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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 84 93
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,393 746 889
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.06% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.37% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,038 502 687
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £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 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 16
10th Percentile £34.90 £39.75 £29.06
25th Percentile £40.39 £53.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.92 £70.60 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +42.63% +24.14%
75th Percentile £73.37 £98.08 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +39.31%

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 33,512 22,139 32,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.65% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,469 14,586 21,356
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,076 869 2,188
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.87 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +30 761 £513 -6.82% 193
Midlands +16 222 £474 -0.26% 75
West Midlands +23 189 £478 -3.83% 48
North of England -14 169 £460 +2.22% 101
North West +1 90 £442 -4.38% 55
South East -30 86 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -16 66 £525 +5.00% 53
Yorkshire -26 63 £500 +42.86% 31
East of England -1 44 £510 +10.27% 52
East Midlands -27 33 £465 +13.41% 27
North East -10 15 £538 +13.16% 16
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 (9.12%) Apache Spark
2 99 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (5.24%) SAS
4 71 (5.10%) Apache
5 30 (2.15%) Confluence
6 14 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.65%) Appian
7 9 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.57%) Oracle Application Server
9 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.43%) nginx
10 6 (0.43%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.29%) Camunda
13 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 44 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.65%) 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 (0.22%) Trello
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.36%) Maximo
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 577 (41.42%) Azure
2 418 (30.01%) AWS
3 346 (24.84%) Power Platform
4 223 (16.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 163 (11.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 159 (11.41%) GCP
7 139 (9.98%) Snowflake
8 136 (9.76%) Amazon S3
9 113 (8.11%) Serverless
10 106 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
11 102 (7.32%) GitHub
12 85 (6.10%) dbt
13 84 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (3.37%) Collibra
15 44 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
16 40 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (2.37%) SaaS
18 30 (2.15%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 24 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.50%) Firewall
2 5 (0.36%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.29%) 4G
3 4 (0.29%) 5G
3 4 (0.29%) HTTP
4 3 (0.22%) 2G
4 3 (0.22%) Radio Access Network
5 2 (0.14%) DSL
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.072%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (29.86%) Data Warehouse
2 324 (23.26%) Power BI
3 211 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 176 (12.63%) SQL Server
5 140 (10.05%) Metadata
6 98 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.46%) Tableau
8 84 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
9 81 (5.81%) Delta Lake
10 78 (5.60%) Relational Database
11 73 (5.24%) Pentaho
12 68 (4.88%) Big Data
13 66 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
14 65 (4.67%) NoSQL
15 64 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
16 53 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
16 53 (3.80%) BigQuery
17 47 (3.37%) Star Schema
18 45 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 161 (11.56%) Git
2 117 (8.40%) JIRA
3 75 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 63 (4.52%) GitLab
5 30 (2.15%) Postman
6 22 (1.58%) MLflow
7 17 (1.22%) Zephyr
8 12 (0.86%) ERwin
8 12 (0.86%) Selenium
9 7 (0.50%) JMeter
9 7 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.36%) TestRail
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.29%) Toad
11 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 399 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 383 (27.49%) Finance
3 240 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 102 (7.32%) Banking
6 29 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 22 (1.58%) Marketing
9 21 (1.51%) Legal
10 20 (1.44%) Retail
11 19 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.08%) Law
13 15 (1.08%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.50%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.43%) Front Office
16 6 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 574 (41.21%) Data Engineer
2 190 (13.64%) Developer
3 160 (11.49%) Senior
4 151 (10.84%) Lead
5 132 (9.48%) Architect
6 121 (8.69%) Analyst
7 106 (7.61%) Senior Data Engineer
8 82 (5.89%) Data Analyst
9 73 (5.24%) Data Architect
10 47 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
12 40 (2.87%) Snowflake Engineer
13 38 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
14 35 (2.51%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 34 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
16 33 (2.37%) Azure Data Engineer
17 32 (2.30%) AWS Data Engineer
18 31 (2.23%) Consultant
19 29 (2.08%) Senior Developer
20 26 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (11.13%) PySpark
2 135 (9.69%) Kafka
3 83 (5.96%) REST
4 44 (3.16%) Pandas
5 35 (2.51%) JSON
6 34 (2.44%) XML
7 33 (2.37%) .NET
8 27 (1.94%) RESTful
9 24 (1.72%) NumPy
10 23 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.51%) Middleware
12 20 (1.44%) Great Expectations
13 19 (1.36%) OAuth
14 18 (1.29%) PyTorch
15 17 (1.22%) Spring
15 17 (1.22%) YAML
16 16 (1.15%) pytest
16 16 (1.15%) Web Services
17 15 (1.08%) scikit-learn
17 15 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.89%) Data Structures
3 72 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
6 29 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 23 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.08%) NHS
11 14 (1.01%) Clustering
12 13 (0.93%) IoT
12 13 (0.93%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.86%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.86%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.08%) Unix
2 19 (1.36%) Linux
3 14 (1.01%) 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 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (48.82%) Data Modelling
2 594 (42.64%) Analytics
3 528 (37.90%) Data Pipeline
4 463 (33.24%) Data Engineering
5 444 (31.87%) Business Intelligence
6 394 (28.28%) CI/CD
7 332 (23.83%) Agile
8 322 (23.12%) Data Governance
9 313 (22.47%) DevOps
10 297 (21.32%) Migration
11 290 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
12 256 (18.38%) Validation
13 221 (15.87%) Data Architecture
13 221 (15.87%) Data Integration
14 198 (14.21%) Data Migration
15 194 (13.93%) AI
16 189 (13.57%) Decision-Making
17 154 (11.06%) Performance Tuning
18 152 (10.91%) Test Automation
19 146 (10.48%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 951 (68.27%) SQL
2 615 (44.15%) Python
3 117 (8.40%) Java
4 66 (4.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.59%) C#
6 59 (4.24%) PL/SQL
7 56 (4.02%) T-SQL
8 53 (3.80%) Scala
9 34 (2.44%) JavaScript
10 30 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.44%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.36%) R
13 18 (1.29%) Bash
14 17 (1.22%) Bicep
14 17 (1.22%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.72%) Go
16 9 (0.65%) PHP
17 8 (0.57%) SAS Macro
17 8 (0.57%) VBA
18 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 330 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 260 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.25%) Degree
4 53 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.79%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.43%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.29%) PMP
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISSP
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (34.82%) Data Quality
2 129 (9.26%) QA
3 104 (7.47%) GDPR
4 22 (1.58%) IFRS
5 20 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.22%) IFRS 17
7 14 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.86%) PMO
9 9 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
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
13 3 (0.22%) Basel III
13 3 (0.22%) FATCA
13 3 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 129 (9.26%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.29%) HDFS
4 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.072%) RACF
6 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (9.62%) Kubernetes
1 134 (9.62%) Terraform
2 19 (1.36%) Grafana
3 17 (1.22%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.79%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.22%) Foglight
8 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) logstash
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.072%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.072%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.072%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.072%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 284 (20.39%) Databricks
2 258 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 217 (15.58%) Oracle
4 125 (8.97%) Informatica
5 110 (7.90%) Talend
6 65 (4.67%) SAP
7 60 (4.31%) Denodo
8 49 (3.52%) Google
9 48 (3.45%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.94%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.87%) IBM
12 24 (1.72%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.36%) Workday
14 18 (1.29%) Splunk
15 16 (1.15%) Sage
16 14 (1.01%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.93%) Ab Initio
18 12 (0.86%) Palantir
19 11 (0.79%) OpenAI
20 10 (0.72%) Teradata