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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 77 93
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,346 777 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.18% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.12% 3.50% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 531 680
10th Percentile £363 £356 £376
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 £631 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
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% +24.14%
75th Percentile £73.37 £97.60 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £56.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +13.27% +11.88% +39.31%

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 32,652 22,196 32,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.77% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,899 14,634 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -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 2,012 866 2,163
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.04 £20.03 £15.97
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.67 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +34 748 £513 -6.82% 193
Midlands +14 206 £492 +3.58% 75
West Midlands +19 175 £498 +0.91% 48
North of England -24 164 £460 +0.82% 101
North West -11 90 £434 -7.32% 55
South East -41 81 £475 -5.47% 110
South West -6 69 £525 -8.70% 53
Yorkshire -45 58 £500 +42.86% 31
East of England -9 38 £535 +1.95% 52
East Midlands -25 31 £465 +16.61% 27
North East -6 15 £538 +13.16% 16
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
1 121 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 96 (7.13%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (5.42%) Apache
4 69 (5.13%) SAS
5 29 (2.15%) Confluence
6 13 (0.97%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.59%) Appian
7 8 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.45%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.45%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.37%) nginx
11 4 (0.30%) Camunda
12 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 45 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.074%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.074%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.04%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.97%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.45%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.37%) Maximo
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 563 (41.83%) Azure
2 408 (30.31%) AWS
3 337 (25.04%) Power Platform
4 215 (15.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 157 (11.66%) GCP
6 155 (11.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 136 (10.10%) Snowflake
8 134 (9.96%) Amazon S3
9 109 (8.10%) Serverless
10 102 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (7.36%) GitHub
12 79 (5.87%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (5.79%) dbt
14 45 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (3.27%) Collibra
16 38 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (2.53%) SaaS
18 28 (2.08%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 24 (1.78%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.52%) 5G
1 7 (0.52%) Firewall
2 6 (0.45%) 2G
2 6 (0.45%) 4G
2 6 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (0.30%) VPN
4 3 (0.22%) HTTP
5 2 (0.15%) DSL
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.074%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (28.68%) Data Warehouse
2 317 (23.55%) Power BI
3 201 (14.93%) Data Lake
4 175 (13.00%) SQL Server
5 132 (9.81%) Metadata
6 99 (7.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 85 (6.32%) Tableau
8 82 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 79 (5.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 75 (5.57%) Delta Lake
11 74 (5.50%) Relational Database
12 71 (5.27%) Pentaho
13 68 (5.05%) Big Data
14 64 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
15 61 (4.53%) NoSQL
16 58 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
17 53 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
17 53 (3.94%) BigQuery
18 47 (3.49%) Star Schema
19 45 (3.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 157 (11.66%) Git
2 111 (8.25%) JIRA
3 75 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 59 (4.38%) GitLab
5 27 (2.01%) Postman
6 22 (1.63%) MLflow
7 14 (1.04%) Zephyr
8 12 (0.89%) ERwin
8 12 (0.89%) Selenium
9 7 (0.52%) JMeter
9 7 (0.52%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.37%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.37%) TestRail
10 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.30%) Gatling
11 4 (0.30%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.30%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.30%) Toad
General
1 394 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 373 (27.71%) Finance
3 237 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.80%) Banking
6 30 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.93%) Financial Institution
8 22 (1.63%) Retail
9 21 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.49%) Marketing
11 19 (1.41%) Legal
12 17 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 14 (1.04%) Law
15 11 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.59%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.45%) Front Office
18 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 549 (40.79%) Data Engineer
2 175 (13.00%) Developer
3 148 (11.00%) Lead
3 148 (11.00%) Senior
4 126 (9.36%) Analyst
4 126 (9.36%) Architect
5 99 (7.36%) Senior Data Engineer
6 85 (6.32%) Data Analyst
7 71 (5.27%) Data Architect
