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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,277 802 855
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.25% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 3.59% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 547 667
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £630
90th Percentile £681 £700 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -
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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
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 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +20 718 £523 -4.91% 127
Midlands +18 200 £498 +4.30% 65
West Midlands +18 174 £500 +1.42% 48
North of England -35 152 £460 -0.54% 74
North West -15 86 £442 -5.50% 37
South East -41 79 £475 -5.00% 101
South West +3 65 £525 -10.64% 41
Yorkshire -54 50 £500 +40.85% 29
East of England -17 26 £500 -4.76% 21
East Midlands -23 26 £465 +20.00% 16
North East -5 15 £538 +7.50% 9
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
1 122 (9.55%) Apache Spark
2 88 (6.89%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (5.72%) Apache
4 67 (5.25%) SAS
5 22 (1.72%) Confluence
6 14 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.63%) Appian
7 8 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.31%) nginx
11 3 (0.23%) Camunda
11 3 (0.23%) CMS
11 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 44 (3.45%) 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 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.23%) Trello
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.078%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.94%) 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 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.23%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 524 (41.03%) Azure
2 387 (30.31%) AWS
3 312 (24.43%) Power Platform
4 205 (16.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 155 (12.14%) GCP
6 139 (10.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 139 (10.88%) Snowflake
7 124 (9.71%) Amazon S3
8 98 (7.67%) Serverless
9 94 (7.36%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (6.73%) GitHub
11 72 (5.64%) AWS Lambda
12 71 (5.56%) dbt
13 42 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (2.98%) Collibra
14 38 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (2.74%) SaaS
16 24 (1.88%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (1.72%) 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 (0.31%) Firewall
3 4 (0.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.078%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 366 (28.66%) Data Warehouse
2 294 (23.02%) Power BI
3 191 (14.96%) Data Lake
4 160 (12.53%) SQL Server
5 115 (9.01%) Metadata
6 96 (7.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 82 (6.42%) Relational Database
7 82 (6.42%) Tableau
8 76 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 73 (5.72%) Big Data
10 72 (5.64%) Pentaho
11 70 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
12 69 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 66 (5.17%) Delta Lake
14 61 (4.78%) NoSQL
15 53 (4.15%) BigQuery
15 53 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 50 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
17 46 (3.60%) Oracle Database
18 37 (2.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 163 (12.76%) Git
2 99 (7.75%) JIRA
3 77 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 54 (4.23%) GitLab
5 27 (2.11%) Postman
6 20 (1.57%) 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 (0.31%) DBeaver
10 4 (0.31%) Gatling
10 4 (0.31%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
10 4 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
General
1 387 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 334 (26.16%) Finance
3 208 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (9.08%) Public Sector
5 97 (7.60%) Banking
6 29 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.04%) Retail
8 23 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 19 (1.49%) Marketing
10 18 (1.41%) Legal
10 18 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.10%) Law
13 11 (0.86%) 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
1 510 (39.94%) Data Engineer
2 164 (12.84%) Developer
3 143 (11.20%) Lead
4 134 (10.49%) Senior
5 123 (9.63%) Architect
6 118 (9.24%) Analyst
7 91 (7.13%) Senior Data Engineer
8 81 (6.34%) Data Analyst
9 70 (5.48%) Data Architect
10 43 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 41 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
13 33 (2.58%) Lead Data Engineer
14 32 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 30 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
16 28 (2.19%) Consultant
16 28 (2.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 27 (2.11%) Business Analyst
18 26 (2.04%) AWS Data Engineer
19 25 (1.96%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (10.88%) PySpark
2 116 (9.08%) Kafka
3 74 (5.79%) REST
4 39 (3.05%) Pandas
5 36 (2.82%) XML
6 32 (2.51%) .NET
7 28 (2.19%) JSON
8 26 (2.04%) RESTful
9 24 (1.88%) NumPy
10 22 (1.72%) Middleware
11 21 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
12 20 (1.57%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.41%) Great Expectations
14 17 (1.33%) Node.js
14 17 (1.33%) pytest
14 17 (1.33%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.25%) OAuth
15 16 (1.25%) scikit-learn
15 16 (1.25%) YAML
16 14 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 87 (6.81%) Data Structures
3 63 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 22 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.41%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.25%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.17%) IoT
12 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.86%) Clustering
13 11 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 11 (0.86%) Replication
14 10 (0.78%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.57%) Linux
2 18 (1.41%) Unix
3 11 (0.86%) Windows
4 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.31%) Solaris
6 4 (0.31%) VMS
6 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (46.91%) Data Modelling
2 552 (43.23%) Analytics
3 476 (37.27%) Data Pipeline
4 425 (33.28%) Data Engineering
5 417 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
6 365 (28.58%) CI/CD
7 313 (24.51%) Agile
8 298 (23.34%) Data Governance
9 291 (22.79%) DevOps
10 290 (22.71%) Problem-Solving
11 269 (21.06%) Migration
12 208 (16.29%) Validation
13 206 (16.13%) Data Architecture
14 202 (15.82%) Data Integration
15 185 (14.49%) Data Migration
16 169 (13.23%) Decision-Making
17 163 (12.76%) AI
18 148 (11.59%) Data Science
19 143 (11.20%) Test Automation
20 134 (10.49%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 856 (67.03%) SQL
2 593 (46.44%) Python
3 100 (7.83%) Java
4 56 (4.39%) C#
5 55 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 52 (4.07%) Scala
7 49 (3.84%) PL/SQL
8 48 (3.76%) T-SQL
9 41 (3.21%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.64%) PowerShell
11 19 (1.49%) Bicep
12 17 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.25%) Bash
13 16 (1.25%) R
14 15 (1.17%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.94%) Go
15 12 (0.94%) VBA
16 10 (0.78%) PHP
17 6 (0.47%) SAS Macro
18 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 286 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 226 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 88 (6.89%) Degree
4 53 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.37%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.47%) PMP
12 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.31%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.31%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.078%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.078%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (33.44%) Data Quality
2 107 (8.38%) QA
3 100 (7.83%) GDPR
4 22 (1.72%) IFRS
5 18 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.33%) 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 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 4 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.23%) Basel III
12 3 (0.23%) FATCA
12 3 (0.23%) GMP
12 3 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 125 (9.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.31%) HDFS
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.16%) zsh
6 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 136 (10.65%) Kubernetes
2 123 (9.63%) Terraform
3 14 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.86%) Grafana
5 10 (0.78%) Ansible
6 4 (0.31%) Control-M
7 3 (0.23%) Kibana
7 3 (0.23%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Foglight
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.16%) SCCM
9 1 (0.078%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.078%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.078%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.078%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 267 (20.91%) Databricks
2 214 (16.76%) Microsoft
3 194 (15.19%) Oracle
4 109 (8.54%) Informatica
5 104 (8.14%) Talend
6 53 (4.15%) SAP
7 49 (3.84%) Google
8 47 (3.68%) Denodo
9 37 (2.90%) ServiceNow
10 27 (2.11%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.72%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.57%) IBM
13 18 (1.41%) Splunk
14 17 (1.33%) Workday
15 16 (1.25%) Palantir
15 16 (1.25%) Sage
16 12 (0.94%) Foundry
17 11 (0.86%) Ab Initio
17 11 (0.86%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.78%) Alteryx