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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 81 82
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,514 828 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.30% 3.00% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.30% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 569 627
10th Percentile £363 £359 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £714 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 7
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.60 £33.15
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +2.35% -40.97%
75th Percentile £55.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £84.73 -
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -11.48% -8.33% -40.97%

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 38,969 25,067 28,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,148 15,970 18,420
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £754
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,571 1,462 1,558
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.21 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.87 £18.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.92 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +66.68% -37.90% -2.41%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -3 765 £525 - 168
Midlands +23 265 £459 -0.76% 48
West Midlands +31 230 £459 -8.20% 40
North of England -2 178 £475 - 59
South East +20 147 £459 - 78
Yorkshire -2 78 £463 +9.47% 11
North West -17 77 £475 - 34
South West -28 63 £523 +11.76% 24
East of England +8 54 £475 -13.64% 11
East Midlands -17 34 £490 +13.10% 8
North East -23 24 £520 +15.56% 14
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
1 121 (7.99%) Apache Spark
2 116 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (6.21%) SAS
4 77 (5.09%) Apache
5 56 (3.70%) Confluence
6 26 (1.72%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.65%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.53%) nginx
10 7 (0.46%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.40%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.33%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.20%) Camunda
14 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.13%) PowerExchange
16 1 (0.066%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.66%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.53%) Sage X3
6 6 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 598 (39.50%) Azure
2 439 (29.00%) AWS
3 359 (23.71%) Power Platform
4 222 (14.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 197 (13.01%) Snowflake
6 191 (12.62%) GCP
7 132 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
7 132 (8.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 121 (7.99%) dbt
9 111 (7.33%) Serverless
10 110 (7.27%) Amazon S3
11 99 (6.54%) GitHub
12 87 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (2.64%) Collibra
15 30 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (1.92%) Power Automate
17 24 (1.59%) Matillion
17 24 (1.59%) SaaS
18 22 (1.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.86%) Firewall
2 7 (0.46%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.20%) DHCP
4 3 (0.20%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.066%) Network Security
5 1 (0.066%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (35.40%) Data Warehouse
2 351 (23.18%) Power BI
3 224 (14.80%) Data Lake
4 157 (10.37%) SQL Server
5 144 (9.51%) Metadata
6 99 (6.54%) Relational Database
7 96 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
8 90 (5.94%) Tableau
9 88 (5.81%) BigQuery
10 86 (5.68%) Delta Lake
11 85 (5.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 72 (4.76%) Big Data
13 69 (4.56%) Oracle Reports
14 67 (4.43%) Pentaho
15 64 (4.23%) NoSQL
15 64 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
16 58 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 50 (3.30%) Oracle Database
17 50 (3.30%) Snowflake Schema
18 46 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 164 (10.83%) Git
2 132 (8.72%) JIRA
3 88 (5.81%) GitLab
4 57 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.91%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.58%) Postman
7 12 (0.79%) Selenium
8 7 (0.46%) MLflow
8 7 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.40%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.33%) ERwin
10 5 (0.33%) Gatling
11 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.26%) LSMW
11 4 (0.26%) Newman
11 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.20%) Flyway
12 3 (0.20%) NeoLoad
General
1 357 (23.58%) Social Skills
2 348 (22.99%) Finance
3 279 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 119 (7.86%) Banking
6 34 (2.25%) Retail
7 28 (1.85%) Marketing
8 27 (1.78%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.39%) Legal
12 17 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.06%) Law
13 16 (1.06%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.92%) Front Office
15 11 (0.73%) Billing
15 11 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.59%) Military
