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

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 78 99
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 976 831 843
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.96% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 3.33% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 724 542 652
10th Percentile £358 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £695 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 15
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.32
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.63
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -29.75% +70.42%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £64.77
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £70.40
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 28,064 24,952 32,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.52% 88.77% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,908 15,353 21,703
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,766 818 1,417
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.39
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%
75th Percentile £56.69 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +27.14%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +15 598 £525 - 221
Midlands -5 123 £515 +7.97% 47
West Midlands +1 101 £520 +5.48% 31
North of England -53 100 £450 -4.00% 85
North West -20 61 £447 -3.35% 45
South West +3 54 £538 -6.52% 43
South East -40 49 £431 -21.59% 130
Yorkshire -62 30 £472 +4.78% 27
East Midlands -10 22 £433 +15.33% 15
East of England -11 19 £575 +4.55% 31
North East -8 8 £450 -9.55% 13
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 94 (9.63%) Apache Spark
2 75 (7.68%) Apache Airflow
3 61 (6.25%) Apache
4 48 (4.92%) SAS
5 14 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.13%) Confluence
7 7 (0.72%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.51%) IIS
9 5 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.31%) Luigi
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) Appian
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 49 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.31%) Trello
6 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 7 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
3 7 (0.72%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.61%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.51%) Maximo
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 396 (40.57%) Azure
2 288 (29.51%) AWS
3 222 (22.75%) Power Platform
4 149 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 131 (13.42%) GCP
6 124 (12.70%) Snowflake
7 105 (10.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 91 (9.32%) Amazon S3
9 83 (8.50%) Serverless
10 64 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
11 61 (6.25%) GitHub
12 56 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (5.12%) dbt
14 34 (3.48%) SaaS
15 27 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
19 19 (1.95%) Power Automate
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 4 (0.41%) DNS
4 3 (0.31%) SSH
4 3 (0.31%) SSL
4 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.20%) BGP
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.20%) DSL
5 2 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.20%) OSPF
5 2 (0.20%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.10%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.10%) Firewall
6 1 (0.10%) Internet
6 1 (0.10%) Multicast
6 1 (0.10%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 292 (29.92%) Data Warehouse
2 209 (21.41%) Power BI
3 151 (15.47%) Data Lake
4 116 (11.89%) SQL Server
5 89 (9.12%) Metadata
6 78 (7.99%) Relational Database
7 77 (7.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 70 (7.17%) Big Data
9 65 (6.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 63 (6.45%) Tableau
11 59 (6.05%) PostgreSQL
12 52 (5.33%) BigQuery
13 48 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 46 (4.71%) Pentaho
15 43 (4.41%) NoSQL
16 42 (4.30%) Delta Lake
17 37 (3.79%) Oracle Database
17 37 (3.79%) Snowflake Schema
18 33 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
19 30 (3.07%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 121 (12.40%) Git
2 79 (8.09%) JIRA
3 64 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.97%) GitLab
5 14 (1.43%) Postman
6 13 (1.33%) ERwin
6 13 (1.33%) MLflow
6 13 (1.33%) Selenium
7 7 (0.72%) REST Assured
7 7 (0.72%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.72%) TestRail
8 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.61%) DBeaver
8 6 (0.61%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.41%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.41%) Toad
9 4 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.31%) Poetry
General
1 301 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 254 (26.02%) Finance
3 169 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 73 (7.48%) Banking
6 18 (1.84%) Retail
7 16 (1.64%) Financial Institution
7 16 (1.64%) Marketing
8 15 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.13%) Legal
12 10 (1.02%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.92%) Law
14 8 (0.82%) Front Office
14 8 (0.82%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.72%) Publishing
16 6 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 337 (34.53%) Data Engineer
2 147 (15.06%) Developer
