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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 77 102
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 -3
Contract jobs citing ETL 882 907 897
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.90% 2.96% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% 3.38% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 601 692
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £528
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.94% -1.54%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £698 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 14
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £43.99
25th Percentile £35.44 £30.63 £50.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -29.75% +68.06%
75th Percentile £66.88 £78.70 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.23 £102.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £61.43
% change year-on-year -4.71% -30.81% +70.63%

All Process and 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 27,266 26,819 34,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.52% 87.66% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,363 16,442 23,467
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.59% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,775 968 1,450
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.64
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.26 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -23.79% -23.99% +24.04%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -2 527 £525 - 160
Midlands -12 117 £515 +8.42% 39
North of England -39 95 £438 -2.78% 50
West Midlands -5 89 £520 +9.01% 27
North West -8 56 £413 -5.71% 29
South West +8 49 £525 -8.70% 30
South East -46 38 £448 -18.64% 118
Yorkshire -49 33 £475 +5.56% 13
East Midlands 0 28 £438 +15.13% 12
East of England -10 22 £550 +7.32% 20
North East -11 5 £444 -6.58% 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 86 (9.75%) Apache Spark
2 85 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (7.03%) Apache
4 46 (5.22%) SAS
5 12 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.68%) Confluence
8 5 (0.57%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
10 3 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.23%) CMS
11 2 (0.23%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (5.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.23%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.79%) SAP HR
3 6 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.68%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.45%) Maximo
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.23%) Actimize
6 2 (0.23%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.23%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 335 (37.98%) Azure
2 280 (31.75%) AWS
3 177 (20.07%) Power Platform
4 135 (15.31%) Snowflake
5 134 (15.19%) GCP
6 120 (13.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (9.75%) Amazon S3
8 81 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 71 (8.05%) Serverless
10 61 (6.92%) dbt
11 55 (6.24%) GitHub
12 51 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (3.17%) SaaS
15 26 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
18 21 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
19 17 (1.93%) PaaS
20 15 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.68%) 2G
1 6 (0.68%) 5G
1 6 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.57%) 4G
3 4 (0.45%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) SSH
4 3 (0.34%) SSL
4 3 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.23%) BGP
5 2 (0.23%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.23%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.23%) Internet
5 2 (0.23%) OSPF
5 2 (0.23%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 279 (31.63%) Data Warehouse
2 167 (18.93%) Power BI
3 114 (12.93%) Data Lake
4 92 (10.43%) SQL Server
5 84 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 78 (8.84%) Metadata
7 70 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 67 (7.60%) Big Data
9 61 (6.92%) Tableau
10 60 (6.80%) BigQuery
11 58 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
11 58 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (5.33%) NoSQL
13 45 (5.10%) Pentaho
14 39 (4.42%) Delta Lake
15 35 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
16 34 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
17 32 (3.63%) Oracle Database
18 30 (3.40%) Hadoop
19 29 (3.29%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 109 (12.36%) Git
2 62 (7.03%) JIRA
3 57 (6.46%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.59%) ERwin
4 14 (1.59%) GitLab
5 10 (1.13%) MLflow
6 8 (0.91%) DBeaver
7 7 (0.79%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.79%) Postman
7 7 (0.79%) Selenium
7 7 (0.79%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.45%) Toad
9 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.34%) Poetry
10 3 (0.34%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.23%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.23%) PyCharm
General
1 269 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 223 (25.28%) Finance
3 166 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.03%) Banking
6 19 (2.15%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.04%) Retail
8 14 (1.59%) Marketing
