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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 85 77
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,436 831 918
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 3.00% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.29% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 585 636
10th Percentile £358 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £592 £603 £625
90th Percentile £675 £716 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.21 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%
75th Percentile £53.13 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £53.75 -
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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £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 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -2 753 £525 - 569
Midlands +22 228 £469 -5.73% 105
West Midlands +22 197 £469 -8.04% 77
North of England -6 167 £463 -2.63% 162
South East +22 131 £459 -3.37% 98
South West -3 81 £506 +6.53% 63
Yorkshire -1 77 £460 - 51
North West -36 69 £475 -5.00% 97
East of England -11 38 £475 -9.52% 40
East Midlands -9 30 £486 +10.45% 28
North East -21 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
1 128 (8.91%) Apache Spark
2 118 (8.22%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (6.06%) Apache
4 80 (5.57%) SAS
5 52 (3.62%) Confluence
6 24 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.70%) nginx
9 9 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.49%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.14%) CMS
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
16 1 (0.070%) Luigi
Applications
1 31 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.35%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.28%) Actimize
7 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.28%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.28%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) Maximo
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 550 (38.30%) Azure
2 413 (28.76%) AWS
3 306 (21.31%) Power Platform
4 204 (14.21%) GCP
4 204 (14.21%) Snowflake
5 197 (13.72%) Azure Data Factory
6 131 (9.12%) dbt
7 124 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 107 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 105 (7.31%) Serverless
10 104 (7.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 92 (6.41%) GitHub
12 86 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (2.79%) Azure Databricks
15 35 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (2.02%) Collibra
17 27 (1.88%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.81%) SaaS
19 24 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) Firewall
1 7 (0.49%) HTTP
2 5 (0.35%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.35%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.21%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.21%) DHCP
3 3 (0.21%) DNS
3 3 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.070%) DMZ
4 1 (0.070%) Internet
4 1 (0.070%) Network Security
4 1 (0.070%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.070%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 489 (34.05%) Data Warehouse
2 298 (20.75%) Power BI
3 207 (14.42%) Data Lake
4 146 (10.17%) Metadata
5 137 (9.54%) SQL Server
6 100 (6.96%) BigQuery
7 97 (6.75%) Relational Database
8 86 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (5.71%) Delta Lake
10 77 (5.36%) Tableau
11 75 (5.22%) Big Data
12 74 (5.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 63 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
14 62 (4.32%) Oracle Reports
15 58 (4.04%) NoSQL
16 57 (3.97%) Pentaho
17 48 (3.34%) Oracle Database
18 46 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
19 41 (2.86%) Power Query
20 38 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 159 (11.07%) Git
2 119 (8.29%) JIRA
3 86 (5.99%) GitLab
4 49 (3.41%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.58%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.37%) Postman
7 16 (1.11%) Selenium
8 10 (0.70%) MLflow
9 7 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.49%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.35%) Gatling
11 4 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.28%) ERwin
11 4 (0.28%) JUnit
11 4 (0.28%) Newman
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) NeoLoad
General
1 354 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 327 (22.77%) Finance
3 254 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 143 (9.96%) Banking
6 37 (2.58%) Retail
7 26 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.67%) Marketing
9 23 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.25%) Front Office
12 18 (1.25%) Law
13 17 (1.18%) Legal
14 14 (0.97%) Billing
15 13 (0.91%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.77%) Military
17 10 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 572 (39.83%) Data Engineer
2 211 (14.69%) Developer
3 208 (14.48%) Senior
4 185 (12.88%) Architect
5 143 (9.96%) Senior Data Engineer
6 132 (9.19%) Lead
7 109 (7.59%) Analyst
8 92 (6.41%) Data Architect
9 57 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (3.62%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.62%) Databricks Engineer
