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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 77 102
Rank change year-on-year -8 +25 -4
Contract jobs citing ETL 896 898 887
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.89% 2.96% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 3.37% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 595 686
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £645
90th Percentile £698 £712 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 14
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £43.99
25th Percentile £35.25 £30.63 £50.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -29.75% +68.06%
75th Percentile £74.26 £78.70 £64.88
90th Percentile £82.95 £102.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £61.43
% change year-on-year +2.35% -30.81% +70.63%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 +2 534 £525 - 207
Midlands -9 122 £515 +8.42% 104
West Midlands -8 98 £519 +7.39% 53
North of England -42 98 £441 -1.94% 126
North West -1 59 £413 -5.71% 59
South West -8 48 £538 -6.52% 77
South East -51 39 £450 -18.18% 217
Yorkshire -52 33 £475 +5.56% 51
East Midlands -9 24 £438 +15.13% 44
East of England -7 23 £563 +9.76% 81
North East -7 5 £444 -6.58% 16
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 84 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 82 (9.15%) Apache Airflow
3 62 (6.92%) Apache
4 47 (5.25%) SAS
5 12 (1.34%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.78%) Confluence
8 5 (0.56%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.22%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.78%) SAP HR
3 6 (0.67%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.56%) Maximo
5 4 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.22%) Actimize
7 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.22%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 339 (37.83%) Azure
2 279 (31.14%) AWS
3 190 (21.21%) Power Platform
4 135 (15.07%) GCP
5 134 (14.96%) Snowflake
6 122 (13.62%) Azure Data Factory
7 88 (9.82%) Amazon S3
8 83 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 73 (8.15%) Serverless
10 59 (6.58%) dbt
11 55 (6.14%) GitHub
12 51 (5.69%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
14 28 (3.13%) SaaS
15 26 (2.90%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.90%) Power Automate
19 16 (1.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.67%) 2G
1 6 (0.67%) 5G
1 6 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.56%) 4G
3 4 (0.45%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
4 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) DSL
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (30.92%) Data Warehouse
2 180 (20.09%) Power BI
3 115 (12.83%) Data Lake
4 94 (10.49%) SQL Server
5 85 (9.49%) Relational Database
6 82 (9.15%) Metadata
7 67 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 66 (7.37%) Big Data
9 63 (7.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 61 (6.81%) BigQuery
10 61 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (6.58%) Tableau
12 45 (5.02%) Pentaho
13 44 (4.91%) NoSQL
14 40 (4.46%) Delta Lake
15 37 (4.13%) Snowflake Schema
16 34 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
17 32 (3.57%) Oracle Database
18 30 (3.35%) DataStage
19 29 (3.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 111 (12.39%) Git
2 64 (7.14%) JIRA
3 58 (6.47%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.79%) GitLab
5 13 (1.45%) ERwin
6 10 (1.12%) MLflow
7 8 (0.89%) DBeaver
7 8 (0.89%) Postman
7 8 (0.89%) Selenium
8 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.67%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.45%) Toad
10 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.33%) Poetry
11 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.22%) REST Assured
General
1 272 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 227 (25.33%) Finance
3 171 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 60 (6.70%) Banking
6 19 (2.12%) Retail
6 19 (2.12%) Telecoms
7 14 (1.56%) Marketing
7 14 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 10 (1.12%) Legal
10 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.89%) Law
12 8 (0.89%) Local Government
13 7 (0.78%) Front Office
13 7 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 299 (33.37%) Data Engineer
2 138 (15.40%) Developer
3 97 (10.83%) Analyst
4 94 (10.49%) Architect
4 94 (10.49%) Lead
5 87 (9.71%) Senior
6 64 (7.14%) Data Analyst
7 51 (5.69%) Data Architect
8 46 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (4.02%) Azure Data Engineer
