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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 80 80
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,526 843 932
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 3.07% 2.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.39% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 576 692
10th Percentile £358 £363 £358
25th Percentile £416 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -0.49% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £675 £708 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 10
10th Percentile £27.35 £38.69 £29.51
25th Percentile £30.21 £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £35.86 £52.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -31.70% +35.48% -42.59%
75th Percentile £54.38 £74.96 £51.38
90th Percentile £65.46 £89.73 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -12.96% +23.87% -40.38%

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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +6 751 £525 -1.50% 122
Midlands +27 277 £459 +1.94% 34
West Midlands +32 242 £450 -9.09% 20
North of England -12 188 £463 -2.63% 56
South East +9 142 £461 -5.49% 54
North West -19 86 £460 -8.00% 25
Yorkshire -19 79 £478 +9.77% 17
South West -17 72 £523 +10.00% 26
East of England +9 50 £500 +2.56% 9
East Midlands -14 34 £490 +10.96% 14
North East -18 24 £537 +23.45% 15
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 (8.45%) Apache Spark
2 113 (7.40%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (5.77%) SAS
4 73 (4.78%) Apache
5 53 (3.47%) Confluence
6 21 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
7 16 (1.05%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) nginx
8 10 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.26%) Appian
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pig
12 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.066%) JBoss
Applications
1 39 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.72%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.59%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 598 (39.19%) Azure
2 444 (29.10%) AWS
3 361 (23.66%) Power Platform
4 210 (13.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 180 (11.80%) GCP
6 174 (11.40%) Snowflake
7 140 (9.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 125 (8.19%) Amazon S3
8 125 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
9 115 (7.54%) dbt
9 115 (7.54%) Serverless
10 89 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
10 89 (5.83%) GitHub
11 47 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.75%) Collibra
13 34 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
14 27 (1.77%) Matillion
15 26 (1.70%) Power Automate
16 25 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.79%) Firewall
2 8 (0.52%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.066%) 4G
4 1 (0.066%) 5G
4 1 (0.066%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.066%) DHCP
4 1 (0.066%) DNS
4 1 (0.066%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.066%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 486 (31.85%) Data Warehouse
2 344 (22.54%) Power BI
3 220 (14.42%) Data Lake
4 155 (10.16%) SQL Server
5 133 (8.72%) Metadata
6 99 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (6.42%) Tableau
8 90 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 87 (5.70%) Delta Lake
10 84 (5.50%) Relational Database
11 79 (5.18%) BigQuery
12 76 (4.98%) Pentaho
13 73 (4.78%) Big Data
14 68 (4.46%) NoSQL
15 65 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
16 64 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
17 63 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
18 60 (3.93%) Snowflake Schema
19 50 (3.28%) Oracle Database
20 47 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 170 (11.14%) Git
2 129 (8.45%) JIRA
3 78 (5.11%) GitLab
4 57 (3.74%) Jenkins
5 38 (2.49%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.36%) Postman
7 14 (0.92%) MLflow
8 11 (0.72%) Selenium
9 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.26%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.26%) ERwin
10 4 (0.26%) Flyway
10 4 (0.26%) LSMW
10 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.20%) Gatling
11 3 (0.20%) Newman
11 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 369 (24.18%) Finance
2 357 (23.39%) Social Skills
3 277 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.35%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.62%) Banking
6 39 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.90%) Marketing
8 23 (1.51%) Retail
9 21 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.38%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.31%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.25%) Legal
12 13 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.72%) Front Office
14 10 (0.66%) Billing
14 10 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.66%) Law
14 10 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.59%) Military
16 8 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 608 (39.84%) Data Engineer
2 228 (14.94%) Developer
3 195 (12.78%) Architect
4 182 (11.93%) Senior
5 162 (10.62%) Lead
6 125 (8.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 114 (7.47%) Analyst
