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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,549 820 908
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 2.97% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.27% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 560 671
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £507
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -0.59% -7.82%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £621
90th Percentile £688 £704 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 8
10th Percentile £21.25 £38.69 £27.78
25th Percentile £29.96 £44.50 £33.84
Median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £52.50 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £89.73 -
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -27.08% +23.87% -40.38%

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 38,823 25,045 28,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.31% 90.74% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,257 16,045 18,963
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,475 1,380 1,752
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £17.80
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 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 1 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 1 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 +9 774 £525 -0.94% 231
Midlands +23 279 £459 +2.00% 56
West Midlands +37 243 £459 -4.38% 45
North of England -3 186 £463 -2.63% 73
South East +10 141 £459 -1.92% 69
North West -23 81 £460 -8.00% 43
Yorkshire -4 80 £469 +10.95% 16
South West -23 66 £523 +10.00% 39
East of England +12 56 £475 -5.00% 17
East Midlands -15 35 £490 +12.00% 11
North East -17 26 £525 +10.53% 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
1 130 (8.39%) Apache Spark
2 118 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (6.84%) SAS
4 77 (4.97%) Apache
5 56 (3.62%) Confluence
6 23 (1.48%) Oracle Application Server
7 22 (1.42%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.65%) nginx
8 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.39%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.19%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.19%) Appian
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.065%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.32%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.71%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.65%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.19%) Actimize
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 606 (39.12%) Azure
2 451 (29.12%) AWS
3 363 (23.43%) Power Platform
4 216 (13.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 195 (12.59%) GCP
6 180 (11.62%) Snowflake
7 140 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.20%) Azure DevOps
9 118 (7.62%) dbt
10 116 (7.49%) Amazon S3
11 115 (7.42%) Serverless
12 89 (5.75%) GitHub
13 88 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
14 49 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (2.58%) Collibra
16 32 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (1.87%) Power Automate
18 28 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 27 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
20 25 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.77%) Firewall
2 8 (0.52%) HTTP
3 5 (0.32%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.32%) VPN
3 5 (0.32%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.065%) 4G
4 1 (0.065%) 5G
4 1 (0.065%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.065%) DHCP
4 1 (0.065%) DNS
4 1 (0.065%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.065%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 515 (33.25%) Data Warehouse
2 347 (22.40%) Power BI
3 226 (14.59%) Data Lake
4 159 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 137 (8.84%) Metadata
6 101 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 96 (6.20%) Tableau
8 90 (5.81%) Relational Database
9 88 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 87 (5.62%) BigQuery
11 85 (5.49%) Delta Lake
12 80 (5.16%) Pentaho
13 74 (4.78%) Big Data
14 67 (4.33%) Oracle Reports
15 66 (4.26%) NoSQL
16 63 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
17 60 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
18 59 (3.81%) Snowflake Schema
19 48 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
19 48 (3.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 171 (11.04%) Git
2 129 (8.33%) JIRA
3 82 (5.29%) GitLab
4 66 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.58%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.39%) Postman
7 12 (0.77%) Selenium
8 11 (0.71%) MLflow
9 7 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
11 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.26%) Flyway
11 4 (0.26%) LSMW
11 4 (0.26%) Newman
11 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.26%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.19%) ERwin
12 3 (0.19%) JMeter
12 3 (0.19%) JUnit
General
1 371 (23.95%) Finance
2 366 (23.63%) Social Skills
3 272 (17.56%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (10.52%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.23%) Banking
6 35 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (2.13%) Marketing
8 29 (1.87%) Retail
9 24 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.16%) Legal
13 16 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.84%) Front Office
