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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 956 791 815
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.08% 2.96% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 3.32% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 512 622
10th Percentile £358 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 16
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.64
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.81
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +59.15%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £65.40
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +70.42%

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 27,375 23,793 32,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.27% 89.07% 87.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,424 14,594 21,607
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,725 761 1,484
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.86 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 +14 589 £525 - 164
Midlands -6 113 £515 +6.51% 72
North of England -42 100 £450 -2.70% 97
West Midlands 0 92 £523 +5.98% 35
North West -18 63 £438 -5.41% 39
South West -8 53 £550 -4.35% 60
South East -41 50 £425 -22.73% 188
Yorkshire -47 28 £468 +10.12% 41
East Midlands -12 21 £431 +12.01% 37
East of England -15 18 £575 +4.55% 63
North East -8 8 £450 -9.55% 17
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 85 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 66 (6.90%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (5.86%) Apache
4 48 (5.02%) SAS
5 14 (1.46%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.26%) Confluence
7 7 (0.73%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.42%) Appian
9 4 (0.42%) IIS
10 3 (0.31%) Luigi
10 3 (0.31%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.21%) CMS
11 2 (0.21%) nginx
11 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 45 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.42%) Trello
6 3 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 8 (0.84%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (0.52%) Maximo
5 5 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.42%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.31%) SAP PM
7 3 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
8 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 392 (41.00%) Azure
2 281 (29.39%) AWS
3 217 (22.70%) Power Platform
4 155 (16.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 119 (12.45%) GCP
6 117 (12.24%) Snowflake
7 99 (10.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 89 (9.31%) Amazon S3
9 83 (8.68%) Serverless
10 68 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (6.69%) GitHub
12 54 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
13 45 (4.71%) dbt
14 34 (3.56%) SaaS
15 27 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (2.20%) Power Automate
18 20 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
18 20 (2.09%) Azure Logic Apps
19 19 (1.99%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.63%) 2G
1 6 (0.63%) 5G
1 6 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.52%) 4G
3 2 (0.21%) BGP
3 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.21%) DNS
3 2 (0.21%) DSL
3 2 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.21%) OSPF
3 2 (0.21%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.10%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.10%) Firewall
4 1 (0.10%) Internet
4 1 (0.10%) Multicast
4 1 (0.10%) SMS
4 1 (0.10%) SSH
4 1 (0.10%) SSL
4 1 (0.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (28.97%) Data Warehouse
2 204 (21.34%) Power BI
3 151 (15.79%) Data Lake
4 113 (11.82%) SQL Server
5 89 (9.31%) Metadata
6 76 (7.95%) Relational Database
7 71 (7.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 64 (6.69%) Big Data
9 61 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
10 60 (6.28%) Tableau
11 55 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
12 50 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 46 (4.81%) Pentaho
14 44 (4.60%) BigQuery
15 39 (4.08%) Delta Lake
16 38 (3.97%) Oracle Database
17 37 (3.87%) NoSQL
18 35 (3.66%) Snowflake Schema
19 33 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
20 31 (3.24%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 117 (12.24%) Git
2 79 (8.26%) JIRA
3 62 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 29 (3.03%) GitLab
5 14 (1.46%) ERwin
5 14 (1.46%) Postman
6 13 (1.36%) Selenium
7 12 (1.26%) MLflow
8 7 (0.73%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.73%) TestRail
9 6 (0.63%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.63%) DBeaver
10 5 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.42%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.42%) JMeter
11 4 (0.42%) Toad
12 3 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
12 3 (0.31%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 295 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 254 (26.57%) Finance
3 158 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 77 (8.05%) Banking
6 18 (1.88%) Financial Institution
6 18 (1.88%) Retail
7 16 (1.67%) Marketing
8 14 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.26%) Legal
10 12 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 9 (0.94%) Law
13 8 (0.84%) Front Office
13 8 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 8 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.73%) Publishing
15 6 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 337 (35.25%) Data Engineer
