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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 75 100
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,269 800 854
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.23% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.57% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 955 547 666
10th Percentile £358 £360 £378
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £633
90th Percentile £681 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 16
10th Percentile £34.80 £26.25 £29.06
25th Percentile £36.78 £32.81 £35.00
Median hourly rate £67.35 £51.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +4.04% +37.02%
75th Percentile £74.26 £97.98 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £38.75 £50.50
% change year-on-year +65.16% -23.27% +40.28%

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 31,340 22,420 33,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.56% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,068 14,466 21,877
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,932 799 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.26 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.84 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.25 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 10 March 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 10 March 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 10 March 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 +26 715 £523 -5.00% 125
Midlands +18 199 £495 +3.72% 69
West Midlands +16 173 £500 +1.42% 53
North of England -29 150 £460 -0.54% 72
North West -14 85 £442 -5.50% 36
South East -40 79 £475 -5.47% 101
South West -5 65 £525 -10.64% 41
Yorkshire -44 50 £500 +38.89% 26
East Midlands -19 26 £465 +20.00% 16
East of England -26 24 £475 -9.52% 20
North East -7 14 £525 +5.00% 11
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
1 120 (9.46%) Apache Spark
2 86 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (5.59%) Apache
4 67 (5.28%) SAS
5 22 (1.73%) Confluence
6 14 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.63%) Appian
7 8 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
10 5 (0.39%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.39%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.32%) nginx
12 3 (0.24%) Camunda
12 3 (0.24%) CMS
12 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 44 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Trello
6 1 (0.079%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.079%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.39%) Maximo
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.24%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 522 (41.13%) Azure
2 382 (30.10%) AWS
3 312 (24.59%) Power Platform
4 205 (16.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 152 (11.98%) GCP
6 138 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 138 (10.87%) Snowflake
7 121 (9.54%) Amazon S3
8 98 (7.72%) Serverless
9 94 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
10 85 (6.70%) GitHub
11 72 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
12 70 (5.52%) dbt
13 42 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (2.99%) Collibra
15 37 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (2.76%) SaaS
17 24 (1.89%) Power Automate
18 22 (1.73%) Amazon EMR
18 22 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.55%) 5G
2 6 (0.47%) 2G
2 6 (0.47%) 4G
2 6 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (0.32%) Firewall
3 4 (0.32%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.079%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (28.76%) Data Warehouse
2 294 (23.17%) Power BI
3 189 (14.89%) Data Lake
4 160 (12.61%) SQL Server
5 114 (8.98%) Metadata
6 96 (7.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 82 (6.46%) Relational Database
7 82 (6.46%) Tableau
8 75 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 71 (5.59%) Big Data
9 71 (5.59%) Pentaho
10 69 (5.44%) Azure SQL Database
10 69 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
11 66 (5.20%) Delta Lake
12 60 (4.73%) NoSQL
13 53 (4.18%) BigQuery
14 51 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
15 50 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
16 46 (3.62%) Oracle Database
17 36 (2.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 164 (12.92%) Git
2 99 (7.80%) JIRA
3 76 (5.99%) Jenkins
4 53 (4.18%) GitLab
5 27 (2.13%) Postman
6 20 (1.58%) MLflow
7 14 (1.10%) ERwin
7 14 (1.10%) Selenium
7 14 (1.10%) Zephyr
8 7 (0.55%) JMeter
8 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.39%) TestRail
9 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.32%) DBeaver
10 4 (0.32%) Gatling
10 4 (0.32%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.32%) PowerDesigner
General
1 387 (30.50%) Social Skills
2 335 (26.40%) Finance
3 208 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.64%) Banking
6 29 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.05%) Retail
8 23 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 19 (1.50%) Marketing
10 18 (1.42%) Legal
10 18 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.10%) Law
13 11 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.55%) Front Office
14 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.55%) Publishing
15 6 (0.47%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 505 (39.80%) Data Engineer
2 163 (12.84%) Developer
3 142 (11.19%) Lead
4 134 (10.56%) Senior
5 121 (9.54%) Architect
