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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 84 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +30
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,473 828 924
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.17% 2.97% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.27% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 585 643
10th Percentile £360 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £589 £610 £625
90th Percentile £675 £722 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.21 £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 £53.13 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £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 39,385 25,311 28,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.63% 90.87% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,009 16,087 17,408
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,837 1,536 1,254
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.41 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £20.14
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.22 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -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 25 September 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 September 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 September 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 -6 772 £524 -1.18% 707
Midlands +18 234 £469 -5.25% 120
West Midlands +26 203 £469 -8.04% 89
North of England -1 169 £463 -2.63% 176
South East +11 130 £459 +2.00% 153
Yorkshire +4 79 £460 - 54
South West -6 79 £514 +8.26% 76
North West -36 69 £475 -5.00% 105
East of England -14 48 £494 -5.95% 43
East Midlands -6 30 £486 +10.97% 31
North East -26 22 £481 +10.00% 20
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
1 129 (8.76%) Apache Spark
2 123 (8.35%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (6.18%) Apache
4 84 (5.70%) SAS
5 55 (3.73%) Confluence
6 24 (1.63%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.49%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.75%) nginx
9 9 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.14%) CMS
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
16 1 (0.068%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.61%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) Actimize
7 4 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.27%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) Maximo
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 564 (38.29%) Azure
2 429 (29.12%) AWS
3 317 (21.52%) Power Platform
4 208 (14.12%) GCP
5 207 (14.05%) Snowflake
6 204 (13.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 134 (9.10%) dbt
8 128 (8.69%) Azure DevOps
9 112 (7.60%) Amazon S3
10 109 (7.40%) Serverless
11 107 (7.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 95 (6.45%) GitHub
13 89 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
14 53 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
16 36 (2.44%) Amazon EMR
17 31 (2.10%) Collibra
18 29 (1.97%) Power Automate
19 26 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 26 (1.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.54%) HTTP
2 7 (0.48%) Firewall
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
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 (0.068%) DMZ
5 1 (0.068%) Internet
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 498 (33.81%) Data Warehouse
2 309 (20.98%) Power BI
3 208 (14.12%) Data Lake
4 153 (10.39%) Metadata
5 141 (9.57%) SQL Server
6 99 (6.72%) BigQuery
7 98 (6.65%) Relational Database
8 87 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 83 (5.63%) Delta Lake
10 77 (5.23%) Big Data
10 77 (5.23%) Tableau
11 73 (4.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 63 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
13 62 (4.21%) Oracle Reports
14 59 (4.01%) Pentaho
15 58 (3.94%) NoSQL
16 49 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
16 49 (3.33%) Oracle Database
17 44 (2.99%) Power Query
18 39 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 165 (11.20%) Git
2 127 (8.62%) JIRA
3 86 (5.84%) GitLab
4 52 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.51%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.31%) Postman
7 16 (1.09%) Selenium
8 11 (0.75%) MLflow
9 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) ERwin
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.20%) JMeter
12 3 (0.20%) NeoLoad
General
1 365 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 333 (22.61%) Finance
3 266 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 147 (9.98%) Banking
6 37 (2.51%) Retail
7 26 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.63%) Marketing
9 23 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.29%) Law
12 18 (1.22%) Front Office
13 17 (1.15%) Legal
14 15 (1.02%) Billing
15 13 (0.88%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.75%) Military
17 11 (0.75%) Telecoms
