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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 75 104
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 -3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,018 800 833
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.14% 3.00% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.36% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 769 516 640
10th Percentile £360 £354 £381
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £631
90th Percentile £694 £689 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 17
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.96
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.25
Median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +45.83%
75th Percentile £73.37 £96.64 £64.53
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +68.06%

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 28,483 23,837 32,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.89% 89.40% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,219 14,596 22,102
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,784 766 1,805
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +9.93%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +18 624 £525 - 165
Midlands +1 120 £519 +5.82% 105
North of England -47 111 £450 -2.70% 124
West Midlands -8 95 £525 +6.49% 44
North West -8 72 £438 -5.41% 60
South East -34 61 £438 -20.45% 225
South West -6 56 £525 -14.29% 89
Yorkshire -58 28 £488 +18.90% 49
East Midlands -11 25 £447 +18.02% 60
East of England -20 16 £575 +9.52% 85
North East -13 10 £450 -7.22% 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 93 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 70 (6.88%) Apache Airflow
3 63 (6.19%) Apache
4 50 (4.91%) SAS
5 14 (1.38%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.08%) Confluence
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.49%) Appian
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.29%) CMS
11 3 (0.29%) IIS
11 3 (0.29%) Luigi
11 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.098%) Apache Pig
13 1 (0.098%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 42 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.39%) Trello
6 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.098%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.88%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.69%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.49%) Maximo
7 5 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.29%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.20%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
10 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 423 (41.55%) Azure
2 304 (29.86%) AWS
3 239 (23.48%) Power Platform
4 163 (16.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 127 (12.48%) GCP
6 126 (12.38%) Snowflake
7 105 (10.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 95 (9.33%) Amazon S3
9 88 (8.64%) Serverless
10 78 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (6.88%) GitHub
12 59 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (4.91%) dbt
14 37 (3.63%) SaaS
15 31 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.16%) Collibra
17 22 (2.16%) Power Automate
18 21 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.59%) 2G
1 6 (0.59%) 5G
1 6 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.49%) 4G
3 2 (0.20%) BGP
3 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.20%) DSL
3 2 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.20%) OSPF
3 2 (0.20%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.098%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.098%) Firewall
4 1 (0.098%) Internet
4 1 (0.098%) Multicast
4 1 (0.098%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (27.80%) Data Warehouse
2 224 (22.00%) Power BI
3 158 (15.52%) Data Lake
4 123 (12.08%) SQL Server
5 94 (9.23%) Metadata
6 75 (7.37%) Relational Database
7 72 (7.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 66 (6.48%) Big Data
9 61 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 61 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
9 61 (5.99%) Tableau
10 52 (5.11%) Pentaho
11 51 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 50 (4.91%) Delta Lake
13 42 (4.13%) NoSQL
14 41 (4.03%) BigQuery
15 39 (3.83%) Oracle Database
16 38 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (3.73%) Snowflake Schema
17 34 (3.34%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 120 (11.79%) Git
2 86 (8.45%) JIRA
3 66 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.54%) GitLab
5 17 (1.67%) ERwin
6 16 (1.57%) Postman
7 13 (1.28%) MLflow
7 13 (1.28%) Selenium
8 7 (0.69%) JMeter
8 7 (0.69%) TestRail
9 6 (0.59%) DBeaver
9 6 (0.59%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.39%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.39%) Gatling
11 4 (0.39%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.39%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.39%) Toad
12 3 (0.29%) Bitbucket
General
1 308 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 278 (27.31%) Finance
3 167 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (7.76%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.56%) Banking
6 22 (2.16%) Retail
7 20 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 17 (1.67%) Marketing
9 15 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.08%) Legal
12 11 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.98%) Law
13 10 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.69%) Front Office
14 7 (0.69%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.69%) Publishing
15 5 (0.49%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 381 (37.43%) Data Engineer
