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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 73 106
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 -6
Contract jobs citing ETL 874 894 905
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.89% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 3.33% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 597 688
10th Percentile £360 £357 £382
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £526
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.47% -2.23%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £509 £525
% change year-on-year -1.72% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 14
10th Percentile £32.50 - £47.38
25th Percentile £35.63 £26.25 £50.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -31.17% +41.95%
75th Percentile £64.01 £51.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £67.93 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -45.31% +47.13%

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 26,975 26,819 35,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.28% 86.81% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,111 16,369 24,234
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £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 1,784 960 1,488
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -16.29% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.76 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +25.24%

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 17 November 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 -8 513 £525 - 461
Midlands -8 122 £504 +13.20% 72
North of England -36 93 £450 - 71
West Midlands -7 88 £519 +8.70% 53
South West +15 50 £520 -9.57% 35
North West -16 49 £431 -2.27% 40
South East -33 43 £445 -19.09% 113
Yorkshire -39 37 £475 +5.56% 24
East Midlands -1 33 £442 +10.40% 19
East of England -10 22 £550 +10.00% 35
North East -9 6 £450 -5.26% 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 89 (10.18%) Apache Airflow
2 82 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 63 (7.21%) Apache
4 38 (4.35%) SAS
5 8 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
6 7 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.69%) Confluence
8 5 (0.57%) IIS
9 4 (0.46%) Luigi
10 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (5.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.80%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.80%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.69%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.46%) Maximo
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.23%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 336 (38.44%) Azure
2 288 (32.95%) AWS
3 187 (21.40%) Power Platform
4 139 (15.90%) GCP
5 133 (15.22%) Snowflake
6 118 (13.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 84 (9.61%) Amazon S3
8 77 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 77 (8.81%) Serverless
9 63 (7.21%) dbt
10 55 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
11 52 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (5.61%) GitHub
13 31 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
14 29 (3.32%) SaaS
15 23 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
16 21 (2.40%) PaaS
17 20 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
18 18 (2.06%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.69%) 2G
1 6 (0.69%) 5G
1 6 (0.69%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.57%) 4G
2 5 (0.57%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
4 3 (0.34%) SSL
4 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) BGP
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) DMZ
5 2 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.23%) OSPF
5 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (32.61%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (20.14%) Power BI
3 116 (13.27%) Data Lake
4 97 (11.10%) SQL Server
5 85 (9.73%) Relational Database
6 74 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
7 67 (7.67%) Metadata
8 64 (7.32%) Big Data
9 63 (7.21%) BigQuery
10 59 (6.75%) Tableau
11 58 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 50 (5.72%) NoSQL
14 42 (4.81%) Pentaho
15 39 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
16 34 (3.89%) Delta Lake
17 33 (3.78%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (3.55%) Hadoop
19 28 (3.20%) DataStage
19 28 (3.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 103 (11.78%) Git
2 57 (6.52%) JIRA
3 54 (6.18%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.06%) ERwin
5 10 (1.14%) GitLab
6 8 (0.92%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.80%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.80%) MLflow
7 7 (0.80%) Postman
7 7 (0.80%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.69%) Selenium
9 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.34%) Maven
11 3 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.23%) Gradle
12 2 (0.23%) JMeter
12 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.23%) TestRail
General
1 268 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 217 (24.83%) Finance
3 163 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 63 (7.21%) Banking
6 25 (2.86%) Retail
7 17 (1.95%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.72%) Marketing
10 12 (1.37%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (1.14%) Legal
12 10 (1.14%) Local Government
