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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 83 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,556 828 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 2.98% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.28% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,132 565 637
10th Percentile £360 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £713 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 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% -40.56%
75th Percentile £52.50 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £86.74 -
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -20.72% +2.35% -40.56%

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 39,024 25,239 28,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,245 16,077 18,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,548 1,443 1,638
10th Percentile £14.42 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.87 £18.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.17% +3.59%
75th Percentile £68.55 £50.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.50% -38.57% -1.35%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +2 766 £525 - 292
Midlands +25 294 £459 -0.76% 53
West Midlands +32 258 £459 -8.20% 41
North of England -14 181 £475 - 68
South East +16 149 £459 +2.00% 86
Yorkshire -4 82 £475 +11.76% 13
North West -20 75 £475 -5.00% 42
South West -32 67 £523 +11.76% 32
East of England +7 55 £463 -15.91% 12
East Midlands -15 35 £486 +12.06% 12
North East -19 25 £520 +15.56% 14
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
1 127 (8.16%) Apache Spark
2 116 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (7.07%) SAS
4 80 (5.14%) Apache
5 55 (3.53%) Confluence
6 26 (1.67%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.61%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.58%) nginx
8 9 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.32%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.13%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.064%) CMS
Applications
1 36 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.32%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.064%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.64%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.19%) Actimize
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 604 (38.82%) Azure
2 455 (29.24%) AWS
3 369 (23.71%) Power Platform
4 225 (14.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 191 (12.28%) GCP
6 189 (12.15%) Snowflake
7 135 (8.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 130 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 117 (7.52%) dbt
10 114 (7.33%) Amazon S3
11 113 (7.26%) Serverless
12 103 (6.62%) GitHub
13 87 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (2.38%) Collibra
16 33 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (1.86%) Power Automate
18 25 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
18 25 (1.61%) Matillion
19 23 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.77%) Firewall
2 7 (0.45%) HTTP
3 5 (0.32%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 5 (0.32%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.19%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.19%) DHCP
4 3 (0.19%) DNS
4 3 (0.19%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) Network Security
5 1 (0.064%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 536 (34.45%) Data Warehouse
2 356 (22.88%) Power BI
3 226 (14.52%) Data Lake
4 157 (10.09%) SQL Server
5 142 (9.13%) Metadata
6 95 (6.11%) Relational Database
7 92 (5.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 92 (5.91%) Tableau
8 90 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (5.72%) BigQuery
10 87 (5.59%) Delta Lake
11 84 (5.40%) Pentaho
12 72 (4.63%) Oracle Reports
13 71 (4.56%) Big Data
14 68 (4.37%) NoSQL
15 65 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
17 54 (3.47%) Snowflake Schema
18 49 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
19 45 (2.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (11.70%) Git
2 137 (8.80%) JIRA
3 89 (5.72%) GitLab
4 70 (4.50%) Jenkins
5 47 (3.02%) Zephyr
6 44 (2.83%) Postman
7 12 (0.77%) Selenium
8 8 (0.51%) MLflow
9 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.39%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.32%) ERwin
11 5 (0.32%) Gatling
12 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.26%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.26%) Flyway
12 4 (0.26%) LSMW
12 4 (0.26%) Newman
12 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.19%) NeoLoad
General
1 366 (23.52%) Social Skills
2 355 (22.81%) Finance
3 283 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 118 (7.58%) Banking
6 33 (2.12%) Retail
7 30 (1.93%) Manufacturing
7 30 (1.93%) Marketing
8 26 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.29%) Legal
11 17 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.03%) Law
13 14 (0.90%) Front Office
14 11 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.64%) Billing
15 10 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.58%) Military
17 8 (0.51%) Police
Job Titles
1 617 (39.65%) Data Engineer
2 235 (15.10%) Developer
3 199 (12.79%) Senior
4 196 (12.60%) Architect
5 160 (10.28%) Lead
