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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 77 96
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,451 781 865
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.26% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.56% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 534 660
10th Percentile £358 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £627
90th Percentile £692 £702 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.45% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 11
10th Percentile £35.18 £38.15 £30.37
25th Percentile £44.82 £48.18 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.05% +8.25% -30.71%
75th Percentile £69.76 £67.49 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.17 £84.66 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £45.73 £48.50
% change year-on-year +30.11% -5.71% -28.15%

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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +16 752 £508 -7.73% 192
Midlands +26 246 £465 +5.30% 44
West Midlands +39 217 £459 -1.29% 31
North of England -23 177 £460 -3.16% 59
South East +2 131 £459 -8.20% 75
North West -8 91 £450 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire -30 69 £500 +20.48% 19
South West -29 60 £525 +10.53% 37
East of England -11 44 £494 - 9
East Midlands -24 28 £525 +23.67% 13
North East -20 17 £538 +19.44% 6
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
1 133 (9.17%) Apache Spark
2 98 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (4.76%) SAS
4 65 (4.48%) Apache
5 49 (3.38%) Confluence
6 15 (1.03%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.90%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.62%) Appian
9 9 (0.62%) nginx
9 9 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.28%) Camunda
12 4 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
15 1 (0.069%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 38 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.14%) Trello
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.069%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.21%) Actimize
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 607 (41.83%) Azure
2 436 (30.05%) AWS
3 365 (25.16%) Power Platform
4 222 (15.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 168 (11.58%) GCP
6 149 (10.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 140 (9.65%) Snowflake
8 135 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
9 121 (8.34%) Amazon S3
10 111 (7.65%) Serverless
11 95 (6.55%) GitHub
12 90 (6.20%) dbt
13 84 (5.79%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (3.17%) Collibra
15 44 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
16 30 (2.07%) SaaS
17 29 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
18 27 (1.86%) Power Automate
19 25 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
20 24 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.76%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
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%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 425 (29.29%) Data Warehouse
2 342 (23.57%) Power BI
3 236 (16.26%) Data Lake
4 181 (12.47%) SQL Server
5 123 (8.48%) Metadata
6 95 (6.55%) Tableau
7 93 (6.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 88 (6.06%) Delta Lake
9 82 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (5.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 78 (5.38%) Pentaho
11 77 (5.31%) Big Data
12 74 (5.10%) Relational Database
13 73 (5.03%) NoSQL
14 60 (4.14%) BigQuery
15 59 (4.07%) Oracle Reports
16 57 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
17 56 (3.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 52 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (3.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 165 (11.37%) Git
2 135 (9.30%) JIRA
3 91 (6.27%) GitLab
4 67 (4.62%) Jenkins
5 46 (3.17%) Postman
6 35 (2.41%) Zephyr
7 19 (1.31%) MLflow
8 17 (1.17%) Selenium
9 9 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.48%) JMeter
11 6 (0.41%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.34%) TestRail
13 4 (0.28%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.28%) Flyway
13 4 (0.28%) Gatling
13 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.28%) LSMW
13 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.28%) Robot Framework
General
1 386 (26.60%) Finance
2 372 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 233 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 109 (7.51%) Banking
6 36 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (2.07%) Marketing
8 26 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 25 (1.72%) Retail
10 19 (1.31%) Legal
11 13 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.76%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.69%) Law
14 8 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.48%) Front Office
15 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (0.41%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 599 (41.28%) Data Engineer
2 188 (12.96%) Developer
