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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 82 77
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,471 821 913
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.95% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.25% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 570 646
10th Percentile £363 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £629
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.33 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.06 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -32.12%
75th Percentile £57.38 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.39 £85.74 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.90 £46.50
% change year-on-year -12.67% -16.34% -35.42%

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 39,332 25,280 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.86% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,139 16,057 17,805
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,708 1,495 1,348
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.36 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.88 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +1 777 £521 -0.71% 467
Midlands +18 235 £469 -1.26% 69
West Midlands +25 202 £469 -8.04% 45
North of England -14 171 £466 -1.84% 92
South East +30 136 £450 - 131
Yorkshire -3 80 £463 +3.93% 31
North West -21 73 £470 -3.59% 51
South West -25 66 £523 +10.00% 74
East of England -6 44 £475 -9.52% 35
East Midlands -15 32 £490 +13.10% 23
North East -32 19 £500 +14.29% 11
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
1 125 (8.50%) Apache Airflow
2 124 (8.43%) Apache Spark
3 85 (5.78%) Apache
4 83 (5.64%) SAS
5 53 (3.60%) Confluence
6 26 (1.77%) Oracle Application Server
7 23 (1.56%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.75%) nginx
9 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.068%) CMS
14 1 (0.068%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.20%) Actimize
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 585 (39.77%) Azure
2 426 (28.96%) AWS
3 328 (22.30%) Power Platform
4 213 (14.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 206 (14.00%) Snowflake
6 192 (13.05%) GCP
7 135 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
8 130 (8.84%) dbt
9 125 (8.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 114 (7.75%) Serverless
11 107 (7.27%) Amazon S3
12 106 (7.21%) GitHub
13 88 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
16 33 (2.24%) Collibra
17 31 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
18 29 (1.97%) Power Automate
19 25 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 25 (1.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.68%) Firewall
2 8 (0.54%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.20%) DHCP
4 3 (0.20%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.068%) DMZ
5 1 (0.068%) Internet
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 505 (34.33%) Data Warehouse
2 319 (21.69%) Power BI
3 216 (14.68%) Data Lake
4 155 (10.54%) Metadata
5 153 (10.40%) SQL Server
6 98 (6.66%) Relational Database
7 90 (6.12%) Delta Lake
8 88 (5.98%) BigQuery
9 86 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 79 (5.37%) Tableau
11 77 (5.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 74 (5.03%) Big Data
13 67 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
14 62 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
15 57 (3.87%) NoSQL
15 57 (3.87%) Pentaho
16 51 (3.47%) Azure SQL Database
16 51 (3.47%) Oracle Database
17 46 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
18 45 (3.06%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 157 (10.67%) Git
2 127 (8.63%) JIRA
3 87 (5.91%) GitLab
4 51 (3.47%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.52%) Zephyr
6 33 (2.24%) Postman
7 14 (0.95%) Selenium
8 11 (0.75%) MLflow
9 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.27%) ERwin
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
12 3 (0.20%) JMeter
12 3 (0.20%) LSMW
General
1 358 (24.34%) Social Skills
2 351 (23.86%) Finance
3 277 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 132 (8.97%) Banking
6 35 (2.38%) Retail
7 27 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.84%) Marketing
8 24 (1.63%) Manufacturing
9 20 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.29%) Legal
11 16 (1.09%) Law
12 15 (1.02%) Front Office
12 15 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (0.95%) Billing
14 13 (0.88%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.68%) Military
16 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.54%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 579 (39.36%) Data Engineer
2 218 (14.82%) Developer
3 210 (14.28%) Senior
4 186 (12.64%) Architect
5 142 (9.65%) Senior Data Engineer
6 141 (9.59%) Lead
7 112 (7.61%) Analyst
8 96 (6.53%) Data Architect
9 56 (3.81%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (3.74%) Data Analyst
11 47 (3.20%) Databricks Engineer
12 45 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
13 40 (2.72%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 40 (2.72%) Tester
14 39 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 38 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
16 36 (2.45%) Oracle Developer
16 36 (2.45%) Snowflake Engineer
17 35 (2.38%) SQL Developer
18 32 (2.18%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (10.33%) PySpark
2 139 (9.45%) Terraform
3 112 (7.61%) Kafka
4 61 (4.15%) REST
5 50 (3.40%) .NET
6 46 (3.13%) JSON
7 28 (1.90%) React
8 22 (1.50%) Middleware
8 22 (1.50%) Pandas
9 21 (1.43%) XML
10 20 (1.36%) Spring
10 20 (1.36%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.02%) YAML
12 13 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (0.75%) Playwright
13 11 (0.75%) SOAP
14 10 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (0.68%) HTML
14 10 (0.68%) LangChain
14 10 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 98 (6.66%) Data Structures
3 61 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 35 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.50%) Reference Data
9 20 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.29%) NHS
11 18 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
13 15 (1.02%) Replication
14 14 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 12 (0.82%) Clustering
17 11 (0.75%) IoT
17 11 (0.75%) Reinsurance
18 10 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.94%) Linux
2 51 (3.47%) Unix
3 21 (1.43%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (47.11%) Data Modelling
2 615 (41.81%) Data Pipeline
3 552 (37.53%) Analytics
4 489 (33.24%) Data Engineering
5 473 (32.15%) CI/CD
6 414 (28.14%) Agile
7 396 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
8 385 (26.17%) Migration
9 344 (23.39%) DevOps
10 331 (22.50%) Data Integration
11 302 (20.53%) Data Governance
12 297 (20.19%) Validation
13 275 (18.69%) AI
14 260 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
15 240 (16.32%) Stakeholder Management
16 230 (15.64%) Data Migration
17 216 (14.68%) Data Architecture
18 213 (14.48%) Data Transformation
19 199 (13.53%) Test Automation
20 181 (12.30%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 977 (66.42%) SQL
2 555 (37.73%) Python
3 131 (8.91%) Java
4 80 (5.44%) PL/SQL
5 75 (5.10%) T-SQL
6 56 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.47%) C#
8 48 (3.26%) Scala
9 42 (2.86%) JavaScript
9 42 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 33 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 30 (2.04%) Bash
12 19 (1.29%) R
13 18 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.88%) Bicep
15 11 (0.75%) Cypher
16 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.34%) Perl
17 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 403 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 341 (23.18%) SC Cleared
3 65 (4.42%) Degree
4 38 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (36.37%) Data Quality
2 129 (8.77%) QA
3 70 (4.76%) GDPR
4 36 (2.45%) GRC
5 24 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.54%) IFRS
8 8 (0.54%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.54%) WCAG
9 7 (0.48%) PMO
10 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.41%) HL7
11 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 5 (0.34%) SLA
12 4 (0.27%) GAAP
12 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.20%) NIST
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 108 (7.34%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.70%) Grafana
3 18 (1.22%) Ansible
4 14 (0.95%) Control-M
5 13 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.068%) Foglight
9 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.068%) Kibana
9 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 324 (22.03%) Databricks
2 286 (19.44%) Oracle
3 263 (17.88%) Microsoft
4 113 (7.68%) Informatica
5 96 (6.53%) Talend
6 69 (4.69%) SAP
7 65 (4.42%) Google
8 50 (3.40%) Denodo
9 44 (2.99%) IBM
10 33 (2.24%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.97%) Alteryx
12 27 (1.84%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.09%) Palantir
13 16 (1.09%) Teradata
14 15 (1.02%) Foundry
15 13 (0.88%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.68%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.68%) Sage
17 9 (0.61%) MuleSoft
18 8 (0.54%) SnapLogic