.49%) Machine Learning
18 131 (12.03%) Decision-Making
19 121 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 702 (64.46%) SQL
2 531 (48.76%) Python
3 91 (8.36%) Java
4 52 (4.78%) Scala
5 49 (4.50%) C#
6 40 (3.67%) PL/SQL
7 38 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 36 (3.31%) JavaScript
9 35 (3.21%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.47%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.38%) Bicep
13 14 (1.29%) Go
13 14 (1.29%) R
14 11 (1.01%) PHP
15 10 (0.92%) VBA
16 9 (0.83%) Bash
17 5 (0.46%) Cypher
17 5 (0.46%) Korn
Qualifications
1 205 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 158 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.35%) Degree
4 49 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.86%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 27 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.73%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.64%) PMP
13 6 (0.55%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.46%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 3 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.092%) CCIE
17 1 (0.092%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (32.32%) Data Quality
2 90 (8.26%) GDPR
3 78 (7.16%) QA
4 20 (1.84%) IFRS
5 17 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (1.47%) IFRS 17
7 12 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.83%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.46%) GAAP
9 5 (0.46%) MiFID
9 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.46%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.28%) Basel III
11 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.28%) FATCA
11 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.28%) NIST
12 2 (0.18%) EMIR
System Software
1 109 (10.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.46%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.46%) zsh
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.18%) HDFS
4 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.18%) KVM
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.092%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 115 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 105 (9.64%) Terraform
3 10 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.73%) Ansible
5 7 (0.64%) Grafana
6 6 (0.55%) Kibana
6 6 (0.55%) logstash
7 5 (0.46%) Control-M
8 4 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.18%) SCCM
10 1 (0.092%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.092%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.092%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.092%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 237 (21.76%) Databricks
2 180 (16.53%) Microsoft
3 141 (12.95%) Oracle
4 77 (7.07%) Informatica
5 67 (6.15%) Talend
6 42 (3.86%) SAP
7 40 (3.67%) Google
8 31 (2.85%) Denodo
9 28 (2.57%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.30%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.65%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.56%) IBM
13 15 (1.38%) Workday
14 14 (1.29%) Palantir
15 13 (1.19%) OpenAI
16 12 (1.10%) Alteryx
16 12 (1.10%) Cognos
17 11 (1.01%) Foundry
18 10 (0.92%) Ab Initio
19 9 (0.83%) UiPath