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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 83 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,546 830 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.00% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.31% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 569 634
10th Percentile £360 £359 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -1.18% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.05 £27.78
25th Percentile £29.96 £38.96 £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 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -20.72% +12.26% -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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
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 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 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 13 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 13 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 +1 761 £525 - 272
Midlands +22 292 £459 -0.76% 51
West Midlands +39 257 £459 -8.20% 39
North of England -4 181 £475 - 62
South East +21 147 £459 +2.00% 86
Yorkshire -2 82 £475 +11.76% 16
North West -23 75 £475 -5.00% 34
South West -24 67 £523 +13.59% 30
East of England +8 54 £469 -14.77% 12
East Midlands -16 34 £490 +15.43% 12
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 13
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
1 125 (8.09%) Apache Spark
2 115 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (7.12%) SAS
4 80 (5.17%) Apache
5 55 (3.56%) Confluence
6 26 (1.68%) Oracle Application Server
7 24 (1.55%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.71%) nginx
9 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.32%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 1 (0.065%) IIS
15 1 (0.065%) JBoss
Applications
1 36 (2.33%) 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 16 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.65%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
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 Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 599 (38.75%) Azure
2 452 (29.24%) AWS
3 365 (23.61%) Power Platform
4 221 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 190 (12.29%) GCP
6 189 (12.23%) Snowflake
7 132 (8.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 130 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (7.37%) dbt
10 112 (7.24%) Serverless
11 111 (7.18%) Amazon S3
12 100 (6.47%) GitHub
13 86 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (2.39%) Collibra
16 31 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (1.81%) Power Automate
18 25 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.62%) Matillion
19 23 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
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 3 (0.19%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.19%) DHCP
4 3 (0.19%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.065%) 4G
5 1 (0.065%) 5G
5 1 (0.065%) Network Security
5 1 (0.065%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 532 (34.41%) Data Warehouse
2 352 (22.77%) Power BI
3 227 (14.68%) Data Lake
4 155 (10.03%) SQL Server
5 144 (9.31%) Metadata
6 93 (6.02%) Relational Database
7 92 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 92 (5.95%) Tableau
8 89 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
9 88 (5.69%) Delta Lake
10 87 (5.63%) BigQuery
11 84 (5.43%) Pentaho
12 72 (4.66%) Oracle Reports
13 71 (4.59%) Big Data
14 69 (4.46%) NoSQL
15 66 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
17 54 (3.49%) Snowflake Schema
18 47 (3.04%) Oracle Database
19 45 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 179 (11.58%) Git
2 137 (8.86%) JIRA
3 88 (5.69%) GitLab
4 69 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 47 (3.04%) Zephyr
6 44 (2.85%) Postman
7 12 (0.78%) Selenium
8 8 (0.52%) MLflow
9 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) ERwin
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
10 5 (0.32%) Terragrunt
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)
12 3 (0.19%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.19%) SonarQube
General
1 368 (23.80%) Social Skills
2 352 (22.77%) Finance
3 282 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.50%) Banking
6 32 (2.07%) Retail
7 30 (1.94%) Marketing
8 29 (1.88%) Manufacturing
9 27 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.16%) Legal
12 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.91%) Law
15 13 (0.84%) Front Office
16 12 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.65%) Billing
17 10 (0.65%) Military
17 10 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 8 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 614 (39.72%) Data Engineer
2 228 (14.75%) Developer
3 197 (12.74%) Senior
4 196 (12.68%) Architect
5 160 (10.35%) Lead
6 133 (8.60%) Senior Data Engineer
7 107 (6.92%) Analyst
8 102 (6.60%) Data Architect
9 53 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
10 51 (3.30%) Data Analyst
11 47 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.98%) Tester
13 45 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
14 44 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
15 39 (2.52%) SQL Developer
16 36 (2.33%) Oracle Developer
17 35 (2.26%) Snowflake Engineer
18 34 (2.20%) AWS Data Engineer
18 34 (2.20%) Data Migration Lead
19 33 (2.13%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (10.28%) PySpark
2 115 (7.44%) Kafka
3 63 (4.08%) REST
4 46 (2.98%) JSON
5 45 (2.91%) .NET
6 28 (1.81%) Pandas
7 27 (1.75%) React
8 23 (1.49%) Middleware
9 21 (1.36%) Spring
10 20 (1.29%) XML
11 19 (1.23%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.10%) YAML
13 14 (0.91%) RESTful
14 13 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.84%) pytest
15 12 (0.78%) Great Expectations
16 11 (0.71%) HTML
16 11 (0.71%) OAuth
16 11 (0.71%) Web Services
17 10 (0.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.14%) Data Structures
3 72 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (3.30%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.04%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 21 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (1.36%) NHS
8 20 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.16%) Clustering
9 18 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 17 (1.10%) Reference Data
11 12 (0.78%) Replication
12 10 (0.65%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (0.65%) IoT
12 10 (0.65%) SCADA
13 9 (0.58%) Algorithms
13 9 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.69%) Linux
2 45 (2.91%) Unix
3 18 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (47.09%) Data Modelling
2 632 (40.88%) Data Pipeline
3 601 (38.87%) Analytics
4 479 (30.98%) CI/CD
5 478 (30.92%) Data Engineering
6 443 (28.65%) Business Intelligence
7 442 (28.59%) Agile
8 415 (26.84%) Migration
9 352 (22.77%) DevOps
10 331 (21.41%) Data Integration
11 310 (20.05%) Data Governance
12 294 (19.02%) Validation
13 281 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
14 259 (16.75%) Data Migration
15 241 (15.59%) AI
16 233 (15.07%) Test Automation
17 220 (14.23%) Data Architecture
18 205 (13.26%) Data Transformation
18 205 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
19 198 (12.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,036 (67.01%) SQL
2 571 (36.93%) Python
3 136 (8.80%) Java
4 79 (5.11%) T-SQL
5 77 (4.98%) PL/SQL
6 68 (4.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 49 (3.17%) C#
8 47 (3.04%) Scala
9 43 (2.78%) JavaScript
10 41 (2.65%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.33%) Bash
12 26 (1.68%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.16%) R
14 16 (1.03%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.84%) Bicep
16 8 (0.52%) Cypher
16 8 (0.52%) VBA
17 7 (0.45%) SAS Macro
18 5 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 447 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 375 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 72 (4.66%) Degree
4 37 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.01%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.45%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 137 (8.86%) QA
3 85 (5.50%) GDPR
4 35 (2.26%) GRC
5 24 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.65%) PMO
8 9 (0.58%) IFRS
8 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.58%) SLA
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%) HL7
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.19%) GMP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 121 (7.83%) Docker
2 11 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
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
1 139 (8.99%) Terraform
2 117 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.75%) Grafana
4 19 (1.23%) Ansible
5 12 (0.78%) Control-M
6 10 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.065%) Argo
10 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 318 (20.57%) Oracle
2 311 (20.12%) Databricks
3 268 (17.34%) Microsoft
4 133 (8.60%) Informatica
5 123 (7.96%) Talend
6 76 (4.92%) SAP
7 65 (4.20%) Denodo
8 64 (4.14%) Google
9 42 (2.72%) IBM
10 35 (2.26%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.88%) Alteryx
12 28 (1.81%) Salesforce
13 22 (1.42%) Sage
14 20 (1.29%) Palantir
15 15 (0.97%) Cloudera
15 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.91%) Foundry
17 13 (0.84%) Teradata
18 11 (0.71%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.71%) Workday