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 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 79 98
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 914 850 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 2.91% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 3.29% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 553 679
10th Percentile £360 £360 £382
25th Percentile £413 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 15
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £44.32
25th Percentile £35.44 £28.44 £49.63
Median hourly rate £43.50 £46.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -23.14% +70.42%
75th Percentile £73.37 £87.67 £64.77
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £38.75 £60.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -35.95% +70.42%

All Process and 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 27,925 25,808 32,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.90% 88.45% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,780 15,959 22,396
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 863 1,395
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.97 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025.

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 17 December 2025. 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 +12 544 £525 - 167
Midlands 0 124 £515 +7.97% 46
North of England -43 101 £450 - 68
West Midlands -4 100 £519 +5.32% 27
North West -20 56 £442 +1.09% 34
South West +3 51 £550 -4.35% 33
South East -47 41 £441 -19.77% 121
Yorkshire -47 38 £472 +4.78% 20
East Midlands -13 24 £438 +16.67% 18
East of England -6 22 £575 +6.98% 35
North East -11 6 £450 -5.26% 14
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 89 (9.74%) Apache Spark
2 86 (9.41%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.89%) Apache
4 47 (5.14%) SAS
5 14 (1.53%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.98%) Oracle Application Server
7 8 (0.88%) Confluence
8 5 (0.55%) IIS
9 4 (0.44%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 51 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.33%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.77%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.66%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.55%) Maximo
6 4 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.22%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.22%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 358 (39.17%) Azure
2 279 (30.53%) AWS
3 199 (21.77%) Power Platform
4 141 (15.43%) GCP
5 132 (14.44%) Snowflake
6 129 (14.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (9.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 86 (9.41%) Amazon S3
9 76 (8.32%) Serverless
10 58 (6.35%) dbt
11 55 (6.02%) GitHub
12 53 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (5.58%) Azure DevOps
14 32 (3.50%) SaaS
15 25 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
19 18 (1.97%) Power Automate
20 17 (1.86%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.66%) 2G
1 6 (0.66%) 5G
1 6 (0.66%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.55%) 4G
3 4 (0.44%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
4 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) DSL
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) Internet
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 281 (30.74%) Data Warehouse
2 187 (20.46%) Power BI
3 122 (13.35%) Data Lake
4 95 (10.39%) SQL Server
5 81 (8.86%) Relational Database
6 78 (8.53%) Metadata
7 71 (7.77%) Big Data
8 64 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 63 (6.89%) PostgreSQL
9 63 (6.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 63 (6.89%) Tableau
10 57 (6.24%) BigQuery
11 45 (4.92%) Pentaho
12 43 (4.70%) Delta Lake
13 40 (4.38%) NoSQL
14 37 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
15 35 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
16 34 (3.72%) Oracle Database
17 31 (3.39%) DataStage
18 29 (3.17%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 114 (12.47%) Git
2 72 (7.88%) JIRA
3 65 (7.11%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.74%) GitLab
5 15 (1.64%) Postman
5 15 (1.64%) Selenium
6 11 (1.20%) ERwin
6 11 (1.20%) MLflow
7 8 (0.88%) DBeaver
8 7 (0.77%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.77%) TestRail
9 6 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.44%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.44%) Toad
10 4 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.33%) Poetry
11 3 (0.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 285 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 231 (25.27%) Finance
3 169 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 62 (6.78%) Banking
6 18 (1.97%) Telecoms
7 16 (1.75%) Retail
8 15 (1.64%) Marketing
9 14 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.09%) Legal
11 10 (1.09%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.98%) Law
13 8 (0.88%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.88%) Local Government
13 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.77%) Front Office
