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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 76 104
Rank change year-on-year -9 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing ETL 907 917 880
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.95% 2.95% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 3.36% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 611 680
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -1.87%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
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 £67.25
90th Percentile £82.23 £102.00 £76.20
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £61.75
% change year-on-year -4.71% -31.17% +71.53%

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 27,627 27,254 34,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.85% 87.54% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,569 16,646 23,463
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 1,000 1,454
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.29 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.88
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.24% +25.37%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -1 540 £525 - 197
Midlands -8 120 £515 +8.42% 43
North of England -38 100 £438 -2.78% 37
West Midlands -11 91 £519 +7.67% 29
North West -7 57 £406 -7.14% 25
South West +7 49 £525 -8.70% 32
South East -40 40 £445 -19.09% 141
Yorkshire -47 36 £475 +5.56% 8
East Midlands +1 29 £435 +14.47% 14
East of England -13 23 £550 +4.76% 23
North East -8 6 £450 -5.26% 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 88 (9.70%) Apache Airflow
1 88 (9.70%) Apache Spark
2 63 (6.95%) Apache
3 46 (5.07%) SAS
4 12 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
6 6 (0.66%) Confluence
7 5 (0.55%) IIS
8 4 (0.44%) Luigi
9 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) nginx
11 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 55 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.77%) SAP HR
3 6 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.66%) SAP PM
4 4 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.44%) Maximo
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.22%) Actimize
6 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 348 (38.37%) Azure
2 292 (32.19%) AWS
3 190 (20.95%) Power Platform
4 144 (15.88%) GCP
5 135 (14.88%) Snowflake
6 124 (13.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (9.48%) Amazon S3
8 82 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (8.16%) Serverless
10 62 (6.84%) dbt
11 54 (5.95%) GitHub
12 53 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
13 28 (3.09%) SaaS
14 27 (2.98%) Amazon EMR
15 24 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
16 22 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (2.09%) PaaS
18 15 (1.65%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.66%) 2G
1 6 (0.66%) 5G
1 6 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.55%) 4G
3 4 (0.44%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
4 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (31.31%) Data Warehouse
2 178 (19.63%) Power BI
3 121 (13.34%) Data Lake
4 99 (10.92%) SQL Server
5 86 (9.48%) Relational Database
6 77 (8.49%) Metadata
7 72 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 68 (7.50%) Big Data
9 66 (7.28%) BigQuery
10 63 (6.95%) Tableau
11 60 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
13 48 (5.29%) NoSQL
14 47 (5.18%) Pentaho
15 40 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
16 38 (4.19%) Delta Lake
17 35 (3.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 32 (3.53%) Hadoop
18 32 (3.53%) Oracle Database
19 29 (3.20%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 109 (12.02%) Git
2 62 (6.84%) JIRA
3 57 (6.28%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.87%) ERwin
5 14 (1.54%) GitLab
6 9 (0.99%) MLflow
7 8 (0.88%) DBeaver
8 7 (0.77%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.77%) Postman
8 7 (0.77%) Selenium
8 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.44%) Toad
10 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.33%) Poetry
11 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.22%) JMeter
General
1 271 (29.88%) Social Skills
2 228 (25.14%) Finance
3 172 (18.96%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 63 (6.95%) Banking
6 23 (2.54%) Retail
7 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (1.43%) Marketing
10 11 (1.21%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.10%) Legal
11 10 (1.10%) Local Government
11 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.88%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.77%) Front Office
13 7 (0.77%) Law
13 7 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 293 (32.30%) Data Engineer
2 146 (16.10%) Developer
3 108 (11.91%) Architect
4 97 (10.69%) Senior
5 95 (10.47%) Analyst
6 93 (10.25%) Lead
