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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 74 101
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,069 793 851
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 3.04% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.40% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 519 654
10th Percentile £360 £356 £386
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.19%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £637
90th Percentile £688 £691 £710
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £32.50 - £39.82
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +45.83%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £64.53
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +57.14% -42.15% +68.06%

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 28,984 23,348 33,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.57% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,549 14,241 22,377
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £640 £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 1,798 747 1,965
10th Percentile £15.06 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +8.53%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +22 651 £525 - 199
Midlands +3 135 £515 +7.97% 61
North of England -45 116 £450 -2.70% 72
West Midlands +8 111 £519 +5.82% 40
North West -13 75 £449 -3.03% 43
South East -41 60 £445 -19.09% 116
South West -7 59 £525 -14.29% 36
Yorkshire -59 30 £475 +15.85% 23
East Midlands -12 24 £450 +18.81% 21
East of England -20 16 £575 +12.20% 26
North East -10 10 £450 - 6
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
1 100 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 77 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (6.17%) Apache
4 50 (4.68%) SAS
5 13 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.03%) Confluence
7 8 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.65%) Appian
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) IIS
11 3 (0.28%) Luigi
11 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.094%) Camunda
Applications
1 43 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.37%) Trello
6 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.094%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.65%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.47%) Maximo
7 5 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.19%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 449 (42.00%) Azure
2 323 (30.22%) AWS
3 248 (23.20%) Power Platform
4 176 (16.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 135 (12.63%) GCP
6 131 (12.25%) Snowflake
7 113 (10.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 102 (9.54%) Amazon S3
9 92 (8.61%) Serverless
10 81 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
11 75 (7.02%) GitHub
12 63 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (5.43%) dbt
14 37 (3.46%) SaaS
15 32 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (2.43%) Collibra
17 23 (2.15%) Power Automate
18 22 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
19 20 (1.87%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.56%) 2G
1 6 (0.56%) 5G
1 6 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.47%) 4G
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.19%) DSL
3 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.094%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.094%) Firewall
4 1 (0.094%) Internet
4 1 (0.094%) Multicast
4 1 (0.094%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (27.13%) Data Warehouse
2 234 (21.89%) Power BI
3 164 (15.34%) Data Lake
4 128 (11.97%) SQL Server
5 98 (9.17%) Metadata
6 78 (7.30%) Relational Database
7 73 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 69 (6.45%) Big Data
9 68 (6.36%) Tableau
10 66 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 61 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
12 57 (5.33%) Pentaho
13 56 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 54 (5.05%) Delta Lake
15 46 (4.30%) NoSQL
16 43 (4.02%) BigQuery
16 43 (4.02%) Oracle Database
17 39 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
17 39 (3.65%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (3.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 125 (11.69%) Git
2 90 (8.42%) JIRA
3 68 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.65%) GitLab
5 17 (1.59%) ERwin
5 17 (1.59%) MLflow
6 16 (1.50%) Postman
7 13 (1.22%) Selenium
8 7 (0.65%) JMeter
8 7 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.65%) TestRail
9 6 (0.56%) DBeaver
9 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.37%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.37%) Gatling
11 4 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.37%) Toad
12 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
General
1 326 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 291 (27.22%) Finance
3 173 (16.18%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.76%) Banking
6 23 (2.15%) Retail
7 19 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 16 (1.50%) Marketing
9 13 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.22%) Law
9 13 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.03%) Legal
