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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 82 80
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,527 817 872
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.34% 2.96% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.26% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 560 631
10th Percentile £363 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £626
90th Percentile £675 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 13 7
10th Percentile £21.25 £36.05 £33.15
25th Percentile £29.96 £38.96 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +23.53% -40.14%
75th Percentile £53.13 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £64.36 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% +2.35% -40.14%

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 38,841 25,050 28,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.82% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,105 15,945 18,525
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -2.61% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,450 1,590
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.20 £14.12
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.87 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +5.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% +0.61%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +7 757 £525 - 379
Midlands +27 281 £459 -0.76% 67
West Midlands +33 245 £459 -8.20% 55
North of England -14 179 £475 - 89
South East +12 147 £459 +2.00% 87
Yorkshire -1 81 £475 +12.43% 17
North West -30 75 £475 -5.00% 54
South West -28 65 £523 +13.59% 35
East of England +3 55 £475 -13.64% 16
East Midlands -13 35 £486 +12.06% 12
North East -18 24 £520 +15.56% 18
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 (8.25%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (6.61%) SAS
4 79 (5.17%) Apache
5 55 (3.60%) Confluence
6 26 (1.70%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.64%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) nginx
9 9 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.59%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.20%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.13%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.065%) CMS
Applications
1 34 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.65%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.59%) Sage X3
5 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 599 (39.23%) Azure
2 441 (28.88%) AWS
3 364 (23.84%) Power Platform
4 221 (14.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 192 (12.57%) GCP
5 192 (12.57%) Snowflake
6 132 (8.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 131 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (7.60%) dbt
9 110 (7.20%) Serverless
10 109 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 101 (6.61%) GitHub
12 85 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (2.62%) Collibra
15 29 (1.90%) Amazon EMR
15 29 (1.90%) Power Automate
16 24 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (1.57%) Matillion
17 23 (1.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 8 (0.52%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.20%) DHCP
4 3 (0.20%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.065%) Network Security
5 1 (0.065%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 530 (34.71%) Data Warehouse
2 353 (23.12%) Power BI
3 222 (14.54%) Data Lake
4 155 (10.15%) SQL Server
5 142 (9.30%) Metadata
6 97 (6.35%) Relational Database
7 92 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 91 (5.96%) Tableau
9 89 (5.83%) BigQuery
10 86 (5.63%) Delta Lake
11 84 (5.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 76 (4.98%) Pentaho
13 70 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
14 69 (4.52%) Big Data
15 67 (4.39%) NoSQL
16 65 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
17 60 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
18 52 (3.41%) Snowflake Schema
19 45 (2.95%) Star Schema
20 44 (2.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 175 (11.46%) Git
2 136 (8.91%) JIRA
3 89 (5.83%) GitLab
4 68 (4.45%) Jenkins
5 47 (3.08%) Zephyr
6 43 (2.82%) Postman
7 11 (0.72%) Selenium
8 7 (0.46%) MLflow
8 7 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.39%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.33%) ERwin
10 5 (0.33%) Gatling
11 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.26%) Flyway
11 4 (0.26%) LSMW
11 4 (0.26%) Newman
11 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.20%) NeoLoad
General
1 359 (23.51%) Social Skills
2 349 (22.86%) Finance
3 281 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.60%) Banking
6 32 (2.10%) Retail
7 29 (1.90%) Marketing
8 28 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 26 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.31%) Legal
12 17 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.05%) Law
13 16 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.92%) Front Office
15 11 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.59%) Billing
