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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 81 78
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,446 837 925
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.13% 2.98% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.28% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 599 633
10th Percentile £363 £361 £358
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 6
10th Percentile £21.41 £32.50 £26.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.63 £28.44
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% +0.54% -43.43%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.25 £49.75
90th Percentile £71.60 £53.75 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £35.74 £38.90 £38.75
% change year-on-year -8.14% +0.39% -46.18%

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 39,257 25,497 27,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.86% 90.90% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,690 16,157 17,059
10th Percentile £325 £293 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,996 1,590 1,150
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.33 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £67.38
90th Percentile £78.88 £67.28 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.16
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.38% -8.38%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -3 762 £520 -0.95% 766
Midlands +23 229 £469 -6.20% 109
West Midlands +26 201 £469 -8.49% 84
North of England -18 171 £475 - 172
South East +13 131 £459 +2.00% 109
South West +4 85 £506 +6.42% 58
North West -27 77 £475 -2.56% 107
Yorkshire +7 75 £469 +5.34% 45
East of England -26 35 £463 -11.90% 51
East Midlands -10 27 £481 +8.92% 25
North East -24 24 £500 +14.29% 21
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
1 136 (9.41%) Apache Spark
2 126 (8.71%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (6.98%) Apache
4 82 (5.67%) SAS
5 56 (3.87%) Confluence
6 25 (1.73%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
9 9 (0.62%) nginx
10 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.41%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.069%) IIS
14 1 (0.069%) JBoss
Applications
1 33 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.35%) Sage X3
4 5 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.28%) Actimize
5 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.28%) ResourceLink
5 4 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.14%) iTrent
7 2 (0.14%) Maximo
7 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 553 (38.24%) Azure
2 418 (28.91%) AWS
3 298 (20.61%) Power Platform
4 210 (14.52%) GCP
5 205 (14.18%) Snowflake
6 194 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
7 135 (9.34%) dbt
8 127 (8.78%) Azure DevOps
9 108 (7.47%) Amazon S3
10 103 (7.12%) Serverless
11 96 (6.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 92 (6.36%) GitHub
13 83 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (3.25%) Azure Databricks
16 38 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (2.07%) SaaS
18 26 (1.80%) Collibra
19 25 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 25 (1.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 3 (0.21%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.21%) DHCP
3 3 (0.21%) DNS
3 3 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.069%) DMZ
4 1 (0.069%) Internet
4 1 (0.069%) Network Security
4 1 (0.069%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (33.13%) Data Warehouse
2 289 (19.99%) Power BI
3 206 (14.25%) Data Lake
4 142 (9.82%) Metadata
5 130 (8.99%) SQL Server
6 104 (7.19%) BigQuery
7 95 (6.57%) Relational Database
8 91 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 80 (5.53%) Delta Lake
10 76 (5.26%) Tableau
11 75 (5.19%) Big Data
12 71 (4.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 61 (4.22%) Pentaho
14 59 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (4.01%) Oracle Reports
16 54 (3.73%) NoSQL
17 50 (3.46%) Oracle Database
18 48 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
19 43 (2.97%) Power Query
20 38 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 167 (11.55%) Git
2 124 (8.58%) JIRA
3 88 (6.09%) GitLab
4 49 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.56%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.35%) Postman
7 16 (1.11%) Selenium
8 10 (0.69%) MLflow
9 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.41%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.35%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.28%) ERwin
12 4 (0.28%) JUnit
12 4 (0.28%) Newman
12 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) JMeter
General
1 363 (25.10%) Social Skills
2 346 (23.93%) Finance
3 265 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.72%) Banking
5 153 (10.58%) Public Sector
6 41 (2.84%) Retail
7 32 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.59%) Marketing
10 20 (1.38%) Front Office
10 20 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 17 (1.18%) Billing
11 17 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.18%) Law
12 15 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.04%) Legal
13 13 (0.90%) Military
14 12 (0.83%) Police
15 11 (0.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 573 (39.63%) Data Engineer
2 206 (14.25%) Senior
3 204 (14.11%) Developer
