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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 86 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +32
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,451 832 921
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.12% 2.98% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.27% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,043 595 633
10th Percentile £360 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -1.46% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 5
10th Percentile £21.37 £32.50 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%
75th Percentile £57.69 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.86 £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -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 39,476 25,411 27,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.93% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,882 16,117 16,935
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,976 1,567 1,167
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.87 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +50.56% -39.40% -2.92%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 £521 -0.71% 767
Midlands +25 228 £470 -6.10% 125
West Midlands +21 199 £469 -8.04% 95
North of England -14 173 £473 -0.53% 193
South East +14 130 £459 -3.37% 181
South West -4 86 £506 +6.53% 70
Yorkshire +2 77 £463 +3.93% 52
North West -15 76 £475 -5.00% 117
East of England -16 35 £463 -11.90% 45
East Midlands -13 28 £486 +9.94% 30
North East -20 25 £500 +14.29% 27
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
1 132 (9.10%) Apache Spark
2 124 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (6.69%) Apache
4 79 (5.44%) SAS
5 54 (3.72%) Confluence
6 25 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.62%) nginx
10 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.14%) CMS
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.069%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 33 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 15 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.28%) Actimize
6 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.28%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.14%) iTrent
8 2 (0.14%) Maximo
8 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 557 (38.39%) Azure
2 413 (28.46%) AWS
3 302 (20.81%) Power Platform
4 207 (14.27%) Snowflake
5 206 (14.20%) GCP
6 197 (13.58%) Azure Data Factory
7 133 (9.17%) dbt
8 129 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (7.31%) Amazon S3
10 102 (7.03%) Serverless
11 100 (6.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 94 (6.48%) GitHub
13 82 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (3.10%) Azure Databricks
16 36 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (2.00%) SaaS
18 27 (1.86%) Collibra
19 25 (1.72%) Power Automate
20 24 (1.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.21%) DHCP
3 3 (0.21%) DNS
3 3 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.069%) DMZ
4 1 (0.069%) Internet
4 1 (0.069%) Network Security
4 1 (0.069%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.069%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.069%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (33.49%) Data Warehouse
2 293 (20.19%) Power BI
3 208 (14.33%) Data Lake
4 144 (9.92%) Metadata
5 133 (9.17%) SQL Server
6 104 (7.17%) BigQuery
7 94 (6.48%) Relational Database
8 90 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.58%) Delta Lake
10 77 (5.31%) Tableau
11 74 (5.10%) Big Data
11 74 (5.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (4.14%) Oracle Reports
12 60 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
13 58 (4.00%) Pentaho
14 55 (3.79%) NoSQL
15 49 (3.38%) Oracle Database
16 45 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
17 41 (2.83%) Power Query
18 40 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 163 (11.23%) Git
2 121 (8.34%) JIRA
3 86 (5.93%) GitLab
4 48 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 36 (2.48%) Zephyr
6 33 (2.27%) Postman
7 16 (1.10%) Selenium
8 10 (0.69%) 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 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.28%) ERwin
11 4 (0.28%) JUnit
11 4 (0.28%) Newman
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 365 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.91%) Finance
3 266 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.75%) Public Sector
5 154 (10.61%) Banking
6 41 (2.83%) Retail
7 32 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.65%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.65%) Marketing
9 20 (1.38%) Front Office
9 20 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 18 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.17%) Law
13 16 (1.10%) Billing
13 16 (1.10%) Legal
14 13 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.90%) Military
15 11 (0.76%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 569 (39.21%) Data Engineer
2 210 (14.47%) Developer
2 210 (14.47%) Senior
3 185 (12.75%) Architect
4 144 (9.92%) Senior Data Engineer
5 130 (8.96%) Lead
