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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 84 85
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,487 821 874
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.25% 2.98% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.28% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,070 563 628
10th Percentile £363 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £627
90th Percentile £675 £711 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.60 £32.69
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.13 £36.56
Median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -34.51%
75th Percentile £55.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £84.73 -
UK median hourly rate £34.49 £38.96 £46.50
% change year-on-year -11.48% -16.22% -35.42%

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 38,748 25,020 28,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.83% 85.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,949 15,925 18,341
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £511 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,582 1,471 1,520
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.23% -38.57% -3.67%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +3 758 £525 - 376
Midlands +17 247 £469 +1.41% 49
West Midlands +29 212 £469 -6.20% 40
North of England -1 179 £475 +5.91% 83
South East +16 147 £459 - 45
Yorkshire +1 79 £463 +9.47% 18
North West -9 77 £475 - 50
South West -31 61 £523 +11.76% 46
East of England +6 53 £475 -13.64% 14
East Midlands -17 34 £490 +13.10% 9
North East -21 24 £520 +18.86% 15
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
1 120 (8.07%) Apache Spark
2 115 (7.73%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (5.78%) SAS
4 77 (5.18%) Apache
5 49 (3.30%) Confluence
6 26 (1.75%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.68%) SharePoint
8 9 (0.61%) nginx
8 9 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.20%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.13%) PowerExchange
14 1 (0.067%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.67%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.47%) Sage X3
7 6 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.20%) Actimize
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
11 2 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 598 (40.22%) Azure
2 431 (28.98%) AWS
3 354 (23.81%) Power Platform
4 220 (14.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 199 (13.38%) Snowflake
6 190 (12.78%) GCP
7 132 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 121 (8.14%) dbt
10 111 (7.46%) Serverless
11 109 (7.33%) Amazon S3
12 99 (6.66%) GitHub
13 87 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.56%) Collibra
16 29 (1.95%) Amazon EMR
16 29 (1.95%) Power Automate
17 25 (1.68%) SaaS
18 24 (1.61%) Matillion
19 22 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) Firewall
2 8 (0.54%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.20%) DHCP
4 3 (0.20%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.067%) Network Security
5 1 (0.067%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 520 (34.97%) Data Warehouse
2 346 (23.27%) Power BI
3 225 (15.13%) Data Lake
4 155 (10.42%) SQL Server
5 145 (9.75%) Metadata
6 97 (6.52%) Relational Database
7 94 (6.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (5.99%) Tableau
9 88 (5.92%) BigQuery
10 86 (5.78%) Delta Lake
11 84 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 71 (4.77%) Big Data
13 63 (4.24%) NoSQL
14 61 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
14 61 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
15 60 (4.03%) Pentaho
16 58 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
17 51 (3.43%) Oracle Database
18 48 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
19 45 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 154 (10.36%) Git
2 120 (8.07%) JIRA
3 83 (5.58%) GitLab
4 51 (3.43%) Jenkins
5 35 (2.35%) Zephyr
6 31 (2.08%) Postman
7 12 (0.81%) Selenium
8 7 (0.47%) MLflow
8 7 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.40%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.34%) ERwin
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.20%) Flyway
12 3 (0.20%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 350 (23.54%) Social Skills
2 343 (23.07%) Finance
3 277 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 115 (7.73%) Banking
6 33 (2.22%) Retail
7 28 (1.88%) Marketing
8 26 (1.75%) Manufacturing
9 25 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.41%) Legal
11 16 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 16 (1.08%) Law
11 16 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 14 (0.94%) Front Office
13 11 (0.74%) Billing
13 11 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.61%) Military
14 9 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.54%) Police
Job Titles
1 576 (38.74%) Data Engineer
2 227 (15.27%) Developer
3 200 (13.45%) Senior
4 193 (12.98%) Architect
5 153 (10.29%) Lead
6 137 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 108 (7.26%) Analyst
