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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 75 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,306 778 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 3.15% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.47% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 526 682
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 16
10th Percentile £34.90 £26.25 £29.06
25th Percentile £40.39 £46.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +36.55%
75th Percentile £73.37 £97.60 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £60.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.79% +19.80% +39.79%

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 32,274 22,410 32,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.33% 90.76% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,683 14,625 21,650
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 1,981 836 2,152
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.86 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.35 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +29 738 £518 -5.91% 191
Midlands +17 199 £480 +1.05% 64
West Midlands +15 171 £492 -0.20% 46
North of England -28 158 £455 -1.62% 95
North West -5 89 £430 -8.80% 55
South East -51 77 £475 -5.94% 113
South West -5 68 £525 -8.70% 45
Yorkshire -52 53 £493 +38.73% 29
East of England -16 28 £500 +8.11% 46
East Midlands -26 28 £455 +17.42% 18
North East -8 15 £538 +13.16% 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
1 120 (9.19%) Apache Spark
2 90 (6.89%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (5.36%) Apache
4 65 (4.98%) SAS
5 25 (1.91%) Confluence
6 14 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.61%) Appian
7 8 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
10 5 (0.38%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.31%) Camunda
11 4 (0.31%) nginx
12 3 (0.23%) CMS
12 3 (0.23%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.077%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 44 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.23%) Trello
5 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.077%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.077%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.07%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.07%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.46%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.38%) Maximo
6 5 (0.38%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.23%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 548 (41.96%) Azure
2 401 (30.70%) AWS
3 331 (25.34%) Power Platform
4 212 (16.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 154 (11.79%) GCP
6 151 (11.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 144 (11.03%) Snowflake
8 131 (10.03%) Amazon S3
9 106 (8.12%) Serverless
10 97 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
11 95 (7.27%) GitHub
12 76 (5.82%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (5.59%) dbt
14 43 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (3.22%) Collibra
16 36 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (2.60%) SaaS
18 26 (1.99%) Power Automate
19 22 (1.68%) Amazon EMR
19 22 (1.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.54%) 5G
2 6 (0.46%) 2G
2 6 (0.46%) 4G
2 6 (0.46%) Firewall
2 6 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (0.31%) VPN
4 2 (0.15%) DSL
4 2 (0.15%) HTTP
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.077%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (29.10%) Data Warehouse
2 311 (23.81%) Power BI
3 197 (15.08%) Data Lake
4 174 (13.32%) SQL Server
5 123 (9.42%) Metadata
6 98 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 86 (6.58%) Tableau
8 83 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (6.28%) Relational Database
10 76 (5.82%) Azure SQL Database
11 71 (5.44%) Big Data
11 71 (5.44%) Delta Lake
12 69 (5.28%) Pentaho
13 66 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
14 60 (4.59%) NoSQL
15 56 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
16 51 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (3.83%) BigQuery
18 45 (3.45%) Star Schema
19 44 (3.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 156 (11.94%) Git
2 102 (7.81%) JIRA
3 71 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 57 (4.36%) GitLab
5 27 (2.07%) Postman
6 21 (1.61%) MLflow
7 15 (1.15%) ERwin
8 14 (1.07%) Zephyr
9 12 (0.92%) Selenium
10 7 (0.54%) JMeter
10 7 (0.54%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.38%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.38%) TestRail
11 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.31%) DBeaver
12 4 (0.31%) Gatling
12 4 (0.31%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
General
1 385 (29.48%) Social Skills
2 365 (27.95%) Finance
3 224 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 98 (7.50%) Banking
6 29 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 22 (1.68%) Retail
9 21 (1.61%) Marketing
10 19 (1.45%) Legal
10 19 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.00%) Law
13 11 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.54%) Front Office
14 7 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.46%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 537 (41.12%) Data Engineer
2 164 (12.56%) Developer
