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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 80 90
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,369 755 880
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.11% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.43% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 513 681
10th Percentile £363 £351 £376
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -0.45% -4.33% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 16
10th Percentile £34.90 £26.25 £29.06
25th Percentile £40.39 £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +24.14%
75th Percentile £73.37 £97.60 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +39.31%

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 32,913 22,023 32,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.03% 90.83% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,101 14,513 21,559
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,010 854 2,155
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £20.00 £15.92
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.88 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 +31 757 £513 -5.75% 193
Midlands +19 213 £485 +2.11% 75
West Midlands +20 181 £492 -0.19% 48
North of England -24 166 £460 -0.54% 101
North West -3 92 £430 -8.12% 55
South East -37 82 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -11 68 £525 -2.33% 53
Yorkshire -39 58 £500 +40.85% 31
East of England -10 40 £510 -5.12% 52
East Midlands -22 32 £460 +15.36% 27
North East -7 15 £538 +13.16% 16
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
1 124 (9.06%) Apache Spark
2 97 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
3 74 (5.41%) Apache
4 72 (5.26%) SAS
5 30 (2.19%) Confluence
6 14 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.58%) Appian
7 8 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.44%) nginx
9 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.44%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
11 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.15%) CMS
Applications
1 46 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.15%) Notepad++
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.44%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.37%) Maximo
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 570 (41.64%) Azure
2 417 (30.46%) AWS
3 346 (25.27%) Power Platform
4 220 (16.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 159 (11.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 157 (11.47%) GCP
7 136 (9.93%) Amazon S3
8 135 (9.86%) Snowflake
9 112 (8.18%) Serverless
10 104 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (7.23%) GitHub
12 82 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
13 81 (5.92%) dbt
14 46 (3.36%) Collibra
15 45 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 39 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (2.48%) SaaS
18 30 (2.19%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 24 (1.75%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.51%) 5G
1 7 (0.51%) Firewall
2 6 (0.44%) 2G
2 6 (0.44%) 4G
2 6 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (0.37%) VPN
4 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.15%) DSL
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.15%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.15%) WinSCP
6 1 (0.073%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (28.93%) Data Warehouse
2 324 (23.67%) Power BI
3 204 (14.90%) Data Lake
4 172 (12.56%) SQL Server
5 134 (9.79%) Metadata
6 96 (7.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 86 (6.28%) Tableau
8 83 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 79 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 79 (5.77%) Delta Lake
10 75 (5.48%) Pentaho
11 73 (5.33%) Relational Database
12 67 (4.89%) Big Data
13 64 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
14 62 (4.53%) Snowflake Schema
15 61 (4.46%) NoSQL
16 54 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (3.87%) BigQuery
18 47 (3.43%) Star Schema
19 45 (3.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (11.83%) Git
2 116 (8.47%) JIRA
3 75 (5.48%) Jenkins
4 59 (4.31%) GitLab
5 30 (2.19%) Postman
6 22 (1.61%) MLflow
7 17 (1.24%) Zephyr
8 12 (0.88%) ERwin
8 12 (0.88%) Selenium
9 7 (0.51%) JMeter
9 7 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.37%) TestRail
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.29%) Toad
11 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 397 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 371 (27.10%) Finance
3 240 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.60%) Banking
6 29 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 23 (1.68%) Retail
9 21 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.46%) Marketing
11 19 (1.39%) Legal
12 17 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.17%) Law
14 15 (1.10%) Manufacturing
15 12 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.51%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.44%) Front Office
17 6 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 560 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 180 (13.15%) Developer
