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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 79 81
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,555 844 872
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 3.03% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.34% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 580 635
10th Percentile £359 £358 £358
25th Percentile £423 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -1.18% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £623
90th Percentile £688 £718 £738
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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 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 10 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 10 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 -1 769 £525 - 536
Midlands +24 291 £459 -0.76% 74
West Midlands +36 256 £459 -8.20% 58
North of England -3 184 £475 - 101
South East +6 148 £459 +2.00% 97
Yorkshire -1 82 £475 +9.20% 25
North West -21 78 £456 -8.75% 62
South West -26 66 £523 +13.59% 51
East of England +9 53 £475 -13.64% 25
East Midlands -12 34 £490 +13.10% 16
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 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
1 126 (8.10%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (7.07%) SAS
4 77 (4.95%) Apache
5 56 (3.60%) Confluence
6 25 (1.61%) Oracle Application Server
7 24 (1.54%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.71%) nginx
9 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.45%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.19%) Camunda
14 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 1 (0.064%) Anypoint
16 1 (0.064%) Luigi
Applications
1 39 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.51%) 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 (0.064%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.64%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.19%) Actimize
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 605 (38.91%) Azure
2 453 (29.13%) AWS
3 369 (23.73%) Power Platform
4 219 (14.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 194 (12.48%) GCP
6 186 (11.96%) Snowflake
7 135 (8.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 128 (8.23%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (7.40%) Serverless
10 114 (7.33%) Amazon S3
10 114 (7.33%) dbt
11 95 (6.11%) GitHub
12 89 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
14 38 (2.44%) Collibra
15 31 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (1.86%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 26 (1.67%) Matillion
18 25 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.77%) Firewall
2 8 (0.51%) 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 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 526 (33.83%) Data Warehouse
2 354 (22.77%) Power BI
3 226 (14.53%) Data Lake
4 158 (10.16%) SQL Server
5 140 (9.00%) Metadata
6 96 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.11%) Tableau
8 90 (5.79%) Relational Database
9 88 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 88 (5.66%) BigQuery
10 87 (5.59%) Delta Lake
11 83 (5.34%) Pentaho
12 72 (4.63%) Big Data
13 71 (4.57%) Oracle Reports
14 70 (4.50%) NoSQL
15 61 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
16 60 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
17 55 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
18 47 (3.02%) Oracle Database
19 45 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 177 (11.38%) Git
2 134 (8.62%) JIRA
3 86 (5.53%) GitLab
4 67 (4.31%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.77%) Zephyr
6 41 (2.64%) Postman
7 12 (0.77%) Selenium
8 8 (0.51%) MLflow
9 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
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)
11 4 (0.26%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.19%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.19%) ERwin
12 3 (0.19%) JMeter
General
1 372 (23.92%) Social Skills
2 365 (23.47%) Finance
3 285 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 166 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.46%) Banking
6 31 (1.99%) Retail
7 30 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.93%) Marketing
8 27 (1.74%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 18 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 18 (1.16%) Legal
10 18 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 13 (0.84%) Front Office
12 12 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (0.77%) Law
13 10 (0.64%) Billing
13 10 (0.64%) Military
13 10 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 613 (39.42%) Data Engineer
2 229 (14.73%) Developer
3 204 (13.12%) Architect
4 196 (12.60%) Senior
5 161 (10.35%) Lead
6 131 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
7 112 (7.20%) Analyst
8 107 (6.88%) Data Architect
9 54 (3.47%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
11 47 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
13 42 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
13 42 (2.70%) Tester
14 39 (2.51%) SQL Developer
15 35 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
15 35 (2.25%) Oracle Developer
15 35 (2.25%) Snowflake Engineer
16 34 (2.19%) Data Migration Lead
17 33 (2.12%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (10.03%) PySpark
2 118 (7.59%) Kafka
3 64 (4.12%) REST
4 48 (3.09%) JSON
5 43 (2.77%) .NET
6 30 (1.93%) Pandas
7 26 (1.67%) React
8 25 (1.61%) Middleware
9 22 (1.41%) Spring
10 20 (1.29%) Spring Boot
10 20 (1.29%) XML
11 18 (1.16%) YAML
12 14 (0.90%) RESTful
13 13 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.84%) pytest
14 12 (0.77%) Apache Avro
14 12 (0.77%) Great Expectations
15 11 (0.71%) HTML
15 11 (0.71%) OAuth
15 11 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 139 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.11%) Data Structures
3 70 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 22 (1.41%) NHS
8 21 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.16%) Clustering
9 18 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 17 (1.09%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 12 (0.77%) Replication
13 11 (0.71%) IoT
14 10 (0.64%) SCADA
14 10 (0.64%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.58%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.47%) Linux
2 46 (2.96%) Unix
3 18 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.51%) Solaris
4 8 (0.51%) 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
1 737 (47.40%) Data Modelling
2 634 (40.77%) Data Pipeline
3 607 (39.04%) Analytics
4 485 (31.19%) Data Engineering
5 472 (30.35%) CI/CD
6 450 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
7 430 (27.65%) Agile
8 410 (26.37%) Migration
9 347 (22.32%) DevOps
10 329 (21.16%) Data Integration
11 313 (20.13%) Data Governance
12 298 (19.16%) Validation
13 285 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
14 252 (16.21%) Data Migration
15 241 (15.50%) AI
16 225 (14.47%) Test Automation
17 222 (14.28%) Data Architecture
18 210 (13.50%) Decision-Making
19 199 (12.80%) Data Transformation
20 198 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (66.69%) SQL
2 577 (37.11%) Python
3 135 (8.68%) Java
4 83 (5.34%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.82%) PL/SQL
6 71 (4.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.28%) C#
8 45 (2.89%) Scala
9 41 (2.64%) JavaScript
9 41 (2.64%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.25%) Bash
11 26 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.16%) R
13 17 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 15 (0.96%) Bicep
15 8 (0.51%) Cypher
15 8 (0.51%) VBA
16 7 (0.45%) SAS Macro
17 5 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 443 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 374 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.57%) Degree
4 37 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (2.19%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.74%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.45%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 539 (34.66%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.94%) QA
3 88 (5.66%) GDPR
4 35 (2.25%) GRC
5 24 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.77%) PMO
8 9 (0.58%) IFRS
8 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.58%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.51%) 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%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.19%) GMP
System Software
1 119 (7.65%) 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 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (8.62%) Terraform
2 121 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.74%) Grafana
4 18 (1.16%) Ansible
5 15 (0.96%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.64%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.064%) Argo
9 1 (0.064%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.064%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.064%) Puppet
9 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 309 (19.87%) Oracle
2 303 (19.49%) Databricks
3 271 (17.43%) Microsoft
4 129 (8.30%) Informatica
5 121 (7.78%) Talend
6 78 (5.02%) SAP
7 64 (4.12%) Denodo
7 64 (4.12%) Google
8 42 (2.70%) IBM
9 36 (2.32%) ServiceNow
10 29 (1.86%) Alteryx
11 28 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.41%) Sage
13 20 (1.29%) Palantir
14 15 (0.96%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.90%) Foundry
16 13 (0.84%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.77%) Splunk
18 11 (0.71%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.71%) Teradata