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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 79 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,490 791 938
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.11% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.40% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,102 541 705
10th Percentile £358 £363 £359
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £695 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.28% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 12
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.69 £30.83
25th Percentile £33.00 £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £44.28 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% +15.38% -35.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.87 £89.73 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £48.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +11.98% +5.49% -32.59%

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 37,198 23,233 31,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 91.23% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,460 14,972 20,715
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,331 1,147 2,335
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 +11 754 £520 -3.21% 146
Midlands +29 263 £459 +2.00% 45
West Midlands +46 232 £459 -7.74% 31
North of England -10 181 £463 -1.91% 53
South East +5 134 £475 -5.00% 80
North West -10 94 £450 -10.00% 34
South West -21 67 £523 +10.00% 27
Yorkshire -21 66 £500 +19.05% 12
East of England -8 44 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -12 30 £525 +23.67% 14
North East -22 21 £550 +30.95% 8
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 (8.72%) Apache Spark
2 106 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (4.77%) SAS
4 66 (4.43%) Apache
5 52 (3.49%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.87%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
8 10 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.47%) Appian
11 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.27%) Camunda
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.067%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 40 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.34%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.74%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.67%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.20%) Actimize
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 603 (40.47%) Azure
2 447 (30.00%) AWS
3 365 (24.50%) Power Platform
4 214 (14.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 176 (11.81%) GCP
6 158 (10.60%) Snowflake
7 143 (9.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 131 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
9 124 (8.32%) Amazon S3
10 114 (7.65%) Serverless
11 103 (6.91%) dbt
12 95 (6.38%) GitHub
13 86 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (2.68%) Collibra
16 32 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (1.95%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.68%) Matillion
20 24 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.74%) Firewall
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.067%) 4G
4 1 (0.067%) 5G
4 1 (0.067%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.067%) DHCP
4 1 (0.067%) DNS
4 1 (0.067%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.067%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (30.13%) Data Warehouse
2 346 (23.22%) Power BI
3 229 (15.37%) Data Lake
4 168 (11.28%) SQL Server
5 124 (8.32%) Metadata
6 99 (6.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.38%) Tableau
8 90 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 90 (6.04%) Delta Lake
9 82 (5.50%) Pentaho
9 82 (5.50%) Relational Database
10 76 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 73 (4.90%) NoSQL
12 70 (4.70%) Big Data
12 70 (4.70%) BigQuery
13 61 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
14 59 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
14 59 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
15 51 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (3.15%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 170 (11.41%) Git
2 132 (8.86%) JIRA
3 85 (5.70%) GitLab
4 62 (4.16%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.68%) Postman
6 35 (2.35%) Zephyr
7 16 (1.07%) MLflow
8 11 (0.74%) Selenium
9 8 (0.54%) ERwin
10 6 (0.40%) JMeter
11 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 5 (0.34%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Flyway
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) LSMW
12 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 393 (26.38%) Finance
2 374 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 256 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.25%) Banking
6 37 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.95%) Marketing
8 27 (1.81%) Retail
9 20 (1.34%) Financial Institution
9 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 19 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.21%) Legal
11 18 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.60%) Billing
12 9 (0.60%) Law
13 8 (0.54%) Front Office
13 8 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.54%) Military
14 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 608 (40.81%) Data Engineer
2 202 (13.56%) Developer
3 177 (11.88%) Senior
4 176 (11.81%) Architect
5 169 (11.34%) Lead
6 121 (8.12%) Senior Data Engineer
7 112 (7.52%) Analyst
8 103 (6.91%) Data Architect
9 64 (4.30%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (2.55%) SQL Developer
14 35 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
14 35 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
15 34 (2.28%) AWS Data Engineer
16 33 (2.21%) Azure Data Engineer
16 33 (2.21%) Consultant
17 31 (2.08%) Oracle Developer
17 31 (2.08%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (11.14%) PySpark
2 120 (8.05%) Kafka
3 72 (4.83%) REST
4 42 (2.82%) JSON
5 40 (2.68%) .NET
6 38 (2.55%) Pandas
7 35 (2.35%) XML
8 29 (1.95%) Middleware
9 27 (1.81%) Spring
10 25 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (1.68%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.21%) React
11 18 (1.21%) RESTful
11 18 (1.21%) Web Services
12 17 (1.14%) PyTorch
13 16 (1.07%) OAuth
13 16 (1.07%) YAML
14 15 (1.01%) NumPy
14 15 (1.01%) pytest
14 15 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.24%) Data Structures
3 80 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.82%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.48%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.34%) NHS
11 19 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.07%) Clustering
13 15 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 14 (0.94%) Reinsurance
15 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.81%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.74%) IoT
16 11 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.28%) Unix
2 30 (2.01%) Linux
3 17 (1.14%) Windows
4 8 (0.54%) Solaris
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (47.05%) Data Modelling
2 582 (39.06%) Data Pipeline
3 567 (38.05%) Analytics
4 465 (31.21%) Data Engineering
5 432 (28.99%) Business Intelligence
6 430 (28.86%) CI/CD
7 380 (25.50%) Migration
8 372 (24.97%) Agile
9 324 (21.74%) DevOps
10 291 (19.53%) Validation
11 282 (18.93%) Data Governance
11 282 (18.93%) Problem-Solving
12 252 (16.91%) Data Integration
13 251 (16.85%) AI
14 240 (16.11%) Data Migration
15 222 (14.90%) Data Architecture
16 202 (13.56%) Decision-Making
17 195 (13.09%) Test Automation
18 166 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
19 153 (10.27%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (67.32%) SQL
2 602 (40.40%) Python
3 128 (8.59%) Java
4 85 (5.70%) T-SQL
5 70 (4.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 69 (4.63%) PL/SQL
7 57 (3.83%) C#
8 52 (3.49%) Scala
9 36 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.21%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.81%) Bash
12 23 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 22 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 16 (1.07%) R
15 14 (0.94%) Bicep
16 9 (0.60%) Cypher
17 8 (0.54%) VBA
18 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
19 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
20 5 (0.34%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 400 (26.85%) Security Cleared
2 331 (22.21%) SC Cleared
3 82 (5.50%) Degree
4 42 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.74%) ISTQB
8 22 (1.48%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.60%) SnowPro
12 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.13%) PMP
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (33.15%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.19%) QA
3 97 (6.51%) GDPR
4 18 (1.21%) IFRS
5 17 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.01%) IFRS 17
7 14 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.87%) PMO
8 13 (0.87%) SLA
9 8 (0.54%) FATCA
10 7 (0.47%) GRC
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.34%) GAAP
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.27%) GMP
13 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.20%) HL7
14 3 (0.20%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 110 (7.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.34%) HDFS
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.067%) RACF
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (9.06%) Terraform
2 116 (7.79%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.41%) Grafana
4 14 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.87%) Ansible
6 7 (0.47%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.067%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.067%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 296 (19.87%) Databricks
2 277 (18.59%) Oracle
3 272 (18.26%) Microsoft
4 136 (9.13%) Informatica
5 125 (8.39%) Talend
6 68 (4.56%) SAP
7 59 (3.96%) Denodo
8 48 (3.22%) Google
9 43 (2.89%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.01%) IBM
11 29 (1.95%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.74%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.41%) Sage
14 19 (1.28%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.14%) Splunk
16 16 (1.07%) Workday
17 15 (1.01%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.81%) Palantir
19 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
20 10 (0.67%) Red Hat