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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 72 94
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,200 817 854
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.17% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.52% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 911 547 666
10th Percentile £358 £356 £383
25th Percentile £413 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £681 £700 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 14
10th Percentile £45.44 - £29.93
25th Percentile £57.59 £26.25 £37.01
Median hourly rate £69.44 £42.50 £50.78
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -16.30% +45.08%
75th Percentile £76.63 £96.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £102.00 £66.96
UK median hourly rate £65.67 £35.00 £51.06
% change year-on-year +87.64% -31.45% +45.87%

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 30,862 23,227 32,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.27% 90.15% 87.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,776 14,571 21,606
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -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 1,913 757 2,031
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.31% -2.26%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £59.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.35 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
% change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +21 704 £525 -4.55% 103
Midlands +14 176 £485 +1.68% 48
West Midlands +14 152 £498 +0.91% 38
North of England -43 132 £450 -2.70% 49
North West -15 80 £442 -4.38% 21
South East -37 69 £475 -13.64% 49
South West -10 63 £525 -14.29% 29
Yorkshire -60 41 £500 +38.89% 24
East Midlands -18 24 £470 +21.29% 10
East of England -17 21 £504 -4.05% 10
North East -11 10 £475 -5.00% 5
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
1 113 (9.42%) Apache Spark
2 84 (7.00%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (5.33%) Apache
3 64 (5.33%) SAS
4 20 (1.67%) Confluence
5 13 (1.08%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.67%) Appian
7 7 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 7 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.42%) Oracle Application Server
9 5 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.33%) nginx
11 3 (0.25%) CMS
11 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.083%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.083%) Jupyter
Applications
1 44 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.67%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.25%) Trello
6 1 (0.083%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.67%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.42%) Maximo
6 5 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.33%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.17%) Actimize
9 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 503 (41.92%) Azure
2 369 (30.75%) AWS
3 279 (23.25%) Power Platform
4 191 (15.92%) Azure Data Factory
5 149 (12.42%) GCP
6 132 (11.00%) Snowflake
7 129 (10.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 113 (9.42%) Amazon S3
9 98 (8.17%) Serverless
10 88 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
11 80 (6.67%) GitHub
12 69 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (5.58%) dbt
14 39 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 34 (2.83%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (2.75%) Collibra
16 33 (2.75%) SaaS
17 25 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
18 24 (2.00%) Power Automate
19 22 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.58%) 5G
2 6 (0.50%) 2G
2 6 (0.50%) 4G
2 6 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.17%) DSL
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) HTTP
3 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (27.92%) Data Warehouse
2 258 (21.50%) Power BI
3 183 (15.25%) Data Lake
4 149 (12.42%) SQL Server
5 111 (9.25%) Metadata
6 90 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 75 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 71 (5.92%) Tableau
9 69 (5.75%) Big Data
10 68 (5.67%) Pentaho
11 66 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
12 64 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 62 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 60 (5.00%) Delta Lake
15 54 (4.50%) NoSQL
16 49 (4.08%) BigQuery
16 49 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
17 46 (3.83%) Oracle Database
18 45 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
19 33 (2.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 154 (12.83%) Git
2 96 (8.00%) JIRA
3 74 (6.17%) Jenkins
4 51 (4.25%) GitLab
5 29 (2.42%) Postman
6 20 (1.67%) MLflow
7 15 (1.25%) Selenium
8 14 (1.17%) Zephyr
9 13 (1.08%) ERwin
10 7 (0.58%) JMeter
10 7 (0.58%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.42%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.42%) TestRail
11 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.33%) DBeaver
12 4 (0.33%) Gatling
12 4 (0.33%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 378 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 326 (27.17%) Finance
3 194 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 98 (8.17%) Banking
6 29 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.33%) Retail
8 22 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 15 (1.25%) Marketing
10 14 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 14 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.08%) Law
12 12 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.00%) Legal
