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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 76 96
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,460 792 878
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 3.25% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.56% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 543 670
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -2.19%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £624
90th Percentile £688 £702 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 12
10th Percentile £35.18 £38.42 £30.83
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +15.38% -35.00%
75th Percentile £69.76 £78.70 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.17 £90.71 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% -32.59%

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 35,947 22,218 31,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.03% 91.31% 85.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,779 14,375 20,755
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 993 2,342
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.30 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -23.32% +1.39%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +15 757 £505 -5.87% 194
Midlands +27 246 £465 +5.30% 39
West Midlands +38 217 £459 -1.29% 28
North of England -17 178 £460 -3.16% 65
South East +9 131 £459 -8.20% 77
North West -17 91 £450 -10.00% 40
Yorkshire -24 69 £500 +19.05% 17
South West -23 62 £525 +10.53% 32
East of England -1 44 £494 - 10
East Midlands -28 28 £525 +23.67% 11
North East -15 18 £538 +19.44% 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
1 133 (9.11%) Apache Spark
2 100 (6.85%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (4.73%) SAS
4 65 (4.45%) Apache
5 49 (3.36%) Confluence
6 15 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.62%) Appian
9 9 (0.62%) nginx
9 9 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) Camunda
12 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.068%) Anypoint
Applications
1 38 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.21%) Actimize
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 609 (41.71%) Azure
2 437 (29.93%) AWS
3 366 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 223 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 168 (11.51%) GCP
6 150 (10.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 141 (9.66%) Snowflake
8 136 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
9 121 (8.29%) Amazon S3
10 111 (7.60%) Serverless
11 95 (6.51%) GitHub
12 92 (6.30%) dbt
13 84 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (3.15%) Collibra
15 44 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.05%) SaaS
17 29 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.92%) Power Automate
19 25 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
20 24 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.75%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.068%) 4G
4 1 (0.068%) 5G
4 1 (0.068%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.068%) DHCP
4 1 (0.068%) DNS
4 1 (0.068%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (29.18%) Data Warehouse
2 343 (23.49%) Power BI
3 236 (16.16%) Data Lake
4 183 (12.53%) SQL Server
5 125 (8.56%) Metadata
6 95 (6.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 95 (6.51%) Tableau
7 88 (6.03%) Delta Lake
8 82 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
8 82 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 78 (5.34%) Pentaho
10 77 (5.27%) Big Data
11 75 (5.14%) Relational Database
12 73 (5.00%) NoSQL
13 60 (4.11%) BigQuery
14 59 (4.04%) Oracle Reports
15 58 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
16 56 (3.84%) Snowflake Schema
17 52 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (3.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 166 (11.37%) Git
2 135 (9.25%) JIRA
3 91 (6.23%) GitLab
4 67 (4.59%) Jenkins
5 46 (3.15%) Postman
6 35 (2.40%) Zephyr
7 19 (1.30%) MLflow
8 17 (1.16%) Selenium
9 9 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.48%) JMeter
11 6 (0.41%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.34%) TestRail
13 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.27%) Flyway
13 4 (0.27%) Gatling
13 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.27%) LSMW
13 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 386 (26.44%) Finance
2 374 (25.62%) Social Skills
3 233 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.47%) Banking
6 36 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.05%) Marketing
8 26 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 24 (1.64%) Retail
10 19 (1.30%) Legal
11 13 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (0.89%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.68%) Law
14 8 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.48%) Front Office
15 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.48%) Military
15 7 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 600 (41.10%) Data Engineer
2 191 (13.08%) Developer
3 172 (11.78%) Senior
4 168 (11.51%) Lead
5 155 (10.62%) Architect
6 118 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 114 (7.81%) Analyst
8 85 (5.82%) Data Architect
9 69 (4.73%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (2.33%) SQL Developer
14 33 (2.26%) Consultant
15 32 (2.19%) AWS Data Engineer
15 32 (2.19%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.12%) Data Migration Lead
17 30 (2.05%) Azure Data Engineer
17 30 (2.05%) Lead Data Engineer
17 30 (2.05%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (11.30%) PySpark
2 114 (7.81%) Kafka
3 84 (5.75%) REST
4 45 (3.08%) Pandas
5 42 (2.88%) .NET
6 35 (2.40%) JSON
7 33 (2.26%) XML
8 31 (2.12%) Middleware
9 25 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (1.64%) Spring
11 21 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.37%) PyTorch
12 20 (1.37%) RESTful
13 19 (1.30%) NumPy
14 18 (1.23%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.23%) OAuth
14 18 (1.23%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.16%) pytest
15 17 (1.16%) Web Services
16 16 (1.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.96%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.55%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
7 23 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.51%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 14 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.96%) Clustering
12 14 (0.96%) NHS
13 13 (0.89%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.82%) IoT
14 12 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.82%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.33%) Unix
2 31 (2.12%) Linux
3 17 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Solaris
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.21%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.14%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (47.19%) Data Modelling
2 553 (37.88%) Analytics
2 553 (37.88%) Data Pipeline
3 445 (30.48%) Data Engineering
4 435 (29.79%) Business Intelligence
5 415 (28.42%) CI/CD
6 350 (23.97%) Agile
7 344 (23.56%) Migration
8 335 (22.95%) DevOps
9 279 (19.11%) Validation
10 277 (18.97%) Data Governance
11 268 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
12 240 (16.44%) AI
13 224 (15.34%) Data Integration
14 222 (15.21%) Data Migration
15 214 (14.66%) Data Architecture
16 192 (13.15%) Decision-Making
16 192 (13.15%) Test Automation
17 148 (10.14%) Machine Learning
17 148 (10.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 999 (68.42%) SQL
2 598 (40.96%) Python
3 131 (8.97%) Java
4 79 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.86%) PL/SQL
6 67 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 60 (4.11%) C#
8 52 (3.56%) Scala
9 37 (2.53%) JavaScript
10 31 (2.12%) PowerShell
11 24 (1.64%) Bash
12 20 (1.37%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 18 (1.23%) R
15 15 (1.03%) Bicep
16 7 (0.48%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.48%) VBA
17 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) Cypher
18 5 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 378 (25.89%) Security Cleared
2 314 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.41%) Degree
4 44 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (1.99%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.27%) PMP
13 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (32.95%) Data Quality
2 143 (9.79%) QA
3 89 (6.10%) GDPR
4 21 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.23%) IFRS
6 16 (1.10%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.89%) PMO
8 12 (0.82%) SLA
9 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.55%) FATCA
11 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.41%) GRC
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 (0.21%) Basel III
14 3 (0.21%) HL7
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (7.26%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
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
4 1 (0.068%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.068%) RACF
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (9.04%) Terraform
2 111 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.44%) Grafana
4 15 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.96%) Ansible
6 8 (0.55%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.068%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.068%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.068%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.068%) Kibana
10 1 (0.068%) logstash
Vendors
1 293 (20.07%) Databricks
2 277 (18.97%) Microsoft
3 267 (18.29%) Oracle
4 131 (8.97%) Informatica
5 119 (8.15%) Talend
6 61 (4.18%) SAP
7 58 (3.97%) Denodo
8 50 (3.42%) ServiceNow
9 45 (3.08%) Google
10 29 (1.99%) IBM
11 23 (1.58%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.44%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.30%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.16%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.16%) Sage
14 17 (1.16%) Splunk
14 17 (1.16%) Workday
15 10 (0.68%) Cloudera
16 9 (0.62%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.55%) Ab Initio