3 145 (11.10%) Lead
4 144 (11.03%) Senior
5 123 (9.42%) Architect
6 122 (9.34%) Analyst
7 98 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 83 (6.36%) Data Analyst
9 71 (5.44%) Data Architect
10 43 (3.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (2.76%) Snowflake Engineer
13 34 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
14 33 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
15 31 (2.37%) Azure Data Engineer
15 31 (2.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 27 (2.07%) AWS Data Engineer
16 27 (2.07%) Consultant
17 26 (1.99%) Business Analyst
18 25 (1.91%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (10.87%) PySpark
2 126 (9.65%) Kafka
3 76 (5.82%) REST
4 42 (3.22%) Pandas
5 38 (2.91%) XML
6 32 (2.45%) .NET
7 31 (2.37%) JSON
8 25 (1.91%) RESTful
9 24 (1.84%) NumPy
10 21 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
11 20 (1.53%) Middleware
12 19 (1.45%) Great Expectations
12 19 (1.45%) PyTorch
13 17 (1.30%) YAML
14 16 (1.23%) OAuth
14 16 (1.23%) pytest
14 16 (1.23%) scikit-learn
14 16 (1.23%) TensorFlow
15 14 (1.07%) Web Services
16 13 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.27%) Cloud Native
2 88 (6.74%) Data Structures
3 67 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
5 25 (1.91%) Onboarding
6 24 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 24 (1.84%) Product Ownership
7 21 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.15%) IoT
9 15 (1.15%) Reinsurance
10 14 (1.07%) Algorithms
10 14 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
11 13 (1.00%) NHS
11 13 (1.00%) Replication
12 11 (0.84%) Clustering
12 11 (0.84%) Fixed Income
12 11 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.45%) Linux
2 18 (1.38%) Unix
3 10 (0.77%) Windows
4 6 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.31%) Solaris
6 4 (0.31%) VMS
6 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 623 (47.70%) Data Modelling
2 568 (43.49%) Analytics
3 483 (36.98%) Data Pipeline
4 446 (34.15%) Data Engineering
5 427 (32.70%) Business Intelligence
6 369 (28.25%) CI/CD
7 315 (24.12%) Agile
8 308 (23.58%) Data Governance
9 297 (22.74%) DevOps
10 281 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
11 277 (21.21%) Migration
12 225 (17.23%) Validation
13 213 (16.31%) Data Architecture
14 206 (15.77%) Data Integration
15 191 (14.62%) Data Migration
16 182 (13.94%) Decision-Making
17 176 (13.48%) AI
18 149 (11.41%) Data Science
19 142 (10.87%) Test Automation
20 133 (10.18%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 885 (67.76%) SQL
2 594 (45.48%) Python
3 103 (7.89%) Java
4 63 (4.82%) C#
5 57 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 52 (3.98%) Scala
7 50 (3.83%) T-SQL
8 49 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 34 (2.60%) JavaScript
10 22 (1.68%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.30%) Bash
11 17 (1.30%) Bicep
11 17 (1.30%) R
12 16 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 12 (0.92%) Go
15 9 (0.69%) PHP
15 9 (0.69%) VBA
16 7 (0.54%) SAS Macro
17 5 (0.38%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 295 (22.59%) Security Cleared
2 235 (17.99%) SC Cleared
3 89 (6.81%) Degree
4 55 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 26 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.15%) ISTQB
10 13 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 10 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.46%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.31%) PMP
15 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
17 1 (0.077%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 452 (34.61%) Data Quality
2 119 (9.11%) QA
3 104 (7.96%) GDPR
4 22 (1.68%) IFRS
5 20 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.30%) IFRS 17
7 13 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.77%) PMO
9 8 (0.61%) SLA
10 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.38%) GAAP
11 5 (0.38%) MiFID
12 4 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.23%) Basel III
13 3 (0.23%) FATCA
13 3 (0.23%) GMP
13 3 (0.23%) HL7
System Software
1 118 (9.04%) Docker
2 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.31%) HDFS
4 3 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.077%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.077%) zsh
Systems Management
1 131 (10.03%) Kubernetes
2 127 (9.72%) Terraform
3 14 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.92%) Grafana
5 10 (0.77%) Ansible
6 5 (0.38%) Control-M
7 3 (0.23%) Foglight
7 3 (0.23%) Kibana
7 3 (0.23%) logstash
8 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.15%) SCCM
9 1 (0.077%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.077%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.077%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.077%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 269 (20.60%) Databricks
2 236 (18.07%) Microsoft
3 193 (14.78%) Oracle
4 122 (9.34%) Informatica
5 105 (8.04%) Talend
6 60 (4.59%) SAP
7 48 (3.68%) Google
8 45 (3.45%) Denodo
9 40 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 27 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 25 (1.91%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.61%) IBM
13 18 (1.38%) Splunk
14 17 (1.30%) Workday
15 16 (1.23%) Sage
16 15 (1.15%) Palantir
17 11 (0.84%) Ab Initio
17 11 (0.84%) Foundry
17 11 (0.84%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.77%) Alteryx