8 100 (6.72%) Data Architect
9 55 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (3.63%) Data Analyst
11 45 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
12 41 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
12 41 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 39 (2.62%) Tester
14 38 (2.56%) Oracle Developer
15 37 (2.49%) SQL Developer
16 36 (2.42%) Data Migration Lead
16 36 (2.42%) Snowflake Engineer
17 32 (2.15%) AWS Data Engineer
18 31 (2.08%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (10.36%) PySpark
2 133 (8.94%) Terraform
3 117 (7.87%) Kafka
4 63 (4.24%) REST
5 47 (3.16%) JSON
6 45 (3.03%) .NET
7 26 (1.75%) Pandas
7 26 (1.75%) React
8 23 (1.55%) Middleware
9 20 (1.34%) Spring
9 20 (1.34%) Spring Boot
9 20 (1.34%) XML
10 15 (1.01%) YAML
11 12 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
11 12 (0.81%) RESTful
12 11 (0.74%) OAuth
12 11 (0.74%) Playwright
12 11 (0.74%) pytest
12 11 (0.74%) Web Services
13 10 (0.67%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 88 (5.92%) Data Structures
3 67 (4.51%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 49 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 21 (1.41%) AI Agents
7 21 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.34%) NHS
9 19 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.28%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
11 16 (1.08%) Clustering
12 12 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (0.81%) Replication
13 10 (0.67%) Algorithms
13 10 (0.67%) Data Fabric
13 10 (0.67%) IoT
13 10 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.63%) Linux
2 48 (3.23%) Unix
3 17 (1.14%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.13%) HPUX
7 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (47.28%) Data Modelling
2 608 (40.89%) Data Pipeline
3 560 (37.66%) Analytics
4 469 (31.54%) Data Engineering
5 459 (30.87%) CI/CD
6 421 (28.31%) Business Intelligence
7 410 (27.57%) Agile
8 388 (26.09%) Migration
9 339 (22.80%) DevOps
10 325 (21.86%) Data Integration
11 300 (20.17%) Data Governance
12 284 (19.10%) Validation
13 265 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
14 245 (16.48%) AI
15 241 (16.21%) Data Migration
16 213 (14.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 211 (14.19%) Data Transformation
18 210 (14.12%) Data Architecture
19 197 (13.25%) Test Automation
20 185 (12.44%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 994 (66.85%) SQL
2 552 (37.12%) Python
3 135 (9.08%) Java
4 77 (5.18%) PL/SQL
5 76 (5.11%) T-SQL
6 59 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 47 (3.16%) C#
8 46 (3.09%) Scala
9 42 (2.82%) PowerShell
10 41 (2.76%) JavaScript
11 32 (2.15%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.02%) Bash
13 19 (1.28%) R
14 16 (1.08%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.94%) Bicep
16 8 (0.54%) Cypher
17 5 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.34%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 401 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 333 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.71%) Degree
4 35 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 34 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (1.55%) ISTQB
7 21 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
15 2 (0.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (35.64%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.41%) QA
3 79 (5.31%) GDPR
4 35 (2.35%) GRC
5 25 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.61%) IFRS
7 9 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.54%) PMO
8 8 (0.54%) SLA
8 8 (0.54%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.54%) WCAG
9 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.40%) HL7
10 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 4 (0.27%) GAAP
11 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 106 (7.13%) Docker
2 11 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.067%) RACF
6 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.55%) Grafana
3 15 (1.01%) Ansible
4 14 (0.94%) Control-M
5 9 (0.61%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.13%) Foglight
8 2 (0.13%) Puppet
9 1 (0.067%) Argo
9 1 (0.067%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.067%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.067%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.067%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.067%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.067%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 313 (21.05%) Databricks
2 289 (19.44%) Oracle
3 260 (17.48%) Microsoft
4 122 (8.20%) Informatica
5 97 (6.52%) Talend
6 70 (4.71%) SAP
7 64 (4.30%) Google
8 53 (3.56%) Denodo
9 44 (2.96%) IBM
10 35 (2.35%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.95%) Alteryx
12 25 (1.68%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.28%) Palantir
14 14 (0.94%) Foundry
14 14 (0.94%) Teradata
15 13 (0.87%) Sage
16 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
16 11 (0.74%) Workday
17 10 (0.67%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.67%) MuleSoft