12 10 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.65%) Front Office
13 7 (0.65%) General Ledger
13 7 (0.65%) Publishing
14 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 402 (37.61%) Data Engineer
2 140 (13.10%) Developer
3 126 (11.79%) Lead
4 111 (10.38%) Senior
5 109 (10.20%) Analyst
6 89 (8.33%) Architect
7 78 (7.30%) Data Analyst
8 70 (6.55%) Senior Data Engineer
9 52 (4.86%) Data Architect
10 45 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
12 33 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 31 (2.90%) Business Analyst
14 29 (2.71%) Snowflake Engineer
15 25 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (2.25%) Consultant
16 24 (2.25%) Senior Developer
17 23 (2.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 21 (1.96%) Lead Data Engineer
19 20 (1.87%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (10.57%) PySpark
2 92 (8.61%) Kafka
3 63 (5.89%) REST
4 42 (3.93%) XML
5 31 (2.90%) Pandas
6 27 (2.53%) JSON
7 26 (2.43%) .NET
8 23 (2.15%) Node.js
9 22 (2.06%) RESTful
10 21 (1.96%) NumPy
11 19 (1.78%) OAuth
11 19 (1.78%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.68%) Middleware
13 17 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (1.50%) TensorFlow
15 15 (1.40%) pytest
16 14 (1.31%) scikit-learn
17 13 (1.22%) Great Expectations
18 12 (1.12%) Keycloak
18 12 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 91 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 49 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 19 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.31%) Reinsurance
9 14 (1.31%) Replication
10 13 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.03%) IoT
11 11 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 10 (0.94%) Data Fabric
12 10 (0.94%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.84%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.25%) Linux
2 14 (1.31%) Unix
3 9 (0.84%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (46.02%) Data Modelling
2 449 (42.00%) Analytics
3 403 (37.70%) Data Pipeline
4 343 (32.09%) Business Intelligence
5 340 (31.81%) Data Engineering
6 303 (28.34%) CI/CD
7 258 (24.13%) Agile
8 255 (23.85%) DevOps
9 252 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
10 241 (22.54%) Data Governance
11 200 (18.71%) Migration
12 179 (16.74%) Data Integration
13 176 (16.46%) Data Architecture
14 152 (14.22%) Validation
15 139 (13.00%) Data Migration
16 135 (12.63%) Data Science
17 134 (12.54%) AI
18 127 (11.88%) Machine Learning
19 121 (11.32%) Decision-Making
20 116 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 695 (65.01%) SQL
2 514 (48.08%) Python
3 91 (8.51%) Java
4 54 (5.05%) Scala
5 46 (4.30%) C#
6 38 (3.55%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 35 (3.27%) JavaScript
9 31 (2.90%) T-SQL
10 17 (1.59%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.31%) Go
12 14 (1.31%) PHP
12 14 (1.31%) R
13 13 (1.22%) Bicep
14 12 (1.12%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.94%) Bash
16 9 (0.84%) VBA
17 5 (0.47%) Cypher
17 5 (0.47%) Korn
Qualifications
1 211 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 163 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.20%) Degree
4 48 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.65%) PMP
13 6 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.47%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
18 1 (0.094%) CCIE
18 1 (0.094%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (33.40%) Data Quality
2 85 (7.95%) GDPR
3 75 (7.02%) QA
4 19 (1.78%) IFRS
5 16 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.40%) IFRS 17
7 13 (1.22%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.47%) GAAP
9 5 (0.47%) MiFID
9 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) Basel III
10 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.28%) FATCA
10 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 3 (0.28%) PMO
11 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (11.60%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.47%) zsh
3 3 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) KVM
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.094%) HDFS
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 123 (11.51%) Kubernetes
2 101 (9.45%) Terraform
3 10 (0.94%) Grafana
4 8 (0.75%) Ansible
5 7 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.56%) Kibana
6 6 (0.56%) logstash
7 5 (0.47%) Control-M
8 4 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.19%) SCCM
10 1 (0.094%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.094%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.094%) Puppet
10 1 (0.094%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 224 (20.95%) Databricks
2 173 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 153 (14.31%) Oracle
4 77 (7.20%) Talend
5 75 (7.02%) Informatica
6 44 (4.12%) Denodo
7 40 (3.74%) Google
7 40 (3.74%) SAP
8 28 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 23 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.59%) IBM
10 17 (1.59%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.40%) Workday
12 14 (1.31%) Palantir
13 12 (1.12%) Alteryx
13 12 (1.12%) Cognos
14 11 (1.03%) Foundry
14 11 (1.03%) OpenAI
15 10 (0.94%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.75%) UiPath