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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 85 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 -9 +32
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,460 834 911
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 2.98% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.28% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 590 627
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £594 £603 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.21 £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 £53.13 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 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 1 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 1 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 +2 768 £525 - 615
Midlands +16 234 £469 -6.20% 117
West Midlands +25 203 £469 -8.04% 90
North of England -10 169 £463 -2.63% 172
South East +19 132 £459 -3.37% 106
South West -2 83 £514 +8.26% 70
Yorkshire +1 79 £461 +0.27% 48
North West -26 71 £475 -5.00% 107
East of England -16 38 £475 -9.52% 37
East Midlands -10 30 £486 +9.94% 27
North East -18 24 £500 +14.29% 19
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
1 133 (9.11%) Apache Spark
2 120 (8.22%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (6.30%) Apache
4 78 (5.34%) SAS
5 53 (3.63%) Confluence
6 25 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.51%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.62%) nginx
8 9 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.068%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 32 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) Actimize
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.27%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) iTrent
9 2 (0.14%) Maximo
9 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 566 (38.77%) Azure
2 418 (28.63%) AWS
3 311 (21.30%) Power Platform
4 211 (14.45%) Snowflake
5 206 (14.11%) GCP
6 203 (13.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (9.18%) dbt
8 128 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.40%) Amazon S3
10 106 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 105 (7.19%) Serverless
12 93 (6.37%) GitHub
13 85 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (2.95%) Azure Databricks
16 36 (2.47%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (1.92%) Collibra
17 28 (1.92%) SaaS
18 27 (1.85%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.21%) DHCP
4 3 (0.21%) DNS
4 3 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.068%) DMZ
5 1 (0.068%) Internet
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 493 (33.77%) Data Warehouse
2 301 (20.62%) Power BI
3 209 (14.32%) Data Lake
4 147 (10.07%) Metadata
5 139 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 102 (6.99%) BigQuery
7 97 (6.64%) Relational Database
8 89 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.55%) Delta Lake
10 78 (5.34%) Big Data
11 76 (5.21%) Tableau
12 74 (5.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 65 (4.45%) PostgreSQL
14 62 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
15 58 (3.97%) NoSQL
16 55 (3.77%) Pentaho
17 48 (3.29%) Oracle Database
18 45 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
19 42 (2.88%) Power Query
20 39 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 160 (10.96%) Git
2 118 (8.08%) JIRA
3 86 (5.89%) GitLab
4 48 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.53%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.33%) Postman
7 16 (1.10%) Selenium
8 10 (0.68%) 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 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) ERwin
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) NeoLoad
General
1 361 (24.73%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.22%) Finance
3 257 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 149 (10.21%) Banking
6 41 (2.81%) Retail
7 30 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.64%) Marketing
9 23 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.30%) Front Office
11 19 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.23%) Law
13 17 (1.16%) Legal
14 15 (1.03%) Billing
14 15 (1.03%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.75%) Military
17 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 580 (39.73%) Data Engineer
2 212 (14.52%) Senior
3 210 (14.38%) Developer
4 186 (12.74%) Architect
5 147 (10.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 131 (8.97%) Lead
7 114 (7.81%) Analyst
8 92 (6.30%) Data Architect
9 59 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (3.77%) Data Analyst
10 55 (3.77%) Databricks Engineer
11 48 (3.29%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 45 (3.08%) Azure Data Engineer
13 39 (2.67%) Tester
14 36 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
14 36 (2.47%) SQL Developer
15 35 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 34 (2.33%) Consultant
16 34 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
17 32 (2.19%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (9.45%) PySpark
2 132 (9.04%) Terraform
3 106 (7.26%) Kafka
4 67 (4.59%) REST
5 53 (3.63%) .NET
6 42 (2.88%) JSON
7 28 (1.92%) React
8 27 (1.85%) Middleware
9 23 (1.58%) Pandas
10 21 (1.44%) XML
11 19 (1.30%) Spring
11 19 (1.30%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.03%) YAML
13 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.89%) pytest
13 13 (0.89%) SOAP
13 13 (0.89%) Web Services
14 12 (0.82%) HTML
15 11 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
16 10 (0.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 91 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.63%) Product Ownership
5 50 (3.42%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.78%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.64%) Reference Data
9 22 (1.51%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.16%) NHS
12 16 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.10%) Replication
13 15 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.89%) Clustering
14 13 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (0.82%) CMDB
15 12 (0.82%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.11%) Linux
2 52 (3.56%) Unix
3 19 (1.30%) 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 (0.068%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 666 (45.62%) Data Modelling
2 608 (41.64%) Data Pipeline
3 535 (36.64%) Analytics
4 487 (33.36%) Data Engineering
5 465 (31.85%) CI/CD
6 414 (28.36%) Agile
7 391 (26.78%) Migration
8 378 (25.89%) Business Intelligence
9 334 (22.88%) DevOps
10 333 (22.81%) Data Integration
11 302 (20.68%) Validation
12 286 (19.59%) Data Governance
13 280 (19.18%) AI
14 256 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
15 249 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
16 227 (15.55%) Data Migration
17 218 (14.93%) Data Transformation
18 212 (14.52%) Data Architecture
19 193 (13.22%) Test Automation
20 175 (11.99%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 977 (66.92%) SQL
2 571 (39.11%) Python
3 123 (8.42%) Java
4 78 (5.34%) PL/SQL
5 72 (4.93%) T-SQL
6 51 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.36%) C#
8 48 (3.29%) Scala
9 47 (3.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 33 (2.26%) Shell Script
12 31 (2.12%) Bash
13 20 (1.37%) R
14 16 (1.10%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.82%) Bicep
16 11 (0.75%) 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
1 388 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 332 (22.74%) SC Cleared
3 62 (4.25%) Degree
4 38 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 32 (2.19%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.99%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.64%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.58%) ISTQB
10 18 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.21%) CBAP
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (35.27%) Data Quality
2 127 (8.70%) QA
3 60 (4.11%) GDPR
4 31 (2.12%) GRC
5 20 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.62%) SLA
8 8 (0.55%) IFRS
8 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.41%) WCAG
11 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 5 (0.34%) PMO
12 4 (0.27%) GAAP
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
13 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (6.58%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) 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
5 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 97 (6.64%) Kubernetes
2 19 (1.30%) Grafana
3 17 (1.16%) Ansible
4 13 (0.89%) Control-M
5 10 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.21%) Kibana
7 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.068%) Argo
8 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (22.53%) Databricks
2 277 (18.97%) Oracle
3 253 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 101 (6.92%) Informatica
5 87 (5.96%) Talend
6 79 (5.41%) Google
7 61 (4.18%) SAP
8 44 (3.01%) Denodo
8 44 (3.01%) IBM
9 29 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 29 (1.99%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.78%) Alteryx
11 18 (1.23%) Teradata
12 17 (1.16%) Foundry
12 17 (1.16%) Palantir
13 14 (0.96%) OpenAI
14 11 (0.75%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.68%) Sage
16 8 (0.55%) SnapLogic