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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 82 95
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,406 745 864
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 3.05% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.34% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 512 658
10th Percentile £358 £356 £374
25th Percentile £413 £434 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.89% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 14
10th Percentile £35.36 £50.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £47.50 £53.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.72% +42.63% +13.45%
75th Percentile £70.71 £98.08 £53.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £56.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +7.96% +14.14% +13.62%

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 34,120 22,289 31,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 91.13% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,809 14,625 20,976
10th Percentile £318 £310 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 919 2,227
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.74 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%

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 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +28 743 £513 -4.47% 161
Midlands +28 230 £469 -1.26% 54
West Midlands +37 196 £468 -6.40% 43
North of England -20 174 £460 -0.54% 59
South East -25 103 £475 -9.52% 81
North West -7 92 £438 -7.89% 41
South West -22 67 £525 +5.00% 31
Yorkshire -33 65 £500 +42.86% 12
East of England -4 44 £500 +1.27% 19
East Midlands -22 33 £478 +15.06% 10
North East -12 16 £525 +10.53% 7
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
1 129 (9.17%) Apache Spark
2 97 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (4.91%) SAS
4 67 (4.77%) Apache
5 38 (2.70%) Confluence
6 15 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 14 (1.00%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.64%) Appian
8 9 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.50%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.43%) nginx
11 4 (0.28%) Camunda
11 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 43 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.36%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.36%) Maximo
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 572 (40.68%) Azure
2 414 (29.45%) AWS
3 338 (24.04%) Power Platform
4 221 (15.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 163 (11.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 159 (11.31%) GCP
7 130 (9.25%) Amazon S3
8 129 (9.17%) Snowflake
9 116 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
10 111 (7.89%) Serverless
11 96 (6.83%) GitHub
12 83 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
12 83 (5.90%) dbt
13 49 (3.49%) Collibra
14 42 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.13%) Power Automate
16 30 (2.13%) SaaS
17 26 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.78%) Firewall
2 5 (0.36%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.36%) VPN
2 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) DSL
5 1 (0.071%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 425 (30.23%) Data Warehouse
2 316 (22.48%) Power BI
3 214 (15.22%) Data Lake
4 176 (12.52%) SQL Server
5 143 (10.17%) Metadata
6 100 (7.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.61%) Tableau
8 85 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 83 (5.90%) Delta Lake
10 82 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
11 76 (5.41%) Big Data
12 74 (5.26%) Pentaho
13 70 (4.98%) Relational Database
14 69 (4.91%) NoSQL
15 62 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
17 55 (3.91%) BigQuery
18 53 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (3.49%) Oracle Reports
20 47 (3.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 155 (11.02%) Git
2 123 (8.75%) JIRA
3 73 (5.19%) GitLab
4 64 (4.55%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.77%) Postman
6 26 (1.85%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.64%) MLflow
8 19 (1.35%) Selenium
9 11 (0.78%) ERwin
10 7 (0.50%) JMeter
10 7 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.36%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
12 4 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 383 (27.24%) Finance
1 383 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 240 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 102 (7.25%) Banking
5 29 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (1.71%) Financial Institution
7 23 (1.64%) Marketing
8 22 (1.56%) Legal
9 21 (1.49%) Retail
10 15 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.92%) Law
13 10 (0.71%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.50%) Front Office
15 7 (0.50%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.50%) Military
16 6 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 572 (40.68%) Data Engineer
2 199 (14.15%) Developer
3 163 (11.59%) Senior
4 156 (11.10%) Lead
5 141 (10.03%) Architect
6 127 (9.03%) Analyst
7 108 (7.68%) Senior Data Engineer
8 80 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 78 (5.55%) Data Architect
10 48 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (2.99%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
14 34 (2.42%) Snowflake Engineer
15 32 (2.28%) Azure Data Engineer
16 31 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (2.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 30 (2.13%) Consultant
17 30 (2.13%) Senior Developer
18 27 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (11.31%) PySpark
2 126 (8.96%) Kafka
3 79 (5.62%) REST
4 40 (2.84%) Pandas
5 38 (2.70%) .NET
6 35 (2.49%) JSON
7 31 (2.20%) XML
8 25 (1.78%) RESTful
9 24 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
10 21 (1.49%) Middleware
11 20 (1.42%) NumPy
11 20 (1.42%) Spring
12 18 (1.28%) Great Expectations
12 18 (1.28%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.28%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.21%) OAuth
13 17 (1.21%) YAML
14 16 (1.14%) pytest
14 16 (1.14%) Web Services
15 15 (1.07%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.61%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.69%) Data Structures
3 74 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.14%) Clustering
10 16 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.07%) NHS
12 13 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.92%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.85%) Reference Data
14 11 (0.78%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.20%) Unix
2 20 (1.42%) Linux
3 15 (1.07%) Windows
4 7 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.43%) Solaris
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.071%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 680 (48.36%) Data Modelling
2 574 (40.83%) Analytics
3 520 (36.98%) Data Pipeline
4 454 (32.29%) Data Engineering
5 422 (30.01%) Business Intelligence
6 386 (27.45%) CI/CD
7 342 (24.32%) Agile
8 324 (23.04%) Migration
9 317 (22.55%) DevOps
10 313 (22.26%) Data Governance
11 284 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
12 258 (18.35%) Validation
13 218 (15.50%) Data Architecture
14 215 (15.29%) Data Migration
15 209 (14.86%) Data Integration
16 202 (14.37%) AI
17 191 (13.58%) Decision-Making
18 161 (11.45%) Test Automation
19 153 (10.88%) Performance Tuning
20 149 (10.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 944 (67.14%) SQL
2 596 (42.39%) Python
3 119 (8.46%) Java
4 66 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 63 (4.48%) PL/SQL
6 61 (4.34%) C#
7 59 (4.20%) T-SQL
8 54 (3.84%) Scala
9 36 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 29 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.56%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.35%) R
13 18 (1.28%) Bash
14 17 (1.21%) Bicep
14 17 (1.21%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.64%) PHP
16 8 (0.57%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.57%) VBA
17 7 (0.50%) Go
18 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 357 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 290 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.97%) Degree
4 50 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.84%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.49%) ISTQB
10 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.28%) PMP
14 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISA
15 2 (0.14%) CISSP
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 475 (33.78%) Data Quality
2 136 (9.67%) QA
3 103 (7.33%) GDPR
4 22 (1.56%) IFRS
5 21 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.78%) PMO
8 9 (0.64%) SLA
9 8 (0.57%) FATCA
10 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.36%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.28%) MiFID
12 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 118 (8.39%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.36%) HDFS
3 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.071%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.071%) RACF
6 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 137 (9.74%) Terraform
2 121 (8.61%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.49%) Grafana
4 16 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.07%) Ansible
6 5 (0.36%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.071%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.071%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.071%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.071%) Kibana
10 1 (0.071%) logstash
10 1 (0.071%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 281 (19.99%) Databricks
2 262 (18.63%) Microsoft
3 237 (16.86%) Oracle
4 135 (9.60%) Informatica
5 108 (7.68%) Talend
6 65 (4.62%) SAP
7 53 (3.77%) Denodo
8 49 (3.49%) Google
9 48 (3.41%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.20%) IBM
11 30 (2.13%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.71%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.35%) Sage
14 18 (1.28%) Splunk
15 17 (1.21%) Workday
16 15 (1.07%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.92%) Ab Initio
18 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.85%) Teradata
19 11 (0.78%) Palantir