9 13 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.13%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.13%) Legal
10 10 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.02%) Local Government
11 9 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.79%) Front Office
13 7 (0.79%) Law
13 7 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 295 (33.45%) Data Engineer
2 134 (15.19%) Developer
3 99 (11.22%) Architect
4 93 (10.54%) Analyst
5 92 (10.43%) Senior
6 90 (10.20%) Lead
7 61 (6.92%) Data Analyst
8 53 (6.01%) Data Architect
9 48 (5.44%) Senior Data Engineer
10 42 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (3.06%) Consultant
14 21 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 20 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
16 19 (2.15%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.15%) Senior Developer
16 19 (2.15%) Snowflake Engineer
17 18 (2.04%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (9.07%) PySpark
2 72 (8.16%) Kafka
3 39 (4.42%) XML
4 31 (3.51%) Node.js
5 29 (3.29%) REST
6 27 (3.06%) JSON
7 20 (2.27%) RESTful
8 18 (2.04%) Pandas
9 15 (1.70%) NumPy
10 13 (1.47%) OAuth
11 12 (1.36%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.36%) GraphQL
12 11 (1.25%) .NET
12 11 (1.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.25%) React
13 10 (1.13%) Keycloak
13 10 (1.13%) Middleware
14 9 (1.02%) SOAP
15 8 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
15 8 (0.91%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.60%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.01%) Data Structures
3 29 (3.29%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.49%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.38%) Algorithms
6 20 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.59%) Replication
9 13 (1.47%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.36%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.13%) IoT
13 9 (1.02%) Reinsurance
13 9 (1.02%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.79%) Fixed Income
14 7 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.29%) Linux
2 12 (1.36%) Windows
3 9 (1.02%) Unix
4 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (44.22%) Data Modelling
2 341 (38.66%) Analytics
2 341 (38.66%) Data Pipeline
3 256 (29.02%) Data Engineering
4 253 (28.68%) Business Intelligence
5 240 (27.21%) CI/CD
6 227 (25.74%) Problem-Solving
7 223 (25.28%) Agile
8 215 (24.38%) Data Governance
9 195 (22.11%) DevOps
10 190 (21.54%) Migration
11 172 (19.50%) Data Integration
12 140 (15.87%) Data Architecture
13 134 (15.19%) Data Migration
14 119 (13.49%) Data Transformation
15 115 (13.04%) Validation
16 106 (12.02%) Data Science
17 105 (11.90%) Visualisation
18 91 (10.32%) Machine Learning
18 91 (10.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 571 (64.74%) SQL
2 435 (49.32%) Python
3 75 (8.50%) Java
4 44 (4.99%) Scala
5 36 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 32 (3.63%) C#
7 29 (3.29%) PL/SQL
8 27 (3.06%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.38%) JavaScript
10 17 (1.93%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.81%) R
12 15 (1.70%) PHP
12 15 (1.70%) VBA
13 14 (1.59%) Bash
13 14 (1.59%) Go
14 11 (1.25%) Shell Script
15 9 (1.02%) Perl
15 9 (1.02%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.79%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.68%) Korn
Qualifications
1 149 (16.89%) Security Cleared
2 111 (12.59%) SC Cleared
3 62 (7.03%) Degree
4 38 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 31 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 16 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (1.81%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.57%) PMP
9 5 (0.57%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.34%) CISSP
10 3 (0.34%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.23%) MCP
12 1 (0.11%) HP APS
12 1 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (31.07%) Data Quality
2 61 (6.92%) QA
3 57 (6.46%) GDPR
4 18 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.57%) IFRS
6 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.45%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.34%) MiFID
8 3 (0.34%) PMO
9 2 (0.23%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.23%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.23%) EMIR
9 2 (0.23%) FINREP
9 2 (0.23%) HL7
9 2 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 108 (12.24%) Docker
2 5 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.57%) zsh
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.23%) KVM
5 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 68 (7.71%) Terraform
3 13 (1.47%) Grafana
4 9 (1.02%) Ansible
5 5 (0.57%) Control-M
5 5 (0.57%) Kibana
5 5 (0.57%) logstash
5 5 (0.57%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.34%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Istio
8 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 160 (18.14%) Databricks
2 133 (15.08%) Microsoft
3 125 (14.17%) Oracle
4 66 (7.48%) Talend
5 53 (6.01%) Informatica
6 50 (5.67%) Google
7 42 (4.76%) SAP
8 37 (4.20%) Denodo
9 26 (2.95%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.70%) IBM
10 15 (1.70%) Palantir
11 12 (1.36%) Foundry
12 11 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.13%) AppDynamics
14 9 (1.02%) VMware
15 8 (0.91%) Cognos
15 8 (0.91%) Workday
16 7 (0.79%) Teradata
17 6 (0.68%) Ab Initio
17 6 (0.68%) ServiceNow