8 46 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 39 (2.90%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (2.75%) Snowflake Engineer
11 35 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
12 34 (2.53%) Lead Data Engineer
13 32 (2.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 30 (2.23%) Azure Data Engineer
14 30 (2.23%) Consultant
15 29 (2.15%) AWS Data Engineer
16 27 (2.01%) Business Analyst
17 26 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (11.07%) PySpark
2 133 (9.88%) Kafka
3 82 (6.09%) REST
4 41 (3.05%) Pandas
5 37 (2.75%) XML
6 36 (2.67%) JSON
7 31 (2.30%) .NET
8 26 (1.93%) RESTful
9 23 (1.71%) NumPy
9 23 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
10 20 (1.49%) Great Expectations
10 20 (1.49%) Middleware
11 18 (1.34%) PyTorch
12 17 (1.26%) YAML
13 16 (1.19%) OAuth
13 16 (1.19%) pytest
14 15 (1.11%) scikit-learn
14 15 (1.11%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.11%) Web Services
15 13 (0.97%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 114 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 96 (7.13%) Data Structures
3 70 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
4 31 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 28 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
5 28 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 23 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 17 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.11%) IoT
12 13 (0.97%) Algorithms
12 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (0.97%) Low-Code
12 13 (0.97%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.89%) AI Agents
13 12 (0.89%) Clustering
13 12 (0.89%) NHS
13 12 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 19 (1.41%) Linux
1 19 (1.41%) Unix
2 11 (0.82%) Windows
3 7 (0.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.37%) Solaris
5 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.30%) VMS
7 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 657 (48.81%) Data Modelling
2 583 (43.31%) Analytics
3 508 (37.74%) Data Pipeline
4 457 (33.95%) Data Engineering
5 438 (32.54%) Business Intelligence
6 384 (28.53%) CI/CD
7 323 (24.00%) Data Governance
8 318 (23.63%) Agile
9 306 (22.73%) DevOps
10 291 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
11 284 (21.10%) Migration
12 246 (18.28%) Validation
13 217 (16.12%) Data Architecture
14 214 (15.90%) Data Integration
15 195 (14.49%) Data Migration
16 186 (13.82%) AI
17 183 (13.60%) Decision-Making
18 149 (11.07%) Performance Tuning
19 146 (10.85%) Data Science
20 143 (10.62%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 912 (67.76%) SQL
2 596 (44.28%) Python
3 107 (7.95%) Java
4 64 (4.75%) C#
5 62 (4.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 52 (3.86%) PL/SQL
7 51 (3.79%) Scala
7 51 (3.79%) T-SQL
8 34 (2.53%) JavaScript
9 25 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.34%) R
11 17 (1.26%) Bicep
12 16 (1.19%) Bash
12 16 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 15 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 12 (0.89%) Go
15 9 (0.67%) PHP
16 8 (0.59%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.52%) VBA
18 5 (0.37%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 313 (23.25%) Security Cleared
2 247 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 86 (6.39%) Degree
4 53 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.71%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.11%) ISTQB
9 13 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.45%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.30%) PMP
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
16 1 (0.074%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 474 (35.22%) Data Quality
2 125 (9.29%) QA
3 103 (7.65%) GDPR
4 22 (1.63%) IFRS
5 20 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.26%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.97%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.82%) PMO
9 8 (0.59%) SLA
10 6 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.45%) GRC
11 5 (0.37%) GAAP
11 5 (0.37%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.37%) MiFID
12 4 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.30%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.22%) GMP
13 3 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 126 (9.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 4 (0.30%) HDFS
3 4 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.15%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.074%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 135 (10.03%) Kubernetes
2 133 (9.88%) Terraform
3 17 (1.26%) Prometheus
4 16 (1.19%) Grafana
5 11 (0.82%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) Control-M
7 3 (0.22%) Foglight
7 3 (0.22%) Kibana
7 3 (0.22%) logstash
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.15%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.15%) SCCM
9 1 (0.074%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.074%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.074%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.074%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 274 (20.36%) Databricks
2 243 (18.05%) Microsoft
3 203 (15.08%) Oracle
4 123 (9.14%) Informatica
5 110 (8.17%) Talend
6 63 (4.68%) SAP
7 49 (3.64%) Denodo
8 48 (3.57%) Google
9 45 (3.34%) ServiceNow
10 26 (1.93%) Salesforce
11 25 (1.86%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.63%) IBM
13 18 (1.34%) Splunk
14 16 (1.19%) Sage
14 16 (1.19%) Workday
15 14 (1.04%) Palantir
16 13 (0.97%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.82%) Ab Initio
17 11 (0.82%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.74%) Cognos