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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 84 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,467 839 916
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.15% 3.01% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 3.31% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 603 627
10th Percentile £363 £361 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -2.57%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £705
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 5
10th Percentile £21.45 £32.50 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.63 £26.25
Median hourly rate £39.49 £38.96 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% +11.31% -45.31%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.33 £53.75 £48.55
UK median hourly rate £41.25 £38.90 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.03% +11.15% -46.15%

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 39,523 25,365 27,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.87% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,845 16,097 16,849
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,022 1,590 1,111
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £20.27
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.44 £44.80 £66.80
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.28 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -1 766 £520 -0.95% 621
Midlands +25 241 £469 -6.20% 81
West Midlands +20 213 £469 -8.49% 60
North of England -7 176 £475 - 144
South East +14 131 £459 +2.00% 95
South West -1 85 £506 +6.42% 40
North West -22 81 £475 -2.56% 93
Yorkshire +3 76 £475 +3.26% 34
East of England -16 35 £463 -11.90% 49
East Midlands -8 27 £481 +8.92% 21
North East -23 24 £500 +14.29% 18
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
1 137 (9.34%) Apache Spark
2 126 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (6.95%) Apache
4 96 (6.54%) SAS
5 61 (4.16%) Confluence
6 25 (1.70%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.61%) nginx
10 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.068%) IIS
14 1 (0.068%) JBoss
Applications
1 33 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.27%) Actimize
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.14%) iTrent
8 2 (0.14%) Maximo
8 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 557 (37.97%) Azure
2 431 (29.38%) AWS
3 299 (20.38%) Power Platform
4 211 (14.38%) GCP
5 206 (14.04%) Snowflake
6 196 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (9.13%) dbt
8 127 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (7.43%) Amazon S3
10 103 (7.02%) Serverless
11 96 (6.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 91 (6.20%) GitHub
13 83 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (3.20%) Azure Databricks
16 38 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (2.04%) SaaS
18 26 (1.77%) Collibra
19 25 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 25 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.20%) DHCP
3 3 (0.20%) DNS
3 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.068%) DMZ
4 1 (0.068%) Internet
4 1 (0.068%) Network Security
4 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (32.79%) Data Warehouse
2 290 (19.77%) Power BI
3 207 (14.11%) Data Lake
4 142 (9.68%) Metadata
5 130 (8.86%) SQL Server
6 105 (7.16%) BigQuery
7 95 (6.48%) Relational Database
8 91 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 80 (5.45%) Delta Lake
10 76 (5.18%) Tableau
11 75 (5.11%) Big Data
12 71 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 68 (4.64%) Pentaho
14 60 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
16 54 (3.68%) NoSQL
17 50 (3.41%) Oracle Database
18 48 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (2.93%) Power Query
20 38 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 175 (11.93%) Git
2 129 (8.79%) JIRA
3 88 (6.00%) GitLab
4 56 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.52%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.32%) Postman
7 16 (1.09%) Selenium
8 10 (0.68%) MLflow
9 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.34%) Gatling
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.27%) ERwin
12 4 (0.27%) JUnit
12 4 (0.27%) Newman
12 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.20%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.20%) JMeter
General
1 368 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 347 (23.65%) Finance
3 272 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.57%) Banking
5 154 (10.50%) Public Sector
6 41 (2.79%) Retail
7 32 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.64%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.57%) Marketing
10 20 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 19 (1.30%) Front Office
12 18 (1.23%) Law
13 17 (1.16%) Billing
13 17 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.02%) Legal
15 13 (0.89%) Military
16 12 (0.82%) Police
17 11 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 583 (39.74%) Data Engineer
2 205 (13.97%) Senior
3 204 (13.91%) Developer
