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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 78 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,455 751 867
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 3.14% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.44% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 513 660
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £628
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 12
10th Percentile £35.18 £46.33 £30.83
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +6.06% -26.67%
75th Percentile £69.76 £71.23 £52.25
90th Percentile £78.17 £86.64 £63.45
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% -23.85%

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 35,508 21,848 31,547
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 91.31% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,529 14,223 20,659
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £512 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 949 2,294
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £36.84
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -23.51% -1.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +19 761 £511 -7.11% 137
Midlands +27 246 £468 +3.83% 37
West Midlands +43 217 £459 -7.27% 27
North of England -18 177 £460 -3.16% 52
South East +9 126 £459 -8.20% 57
North West -12 90 £450 -10.00% 25
Yorkshire -18 70 £500 +19.05% 21
South West -26 60 £525 +10.53% 25
East of England -5 45 £500 +1.27% 6
East Midlands -24 28 £525 +22.38% 10
North East -18 17 £538 +23.56% 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
1 134 (9.21%) Apache Spark
2 102 (7.01%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (4.74%) Apache
4 66 (4.54%) SAS
5 45 (3.09%) Confluence
6 15 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.62%) Appian
8 9 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.48%) nginx
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.27%) Camunda
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.069%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 40 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.069%) 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 (0.76%) 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
1 615 (42.27%) Azure
2 434 (29.83%) AWS
3 370 (25.43%) Power Platform
4 226 (15.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 168 (11.55%) GCP
6 154 (10.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 140 (9.62%) Snowflake
8 135 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
9 119 (8.18%) Amazon S3
10 107 (7.35%) Serverless
11 95 (6.53%) GitHub
12 87 (5.98%) dbt
13 79 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (3.23%) Collibra
15 44 (3.02%) GitHub Actions
16 31 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (2.13%) Power Automate
17 29 (1.99%) SaaS
18 22 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.51%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.76%) Firewall
2 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.34%) VPN
2 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.27%) HTTP
4 1 (0.069%) 4G
4 1 (0.069%) 5G
4 1 (0.069%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.069%) DHCP
4 1 (0.069%) DNS
4 1 (0.069%) DSL
4 1 (0.069%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.069%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (29.14%) Data Warehouse
2 347 (23.85%) Power BI
3 237 (16.29%) Data Lake
4 184 (12.65%) SQL Server
5 128 (8.80%) Metadata
6 96 (6.60%) Tableau
7 94 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 89 (6.12%) Delta Lake
9 84 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 76 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 76 (5.22%) Big Data
11 74 (5.09%) Relational Database
12 73 (5.02%) NoSQL
12 73 (5.02%) Pentaho
13 64 (4.40%) BigQuery
14 61 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
15 59 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
16 56 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
17 50 (3.44%) Amazon Athena
18 44 (3.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 157 (10.79%) Git
2 131 (9.00%) JIRA
3 86 (5.91%) GitLab
4 63 (4.33%) Jenkins
5 44 (3.02%) Postman
6 32 (2.20%) Zephyr
7 19 (1.31%) MLflow
8 18 (1.24%) Selenium
9 9 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.48%) JMeter
10 7 (0.48%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.34%) TestRail
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.27%) Flyway
12 4 (0.27%) Gatling
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 393 (27.01%) Finance
2 372 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 239 (16.43%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.49%) Banking
6 35 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.06%) Marketing
8 24 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.65%) Retail
9 19 (1.31%) Legal
10 14 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (0.96%) Telecoms
11 11 (0.76%) Law
11 11 (0.76%) Manufacturing
12 8 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.48%) Front Office
13 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.41%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 602 (41.37%) Data Engineer
2 189 (12.99%) Developer
3 171 (11.75%) Senior
4 165 (11.34%) Lead