3 151 (11.03%) Senior
4 147 (10.74%) Lead
5 129 (9.42%) Architect
6 126 (9.20%) Analyst
7 100 (7.30%) Senior Data Engineer
8 85 (6.21%) Data Analyst
9 72 (5.26%) Data Architect
10 46 (3.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (2.78%) Snowflake Engineer
13 37 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (2.41%) Lead Data Engineer
14 33 (2.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 31 (2.26%) AWS Data Engineer
16 30 (2.19%) Azure Data Engineer
16 30 (2.19%) Consultant
17 27 (1.97%) Senior Developer
18 26 (1.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (11.18%) PySpark
2 135 (9.86%) Kafka
3 82 (5.99%) REST
4 44 (3.21%) Pandas
5 36 (2.63%) JSON
5 36 (2.63%) XML
6 31 (2.26%) .NET
7 26 (1.90%) RESTful
8 24 (1.75%) NumPy
9 22 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
10 20 (1.46%) Great Expectations
10 20 (1.46%) Middleware
11 18 (1.31%) PyTorch
12 17 (1.24%) OAuth
12 17 (1.24%) YAML
13 16 (1.17%) pytest
13 16 (1.17%) Web Services
14 15 (1.10%) scikit-learn
14 15 (1.10%) TensorFlow
15 13 (0.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 113 (8.25%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.87%) Data Structures
3 71 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (2.34%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.12%) Distributed Computing
5 29 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 23 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.10%) IoT
11 14 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.95%) Clustering
12 13 (0.95%) Low-Code
12 13 (0.95%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.88%) NHS
13 12 (0.88%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 23 (1.68%) Unix
2 18 (1.31%) Linux
3 13 (0.95%) Windows
4 7 (0.51%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.44%) Solaris
5 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) VMS
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 665 (48.58%) Data Modelling
2 591 (43.17%) Analytics
3 515 (37.62%) Data Pipeline
4 461 (33.67%) Data Engineering
5 443 (32.36%) Business Intelligence
6 391 (28.56%) CI/CD
7 327 (23.89%) Agile
7 327 (23.89%) Data Governance
8 308 (22.50%) DevOps
9 295 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
10 291 (21.26%) Migration
11 246 (17.97%) Validation
12 217 (15.85%) Data Architecture
13 216 (15.78%) Data Integration
14 198 (14.46%) Data Migration
15 188 (13.73%) AI
16 184 (13.44%) Decision-Making
17 151 (11.03%) Performance Tuning
18 148 (10.81%) Test Automation
19 144 (10.52%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 932 (68.08%) SQL
2 605 (44.19%) Python
3 111 (8.11%) Java
4 64 (4.67%) C#
5 63 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 55 (4.02%) PL/SQL
7 54 (3.94%) T-SQL
8 50 (3.65%) Scala
9 34 (2.48%) JavaScript
10 28 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.31%) Bash
11 18 (1.31%) R
12 17 (1.24%) Bicep
12 17 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.80%) Go
14 9 (0.66%) PHP
15 8 (0.58%) SAS Macro
15 8 (0.58%) VBA
16 6 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 325 (23.74%) Security Cleared
2 257 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 88 (6.43%) Degree
4 54 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.68%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.31%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.29%) PMP
15 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.15%) CISSP
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (34.99%) Data Quality
2 128 (9.35%) QA
3 103 (7.52%) GDPR
4 22 (1.61%) IFRS
5 20 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.24%) IFRS 17
7 14 (1.02%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.88%) PMO
9 9 (0.66%) SLA
10 6 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.44%) GRC
11 5 (0.37%) GAAP
11 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.37%) MiFID
12 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.22%) GMP
13 3 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 128 (9.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
3 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.073%) RACF
5 1 (0.073%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (9.86%) Kubernetes
1 135 (9.86%) Terraform
2 19 (1.39%) Grafana
3 17 (1.24%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.80%) Ansible
5 5 (0.37%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.22%) Foglight
8 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.15%) Kibana
8 2 (0.15%) logstash
8 2 (0.15%) SCCM
9 1 (0.073%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.073%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.073%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 279 (20.38%) Databricks
2 249 (18.19%) Microsoft
3 211 (15.41%) Oracle
4 126 (9.20%) Informatica
5 113 (8.25%) Talend
6 65 (4.75%) SAP
7 56 (4.09%) Denodo
8 48 (3.51%) Google
9 46 (3.36%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.90%) Salesforce
11 24 (1.75%) MuleSoft
12 23 (1.68%) IBM
13 18 (1.31%) Splunk
14 16 (1.17%) Sage
14 16 (1.17%) Workday
15 13 (0.95%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.95%) Palantir
16 11 (0.80%) Ab Initio
16 11 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.73%) Cognos