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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 81 92
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,424 747 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 3.07% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.36% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,063 514 665
10th Percentile £358 £359 £366
25th Percentile £413 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £35.18 £49.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £78.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +58.99% +5.74%
75th Percentile £69.76 £98.56 £53.25
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +13.45%

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 34,314 22,202 32,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.20% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,947 14,537 21,107
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,131 918 2,248
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.69 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +30 752 £512 -4.78% 119
Midlands +26 240 £469 -1.26% 50
West Midlands +35 205 £469 -5.54% 38
North of England -22 174 £460 -0.54% 60
South East -11 106 £475 -8.83% 79
North West -20 91 £447 -5.89% 35
South West -16 66 £525 +5.00% 30
Yorkshire -24 66 £500 +42.86% 18
East of England -1 43 £500 +1.27% 19
East Midlands -15 34 £485 +16.87% 12
North East -12 16 £525 +10.53% 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
1 133 (9.34%) Apache Spark
2 96 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.92%) SAS
4 66 (4.63%) Apache
5 40 (2.81%) Confluence
6 15 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.98%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.63%) Appian
8 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.42%) nginx
11 4 (0.28%) Camunda
11 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 43 (3.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.35%) Maximo
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.21%) Actimize
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 586 (41.15%) Azure
2 413 (29.00%) AWS
3 349 (24.51%) Power Platform
4 227 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 163 (11.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 162 (11.38%) GCP
7 129 (9.06%) Amazon S3
7 129 (9.06%) Snowflake
8 118 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.58%) Serverless
10 94 (6.60%) GitHub
11 84 (5.90%) dbt
12 80 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (3.44%) Collibra
14 39 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
16 32 (2.25%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.83%) SaaS
18 25 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 22 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
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 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) DSL
5 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (29.92%) Data Warehouse
2 327 (22.96%) Power BI
3 226 (15.87%) Data Lake
4 179 (12.57%) SQL Server
5 144 (10.11%) Metadata
6 100 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.53%) Tableau
8 84 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 84 (5.90%) Delta Lake
9 82 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 76 (5.34%) Big Data
10 76 (5.34%) Pentaho
11 73 (5.13%) Relational Database
12 68 (4.78%) NoSQL
13 62 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
14 57 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
15 56 (3.93%) BigQuery
16 53 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (3.51%) Oracle Reports
18 46 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 159 (11.17%) Git
2 125 (8.78%) JIRA
3 73 (5.13%) GitLab
4 63 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.74%) Postman
6 27 (1.90%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.62%) MLflow
8 19 (1.33%) Selenium
9 10 (0.70%) 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%) PowerDesigner
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 387 (27.18%) Finance
2 384 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 240 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 103 (7.23%) Banking
6 31 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.83%) Marketing
8 24 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.54%) Legal
10 21 (1.47%) Retail
11 15 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.91%) Law
14 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.49%) Front Office
16 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.42%) Aerospace
17 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 585 (41.08%) Data Engineer
2 201 (14.12%) Developer
3 168 (11.80%) Senior
4 156 (10.96%) Lead
5 141 (9.90%) Architect
6 126 (8.85%) Analyst
7 114 (8.01%) Senior Data Engineer
8 80 (5.62%) Data Architect
9 79 (5.55%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 43 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 36 (2.53%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (2.32%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (2.32%) Snowflake Engineer
15 30 (2.11%) Consultant
15 30 (2.11%) Lead Data Engineer
15 30 (2.11%) Senior Developer
15 30 (2.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 27 (1.90%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (11.24%) PySpark
2 125 (8.78%) Kafka
3 79 (5.55%) REST
4 40 (2.81%) Pandas
5 38 (2.67%) .NET
6 35 (2.46%) JSON
7 30 (2.11%) XML
8 25 (1.76%) RESTful
9 24 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
10 20 (1.40%) Middleware
10 20 (1.40%) NumPy
10 20 (1.40%) Spring
11 18 (1.26%) Great Expectations
11 18 (1.26%) PyTorch
11 18 (1.26%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.19%) OAuth
12 17 (1.19%) YAML
13 16 (1.12%) Web Services
14 15 (1.05%) OpenID
14 15 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.92%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.60%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.27%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.12%) Clustering
11 16 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.05%) NHS
13 13 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.84%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.84%) Reference Data
15 11 (0.77%) Reinsurance
16 10 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.18%) Unix
2 21 (1.47%) Linux
3 15 (1.05%) Windows
4 7 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.42%) Solaris
5 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.35%) 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 (48.24%) Data Modelling
2 583 (40.94%) Analytics
3 530 (37.22%) Data Pipeline
4 458 (32.16%) Data Engineering
5 434 (30.48%) Business Intelligence
6 388 (27.25%) CI/CD
7 341 (23.95%) Agile
8 330 (23.17%) Migration
9 319 (22.40%) DevOps
10 316 (22.19%) Data Governance
11 287 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
12 268 (18.82%) Validation
13 220 (15.45%) Data Migration
14 219 (15.38%) Data Architecture
15 211 (14.82%) Data Integration
16 209 (14.68%) AI
17 189 (13.27%) Decision-Making
18 163 (11.45%) Test Automation
19 153 (10.74%) Performance Tuning
20 151 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 957 (67.21%) SQL
2 599 (42.06%) Python
3 123 (8.64%) Java
4 67 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.49%) PL/SQL
6 60 (4.21%) C#
7 59 (4.14%) T-SQL
8 54 (3.79%) Scala
9 36 (2.53%) JavaScript
10 29 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 21 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.33%) Bash
12 19 (1.33%) R
13 17 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.12%) Bicep
15 9 (0.63%) PHP
16 8 (0.56%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.56%) VBA
17 7 (0.49%) Go
18 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 358 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 289 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.90%) Degree
4 49 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.81%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.47%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.40%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.35%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.28%) PMP
15 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.14%) CISA
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 477 (33.50%) Data Quality
2 139 (9.76%) QA
3 103 (7.23%) GDPR
4 22 (1.54%) IFRS
4 22 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (1.19%) IFRS 17
6 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.77%) PMO
7 9 (0.63%) SLA
8 8 (0.56%) FATCA
9 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.42%) GRC
10 5 (0.35%) GAAP
10 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.35%) MiFID
11 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.28%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 115 (8.08%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
3 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.070%) RACF
6 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (9.48%) Terraform
2 118 (8.29%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.47%) Grafana
4 15 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.98%) 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
1 285 (20.01%) Databricks
2 267 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 241 (16.92%) Oracle
4 138 (9.69%) Informatica
5 112 (7.87%) Talend
6 67 (4.71%) SAP
7 53 (3.72%) Denodo
8 49 (3.44%) Google
9 48 (3.37%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.11%) IBM
11 29 (2.04%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.69%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.33%) Sage
14 18 (1.26%) Splunk
15 17 (1.19%) Workday
16 15 (1.05%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.91%) Ab Initio
18 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.84%) Teradata
19 11 (0.77%) Palantir