6 117 (8.06%) Analyst
7 92 (6.34%) Data Architect
8 57 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
9 56 (3.86%) Data Analyst
9 56 (3.86%) Databricks Engineer
10 48 (3.31%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 44 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (2.62%) Tester
13 36 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
13 36 (2.48%) Consultant
14 35 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 35 (2.41%) SQL Developer
15 32 (2.21%) Oracle Developer
15 32 (2.21%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (9.65%) PySpark
2 133 (9.17%) Terraform
3 104 (7.17%) Kafka
4 67 (4.62%) REST
5 55 (3.79%) .NET
6 41 (2.83%) JSON
7 28 (1.93%) React
8 27 (1.86%) Middleware
9 24 (1.65%) Pandas
10 21 (1.45%) XML
11 16 (1.10%) YAML
12 15 (1.03%) pytest
13 14 (0.96%) Spring
13 14 (0.96%) Spring Boot
14 13 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.90%) SOAP
14 13 (0.90%) Web Services
15 12 (0.83%) HTML
16 11 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
17 10 (0.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.72%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.55%) Data Structures
3 59 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.65%) Reference Data
9 23 (1.59%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 16 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.10%) NHS
11 16 (1.10%) Replication
12 15 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (0.83%) Clustering
14 12 (0.83%) CMDB
14 12 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 62 (4.27%) Linux
2 45 (3.10%) Unix
3 19 (1.31%) Windows
4 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.21%) Solaris
4 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.14%) HPUX
5 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (46.24%) Data Modelling
2 609 (41.97%) Data Pipeline
3 534 (36.80%) Analytics
4 493 (33.98%) Data Engineering
5 468 (32.25%) CI/CD
6 423 (29.15%) Agile
7 383 (26.40%) Migration
8 374 (25.78%) Business Intelligence
9 340 (23.43%) DevOps
10 335 (23.09%) Data Integration
11 305 (21.02%) Validation
12 291 (20.06%) Data Governance
13 283 (19.50%) AI
14 261 (17.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 256 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
16 226 (15.58%) Data Migration
17 225 (15.51%) Data Transformation
18 208 (14.33%) Data Architecture
19 197 (13.58%) Test Automation
20 176 (12.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 971 (66.92%) SQL
2 575 (39.63%) Python
3 114 (7.86%) Java
4 76 (5.24%) PL/SQL
5 70 (4.82%) T-SQL
6 53 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.45%) C#
8 47 (3.24%) Scala
9 45 (3.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 34 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 30 (2.07%) Shell Script
12 29 (2.00%) Bash
13 21 (1.45%) R
14 16 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.83%) Bicep
16 11 (0.76%) Cypher
17 7 (0.48%) Go
18 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.34%) Perl
19 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 385 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 330 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.27%) Degree
4 41 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.00%) DV Cleared
6 26 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.65%) AWS Certification
8 22 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.28%) CBAP
12 4 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 522 (35.98%) Data Quality
2 129 (8.89%) QA
3 57 (3.93%) GDPR
4 31 (2.14%) GRC
5 20 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.55%) IFRS
7 8 (0.55%) SLA
7 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.34%) FATCA
10 4 (0.28%) GAAP
10 4 (0.28%) HL7
10 4 (0.28%) PMO
11 3 (0.21%) COREP
11 3 (0.21%) FINREP
11 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (6.27%) Docker
2 10 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.21%) HDFS
3 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.24%) Ansible
2 18 (1.24%) Grafana
3 14 (0.96%) Control-M
4 11 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.21%) Kibana
6 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.14%) Puppet
6 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.069%) Argo
7 1 (0.069%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.069%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.069%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.069%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.069%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (22.67%) Databricks
2 272 (18.75%) Oracle
3 249 (17.16%) Microsoft
4 103 (7.10%) Informatica
5 88 (6.06%) Talend
6 79 (5.44%) Google
7 60 (4.14%) SAP
8 42 (2.89%) IBM
9 36 (2.48%) Denodo
10 29 (2.00%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.86%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.72%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.24%) Foundry
13 18 (1.24%) Palantir
14 16 (1.10%) Teradata
15 15 (1.03%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.69%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.69%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.69%) Sage
17 8 (0.55%) SnapLogic