11 46 (3.20%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 45 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
13 39 (2.72%) Tester
14 37 (2.58%) SQL Developer
15 36 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 34 (2.37%) Snowflake Engineer
17 32 (2.23%) Consultant
17 32 (2.23%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (9.33%) PySpark
2 132 (9.19%) Terraform
3 103 (7.17%) Kafka
4 61 (4.25%) REST
5 50 (3.48%) .NET
6 42 (2.92%) JSON
7 28 (1.95%) React
8 25 (1.74%) Middleware
9 22 (1.53%) Pandas
10 21 (1.46%) XML
11 18 (1.25%) Spring
11 18 (1.25%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.04%) YAML
13 13 (0.91%) pytest
13 13 (0.91%) SOAP
14 11 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (0.77%) HTML
14 11 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
14 11 (0.77%) Web Services
15 10 (0.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 137 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 90 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 54 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 51 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.67%) Reference Data
9 20 (1.39%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.18%) NHS
12 16 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (1.11%) Replication
13 15 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
15 13 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.91%) Clustering
16 12 (0.84%) CMDB
16 12 (0.84%) Reinsurance
17 11 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.18%) Linux
2 53 (3.69%) Unix
3 20 (1.39%) Windows
4 4 (0.28%) Solaris
4 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.14%) HPUX
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (46.24%) Data Modelling
2 595 (41.43%) Data Pipeline
3 527 (36.70%) Analytics
4 479 (33.36%) Data Engineering
5 460 (32.03%) CI/CD
6 409 (28.48%) Agile
7 383 (26.67%) Migration
8 375 (26.11%) Business Intelligence
9 329 (22.91%) Data Integration
10 328 (22.84%) DevOps
11 294 (20.47%) Validation
12 286 (19.92%) Data Governance
13 275 (19.15%) AI
14 252 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 246 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
16 223 (15.53%) Data Migration
17 211 (14.69%) Data Architecture
18 206 (14.35%) Data Transformation
19 193 (13.44%) Test Automation
20 172 (11.98%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 959 (66.78%) SQL
2 560 (39.00%) Python
3 121 (8.43%) Java
4 78 (5.43%) PL/SQL
5 72 (5.01%) T-SQL
6 49 (3.41%) JavaScript
7 47 (3.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 47 (3.27%) Scala
8 46 (3.20%) C#
9 39 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 33 (2.30%) Shell Script
11 31 (2.16%) Bash
12 18 (1.25%) R
13 17 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.84%) Bicep
15 11 (0.77%) Cypher
16 6 (0.42%) Go
16 6 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.35%) Perl
17 5 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 386 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 329 (22.91%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.18%) Degree
4 39 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.95%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.60%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.60%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.42%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 505 (35.17%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.70%) QA
3 60 (4.18%) GDPR
4 32 (2.23%) GRC
5 21 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.63%) SLA
8 8 (0.56%) IFRS
8 8 (0.56%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 6 (0.42%) WCAG
11 5 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.35%) FATCA
11 5 (0.35%) PMO
12 4 (0.28%) GAAP
12 4 (0.28%) HL7
13 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
14 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
14 2 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (6.69%) Docker
2 11 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.21%) HDFS
4 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.070%) RACF
Systems Management
1 94 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 20 (1.39%) Grafana
3 17 (1.18%) Ansible
4 13 (0.91%) Control-M
5 10 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.21%) Kibana
6 3 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.070%) Argo
8 1 (0.070%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.070%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.070%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.070%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.070%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.070%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 319 (22.21%) Databricks
2 275 (19.15%) Oracle
3 246 (17.13%) Microsoft
4 100 (6.96%) Informatica
5 89 (6.20%) Talend
6 79 (5.50%) Google
7 60 (4.18%) SAP
8 46 (3.20%) Denodo
9 44 (3.06%) IBM
10 30 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 29 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.88%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.25%) Teradata
14 17 (1.18%) Foundry
14 17 (1.18%) Palantir
15 14 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.77%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.70%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.70%) Sage
18 8 (0.56%) SnapLogic