4 180 (12.27%) Architect
5 141 (9.61%) Senior Data Engineer
6 129 (8.79%) Lead
7 126 (8.59%) Analyst
8 88 (6.00%) Data Architect
9 66 (4.50%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.95%) Databricks Engineer
11 55 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (3.34%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 41 (2.79%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (2.59%) Tester
15 37 (2.52%) Consultant
16 36 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (2.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 34 (2.32%) SQL Developer
18 32 (2.18%) Snowflake Engineer
18 32 (2.18%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (10.02%) PySpark
2 133 (9.07%) Terraform
3 107 (7.29%) Kafka
4 69 (4.70%) REST
5 55 (3.75%) .NET
6 41 (2.79%) JSON
7 27 (1.84%) Middleware
7 27 (1.84%) React
8 25 (1.70%) Pandas
9 21 (1.43%) XML
10 16 (1.09%) YAML
11 15 (1.02%) pytest
12 14 (0.95%) Spring
12 14 (0.95%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.89%) SOAP
13 13 (0.89%) Web Services
14 12 (0.82%) HTML
14 12 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
15 11 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
16 10 (0.68%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 144 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.54%) Data Structures
3 58 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (3.27%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.64%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.09%) Replication
11 15 (1.02%) Algorithms
12 14 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
13 13 (0.89%) Clustering
13 13 (0.89%) CMDB
13 13 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.89%) NHS
14 12 (0.82%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (4.36%) Linux
2 44 (3.00%) Unix
3 18 (1.23%) Windows
4 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.20%) Solaris
4 3 (0.20%) 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
1 672 (45.81%) Data Modelling
2 630 (42.94%) Data Pipeline
3 531 (36.20%) Analytics
4 506 (34.49%) Data Engineering
5 488 (33.27%) CI/CD
6 437 (29.79%) Agile
7 403 (27.47%) Migration
8 368 (25.09%) Business Intelligence
9 352 (23.99%) Data Integration
10 345 (23.52%) DevOps
11 319 (21.75%) Validation
12 308 (21.00%) Data Governance
13 283 (19.29%) AI
14 265 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
15 258 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
16 241 (16.43%) Data Migration
17 234 (15.95%) Data Transformation
18 208 (14.18%) Test Automation
19 204 (13.91%) Data Architecture
20 172 (11.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 989 (67.42%) SQL
2 593 (40.42%) Python
3 109 (7.43%) Java
4 75 (5.11%) PL/SQL
5 67 (4.57%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.41%) C#
8 45 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 44 (3.00%) Scala
10 34 (2.32%) PowerShell
11 30 (2.04%) Bash
11 30 (2.04%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.36%) R
13 16 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.82%) Bicep
15 11 (0.75%) Cypher
16 7 (0.48%) Go
17 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.34%) Perl
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 404 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 348 (23.72%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.16%) Degree
4 41 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.25%) DV Cleared
6 32 (2.18%) AWS Certification
7 30 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.84%) Azure Certification
9 26 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 7 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.27%) CBAP
15 4 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (36.13%) Data Quality
2 129 (8.79%) QA
3 68 (4.64%) GDPR
4 31 (2.11%) GRC
5 20 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.55%) IFRS
7 8 (0.55%) SLA
7 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.34%) FATCA
10 4 (0.27%) GAAP
10 4 (0.27%) HL7
10 4 (0.27%) PMO
11 3 (0.20%) COREP
11 3 (0.20%) FINREP
11 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 100 (6.82%) Docker
2 10 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) HDFS
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 106 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.36%) Grafana
3 19 (1.30%) Ansible
4 14 (0.95%) Control-M
5 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.20%) 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%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 333 (22.70%) Databricks
2 270 (18.40%) Oracle
3 247 (16.84%) Microsoft
4 104 (7.09%) Informatica
5 99 (6.75%) Talend
6 80 (5.45%) Google
7 60 (4.09%) SAP
8 42 (2.86%) Denodo
9 41 (2.79%) IBM
10 28 (1.91%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.84%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.70%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.23%) Foundry
13 18 (1.23%) Palantir
14 16 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 16 (1.09%) Teradata
15 10 (0.68%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.68%) Sage
16 9 (0.61%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.61%) SnapLogic