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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 73 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,467 787 888
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.22% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.52% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 540 675
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -1.49% -3.26%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £626
90th Percentile £695 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 12
10th Percentile £34.90 £38.42 £30.83
25th Percentile £39.46 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £53.11 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% +15.38% -35.00%
75th Percentile £62.75 £78.70 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.87 £90.71 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +15.38% -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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +12 753 £511 -4.15% 154
Midlands +21 247 £460 +3.19% 33
West Midlands +42 218 £459 -4.38% 27
North of England -16 183 £460 -3.16% 54
South East 0 132 £463 -7.50% 73
North West -12 93 £450 -10.00% 34
Yorkshire -22 69 £500 +19.05% 13
South West -17 62 £525 +10.53% 30
East of England -3 44 £494 - 14
East Midlands -30 28 £525 +23.67% 6
North East -11 21 £525 +16.67% 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
1 131 (8.93%) Apache Spark
2 100 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.77%) SAS
4 62 (4.23%) Apache
5 48 (3.27%) Confluence
6 14 (0.95%) Oracle Application Server
7 11 (0.75%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.61%) Appian
9 9 (0.61%) nginx
9 9 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.27%) Camunda
12 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.068%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 38 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.068%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
1 13 (0.89%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.55%) Sage X3
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.41%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.20%) Actimize
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
11 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 609 (41.51%) Azure
2 438 (29.86%) AWS
3 366 (24.95%) Power Platform
4 222 (15.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 170 (11.59%) GCP
6 147 (10.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 143 (9.75%) Snowflake
8 136 (9.27%) Azure DevOps
9 123 (8.38%) Amazon S3
10 113 (7.70%) Serverless
11 98 (6.68%) GitHub
12 95 (6.48%) dbt
13 86 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (3.07%) Collibra
16 30 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (2.04%) SaaS
17 28 (1.91%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
19 24 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.75%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.068%) 4G
4 1 (0.068%) 5G
4 1 (0.068%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.068%) DHCP
4 1 (0.068%) DNS
4 1 (0.068%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (29.04%) Data Warehouse
2 344 (23.45%) Power BI
3 235 (16.02%) Data Lake
4 181 (12.34%) SQL Server
5 126 (8.59%) Metadata
6 94 (6.41%) Tableau
7 93 (6.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 87 (5.93%) Delta Lake
9 84 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
10 81 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
11 79 (5.39%) Pentaho
12 76 (5.18%) Relational Database
13 74 (5.04%) Big Data
14 73 (4.98%) NoSQL
15 64 (4.36%) BigQuery
16 58 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
16 58 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
17 56 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
18 53 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
19 45 (3.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 168 (11.45%) Git
2 134 (9.13%) JIRA
3 90 (6.13%) GitLab
4 67 (4.57%) Jenkins
5 46 (3.14%) Postman
6 35 (2.39%) Zephyr
7 18 (1.23%) MLflow
8 17 (1.16%) Selenium
9 8 (0.55%) ERwin
10 7 (0.48%) JMeter
11 6 (0.41%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.34%) TestRail
13 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.27%) Flyway
13 4 (0.27%) Gatling
13 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.27%) LSMW
13 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 385 (26.24%) Finance
2 377 (25.70%) Social Skills
3 233 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 112 (7.63%) Banking
6 36 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.04%) Marketing
8 25 (1.70%) Financial Institution
9 24 (1.64%) Retail
10 19 (1.30%) Legal
11 15 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.75%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.61%) Law
14 8 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.55%) Military
15 7 (0.48%) Billing
15 7 (0.48%) Front Office
15 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 602 (41.04%) Data Engineer
2 193 (13.16%) Developer
3 174 (11.86%) Senior
4 168 (11.45%) Lead
5 159 (10.84%) Architect
