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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 79 82
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,518 840 944
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.08% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.39% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 573 711
10th Percentile £358 £360 £360
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £621
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 10 10
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.69 £29.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £57.38 £74.96 £51.38
90th Percentile £67.16 £89.73 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £48.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +4.17% +23.87% -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 38,320 24,760 31,431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,128 15,919 20,389
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,389 1,284 2,227
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.33 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.08 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +6 747 £520 -1.89% 180
Midlands +29 278 £459 +2.00% 42
West Midlands +39 241 £455 -2.15% 24
North of England -15 189 £463 -2.63% 62
South East +2 145 £463 -7.50% 63
North West -21 89 £450 -10.00% 32
Yorkshire -18 77 £483 +10.92% 16
South West -21 67 £523 +10.00% 32
East of England 0 48 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -12 36 £525 +17.77% 18
North East -18 23 £525 +25.00% 15
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
1 132 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 111 (7.31%) Apache Airflow
3 78 (5.14%) SAS
4 71 (4.68%) Apache
5 51 (3.36%) Confluence
6 20 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) nginx
8 10 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) Appian
9 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.066%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 39 (2.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.26%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.72%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 607 (39.99%) Azure
2 457 (30.11%) AWS
3 360 (23.72%) Power Platform
4 209 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (11.99%) GCP
6 166 (10.94%) Snowflake
7 140 (9.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.37%) Amazon S3
8 127 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (7.71%) Serverless
10 110 (7.25%) dbt
11 93 (6.13%) GitHub
12 91 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
14 42 (2.77%) Collibra
15 35 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
16 27 (1.78%) Matillion
16 27 (1.78%) Power Automate
17 24 (1.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 7 (0.46%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.066%) 4G
4 1 (0.066%) 5G
4 1 (0.066%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.066%) DHCP
4 1 (0.066%) DNS
4 1 (0.066%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.066%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (30.83%) Data Warehouse
2 341 (22.46%) Power BI
3 217 (14.30%) Data Lake
4 160 (10.54%) SQL Server
5 129 (8.50%) Metadata
6 97 (6.39%) Tableau
7 95 (6.26%) Delta Lake
7 95 (6.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 92 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 83 (5.47%) Relational Database
10 82 (5.40%) Pentaho
11 76 (5.01%) Big Data
11 76 (5.01%) BigQuery
12 72 (4.74%) NoSQL
13 66 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 65 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
15 64 (4.22%) Oracle Reports
16 61 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
17 49 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (3.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 169 (11.13%) Git
2 134 (8.83%) JIRA
3 83 (5.47%) GitLab
4 61 (4.02%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.64%) Postman
6 36 (2.37%) Zephyr
7 16 (1.05%) MLflow
8 11 (0.72%) Selenium
9 7 (0.46%) Gatling
10 6 (0.40%) ERwin
10 6 (0.40%) JMeter
10 6 (0.40%) NeoLoad
11 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.26%) Flyway
12 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.26%) LSMW
12 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 376 (24.77%) Finance
2 363 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 271 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.52%) Banking
6 39 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.91%) Marketing
8 26 (1.71%) Retail
9 21 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.25%) Legal
12 16 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.72%) Law
14 10 (0.66%) Billing
14 10 (0.66%) Front Office
15 9 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.59%) Military
16 8 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 621 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 221 (14.56%) Developer
3 183 (12.06%) Architect
4 181 (11.92%) Senior
5 165 (10.87%) Lead
6 126 (8.30%) Senior Data Engineer
7 110 (7.25%) Analyst
8 104 (6.85%) Data Architect
9 60 (3.95%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
10 48 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (2.70%) SQL Developer
12 40 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
12 40 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
13 37 (2.44%) Snowflake Engineer
14 36 (2.37%) Tester
15 35 (2.31%) Data Migration Lead
16 34 (2.24%) AWS Data Engineer
17 33 (2.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (10.87%) PySpark
2 123 (8.10%) Kafka
3 68 (4.48%) REST
4 48 (3.16%) JSON
5 37 (2.44%) .NET
6 35 (2.31%) Pandas
7 27 (1.78%) XML
8 26 (1.71%) Spring
9 24 (1.58%) Spring Boot
10 23 (1.52%) Middleware
11 20 (1.32%) React
12 18 (1.19%) RESTful
13 17 (1.12%) YAML
14 16 (1.05%) Web Services
15 15 (0.99%) PyTorch
16 14 (0.92%) Great Expectations
16 14 (0.92%) OAuth
16 14 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
17 13 (0.86%) NumPy
17 13 (0.86%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.35%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.99%) Data Structures
3 77 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.83%) Onboarding
5 33 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.65%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.52%) NHS
9 22 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 20 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.25%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.12%) Clustering
14 15 (0.99%) Reference Data
15 13 (0.86%) Reinsurance
16 12 (0.79%) IoT
16 12 (0.79%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.79%) Replication
17 11 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
18 10 (0.66%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.57%) Unix
2 35 (2.31%) Linux
3 16 (1.05%) Windows
4 8 (0.53%) Solaris
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (47.30%) Data Modelling
2 611 (40.25%) Data Pipeline
3 577 (38.01%) Analytics
4 472 (31.09%) Data Engineering
5 448 (29.51%) CI/CD
6 426 (28.06%) Business Intelligence
7 388 (25.56%) Migration
8 374 (24.64%) Agile
9 321 (21.15%) DevOps
10 305 (20.09%) Validation
11 301 (19.83%) Data Governance
12 287 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
13 271 (17.85%) Data Integration
14 247 (16.27%) AI
15 239 (15.74%) Data Migration
16 218 (14.36%) Data Architecture
17 208 (13.70%) Test Automation
18 205 (13.50%) Decision-Making
19 164 (10.80%) Data Transformation
20 163 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (67.33%) SQL
2 600 (39.53%) Python
3 136 (8.96%) Java
4 81 (5.34%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 68 (4.48%) PL/SQL
7 54 (3.56%) Scala
8 52 (3.43%) C#
9 33 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 32 (2.11%) JavaScript
11 27 (1.78%) Bash
12 24 (1.58%) TypeScript
13 23 (1.52%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.12%) R
15 15 (0.99%) Bicep
16 10 (0.66%) Cypher
17 8 (0.53%) VBA
18 7 (0.46%) SAS Macro
19 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
20 5 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 410 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 340 (22.40%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.53%) Degree
4 44 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (2.24%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.58%) ISTQB
8 20 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.59%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 502 (33.07%) Data Quality
2 142 (9.35%) QA
3 98 (6.46%) GDPR
4 18 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.99%) IFRS
6 14 (0.92%) GRC
6 14 (0.92%) PMO
7 13 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.72%) IFRS 17
9 9 (0.59%) SLA
10 8 (0.53%) FATCA
11 7 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) GMP
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 4 (0.26%) WCAG
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
15 2 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 108 (7.11%) Docker
2 6 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.40%) HDFS
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (8.96%) Terraform
2 116 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.52%) Grafana
4 15 (0.99%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.86%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Control-M
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.066%) Argo
10 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.066%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 297 (19.57%) Databricks
2 282 (18.58%) Oracle
3 263 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 134 (8.83%) Informatica
5 127 (8.37%) Talend
6 68 (4.48%) SAP
7 58 (3.82%) Denodo
8 53 (3.49%) Google
9 40 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 33 (2.17%) IBM
11 31 (2.04%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.91%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.52%) Sage
14 18 (1.19%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.12%) Splunk
16 14 (0.92%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.86%) Palantir
18 11 (0.72%) Cloudera
19 10 (0.66%) Red Hat
19 10 (0.66%) Teradata