15 12 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.71%) Law
17 10 (0.65%) Billing
17 10 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.58%) Military
19 7 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 615 (39.70%) Data Engineer
2 234 (15.11%) Developer
3 203 (13.11%) Architect
4 189 (12.20%) Senior
5 161 (10.39%) Lead
6 129 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 110 (7.10%) Analyst
8 105 (6.78%) Data Architect
9 54 (3.49%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 43 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
12 43 (2.78%) SQL Developer
13 42 (2.71%) AWS Engineer
14 41 (2.65%) Tester
15 37 (2.39%) Snowflake Engineer
16 35 (2.26%) Lead Data Engineer
17 34 (2.19%) Oracle Developer
18 33 (2.13%) AWS Data Engineer
18 33 (2.13%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (10.39%) PySpark
2 122 (7.88%) Kafka
3 68 (4.39%) REST
4 54 (3.49%) JSON
5 40 (2.58%) .NET
6 33 (2.13%) Pandas
7 26 (1.68%) Middleware
7 26 (1.68%) React
8 25 (1.61%) XML
9 22 (1.42%) Spring
10 20 (1.29%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.10%) YAML
12 16 (1.03%) RESTful
12 16 (1.03%) Web Services
13 14 (0.90%) Apache Avro
13 14 (0.90%) Great Expectations
14 13 (0.84%) NumPy
14 13 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.84%) pytest
15 12 (0.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.48%) AI Agents
7 23 (1.48%) NHS
8 21 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
10 18 (1.16%) Clustering
10 18 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 12 (0.77%) Replication
13 10 (0.65%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.65%) IoT
13 10 (0.65%) Taxonomies
14 9 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 48 (3.10%) Unix
2 47 (3.03%) Linux
3 18 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
9 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 732 (47.26%) Data Modelling
2 632 (40.80%) Data Pipeline
3 602 (38.86%) Analytics
4 484 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 470 (30.34%) CI/CD
6 444 (28.66%) Business Intelligence
7 412 (26.60%) Agile
8 401 (25.89%) Migration
9 336 (21.69%) DevOps
10 319 (20.59%) Data Governance
11 312 (20.14%) Data Integration
12 305 (19.69%) Validation
13 281 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
14 252 (16.27%) Data Migration
15 240 (15.49%) AI
16 221 (14.27%) Data Architecture
17 217 (14.01%) Test Automation
18 211 (13.62%) Decision-Making
19 192 (12.40%) Data Transformation
20 185 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,035 (66.82%) SQL
2 588 (37.96%) Python
3 135 (8.72%) Java
4 85 (5.49%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.84%) PL/SQL
6 73 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.36%) C#
8 46 (2.97%) Scala
9 40 (2.58%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.52%) PowerShell
11 30 (1.94%) Bash
12 29 (1.87%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.29%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.23%) R
15 15 (0.97%) Bicep
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 8 (0.52%) Cypher
18 7 (0.45%) SAS Macro
19 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
19 6 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 437 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 368 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 74 (4.78%) Degree
4 38 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 33 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 24 (1.55%) ISTQB
7 20 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.16%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.45%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.13%) CISSP
14 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 534 (34.47%) Data Quality
2 135 (8.72%) QA
3 90 (5.81%) GDPR
4 34 (2.19%) GRC
5 25 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.90%) PMO
7 13 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.65%) IFRS
9 9 (0.58%) SLA
10 8 (0.52%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.52%) WCAG
11 7 (0.45%) FATCA
11 7 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.32%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.26%) GAAP
14 4 (0.26%) GMP
14 4 (0.26%) HL7
14 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
15 3 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 114 (7.36%) Docker
2 8 (0.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) HDFS
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (8.65%) Terraform
2 122 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.74%) Grafana
4 17 (1.10%) Ansible
5 16 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.65%) Control-M
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.065%) Argo
9 1 (0.065%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.065%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.065%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.065%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 308 (19.88%) Oracle
2 298 (19.24%) Databricks
3 271 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 134 (8.65%) Informatica
5 124 (8.01%) Talend
6 77 (4.97%) SAP
7 63 (4.07%) Google
8 61 (3.94%) Denodo
9 42 (2.71%) IBM
10 36 (2.32%) ServiceNow
11 33 (2.13%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.87%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.48%) Sage
14 20 (1.29%) Palantir
15 16 (1.03%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.97%) Splunk
17 13 (0.84%) Cloudera
17 13 (0.84%) Foundry
18 12 (0.77%) OpenAI
19 11 (0.71%) Workday