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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 81 81
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,540 820 900
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 2.97% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.27% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 560 662
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £424 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -0.49% -7.27%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £621
90th Percentile £688 £704 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £38.69 £27.78
25th Percentile £29.96 £44.50 £33.84
Median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £52.50 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £89.73 -
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £48.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -28.15% +23.87% -40.38%

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 38,456 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,987 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,460 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +7 766 £525 - 275
Midlands +24 279 £459 +2.00% 58
West Midlands +38 243 £459 -8.20% 46
North of England +3 184 £470 -1.05% 69
South East +11 145 £459 - 79
Yorkshire -7 81 £469 +7.76% 20
North West -25 79 £450 -10.00% 35
South West -29 66 £523 +11.76% 34
East of England +11 54 £475 -9.52% 18
East Midlands -9 35 £490 +12.00% 12
North East -18 25 £525 +16.67% 16
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
1 127 (8.25%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (7.01%) SAS
4 76 (4.94%) Apache
5 56 (3.64%) Confluence
6 24 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
6 24 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) nginx
7 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
11 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.32%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.71%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.65%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.19%) Actimize
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 605 (39.29%) Azure
2 446 (28.96%) AWS
3 364 (23.64%) Power Platform
4 218 (14.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 194 (12.60%) GCP
6 180 (11.69%) Snowflake
7 140 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 129 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (7.60%) dbt
10 113 (7.34%) Amazon S3
10 113 (7.34%) Serverless
11 89 (5.78%) GitHub
12 86 (5.58%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (2.47%) Collibra
15 31 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
16 30 (1.95%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (1.69%) Matillion
18 25 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.78%) Firewall
2 8 (0.52%) HTTP
3 5 (0.32%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 5 (0.32%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.065%) 4G
4 1 (0.065%) 5G
4 1 (0.065%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.065%) DHCP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.065%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 513 (33.31%) Data Warehouse
2 348 (22.60%) Power BI
3 223 (14.48%) Data Lake
4 160 (10.39%) SQL Server
5 132 (8.57%) Metadata
6 101 (6.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.17%) Tableau
8 87 (5.65%) Relational Database
9 86 (5.58%) BigQuery
9 86 (5.58%) Delta Lake
10 85 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 81 (5.26%) Pentaho
12 71 (4.61%) Big Data
13 67 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
14 66 (4.29%) NoSQL
15 62 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
17 58 (3.77%) Snowflake Schema
18 47 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (3.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 174 (11.30%) Git
2 130 (8.44%) JIRA
3 83 (5.39%) GitLab
4 67 (4.35%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.53%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.40%) Postman
7 12 (0.78%) Selenium
8 9 (0.58%) MLflow
9 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
11 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.26%) Flyway
11 4 (0.26%) LSMW
11 4 (0.26%) Newman
11 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.26%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.19%) ERwin
12 3 (0.19%) JMeter
12 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 367 (23.83%) Finance
2 364 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 277 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.34%) Banking
6 32 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (2.08%) Marketing
7 29 (1.88%) Retail
8 24 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.17%) Legal
12 17 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.84%) Front Office
14 11 (0.71%) Law
14 11 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.65%) Billing
15 10 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.58%) Military
17 7 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 618 (40.13%) Data Engineer
2 234 (15.19%) Developer
3 202 (13.12%) Architect
4 192 (12.47%) Senior
5 157 (10.19%) Lead
6 130 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
7 107 (6.95%) Analyst
8 105 (6.82%) Data Architect
9 52 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
10 51 (3.31%) Data Analyst
11 49 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 45 (2.92%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
13 42 (2.73%) SQL Developer
14 40 (2.60%) Tester
15 37 (2.40%) Snowflake Engineer
16 35 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (2.21%) Oracle Developer
18 33 (2.14%) Consultant
18 33 (2.14%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (10.26%) PySpark
2 118 (7.66%) Kafka
3 66 (4.29%) REST
4 51 (3.31%) JSON
5 40 (2.60%) .NET
6 31 (2.01%) Pandas
7 25 (1.62%) Middleware
7 25 (1.62%) React
8 23 (1.49%) XML
9 22 (1.43%) Spring
10 20 (1.30%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.10%) YAML
12 15 (0.97%) RESTful
13 13 (0.84%) Apache Avro
13 13 (0.84%) Great Expectations
13 13 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.84%) Web Services
14 12 (0.78%) OAuth
14 12 (0.78%) pytest
15 11 (0.71%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.03%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.17%) Data Structures
3 72 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 47 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 22 (1.43%) NHS
7 21 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
9 18 (1.17%) Clustering
10 17 (1.10%) Reference Data
11 16 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.78%) Replication
13 11 (0.71%) IoT
14 10 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.65%) SCADA
15 9 (0.58%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.58%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.05%) Unix
2 46 (2.99%) Linux
3 18 (1.17%) Windows
4 8 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (47.73%) Data Modelling
2 631 (40.97%) Data Pipeline
3 601 (39.03%) Analytics
4 477 (30.97%) Data Engineering
5 468 (30.39%) CI/CD
6 450 (29.22%) Business Intelligence
7 413 (26.82%) Agile
8 396 (25.71%) Migration
9 336 (21.82%) DevOps
10 316 (20.52%) Data Integration
11 314 (20.39%) Data Governance
12 297 (19.29%) Validation
13 282 (18.31%) Problem-Solving
14 246 (15.97%) Data Migration
15 234 (15.19%) AI
16 220 (14.29%) Data Architecture
17 216 (14.03%) Test Automation
18 211 (13.70%) Decision-Making
19 196 (12.73%) Data Transformation
20 183 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (66.49%) SQL
2 577 (37.47%) Python
3 131 (8.51%) Java
4 86 (5.58%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.87%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.31%) C#
8 44 (2.86%) Scala
9 39 (2.53%) PowerShell
10 38 (2.47%) JavaScript
11 32 (2.08%) Bash
12 27 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 19 (1.23%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.17%) R
15 17 (1.10%) Bicep
16 9 (0.58%) Cypher
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 7 (0.45%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 430 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 363 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 72 (4.68%) Degree
4 38 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 34 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (1.49%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.23%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 14 (0.91%) Master's Degree
9 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.13%) CISSP
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (34.35%) Data Quality
2 134 (8.70%) QA
3 89 (5.78%) GDPR
4 34 (2.21%) GRC
5 24 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.84%) PMO
6 13 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.65%) IFRS
8 9 (0.58%) SLA
9 8 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.52%) WCAG
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.32%) FATCA
11 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) GMP
12 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.19%) HL7
System Software
1 118 (7.66%) Docker
2 8 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) HDFS
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 132 (8.57%) Terraform
2 123 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.69%) Grafana
4 17 (1.10%) Ansible
5 15 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.58%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 304 (19.74%) Oracle
2 302 (19.61%) Databricks
3 275 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 129 (8.38%) Informatica
5 121 (7.86%) Talend
6 76 (4.94%) SAP
7 63 (4.09%) Google
8 62 (4.03%) Denodo
9 41 (2.66%) IBM
10 36 (2.34%) ServiceNow
11 30 (1.95%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.88%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.43%) Sage
14 20 (1.30%) Palantir
15 16 (1.04%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.84%) Cloudera
16 13 (0.84%) Foundry
16 13 (0.84%) Splunk
17 11 (0.71%) Workday
18 10 (0.65%) OpenAI