6 118 (9.30%) Analyst
7 91 (7.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 81 (6.38%) Data Analyst
9 68 (5.36%) Data Architect
10 43 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
12 33 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
13 32 (2.52%) Lead Data Engineer
14 30 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (2.36%) Azure Data Engineer
15 28 (2.21%) Consultant
16 27 (2.13%) Business Analyst
16 27 (2.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 25 (1.97%) Integration Engineer
18 24 (1.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (10.87%) PySpark
2 113 (8.90%) Kafka
3 73 (5.75%) REST
4 40 (3.15%) Pandas
5 36 (2.84%) XML
6 32 (2.52%) .NET
7 27 (2.13%) JSON
8 26 (2.05%) RESTful
9 24 (1.89%) NumPy
10 22 (1.73%) Middleware
11 21 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (1.58%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.42%) Great Expectations
14 17 (1.34%) Node.js
14 17 (1.34%) pytest
14 17 (1.34%) scikit-learn
14 17 (1.34%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.26%) OAuth
15 16 (1.26%) YAML
16 14 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 106 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.86%) Data Structures
3 63 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 21 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.26%) Reinsurance
10 15 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 14 (1.10%) IoT
12 11 (0.87%) AI Agents
12 11 (0.87%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.87%) Replication
13 10 (0.79%) Clustering
13 10 (0.79%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.50%) Linux
2 18 (1.42%) Unix
3 11 (0.87%) Windows
4 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.32%) Solaris
6 4 (0.32%) VMS
6 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 593 (46.73%) Data Modelling
2 548 (43.18%) Analytics
3 471 (37.12%) Data Pipeline
4 422 (33.25%) Data Engineering
5 417 (32.86%) Business Intelligence
6 360 (28.37%) CI/CD
7 313 (24.67%) Agile
8 295 (23.25%) Data Governance
9 290 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
10 288 (22.70%) DevOps
11 268 (21.12%) Migration
12 207 (16.31%) Validation
13 205 (16.15%) Data Architecture
14 201 (15.84%) Data Integration
15 184 (14.50%) Data Migration
16 169 (13.32%) Decision-Making
17 164 (12.92%) AI
18 147 (11.58%) Data Science
19 143 (11.27%) Test Automation
20 134 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 850 (66.98%) SQL
2 587 (46.26%) Python
3 99 (7.80%) Java
4 56 (4.41%) C#
5 55 (4.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 51 (4.02%) Scala
7 49 (3.86%) PL/SQL
8 48 (3.78%) T-SQL
9 41 (3.23%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 19 (1.50%) Bicep
12 17 (1.34%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.26%) Bash
14 15 (1.18%) R
14 15 (1.18%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.95%) Go
15 12 (0.95%) VBA
16 10 (0.79%) PHP
17 6 (0.47%) SAS Macro
18 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 281 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 223 (17.57%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.86%) Degree
4 52 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.39%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.05%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.47%) PMP
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.24%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.079%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.079%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 423 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 107 (8.43%) QA
3 99 (7.80%) GDPR
4 22 (1.73%) IFRS
5 18 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.34%) IFRS 17
7 14 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.63%) PMO
8 8 (0.63%) SLA
9 7 (0.55%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.39%) GAAP
10 5 (0.39%) MiFID
11 4 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.32%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.32%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.24%) Basel III
12 3 (0.24%) FATCA
12 3 (0.24%) GMP
12 3 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 123 (9.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.32%) HDFS
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.16%) zsh
6 1 (0.079%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (10.56%) Kubernetes
2 122 (9.61%) Terraform
3 14 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.87%) Grafana
5 10 (0.79%) Ansible
6 4 (0.32%) Control-M
7 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 3 (0.24%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Foglight
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.16%) SCCM
9 1 (0.079%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.079%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.079%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.079%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 268 (21.12%) Databricks
2 213 (16.78%) Microsoft
3 193 (15.21%) Oracle
4 107 (8.43%) Informatica
5 103 (8.12%) Talend
6 53 (4.18%) SAP
7 47 (3.70%) Denodo
8 46 (3.62%) Google
9 37 (2.92%) ServiceNow
10 27 (2.13%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.73%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.58%) IBM
13 18 (1.42%) Splunk
14 17 (1.34%) Workday
15 15 (1.18%) Palantir
15 15 (1.18%) Sage
16 12 (0.95%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.87%) Ab Initio
17 11 (0.87%) Foundry
18 10 (0.79%) Alteryx