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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing ETL 909 834 874
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 2.88% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.25% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 540 684
10th Percentile £359 £360 £382
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £697 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 15
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £44.32
25th Percentile £35.44 £28.44 £49.63
Median hourly rate £43.50 £46.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -23.14% +70.42%
75th Percentile £73.37 £87.67 £64.77
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £38.75 £60.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -35.95% +70.42%

All Process and 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 27,756 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.83% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,663 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,804 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025. 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 +7 540 £525 - 192
Midlands -5 123 £515 +7.97% 123
North of England -43 102 £450 +0.56% 177
West Midlands -2 99 £520 +5.48% 68
North West -12 55 £447 +2.17% 87
South West +4 51 £550 -4.35% 83
South East -54 41 £441 -19.77% 218
Yorkshire -42 38 £472 +4.78% 68
East Midlands -6 24 £438 +16.67% 51
East of England -11 22 £575 +4.55% 108
North East -8 8 £450 -5.26% 22
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 90 (9.90%) Apache Spark
2 87 (9.57%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (7.15%) Apache
4 47 (5.17%) SAS
5 14 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
7 8 (0.88%) Confluence
8 5 (0.55%) IIS
9 4 (0.44%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.33%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.77%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.66%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.55%) Maximo
6 4 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.22%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.22%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 356 (39.16%) Azure
2 279 (30.69%) AWS
3 200 (22.00%) Power Platform
4 136 (14.96%) GCP
5 129 (14.19%) Snowflake
6 128 (14.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 94 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 86 (9.46%) Amazon S3
9 77 (8.47%) Serverless
10 59 (6.49%) dbt
11 57 (6.27%) GitHub
12 53 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (5.72%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (3.30%) SaaS
15 25 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.31%) Azure Logic Apps
17 18 (1.98%) Power Automate
18 17 (1.87%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.66%) 2G
1 6 (0.66%) 5G
1 6 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.55%) 4G
3 4 (0.44%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
4 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) DSL
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (31.02%) Data Warehouse
2 187 (20.57%) Power BI
3 126 (13.86%) Data Lake
4 94 (10.34%) SQL Server
5 80 (8.80%) Relational Database
6 78 (8.58%) Metadata
7 68 (7.48%) Big Data
8 65 (7.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 63 (6.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 63 (6.93%) Tableau
10 62 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
11 54 (5.94%) BigQuery
12 45 (4.95%) Pentaho
13 44 (4.84%) Delta Lake
14 40 (4.40%) NoSQL
15 37 (4.07%) Snowflake Schema
16 36 (3.96%) Azure SQL Database
17 34 (3.74%) Oracle Database
18 31 (3.41%) DataStage
19 29 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 115 (12.65%) Git
2 69 (7.59%) JIRA
3 65 (7.15%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.64%) GitLab
5 15 (1.65%) Postman
6 14 (1.54%) Selenium
7 11 (1.21%) ERwin
7 11 (1.21%) MLflow
8 8 (0.88%) DBeaver
9 7 (0.77%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.77%) TestRail
10 6 (0.66%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.44%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.44%) Toad
11 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.33%) Poetry
12 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 283 (31.13%) Social Skills
2 225 (24.75%) Finance
3 169 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 62 (6.82%) Banking
6 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 16 (1.76%) Retail
8 15 (1.65%) Marketing
8 15 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.10%) Legal
11 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.99%) Law
13 8 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.88%) Local Government
13 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.77%) Front Office
14 7 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 310 (34.10%) Data Engineer
2 142 (15.62%) Developer