3 172 (11.85%) Senior
4 166 (11.44%) Lead
5 152 (10.48%) Architect
6 118 (8.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 115 (7.93%) Analyst
8 82 (5.65%) Data Architect
9 69 (4.76%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (2.21%) AWS Data Engineer
13 32 (2.21%) Consultant
13 32 (2.21%) Senior Developer
13 32 (2.21%) SQL Developer
14 31 (2.14%) Data Migration Lead
15 30 (2.07%) Azure Data Engineer
15 30 (2.07%) Lead Data Engineer
15 30 (2.07%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (11.30%) PySpark
2 114 (7.86%) Kafka
3 84 (5.79%) REST
4 45 (3.10%) Pandas
5 42 (2.89%) .NET
6 34 (2.34%) JSON
7 31 (2.14%) Middleware
7 31 (2.14%) XML
8 24 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 24 (1.65%) Spring
9 21 (1.45%) Spring Boot
10 20 (1.38%) PyTorch
10 20 (1.38%) RESTful
11 19 (1.31%) NumPy
12 18 (1.24%) Great Expectations
12 18 (1.24%) OAuth
12 18 (1.24%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.17%) pytest
13 17 (1.17%) Web Services
14 16 (1.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 131 (9.03%) Cloud Native
2 86 (5.93%) Data Structures
3 79 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
7 23 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.52%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.45%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 14 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.96%) Clustering
13 13 (0.90%) NHS
13 13 (0.90%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.83%) IoT
14 12 (0.83%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.34%) Unix
2 31 (2.14%) Linux
3 17 (1.17%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Solaris
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.21%) VMS
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.14%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (47.07%) Data Modelling
2 550 (37.90%) Analytics
2 550 (37.90%) Data Pipeline
3 442 (30.46%) Data Engineering
4 433 (29.84%) Business Intelligence
5 413 (28.46%) CI/CD
6 351 (24.19%) Agile
7 341 (23.50%) Migration
8 333 (22.95%) DevOps
9 278 (19.16%) Data Governance
10 275 (18.95%) Validation
11 268 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
12 239 (16.47%) AI
13 222 (15.30%) Data Integration
14 220 (15.16%) Data Migration
15 213 (14.68%) Data Architecture
16 192 (13.23%) Test Automation
17 191 (13.16%) Decision-Making
18 148 (10.20%) Machine Learning
19 147 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 995 (68.57%) SQL
2 595 (41.01%) Python
3 131 (9.03%) Java
4 77 (5.31%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.89%) PL/SQL
6 66 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 60 (4.14%) C#
8 52 (3.58%) Scala
9 37 (2.55%) JavaScript
10 30 (2.07%) PowerShell
11 24 (1.65%) Bash
12 20 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.31%) Shell Script
14 18 (1.24%) R
15 15 (1.03%) Bicep
16 7 (0.48%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.48%) VBA
17 6 (0.41%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) Cypher
18 5 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 373 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 310 (21.36%) SC Cleared
3 79 (5.44%) Degree
4 44 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 29 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (2.00%) ISTQB
7 24 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 10 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
10 6 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.28%) PMP
12 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 478 (32.94%) Data Quality
2 143 (9.86%) QA
3 88 (6.06%) GDPR
4 21 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.31%) IFRS
6 16 (1.10%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.83%) PMO
7 12 (0.83%) SLA
8 9 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.55%) FATCA
10 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.41%) GRC
11 5 (0.34%) GAAP
11 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.21%) GMP
13 3 (0.21%) HL7
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 106 (7.31%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.34%) HDFS
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.069%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.069%) RACF
4 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (9.03%) Terraform
2 111 (7.65%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.45%) Grafana
4 15 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.96%) Ansible
6 8 (0.55%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.069%) HP ALM
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
Vendors
1 292 (20.12%) Databricks
2 275 (18.95%) Microsoft
3 266 (18.33%) Oracle
4 130 (8.96%) Informatica
5 119 (8.20%) Talend
6 61 (4.20%) SAP
7 58 (4.00%) Denodo
8 50 (3.45%) ServiceNow
9 45 (3.10%) Google
10 28 (1.93%) IBM
11 23 (1.59%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.45%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.31%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.17%) Sage
14 17 (1.17%) Splunk
14 17 (1.17%) Workday
15 10 (0.69%) Cloudera
16 9 (0.62%) Red Hat
17 8 (0.55%) Ab Initio