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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 71 97
Rank change year-on-year 0 +26 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,167 815 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 3.15% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.50% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 541 677
10th Percentile £363 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £719
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 14
10th Percentile £45.44 - £29.93
25th Percentile £57.59 £26.25 £43.83
Median hourly rate £69.44 £42.50 £50.78
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -16.30% +43.04%
75th Percentile £76.63 £96.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £102.00 £66.96
UK median hourly rate £65.67 £35.00 £51.78
% change year-on-year +87.64% -32.40% +47.94%

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 30,350 23,294 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.25% 90.10% 87.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,414 14,536 22,024
10th Percentile £313 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £617 £638 £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 1,891 752 2,034
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.26% - -
75th Percentile £63.32 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.48 £72.68
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £32.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.46% -6.26% -

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +25 697 £525 -4.55% 151
Midlands +11 154 £500 +4.82% 69
North of England -42 135 £450 - 73
West Midlands -1 130 £513 +3.96% 51
North West -11 83 £450 -2.70% 41
South East -37 64 £475 -18.80% 105
South West -13 61 £525 -14.29% 34
Yorkshire -58 39 £500 +40.85% 25
East Midlands -18 24 £470 +21.29% 18
East of England -24 20 £520 -0.95% 16
North East -16 12 £450 -10.00% 8
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
1 110 (9.43%) Apache Spark
2 82 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (5.48%) Apache
4 59 (5.06%) SAS
5 13 (1.11%) Confluence
5 13 (1.11%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.69%) Appian
7 7 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.34%) nginx
11 3 (0.26%) CMS
11 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.086%) Camunda
13 1 (0.086%) Jupyter
Applications
1 43 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.26%) Trello
6 1 (0.086%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.43%) Maximo
6 5 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.34%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.26%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) Actimize
9 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 499 (42.76%) Azure
2 363 (31.11%) AWS
3 272 (23.31%) Power Platform
4 186 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (12.77%) GCP
6 130 (11.14%) Snowflake
7 126 (10.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 113 (9.68%) Amazon S3
9 97 (8.31%) Serverless
10 85 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (6.77%) GitHub
12 69 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
13 64 (5.48%) dbt
14 38 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (2.83%) SaaS
17 31 (2.66%) Collibra
18 24 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
18 24 (2.06%) Power Automate
19 22 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.60%) 5G
2 6 (0.51%) 2G
2 6 (0.51%) 4G
2 6 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.17%) DSL
3 2 (0.17%) HTTP
3 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.086%) Firewall
4 1 (0.086%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (27.34%) Data Warehouse
2 251 (21.51%) Power BI
3 183 (15.68%) Data Lake
4 144 (12.34%) SQL Server
5 110 (9.43%) Metadata
6 89 (7.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 75 (6.43%) Relational Database
8 70 (6.00%) Big Data
8 70 (6.00%) Tableau
9 62 (5.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 62 (5.31%) PostgreSQL
10 61 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
10 61 (5.23%) Pentaho
11 60 (5.14%) Delta Lake
12 52 (4.46%) NoSQL
13 48 (4.11%) BigQuery
14 47 (4.03%) Snowflake Schema
15 46 (3.94%) Oracle Database
16 45 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
17 31 (2.66%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 142 (12.17%) Git
2 84 (7.20%) JIRA
3 67 (5.74%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.86%) GitLab
5 21 (1.80%) Postman
6 20 (1.71%) MLflow
7 15 (1.29%) ERwin
7 15 (1.29%) Selenium
8 7 (0.60%) JMeter
8 7 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.43%) TestRail
9 5 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.43%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.34%) DBeaver
10 4 (0.34%) Gatling
10 4 (0.34%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.34%) Toad
11 3 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
General
1 366 (31.36%) Social Skills
2 325 (27.85%) Finance
3 190 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 94 (8.05%) Banking
6 28 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.23%) Retail
8 21 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.29%) Marketing
10 14 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.11%) Law
11 13 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.03%) Legal
13 7 (0.60%) Publishing
14 6 (0.51%) General Ledger
14 6 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 459 (39.33%) Data Engineer
2 152 (13.02%) Developer
