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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 77 104
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing ETL 989 801 806
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.97% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.33% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 519 614
10th Percentile £359 £356 £383
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £696 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.64
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.81
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +59.15%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £65.40
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +70.42%

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 28,047 24,036 31,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.31% 89.14% 87.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,899 14,761 21,230
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,744 772 1,471
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.84 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.59 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +20 606 £525 - 163
Midlands -1 118 £517 +5.46% 51
North of England -32 109 £450 -2.70% 72
West Midlands +3 94 £520 +5.48% 31
North West -7 68 £429 -7.30% 33
South West -12 53 £550 -10.20% 34
South East -37 53 £431 -19.77% 149
Yorkshire -52 32 £472 +12.93% 27
East Midlands -16 24 £438 +13.64% 20
East of England -16 18 £575 +4.55% 32
North East -11 8 £450 -9.55% 12
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 90 (9.10%) Apache Spark
2 67 (6.77%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (5.86%) Apache
4 49 (4.95%) SAS
5 14 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.21%) Confluence
7 7 (0.71%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.40%) Appian
9 4 (0.40%) IIS
10 3 (0.30%) Luigi
10 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 45 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.61%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.40%) Trello
6 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
4 8 (0.81%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.51%) Maximo
6 5 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.40%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.30%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.30%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 411 (41.56%) Azure
2 296 (29.93%) AWS
3 224 (22.65%) Power Platform
4 158 (15.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 127 (12.84%) GCP
6 121 (12.23%) Snowflake
7 105 (10.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 89 (9.00%) Amazon S3
9 86 (8.70%) Serverless
10 70 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (6.88%) GitHub
12 58 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (4.85%) dbt
14 36 (3.64%) SaaS
15 30 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
16 28 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (2.12%) Power Automate
18 20 (2.02%) Amazon EMR
18 20 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
19 19 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.61%) 2G
1 6 (0.61%) 5G
1 6 (0.61%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.51%) 4G
3 2 (0.20%) BGP
3 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.20%) DSL
3 2 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.20%) OSPF
3 2 (0.20%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.10%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Multicast
4 1 (0.10%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 278 (28.11%) Data Warehouse
2 210 (21.23%) Power BI
3 156 (15.77%) Data Lake
4 120 (12.13%) SQL Server
5 92 (9.30%) Metadata
6 75 (7.58%) Relational Database
7 72 (7.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 65 (6.57%) Big Data
9 61 (6.17%) Tableau
10 60 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
12 52 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 50 (5.06%) Pentaho
14 44 (4.45%) BigQuery
15 42 (4.25%) Delta Lake
16 40 (4.04%) NoSQL
17 39 (3.94%) Oracle Database
18 36 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
19 35 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
20 29 (2.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (12.03%) Git
2 85 (8.59%) JIRA
3 66 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.64%) GitLab
5 19 (1.92%) Postman
6 15 (1.52%) ERwin
7 14 (1.42%) Selenium
8 12 (1.21%) MLflow
9 8 (0.81%) JMeter
10 7 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.71%) TestRail
11 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.61%) DBeaver
12 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.40%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.40%) Gatling
13 4 (0.40%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.40%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 307 (31.04%) Social Skills
2 268 (27.10%) Finance
3 161 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 79 (7.99%) Banking
6 21 (2.12%) Retail
7 18 (1.82%) Financial Institution
8 17 (1.72%) Marketing
9 14 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.21%) Legal
10 12 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.91%) Law
13 8 (0.81%) Front Office