5 149 (10.24%) Architect
6 121 (8.32%) Analyst
7 117 (8.04%) Senior Data Engineer
8 84 (5.77%) Data Architect
9 74 (5.09%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (3.02%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
14 32 (2.20%) Azure Data Engineer
14 32 (2.20%) Data Migration Lead
14 32 (2.20%) Senior Developer
15 31 (2.13%) Consultant
16 30 (2.06%) Lead Data Engineer
16 30 (2.06%) Snowflake Engineer
16 30 (2.06%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (11.20%) PySpark
2 117 (8.04%) Kafka
3 85 (5.84%) REST
4 46 (3.16%) Pandas
5 41 (2.82%) .NET
6 33 (2.27%) JSON
7 31 (2.13%) XML
8 27 (1.86%) Middleware
9 24 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
10 23 (1.58%) Spring
11 20 (1.37%) Great Expectations
11 20 (1.37%) NumPy
11 20 (1.37%) PyTorch
11 20 (1.37%) RESTful
11 20 (1.37%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.24%) OAuth
12 18 (1.24%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.17%) pytest
13 17 (1.17%) Web Services
14 16 (1.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (9.00%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.12%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
4 40 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 23 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 19 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.10%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.96%) Clustering
14 13 (0.89%) NHS
14 13 (0.89%) Reinsurance
15 12 (0.82%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.82%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.76%) Replication
17 10 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.20%) Unix
2 25 (1.72%) Linux
3 16 (1.10%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.48%) Solaris
5 7 (0.48%) 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
1 688 (47.29%) Data Modelling
2 561 (38.56%) Analytics
3 548 (37.66%) Data Pipeline
4 454 (31.20%) Data Engineering
5 440 (30.24%) Business Intelligence
6 403 (27.70%) CI/CD
7 343 (23.57%) Agile
8 339 (23.30%) Migration
9 332 (22.82%) DevOps
10 287 (19.73%) Data Governance
11 277 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
12 276 (18.97%) Validation
13 238 (16.36%) AI
14 221 (15.19%) Data Migration
15 217 (14.91%) Data Integration
16 215 (14.78%) Data Architecture
17 197 (13.54%) Decision-Making
18 181 (12.44%) Test Automation
19 150 (10.31%) Performance Tuning
20 148 (10.17%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 990 (68.04%) SQL
2 601 (41.31%) Python
3 133 (9.14%) Java
4 75 (5.15%) T-SQL
5 70 (4.81%) PL/SQL
6 68 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 62 (4.26%) C#
8 51 (3.51%) Scala
9 37 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 28 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.58%) Bash
12 19 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.17%) R
14 15 (1.03%) Bicep
15 7 (0.48%) SAS Macro
15 7 (0.48%) VBA
16 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.34%) Cypher
17 5 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 364 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 299 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 81 (5.57%) Degree
4 44 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.54%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.79%) ISTQB
8 24 (1.65%) Master's Degree
9 14 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.76%) 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 Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 480 (32.99%) Data Quality
2 142 (9.76%) QA
3 93 (6.39%) GDPR
4 22 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.31%) IFRS
6 16 (1.10%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.82%) PMO
7 12 (0.82%) SLA
8 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.55%) FATCA
10 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.41%) GRC
11 5 (0.34%) GAAP
11 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.21%) HL7
13 3 (0.21%) MiFID
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 105 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.34%) HDFS
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.069%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.069%) RACF
4 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (9.00%) Terraform
2 111 (7.63%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.44%) Grafana
4 15 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.89%) Ansible
6 6 (0.41%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.069%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.069%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.069%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.069%) Kibana
10 1 (0.069%) logstash
Vendors
1 298 (20.48%) Databricks
2 280 (19.24%) Microsoft
3 258 (17.73%) Oracle
4 129 (8.87%) Informatica
5 115 (7.90%) Talend
6 61 (4.19%) SAP
7 56 (3.85%) Denodo
8 48 (3.30%) ServiceNow
9 47 (3.23%) Google
10 25 (1.72%) IBM
11 23 (1.58%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.51%) Salesforce
13 20 (1.37%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.17%) Sage
14 17 (1.17%) Splunk
14 17 (1.17%) Workday
15 16 (1.10%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.69%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.69%) Teradata
17 8 (0.55%) Dynatrace