2 140 (13.75%) Developer
3 119 (11.69%) Lead
4 104 (10.22%) Senior
5 100 (9.82%) Analyst
6 84 (8.25%) Architect
7 70 (6.88%) Data Analyst
8 65 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
9 49 (4.81%) Data Architect
10 45 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
11 35 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 34 (3.34%) Azure Data Engineer
13 30 (2.95%) Business Analyst
14 27 (2.65%) Consultant
14 27 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
15 26 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
16 24 (2.36%) Senior Developer
17 21 (2.06%) AWS Data Engineer
17 21 (2.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 19 (1.87%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (10.61%) PySpark
2 85 (8.35%) Kafka
3 59 (5.80%) REST
4 38 (3.73%) XML
5 26 (2.55%) Pandas
6 24 (2.36%) .NET
7 23 (2.26%) Node.js
8 22 (2.16%) JSON
9 19 (1.87%) NumPy
9 19 (1.87%) RESTful
10 17 (1.67%) Middleware
10 17 (1.67%) OAuth
10 17 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (1.47%) PyTorch
12 13 (1.28%) pytest
12 13 (1.28%) TensorFlow
13 12 (1.18%) Keycloak
13 12 (1.18%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.18%) Spark Streaming
14 11 (1.08%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 83 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 68 (6.68%) Data Structures
3 45 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 19 (1.87%) Management Information System
6 18 (1.77%) Product Ownership
7 17 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 14 (1.38%) Reinsurance
9 14 (1.38%) Replication
10 13 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
11 12 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (0.98%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.88%) Data Fabric
13 9 (0.88%) IoT
13 9 (0.88%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.26%) Linux
2 11 (1.08%) Unix
3 9 (0.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.20%) VMS
5 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (46.37%) Data Modelling
2 430 (42.24%) Analytics
3 389 (38.21%) Data Pipeline
4 334 (32.81%) Business Intelligence
5 316 (31.04%) Data Engineering
6 288 (28.29%) CI/CD
7 254 (24.95%) Agile
8 245 (24.07%) DevOps
9 243 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
10 232 (22.79%) Data Governance
11 189 (18.57%) Migration
12 178 (17.49%) Data Integration
13 171 (16.80%) Data Architecture
14 140 (13.75%) Validation
15 135 (13.26%) Data Migration
16 128 (12.57%) Data Science
17 117 (11.49%) AI
17 117 (11.49%) Decision-Making
17 117 (11.49%) Machine Learning
18 110 (10.81%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 652 (64.05%) SQL
2 487 (47.84%) Python
3 87 (8.55%) Java
4 49 (4.81%) Scala
5 45 (4.42%) C#
6 39 (3.83%) PL/SQL
7 35 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (3.44%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.95%) T-SQL
9 15 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.38%) Go
10 14 (1.38%) PHP
10 14 (1.38%) R
11 13 (1.28%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.18%) Bicep
13 11 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.98%) Bash
15 9 (0.88%) VBA
16 5 (0.49%) Cypher
16 5 (0.49%) Korn
Qualifications
1 200 (19.65%) Security Cleared
2 156 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.07%) Degree
4 46 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (3.73%) Azure Certification
6 26 (2.55%) AWS Certification
7 25 (2.46%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.69%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.69%) PMP
12 6 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.39%) MCP
14 3 (0.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.29%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.098%) CCIE Data Center
16 1 (0.098%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 339 (33.30%) Data Quality
2 73 (7.17%) GDPR
3 67 (6.58%) QA
4 18 (1.77%) IFRS
5 16 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.38%) IFRS 17
7 13 (1.28%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.49%) GAAP
9 5 (0.49%) MiFID
9 5 (0.49%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.49%) SLA
10 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.29%) Basel III
10 3 (0.29%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.29%) NIST
10 3 (0.29%) PMO
11 2 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.20%) EMIR
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 118 (11.59%) Docker
2 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.49%) zsh
3 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.20%) KVM
4 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.098%) HDFS
5 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 113 (11.10%) Kubernetes
2 94 (9.23%) Terraform
3 9 (0.88%) Grafana
4 8 (0.79%) Ansible
5 6 (0.59%) Kibana
5 6 (0.59%) logstash
6 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.39%) Control-M
7 4 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.20%) SCCM
9 1 (0.098%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.098%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.098%) Puppet
9 1 (0.098%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 211 (20.73%) Databricks
2 167 (16.40%) Microsoft
3 148 (14.54%) Oracle
4 70 (6.88%) Talend
5 69 (6.78%) Informatica
6 44 (4.32%) SAP
7 41 (4.03%) Denodo
8 37 (3.63%) Google
9 26 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 25 (2.46%) Salesforce
11 17 (1.67%) IBM
12 16 (1.57%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.38%) Palantir
13 14 (1.38%) Workday
14 12 (1.18%) Alteryx
15 11 (1.08%) Foundry
16 10 (0.98%) Cognos
17 9 (0.88%) Ab Initio
18 8 (0.79%) OpenAI
19 7 (0.69%) Avaloq