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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 100
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,265 827 855
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 3.24% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.58% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 560 665
10th Percentile £358 £360 £381
25th Percentile £413 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £625
90th Percentile £681 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 16
10th Percentile £34.80 - £31.38
25th Percentile £36.78 £26.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £67.35 £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.46% -15.84% +39.79%
75th Percentile £74.26 £96.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +82.86% -30.69% +40.28%

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 31,620 23,110 32,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.89% 90.44% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,216 14,677 21,786
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £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 1,956 785 2,096
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.11
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.15 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +18 723 £524 -4.73% 176
Midlands +21 194 £485 +1.68% 66
West Midlands +24 168 £498 +0.91% 53
North of England -41 144 £452 -2.38% 82
North West -6 84 £431 -7.31% 38
South East -48 74 £475 -9.52% 114
South West -8 65 £525 -12.50% 46
Yorkshire -52 47 £500 +38.89% 32
East of England -17 27 £475 -9.52% 26
East Midlands -11 26 £465 +20.00% 12
North East -9 12 £525 +5.00% 13
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
1 118 (9.33%) Apache Spark
2 91 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (5.45%) Apache
4 66 (5.22%) SAS
5 21 (1.66%) Confluence
6 14 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.63%) Appian
7 8 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.32%) nginx
11 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Camunda
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 45 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.63%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Trello
7 1 (0.079%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.40%) Maximo
9 4 (0.32%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.24%) BambooHR
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
10 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 525 (41.50%) Azure
2 385 (30.43%) AWS
3 308 (24.35%) Power Platform
4 204 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 154 (12.17%) GCP
6 144 (11.38%) Snowflake
7 137 (10.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 119 (9.41%) Amazon S3
9 101 (7.98%) Serverless
10 91 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
11 84 (6.64%) GitHub
12 73 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (5.61%) dbt
14 41 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (2.92%) Collibra
16 36 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (2.77%) SaaS
18 25 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
19 23 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
19 23 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.55%) 5G
2 6 (0.47%) 2G
2 6 (0.47%) 4G
2 6 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (0.24%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) Firewall
4 2 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.079%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 367 (29.01%) Data Warehouse
2 290 (22.92%) Power BI
3 191 (15.10%) Data Lake
4 158 (12.49%) SQL Server
5 117 (9.25%) Metadata
6 96 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 81 (6.40%) Relational Database
7 81 (6.40%) Tableau
8 76 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 73 (5.77%) Big Data
10 71 (5.61%) Pentaho
11 67 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 67 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
12 64 (5.06%) Delta Lake
13 58 (4.58%) NoSQL
14 54 (4.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 52 (4.11%) BigQuery
16 48 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (3.64%) Oracle Database
18 36 (2.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 163 (12.89%) Git
2 100 (7.91%) JIRA
3 77 (6.09%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.19%) GitLab
5 27 (2.13%) Postman
6 20 (1.58%) MLflow
7 15 (1.19%) Selenium
8 14 (1.11%) ERwin
8 14 (1.11%) Zephyr
9 7 (0.55%) JMeter
9 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.40%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.40%) TestRail
10 5 (0.40%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.32%) DBeaver
11 4 (0.32%) Gatling
11 4 (0.32%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
General
1 396 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 341 (26.96%) Finance
3 207 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 99 (7.83%) Banking
6 29 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.13%) Retail
8 24 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 20 (1.58%) Marketing
10 18 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 16 (1.26%) Legal
13 14 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (1.03%) Law
15 11 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.55%) Publishing
17 6 (0.47%) Front Office
17 6 (0.47%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 503 (39.76%) Data Engineer
2 160 (12.65%) Developer
