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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 77 101
Rank change year-on-year -9 +24 -2
Contract jobs citing ETL 908 861 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 2.94% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.28% 3.32% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 563 684
10th Percentile £361 £360 £382
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 14
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £43.99
25th Percentile £35.44 £28.44 £50.00
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 £64.88
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £38.75 £61.43
% change year-on-year +12.26% -36.92% +73.04%

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 27,668 25,905 33,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.00% 88.32% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,615 15,999 22,793
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,810 882 1,400
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.54 £14.74
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.26 £74.99 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +4 541 £525 - 198
Midlands -4 124 £515 +7.97% 130
North of England -35 101 £450 - 168
West Midlands -5 100 £519 +5.32% 68
North West -12 56 £442 +1.09% 87
South West -4 50 £550 -4.35% 92
South East -33 40 £441 -19.77% 229
Yorkshire -47 39 £468 +4.00% 58
East Midlands -9 24 £438 +16.67% 55
East of England -16 22 £575 +9.52% 98
North East -15 5 £444 -6.58% 23
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 (9.80%) Apache Spark
2 85 (9.36%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (7.05%) Apache
4 47 (5.18%) SAS
5 14 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 9 (0.99%) 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 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.99%) 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 (1.65%) 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
1 355 (39.10%) Azure
2 281 (30.95%) AWS
3 193 (21.26%) Power Platform
4 140 (15.42%) GCP
5 131 (14.43%) Snowflake
6 125 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 89 (9.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 88 (9.69%) Amazon S3
9 73 (8.04%) Serverless
10 59 (6.50%) dbt
11 55 (6.06%) GitHub
12 51 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
13 49 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (3.30%) SaaS
15 25 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
16 24 (2.64%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
18 17 (1.87%) Power Automate
19 16 (1.76%) 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
1 286 (31.50%) Data Warehouse
2 182 (20.04%) Power BI
3 119 (13.11%) Data Lake
4 97 (10.68%) SQL Server
5 82 (9.03%) Relational Database
6 79 (8.70%) Metadata
7 70 (7.71%) Big Data
8 65 (7.16%) Amazon Redshift
8 65 (7.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 64 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
10 62 (6.83%) Tableau
11 58 (6.39%) BigQuery
12 45 (4.96%) Pentaho
13 41 (4.52%) Delta Lake
14 40 (4.41%) NoSQL
15 37 (4.07%) Snowflake Schema
16 35 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
17 34 (3.74%) Oracle Database
18 31 (3.41%) DataStage
19 30 (3.30%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 113 (12.44%) Git
2 72 (7.93%) JIRA
3 64 (7.05%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.53%) GitLab
5 14 (1.54%) Postman
5 14 (1.54%) Selenium
6 11 (1.21%) ERwin
6 11 (1.21%) 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
1 281 (30.95%) Social Skills
2 227 (25.00%) Finance
3 170 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 63 (6.94%) Banking
6 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
7 17 (1.87%) Retail
8 14 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.54%) Marketing
8 14 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.10%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.10%) Legal
10 10 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 9 (0.99%) Law
12 8 (0.88%) Local Government
12 8 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.77%) Front Office
13 7 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 305 (33.59%) Data Engineer
2 143 (15.75%) Developer
3 96 (10.57%) Analyst
4 95 (10.46%) Lead
5 93 (10.24%) Senior
6 88 (9.69%) Architect
7 64 (7.05%) Data Analyst
8 48 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
9 46 (5.07%) Data Architect
10 41 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (3.96%) Azure Data Engineer
12 29 (3.19%) Business Analyst
13 27 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (2.97%) Consultant
14 26 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 22 (2.42%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.20%) AWS Data Engineer
16 20 (2.20%) Snowflake Engineer
17 18 (1.98%) Lead Data Engineer
17 18 (1.98%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (9.58%) PySpark
2 78 (8.59%) Kafka
3 38 (4.19%) XML
4 35 (3.85%) REST
5 27 (2.97%) JSON
5 27 (2.97%) Node.js
6 20 (2.20%) RESTful
7 19 (2.09%) Pandas
8 16 (1.76%) .NET
9 15 (1.65%) NumPy
10 13 (1.43%) OAuth
11 12 (1.32%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.21%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.21%) React
13 10 (1.10%) GraphQL
14 9 (0.99%) Apache NiFi
14 9 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (0.99%) Middleware
14 9 (0.99%) SOAP
14 9 (0.99%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.49%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.95%) Data Structures
3 30 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.42%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 17 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.54%) Replication
9 12 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.21%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.21%) IoT
10 11 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.21%) Onboarding
11 8 (0.88%) Fixed Income
11 8 (0.88%) Reinsurance
12 7 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
12 7 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.75%) Linux
2 9 (0.99%) 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 (43.94%) Data Modelling
2 361 (39.76%) Analytics
3 343 (37.78%) Data Pipeline
4 278 (30.62%) Business Intelligence
5 272 (29.96%) Data Engineering
6 247 (27.20%) CI/CD
7 234 (25.77%) Problem-Solving
8 227 (25.00%) Agile
9 217 (23.90%) Data Governance
10 204 (22.47%) DevOps
11 195 (21.48%) Migration
12 172 (18.94%) Data Integration
13 147 (16.19%) Data Architecture
14 138 (15.20%) Data Migration
15 116 (12.78%) Validation
16 112 (12.33%) Data Science
17 109 (12.00%) Data Transformation
18 108 (11.89%) Visualisation
19 97 (10.68%) Decision-Making
20 96 (10.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 588 (64.76%) SQL
2 440 (48.46%) Python
3 87 (9.58%) Java
4 43 (4.74%) Scala
5 36 (3.96%) C#
6 35 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 29 (3.19%) T-SQL
8 28 (3.08%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.76%) Go
10 16 (1.76%) PHP
11 15 (1.65%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.65%) R
12 14 (1.54%) Bash
12 14 (1.54%) VBA
13 10 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.99%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.77%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.66%) Korn
16 6 (0.66%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 119 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.27%) Degree
4 40 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.41%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.77%) 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
1 282 (31.06%) Data Quality
2 65 (7.16%) QA
3 62 (6.83%) GDPR
4 17 (1.87%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.99%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.66%) IFRS
6 6 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.55%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.44%) MiFID
8 4 (0.44%) SLA
8 4 (0.44%) WCAG
9 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.33%) PMO
10 2 (0.22%) CRD IV
10 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.22%) EMIR
10 2 (0.22%) FINREP
10 2 (0.22%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 108 (11.89%) 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 (10.90%) Kubernetes
2 73 (8.04%) Terraform
3 10 (1.10%) Ansible
3 10 (1.10%) 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
1 172 (18.94%) Databricks
2 141 (15.53%) Microsoft
3 124 (13.66%) Oracle
4 67 (7.38%) Talend
5 56 (6.17%) Informatica
6 48 (5.29%) Google
7 41 (4.52%) SAP
8 37 (4.07%) Denodo
9 28 (3.08%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.76%) IBM
11 14 (1.54%) Palantir
12 13 (1.43%) ServiceNow
13 12 (1.32%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.21%) Foundry
15 9 (0.99%) VMware
16 8 (0.88%) Cognos
16 8 (0.88%) Workday
17 6 (0.66%) Ab Initio
17 6 (0.66%) Alteryx
17 6 (0.66%) AppDynamics