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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 79 101
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,037 793 833
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 3.00% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.35% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 511 641
10th Percentile £358 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £703
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £32.50 - £39.82
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +45.83%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £64.53
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £51.21 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +46.31% -42.15% +68.06%

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 28,832 23,662 32,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.43% 87.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,449 14,467 21,997
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.53% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £642 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 760 1,829
10th Percentile £15.05 £15.62 £13.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 28 January 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 +23 637 £525 - 165
Midlands +1 125 £519 +5.82% 76
North of England -42 112 £450 -2.70% 73
West Midlands +1 100 £523 +5.98% 43
North West -11 73 £442 -4.38% 38
South East -35 60 £441 -19.77% 165
South West -8 57 £525 -14.29% 53
Yorkshire -58 28 £488 +26.62% 26
East Midlands -16 25 £447 +18.02% 32
East of England -14 16 £575 +12.20% 46
North East -14 10 £450 -9.09% 9
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 96 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 72 (6.94%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (6.27%) Apache
4 50 (4.82%) SAS
5 14 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.16%) Confluence
7 7 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.58%) Appian
8 6 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.29%) CMS
10 3 (0.29%) IIS
10 3 (0.29%) Luigi
10 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.19%) nginx
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.096%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.096%) Jupyter
Applications
1 43 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.39%) Trello
6 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.096%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.48%) Maximo
7 5 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.19%) Actimize
10 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 429 (41.37%) Azure
2 313 (30.18%) AWS
3 245 (23.63%) Power Platform
4 167 (16.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 130 (12.54%) GCP
6 129 (12.44%) Snowflake
7 106 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 99 (9.55%) Amazon S3
9 89 (8.58%) Serverless
10 78 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
11 71 (6.85%) GitHub
12 60 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (5.30%) dbt
14 37 (3.57%) SaaS
15 31 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.22%) Collibra
17 22 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.12%) Power Automate
18 21 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.58%) 2G
1 6 (0.58%) 5G
1 6 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.48%) 4G
3 2 (0.19%) BGP
3 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.19%) DSL
3 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.19%) OSPF
3 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.096%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.096%) Firewall
4 1 (0.096%) Internet
4 1 (0.096%) Multicast
4 1 (0.096%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 285 (27.48%) Data Warehouse
2 230 (22.18%) Power BI
3 159 (15.33%) Data Lake
4 126 (12.15%) SQL Server
5 96 (9.26%) Metadata
6 75 (7.23%) Relational Database
7 72 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 67 (6.46%) Big Data
9 66 (6.36%) Tableau
10 64 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 61 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
12 52 (5.01%) Pentaho
13 51 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 51 (4.92%) Delta Lake
14 43 (4.15%) BigQuery
14 43 (4.15%) NoSQL
15 39 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
15 39 (3.76%) Oracle Database
15 39 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 34 (3.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 120 (11.57%) Git
2 87 (8.39%) JIRA
3 66 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.47%) GitLab
5 17 (1.64%) ERwin
6 16 (1.54%) Postman
7 14 (1.35%) MLflow
8 13 (1.25%) Selenium
9 7 (0.68%) JMeter
9 7 (0.68%) TestRail
10 6 (0.58%) DBeaver
10 6 (0.58%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.39%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.39%) Gatling
12 4 (0.39%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.39%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.39%) Toad
13 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 315 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 284 (27.39%) Finance
3 171 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.52%) Banking
6 22 (2.12%) Retail
7 20 (1.93%) Financial Institution
8 17 (1.64%) Marketing
9 15 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.06%) Law
12 11 (1.06%) Legal
12 11 (1.06%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.68%) Front Office
14 7 (0.68%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.68%) Publishing
15 5 (0.48%) Military
15 5 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 386 (37.22%) Data Engineer
2 140 (13.50%) Developer
3 125 (12.05%) Lead
4 105 (10.13%) Senior
5 104 (10.03%) Analyst
6 87 (8.39%) Architect
7 73 (7.04%) Data Analyst