3 141 (11.15%) Lead
4 134 (10.59%) Senior
5 122 (9.64%) Architect
6 115 (9.09%) Analyst
7 91 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
8 79 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 69 (5.45%) Data Architect
10 43 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (2.69%) Snowflake Engineer
13 31 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
13 31 (2.45%) Lead Data Engineer
14 28 (2.21%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (2.21%) Consultant
14 28 (2.21%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 27 (2.13%) Business Analyst
16 24 (1.90%) Integration Engineer
16 24 (1.90%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.83%) PySpark
2 111 (8.77%) Kafka
3 70 (5.53%) REST
4 39 (3.08%) Pandas
5 37 (2.92%) XML
6 31 (2.45%) .NET
7 28 (2.21%) JSON
8 26 (2.06%) RESTful
9 25 (1.98%) NumPy
10 23 (1.82%) Middleware
11 21 (1.66%) PyTorch
12 19 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (1.50%) pytest
13 18 (1.42%) scikit-learn
13 18 (1.42%) TensorFlow
14 17 (1.34%) Great Expectations
14 17 (1.34%) Node.js
14 17 (1.34%) YAML
15 16 (1.26%) OAuth
16 12 (0.95%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 103 (8.14%) Cloud Native
2 85 (6.72%) Data Structures
3 62 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
5 21 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 19 (1.50%) Onboarding
8 18 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.26%) Reinsurance
10 15 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (0.95%) IoT
12 12 (0.95%) Replication
13 11 (0.87%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.87%) Low-Code
14 10 (0.79%) Clustering
14 10 (0.79%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 21 (1.66%) Linux
2 18 (1.42%) Unix
3 11 (0.87%) Windows
4 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.32%) Solaris
6 4 (0.32%) VMS
6 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (46.88%) Data Modelling
2 545 (43.08%) Analytics
3 475 (37.55%) Data Pipeline
4 417 (32.96%) Data Engineering
5 413 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
6 359 (28.38%) CI/CD
7 312 (24.66%) Agile
8 300 (23.72%) Data Governance
9 288 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
10 282 (22.29%) DevOps
11 264 (20.87%) Migration
12 212 (16.76%) Data Architecture
13 203 (16.05%) Data Integration
14 202 (15.97%) Validation
15 181 (14.31%) Data Migration
16 170 (13.44%) Decision-Making
17 161 (12.73%) AI
18 152 (12.02%) Data Science
19 144 (11.38%) Test Automation
20 137 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 844 (66.72%) SQL
2 591 (46.72%) Python
3 97 (7.67%) Java
4 57 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 54 (4.27%) C#
6 50 (3.95%) Scala
7 49 (3.87%) T-SQL
8 47 (3.72%) PL/SQL
9 41 (3.24%) JavaScript
10 20 (1.58%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.34%) Bash
11 17 (1.34%) Bicep
11 17 (1.34%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.26%) R
13 15 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.95%) Go
14 12 (0.95%) VBA
15 10 (0.79%) PHP
16 6 (0.47%) SAS Macro
17 5 (0.40%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 279 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 224 (17.71%) SC Cleared
3 88 (6.96%) Degree
4 53 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.32%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.37%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.11%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.47%) PMP
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.32%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.079%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.079%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 422 (33.36%) Data Quality
2 106 (8.38%) QA
3 99 (7.83%) GDPR
4 22 (1.74%) IFRS
5 19 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.34%) IFRS 17
7 14 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.63%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.63%) PMO
8 8 (0.63%) SLA
9 5 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.40%) GAAP
9 5 (0.40%) MiFID
10 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.32%) IFRS 9
10 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.24%) Basel III
11 3 (0.24%) FATCA
11 3 (0.24%) GMP
11 3 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 125 (9.88%) Docker
2 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.32%) HDFS
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.24%) zsh
5 2 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (10.67%) Kubernetes
2 120 (9.49%) Terraform
3 14 (1.11%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.87%) Grafana
5 10 (0.79%) Ansible
6 5 (0.40%) Control-M
7 4 (0.32%) Kibana
7 4 (0.32%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Foglight
8 2 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.16%) SCCM
9 1 (0.079%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.079%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.079%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 268 (21.19%) Databricks
2 209 (16.52%) Microsoft
3 192 (15.18%) Oracle
4 105 (8.30%) Informatica
5 103 (8.14%) Talend
6 53 (4.19%) SAP
7 47 (3.72%) Denodo
8 45 (3.56%) Google
9 38 (3.00%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.74%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.58%) IBM
13 19 (1.50%) Workday
14 18 (1.42%) Splunk
15 15 (1.19%) Sage
16 13 (1.03%) Palantir
17 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.87%) Ab Initio
18 11 (0.87%) Alteryx
19 9 (0.71%) Cognos