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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 84 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,474 820 932
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.95% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.24% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,061 570 657
10th Percentile £360 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -2.78%
75th Percentile £589 £607 £625
90th Percentile £675 £718 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £32.78 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.21 £35.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £41.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -2.99% -37.96%
75th Percentile £53.13 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 - -
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 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -4 768 £525 - 743
Midlands +20 234 £469 -3.92% 95
West Midlands +21 200 £469 -7.59% 68
North of England -13 171 £463 -2.63% 149
South East +25 136 £458 -10.03% 146
Yorkshire +5 80 £463 +3.93% 38
South West -9 76 £523 +10.00% 82
North West -34 70 £473 -3.08% 96
East of England -7 47 £488 -7.14% 38
East Midlands -6 33 £490 +12.00% 27
North East -34 22 £481 +10.00% 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 (8.62%) Apache Spark
2 123 (8.34%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (5.97%) Apache
4 85 (5.77%) SAS
5 53 (3.60%) Confluence
6 26 (1.76%) Oracle Application Server
7 24 (1.63%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.75%) nginx
9 9 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.47%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.068%) CMS
15 1 (0.068%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.47%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.61%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
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%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 564 (38.26%) Azure
2 428 (29.04%) AWS
3 321 (21.78%) Power Platform
4 207 (14.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 207 (14.04%) Snowflake
5 202 (13.70%) GCP
6 133 (9.02%) dbt
7 126 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 111 (7.53%) Amazon S3
8 111 (7.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 110 (7.46%) Serverless
10 101 (6.85%) GitHub
11 89 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (2.58%) Azure Databricks
14 36 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
15 32 (2.17%) Collibra
16 29 (1.97%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 25 (1.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.54%) Firewall
1 8 (0.54%) HTTP
2 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
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
4 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 502 (34.06%) Data Warehouse
2 313 (21.23%) Power BI
3 211 (14.31%) Data Lake
4 154 (10.45%) Metadata
5 145 (9.84%) SQL Server
6 99 (6.72%) Relational Database
7 94 (6.38%) BigQuery
8 88 (5.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 86 (5.83%) Delta Lake
10 77 (5.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 77 (5.22%) Tableau
11 75 (5.09%) Big Data
12 67 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
13 61 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
14 57 (3.87%) Pentaho
15 56 (3.80%) NoSQL
16 49 (3.32%) Oracle Database
17 48 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
18 45 (3.05%) Power Query
19 43 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 161 (10.92%) Git
2 128 (8.68%) JIRA
3 89 (6.04%) GitLab
4 53 (3.60%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.51%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.31%) Postman
7 16 (1.09%) Selenium
8 11 (0.75%) MLflow
9 7 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.47%) 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 (0.20%) JMeter
12 3 (0.20%) LSMW
General
1 366 (24.83%) Social Skills
2 341 (23.13%) Finance
3 270 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 145 (9.84%) Banking
6 36 (2.44%) Retail
7 27 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.63%) Marketing
9 23 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.15%) Front Office
12 17 (1.15%) Law
12 17 (1.15%) Legal
13 14 (0.95%) Billing
14 12 (0.81%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.81%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.75%) Military
16 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 583 (39.55%) Data Engineer
2 221 (14.99%) Developer
3 207 (14.04%) Senior
4 188 (12.75%) Architect
5 144 (9.77%) Senior Data Engineer
6 135 (9.16%) Lead
7 108 (7.33%) Analyst
8 95 (6.45%) Data Architect
9 57 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (3.60%) Data Analyst
11 51 (3.46%) Databricks Engineer
12 45 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
12 45 (3.05%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 41 (2.78%) Tester
14 39 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 38 (2.58%) AWS Engineer
16 36 (2.44%) Oracle Developer
16 36 (2.44%) Snowflake Engineer
16 36 (2.44%) SQL Developer
17 35 (2.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (9.91%) PySpark
2 136 (9.23%) Terraform
3 108 (7.33%) Kafka
4 62 (4.21%) REST
5 48 (3.26%) .NET
6 47 (3.19%) JSON
7 28 (1.90%) React
8 24 (1.63%) Middleware
9 22 (1.49%) Pandas
10 21 (1.42%) Spring
10 21 (1.42%) Spring Boot
10 21 (1.42%) XML
11 15 (1.02%) YAML
12 13 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (0.88%) pytest
12 13 (0.88%) SOAP
13 11 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (0.75%) HTML
13 11 (0.75%) LangChain
14 10 (0.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 97 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 60 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.83%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 19 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.22%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.15%) NHS
11 17 (1.15%) Replication
12 16 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
13 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.88%) Clustering
15 12 (0.81%) Reinsurance
16 10 (0.68%) Data Fabric
16 10 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.07%) Linux
2 53 (3.60%) Unix
3 21 (1.42%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (47.35%) Data Modelling
2 619 (41.99%) Data Pipeline
3 548 (37.18%) Analytics
4 491 (33.31%) Data Engineering
5 477 (32.36%) CI/CD
6 414 (28.09%) Agile
7 391 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
7 391 (26.53%) Migration
8 336 (22.80%) DevOps
9 333 (22.59%) Data Integration
10 304 (20.62%) Validation
11 299 (20.28%) Data Governance
12 276 (18.72%) AI
13 261 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
14 250 (16.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 229 (15.54%) Data Migration
16 216 (14.65%) Data Architecture
17 210 (14.25%) Data Transformation
18 199 (13.50%) Test Automation
19 178 (12.08%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 983 (66.69%) SQL
2 564 (38.26%) Python
3 128 (8.68%) Java
4 81 (5.50%) PL/SQL
5 75 (5.09%) T-SQL
6 53 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 48 (3.26%) C#
8 47 (3.19%) Scala
9 46 (3.12%) JavaScript
10 40 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 34 (2.31%) Shell Script
12 31 (2.10%) Bash
13 18 (1.22%) R
14 16 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.81%) Bicep
16 11 (0.75%) Cypher
17 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.34%) Go
18 5 (0.34%) Perl
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 401 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 339 (23.00%) SC Cleared
3 64 (4.34%) Degree
4 37 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.63%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.22%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.47%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (36.50%) Data Quality
2 130 (8.82%) QA
3 66 (4.48%) GDPR
4 35 (2.37%) GRC
5 22 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.54%) IFRS
7 8 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.54%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.47%) SLA
8 7 (0.47%) WCAG
9 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.41%) PMO
10 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 4 (0.27%) GAAP
11 4 (0.27%) HL7
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.20%) NIST
13 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 109 (7.39%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) HDFS
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 103 (6.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (1.70%) Grafana
3 18 (1.22%) Ansible
4 14 (0.95%) Control-M
5 13 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.20%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 324 (21.98%) Databricks
2 286 (19.40%) Oracle
3 252 (17.10%) Microsoft
4 108 (7.33%) Informatica
5 96 (6.51%) Talend
6 75 (5.09%) Google
7 67 (4.55%) SAP
8 51 (3.46%) Denodo
9 43 (2.92%) IBM
10 32 (2.17%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.97%) Alteryx
12 28 (1.90%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.22%) Teradata
14 17 (1.15%) Foundry
14 17 (1.15%) Palantir
15 14 (0.95%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.75%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.68%) Sage
18 8 (0.54%) Red Hat