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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 77 99
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,069 794 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.21% 3.03% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 3.38% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 806 526 669
10th Percentile £363 £356 £387
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £681 £693 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 17
10th Percentile £34.70 - £39.82
25th Percentile £36.00 £26.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.35 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.46% -19.05% +45.83%
75th Percentile £74.26 £96.64 £64.53
90th Percentile £79.50 £102.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +82.86% -42.15% +68.06%

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 29,172 23,495 33,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.59% 89.70% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,676 14,439 22,381
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 1,836 743 1,976
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.00 £16.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% - -
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.50 £61.78
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +18 652 £525 -0.94% 190
Midlands +1 124 £515 +7.97% 56
North of England -45 124 £450 - 69
West Midlands -5 99 £515 +4.78% 38
North West -6 79 £450 -2.70% 42
South East -33 63 £450 -23.08% 112
South West -6 58 £525 -14.29% 36
Yorkshire -61 32 £500 +38.89% 22
East Midlands -12 25 £455 +18.18% 18
East of England -25 16 £551 +7.41% 25
North East -10 12 £450 -10.00% 5
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
1 100 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 79 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (6.17%) Apache
4 38 (3.55%) SAS
5 13 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.03%) Confluence
7 8 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.65%) Appian
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) IIS
11 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.094%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.094%) nginx
12 1 (0.094%) Tomcat
Applications
1 39 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.37%) Trello
5 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.094%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.84%) Oracle General Ledger
3 9 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.56%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.56%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.47%) Maximo
6 5 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.19%) Actimize
9 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 457 (42.75%) Azure
2 325 (30.40%) AWS
3 249 (23.29%) Power Platform
4 180 (16.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 137 (12.82%) GCP
6 131 (12.25%) Snowflake
7 114 (10.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 103 (9.64%) Amazon S3
9 95 (8.89%) Serverless
10 81 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (7.11%) GitHub
12 64 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (5.71%) dbt
14 36 (3.37%) SaaS
15 34 (3.18%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (2.53%) Collibra
18 23 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
19 22 (2.06%) Power Automate
20 21 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.56%) 2G
1 6 (0.56%) 5G
1 6 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.47%) 4G
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.19%) DSL
3 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.094%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.094%) Firewall
4 1 (0.094%) Multicast
4 1 (0.094%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (27.60%) Data Warehouse
2 236 (22.08%) Power BI
3 169 (15.81%) Data Lake
4 132 (12.35%) SQL Server
5 101 (9.45%) Metadata
6 78 (7.30%) Relational Database
7 77 (7.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 69 (6.45%) Big Data
9 67 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 66 (6.17%) Tableau
11 63 (5.89%) PostgreSQL
12 58 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
13 54 (5.05%) Delta Lake
14 45 (4.21%) Oracle Database
15 44 (4.12%) NoSQL
15 44 (4.12%) Pentaho
16 43 (4.02%) BigQuery
16 43 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
17 39 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
18 33 (3.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (10.85%) Git
2 77 (7.20%) JIRA
3 56 (5.24%) Jenkins
4 39 (3.65%) GitLab
5 18 (1.68%) MLflow
6 15 (1.40%) ERwin
6 15 (1.40%) Postman
7 13 (1.22%) Selenium
8 7 (0.65%) JMeter
8 7 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.65%) TestRail
9 6 (0.56%) DBeaver
9 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.37%) Gatling
11 4 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.37%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.37%) Toad
12 3 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
General
1 330 (30.87%) Social Skills
2 293 (27.41%) Finance
3 172 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (8.04%) Banking
5 79 (7.39%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.15%) Retail
7 19 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 16 (1.50%) Marketing
9 13 (1.22%) Law
10 12 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.03%) Legal