13 11 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.58%) Publishing
15 6 (0.50%) Front Office
15 6 (0.50%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 474 (39.50%) Data Engineer
2 153 (12.75%) Developer
3 139 (11.58%) Lead
4 124 (10.33%) Senior
5 116 (9.67%) Analyst
6 111 (9.25%) Architect
7 82 (6.83%) Senior Data Engineer
8 80 (6.67%) Data Analyst
9 66 (5.50%) Data Architect
10 40 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 32 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
13 30 (2.50%) Azure Data Engineer
13 30 (2.50%) Lead Data Engineer
14 27 (2.25%) Business Analyst
15 26 (2.17%) Consultant
15 26 (2.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 25 (2.08%) Python Engineer
17 24 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
18 23 (1.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (11.08%) PySpark
2 104 (8.67%) Kafka
3 67 (5.58%) REST
4 41 (3.42%) XML
5 36 (3.00%) Pandas
6 29 (2.42%) .NET
6 29 (2.42%) JSON
7 26 (2.17%) NumPy
8 23 (1.92%) PyTorch
8 23 (1.92%) RESTful
9 21 (1.75%) Middleware
10 20 (1.67%) TensorFlow
11 18 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
11 18 (1.50%) pytest
11 18 (1.50%) scikit-learn
12 17 (1.42%) Node.js
13 16 (1.33%) Great Expectations
13 16 (1.33%) OAuth
13 16 (1.33%) YAML
14 13 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 98 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.00%) Data Structures
3 59 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 20 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 16 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (1.33%) Reinsurance
9 15 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.25%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.25%) Product Ownership
10 12 (1.00%) IoT
10 12 (1.00%) Low-Code
10 12 (1.00%) Replication
11 11 (0.92%) AI Agents
12 10 (0.83%) Data Fabric
13 9 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 22 (1.83%) Linux
2 18 (1.50%) Unix
3 11 (0.92%) Windows
4 6 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.33%) Solaris
6 4 (0.33%) VMS
6 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (46.83%) Data Modelling
2 513 (42.75%) Analytics
3 444 (37.00%) Data Pipeline
4 395 (32.92%) Data Engineering
5 377 (31.42%) Business Intelligence
6 342 (28.50%) CI/CD
7 298 (24.83%) Agile
8 283 (23.58%) Data Governance
9 274 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
10 268 (22.33%) DevOps
11 257 (21.42%) Migration
12 201 (16.75%) Data Architecture
13 191 (15.92%) Data Integration
14 189 (15.75%) Validation
15 178 (14.83%) Data Migration
16 159 (13.25%) AI
17 153 (12.75%) Data Science
18 150 (12.50%) Decision-Making
19 136 (11.33%) Test Automation
20 133 (11.08%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 798 (66.50%) SQL
2 568 (47.33%) Python
3 94 (7.83%) Java
4 55 (4.58%) C#
5 48 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 48 (4.00%) Scala
6 46 (3.83%) PL/SQL
6 46 (3.83%) T-SQL
7 39 (3.25%) JavaScript
8 22 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 17 (1.42%) Bicep
10 16 (1.33%) Bash
10 16 (1.33%) Shell Script
11 15 (1.25%) R
12 14 (1.17%) Go
12 14 (1.17%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.92%) VBA
14 10 (0.83%) PHP
15 6 (0.50%) SAS Macro
16 5 (0.42%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 263 (21.92%) Security Cleared
2 213 (17.75%) SC Cleared
3 84 (7.00%) Degree
4 51 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 25 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.17%) ISTQB
10 12 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.50%) PMP
13 5 (0.42%) SnowPro
14 4 (0.33%) PMI Certification
14 4 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 1 (0.083%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.083%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 398 (33.17%) Data Quality
2 103 (8.58%) QA
3 90 (7.50%) GDPR
4 21 (1.75%) IFRS
5 19 (1.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.42%) IFRS 17
7 12 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.67%) PMO
9 5 (0.42%) GAAP
9 5 (0.42%) MiFID
9 5 (0.42%) SLA
10 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.33%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.25%) Basel III
11 3 (0.25%) FATCA
11 3 (0.25%) GMP
11 3 (0.25%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.25%) NIST
System Software
1 121 (10.08%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.33%) HDFS
3 4 (0.33%) zsh
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.17%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 130 (10.83%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.42%) Terraform
3 14 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.83%) Ansible
5 9 (0.75%) Grafana
6 5 (0.42%) Control-M
7 4 (0.33%) Kibana
7 4 (0.33%) logstash
8 2 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.17%) SCCM
9 1 (0.083%) Foglight
9 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.083%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.083%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 251 (20.92%) Databricks
2 196 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 182 (15.17%) Oracle
4 99 (8.25%) Talend
5 97 (8.08%) Informatica
6 49 (4.08%) SAP
7 44 (3.67%) Denodo
8 40 (3.33%) Google
9 31 (2.58%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.42%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.83%) MuleSoft
12 20 (1.67%) IBM
13 16 (1.33%) Splunk
14 15 (1.25%) Workday
15 14 (1.17%) Palantir
16 13 (1.08%) Sage
17 12 (1.00%) Alteryx
17 12 (1.00%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.92%) Ab Initio
19 10 (0.83%) Foundry