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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,487 789 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 3.16% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.03% 3.46% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,094 547 705
10th Percentile £358 £363 £361
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.12%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 11
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.42 £30.37
25th Percentile £34.51 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +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 36,902 22,811 32,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 91.37% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,326 14,743 20,763
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -4.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,306 1,092 2,399
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.06 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +75.52% -29.01% +8.82%
75th Percentile £68.75 £55.25 £61.47
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.88 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +10 759 £513 -3.85% 152
Midlands +26 259 £460 +2.11% 40
West Midlands +43 228 £459 -7.27% 28
North of England -18 178 £460 -3.16% 51
South East +8 134 £475 -5.00% 84
North West -11 95 £450 -10.00% 30
South West -20 66 £524 +10.26% 26
Yorkshire -25 63 £500 +20.48% 12
East of England -4 44 £488 - 9
East Midlands -19 30 £525 +23.67% 12
North East -25 20 £550 +30.95% 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
1 131 (8.81%) Apache Spark
2 103 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.71%) SAS
4 64 (4.30%) Apache
5 51 (3.43%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) Oracle Application Server
7 14 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
8 10 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.54%) Appian
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%) Anypoint
Applications
1 41 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) 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
2 12 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.67%) Sage X3
4 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 612 (41.16%) Azure
2 442 (29.72%) AWS
3 377 (25.35%) Power Platform
4 222 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 172 (11.57%) GCP
6 152 (10.22%) Snowflake
7 145 (9.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 133 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (8.47%) Amazon S3
10 119 (8.00%) Serverless
11 98 (6.59%) dbt
12 97 (6.52%) GitHub
13 89 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (2.76%) Collibra
16 29 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (1.95%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.68%) Matillion
19 23 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.74%) 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 (29.72%) Data Warehouse
2 358 (24.08%) Power BI
3 235 (15.80%) Data Lake
4 176 (11.84%) SQL Server
5 128 (8.61%) Metadata
6 98 (6.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.39%) Tableau
8 89 (5.99%) Delta Lake
9 87 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 82 (5.51%) Pentaho
10 82 (5.51%) Relational Database
11 80 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
12 74 (4.98%) NoSQL
13 71 (4.77%) Big Data
14 69 (4.64%) BigQuery
15 60 (4.03%) Oracle Reports
16 59 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
17 58 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
18 52 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
19 47 (3.16%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 172 (11.57%) Git
2 132 (8.88%) JIRA
3 84 (5.65%) GitLab
4 61 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.62%) Postman
6 34 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.14%) MLflow
8 10 (0.67%) Selenium
9 9 (0.61%) ERwin
10 7 (0.47%) JMeter
11 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Flyway
12 4 (0.27%) Gatling
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.20%) LSMW
13 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (26.50%) Finance
2 374 (25.15%) Social Skills
3 248 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.33%) Banking
6 37 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.95%) Marketing
8 23 (1.55%) Retail
9 20 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 19 (1.28%) Legal
11 18 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.61%) Billing
13 9 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.61%) Law
14 8 (0.54%) Front Office
14 8 (0.54%) Military
15 7 (0.47%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 607 (40.82%) Data Engineer
2 200 (13.45%) Developer
3 175 (11.77%) Senior
4 172 (11.57%) Architect
5 170 (11.43%) Lead
6 123 (8.27%) Senior Data Engineer
7 110 (7.40%) Analyst
8 99 (6.66%) Data Architect
9 69 (4.64%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (2.69%) Azure Engineer
12 37 (2.49%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (2.49%) SQL Developer
13 35 (2.35%) Consultant
13 35 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
14 33 (2.22%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (2.22%) Lead Data Engineer
15 31 (2.08%) Oracle Developer
16 30 (2.02%) Snowflake Engineer
17 29 (1.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (11.03%) PySpark
2 116 (7.80%) Kafka
3 75 (5.04%) REST
4 42 (2.82%) Pandas
5 39 (2.62%) .NET
6 38 (2.56%) JSON
7 36 (2.42%) XML
8 30 (2.02%) Middleware
9 27 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
10 26 (1.75%) Spring
11 24 (1.61%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.28%) PyTorch
12 19 (1.28%) RESTful
13 18 (1.21%) NumPy
13 18 (1.21%) Web Services
14 17 (1.14%) OAuth
14 17 (1.14%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.08%) Great Expectations
16 15 (1.01%) pytest
16 15 (1.01%) React
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.88%) Cloud Native
2 97 (6.52%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 24 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
8 23 (1.55%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.08%) Clustering
12 15 (1.01%) NHS
12 15 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.01%) Reinsurance
13 13 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.74%) IoT
15 11 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.29%) 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
1 701 (47.14%) Data Modelling
2 577 (38.80%) Data Pipeline
3 569 (38.26%) Analytics
4 462 (31.07%) Data Engineering
5 442 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
6 421 (28.31%) CI/CD
7 367 (24.68%) Migration
8 364 (24.48%) Agile
9 328 (22.06%) DevOps
10 287 (19.30%) Validation
11 280 (18.83%) Data Governance
11 280 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
12 256 (17.22%) AI
13 247 (16.61%) Data Integration
14 233 (15.67%) Data Migration
15 225 (15.13%) Data Architecture
16 201 (13.52%) Decision-Making
17 190 (12.78%) Test Automation
18 161 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 154 (10.36%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,006 (67.65%) SQL
2 600 (40.35%) Python
3 127 (8.54%) Java
4 84 (5.65%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 70 (4.71%) PL/SQL
7 58 (3.90%) C#
8 49 (3.30%) Scala
9 35 (2.35%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.75%) Bash
12 21 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.41%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.21%) R
14 15 (1.01%) Bicep
15 8 (0.54%) VBA
16 7 (0.47%) Cypher
16 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 396 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 328 (22.06%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.51%) Degree
4 42 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.54%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.34%) 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%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (33.56%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.21%) QA
3 97 (6.52%) GDPR
4 21 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 20 (1.34%) IFRS
6 18 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.87%) PMO
7 13 (0.87%) SLA
8 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.54%) FATCA
10 7 (0.47%) GRC
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.40%) Solvency II
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
14 3 (0.20%) HL7
14 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (7.40%) 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
1 131 (8.81%) Terraform
2 114 (7.67%) 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
1 293 (19.70%) Databricks
2 284 (19.10%) Microsoft
3 276 (18.56%) Oracle
4 134 (9.01%) Informatica
5 124 (8.34%) Talend
6 67 (4.51%) SAP
7 59 (3.97%) Denodo
8 46 (3.09%) ServiceNow
9 45 (3.03%) Google
10 32 (2.15%) IBM
11 27 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.55%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.41%) Sage
14 20 (1.34%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.14%) Splunk
15 17 (1.14%) Workday
16 16 (1.08%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
18 10 (0.67%) Red Hat
19 9 (0.61%) Palantir