11 11 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.65%) General Ledger
13 7 (0.65%) Publishing
14 6 (0.56%) Front Office
15 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 406 (37.98%) Data Engineer
2 141 (13.19%) Developer
3 130 (12.16%) Lead
4 111 (10.38%) Senior
5 106 (9.92%) Analyst
6 92 (8.61%) Architect
7 75 (7.02%) Data Analyst
8 72 (6.74%) Senior Data Engineer
9 56 (5.24%) Data Architect
10 43 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 33 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
13 31 (2.90%) Snowflake Engineer
14 30 (2.81%) Business Analyst
15 25 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (2.34%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 23 (2.15%) Lead Data Engineer
17 22 (2.06%) Senior Developer
18 21 (1.96%) Consultant
19 20 (1.87%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (10.94%) PySpark
2 96 (8.98%) Kafka
3 62 (5.80%) REST
4 43 (4.02%) XML
5 31 (2.90%) Pandas
6 28 (2.62%) JSON
7 27 (2.53%) .NET
8 23 (2.15%) Node.js
9 22 (2.06%) NumPy
10 21 (1.96%) PyTorch
10 21 (1.96%) RESTful
11 18 (1.68%) Middleware
11 18 (1.68%) OAuth
12 17 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.59%) TensorFlow
13 15 (1.40%) pytest
13 15 (1.40%) scikit-learn
14 13 (1.22%) Great Expectations
15 12 (1.12%) Keycloak
15 12 (1.12%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 92 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 53 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.78%) Algorithms
5 19 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.31%) Product Ownership
8 14 (1.31%) Reinsurance
8 14 (1.31%) Replication
9 13 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 11 (1.03%) IoT
10 11 (1.03%) Low-Code
11 10 (0.94%) Data Fabric
11 10 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.25%) Linux
2 14 (1.31%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 4 (0.37%) VMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (45.18%) Data Modelling
2 443 (41.44%) Analytics
3 395 (36.95%) Data Pipeline
4 348 (32.55%) Data Engineering
5 337 (31.52%) Business Intelligence
6 297 (27.78%) CI/CD
7 252 (23.57%) Agile
8 246 (23.01%) Data Governance
9 243 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
10 242 (22.64%) DevOps
11 209 (19.55%) Migration
12 185 (17.31%) Data Architecture
13 171 (16.00%) Data Integration
14 155 (14.50%) Validation
15 147 (13.75%) Data Migration
16 140 (13.10%) Data Science
17 139 (13.00%) AI
18 131 (12.25%) Machine Learning
19 126 (11.79%) Decision-Making
20 118 (11.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 693 (64.83%) SQL
2 520 (48.64%) Python
3 90 (8.42%) Java
4 50 (4.68%) Scala
5 47 (4.40%) C#
6 41 (3.84%) PL/SQL
7 37 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 36 (3.37%) JavaScript
9 35 (3.27%) T-SQL
10 19 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.40%) Bicep
11 15 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 14 (1.31%) Go
12 14 (1.31%) PHP
12 14 (1.31%) R
13 13 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 9 (0.84%) Bash
14 9 (0.84%) VBA
15 5 (0.47%) Korn
15 5 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 201 (18.80%) Security Cleared
2 154 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.48%) Degree
4 49 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.84%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.43%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.65%) PMP
13 6 (0.56%) PMI Certification
14 5 (0.47%) SnowPro
15 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
18 1 (0.094%) CISSP
18 1 (0.094%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 347 (32.46%) Data Quality
2 87 (8.14%) GDPR
3 77 (7.20%) QA
4 19 (1.78%) IFRS
5 16 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.40%) IFRS 17
7 12 (1.12%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.84%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.47%) GAAP
9 5 (0.47%) MiFID
9 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.47%) PMO
10 4 (0.37%) SLA
11 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.28%) Basel III
11 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.28%) FATCA
11 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.28%) NIST
12 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 111 (10.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.47%) zsh
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) KVM
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.094%) HDFS
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 113 (10.57%) Kubernetes
2 103 (9.64%) Terraform
3 10 (0.94%) Grafana
4 8 (0.75%) Ansible
4 8 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.56%) Kibana
5 6 (0.56%) logstash
6 5 (0.47%) Control-M
7 4 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.19%) SCCM
9 1 (0.094%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.094%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.094%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 227 (21.23%) Databricks
2 175 (16.37%) Microsoft
3 146 (13.66%) Oracle
4 77 (7.20%) Informatica
5 68 (6.36%) Talend
6 41 (3.84%) SAP
7 39 (3.65%) Google
8 32 (2.99%) Denodo
9 28 (2.62%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.59%) IBM
13 15 (1.40%) Workday
14 14 (1.31%) Palantir
15 12 (1.12%) Alteryx
15 12 (1.12%) Cognos
16 11 (1.03%) Foundry
16 11 (1.03%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.94%) Ab Initio
18 8 (0.75%) UiPath