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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 75 94
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,440 765 864
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.16% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 3.46% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 521 658
10th Percentile £358 £363 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 13
10th Percentile £35.18 £47.56 £28.27
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £70.60 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% +45.57% -3.00%
75th Percentile £69.76 £99.42 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% +3.60%

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 34,498 22,079 31,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 91.24% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,001 14,439 20,650
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 933 2,247
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.44 £12.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +19 761 £512 -4.63% 162
Midlands +26 239 £469 -1.37% 30
West Midlands +32 211 £460 -10.24% 18
North of England -22 174 £460 -0.54% 64
South East -8 118 £475 -8.12% 54
North West -10 94 £447 -8.31% 28
Yorkshire -26 64 £500 +20.48% 25
South West -17 63 £525 +10.53% 27
East of England -15 42 £500 - 10
East Midlands -22 27 £525 +25.00% 12
North East -12 16 £525 +20.69% 12
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 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 93 (6.46%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (5.00%) SAS
4 63 (4.38%) Apache
5 42 (2.92%) Confluence
6 16 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.04%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.63%) Appian
8 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.56%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.49%) nginx
10 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.28%) Camunda
12 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.069%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 41 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.35%) Actimize
8 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 594 (41.25%) Azure
2 416 (28.89%) AWS
3 348 (24.17%) Power Platform
4 220 (15.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 164 (11.39%) GCP
6 158 (10.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 126 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
8 125 (8.68%) Snowflake
9 121 (8.40%) Amazon S3
10 104 (7.22%) Serverless
11 93 (6.46%) GitHub
12 83 (5.76%) dbt
13 76 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (3.33%) Collibra
15 39 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (2.15%) Power Automate
18 28 (1.94%) SaaS
19 24 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 20 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.76%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 5 (0.35%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.069%) 4G
4 1 (0.069%) 5G
4 1 (0.069%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.069%) DHCP
4 1 (0.069%) DNS
4 1 (0.069%) DSL
4 1 (0.069%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.069%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 325 (22.57%) Power BI
3 223 (15.49%) Data Lake
4 181 (12.57%) SQL Server
5 136 (9.44%) Metadata
6 98 (6.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 92 (6.39%) Tableau
8 86 (5.97%) Delta Lake
9 84 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 77 (5.35%) Pentaho
11 75 (5.21%) Big Data
12 74 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 74 (5.14%) Relational Database
13 71 (4.93%) NoSQL
14 62 (4.31%) BigQuery
14 62 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (4.03%) Snowflake Schema
16 53 (3.68%) Oracle Reports
17 51 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
18 45 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 158 (10.97%) Git
2 128 (8.89%) JIRA
3 80 (5.56%) GitLab
4 64 (4.44%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.71%) Postman
6 28 (1.94%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.60%) MLflow
8 19 (1.32%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) ERwin
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
General
1 388 (26.94%) Finance
2 369 (25.63%) Social Skills
3 238 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.22%) Banking
6 32 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.01%) Marketing
8 24 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.46%) Retail
10 18 (1.25%) Legal
11 15 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (0.83%) Law
14 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.49%) Front Office
17 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.49%) Military
18 6 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 593 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 199 (13.82%) Developer
3 163 (11.32%) Senior
4 156 (10.83%) Lead
5 147 (10.21%) Architect
6 120 (8.33%) Analyst
7 114 (7.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 85 (5.90%) Data Architect
9 75 (5.21%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
10 47 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
11 36 (2.50%) Azure Data Engineer
12 33 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
13 32 (2.22%) Snowflake Engineer
14 31 (2.15%) Data Migration Lead
14 31 (2.15%) Oracle Developer
15 30 (2.08%) Senior Developer
16 29 (2.01%) SQL Developer
17 28 (1.94%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (11.53%) PySpark
2 119 (8.26%) Kafka
3 83 (5.76%) REST
4 41 (2.85%) Pandas
5 40 (2.78%) .NET
6 33 (2.29%) JSON
7 26 (1.81%) XML
8 25 (1.74%) Middleware
9 23 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
9 23 (1.60%) Spring
10 22 (1.53%) RESTful
11 20 (1.39%) NumPy
11 20 (1.39%) PyTorch
11 20 (1.39%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.25%) Great Expectations
12 18 (1.25%) OAuth
13 17 (1.18%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.18%) YAML
14 16 (1.11%) OpenID
14 16 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.75%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.53%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.64%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
6 30 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 22 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 19 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.11%) Clustering
12 15 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.90%) Low-Code
13 13 (0.90%) NHS
13 13 (0.90%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.83%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.83%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 11 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.22%) Unix
2 24 (1.67%) Linux
3 16 (1.11%) Windows
4 8 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.49%) Solaris
5 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.069%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (47.50%) Data Modelling
2 571 (39.65%) Analytics
3 533 (37.01%) Data Pipeline
4 449 (31.18%) Data Engineering
5 428 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
6 391 (27.15%) CI/CD
7 341 (23.68%) Agile
8 332 (23.06%) Migration
9 326 (22.64%) DevOps
10 298 (20.69%) Data Governance
11 283 (19.65%) Problem-Solving
12 270 (18.75%) Validation
13 225 (15.63%) AI
14 221 (15.35%) Data Migration
15 216 (15.00%) Data Integration
16 212 (14.72%) Data Architecture
17 195 (13.54%) Decision-Making
18 170 (11.81%) Test Automation
19 153 (10.63%) Performance Tuning
20 146 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 972 (67.50%) SQL
2 597 (41.46%) Python
3 128 (8.89%) Java
4 73 (5.07%) PL/SQL
5 70 (4.86%) T-SQL
6 65 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 63 (4.38%) C#
8 55 (3.82%) Scala
9 40 (2.78%) JavaScript
10 28 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.53%) Bash
12 20 (1.39%) R
12 20 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 15 (1.04%) Bicep
15 9 (0.63%) PHP
16 8 (0.56%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.56%) VBA
17 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 360 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 295 (20.49%) SC Cleared
3 84 (5.83%) Degree
4 48 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.88%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.97%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.42%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.28%) PMP
14 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISA
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 472 (32.78%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.51%) QA
3 95 (6.60%) GDPR
4 23 (1.60%) IFRS
5 22 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.25%) IFRS 17
7 11 (0.76%) PMO
8 10 (0.69%) SLA
9 9 (0.63%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.56%) FATCA
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.35%) MiFID
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 115 (7.99%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.069%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.069%) RACF
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 130 (9.03%) Terraform
2 121 (8.40%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.46%) Grafana
4 15 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.90%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.069%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.069%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.069%) Kibana
10 1 (0.069%) logstash
10 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 288 (20.00%) Databricks
2 279 (19.38%) Microsoft
3 254 (17.64%) Oracle
4 130 (9.03%) Informatica
5 116 (8.06%) Talend
6 63 (4.38%) SAP
7 57 (3.96%) Denodo
8 51 (3.54%) Google
9 48 (3.33%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.88%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.81%) IBM
12 25 (1.74%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.25%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.18%) Sage
14 17 (1.18%) Splunk
14 17 (1.18%) Workday
15 14 (0.97%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.76%) Teradata
17 10 (0.69%) Cognos
18 9 (0.63%) Bloomberg