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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 81 83
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,528 839 936
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.10% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.41% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 573 705
10th Percentile £358 £361 £360
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.34%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.69 £29.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £57.38 £74.96 £51.38
90th Percentile £67.16 £89.73 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £48.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +4.17% +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 38,535 24,596 31,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.57% 90.73% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,284 15,811 20,551
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,270 2,240
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.94 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.60 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 +4 750 £520 -1.89% 163
Midlands +23 279 £459 +1.94% 39
West Midlands +36 241 £455 -5.21% 23
North of England -10 192 £463 -2.63% 51
South East +14 147 £470 -6.00% 60
North West -16 92 £450 -10.00% 24
Yorkshire -16 77 £483 +10.92% 14
South West -22 67 £523 +10.00% 29
East of England -3 48 £488 +8.33% 7
East Midlands -17 37 £525 +17.77% 16
North East -16 23 £525 +25.00% 14
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
1 134 (8.77%) Apache Spark
2 112 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
3 76 (4.97%) SAS
4 72 (4.71%) Apache
5 51 (3.34%) Confluence
6 20 (1.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.85%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) nginx
8 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) Appian
9 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) CMS
Applications
1 39 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.72%) Sage X3
3 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.52%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 613 (40.12%) Azure
2 460 (30.10%) AWS
3 362 (23.69%) Power Platform
4 210 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 184 (12.04%) GCP
6 168 (10.99%) Snowflake
7 142 (9.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 129 (8.44%) Amazon S3
9 128 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
10 117 (7.66%) Serverless
11 112 (7.33%) dbt
12 93 (6.09%) GitHub
13 91 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (2.88%) Collibra
16 35 (2.29%) Amazon EMR
17 27 (1.77%) Matillion
17 27 (1.77%) Power Automate
18 25 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 7 (0.46%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) 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
1 469 (30.69%) Data Warehouse
2 343 (22.45%) Power BI
3 219 (14.33%) Data Lake
4 161 (10.54%) SQL Server
5 130 (8.51%) Metadata
6 97 (6.35%) Tableau
7 96 (6.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 95 (6.22%) Delta Lake
9 92 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 84 (5.50%) Relational Database
11 82 (5.37%) Pentaho
12 77 (5.04%) Big Data
13 76 (4.97%) BigQuery
14 74 (4.84%) NoSQL
15 67 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
16 66 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
17 64 (4.19%) Oracle Reports
18 61 (3.99%) Snowflake Schema
19 50 (3.27%) Amazon Athena
20 47 (3.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 170 (11.13%) Git
2 134 (8.77%) JIRA
3 85 (5.56%) GitLab
4 62 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.68%) Postman
6 36 (2.36%) Zephyr
7 16 (1.05%) MLflow
8 12 (0.79%) Selenium
9 7 (0.46%) Gatling
10 6 (0.39%) ERwin
10 6 (0.39%) JMeter
10 6 (0.39%) NeoLoad
11 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.26%) Flyway
12 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.26%) LSMW
12 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 382 (25.00%) Finance
2 368 (24.08%) Social Skills
3 272 (17.80%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.61%) Banking
6 40 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.90%) Marketing
8 28 (1.83%) Retail
9 21 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.24%) Legal
12 16 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.72%) Law
14 10 (0.65%) Billing
14 10 (0.65%) Front Office
15 9 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.59%) Military
16 8 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 626 (40.97%) Data Engineer
2 223 (14.59%) Developer
3 183 (11.98%) Architect
3 183 (11.98%) Senior
4 164 (10.73%) Lead
5 128 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 110 (7.20%) Analyst
7 104 (6.81%) Data Architect
8 60 (3.93%) Data Analyst
9 49 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 48 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (2.75%) SQL Developer
12 41 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
13 40 (2.62%) Azure Data Engineer
14 37 (2.42%) Lead Data Engineer
14 37 (2.42%) Snowflake Engineer
15 36 (2.36%) Tester
16 35 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
16 35 (2.29%) Data Migration Lead
17 34 (2.23%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (10.93%) PySpark
2 125 (8.18%) Kafka
3 68 (4.45%) REST
4 48 (3.14%) JSON
5 38 (2.49%) .NET
6 35 (2.29%) Pandas
7 27 (1.77%) Spring
7 27 (1.77%) XML
8 25 (1.64%) Middleware
8 25 (1.64%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.24%) React
10 18 (1.18%) RESTful
11 17 (1.11%) YAML
12 16 (1.05%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (1.05%) Web Services
13 15 (0.98%) Great Expectations
13 15 (0.98%) PyTorch
14 14 (0.92%) OAuth
14 14 (0.92%) pytest
15 13 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.09%) Data Structures
3 78 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 34 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.51%) NHS
9 22 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
10 21 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.24%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.11%) Clustering
14 15 (0.98%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.85%) Reinsurance
16 12 (0.79%) IoT
16 12 (0.79%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.79%) Replication
17 11 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.55%) Unix
2 35 (2.29%) Linux
3 16 (1.05%) Windows
4 8 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 724 (47.38%) Data Modelling
2 614 (40.18%) Data Pipeline
3 581 (38.02%) Analytics
4 477 (31.22%) Data Engineering
5 451 (29.52%) CI/CD
6 429 (28.08%) Business Intelligence
7 389 (25.46%) Migration
8 377 (24.67%) Agile
9 323 (21.14%) DevOps
10 308 (20.16%) Validation
11 303 (19.83%) Data Governance
12 289 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
13 269 (17.60%) Data Integration
14 248 (16.23%) AI
15 241 (15.77%) Data Migration
16 219 (14.33%) Data Architecture
17 210 (13.74%) Test Automation
18 209 (13.68%) Decision-Making
19 165 (10.80%) Data Transformation
20 163 (10.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,028 (67.28%) SQL
2 607 (39.73%) Python
3 136 (8.90%) Java
4 83 (5.43%) T-SQL
5 72 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 70 (4.58%) PL/SQL
7 55 (3.60%) Scala
8 54 (3.53%) C#
9 33 (2.16%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.77%) Bash
11 24 (1.57%) TypeScript
12 23 (1.51%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.11%) R
14 15 (0.98%) Bicep
15 10 (0.65%) Cypher
16 8 (0.52%) VBA
17 7 (0.46%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 5 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 410 (26.83%) Security Cleared
2 340 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.50%) Degree
4 44 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 25 (1.64%) ISTQB
8 20 (1.31%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.59%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.13%) CISA
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 510 (33.38%) Data Quality
2 143 (9.36%) QA
3 100 (6.54%) GDPR
4 18 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.98%) IFRS
6 14 (0.92%) PMO
6 14 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.79%) GRC
8 11 (0.72%) IFRS 17
9 10 (0.65%) SLA
10 8 (0.52%) FATCA
11 7 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) GMP
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 4 (0.26%) WCAG
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
15 2 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (7.13%) Docker
2 6 (0.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.39%) HDFS
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (9.03%) Terraform
2 117 (7.66%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.51%) Grafana
4 15 (0.98%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.85%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.065%) Argo
10 1 (0.065%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 301 (19.70%) Databricks
2 283 (18.52%) Oracle
3 266 (17.41%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.84%) Informatica
5 127 (8.31%) Talend
6 68 (4.45%) SAP
7 58 (3.80%) Denodo
8 53 (3.47%) Google
9 42 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 33 (2.16%) IBM
11 31 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.90%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.51%) Sage
14 18 (1.18%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.11%) Splunk
16 14 (0.92%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.85%) Palantir
18 11 (0.72%) Cloudera
19 10 (0.65%) Red Hat
19 10 (0.65%) Teradata