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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 79 102
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 -1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,059 797 853
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.22% 3.01% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.36% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 798 521 657
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £635
90th Percentile £688 £690 £701
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £32.50 - £39.82
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +45.83%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £64.53
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -42.15% +68.06%

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 28,849 23,705 33,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.71% 89.48% 87.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,454 14,499 22,354
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £619 £643 £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 1,790 754 1,912
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 1 February 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 +22 647 £525 - 193
Midlands +2 130 £515 +7.97% 65
North of England -44 116 £450 -2.70% 70
West Midlands +3 106 £519 +5.97% 38
North West -6 75 £449 -3.03% 39
South West -9 60 £525 -14.29% 40
South East -32 60 £445 -19.09% 121
Yorkshire -60 30 £475 +15.85% 25
East Midlands -8 24 £450 +18.81% 27
East of England -22 15 £575 +12.20% 23
North East -12 10 £450 - 6
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 98 (9.25%) Apache Spark
2 74 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (6.14%) Apache
4 50 (4.72%) SAS
5 13 (1.23%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.04%) Confluence
7 8 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.66%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.57%) Appian
9 6 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.28%) CMS
11 3 (0.28%) IIS
11 3 (0.28%) Luigi
11 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.19%) nginx
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.094%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 43 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.38%) Trello
6 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.094%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.85%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.66%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.47%) Maximo
7 5 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.19%) Actimize
10 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 443 (41.83%) Azure
2 321 (30.31%) AWS
3 248 (23.42%) Power Platform
4 173 (16.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 132 (12.46%) GCP
6 131 (12.37%) Snowflake
7 111 (10.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 101 (9.54%) Amazon S3
9 91 (8.59%) Serverless
10 80 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (6.89%) GitHub
12 62 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
13 58 (5.48%) dbt
14 37 (3.49%) SaaS
15 31 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (2.36%) Collibra
17 22 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.08%) Power Automate
18 20 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.57%) 2G
1 6 (0.57%) 5G
1 6 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.47%) 4G
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.19%) DSL
3 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.094%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.094%) Firewall
4 1 (0.094%) Internet
4 1 (0.094%) Multicast
4 1 (0.094%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (27.38%) Data Warehouse
2 234 (22.10%) Power BI
3 162 (15.30%) Data Lake
4 126 (11.90%) SQL Server
5 99 (9.35%) Metadata
6 76 (7.18%) Relational Database
7 70 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 69 (6.52%) Tableau
9 68 (6.42%) Big Data
10 66 (6.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 62 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 55 (5.19%) Pentaho
13 54 (5.10%) Delta Lake
14 46 (4.34%) NoSQL
15 42 (3.97%) BigQuery
16 41 (3.87%) Oracle Database
17 39 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
18 38 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
19 33 (3.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (11.71%) Git
2 89 (8.40%) JIRA
3 66 (6.23%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.49%) GitLab
5 17 (1.61%) ERwin
6 16 (1.51%) Postman
7 15 (1.42%) MLflow
8 13 (1.23%) Selenium
9 7 (0.66%) JMeter
9 7 (0.66%) TestRail
10 6 (0.57%) DBeaver
10 6 (0.57%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.38%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.38%) Gatling
12 4 (0.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.38%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.38%) Toad
13 3 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
General
1 324 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 287 (27.10%) Finance
3 175 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.84%) Banking
6 23 (2.17%) Retail
7 19 (1.79%) Financial Institution
8 18 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.61%) Marketing
10 13 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.23%) Law
10 13 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.04%) Legal
11 11 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 10 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.66%) Front Office
13 7 (0.66%) General Ledger
