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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 77 102
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,274 797 851
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 3.23% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 3.57% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 957 542 662
10th Percentile £358 £360 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £633
90th Percentile £681 £700 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 16
10th Percentile £34.80 £26.25 £29.06
25th Percentile £36.78 £35.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £67.35 £60.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.31% +22.22% +37.02%
75th Percentile £74.26 £96.64 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +50.59% -15.84% +40.28%

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 31,521 22,327 33,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,160 14,432 21,853
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £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 1,961 797 2,159
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.63 £70.53
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +24 719 £518 -5.91% 196
Midlands +16 197 £485 +1.68% 66
West Midlands +14 170 £498 +0.91% 51
North of England -35 150 £460 -0.54% 84
North West -16 86 £442 -8.63% 45
South East -40 79 £475 -5.94% 102
South West -2 66 £525 -12.50% 43
Yorkshire -53 48 £500 +40.85% 31
East of England -17 27 £500 -4.76% 23
East Midlands -20 27 £460 +18.71% 15
North East -6 15 £538 +7.50% 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
1 122 (9.58%) Apache Spark
2 85 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (5.57%) Apache
4 64 (5.02%) SAS
5 23 (1.81%) Confluence
6 14 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.63%) Appian
7 8 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.39%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.39%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.31%) nginx
11 3 (0.24%) Camunda
11 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 45 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.24%) Trello
6 1 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.078%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.47%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.39%) Maximo
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.24%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 524 (41.13%) Azure
2 390 (30.61%) AWS
3 315 (24.73%) Power Platform
4 205 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 155 (12.17%) GCP
6 138 (10.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 138 (10.83%) Snowflake
7 126 (9.89%) Amazon S3
8 100 (7.85%) Serverless
9 93 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
10 86 (6.75%) GitHub
11 74 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
12 70 (5.49%) dbt
13 42 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (2.98%) Collibra
14 38 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (2.75%) SaaS
16 24 (1.88%) Power Automate
17 22 (1.73%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (1.73%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.55%) 5G
2 6 (0.47%) 2G
2 6 (0.47%) 4G
2 6 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (0.31%) Firewall
3 4 (0.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.16%) DSL
4 2 (0.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.078%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 365 (28.65%) Data Warehouse
2 296 (23.23%) Power BI
3 189 (14.84%) Data Lake
4 161 (12.64%) SQL Server
5 116 (9.11%) Metadata
6 97 (7.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 83 (6.51%) Relational Database
7 83 (6.51%) Tableau
8 77 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 72 (5.65%) Big Data
10 69 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 68 (5.34%) Pentaho
11 68 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
12 66 (5.18%) Delta Lake
13 59 (4.63%) NoSQL
14 53 (4.16%) Snowflake Schema
15 52 (4.08%) BigQuery
16 50 (3.92%) Amazon Athena
17 43 (3.38%) Oracle Database
18 37 (2.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 157 (12.32%) Git
2 96 (7.54%) JIRA
3 71 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 54 (4.24%) GitLab
5 27 (2.12%) Postman
6 20 (1.57%) MLflow
7 14 (1.10%) ERwin
7 14 (1.10%) Zephyr
8 13 (1.02%) Selenium
9 7 (0.55%) JMeter
9 7 (0.55%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.39%) TestRail
10 5 (0.39%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.31%) DBeaver
11 4 (0.31%) Gatling
11 4 (0.31%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.31%) Toad
General
1 388 (30.46%) Social Skills
2 335 (26.30%) Finance
3 213 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 96 (7.54%) Banking
6 29 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.96%) Retail
8 24 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 19 (1.49%) Legal
9 19 (1.49%) Marketing
10 18 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.10%) Law
13 11 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.55%) Front Office
14 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.47%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.47%) Investment Banking
15 6 (0.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 511 (40.11%) Data Engineer
2 164 (12.87%) Developer
3 141 (11.07%) Lead
4 134 (10.52%) Senior
5 124 (9.73%) Architect
6 120 (9.42%) Analyst