8 66 (6.36%) Senior Data Engineer
9 50 (4.82%) Data Architect
10 45 (4.34%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (3.28%) Azure Data Engineer
11 34 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 31 (2.99%) Business Analyst
13 27 (2.60%) Consultant
13 27 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
14 26 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (2.31%) Senior Developer
16 21 (2.03%) AWS Data Engineer
16 21 (2.03%) Lead Data Engineer
16 21 (2.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (10.51%) PySpark
2 87 (8.39%) Kafka
3 61 (5.88%) REST
4 38 (3.66%) XML
5 29 (2.80%) Pandas
6 24 (2.31%) .NET
7 23 (2.22%) Node.js
8 22 (2.12%) JSON
9 21 (2.03%) RESTful
10 20 (1.93%) NumPy
11 18 (1.74%) OAuth
12 17 (1.64%) Middleware
12 17 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
13 16 (1.54%) PyTorch
14 14 (1.35%) pytest
14 14 (1.35%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.25%) scikit-learn
16 12 (1.16%) Great Expectations
16 12 (1.16%) Keycloak
16 12 (1.16%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 84 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 69 (6.65%) Data Structures
3 47 (4.53%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.83%) Algorithms
5 19 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 19 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 17 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.35%) Reinsurance
9 14 (1.35%) Replication
10 13 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (0.96%) Data Centre
12 10 (0.96%) Data Fabric
12 10 (0.96%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.87%) IoT
13 9 (0.87%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.31%) Linux
2 11 (1.06%) Unix
3 9 (0.87%) Windows
4 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.19%) VMS
5 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.096%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (46.38%) Data Modelling
2 438 (42.24%) Analytics
3 394 (37.99%) Data Pipeline
4 341 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
5 319 (30.76%) Data Engineering
6 291 (28.06%) CI/CD
7 257 (24.78%) Agile
8 248 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
9 247 (23.82%) DevOps
10 239 (23.05%) Data Governance
11 193 (18.61%) Migration
12 180 (17.36%) Data Integration
13 174 (16.78%) Data Architecture
14 145 (13.98%) Validation
15 136 (13.11%) Data Migration
16 129 (12.44%) Data Science
17 124 (11.96%) AI
18 120 (11.57%) Machine Learning
19 117 (11.28%) Decision-Making
20 112 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 668 (64.42%) SQL
2 496 (47.83%) Python
3 89 (8.58%) Java
4 50 (4.82%) Scala
5 46 (4.44%) C#
6 39 (3.76%) PL/SQL
7 35 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (3.38%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.89%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.54%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.45%) R
11 14 (1.35%) Go
11 14 (1.35%) PHP
12 13 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.16%) Bicep
14 11 (1.06%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.96%) Bash
16 9 (0.87%) VBA
17 5 (0.48%) Korn
17 5 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 201 (19.38%) Security Cleared
2 156 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.23%) Degree
4 46 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.66%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.51%) AWS Certification
6 26 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 21 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 13 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.68%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.68%) PMP
11 6 (0.58%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.39%) MCP
14 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.096%) CCIE Data Center
16 1 (0.096%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 345 (33.27%) Data Quality
2 76 (7.33%) GDPR
3 73 (7.04%) QA
4 19 (1.83%) IFRS
5 16 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 15 (1.45%) IFRS 17
7 13 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.77%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.48%) GAAP
9 5 (0.48%) MiFID
9 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.48%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) Basel III
10 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 3 (0.29%) PMO
11 2 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.19%) EMIR
11 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (11.48%) Docker
2 5 (0.48%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.48%) zsh
3 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.19%) KVM
4 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.096%) HDFS
5 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 114 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 96 (9.26%) Terraform
3 9 (0.87%) Grafana
4 8 (0.77%) Ansible
5 6 (0.58%) Kibana
5 6 (0.58%) logstash
6 5 (0.48%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.39%) Control-M
7 4 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.19%) SCCM
9 1 (0.096%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.096%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.096%) Puppet
9 1 (0.096%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 214 (20.64%) Databricks
2 170 (16.39%) Microsoft
3 148 (14.27%) Oracle
4 70 (6.75%) Informatica
4 70 (6.75%) Talend
5 46 (4.44%) SAP
6 41 (3.95%) Denodo
7 39 (3.76%) Google
8 27 (2.60%) ServiceNow
9 25 (2.41%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.64%) IBM
11 16 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.45%) Workday
13 14 (1.35%) Palantir
14 12 (1.16%) Alteryx
14 12 (1.16%) Cognos
15 11 (1.06%) Foundry
16 9 (0.87%) Ab Initio
16 9 (0.87%) OpenAI
17 7 (0.68%) UiPath