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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 84 77
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +33
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,443 832 925
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.11% 2.96% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.26% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 595 636
10th Percentile £360 £363 £358
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £523
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -2.87% -0.48%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 5
10th Percentile £21.33 £32.50 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%
75th Percentile £56.00 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.96 £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%

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 39,229 25,540 27,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 90.96% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,740 16,195 17,136
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £643
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,947 1,574 1,191
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.54 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.62 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.57% -40.82% -

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -5 760 £525 - 807
Midlands +25 230 £469 -6.16% 134
West Midlands +16 201 £469 -8.04% 95
North of England -12 173 £466 -1.84% 208
South East +15 128 £458 -3.53% 187
South West +2 83 £514 +8.26% 89
Yorkshire -1 77 £461 +0.27% 58
North West -17 76 £475 -5.00% 124
East of England -13 34 £475 -9.52% 56
East Midlands -6 28 £486 +9.94% 39
North East -20 25 £500 +14.29% 31
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 (9.01%) Apache Spark
2 123 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (6.44%) Apache
4 79 (5.47%) SAS
5 52 (3.60%) Confluence
6 24 (1.66%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.62%) nginx
8 9 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.42%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.35%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.069%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.49%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.069%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 15 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.35%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.28%) Actimize
6 4 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.28%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.14%) Maximo
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 555 (38.46%) Azure
2 411 (28.48%) AWS
3 302 (20.93%) Power Platform
4 209 (14.48%) Snowflake
5 207 (14.35%) GCP
6 195 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 132 (9.15%) dbt
8 127 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
9 104 (7.21%) Amazon S3
10 100 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 99 (6.86%) Serverless
12 93 (6.44%) GitHub
13 80 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
15 42 (2.91%) Azure Databricks
16 35 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (2.01%) SaaS
18 27 (1.87%) Collibra
19 25 (1.73%) Power Automate
20 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.49%) Firewall
2 6 (0.42%) 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
4 1 (0.069%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.069%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 482 (33.40%) Data Warehouse
2 294 (20.37%) Power BI
3 205 (14.21%) Data Lake
4 144 (9.98%) Metadata
5 135 (9.36%) SQL Server
6 105 (7.28%) BigQuery
7 95 (6.58%) Relational Database
8 89 (6.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 81 (5.61%) Delta Lake
10 78 (5.41%) Tableau
11 75 (5.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 74 (5.13%) Big Data
13 62 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
14 60 (4.16%) Oracle Reports
15 57 (3.95%) Pentaho
16 54 (3.74%) NoSQL
17 49 (3.40%) Oracle Database
18 45 (3.12%) Amazon Athena
19 41 (2.84%) Power Query
20 40 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 163 (11.30%) Git
2 117 (8.11%) JIRA
3 89 (6.17%) GitLab
4 48 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 36 (2.49%) Zephyr
6 33 (2.29%) Postman
7 16 (1.11%) Selenium
8 10 (0.69%) MLflow
9 7 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.49%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.35%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.35%) Gatling
11 4 (0.28%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.28%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.28%) ERwin
11 4 (0.28%) JUnit
11 4 (0.28%) Newman
11 4 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) NeoLoad
General
1 359 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 339 (23.49%) Finance
3 261 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 150 (10.40%) Banking
6 40 (2.77%) Retail
7 30 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.66%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.66%) Marketing
9 20 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 19 (1.32%) Front Office
11 17 (1.18%) Law
11 17 (1.18%) Legal
12 16 (1.11%) Billing
