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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 79 103
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,019 798 818
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 2.97% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.33% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 520 630
10th Percentile £360 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £629
90th Percentile £696 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.64
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.81
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +56.94%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £65.40
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +68.06%

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 28,535 23,973 32,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.13% 89.35% 87.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,262 14,701 21,581
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,781 779 1,693
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -9.21% +8.57%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.75 £63.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.16
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +16 627 £525 - 157
Midlands -1 119 £519 +5.82% 61
North of England -46 111 £450 -2.70% 73
West Midlands -4 94 £525 +6.49% 33
North West -8 73 £447 -3.35% 36
South East -46 59 £425 -22.73% 173
South West -5 56 £525 -14.29% 53
Yorkshire -61 27 £475 +15.85% 29
East Midlands -8 25 £447 +16.10% 28
East of England -17 18 £575 +9.52% 42
North East -11 10 £450 -9.55% 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 94 (9.22%) Apache Spark
2 69 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (6.28%) Apache
4 50 (4.91%) SAS
5 14 (1.37%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.18%) Confluence
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.49%) Appian
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.29%) IIS
11 3 (0.29%) Luigi
11 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) CMS
12 2 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.098%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.098%) Jupyter
Applications
1 42 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.39%) Trello
6 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.098%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.49%) Maximo
7 5 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.29%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 429 (42.10%) Azure
2 307 (30.13%) AWS
3 238 (23.36%) Power Platform
4 161 (15.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 132 (12.95%) GCP
6 123 (12.07%) Snowflake
7 105 (10.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 94 (9.22%) Amazon S3
9 86 (8.44%) Serverless
10 78 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
11 72 (7.07%) GitHub
12 57 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (4.71%) dbt
14 36 (3.53%) SaaS
15 31 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.16%) Collibra
17 22 (2.16%) Power Automate
18 21 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
18 21 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.59%) 2G
1 6 (0.59%) 5G
1 6 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.49%) 4G
3 2 (0.20%) BGP
3 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.20%) DSL
3 2 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.20%) OSPF
3 2 (0.20%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.098%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.098%) Firewall
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) Multicast
4 1 (0.098%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (27.77%) Data Warehouse
2 223 (21.88%) Power BI
3 161 (15.80%) Data Lake
4 124 (12.17%) SQL Server
5 95 (9.32%) Metadata
6 76 (7.46%) Relational Database
7 72 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 68 (6.67%) Big Data
9 61 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (5.99%) Tableau
10 60 (5.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 52 (5.10%) Pentaho
12 49 (4.81%) Azure SQL Database
13 48 (4.71%) Delta Lake
14 43 (4.22%) BigQuery
14 43 (4.22%) NoSQL
15 40 (3.93%) Oracle Database
16 37 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
16 37 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
17 33 (3.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 121 (11.87%) Git
2 87 (8.54%) JIRA
3 68 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.63%) GitLab
5 18 (1.77%) Postman
6 17 (1.67%) ERwin
7 14 (1.37%) MLflow
8 13 (1.28%) Selenium
9 7 (0.69%) JMeter
9 7 (0.69%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.69%) TestRail
10 6 (0.59%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.59%) DBeaver
11 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.39%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.39%) Gatling
12 4 (0.39%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.39%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.39%) Toad
13 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 314 (30.81%) Social Skills
2 279 (27.38%) Finance
3 168 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.56%) Banking
6 23 (2.26%) Retail
7 21 (2.06%) Financial Institution
8 17 (1.67%) Marketing
9 15 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.28%) Legal
12 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.98%) Law
13 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.69%) Front Office
14 7 (0.69%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.69%) Publishing
