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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 76 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,492 784 921
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 3.17% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.09% 3.48% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 542 695
10th Percentile £358 £360 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -1.66% -4.65%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £627
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 11
10th Percentile £34.01 £38.42 £30.37
25th Percentile £35.89 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £51.21 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.46% +23.53% -39.29%
75th Percentile £61.75 £78.70 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.44 £90.71 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%

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 36,481 22,561 31,958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,067 14,578 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,053 2,381
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.81 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £26.32 £37.18
% change year-on-year +67.02% -29.21% +6.23%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +12 764 £513 -3.30% 193
Midlands +28 255 £459 +2.96% 87
West Midlands +41 225 £459 -4.38% 48
North of England -17 179 £460 -3.16% 135
South East +9 136 £475 -5.00% 160
North West -14 94 £450 -10.00% 65
South West -17 66 £523 +10.00% 72
Yorkshire -26 63 £500 +19.05% 41
East of England -9 45 £488 - 73
East Midlands -25 29 £525 +23.67% 39
North East -19 22 £525 +20.69% 29
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 (8.58%) Apache Spark
2 100 (6.70%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.69%) SAS
4 61 (4.09%) Apache
5 50 (3.35%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.74%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.67%) nginx
10 9 (0.60%) Appian
10 9 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
11 7 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Camunda
14 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.13%) Palantir Foundry
16 1 (0.067%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 41 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 13 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.60%) Sage X3
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 615 (41.22%) Azure
2 435 (29.16%) AWS
3 374 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 227 (15.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 165 (11.06%) GCP
6 150 (10.05%) Snowflake
7 147 (9.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 139 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
9 123 (8.24%) Amazon S3
10 119 (7.98%) Serverless
11 101 (6.77%) GitHub
12 95 (6.37%) dbt
13 87 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (2.95%) Collibra
16 29 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.88%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.74%) Amazon EMR
19 25 (1.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 25 (1.68%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.80%) Firewall
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.067%) 4G
4 1 (0.067%) 5G
4 1 (0.067%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.067%) DHCP
4 1 (0.067%) DNS
4 1 (0.067%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.067%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 442 (29.62%) Data Warehouse
2 352 (23.59%) Power BI
3 242 (16.22%) Data Lake
4 180 (12.06%) SQL Server
5 127 (8.51%) Metadata
6 97 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 96 (6.43%) Tableau
8 89 (5.97%) Delta Lake
9 86 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 82 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (5.43%) Pentaho
12 80 (5.36%) Relational Database
13 74 (4.96%) NoSQL
14 72 (4.83%) Big Data
15 65 (4.36%) BigQuery
16 60 (4.02%) Oracle Reports
16 60 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
17 57 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
18 53 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
19 48 (3.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 173 (11.60%) Git
2 129 (8.65%) JIRA
3 84 (5.63%) GitLab
4 61 (4.09%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.61%) Postman
6 34 (2.28%) Zephyr
7 18 (1.21%) MLflow
8 10 (0.67%) Selenium
9 8 (0.54%) ERwin
10 7 (0.47%) JMeter
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.27%) Flyway
11 4 (0.27%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.27%) LSMW
11 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.20%) Newman
12 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 394 (26.41%) Finance
2 379 (25.40%) Social Skills
3 245 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.44%) Banking
6 38 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.08%) Marketing
8 24 (1.61%) Retail
9 23 (1.54%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.27%) Legal
11 17 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.14%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.80%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.60%) Law