6 119 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
7 112 (7.63%) Analyst
8 87 (5.93%) Data Architect
9 67 (4.57%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (2.45%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (2.45%) SQL Developer
13 33 (2.25%) Consultant
14 32 (2.18%) AWS Data Engineer
14 32 (2.18%) Data Migration Lead
15 30 (2.04%) Azure Data Engineer
15 30 (2.04%) Lead Data Engineer
15 30 (2.04%) Senior Developer
15 30 (2.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (11.04%) PySpark
2 112 (7.63%) Kafka
3 84 (5.73%) REST
4 44 (3.00%) Pandas
5 42 (2.86%) .NET
6 36 (2.45%) JSON
7 34 (2.32%) XML
8 31 (2.11%) Middleware
9 26 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (1.64%) Spring
11 22 (1.50%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.36%) PyTorch
12 20 (1.36%) RESTful
13 19 (1.30%) NumPy
13 19 (1.30%) Web Services
14 18 (1.23%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.23%) OAuth
14 18 (1.23%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.16%) HTML
15 17 (1.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 134 (9.13%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.93%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.52%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 26 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
7 24 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 21 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.02%) Clustering
12 15 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.95%) NHS
14 13 (0.89%) Reinsurance
15 12 (0.82%) IoT
15 12 (0.82%) Low-Code
15 12 (0.82%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.39%) Unix
2 31 (2.11%) Linux
3 17 (1.16%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Solaris
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.14%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 692 (47.17%) Data Modelling
2 559 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
3 551 (37.56%) Analytics
4 454 (30.95%) Data Engineering
5 432 (29.45%) Business Intelligence
6 415 (28.29%) CI/CD
7 353 (24.06%) Agile
8 348 (23.72%) Migration
9 333 (22.70%) DevOps
10 280 (19.09%) Validation
11 272 (18.54%) Data Governance
12 270 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
13 241 (16.43%) AI
14 232 (15.81%) Data Integration
15 225 (15.34%) Data Migration
16 213 (14.52%) Data Architecture
17 192 (13.09%) Test Automation
18 190 (12.95%) Decision-Making
19 147 (10.02%) Performance Tuning
19 147 (10.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 998 (68.03%) SQL
2 601 (40.97%) Python
3 130 (8.86%) Java
4 81 (5.52%) T-SQL
5 70 (4.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 70 (4.77%) PL/SQL
6 60 (4.09%) C#
7 51 (3.48%) Scala
8 38 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 31 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 25 (1.70%) Bash
11 20 (1.36%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.36%) TypeScript
12 18 (1.23%) R
13 15 (1.02%) Bicep
14 7 (0.48%) SAS Macro
14 7 (0.48%) VBA
15 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.34%) Cypher
16 5 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 384 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 319 (21.75%) SC Cleared
3 80 (5.45%) Degree
4 44 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 29 (1.98%) ISTQB
8 24 (1.64%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.27%) PMP
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 481 (32.79%) Data Quality
2 144 (9.82%) QA
3 90 (6.13%) GDPR
4 20 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.23%) IFRS
6 16 (1.09%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.89%) PMO
7 13 (0.89%) SLA
8 10 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.55%) FATCA
10 7 (0.48%) GRC
11 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.34%) GAAP
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.20%) HL7
14 3 (0.20%) NIST
14 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (7.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
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
4 1 (0.068%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.068%) RACF
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (9.20%) Terraform
2 111 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.36%) Grafana
4 14 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.89%) Ansible
6 8 (0.55%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.068%) Argo
10 1 (0.068%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.068%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.068%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 292 (19.90%) Databricks
2 280 (19.09%) Microsoft
3 268 (18.27%) Oracle
4 131 (8.93%) Informatica
5 120 (8.18%) Talend
6 62 (4.23%) SAP
7 58 (3.95%) Denodo
8 51 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 46 (3.14%) Google
10 32 (2.18%) IBM
11 22 (1.50%) MuleSoft
11 22 (1.50%) Salesforce
12 19 (1.30%) Alteryx
12 19 (1.30%) Sage
13 17 (1.16%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.16%) Splunk
13 17 (1.16%) Workday
14 11 (0.75%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.68%) Red Hat
16 9 (0.61%) Teradata