18 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 587 (39.85%) Data Engineer
2 218 (14.80%) Developer
3 214 (14.53%) Senior
4 190 (12.90%) Architect
5 146 (9.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 137 (9.30%) Lead
7 111 (7.54%) Analyst
8 95 (6.45%) Data Architect
9 58 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
10 54 (3.67%) Data Analyst
11 52 (3.53%) Databricks Engineer
12 46 (3.12%) Azure Data Engineer
12 46 (3.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 39 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 39 (2.65%) Tester
14 38 (2.58%) SQL Developer
15 36 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
15 36 (2.44%) Snowflake Engineer
16 32 (2.17%) Oracle Developer
17 31 (2.10%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (9.57%) PySpark
2 137 (9.30%) Terraform
3 109 (7.40%) Kafka
4 66 (4.48%) REST
5 50 (3.39%) .NET
6 46 (3.12%) JSON
7 29 (1.97%) React
8 25 (1.70%) Middleware
9 23 (1.56%) Pandas
10 21 (1.43%) XML
11 20 (1.36%) Spring
11 20 (1.36%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.02%) YAML
13 13 (0.88%) pytest
13 13 (0.88%) SOAP
14 12 (0.81%) Web Services
15 11 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
15 11 (0.75%) HTML
15 11 (0.75%) LangChain
15 11 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.52%) Data Structures
3 56 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
3 56 (3.80%) Onboarding
4 55 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 27 (1.83%) Reference Data
7 20 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.15%) NHS
10 16 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
10 16 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.09%) Replication
11 15 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (0.95%) Clustering
13 13 (0.88%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.81%) CMDB
14 12 (0.81%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.75%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 61 (4.14%) Linux
2 53 (3.60%) Unix
3 21 (1.43%) 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 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (47.11%) Data Modelling
2 620 (42.09%) Data Pipeline
3 544 (36.93%) Analytics
4 490 (33.27%) Data Engineering
5 478 (32.45%) CI/CD
6 416 (28.24%) Agile
7 393 (26.68%) Migration
8 390 (26.48%) Business Intelligence
9 337 (22.88%) Data Integration
9 337 (22.88%) DevOps
10 303 (20.57%) Validation
11 298 (20.23%) Data Governance
12 281 (19.08%) AI
13 260 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 258 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
15 230 (15.61%) Data Migration
16 215 (14.60%) Data Architecture
17 209 (14.19%) Data Transformation
18 198 (13.44%) Test Automation
19 177 (12.02%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 986 (66.94%) SQL
2 575 (39.04%) Python
3 126 (8.55%) Java
4 79 (5.36%) PL/SQL
5 73 (4.96%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 49 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 47 (3.19%) C#
8 47 (3.19%) Scala
9 42 (2.85%) PowerShell
10 33 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 31 (2.10%) Bash
12 19 (1.29%) R
12 19 (1.29%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.81%) Bicep
14 11 (0.75%) Cypher
15 6 (0.41%) Go
15 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.34%) Perl
16 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 397 (26.95%) Security Cleared
2 336 (22.81%) SC Cleared
3 60 (4.07%) Degree
4 39 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.90%) DV Cleared
7 23 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.14%) CISA
12 2 (0.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (35.85%) Data Quality
2 127 (8.62%) QA
3 62 (4.21%) GDPR
4 35 (2.38%) GRC
5 22 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.61%) SLA
8 8 (0.54%) IFRS
8 8 (0.54%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.48%) WCAG
10 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 5 (0.34%) PMO
12 4 (0.27%) GAAP
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
13 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 3 (0.20%) NIST
14 2 (0.14%) DICOM
14 2 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 106 (7.20%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.20%) HDFS
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 99 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.56%) Grafana
3 17 (1.15%) Ansible
4 13 (0.88%) Control-M
5 12 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 326 (22.13%) Databricks
2 280 (19.01%) Oracle
3 254 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 102 (6.92%) Informatica
5 94 (6.38%) Talend
6 79 (5.36%) Google
7 62 (4.21%) SAP
8 50 (3.39%) Denodo
9 45 (3.05%) IBM
10 34 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.97%) Alteryx
11 29 (1.97%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.22%) Teradata
13 17 (1.15%) Foundry
13 17 (1.15%) Palantir
14 14 (0.95%) OpenAI
15 11 (0.75%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.68%) Sage
17 8 (0.54%) Red Hat