14 8 (0.54%) Billing
14 8 (0.54%) Front Office
14 8 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.54%) Military
15 7 (0.47%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 612 (41.02%) Data Engineer
2 199 (13.34%) Developer
3 179 (12.00%) Senior
4 169 (11.33%) Architect
4 169 (11.33%) Lead
5 124 (8.31%) Senior Data Engineer
6 112 (7.51%) Analyst
7 95 (6.37%) Data Architect
8 68 (4.56%) Data Analyst
9 50 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 42 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (2.55%) SQL Developer
12 36 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (2.35%) Consultant
13 35 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
14 33 (2.21%) Lead Data Engineer
15 32 (2.14%) AWS Data Engineer
15 32 (2.14%) Oracle Developer
16 30 (2.01%) Azure Data Engineer
16 30 (2.01%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (10.99%) PySpark
2 112 (7.51%) Kafka
3 78 (5.23%) REST
4 44 (2.95%) Pandas
5 39 (2.61%) .NET
6 36 (2.41%) JSON
6 36 (2.41%) XML
7 31 (2.08%) Middleware
8 27 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
9 25 (1.68%) Spring
10 23 (1.54%) Spring Boot
11 20 (1.34%) PyTorch
11 20 (1.34%) RESTful
12 19 (1.27%) NumPy
12 19 (1.27%) Web Services
13 18 (1.21%) OAuth
13 18 (1.21%) TensorFlow
14 17 (1.14%) Great Expectations
15 16 (1.07%) pytest
15 16 (1.07%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.05%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 84 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (1.54%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.07%) Clustering
12 16 (1.07%) NHS
13 15 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 14 (0.94%) Reinsurance
15 13 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.87%) Low-Code
16 12 (0.80%) IoT
16 12 (0.80%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.35%) Unix
2 31 (2.08%) Linux
3 18 (1.21%) Windows
4 8 (0.54%) Solaris
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (47.25%) Data Modelling
2 575 (38.54%) Data Pipeline
3 568 (38.07%) Analytics
4 459 (30.76%) Data Engineering
5 439 (29.42%) Business Intelligence
6 421 (28.22%) CI/CD
7 366 (24.53%) Migration
8 359 (24.06%) Agile
9 335 (22.45%) DevOps
10 289 (19.37%) Validation
11 279 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
12 278 (18.63%) Data Governance
13 253 (16.96%) AI
14 244 (16.35%) Data Integration
15 232 (15.55%) Data Migration
16 221 (14.81%) Data Architecture
17 200 (13.40%) Decision-Making
18 191 (12.80%) Test Automation
19 157 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
20 153 (10.25%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (67.43%) SQL
2 605 (40.55%) Python
3 125 (8.38%) Java
4 85 (5.70%) T-SQL
5 72 (4.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 72 (4.83%) PL/SQL
6 60 (4.02%) C#
7 50 (3.35%) Scala
8 33 (2.21%) JavaScript
9 32 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 25 (1.68%) Bash
11 20 (1.34%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.34%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.21%) R
13 16 (1.07%) Bicep
14 8 (0.54%) VBA
15 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
16 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.34%) Cypher
17 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 394 (26.41%) Security Cleared
2 327 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 81 (5.43%) Degree
4 42 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.94%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.27%) PMP
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 496 (33.24%) Data Quality
2 140 (9.38%) QA
3 96 (6.43%) GDPR
4 22 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.27%) IFRS
6 17 (1.14%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.87%) PMO
7 13 (0.87%) SLA
8 10 (0.67%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.54%) FATCA
10 7 (0.47%) GRC
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.34%) GAAP
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
13 4 (0.27%) Solvency II
14 3 (0.20%) Basel III
14 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 107 (7.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.34%) HDFS
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.067%) RACF
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (9.05%) Terraform
2 111 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.34%) Grafana
4 14 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.87%) Ansible
6 8 (0.54%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.067%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.067%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 299 (20.04%) Databricks
2 287 (19.24%) Microsoft
3 278 (18.63%) Oracle
4 132 (8.85%) Informatica
5 122 (8.18%) Talend
6 67 (4.49%) SAP
7 59 (3.95%) Denodo
8 46 (3.08%) Google
8 46 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 33 (2.21%) IBM
10 26 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.54%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.41%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.34%) Sage
14 17 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.14%) Splunk
14 17 (1.14%) Workday
15 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
17 9 (0.60%) Teradata