12 10 (1.14%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.80%) Front Office
14 7 (0.80%) Publishing
15 6 (0.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 285 (32.61%) Data Engineer
2 130 (14.87%) Developer
3 114 (13.04%) Architect
4 95 (10.87%) Senior
5 93 (10.64%) Lead
6 90 (10.30%) Analyst
7 60 (6.86%) Data Architect
8 57 (6.52%) Data Analyst
9 48 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
10 37 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (3.66%) Azure Data Engineer
12 27 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (3.09%) Business Analyst
13 26 (2.97%) Consultant
14 24 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 22 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 19 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
16 19 (2.17%) Azure Architect
17 18 (2.06%) Lead Data Engineer
17 18 (2.06%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.24%) Kafka
2 71 (8.12%) PySpark
3 40 (4.58%) XML
4 29 (3.32%) Node.js
5 28 (3.20%) REST
6 26 (2.97%) JSON
7 20 (2.29%) RESTful
8 17 (1.95%) Pandas
9 15 (1.72%) NumPy
10 14 (1.60%) .NET
11 13 (1.49%) GraphQL
11 13 (1.49%) OAuth
12 12 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 12 (1.37%) Middleware
13 11 (1.26%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 11 (1.26%) React
14 8 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (0.92%) Keycloak
14 8 (0.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.67%) Cloud Native
2 46 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 30 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.75%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 18 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.72%) Replication
9 13 (1.49%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.26%) IoT
11 10 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.14%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
12 9 (1.03%) Reinsurance
13 8 (0.92%) Data Fabric
13 8 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.78%) Linux
2 15 (1.72%) Windows
3 5 (0.57%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (43.94%) Data Modelling
2 334 (38.22%) Analytics
3 329 (37.64%) Data Pipeline
4 261 (29.86%) Business Intelligence
5 248 (28.38%) Data Engineering
6 231 (26.43%) CI/CD
7 221 (25.29%) Problem-Solving
8 210 (24.03%) Agile
8 210 (24.03%) Data Governance
9 192 (21.97%) DevOps
10 184 (21.05%) Migration
11 176 (20.14%) Data Integration
12 137 (15.68%) Data Architecture
13 127 (14.53%) Data Migration
14 117 (13.39%) Data Transformation
15 115 (13.16%) Visualisation
16 111 (12.70%) Data Science
17 110 (12.59%) Validation
18 97 (11.10%) Machine Learning
19 87 (9.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 561 (64.19%) SQL
2 424 (48.51%) Python
3 86 (9.84%) Java
4 46 (5.26%) Scala
5 44 (5.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 33 (3.78%) C#
7 30 (3.43%) T-SQL
8 24 (2.75%) PL/SQL
9 18 (2.06%) JavaScript
10 17 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.83%) VBA
12 15 (1.72%) Bash
13 14 (1.60%) R
14 13 (1.49%) Go
15 12 (1.37%) PHP
16 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
17 9 (1.03%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.80%) Korn
19 6 (0.69%) Apex Code
19 6 (0.69%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 141 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 108 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 63 (7.21%) Degree
4 37 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 35 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.57%) PMP
10 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.34%) CISSP
11 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.34%) MCSE
12 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.23%) MCP
13 1 (0.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (30.32%) Data Quality
2 59 (6.75%) QA
3 57 (6.52%) GDPR
4 22 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.03%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.57%) SLA
7 4 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.46%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) HL7
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
8 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.23%) EMIR
9 2 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.23%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 19650
10 1 (0.11%) PERC
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 103 (11.78%) Docker
2 6 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.57%) zsh
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) KVM
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 94 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.89%) Terraform
3 13 (1.49%) Grafana
4 9 (1.03%) Ansible
5 7 (0.80%) Control-M
6 5 (0.57%) Kibana
6 5 (0.57%) logstash
6 5 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.34%) Argo
8 3 (0.34%) Istio
9 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 145 (16.59%) Databricks
2 139 (15.90%) Microsoft
3 120 (13.73%) Oracle
4 62 (7.09%) Talend
5 54 (6.18%) Google
6 49 (5.61%) Informatica
7 38 (4.35%) SAP
8 33 (3.78%) Denodo
9 21 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 18 (2.06%) IBM
11 14 (1.60%) Palantir
12 11 (1.26%) Foundry
13 10 (1.14%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.14%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.14%) Workday
14 9 (1.03%) VMware
15 8 (0.92%) Cognos
16 7 (0.80%) Alteryx
17 6 (0.69%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.69%) Teradata