13 8 (0.81%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.71%) Publishing
15 6 (0.61%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 353 (35.69%) Data Engineer
2 144 (14.56%) Developer
3 113 (11.43%) Lead
4 103 (10.41%) Senior
5 98 (9.91%) Analyst
6 84 (8.49%) Architect
7 68 (6.88%) Data Analyst
8 63 (6.37%) Senior Data Engineer
9 47 (4.75%) Data Architect
10 42 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (3.44%) Azure Data Engineer
11 34 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 29 (2.93%) Business Analyst
12 29 (2.93%) Consultant
13 26 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (2.43%) Senior Developer
15 21 (2.12%) Snowflake Engineer
16 20 (2.02%) Python Engineer
17 19 (1.92%) AWS Data Engineer
17 19 (1.92%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (10.72%) PySpark
2 83 (8.39%) Kafka
3 57 (5.76%) REST
4 39 (3.94%) XML
5 26 (2.63%) Node.js
6 24 (2.43%) Pandas
7 23 (2.33%) .NET
7 23 (2.33%) JSON
8 19 (1.92%) RESTful
9 18 (1.82%) Middleware
10 17 (1.72%) NumPy
11 16 (1.62%) OAuth
11 16 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (1.31%) pytest
12 13 (1.31%) PyTorch
13 12 (1.21%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.21%) Spark Streaming
13 12 (1.21%) TensorFlow
14 11 (1.11%) OpenID
14 11 (1.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 66 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 46 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.12%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 20 (2.02%) Distributed Computing
6 18 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 13 (1.31%) Replication
10 12 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.21%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.01%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.01%) IoT
12 9 (0.91%) Data Fabric
13 8 (0.81%) Low-Code
13 8 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.33%) Linux
2 11 (1.11%) Unix
3 9 (0.91%) Windows
4 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (44.89%) Data Modelling
2 414 (41.86%) Analytics
3 375 (37.92%) Data Pipeline
4 319 (32.25%) Business Intelligence
5 302 (30.54%) Data Engineering
6 280 (28.31%) CI/CD
7 250 (25.28%) Agile
8 239 (24.17%) DevOps
9 235 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
10 223 (22.55%) Data Governance
11 189 (19.11%) Migration
12 171 (17.29%) Data Integration
13 164 (16.58%) Data Architecture
14 143 (14.46%) Validation
15 134 (13.55%) Data Migration
16 119 (12.03%) Data Science
17 111 (11.22%) AI
17 111 (11.22%) Data Transformation
18 108 (10.92%) Decision-Making
19 107 (10.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 631 (63.80%) SQL
2 474 (47.93%) Python
3 86 (8.70%) Java
4 45 (4.55%) Scala
5 43 (4.35%) C#
6 39 (3.94%) PL/SQL
7 35 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (3.54%) JavaScript
8 31 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.62%) Go
9 16 (1.62%) R
10 15 (1.52%) PHP
11 14 (1.42%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.21%) Bicep
14 11 (1.11%) Bash
15 10 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.01%) VBA
16 6 (0.61%) Cypher
17 5 (0.51%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 189 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 145 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 68 (6.88%) Degree
4 44 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (3.74%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 21 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.81%) PMP
12 7 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.71%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.40%) MCP
14 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.30%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.10%) CISSP
16 1 (0.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 325 (32.86%) Data Quality
2 74 (7.48%) GDPR
3 70 (7.08%) QA
4 16 (1.62%) IFRS
4 16 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.81%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.61%) SLA
9 5 (0.51%) GAAP
9 5 (0.51%) MiFID
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.40%) WCAG
11 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.30%) Basel III
11 3 (0.30%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.30%) NIST
11 3 (0.30%) PMO
12 2 (0.20%) EMIR
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 117 (11.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.51%) zsh
3 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.20%) KVM
4 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 110 (11.12%) Kubernetes
2 89 (9.00%) Terraform
3 9 (0.91%) Ansible
3 9 (0.91%) Grafana
4 6 (0.61%) Kibana
4 6 (0.61%) logstash
5 5 (0.51%) Control-M
6 4 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.10%) Puppet
9 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 198 (20.02%) Databricks
2 167 (16.89%) Microsoft
3 143 (14.46%) Oracle
4 65 (6.57%) Talend
5 64 (6.47%) Informatica
6 47 (4.75%) SAP
7 39 (3.94%) Denodo
8 38 (3.84%) Google
9 27 (2.73%) Salesforce
10 26 (2.63%) ServiceNow
11 19 (1.92%) IBM
12 16 (1.62%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.42%) Palantir
13 14 (1.42%) Workday
14 11 (1.11%) Foundry
15 9 (0.91%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.81%) Alteryx
16 8 (0.81%) Cognos
17 6 (0.61%) Avaloq
17 6 (0.61%) OpenAI