3 109 (11.17%) Lead
4 105 (10.76%) Analyst
5 102 (10.45%) Senior
6 86 (8.81%) Architect
7 71 (7.27%) Data Analyst
8 57 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 47 (4.82%) Data Architect
10 42 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (3.79%) Azure Data Engineer
12 31 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 30 (3.07%) Business Analyst
14 29 (2.97%) Consultant
15 26 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
16 25 (2.56%) Senior Developer
17 20 (2.05%) Snowflake Engineer
18 19 (1.95%) AWS Data Engineer
19 18 (1.84%) Lead Data Engineer
19 18 (1.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.14%) PySpark
2 81 (8.30%) Kafka
3 46 (4.71%) REST
4 42 (4.30%) XML
5 26 (2.66%) Node.js
6 25 (2.56%) JSON
6 25 (2.56%) Pandas
7 19 (1.95%) .NET
7 19 (1.95%) NumPy
7 19 (1.95%) RESTful
8 15 (1.54%) OAuth
9 13 (1.33%) Middleware
10 12 (1.23%) Keycloak
11 11 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (1.13%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.13%) React
11 11 (1.13%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.02%) GraphQL
12 10 (1.02%) pytest
12 10 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.17%) Cloud Native
2 60 (6.15%) Data Structures
3 43 (4.41%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 19 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
7 18 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.54%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.33%) Replication
12 12 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.23%) IoT
13 11 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.92%) Data Fabric
14 9 (0.92%) Fixed Income
14 9 (0.92%) Reinsurance
14 9 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.82%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.66%) Linux
2 10 (1.02%) Unix
3 9 (0.92%) 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
1 431 (44.16%) Data Modelling
2 399 (40.88%) Analytics
3 366 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 317 (32.48%) Business Intelligence
5 290 (29.71%) Data Engineering
6 265 (27.15%) CI/CD
7 244 (25.00%) Agile
8 241 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
9 232 (23.77%) DevOps
10 225 (23.05%) Data Governance
11 203 (20.80%) Migration
12 174 (17.83%) Data Integration
13 163 (16.70%) Data Architecture
14 146 (14.96%) Data Migration
15 134 (13.73%) Validation
16 122 (12.50%) Data Science
17 112 (11.48%) Data Transformation
18 110 (11.27%) Machine Learning
19 106 (10.86%) AI
20 102 (10.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 626 (64.14%) SQL
2 460 (47.13%) Python
3 83 (8.50%) Java
4 41 (4.20%) C#
5 39 (4.00%) Scala
6 36 (3.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (3.59%) PL/SQL
8 31 (3.18%) T-SQL
9 30 (3.07%) JavaScript
10 18 (1.84%) R
11 16 (1.64%) Go
12 15 (1.54%) PHP
13 14 (1.43%) Bash
13 14 (1.43%) PowerShell
14 12 (1.23%) VBA
15 10 (1.02%) Bicep
15 10 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.92%) TypeScript
17 7 (0.72%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.61%) Korn
Qualifications
1 183 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 140 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.17%) Degree
4 44 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.89%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.18%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 16 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.82%) PMP
11 7 (0.72%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.51%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.41%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.31%) CISSP
14 3 (0.31%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.31%) MCP
15 2 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 1 (0.10%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 307 (31.45%) Data Quality
2 71 (7.27%) GDPR
3 68 (6.97%) QA
4 15 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.23%) IFRS
7 9 (0.92%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.72%) IFRS 17
9 6 (0.61%) SLA
10 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.41%) MiFID
11 4 (0.41%) WCAG
12 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.31%) Basel III
12 3 (0.31%) GAAP
12 3 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.31%) PMO
13 2 (0.20%) EMIR
13 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 115 (11.78%) Docker
2 5 (0.51%) zsh
3 3 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.31%) 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 Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 106 (10.86%) Kubernetes
2 83 (8.50%) Terraform
3 10 (1.02%) Ansible
4 9 (0.92%) Grafana
5 7 (0.72%) Control-M
6 6 (0.61%) Kibana
6 6 (0.61%) logstash
7 4 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.31%) Argo
8 3 (0.31%) Istio
8 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.10%) Puppet
10 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 188 (19.26%) Databricks
2 165 (16.91%) Microsoft
3 130 (13.32%) Oracle
4 62 (6.35%) Talend
5 59 (6.05%) Informatica
6 47 (4.82%) SAP
7 43 (4.41%) Google
8 38 (3.89%) Denodo
9 29 (2.97%) Salesforce
10 20 (2.05%) IBM
11 19 (1.95%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.64%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.43%) Palantir
14 11 (1.13%) Foundry
14 11 (1.13%) Workday
15 8 (0.82%) Ab Initio
15 8 (0.82%) Cognos
16 7 (0.72%) Alteryx
17 6 (0.61%) VMware
18 5 (0.51%) Teradata