7 62 (6.84%) Data Analyst
8 59 (6.50%) Data Architect
9 49 (5.40%) Senior Data Engineer
10 41 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (3.97%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (3.09%) Business Analyst
12 28 (3.09%) Consultant
13 27 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 22 (2.43%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.21%) AWS Data Engineer
16 20 (2.21%) Snowflake Engineer
17 19 (2.09%) Lead Data Engineer
17 19 (2.09%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (9.04%) PySpark
2 75 (8.27%) Kafka
3 39 (4.30%) XML
4 31 (3.42%) Node.js
4 31 (3.42%) REST
5 28 (3.09%) JSON
6 20 (2.21%) RESTful
7 18 (1.98%) Pandas
8 15 (1.65%) NumPy
9 13 (1.43%) .NET
9 13 (1.43%) OAuth
10 12 (1.32%) AngularJS
10 12 (1.32%) GraphQL
11 11 (1.21%) Middleware
11 11 (1.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 11 (1.21%) React
12 9 (0.99%) Keycloak
12 9 (0.99%) SOAP
13 8 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
13 8 (0.88%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.61%) Cloud Native
2 53 (5.84%) Data Structures
3 30 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.43%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.32%) Algorithms
6 20 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.65%) Replication
9 13 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.10%) IoT
13 9 (0.99%) Reinsurance
13 9 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.88%) NHS
15 7 (0.77%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 31 (3.42%) Linux
2 14 (1.54%) Windows
3 9 (0.99%) Unix
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (44.54%) Data Modelling
2 351 (38.70%) Analytics
3 344 (37.93%) Data Pipeline
4 267 (29.44%) Business Intelligence
5 258 (28.45%) Data Engineering
6 247 (27.23%) CI/CD
7 231 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (25.36%) Agile
9 220 (24.26%) Data Governance
10 201 (22.16%) DevOps
11 196 (21.61%) Migration
12 180 (19.85%) Data Integration
13 142 (15.66%) Data Architecture
14 137 (15.10%) Data Migration
15 121 (13.34%) Data Transformation
16 113 (12.46%) Validation
16 113 (12.46%) Visualisation
17 112 (12.35%) Data Science
18 98 (10.80%) Machine Learning
19 95 (10.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 591 (65.16%) SQL
2 442 (48.73%) Python
3 78 (8.60%) Java
4 45 (4.96%) Scala
5 39 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (3.75%) C#
7 31 (3.42%) T-SQL
8 29 (3.20%) PL/SQL
9 23 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.09%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.87%) R
11 17 (1.87%) VBA
12 16 (1.76%) PHP
13 15 (1.65%) Bash
14 13 (1.43%) Go
15 11 (1.21%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.10%) TypeScript
17 9 (0.99%) Perl
18 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.77%) Korn
Qualifications
1 153 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.68%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.06%) Degree
4 38 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 32 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 16 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.55%) PMP
11 5 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) CISSP
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.33%) MCSE
13 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.22%) MCP
14 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 63 (6.95%) QA
3 61 (6.73%) GDPR
4 22 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.10%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.55%) IFRS
6 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.44%) SLA
7 4 (0.44%) WCAG
8 3 (0.33%) HL7
8 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.33%) MiFID
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
9 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.22%) EMIR
9 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 107 (11.80%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.55%) zsh
3 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) KVM
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 70 (7.72%) Terraform
3 13 (1.43%) Grafana
4 9 (0.99%) Ansible
5 5 (0.55%) Control-M
5 5 (0.55%) Kibana
5 5 (0.55%) logstash
5 5 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.33%) Argo
7 3 (0.33%) Istio
8 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 156 (17.20%) Databricks
2 144 (15.88%) Microsoft
3 128 (14.11%) Oracle
4 65 (7.17%) Talend
5 56 (6.17%) Google
6 51 (5.62%) Informatica
7 43 (4.74%) SAP
8 37 (4.08%) Denodo
9 27 (2.98%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.87%) IBM
11 16 (1.76%) Palantir
12 13 (1.43%) Foundry
12 13 (1.43%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.21%) Cognos
14 10 (1.10%) AppDynamics
15 9 (0.99%) VMware
16 8 (0.88%) Workday
17 6 (0.66%) Ab Initio
17 6 (0.66%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.66%) Teradata