15 6 (0.59%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 378 (37.10%) Data Engineer
2 140 (13.74%) Developer
3 118 (11.58%) Lead
4 107 (10.50%) Senior
5 100 (9.81%) Analyst
6 86 (8.44%) Architect
7 70 (6.87%) Data Analyst
8 66 (6.48%) Senior Data Engineer
9 49 (4.81%) Data Architect
10 44 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 33 (3.24%) Azure Data Engineer
13 30 (2.94%) Business Analyst
14 29 (2.85%) Consultant
15 25 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (2.45%) Snowflake Engineer
16 24 (2.36%) Senior Developer
17 20 (1.96%) AWS Data Engineer
17 20 (1.96%) Lead Data Engineer
17 20 (1.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (10.60%) PySpark
2 85 (8.34%) Kafka
3 60 (5.89%) REST
4 38 (3.73%) XML
5 26 (2.55%) Pandas
6 24 (2.36%) .NET
7 23 (2.26%) JSON
7 23 (2.26%) Node.js
8 19 (1.86%) NumPy
8 19 (1.86%) RESTful
9 18 (1.77%) Middleware
10 17 (1.67%) OAuth
10 17 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.57%) PyTorch
12 14 (1.37%) pytest
12 14 (1.37%) TensorFlow
13 12 (1.18%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.18%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
14 11 (1.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 46 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
5 20 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 20 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.47%) Reinsurance
10 14 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.37%) Replication
11 13 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.88%) Data Fabric
14 9 (0.88%) IoT
14 9 (0.88%) Low-Code
14 9 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.26%) Linux
2 11 (1.08%) Unix
3 9 (0.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.20%) VMS
5 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (45.73%) Data Modelling
2 426 (41.81%) Analytics
3 387 (37.98%) Data Pipeline
4 334 (32.78%) Business Intelligence
5 314 (30.81%) Data Engineering
6 291 (28.56%) CI/CD
7 256 (25.12%) Agile
8 247 (24.24%) DevOps
8 247 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 230 (22.57%) Data Governance
10 194 (19.04%) Migration
11 180 (17.66%) Data Integration
12 172 (16.88%) Data Architecture
13 141 (13.84%) Validation
14 137 (13.44%) Data Migration
15 126 (12.37%) Data Science
16 119 (11.68%) Machine Learning
17 117 (11.48%) AI
18 116 (11.38%) Decision-Making
19 113 (11.09%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 649 (63.69%) SQL
2 488 (47.89%) Python
3 88 (8.64%) Java
4 49 (4.81%) Scala
5 45 (4.42%) C#
6 39 (3.83%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.53%) JavaScript
8 35 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (2.94%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.57%) Go
11 15 (1.47%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.37%) PHP
12 14 (1.37%) R
13 13 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 12 (1.18%) Bicep
14 12 (1.18%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.08%) Bash
16 9 (0.88%) VBA
17 5 (0.49%) Korn
17 5 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 200 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 156 (15.31%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.16%) Degree
4 48 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.36%) Master's Degree
8 19 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.79%) PMP
12 7 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.69%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.39%) MCP
14 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.29%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.098%) CCIE
16 1 (0.098%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 336 (32.97%) Data Quality
2 74 (7.26%) GDPR
3 66 (6.48%) QA
4 17 (1.67%) IFRS
5 16 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.28%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.49%) GAAP
8 5 (0.49%) MiFID
8 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.49%) SLA
9 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.29%) Basel III
9 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.29%) NIST
9 3 (0.29%) PMO
10 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.20%) EMIR
10 2 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 121 (11.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.49%) zsh
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.20%) KVM
4 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.098%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.098%) HDFS
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 115 (11.29%) Kubernetes
2 94 (9.22%) Terraform
3 9 (0.88%) Ansible
3 9 (0.88%) Grafana
4 6 (0.59%) Kibana
4 6 (0.59%) logstash
5 4 (0.39%) Control-M
5 4 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.29%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.098%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.098%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.098%) Puppet
8 1 (0.098%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 210 (20.61%) Databricks
2 166 (16.29%) Microsoft
3 150 (14.72%) Oracle
4 70 (6.87%) Talend
5 69 (6.77%) Informatica
6 46 (4.51%) SAP
7 41 (4.02%) Denodo
8 39 (3.83%) Google
9 26 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 26 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 17 (1.67%) IBM
10 17 (1.67%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.37%) Palantir
11 14 (1.37%) Workday
12 11 (1.08%) Alteryx
12 11 (1.08%) Foundry
13 10 (0.98%) Cognos
14 9 (0.88%) Ab Initio
15 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.69%) Avaloq