4 180 (12.45%) Architect
5 141 (9.75%) Senior Data Engineer
6 128 (8.85%) Lead
7 120 (8.30%) Analyst
8 88 (6.09%) Data Architect
9 60 (4.15%) Data Analyst
10 57 (3.94%) Databricks Engineer
11 54 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (3.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 41 (2.84%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (2.63%) Tester
15 37 (2.56%) Consultant
16 36 (2.49%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 34 (2.35%) SQL Developer
18 32 (2.21%) Snowflake Engineer
19 29 (2.01%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (10.17%) PySpark
2 131 (9.06%) Terraform
3 106 (7.33%) Kafka
4 68 (4.70%) REST
5 55 (3.80%) .NET
6 41 (2.84%) JSON
7 27 (1.87%) Middleware
7 27 (1.87%) React
8 25 (1.73%) Pandas
9 21 (1.45%) XML
10 16 (1.11%) YAML
11 15 (1.04%) pytest
12 14 (0.97%) Spring
12 14 (0.97%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.90%) SOAP
13 13 (0.90%) Web Services
14 12 (0.83%) HTML
14 12 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
15 11 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
16 10 (0.69%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.54%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.57%) Data Structures
3 58 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.87%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.66%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.66%) Reference Data
9 17 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.11%) Replication
11 15 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 14 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
12 14 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (0.90%) Clustering
13 13 (0.90%) CMDB
13 13 (0.90%) NHS
14 12 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 62 (4.29%) Linux
2 44 (3.04%) Unix
3 18 (1.24%) Windows
4 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.21%) Solaris
4 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.14%) HPUX
5 2 (0.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (45.92%) Data Modelling
2 613 (42.39%) Data Pipeline
3 529 (36.58%) Analytics
4 496 (34.30%) Data Engineering
5 473 (32.71%) CI/CD
6 425 (29.39%) Agile
7 388 (26.83%) Migration
8 367 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
9 338 (23.37%) Data Integration
9 338 (23.37%) DevOps
10 307 (21.23%) Validation
11 295 (20.40%) Data Governance
12 283 (19.57%) AI
13 261 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
14 254 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
15 229 (15.84%) Data Migration
16 225 (15.56%) Data Transformation
17 202 (13.97%) Data Architecture
17 202 (13.97%) Test Automation
18 171 (11.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 970 (67.08%) SQL
2 577 (39.90%) Python
3 109 (7.54%) Java
4 74 (5.12%) PL/SQL
5 67 (4.63%) T-SQL
6 53 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.46%) C#
8 45 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 44 (3.04%) Scala
10 33 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 29 (2.01%) Bash
11 29 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.38%) R
13 16 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.83%) Bicep
15 11 (0.76%) Cypher
16 7 (0.48%) Go
17 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.35%) Perl
18 5 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 392 (27.11%) Security Cleared
2 337 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.22%) Degree
4 41 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.28%) DV Cleared
6 27 (1.87%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 7 (0.48%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.28%) CBAP
13 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 520 (35.96%) Data Quality
2 129 (8.92%) QA
3 58 (4.01%) GDPR
4 31 (2.14%) GRC
5 20 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.55%) IFRS
7 8 (0.55%) SLA
7 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.41%) WCAG
9 5 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.35%) FATCA
10 4 (0.28%) GAAP
10 4 (0.28%) HL7
10 4 (0.28%) PMO
11 3 (0.21%) COREP
11 3 (0.21%) FINREP
11 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (6.43%) Docker
2 10 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.21%) HDFS
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 97 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.24%) Ansible
2 18 (1.24%) Grafana
3 14 (0.97%) Control-M
4 11 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.21%) Kibana
6 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.14%) Puppet
6 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.069%) Argo
7 1 (0.069%) Data Guard
7 1 (0.069%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.069%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.069%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.069%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 330 (22.82%) Databricks
2 269 (18.60%) Oracle
3 246 (17.01%) Microsoft
4 104 (7.19%) Informatica
5 92 (6.36%) Talend
6 80 (5.53%) Google
7 60 (4.15%) SAP
8 42 (2.90%) IBM
9 36 (2.49%) Denodo
10 28 (1.94%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.24%) Foundry
13 18 (1.24%) Palantir
14 16 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 16 (1.11%) Teradata
15 10 (0.69%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.69%) Sage
16 9 (0.62%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.62%) SnapLogic