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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 78 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,418 749 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.07% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.37% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 515 664
10th Percentile £358 £361 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £35.18 £49.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £78.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +58.99% -1.00%
75th Percentile £69.76 £98.56 £53.25
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +5.74%

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 34,177 22,233 31,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,833 14,556 20,949
10th Percentile £318 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,126 928 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.65 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +24 749 £513 -4.56% 174
Midlands +28 235 £469 -1.26% 51
West Midlands +36 203 £468 -5.74% 37
North of England -22 175 £460 -0.54% 68
South East -8 108 £475 -8.12% 87
North West -15 92 £442 -6.89% 40
Yorkshire -18 66 £500 +21.95% 19
South West -19 65 £525 +5.00% 33
East of England -10 43 £500 +1.27% 17
East Midlands -20 31 £485 +15.48% 14
North East -14 16 £525 +16.67% 9
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
1 128 (9.03%) Apache Spark
2 94 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.94%) SAS
4 66 (4.65%) Apache
5 40 (2.82%) Confluence
6 15 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.99%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.63%) Appian
8 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.42%) nginx
11 4 (0.28%) Camunda
11 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.071%) CMS
Applications
1 42 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.071%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.21%) Actimize
8 3 (0.21%) Maximo
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 581 (40.97%) Azure
2 410 (28.91%) AWS
3 351 (24.75%) Power Platform
4 225 (15.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 163 (11.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 161 (11.35%) GCP
7 127 (8.96%) Amazon S3
7 127 (8.96%) Snowflake
8 118 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
9 106 (7.48%) Serverless
10 94 (6.63%) GitHub
11 84 (5.92%) dbt
12 78 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (3.46%) Collibra
14 38 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (2.26%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.83%) SaaS
18 25 (1.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 20 (1.41%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.78%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 5 (0.35%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.071%) 4G
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) DSL
5 1 (0.071%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (29.62%) Data Warehouse
2 329 (23.20%) Power BI
3 223 (15.73%) Data Lake
4 179 (12.62%) SQL Server
5 143 (10.08%) Metadata
6 100 (7.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.35%) Tableau
8 85 (5.99%) Azure SQL Database
9 83 (5.85%) Delta Lake
10 80 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
11 76 (5.36%) Relational Database
12 75 (5.29%) Pentaho
13 73 (5.15%) Big Data
14 69 (4.87%) NoSQL
15 61 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
16 57 (4.02%) BigQuery
16 57 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
17 52 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.53%) Oracle Reports
19 46 (3.24%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 158 (11.14%) Git
2 124 (8.74%) JIRA
3 73 (5.15%) GitLab
4 63 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.75%) Postman
6 27 (1.90%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.62%) MLflow
8 19 (1.34%) Selenium
9 10 (0.71%) ERwin
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
General
1 385 (27.15%) Finance
2 378 (26.66%) Social Skills
3 237 (16.71%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 101 (7.12%) Banking
6 31 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.83%) Marketing
8 24 (1.69%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.55%) Legal
10 21 (1.48%) Retail
11 14 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.92%) Law
13 11 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.71%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.49%) Front Office
16 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.49%) Military
17 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 581 (40.97%) Data Engineer
2 201 (14.17%) Developer
3 164 (11.57%) Senior
4 158 (11.14%) Lead
5 143 (10.08%) Architect
6 123 (8.67%) Analyst
7 111 (7.83%) Senior Data Engineer
8 82 (5.78%) Data Architect
9 77 (5.43%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (2.40%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
15 32 (2.26%) Azure Data Engineer
16 30 (2.12%) Lead Data Engineer
16 30 (2.12%) Senior Developer
16 30 (2.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 29 (2.05%) Consultant
18 28 (1.97%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (11.42%) PySpark
2 121 (8.53%) Kafka
3 79 (5.57%) REST
4 41 (2.89%) Pandas
5 38 (2.68%) .NET
6 34 (2.40%) JSON
7 28 (1.97%) XML
8 25 (1.76%) RESTful
9 24 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
10 21 (1.48%) Spring
11 20 (1.41%) Middleware
11 20 (1.41%) NumPy
12 19 (1.34%) Spring Boot
13 18 (1.27%) Great Expectations
13 18 (1.27%) PyTorch
14 17 (1.20%) OAuth
14 17 (1.20%) YAML
15 16 (1.13%) Web Services
16 15 (1.06%) OpenID
16 15 (1.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 37 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 29 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
10 16 (1.13%) Clustering
10 16 (1.13%) NHS
11 15 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.92%) Low-Code
13 12 (0.85%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.85%) Reinsurance
14 10 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.05%) Unix
2 19 (1.34%) Linux
3 15 (1.06%) Windows
4 7 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.42%) Solaris
5 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.071%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 685 (48.31%) Data Modelling
2 581 (40.97%) Analytics
3 527 (37.17%) Data Pipeline
4 459 (32.37%) Data Engineering
5 435 (30.68%) Business Intelligence
6 385 (27.15%) CI/CD
7 341 (24.05%) Agile
8 328 (23.13%) Migration
9 318 (22.43%) DevOps
10 311 (21.93%) Data Governance
11 283 (19.96%) Problem-Solving
12 265 (18.69%) Validation
13 218 (15.37%) Data Migration
14 215 (15.16%) Data Architecture
15 211 (14.88%) AI
15 211 (14.88%) Data Integration
16 192 (13.54%) Decision-Making
17 162 (11.42%) Test Automation
18 153 (10.79%) Performance Tuning
19 150 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 953 (67.21%) SQL
2 595 (41.96%) Python
3 125 (8.82%) Java
4 69 (4.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.51%) PL/SQL
6 61 (4.30%) C#
7 60 (4.23%) T-SQL
8 54 (3.81%) Scala
9 37 (2.61%) JavaScript
10 29 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.41%) R
11 20 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.34%) Bash
13 17 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.13%) Bicep
15 9 (0.63%) PHP
16 8 (0.56%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.56%) VBA
17 6 (0.42%) Go
17 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 353 (24.89%) Security Cleared
2 286 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.85%) Degree
4 48 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.97%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 17 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.35%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.28%) PMP
15 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.14%) CISA
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (33.29%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.66%) QA
3 101 (7.12%) GDPR
4 23 (1.62%) IFRS
5 22 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.27%) IFRS 17
7 11 (0.78%) PMO
8 10 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 9 (0.63%) SLA
10 8 (0.56%) FATCA
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.35%) MiFID
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 114 (8.04%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
3 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.071%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.071%) RACF
6 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (9.38%) Terraform
2 118 (8.32%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.48%) Grafana
4 15 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.99%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.071%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.071%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.071%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.071%) Kibana
10 1 (0.071%) logstash
10 1 (0.071%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 283 (19.96%) Databricks
2 270 (19.04%) Microsoft
3 240 (16.93%) Oracle
4 136 (9.59%) Informatica
5 110 (7.76%) Talend
6 66 (4.65%) SAP
7 53 (3.74%) Denodo
8 50 (3.53%) Google
9 48 (3.39%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.05%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.90%) IBM
12 24 (1.69%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.27%) Splunk
14 17 (1.20%) Sage
14 17 (1.20%) Workday
15 15 (1.06%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.85%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.85%) Teradata
17 11 (0.78%) Ab Initio
18 10 (0.71%) Cognos