6 134 (8.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 109 (7.01%) Analyst
8 102 (6.56%) Data Architect
9 53 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
10 52 (3.34%) Data Analyst
11 47 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.96%) Tester
13 45 (2.89%) AWS Engineer
13 45 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (2.57%) SQL Developer
15 37 (2.38%) Oracle Developer
16 36 (2.31%) Data Migration Lead
16 36 (2.31%) Snowflake Engineer
17 35 (2.25%) AWS Data Engineer
18 34 (2.19%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (10.22%) PySpark
2 117 (7.52%) Kafka
3 65 (4.18%) REST
4 46 (2.96%) JSON
5 45 (2.89%) .NET
6 28 (1.80%) React
7 27 (1.74%) Pandas
8 22 (1.41%) Middleware
9 20 (1.29%) Spring
9 20 (1.29%) XML
10 19 (1.22%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.09%) YAML
12 14 (0.90%) RESTful
13 13 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.84%) pytest
14 12 (0.77%) Great Expectations
15 11 (0.71%) HTML
15 11 (0.71%) OAuth
15 11 (0.71%) Web Services
16 10 (0.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 142 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.11%) Data Structures
3 71 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (3.34%) Product Ownership
5 47 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
7 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 21 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.35%) NHS
9 20 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.16%) Clustering
10 18 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 18 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.09%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.77%) Replication
13 10 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.64%) IoT
13 10 (0.64%) SCADA
14 9 (0.58%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.53%) Linux
2 47 (3.02%) Unix
3 16 (1.03%) Windows
4 6 (0.39%) Solaris
4 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.13%) HPUX
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (47.30%) Data Modelling
2 635 (40.81%) Data Pipeline
3 600 (38.56%) Analytics
4 484 (31.11%) CI/CD
5 482 (30.98%) Data Engineering
6 447 (28.73%) Business Intelligence
7 444 (28.53%) Agile
8 419 (26.93%) Migration
9 353 (22.69%) DevOps
10 335 (21.53%) Data Integration
11 311 (19.99%) Data Governance
12 296 (19.02%) Validation
13 284 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
14 261 (16.77%) Data Migration
15 246 (15.81%) AI
16 233 (14.97%) Test Automation
17 219 (14.07%) Data Architecture
18 209 (13.43%) Data Transformation
19 205 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
20 198 (12.72%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,045 (67.16%) SQL
2 574 (36.89%) Python
3 137 (8.80%) Java
4 82 (5.27%) T-SQL
5 78 (5.01%) PL/SQL
6 68 (4.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 49 (3.15%) C#
8 47 (3.02%) Scala
9 42 (2.70%) JavaScript
10 41 (2.63%) PowerShell
11 35 (2.25%) Bash
12 28 (1.80%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.16%) R
14 17 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.84%) Bicep
16 8 (0.51%) Cypher
16 8 (0.51%) VBA
17 7 (0.45%) SAS Macro
18 5 (0.32%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 441 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 371 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 72 (4.63%) Degree
4 37 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 32 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (1.99%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.45%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
16 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (35.41%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.93%) QA
3 84 (5.40%) GDPR
4 35 (2.25%) GRC
5 24 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.64%) PMO
8 9 (0.58%) IFRS
8 9 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.58%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.51%) WCAG
10 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.39%) HL7
11 5 (0.32%) FATCA
12 4 (0.26%) GAAP
12 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.19%) GMP
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.19%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 120 (7.71%) Docker
2 11 (0.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.32%) HDFS
3 5 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 140 (9.00%) Terraform
2 117 (7.52%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.74%) Grafana
4 19 (1.22%) Ansible
5 13 (0.84%) Control-M
6 10 (0.64%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) Puppet
10 1 (0.064%) Argo
10 1 (0.064%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.064%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.064%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 319 (20.50%) Oracle
2 316 (20.31%) Databricks
3 272 (17.48%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.68%) Informatica
5 123 (7.90%) Talend
6 75 (4.82%) SAP
7 65 (4.18%) Denodo
8 64 (4.11%) Google
9 42 (2.70%) IBM
10 35 (2.25%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.86%) Alteryx
11 29 (1.86%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.41%) Sage
13 20 (1.29%) Palantir
14 15 (0.96%) Cloudera
14 15 (0.96%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.90%) Foundry
16 13 (0.84%) Teradata
17 11 (0.71%) Workday
18 10 (0.64%) Bloomberg