8 107 (7.01%) Data Architect
9 61 (4.00%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 46 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 44 (2.88%) SQL Developer
13 42 (2.75%) Azure Data Engineer
14 40 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
15 39 (2.56%) Tester
16 37 (2.42%) Snowflake Engineer
17 36 (2.36%) Lead Data Engineer
18 34 (2.23%) AWS Data Engineer
18 34 (2.23%) Data Migration Lead
18 34 (2.23%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (10.42%) PySpark
2 123 (8.06%) Kafka
3 67 (4.39%) REST
4 52 (3.41%) JSON
5 40 (2.62%) .NET
6 33 (2.16%) Pandas
7 26 (1.70%) XML
8 23 (1.51%) Middleware
8 23 (1.51%) Spring
9 22 (1.44%) React
10 21 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.11%) RESTful
11 17 (1.11%) YAML
12 15 (0.98%) Great Expectations
12 15 (0.98%) Web Services
13 14 (0.92%) Apache Avro
14 13 (0.85%) OAuth
14 13 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.85%) PyTorch
15 12 (0.79%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.04%) Cloud Native
2 95 (6.23%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 38 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.51%) NHS
9 22 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
10 20 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.11%) Clustering
11 17 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 12 (0.79%) IoT
12 12 (0.79%) Replication
13 11 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.66%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.59%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 45 (2.95%) Unix
2 42 (2.75%) Linux
3 17 (1.11%) Windows
4 8 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 722 (47.31%) Data Modelling
2 606 (39.71%) Data Pipeline
3 580 (38.01%) Analytics
4 471 (30.87%) Data Engineering
5 446 (29.23%) CI/CD
6 434 (28.44%) Business Intelligence
7 398 (26.08%) Migration
8 380 (24.90%) Agile
9 316 (20.71%) DevOps
10 312 (20.45%) Data Governance
11 305 (19.99%) Validation
12 280 (18.35%) Data Integration
13 278 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
14 243 (15.92%) AI
15 241 (15.79%) Data Migration
16 219 (14.35%) Data Architecture
17 206 (13.50%) Test Automation
18 200 (13.11%) Decision-Making
19 173 (11.34%) Data Transformation
20 167 (10.94%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,022 (66.97%) SQL
2 590 (38.66%) Python
3 132 (8.65%) Java
4 83 (5.44%) T-SQL
5 73 (4.78%) PL/SQL
6 70 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.41%) C#
8 50 (3.28%) Scala
9 36 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 33 (2.16%) JavaScript
11 29 (1.90%) Bash
12 27 (1.77%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.31%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.11%) R
15 16 (1.05%) Bicep
16 9 (0.59%) VBA
17 7 (0.46%) Cypher
17 7 (0.46%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.39%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 419 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 348 (22.80%) SC Cleared
3 80 (5.24%) Degree
4 42 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (2.23%) Azure Certification
7 24 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.25%) DV Cleared
9 18 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.18%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.59%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.26%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.13%) CISSP
15 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (33.22%) Data Quality
2 138 (9.04%) QA
3 97 (6.36%) GDPR
4 23 (1.51%) GRC
5 22 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.92%) PMO
7 13 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 12 (0.79%) IFRS
9 9 (0.59%) SLA
10 8 (0.52%) FATCA
11 7 (0.46%) IFRS 17
11 7 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.33%) WCAG
14 4 (0.26%) GAAP
14 4 (0.26%) GMP
14 4 (0.26%) HL7
14 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
15 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 106 (6.95%) Docker
2 9 (0.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.39%) HDFS
3 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.13%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.066%) RACF
6 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (8.72%) Terraform
2 113 (7.40%) Kubernetes
3 25 (1.64%) Grafana
4 17 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.98%) Ansible
6 8 (0.52%) Control-M
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.066%) Argo
9 1 (0.066%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.066%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.066%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 293 (19.20%) Databricks
2 290 (19.00%) Oracle
3 268 (17.56%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.85%) Informatica
5 120 (7.86%) Talend
6 74 (4.85%) SAP
7 56 (3.67%) Denodo
8 55 (3.60%) Google
9 38 (2.49%) IBM
10 37 (2.42%) ServiceNow
11 30 (1.97%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.90%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.51%) Sage
14 17 (1.11%) MuleSoft
14 17 (1.11%) Splunk
15 15 (0.98%) Palantir
16 13 (0.85%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.79%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.79%) Workday
18 11 (0.72%) Red Hat