13 7 (0.66%) Publishing
14 5 (0.47%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.47%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 396 (37.39%) Data Engineer
2 141 (13.31%) Developer
3 126 (11.90%) Lead
4 110 (10.39%) Senior
5 109 (10.29%) Analyst
6 88 (8.31%) Architect
7 78 (7.37%) Data Analyst
8 69 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
9 52 (4.91%) Data Architect
10 45 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
11 34 (3.21%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 31 (2.93%) Business Analyst
13 29 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
14 26 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (2.46%) Consultant
15 24 (2.27%) Senior Developer
16 23 (2.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 21 (1.98%) AWS Data Engineer
18 20 (1.89%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (10.58%) PySpark
2 89 (8.40%) Kafka
3 61 (5.76%) REST
4 40 (3.78%) XML
5 30 (2.83%) Pandas
6 26 (2.46%) .NET
7 24 (2.27%) JSON
8 23 (2.17%) Node.js
9 21 (1.98%) RESTful
10 20 (1.89%) NumPy
11 18 (1.70%) OAuth
12 17 (1.61%) Middleware
12 17 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.61%) PyTorch
13 14 (1.32%) pytest
13 14 (1.32%) TensorFlow
14 13 (1.23%) scikit-learn
15 12 (1.13%) Great Expectations
15 12 (1.13%) Keycloak
15 12 (1.13%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 88 (8.31%) Cloud Native
2 73 (6.89%) Data Structures
3 48 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 18 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.32%) Reinsurance
9 14 (1.32%) Replication
10 13 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.04%) IoT
12 10 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.94%) Data Fabric
12 10 (0.94%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.27%) Linux
2 12 (1.13%) Unix
3 10 (0.94%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) VMS
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.094%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (46.46%) Data Modelling
2 448 (42.30%) Analytics
3 400 (37.77%) Data Pipeline
4 344 (32.48%) Business Intelligence
5 332 (31.35%) Data Engineering
6 297 (28.05%) CI/CD
7 258 (24.36%) Agile
8 253 (23.89%) Problem-Solving
9 250 (23.61%) DevOps
10 242 (22.85%) Data Governance
11 200 (18.89%) Migration
12 179 (16.90%) Data Integration
13 177 (16.71%) Data Architecture
14 150 (14.16%) Validation
15 136 (12.84%) Data Migration
16 133 (12.56%) Data Science
17 129 (12.18%) AI
18 122 (11.52%) Machine Learning
19 120 (11.33%) Decision-Making
20 116 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 690 (65.16%) SQL
2 508 (47.97%) Python
3 91 (8.59%) Java
4 52 (4.91%) Scala
5 45 (4.25%) C#
6 39 (3.68%) PL/SQL
7 36 (3.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 35 (3.31%) JavaScript
9 31 (2.93%) T-SQL
10 16 (1.51%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.42%) R
12 14 (1.32%) Go
12 14 (1.32%) PHP
13 13 (1.23%) Bicep
13 13 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 12 (1.13%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.94%) Bash
16 9 (0.85%) VBA
17 5 (0.47%) Korn
17 5 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 206 (19.45%) Security Cleared
2 158 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.27%) Degree
4 48 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.78%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.46%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.66%) PMP
12 6 (0.57%) PMI Certification
13 5 (0.47%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
17 1 (0.094%) CCIE Data Center
17 1 (0.094%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 352 (33.24%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.74%) GDPR
3 73 (6.89%) QA
4 19 (1.79%) IFRS
5 16 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.42%) IFRS 17
7 13 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.47%) GAAP
9 5 (0.47%) MiFID
9 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.47%) SLA
10 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.28%) Basel III
10 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.28%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.28%) NIST
10 3 (0.28%) PMO
11 2 (0.19%) EMIR
11 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 122 (11.52%) Docker
2 5 (0.47%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.47%) zsh
3 3 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) KVM
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.094%) HDFS
5 1 (0.094%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 118 (11.14%) Kubernetes
2 98 (9.25%) Terraform
3 9 (0.85%) Grafana
4 8 (0.76%) Ansible
5 6 (0.57%) Kibana
5 6 (0.57%) logstash
5 6 (0.57%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.38%) Control-M
6 4 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.19%) SCCM
8 1 (0.094%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.094%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.094%) Puppet
8 1 (0.094%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 223 (21.06%) Databricks
2 172 (16.24%) Microsoft
3 150 (14.16%) Oracle
4 74 (6.99%) Talend
5 72 (6.80%) Informatica
6 43 (4.06%) Denodo
6 43 (4.06%) SAP
7 38 (3.59%) Google
8 28 (2.64%) ServiceNow
9 23 (2.17%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.61%) IBM
10 17 (1.61%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.42%) Workday
12 14 (1.32%) Palantir
13 12 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 12 (1.13%) Cognos
14 11 (1.04%) Foundry
15 10 (0.94%) Ab Initio
16 9 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 7 (0.66%) UiPath