16 9 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 587 (38.77%) Data Engineer
2 229 (15.13%) Developer
3 200 (13.21%) Senior
4 193 (12.75%) Architect
5 156 (10.30%) Lead
6 137 (9.05%) Senior Data Engineer
7 109 (7.20%) Analyst
8 98 (6.47%) Data Architect
9 54 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (3.50%) Data Analyst
11 45 (2.97%) Tester
12 44 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 41 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
15 38 (2.51%) SQL Developer
16 37 (2.44%) Oracle Developer
17 36 (2.38%) Data Migration Lead
17 36 (2.38%) Snowflake Engineer
18 32 (2.11%) AWS Data Engineer
19 31 (2.05%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (10.24%) PySpark
2 135 (8.92%) Terraform
3 116 (7.66%) Kafka
4 65 (4.29%) REST
5 47 (3.10%) JSON
6 46 (3.04%) .NET
7 27 (1.78%) Pandas
8 26 (1.72%) React
9 23 (1.52%) Middleware
10 20 (1.32%) XML
11 19 (1.25%) Spring
11 19 (1.25%) Spring Boot
12 15 (0.99%) YAML
13 13 (0.86%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.86%) RESTful
14 11 (0.73%) OAuth
14 11 (0.73%) Playwright
14 11 (0.73%) pytest
14 11 (0.73%) Web Services
15 10 (0.66%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 91 (6.01%) Data Structures
3 66 (4.36%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.63%) Product Ownership
5 50 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.39%) AI Agents
7 21 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.32%) NHS
9 19 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.25%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
11 16 (1.06%) Clustering
12 12 (0.79%) Replication
13 11 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.66%) Algorithms
14 10 (0.66%) IoT
14 10 (0.66%) SCADA
15 9 (0.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.57%) Linux
2 51 (3.37%) Unix
3 17 (1.12%) Windows
4 5 (0.33%) Solaris
4 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.13%) HPUX
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (46.83%) Data Modelling
2 616 (40.69%) Data Pipeline
3 575 (37.98%) Analytics
4 473 (31.24%) Data Engineering
5 469 (30.98%) CI/CD
6 430 (28.40%) Business Intelligence
7 425 (28.07%) Agile
8 400 (26.42%) Migration
9 345 (22.79%) DevOps
10 329 (21.73%) Data Integration
11 301 (19.88%) Data Governance
12 288 (19.02%) Validation
13 268 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
14 251 (16.58%) Data Migration
15 247 (16.31%) AI
16 216 (14.27%) Test Automation
17 213 (14.07%) Data Transformation
18 212 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 211 (13.94%) Data Architecture
20 190 (12.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (66.84%) SQL
2 563 (37.19%) Python
3 137 (9.05%) Java
4 80 (5.28%) PL/SQL
5 77 (5.09%) T-SQL
6 61 (4.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 48 (3.17%) C#
8 45 (2.97%) Scala
9 42 (2.77%) PowerShell
10 41 (2.71%) JavaScript
11 32 (2.11%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.98%) Bash
13 19 (1.25%) R
14 16 (1.06%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.92%) Bicep
16 8 (0.53%) Cypher
17 6 (0.40%) VBA
18 5 (0.33%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.33%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 415 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 347 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 74 (4.89%) Degree
4 37 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 34 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (1.85%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.06%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (35.34%) Data Quality
2 133 (8.78%) QA
3 79 (5.22%) GDPR
4 35 (2.31%) GRC
5 25 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.59%) IFRS
7 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.53%) PMO
8 8 (0.53%) SLA
8 8 (0.53%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.53%) WCAG
9 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.40%) HL7
10 5 (0.33%) FATCA
11 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.26%) GAAP
11 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 111 (7.33%) Docker
2 11 (0.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) HDFS
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 108 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 26 (1.72%) Grafana
3 18 (1.19%) Ansible
4 14 (0.92%) Control-M
5 9 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.13%) Foglight
8 2 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.066%) Argo
9 1 (0.066%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.066%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 313 (20.67%) Databricks
2 305 (20.15%) Oracle
3 263 (17.37%) Microsoft
4 126 (8.32%) Informatica
5 106 (7.00%) Talend
6 70 (4.62%) SAP
7 65 (4.29%) Google
8 59 (3.90%) Denodo
9 43 (2.84%) IBM
10 33 (2.18%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.92%) Alteryx
12 26 (1.72%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.25%) Palantir
14 16 (1.06%) Sage
15 14 (0.92%) Foundry
15 14 (0.92%) Teradata
16 11 (0.73%) Cloudera
16 11 (0.73%) Workday
17 10 (0.66%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.66%) MuleSoft