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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 78 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,400 764 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 3.11% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.42% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 522 666
10th Percentile £358 £358 £375
25th Percentile £413 £427 £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 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 14
10th Percentile £35.53 £49.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £48.43 £60.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £78.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.49% +58.99% +13.45%
75th Percentile £73.37 £98.56 £53.25
90th Percentile £80.75 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.31% +22.22% +13.62%

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 33,784 22,346 32,054
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.23% 91.09% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,591 14,669 21,080
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,113 899 2,221
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.82 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £42.00 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.74% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.10 £72.45
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +26 756 £513 -3.30% 191
Midlands +17 225 £469 -1.26% 61
West Midlands +28 192 £469 -5.64% 39
North of England -22 169 £460 -0.54% 78
South East -17 96 £475 -8.83% 87
North West -18 89 £447 -5.89% 48
South West -23 66 £525 +5.00% 46
Yorkshire -28 65 £500 +42.86% 22
East of England -4 43 £500 +2.56% 23
East Midlands -22 33 £478 +16.46% 22
North East -14 14 £525 +10.53% 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
1 130 (9.29%) Apache Spark
2 103 (7.36%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (5.14%) Apache
4 66 (4.71%) SAS
5 36 (2.57%) Confluence
6 14 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.79%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.64%) Appian
8 9 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.43%) nginx
11 4 (0.29%) Camunda
11 4 (0.29%) 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 44 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.36%) Notepad++
6 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.36%) Maximo
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 578 (41.29%) Azure
2 419 (29.93%) AWS
3 341 (24.36%) Power Platform
4 222 (15.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 165 (11.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 161 (11.50%) GCP
7 136 (9.71%) Amazon S3
8 134 (9.57%) Snowflake
9 114 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
10 112 (8.00%) Serverless
11 98 (7.00%) GitHub
12 87 (6.21%) dbt
13 84 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (3.50%) Collibra
15 46 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
17 29 (2.07%) SaaS
18 28 (2.00%) Power Automate
19 23 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 22 (1.57%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.71%) Firewall
2 5 (0.36%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.29%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) DSL
5 1 (0.071%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (29.93%) Data Warehouse
2 319 (22.79%) Power BI
3 215 (15.36%) Data Lake
4 176 (12.57%) SQL Server
5 144 (10.29%) Metadata
6 98 (7.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (6.71%) Tableau
8 86 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 84 (6.00%) Delta Lake
10 81 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 74 (5.29%) Relational Database
12 73 (5.21%) Big Data
13 71 (5.07%) NoSQL
14 68 (4.86%) Pentaho
15 63 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
17 56 (4.00%) BigQuery
18 54 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
19 48 (3.43%) Star Schema
20 46 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 156 (11.14%) Git
2 122 (8.71%) JIRA
3 67 (4.79%) GitLab
4 65 (4.64%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.79%) Postman
6 26 (1.86%) Zephyr
7 24 (1.71%) MLflow
8 19 (1.36%) Selenium
9 11 (0.79%) ERwin
10 7 (0.50%) JMeter
10 7 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.36%) TestRail
12 4 (0.29%) Gatling
12 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.29%) Toad
12 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 383 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 382 (27.29%) Finance
3 238 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 99 (7.07%) Banking
6 27 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 23 (1.64%) Marketing
9 21 (1.50%) Legal
9 21 (1.50%) Retail
10 15 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.93%) Law
13 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.50%) Front Office
16 7 (0.50%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.50%) Military
16 7 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 575 (41.07%) Data Engineer
2 189 (13.50%) Developer
3 163 (11.64%) Senior
4 158 (11.29%) Lead
5 142 (10.14%) Architect
6 129 (9.21%) Analyst
7 109 (7.79%) Senior Data Engineer
8 81 (5.79%) Data Analyst
9 80 (5.71%) Data Architect
10 46 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 43 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
12 37 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (2.36%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (2.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 32 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
15 32 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
16 30 (2.14%) Consultant
17 29 (2.07%) Senior Developer
18 27 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (11.21%) PySpark
2 131 (9.36%) Kafka
3 78 (5.57%) REST
4 41 (2.93%) Pandas
5 36 (2.57%) .NET
6 35 (2.50%) JSON
7 33 (2.36%) XML
8 26 (1.86%) RESTful
9 24 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
10 21 (1.50%) Middleware
10 21 (1.50%) NumPy
11 20 (1.43%) Great Expectations
12 19 (1.36%) OAuth
13 18 (1.29%) PyTorch
14 17 (1.21%) Spring
14 17 (1.21%) YAML
15 16 (1.14%) pytest
15 16 (1.14%) Web Services
16 15 (1.07%) scikit-learn
16 15 (1.07%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.71%) Data Structures
3 73 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (2.43%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
6 27 (1.93%) Product Ownership
7 22 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.14%) Clustering
11 16 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.07%) NHS
13 13 (0.93%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.86%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.86%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.00%) Unix
2 19 (1.36%) Linux
3 14 (1.00%) Windows
4 7 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.43%) Solaris
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 675 (48.21%) Data Modelling
2 575 (41.07%) Analytics
3 520 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
4 461 (32.93%) Data Engineering
5 426 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
6 387 (27.64%) CI/CD
7 338 (24.14%) Agile
8 326 (23.29%) Migration
9 318 (22.71%) Data Governance
10 315 (22.50%) DevOps
11 282 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
12 258 (18.43%) Validation
13 223 (15.93%) Data Architecture
14 220 (15.71%) Data Migration
15 207 (14.79%) Data Integration
16 205 (14.64%) AI
17 190 (13.57%) Decision-Making
18 159 (11.36%) Test Automation
19 151 (10.79%) Performance Tuning
20 144 (10.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 940 (67.14%) SQL
2 599 (42.79%) Python
3 121 (8.64%) Java
4 65 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.57%) C#
6 61 (4.36%) PL/SQL
7 58 (4.14%) T-SQL
8 53 (3.79%) Scala
9 33 (2.36%) JavaScript
10 29 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.36%) R
13 18 (1.29%) Bash
13 18 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.21%) Bicep
15 9 (0.64%) PHP
16 8 (0.57%) Go
16 8 (0.57%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.57%) VBA
17 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 344 (24.57%) Security Cleared
2 279 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 84 (6.00%) Degree
4 51 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.93%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.00%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.50%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.43%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.29%) PMP
14 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISA
15 2 (0.14%) CISSP
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (34.29%) Data Quality
2 131 (9.36%) QA
3 103 (7.36%) GDPR
4 22 (1.57%) IFRS
5 20 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 15 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.86%) PMO
9 9 (0.64%) SLA
10 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.36%) FATCA
11 5 (0.36%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.29%) MiFID
12 4 (0.29%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (8.64%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.36%) HDFS
3 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.071%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.071%) RACF
6 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (10.00%) Terraform
2 120 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.29%) Grafana
4 16 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.07%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) Control-M
7 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.071%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.071%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.071%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.071%) Kibana
10 1 (0.071%) logstash
10 1 (0.071%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 286 (20.43%) Databricks
2 261 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 226 (16.14%) Oracle
4 128 (9.14%) Informatica
5 106 (7.57%) Talend
6 62 (4.43%) SAP
7 53 (3.79%) Denodo
8 50 (3.57%) Google
9 48 (3.43%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.00%) IBM
10 28 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.64%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.36%) Workday
13 18 (1.29%) Splunk
14 16 (1.14%) Sage
15 15 (1.07%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.93%) Ab Initio
17 11 (0.79%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.79%) Palantir
18 10 (0.71%) Teradata