7 92 (7.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 82 (6.44%) Data Analyst
9 70 (5.49%) Data Architect
10 43 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
13 32 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (2.51%) Lead Data Engineer
14 29 (2.28%) Azure Data Engineer
15 28 (2.20%) Consultant
15 28 (2.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 27 (2.12%) Business Analyst
17 26 (2.04%) AWS Data Engineer
18 25 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (10.99%) PySpark
2 117 (9.18%) Kafka
3 72 (5.65%) REST
4 41 (3.22%) Pandas
5 36 (2.83%) XML
6 32 (2.51%) .NET
7 28 (2.20%) JSON
8 25 (1.96%) NumPy
8 25 (1.96%) RESTful
9 22 (1.73%) Middleware
10 21 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
11 20 (1.57%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.41%) Great Expectations
13 17 (1.33%) scikit-learn
13 17 (1.33%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.26%) pytest
14 16 (1.26%) YAML
15 14 (1.10%) Node.js
15 14 (1.10%) OAuth
15 14 (1.10%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 107 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.91%) Data Structures
3 64 (5.02%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (1.81%) Onboarding
6 22 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.49%) Product Ownership
10 16 (1.26%) Reinsurance
11 15 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.18%) IoT
12 14 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 14 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (0.86%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.86%) Clustering
13 11 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 11 (0.86%) Low-Code
13 11 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (1.57%) Linux
2 18 (1.41%) Unix
3 11 (0.86%) Windows
4 6 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.31%) Solaris
6 4 (0.31%) VMS
6 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.078%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 600 (47.10%) Data Modelling
2 547 (42.94%) Analytics
3 472 (37.05%) Data Pipeline
4 428 (33.59%) Data Engineering
5 412 (32.34%) Business Intelligence
6 355 (27.86%) CI/CD
7 309 (24.25%) Agile
8 297 (23.31%) Data Governance
9 284 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
10 282 (22.14%) DevOps
11 271 (21.27%) Migration
12 207 (16.25%) Data Architecture
12 207 (16.25%) Validation
13 197 (15.46%) Data Integration
14 186 (14.60%) Data Migration
15 170 (13.34%) Decision-Making
16 164 (12.87%) AI
17 150 (11.77%) Data Science
18 137 (10.75%) Test Automation
19 134 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 858 (67.35%) SQL
2 591 (46.39%) Python
3 96 (7.54%) Java
4 56 (4.40%) C#
5 55 (4.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 51 (4.00%) Scala
7 49 (3.85%) PL/SQL
8 48 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 39 (3.06%) JavaScript
10 21 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 19 (1.49%) Bicep
12 17 (1.33%) Bash
12 17 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.26%) R
14 15 (1.18%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.94%) Go
15 12 (0.94%) VBA
16 10 (0.78%) PHP
17 6 (0.47%) SAS Macro
18 5 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 281 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 221 (17.35%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.83%) Degree
4 52 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.10%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.39%) PMP
12 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.31%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.078%) CISSP
15 1 (0.078%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 428 (33.59%) Data Quality
2 110 (8.63%) QA
3 98 (7.69%) GDPR
4 22 (1.73%) IFRS
5 18 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.33%) IFRS 17
7 14 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.71%) PMO
9 8 (0.63%) SLA
10 7 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.39%) GAAP
11 5 (0.39%) MiFID
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.24%) Basel III
13 3 (0.24%) FATCA
13 3 (0.24%) GMP
13 3 (0.24%) NIST
13 3 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 120 (9.42%) Docker
2 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.31%) HDFS
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.16%) zsh
6 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 123 (9.65%) Terraform
3 14 (1.10%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.86%) Grafana
5 10 (0.78%) Ansible
6 4 (0.31%) Control-M
7 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 3 (0.24%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Foglight
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.16%) SCCM
9 1 (0.078%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.078%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.078%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.078%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.078%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 267 (20.96%) Databricks
2 216 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 191 (14.99%) Oracle
4 111 (8.71%) Informatica
5 102 (8.01%) Talend
6 54 (4.24%) SAP
7 49 (3.85%) Google
8 43 (3.38%) Denodo
9 37 (2.90%) ServiceNow
10 27 (2.12%) Salesforce
11 23 (1.81%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.57%) IBM
13 18 (1.41%) Splunk
14 17 (1.33%) Workday
15 16 (1.26%) Palantir
15 16 (1.26%) Sage
16 12 (0.94%) Foundry
17 11 (0.86%) Ab Initio
17 11 (0.86%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.78%) Alteryx