11 29 (3.24%) Business Analyst
12 27 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
12 27 (3.01%) Consultant
13 24 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 21 (2.34%) Snowflake Engineer
15 20 (2.23%) AWS Data Engineer
16 19 (2.12%) Python Engineer
17 18 (2.01%) Lead Data Engineer
17 18 (2.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (8.93%) PySpark
2 75 (8.37%) Kafka
3 39 (4.35%) XML
4 31 (3.46%) Node.js
5 30 (3.35%) REST
6 27 (3.01%) JSON
7 20 (2.23%) RESTful
8 19 (2.12%) Pandas
9 16 (1.79%) NumPy
10 13 (1.45%) OAuth
11 12 (1.34%) AngularJS
12 11 (1.23%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.23%) React
13 10 (1.12%) .NET
13 10 (1.12%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.12%) Middleware
14 9 (1.00%) SOAP
15 8 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
15 8 (0.89%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.59%) Cloud Native
2 56 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 30 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.56%) Replication
9 13 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 11 (1.23%) IoT
11 11 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.23%) Onboarding
12 8 (0.89%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.89%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.78%) Data Fabric
13 7 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.24%) Linux
2 12 (1.34%) Windows
3 9 (1.00%) Unix
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (43.97%) Data Modelling
2 352 (39.29%) Analytics
3 339 (37.83%) Data Pipeline
4 267 (29.80%) Business Intelligence
5 265 (29.58%) Data Engineering
6 237 (26.45%) CI/CD
7 234 (26.12%) Problem-Solving
8 224 (25.00%) Agile
9 218 (24.33%) Data Governance
10 198 (22.10%) DevOps
11 196 (21.88%) Migration
12 176 (19.64%) Data Integration
13 143 (15.96%) Data Architecture
14 138 (15.40%) Data Migration
15 116 (12.95%) Validation
16 111 (12.39%) Data Transformation
17 106 (11.83%) Data Science
18 104 (11.61%) Visualisation
19 93 (10.38%) Decision-Making
20 90 (10.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 576 (64.29%) SQL
2 440 (49.11%) Python
3 79 (8.82%) Java
4 44 (4.91%) Scala
5 37 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 34 (3.79%) C#
7 29 (3.24%) PL/SQL
7 29 (3.24%) T-SQL
8 20 (2.23%) JavaScript
9 17 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.67%) Go
10 15 (1.67%) PHP
10 15 (1.67%) R
11 14 (1.56%) Bash
11 14 (1.56%) VBA
12 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.00%) Perl
13 9 (1.00%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.67%) Korn
Qualifications
1 154 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 64 (7.14%) Degree
4 38 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.46%) AWS Certification
7 16 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.56%) PMP
11 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.33%) CISSP
12 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.22%) MCP
14 1 (0.11%) HP APS
14 1 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (30.80%) Data Quality
2 62 (6.92%) GDPR
3 61 (6.81%) QA
4 18 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.67%) IFRS
7 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.45%) MiFID
8 4 (0.45%) SLA
8 4 (0.45%) WCAG
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.33%) PMO
10 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
10 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.22%) EMIR
10 2 (0.22%) FINREP
10 2 (0.22%) HL7
10 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 109 (12.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.56%) zsh
3 4 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) KVM
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 100 (11.16%) Kubernetes
2 71 (7.92%) Terraform
3 13 (1.45%) Grafana
4 9 (1.00%) Ansible
5 5 (0.56%) Control-M
5 5 (0.56%) Kibana
5 5 (0.56%) logstash
5 5 (0.56%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.33%) Argo
7 3 (0.33%) Istio
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 161 (17.97%) Databricks
2 138 (15.40%) Microsoft
3 126 (14.06%) Oracle
4 67 (7.48%) Talend
5 56 (6.25%) Informatica
6 50 (5.58%) Google
7 42 (4.69%) SAP
8 37 (4.13%) Denodo
9 27 (3.01%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.79%) IBM
11 15 (1.67%) Palantir
12 12 (1.34%) Foundry
12 12 (1.34%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.12%) AppDynamics
14 9 (1.00%) VMware
15 8 (0.89%) Cognos
15 8 (0.89%) Workday
16 7 (0.78%) ServiceNow
17 6 (0.67%) Ab Initio
17 6 (0.67%) Alteryx