3 96 (10.56%) Analyst
3 96 (10.56%) Lead
4 90 (9.90%) Senior
5 88 (9.68%) Architect
6 63 (6.93%) Data Analyst
7 47 (5.17%) Data Architect
7 47 (5.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 41 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
9 37 (4.07%) Azure Data Engineer
10 28 (3.08%) Business Analyst
11 27 (2.97%) Consultant
12 26 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 21 (2.31%) Senior Developer
14 20 (2.20%) Snowflake Engineer
15 19 (2.09%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (1.98%) Lead Data Engineer
16 18 (1.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (10.12%) PySpark
2 80 (8.80%) Kafka
3 37 (4.07%) XML
4 36 (3.96%) REST
5 27 (2.97%) JSON
6 26 (2.86%) Node.js
7 20 (2.20%) RESTful
8 19 (2.09%) Pandas
9 16 (1.76%) .NET
10 15 (1.65%) NumPy
11 13 (1.43%) OAuth
12 12 (1.32%) Keycloak
13 11 (1.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 11 (1.21%) React
14 10 (1.10%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
15 9 (0.99%) Middleware
15 9 (0.99%) pytest
15 9 (0.99%) SOAP
15 9 (0.99%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.94%) Data Structures
3 32 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
7 16 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.54%) Replication
9 13 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.32%) IoT
11 11 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.10%) Onboarding
13 8 (0.88%) Data Fabric
13 8 (0.88%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.88%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.64%) Linux
2 9 (0.99%) Unix
3 7 (0.77%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (44.22%) Data Modelling
2 369 (40.59%) Analytics
3 346 (38.06%) Data Pipeline
4 287 (31.57%) Business Intelligence
5 278 (30.58%) Data Engineering
6 250 (27.50%) CI/CD
7 234 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
8 226 (24.86%) Agile
9 215 (23.65%) Data Governance
10 209 (22.99%) DevOps
11 197 (21.67%) Migration
12 169 (18.59%) Data Integration
13 149 (16.39%) Data Architecture
14 139 (15.29%) Data Migration
15 121 (13.31%) Validation
16 111 (12.21%) Data Science
17 110 (12.10%) Data Transformation
18 107 (11.77%) Visualisation
19 96 (10.56%) Machine Learning
20 95 (10.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 589 (64.80%) SQL
2 439 (48.29%) Python
3 82 (9.02%) Java
4 43 (4.73%) Scala
5 36 (3.96%) C#
6 35 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 30 (3.30%) T-SQL
8 29 (3.19%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.86%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.76%) Go
11 15 (1.65%) PHP
11 15 (1.65%) R
12 14 (1.54%) Bash
12 14 (1.54%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.54%) VBA
13 10 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.99%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.66%) Bicep
16 6 (0.66%) Korn
Qualifications
1 163 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 124 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.26%) Degree
4 40 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.63%) Azure Certification
6 30 (3.30%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.55%) PMP
12 4 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.33%) CISSP
13 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.22%) MCP
15 1 (0.11%) CCIE
15 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (30.91%) Data Quality
2 67 (7.37%) GDPR
3 66 (7.26%) QA
4 16 (1.76%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.66%) IFRS
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) MiFID
9 4 (0.44%) SLA
9 4 (0.44%) WCAG
10 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.33%) PMO
11 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) EMIR
11 2 (0.22%) FINREP
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 107 (11.77%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.55%) zsh
3 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) KVM
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 98 (10.78%) Kubernetes
2 76 (8.36%) Terraform
3 10 (1.10%) Ansible
4 9 (0.99%) Grafana
5 6 (0.66%) Kibana
5 6 (0.66%) logstash
6 5 (0.55%) Control-M
6 5 (0.55%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.33%) Argo
8 3 (0.33%) Istio
8 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
10 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 176 (19.36%) Databricks
2 143 (15.73%) Microsoft
3 120 (13.20%) Oracle
4 66 (7.26%) Talend
5 57 (6.27%) Informatica
6 44 (4.84%) Google
7 40 (4.40%) SAP
8 37 (4.07%) Denodo
9 28 (3.08%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.76%) IBM
11 14 (1.54%) Palantir
12 13 (1.43%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.32%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.21%) Foundry
15 9 (0.99%) VMware
16 8 (0.88%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.88%) Cognos
17 7 (0.77%) Workday
18 6 (0.66%) Teradata
19 5 (0.55%) EMC