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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 79 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,436 755 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.11% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 3.40% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,071 517 666
10th Percentile £358 £360 £375
25th Percentile £413 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £35.18 £51.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £44.82 £58.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £84.56 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% +70.82% -1.00%
75th Percentile £69.76 £99.42 £53.25
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.48% +16.16% +5.74%

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 34,368 22,176 31,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.67% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,897 14,509 20,833
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -2.69% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 935 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.45 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.40 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.48% -21.23% +0.29%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +22 760 £513 -4.47% 153
Midlands +25 235 £468 -1.47% 33
West Midlands +29 209 £460 -9.14% 25
North of England -24 174 £460 -0.54% 57
South East -1 118 £475 -8.12% 61
North West -12 94 £447 -8.31% 31
South West -19 64 £525 +7.69% 23
Yorkshire -26 64 £500 +21.95% 17
East of England -5 42 £500 +1.27% 8
East Midlands -28 25 £525 +25.00% 8
North East -11 16 £525 +20.69% 9
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
1 127 (8.84%) Apache Spark
2 95 (6.62%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (5.01%) SAS
4 64 (4.46%) Apache
5 42 (2.92%) Confluence
6 16 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.04%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.63%) Appian
8 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.56%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.49%) nginx
10 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.28%) Camunda
12 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.070%) CMS
Applications
1 40 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.35%) Actimize
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 594 (41.36%) Azure
2 416 (28.97%) AWS
3 349 (24.30%) Power Platform
4 223 (15.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 163 (11.35%) GCP
6 161 (11.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 126 (8.77%) Snowflake
8 123 (8.57%) Amazon S3
8 123 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (7.38%) Serverless
10 95 (6.62%) GitHub
11 85 (5.92%) dbt
12 78 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (3.41%) Collibra
14 39 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (2.30%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.88%) SaaS
18 25 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 21 (1.46%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.77%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 5 (0.35%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.070%) 4G
4 1 (0.070%) 5G
4 1 (0.070%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.070%) DHCP
4 1 (0.070%) DNS
4 1 (0.070%) DSL
4 1 (0.070%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.070%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (29.32%) Data Warehouse
2 326 (22.70%) Power BI
3 225 (15.67%) Data Lake
4 179 (12.47%) SQL Server
5 139 (9.68%) Metadata
6 96 (6.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.27%) Tableau
8 86 (5.99%) Delta Lake
9 85 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 76 (5.29%) Pentaho
11 75 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 75 (5.22%) Relational Database
12 74 (5.15%) Big Data
13 68 (4.74%) NoSQL
14 61 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
15 60 (4.18%) BigQuery
16 59 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
17 53 (3.69%) Oracle Reports
18 51 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
19 45 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 160 (11.14%) Git
2 127 (8.84%) JIRA
3 80 (5.57%) GitLab
4 64 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.72%) Postman
6 28 (1.95%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.60%) MLflow
8 19 (1.32%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) ERwin
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 392 (27.30%) Finance
2 369 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 239 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.17%) Banking
6 31 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.88%) Marketing
8 24 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.46%) Retail
10 19 (1.32%) Legal
11 15 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 14 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (0.91%) Law
14 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.49%) Front Office
17 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.49%) Military
18 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 593 (41.30%) Data Engineer
2 198 (13.79%) Developer
3 163 (11.35%) Senior
4 158 (11.00%) Lead
5 145 (10.10%) Architect
6 120 (8.36%) Analyst
7 114 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
8 82 (5.71%) Data Architect
9 75 (5.22%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 45 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (2.37%) Snowflake Engineer
15 33 (2.30%) AWS Data Engineer
16 31 (2.16%) Data Migration Lead
17 30 (2.09%) Lead Data Engineer
17 30 (2.09%) Senior Developer
17 30 (2.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 29 (2.02%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (11.56%) PySpark
2 119 (8.29%) Kafka
3 80 (5.57%) REST
4 41 (2.86%) Pandas
5 39 (2.72%) .NET
6 33 (2.30%) JSON
7 26 (1.81%) XML
8 24 (1.67%) Middleware
9 23 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 23 (1.60%) RESTful
9 23 (1.60%) Spring
10 20 (1.39%) NumPy
10 20 (1.39%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.32%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.25%) Great Expectations
12 18 (1.25%) OAuth
12 18 (1.25%) YAML
13 16 (1.11%) OpenID
13 16 (1.11%) TensorFlow
13 16 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.77%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.55%) Data Structures
3 76 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.16%) Distributed Computing
6 30 (2.09%) Product Ownership
7 21 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.32%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 16 (1.11%) Clustering
12 15 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (0.91%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.91%) NHS
13 13 (0.91%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.84%) Reinsurance
15 10 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.16%) Unix
2 23 (1.60%) Linux
3 16 (1.11%) Windows
4 8 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.49%) Solaris
5 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.070%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (47.84%) Data Modelling
2 576 (40.11%) Analytics
3 537 (37.40%) Data Pipeline
4 453 (31.55%) Data Engineering
5 430 (29.94%) Business Intelligence
6 391 (27.23%) CI/CD
7 340 (23.68%) Agile
8 332 (23.12%) Migration
9 324 (22.56%) DevOps
10 303 (21.10%) Data Governance
11 286 (19.92%) Problem-Solving
12 270 (18.80%) Validation
13 224 (15.60%) AI
14 221 (15.39%) Data Migration
15 216 (15.04%) Data Integration
16 211 (14.69%) Data Architecture
17 194 (13.51%) Decision-Making
18 168 (11.70%) Test Automation
19 152 (10.58%) Performance Tuning
20 147 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 971 (67.62%) SQL
2 598 (41.64%) Python
3 126 (8.77%) Java
4 71 (4.94%) PL/SQL
5 66 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (4.60%) T-SQL
6 63 (4.39%) C#
7 55 (3.83%) Scala
8 39 (2.72%) JavaScript
9 28 (1.95%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.53%) Bash
11 20 (1.39%) R
11 20 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.18%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.11%) Bicep
14 9 (0.63%) PHP
15 8 (0.56%) SAS Macro
15 8 (0.56%) VBA
16 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 358 (24.93%) Security Cleared
2 292 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.78%) Degree
4 48 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.72%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.95%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 13 (0.91%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.28%) PMP
13 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.14%) CISA
14 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (33.01%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.54%) QA
3 97 (6.75%) GDPR
4 23 (1.60%) IFRS
5 22 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.25%) IFRS 17
7 11 (0.77%) PMO
8 10 (0.70%) SLA
9 9 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.56%) FATCA
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.35%) MiFID
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 112 (7.80%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.070%) RACF
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (9.19%) Terraform
2 119 (8.29%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.46%) Grafana
4 15 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.91%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.070%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.070%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.070%) Kibana
10 1 (0.070%) logstash
10 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 286 (19.92%) Databricks
2 277 (19.29%) Microsoft
3 250 (17.41%) Oracle
4 131 (9.12%) Informatica
5 113 (7.87%) Talend
6 64 (4.46%) SAP
7 57 (3.97%) Denodo
8 50 (3.48%) Google
9 48 (3.34%) ServiceNow
10 28 (1.95%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.81%) IBM
12 25 (1.74%) MuleSoft
13 17 (1.18%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.18%) Sage
13 17 (1.18%) Splunk
13 17 (1.18%) Workday
14 14 (0.97%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.77%) Teradata
16 10 (0.70%) Cognos
17 9 (0.63%) Cloudera