16 9 (0.59%) Military
16 9 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 596 (39.03%) Data Engineer
2 231 (15.13%) Developer
3 200 (13.10%) Senior
4 190 (12.44%) Architect
5 163 (10.67%) Lead
6 135 (8.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 108 (7.07%) Analyst
8 96 (6.29%) Data Architect
9 54 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
10 51 (3.34%) Data Analyst
11 46 (3.01%) Tester
12 45 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
12 45 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 42 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
14 38 (2.49%) SQL Developer
15 37 (2.42%) Oracle Developer
16 36 (2.36%) Data Migration Lead
16 36 (2.36%) Snowflake Engineer
17 35 (2.29%) Lead Data Engineer
18 33 (2.16%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (10.02%) PySpark
2 116 (7.60%) Kafka
3 66 (4.32%) REST
4 47 (3.08%) JSON
5 45 (2.95%) .NET
6 28 (1.83%) React
7 27 (1.77%) Pandas
8 23 (1.51%) Middleware
9 20 (1.31%) Spring
9 20 (1.31%) XML
10 19 (1.24%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.11%) YAML
12 14 (0.92%) RESTful
13 13 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (0.79%) pytest
15 11 (0.72%) Great Expectations
15 11 (0.72%) OAuth
15 11 (0.72%) Web Services
16 10 (0.65%) HTML
16 10 (0.65%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 91 (5.96%) Data Structures
3 67 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.47%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 34 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 21 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (1.38%) NHS
8 20 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
10 18 (1.18%) Clustering
10 18 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 12 (0.79%) Replication
12 11 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.72%) SCADA
13 10 (0.65%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.65%) IoT
14 9 (0.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.67%) Linux
2 47 (3.08%) Unix
3 17 (1.11%) Windows
4 7 (0.46%) Solaris
4 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 720 (47.15%) Data Modelling
2 623 (40.80%) Data Pipeline
3 594 (38.90%) Analytics
4 478 (31.30%) CI/CD
5 477 (31.24%) Data Engineering
6 443 (29.01%) Business Intelligence
7 436 (28.55%) Agile
8 407 (26.65%) Migration
9 354 (23.18%) DevOps
10 330 (21.61%) Data Integration
11 305 (19.97%) Data Governance
12 283 (18.53%) Validation
13 279 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
14 254 (16.63%) Data Migration
15 243 (15.91%) AI
16 232 (15.19%) Test Automation
17 213 (13.95%) Data Architecture
18 210 (13.75%) Data Transformation
19 209 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
20 197 (12.90%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,024 (67.06%) SQL
2 564 (36.94%) Python
3 139 (9.10%) Java
4 80 (5.24%) PL/SQL
5 78 (5.11%) T-SQL
6 65 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 50 (3.27%) C#
8 46 (3.01%) Scala
9 42 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 42 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 30 (1.96%) Bash
11 28 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.18%) R
13 17 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.85%) Bicep
15 8 (0.52%) Cypher
16 7 (0.46%) VBA
17 5 (0.33%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.33%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 429 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 361 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 74 (4.85%) Degree
4 38 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 31 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 14 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 537 (35.17%) Data Quality
2 129 (8.45%) QA
3 82 (5.37%) GDPR
4 35 (2.29%) GRC
5 25 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.59%) IFRS
7 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.59%) PMO
8 8 (0.52%) SLA
8 8 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.52%) WCAG
9 7 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.39%) HL7
11 5 (0.33%) FATCA
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 120 (7.86%) Docker
2 11 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.33%) HDFS
4 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 137 (8.97%) Terraform
2 116 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.77%) Grafana
4 19 (1.24%) Ansible
5 13 (0.85%) Control-M
6 10 (0.65%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.065%) Argo
10 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 309 (20.24%) Databricks
1 309 (20.24%) Oracle
2 267 (17.49%) Microsoft
3 123 (8.06%) Informatica
4 111 (7.27%) Talend
5 70 (4.58%) SAP
6 65 (4.26%) Denodo
6 65 (4.26%) Google
7 43 (2.82%) IBM
8 34 (2.23%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.90%) Alteryx
10 28 (1.83%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.31%) Palantir
11 20 (1.31%) Sage
12 14 (0.92%) Foundry
13 13 (0.85%) Teradata
14 11 (0.72%) Cloudera
14 11 (0.72%) Workday
15 10 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.65%) Red Hat