3 138 (11.83%) Lead
4 122 (10.45%) Senior
5 115 (9.85%) Analyst
6 106 (9.08%) Architect
7 80 (6.86%) Data Analyst
7 80 (6.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 64 (5.48%) Data Architect
9 40 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 32 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
12 30 (2.57%) Azure Data Engineer
12 30 (2.57%) Lead Data Engineer
13 29 (2.49%) Business Analyst
14 26 (2.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 25 (2.14%) Python Engineer
16 24 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (2.06%) Senior Developer
17 23 (1.97%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (11.31%) PySpark
2 105 (9.00%) Kafka
3 65 (5.57%) REST
4 42 (3.60%) XML
5 35 (3.00%) Pandas
6 30 (2.57%) JSON
7 28 (2.40%) .NET
8 25 (2.14%) NumPy
9 23 (1.97%) PyTorch
9 23 (1.97%) RESTful
10 20 (1.71%) Middleware
10 20 (1.71%) TensorFlow
11 18 (1.54%) pytest
11 18 (1.54%) scikit-learn
12 17 (1.46%) Node.js
12 17 (1.46%) OAuth
13 16 (1.37%) Great Expectations
13 16 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
13 16 (1.37%) YAML
14 13 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 95 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 82 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 57 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 16 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.37%) Reinsurance
8 15 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.20%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.03%) IoT
11 12 (1.03%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.94%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.94%) Replication
13 10 (0.86%) Data Fabric
14 9 (0.77%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.89%) Linux
2 15 (1.29%) Unix
3 11 (0.94%) Windows
4 6 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.34%) Solaris
6 4 (0.34%) VMS
6 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (47.04%) Data Modelling
2 495 (42.42%) Analytics
3 433 (37.10%) Data Pipeline
4 389 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 368 (31.53%) Business Intelligence
6 326 (27.93%) CI/CD
7 283 (24.25%) Agile
8 280 (23.99%) Data Governance
9 269 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (22.02%) DevOps
11 242 (20.74%) Migration
12 195 (16.71%) Data Architecture
13 186 (15.94%) Data Integration
14 184 (15.77%) Validation
15 165 (14.14%) Data Migration
16 155 (13.28%) AI
17 150 (12.85%) Data Science
18 144 (12.34%) Decision-Making
19 133 (11.40%) Machine Learning
20 130 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 774 (66.32%) SQL
2 554 (47.47%) Python
3 90 (7.71%) Java
4 54 (4.63%) C#
5 48 (4.11%) Scala
6 46 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 44 (3.77%) T-SQL
8 42 (3.60%) PL/SQL
9 39 (3.34%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.46%) Bicep
12 16 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.29%) Bash
14 14 (1.20%) Go
14 14 (1.20%) R
14 14 (1.20%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.86%) PHP
15 10 (0.86%) VBA
16 5 (0.43%) Korn
16 5 (0.43%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 243 (20.82%) Security Cleared
2 194 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.94%) Degree
4 49 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.14%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.03%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.77%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.60%) PMP
13 5 (0.43%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.43%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.086%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.086%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (33.25%) Data Quality
2 96 (8.23%) QA
3 91 (7.80%) GDPR
4 21 (1.80%) IFRS
5 19 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.46%) IFRS 17
7 12 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.77%) PMO
9 8 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.43%) GAAP
10 5 (0.43%) MiFID
10 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.43%) SLA
11 4 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.26%) Basel III
12 3 (0.26%) FATCA
12 3 (0.26%) GMP
12 3 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.26%) NIST
13 2 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 115 (9.85%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.34%) zsh
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.086%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 124 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 111 (9.51%) Terraform
3 14 (1.20%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.60%) Ansible
5 6 (0.51%) Grafana
6 5 (0.43%) Control-M
7 4 (0.34%) Kibana
7 4 (0.34%) logstash
8 2 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.17%) SCCM
9 1 (0.086%) Foglight
9 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.086%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.086%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 248 (21.25%) Databricks
2 192 (16.45%) Microsoft
3 163 (13.97%) Oracle
4 93 (7.97%) Informatica
5 89 (7.63%) Talend
6 49 (4.20%) SAP
7 39 (3.34%) Google
8 38 (3.26%) Denodo
9 31 (2.66%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.40%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.97%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.80%) IBM
13 15 (1.29%) Workday
14 14 (1.20%) Palantir
14 14 (1.20%) Splunk
15 13 (1.11%) OpenAI
16 12 (1.03%) Alteryx
16 12 (1.03%) Cognos
17 11 (0.94%) Ab Initio
18 10 (0.86%) Sage