14 7 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 311 (34.03%) Data Engineer
2 142 (15.54%) Developer
3 95 (10.39%) Analyst
3 95 (10.39%) Lead
4 93 (10.18%) Senior
5 89 (9.74%) Architect
6 63 (6.89%) Data Analyst
7 49 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
8 47 (5.14%) Data Architect
9 42 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (4.05%) Azure Data Engineer
11 27 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
11 27 (2.95%) Business Analyst
11 27 (2.95%) Consultant
12 26 (2.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 21 (2.30%) Senior Developer
14 20 (2.19%) AWS Data Engineer
14 20 (2.19%) Snowflake Engineer
15 18 (1.97%) Lead Data Engineer
15 18 (1.97%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (9.85%) PySpark
2 78 (8.53%) Kafka
3 38 (4.16%) XML
4 35 (3.83%) REST
5 27 (2.95%) JSON
5 27 (2.95%) Node.js
6 20 (2.19%) RESTful
7 19 (2.08%) Pandas
8 16 (1.75%) .NET
9 15 (1.64%) NumPy
10 13 (1.42%) OAuth
11 12 (1.31%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.20%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.20%) React
13 10 (1.09%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (0.98%) Middleware
14 9 (0.98%) pytest
14 9 (0.98%) SOAP
14 9 (0.98%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.55%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.91%) Data Structures
3 30 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (1.53%) Replication
10 13 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.31%) IoT
12 11 (1.20%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.09%) Management Information System
14 8 (0.88%) Data Fabric
14 8 (0.88%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.88%) Reinsurance
15 7 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.74%) Linux
2 9 (0.98%) Unix
3 8 (0.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (43.65%) Data Modelling
2 366 (40.04%) Analytics
3 350 (38.29%) Data Pipeline
4 286 (31.29%) Business Intelligence
5 278 (30.42%) Data Engineering
6 253 (27.68%) CI/CD
7 235 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
8 228 (24.95%) Agile
9 215 (23.52%) Data Governance
10 207 (22.65%) DevOps
11 196 (21.44%) Migration
12 173 (18.93%) Data Integration
13 148 (16.19%) Data Architecture
14 138 (15.10%) Data Migration
15 120 (13.13%) Validation
16 112 (12.25%) Data Science
17 111 (12.14%) Data Transformation
18 108 (11.82%) Visualisation
19 98 (10.72%) Test Automation
20 96 (10.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 594 (64.99%) SQL
2 445 (48.69%) Python
3 86 (9.41%) Java
4 43 (4.70%) Scala
5 36 (3.94%) C#
5 36 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 30 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 30 (3.28%) T-SQL
7 26 (2.84%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.75%) Go
8 16 (1.75%) PHP
9 15 (1.64%) R
10 14 (1.53%) Bash
10 14 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.53%) VBA
11 10 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.66%) Korn
14 6 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 161 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 121 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.11%) Degree
4 39 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.39%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.09%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.55%) PMP
12 4 (0.44%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.33%) CISSP
13 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.33%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.22%) MCP
15 1 (0.11%) CCIE
15 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (31.07%) Data Quality
2 67 (7.33%) QA
3 65 (7.11%) GDPR
4 16 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.98%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.66%) IFRS
8 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.44%) MiFID
9 4 (0.44%) SLA
9 4 (0.44%) WCAG
10 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.33%) PMO
11 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.22%) EMIR
11 2 (0.22%) FINREP
11 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (11.82%) Docker
2 5 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.55%) zsh
3 4 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.22%) KVM
5 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 76 (8.32%) Terraform
3 10 (1.09%) Ansible
3 10 (1.09%) Grafana
4 6 (0.66%) Kibana
4 6 (0.66%) logstash
5 5 (0.55%) Control-M
5 5 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.33%) Argo
7 3 (0.33%) Istio
7 3 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 176 (19.26%) Databricks
2 145 (15.86%) Microsoft
3 122 (13.35%) Oracle
4 66 (7.22%) Talend
5 57 (6.24%) Informatica
6 47 (5.14%) Google
7 41 (4.49%) SAP
8 37 (4.05%) Denodo
9 28 (3.06%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.75%) IBM
11 14 (1.53%) Palantir
12 13 (1.42%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.31%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.20%) Foundry
15 9 (0.98%) VMware
16 8 (0.88%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.88%) Cognos
17 7 (0.77%) Workday
18 6 (0.66%) AppDynamics
18 6 (0.66%) Teradata