2 141 (14.75%) Developer
3 110 (11.51%) Lead
4 99 (10.36%) Senior
5 97 (10.15%) Analyst
6 80 (8.37%) Architect
7 68 (7.11%) Data Analyst
8 59 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 47 (4.92%) Data Architect
10 43 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (3.66%) Azure Data Engineer
12 32 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 29 (3.03%) Business Analyst
14 28 (2.93%) Consultant
15 25 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (2.51%) Senior Developer
17 20 (2.09%) Snowflake Engineer
18 18 (1.88%) AWS Data Engineer
18 18 (1.88%) Python Engineer
18 18 (1.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (10.36%) PySpark
2 77 (8.05%) Kafka
3 53 (5.54%) REST
4 43 (4.50%) XML
5 26 (2.72%) Node.js
6 25 (2.62%) Pandas
7 23 (2.41%) JSON
8 22 (2.30%) .NET
9 19 (1.99%) RESTful
10 18 (1.88%) NumPy
11 16 (1.67%) Middleware
11 16 (1.67%) OAuth
12 14 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (1.36%) PyTorch
14 12 (1.26%) Keycloak
14 12 (1.26%) pytest
14 12 (1.26%) Spark Streaming
14 12 (1.26%) TensorFlow
15 11 (1.15%) React
16 10 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.43%) Cloud Native
2 62 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 45 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.09%) Algorithms
4 20 (2.09%) Product Ownership
5 19 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
6 18 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (1.36%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.36%) Replication
9 12 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.05%) IoT
10 10 (1.05%) Reinsurance
11 9 (0.94%) Data Fabric
12 8 (0.84%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.84%) Low-Code
12 8 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.51%) Linux
2 10 (1.05%) Unix
3 9 (0.94%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.10%) VMS
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (44.67%) Data Modelling
2 396 (41.42%) Analytics
3 365 (38.18%) Data Pipeline
4 311 (32.53%) Business Intelligence
5 286 (29.92%) Data Engineering
6 264 (27.62%) CI/CD
7 239 (25.00%) Agile
8 231 (24.16%) DevOps
9 227 (23.74%) Problem-Solving
10 215 (22.49%) Data Governance
11 190 (19.87%) Migration
12 169 (17.68%) Data Integration
13 162 (16.95%) Data Architecture
14 136 (14.23%) Data Migration
15 131 (13.70%) Validation
16 116 (12.13%) Data Science
17 108 (11.30%) Data Transformation
18 106 (11.09%) AI
18 106 (11.09%) Machine Learning
19 100 (10.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 610 (63.81%) SQL
2 451 (47.18%) Python
3 83 (8.68%) Java
4 43 (4.50%) C#
5 38 (3.97%) Scala
6 37 (3.87%) PL/SQL
7 33 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 29 (3.03%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.67%) Go
9 16 (1.67%) R
10 15 (1.57%) PHP
11 14 (1.46%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.26%) Bash
12 12 (1.26%) Bicep
13 10 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.05%) VBA
14 9 (0.94%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.52%) ABAP
15 5 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 182 (19.04%) Security Cleared
2 137 (14.33%) SC Cleared
3 63 (6.59%) Degree
4 42 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.97%) Azure Certification
6 29 (3.03%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 13 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.26%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.84%) PMP
12 7 (0.73%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.63%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.31%) MCP
15 3 (0.31%) SnowPro
16 2 (0.21%) CISSP
16 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
17 1 (0.10%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 310 (32.43%) Data Quality
2 71 (7.43%) GDPR
3 63 (6.59%) QA
4 15 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.36%) IFRS
6 9 (0.94%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.84%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.52%) GAAP
8 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.52%) SLA
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) WCAG
10 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.31%) Basel III
10 3 (0.31%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.31%) NIST
10 3 (0.31%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 115 (12.03%) Docker
2 5 (0.52%) zsh
3 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.21%) KVM
4 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.10%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.10%) HDFS
5 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 107 (11.19%) Kubernetes
2 82 (8.58%) Terraform
3 9 (0.94%) Ansible
3 9 (0.94%) Grafana
4 6 (0.63%) Kibana
4 6 (0.63%) logstash
5 5 (0.52%) Control-M
6 4 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.10%) Argo
8 1 (0.10%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.10%) Istio
8 1 (0.10%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.10%) Puppet
8 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 188 (19.67%) Databricks
2 162 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 134 (14.02%) Oracle
4 61 (6.38%) Talend
5 57 (5.96%) Informatica
6 47 (4.92%) SAP
7 38 (3.97%) Denodo
8 36 (3.77%) Google
9 26 (2.72%) Salesforce
10 20 (2.09%) IBM
11 19 (1.99%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.57%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.46%) Palantir
13 14 (1.46%) Workday
14 11 (1.15%) Foundry
15 8 (0.84%) Ab Initio
15 8 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 8 (0.84%) Cognos
16 6 (0.63%) Avaloq
16 6 (0.63%) OpenAI