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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 83 77
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,463 807 907
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 2.95% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.25% 3.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 556 643
10th Percentile £362 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £625
90th Percentile £675 £715 £724
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £32.78 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.81 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £41.23 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -11.33% -32.12%
75th Percentile £57.38 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.39 - -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £46.50
% change year-on-year -12.54% -16.46% -35.42%

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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +2 771 £525 - 895
Midlands +22 234 £469 -1.91% 110
West Midlands +22 201 £469 -8.04% 78
North of England -7 170 £470 -1.05% 180
South East +20 135 £454 -4.47% 158
Yorkshire +7 79 £463 +3.93% 52
North West -20 73 £470 -6.00% 110
South West -30 68 £523 +10.00% 92
East of England -14 44 £475 -9.52% 50
East Midlands -6 32 £490 +13.10% 32
North East -25 19 £500 +14.29% 19
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
1 123 (8.41%) Apache Spark
2 122 (8.34%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (5.88%) Apache
4 84 (5.74%) SAS
5 53 (3.62%) Confluence
6 26 (1.78%) Oracle Application Server
7 23 (1.57%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.75%) nginx
9 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.068%) CMS
14 1 (0.068%) IIS
Applications
1 35 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.27%) Actimize
7 4 (0.27%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 572 (39.10%) Azure
2 423 (28.91%) AWS
3 328 (22.42%) Power Platform
4 209 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 207 (14.15%) Snowflake
6 193 (13.19%) GCP
7 133 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 132 (9.02%) dbt
9 121 (8.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 114 (7.79%) Serverless
11 109 (7.45%) Amazon S3
12 104 (7.11%) GitHub
13 90 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
15 39 (2.67%) Azure Databricks
16 33 (2.26%) Collibra
17 32 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
18 29 (1.98%) Power Automate
19 26 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 25 (1.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.62%) Firewall
2 8 (0.55%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.21%) DHCP
4 3 (0.21%) DNS
4 3 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.068%) DMZ
5 1 (0.068%) Internet
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 502 (34.31%) Data Warehouse
2 320 (21.87%) Power BI
3 214 (14.63%) Data Lake
4 152 (10.39%) Metadata
4 152 (10.39%) SQL Server
5 98 (6.70%) Relational Database
6 89 (6.08%) BigQuery
7 86 (5.88%) Delta Lake
8 84 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 79 (5.40%) Tableau
10 76 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 72 (4.92%) Big Data
12 67 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
13 60 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
14 57 (3.90%) NoSQL
14 57 (3.90%) Pentaho
15 49 (3.35%) Oracle Database
16 48 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
17 47 (3.21%) Amazon Athena
18 45 (3.08%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 156 (10.66%) Git
2 129 (8.82%) JIRA
3 85 (5.81%) GitLab
4 50 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.53%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.32%) Postman
7 14 (0.96%) Selenium
8 10 (0.68%) MLflow
9 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) ERwin
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) LSMW
General
1 358 (24.47%) Social Skills
2 350 (23.92%) Finance
3 272 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 135 (9.23%) Banking
6 36 (2.46%) Retail
7 27 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.64%) Marketing
9 23 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.23%) Legal
12 17 (1.16%) Front Office
12 17 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.09%) Law
14 14 (0.96%) Billing
15 13 (0.89%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.68%) Military
19 9 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 574 (39.23%) Data Engineer
2 218 (14.90%) Developer
3 208 (14.22%) Senior
4 185 (12.65%) Architect
5 141 (9.64%) Lead
5 141 (9.64%) Senior Data Engineer
6 112 (7.66%) Analyst
7 94 (6.43%) Data Architect
8 55 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
8 55 (3.76%) Data Analyst
9 47 (3.21%) Databricks Engineer
10 44 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
11 41 (2.80%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 40 (2.73%) Tester
13 39 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 38 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
15 37 (2.53%) Snowflake Engineer
16 36 (2.46%) Oracle Developer
17 35 (2.39%) SQL Developer
18 32 (2.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (10.05%) PySpark
2 134 (9.16%) Terraform
3 109 (7.45%) Kafka
4 60 (4.10%) REST
5 49 (3.35%) .NET
6 48 (3.28%) JSON
7 29 (1.98%) React
8 22 (1.50%) Middleware
8 22 (1.50%) Pandas
9 21 (1.44%) XML
10 20 (1.37%) Spring
10 20 (1.37%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.03%) YAML
12 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (0.82%) SOAP
14 11 (0.75%) HTML
14 11 (0.75%) Playwright
15 10 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
15 10 (0.68%) LangChain
15 10 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 97 (6.63%) Data Structures
3 60 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (3.90%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.50%) Reference Data
9 18 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.23%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.16%) NHS
11 16 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.89%) Replication
14 12 (0.82%) Clustering
15 11 (0.75%) IoT
15 11 (0.75%) Reinsurance
16 10 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.96%) Linux
2 51 (3.49%) Unix
3 21 (1.44%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (47.16%) Data Modelling
2 616 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
3 546 (37.32%) Analytics
4 485 (33.15%) Data Engineering
5 466 (31.85%) CI/CD
6 412 (28.16%) Agile
7 397 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
8 384 (26.25%) Migration
9 339 (23.17%) DevOps
10 326 (22.28%) Data Integration
11 297 (20.30%) Data Governance
11 297 (20.30%) Validation
12 277 (18.93%) AI
13 260 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
14 242 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
15 229 (15.65%) Data Migration
16 214 (14.63%) Data Architecture
17 213 (14.56%) Data Transformation
18 200 (13.67%) Test Automation
19 181 (12.37%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 975 (66.64%) SQL
2 555 (37.94%) Python
3 130 (8.89%) Java
4 80 (5.47%) PL/SQL
5 75 (5.13%) T-SQL
6 56 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.55%) C#
8 45 (3.08%) Scala
9 43 (2.94%) JavaScript
10 41 (2.80%) PowerShell
11 33 (2.26%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.98%) Bash
13 19 (1.30%) R
14 18 (1.23%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.89%) Bicep
16 11 (0.75%) Cypher
17 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.34%) Perl
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
19 4 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 400 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 339 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.24%) Degree
4 38 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 16 (1.09%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISA
15 2 (0.14%) CISM
15 2 (0.14%) CISSP
15 2 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 128 (8.75%) QA
3 67 (4.58%) GDPR
4 36 (2.46%) GRC
5 23 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.55%) IFRS
8 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.48%) PMO
9 7 (0.48%) WCAG
10 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 5 (0.34%) SLA
12 4 (0.27%) GAAP
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
13 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
14 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 108 (7.38%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 104 (7.11%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.71%) Grafana
3 17 (1.16%) Ansible
4 14 (0.96%) Control-M
5 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.068%) Kibana
9 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 318 (21.74%) Databricks
2 284 (19.41%) Oracle
3 261 (17.84%) Microsoft
4 111 (7.59%) Informatica
5 95 (6.49%) Talend
6 69 (4.72%) SAP
7 67 (4.58%) Google
8 51 (3.49%) Denodo
9 43 (2.94%) IBM
10 31 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.98%) Alteryx
12 28 (1.91%) Salesforce
13 16 (1.09%) Palantir
13 16 (1.09%) Teradata
14 15 (1.03%) Foundry
15 13 (0.89%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.68%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.68%) Sage
17 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.62%) MuleSoft