12 16 (1.11%) Investment Banking
13 13 (0.90%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.90%) Military
14 12 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 569 (39.43%) Data Engineer
2 210 (14.55%) Developer
2 210 (14.55%) Senior
3 184 (12.75%) Architect
4 145 (10.05%) Senior Data Engineer
5 127 (8.80%) Lead
6 113 (7.83%) Analyst
7 91 (6.31%) Data Architect
8 56 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
9 54 (3.74%) Data Analyst
9 54 (3.74%) Databricks Engineer
10 48 (3.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 44 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
12 38 (2.63%) Tester
13 36 (2.49%) Consultant
13 36 (2.49%) SQL Developer
14 35 (2.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 34 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
16 33 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
17 32 (2.22%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (9.42%) PySpark
2 130 (9.01%) Terraform
3 104 (7.21%) Kafka
4 66 (4.57%) REST
5 52 (3.60%) .NET
6 41 (2.84%) JSON
7 28 (1.94%) Middleware
8 27 (1.87%) React
9 24 (1.66%) Pandas
10 21 (1.46%) XML
11 16 (1.11%) YAML
12 15 (1.04%) pytest
12 15 (1.04%) Spring
12 15 (1.04%) Spring Boot
13 13 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.90%) SOAP
13 13 (0.90%) Web Services
14 12 (0.83%) HTML
15 11 (0.76%) Apache NiFi
16 10 (0.69%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.63%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.80%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.66%) Reference Data
9 22 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.11%) NHS
11 16 (1.11%) Replication
12 15 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 14 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (0.83%) Clustering
14 12 (0.83%) CMDB
14 12 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.23%) Linux
2 45 (3.12%) Unix
3 19 (1.32%) 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
1 665 (46.08%) Data Modelling
2 606 (42.00%) Data Pipeline
3 529 (36.66%) Analytics
4 485 (33.61%) Data Engineering
5 466 (32.29%) CI/CD
6 413 (28.62%) Agile
7 379 (26.26%) Migration
8 373 (25.85%) Business Intelligence
9 337 (23.35%) DevOps
10 331 (22.94%) Data Integration
11 303 (21.00%) Validation
12 284 (19.68%) Data Governance
13 277 (19.20%) AI
14 255 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
15 252 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
16 222 (15.38%) Data Migration
17 220 (15.25%) Data Transformation
18 208 (14.41%) Data Architecture
19 196 (13.58%) Test Automation
20 174 (12.06%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 966 (66.94%) SQL
2 567 (39.29%) Python
3 115 (7.97%) Java
4 74 (5.13%) PL/SQL
5 70 (4.85%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 48 (3.33%) C#
7 48 (3.33%) Scala
8 45 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 35 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 29 (2.01%) Bash
10 29 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.46%) R
12 16 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.83%) Bicep
14 11 (0.76%) Cypher
15 7 (0.49%) Go
16 6 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.35%) Perl
17 5 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 384 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 328 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.16%) Degree
4 40 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (2.01%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.01%) DV Cleared
6 24 (1.66%) AWS Certification
6 24 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.52%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.25%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.42%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.42%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.21%) CBAP
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 516 (35.76%) Data Quality
2 129 (8.94%) QA
3 59 (4.09%) GDPR
4 31 (2.15%) GRC
5 20 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.55%) IFRS
7 8 (0.55%) SLA
7 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 6 (0.42%) WCAG
10 5 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.35%) FATCA
11 4 (0.28%) GAAP
11 4 (0.28%) HL7
11 4 (0.28%) PMO
12 3 (0.21%) COREP
12 3 (0.21%) FINREP
12 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (6.38%) Docker
2 10 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.21%) HDFS
3 3 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 95 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 18 (1.25%) Ansible
2 18 (1.25%) 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
1 326 (22.59%) Databricks
2 274 (18.99%) Oracle
3 247 (17.12%) Microsoft
4 102 (7.07%) Informatica
5 89 (6.17%) Talend
6 78 (5.41%) Google
7 60 (4.16%) SAP
8 43 (2.98%) IBM
9 38 (2.63%) Denodo
10 29 (2.01%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.94%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.80%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.18%) Foundry
13 17 (1.18%) Palantir
14 16 (1.11%) Teradata
15 14 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 10 (0.69%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.69%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.69%) Sage
17 8 (0.55%) SnapLogic