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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 84 76
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,463 815 917
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.16% 2.97% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.74% 3.27% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 570 645
10th Percentile £360 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £607 £625
90th Percentile £675 £718 £718
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £32.50 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.21 £35.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -34.62%
75th Percentile £53.13 £49.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £53.75 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -37.96%

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 39,170 24,908 27,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.62% 90.84% 86.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 15,798 17,347
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,803 1,504 1,266
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%
75th Percentile £67.85 £47.50 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -1.10%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -1 760 £525 - 604
Midlands +21 234 £469 -3.92% 93
West Midlands +23 200 £469 -7.59% 64
North of England -9 169 £466 -1.84% 153
South East +28 136 £458 -8.50% 134
Yorkshire 0 80 £463 +3.93% 38
South West -10 76 £523 +10.00% 77
North West -35 68 £475 -5.00% 98
East of England -15 46 £488 -7.14% 28
East Midlands -6 33 £490 +12.00% 29
North East -18 22 £481 +10.00% 18
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
1 127 (8.68%) Apache Spark
2 122 (8.34%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (6.02%) Apache
4 84 (5.74%) SAS
5 53 (3.62%) Confluence
6 26 (1.78%) Oracle Application Server
7 24 (1.64%) SharePoint
8 11 (0.75%) nginx
9 9 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.48%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
16 1 (0.068%) CMS
16 1 (0.068%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.62%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.27%) Actimize
6 4 (0.27%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 562 (38.41%) Azure
2 424 (28.98%) AWS
3 315 (21.53%) Power Platform
4 205 (14.01%) Azure Data Factory
5 201 (13.74%) Snowflake
6 200 (13.67%) GCP
7 132 (9.02%) dbt
8 127 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
9 109 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 109 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 109 (7.45%) Serverless
10 98 (6.70%) GitHub
11 89 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
13 38 (2.60%) Azure Databricks
14 36 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
15 30 (2.05%) Collibra
16 29 (1.98%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 24 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.55%) Firewall
1 8 (0.55%) HTTP
2 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.21%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.21%) DHCP
3 3 (0.21%) DNS
3 3 (0.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.068%) DMZ
4 1 (0.068%) Internet
4 1 (0.068%) Network Security
4 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.068%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 500 (34.18%) Data Warehouse
2 308 (21.05%) Power BI
3 210 (14.35%) Data Lake
4 152 (10.39%) Metadata
5 140 (9.57%) SQL Server
6 97 (6.63%) Relational Database
7 93 (6.36%) BigQuery
8 86 (5.88%) Delta Lake
9 84 (5.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (5.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 75 (5.13%) Tableau
11 74 (5.06%) Big Data
12 67 (4.58%) Oracle Reports
13 62 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
14 58 (3.96%) Pentaho
15 57 (3.90%) NoSQL
16 49 (3.35%) Oracle Database
17 48 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
18 44 (3.01%) Power Query
19 42 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 162 (11.07%) Git
2 125 (8.54%) JIRA
3 88 (6.02%) GitLab
4 53 (3.62%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.53%) Zephyr
6 34 (2.32%) Postman
7 16 (1.09%) Selenium
8 11 (0.75%) MLflow
9 7 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.48%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.34%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.27%) ERwin
11 4 (0.27%) JUnit
11 4 (0.27%) Newman
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.21%) JMeter
12 3 (0.21%) NeoLoad
General
1 362 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 333 (22.76%) Finance
3 270 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 144 (9.84%) Banking
6 36 (2.46%) Retail
7 27 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.64%) Marketing
9 23 (1.57%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.23%) Law
12 17 (1.16%) Front Office
12 17 (1.16%) Legal
13 14 (0.96%) Billing
14 12 (0.82%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.75%) Military
15 11 (0.75%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 580 (39.64%) Data Engineer
2 220 (15.04%) Developer
3 206 (14.08%) Senior
4 187 (12.78%) Architect
5 143 (9.77%) Senior Data Engineer
6 134 (9.16%) Lead
7 108 (7.38%) Analyst
8 95 (6.49%) Data Architect
9 57 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
10 53 (3.62%) Data Analyst
11 51 (3.49%) Databricks Engineer
12 45 (3.08%) Azure Data Engineer
12 45 (3.08%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 39 (2.67%) Tester
14 38 (2.60%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 37 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
15 37 (2.53%) SQL Developer
16 36 (2.46%) Oracle Developer
17 35 (2.39%) Consultant
17 35 (2.39%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (9.84%) PySpark
2 135 (9.23%) Terraform
3 107 (7.31%) Kafka
4 62 (4.24%) REST
5 47 (3.21%) .NET
6 46 (3.14%) JSON
7 28 (1.91%) React
8 24 (1.64%) Middleware
9 22 (1.50%) Pandas
10 21 (1.44%) Spring
10 21 (1.44%) Spring Boot
11 20 (1.37%) XML
12 15 (1.03%) YAML
13 13 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.89%) pytest
13 13 (0.89%) SOAP
14 11 (0.75%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (0.75%) HTML
14 11 (0.75%) LangChain
15 10 (0.68%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 58 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.85%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.57%) Reference Data
9 19 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 17 (1.16%) NHS
12 16 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
12 16 (1.09%) Replication
13 15 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.89%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.82%) Clustering
15 12 (0.82%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.75%) IoT
17 10 (0.68%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 60 (4.10%) Linux
2 54 (3.69%) Unix
3 21 (1.44%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (47.16%) Data Modelling
2 614 (41.97%) Data Pipeline
3 541 (36.98%) Analytics
4 485 (33.15%) Data Engineering
5 470 (32.13%) CI/CD
6 415 (28.37%) Agile
7 389 (26.59%) Migration
8 384 (26.25%) Business Intelligence
9 334 (22.83%) Data Integration
10 333 (22.76%) DevOps
11 303 (20.71%) Validation
12 295 (20.16%) Data Governance
13 270 (18.46%) AI
14 262 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
15 250 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
16 227 (15.52%) Data Migration
17 214 (14.63%) Data Architecture
18 208 (14.22%) Data Transformation
19 197 (13.47%) Test Automation
20 178 (12.17%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 978 (66.85%) SQL
2 561 (38.35%) Python
3 127 (8.68%) Java
4 81 (5.54%) PL/SQL
5 74 (5.06%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 47 (3.21%) Scala
8 46 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 45 (3.08%) C#
10 41 (2.80%) PowerShell
11 34 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 31 (2.12%) Bash
13 18 (1.23%) R
14 17 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.82%) Bicep
16 11 (0.75%) Cypher
17 6 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.34%) Go
18 5 (0.34%) Perl
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 401 (27.41%) Security Cleared
2 339 (23.17%) SC Cleared
3 61 (4.17%) Degree
4 38 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 24 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 23 (1.57%) AWS Certification
8 23 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.23%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.41%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (36.16%) Data Quality
2 130 (8.89%) QA
3 62 (4.24%) GDPR
4 35 (2.39%) GRC
5 22 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.55%) IFRS
7 8 (0.55%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.48%) SLA
8 7 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.41%) PMO
10 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 4 (0.27%) GAAP
11 4 (0.27%) HL7
12 3 (0.21%) IFRS 17
12 3 (0.21%) NIST
13 2 (0.14%) DICOM
13 2 (0.14%) GMP
System Software
1 107 (7.31%) Docker
2 11 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.21%) HDFS
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.068%) RACF
Systems Management
1 100 (6.84%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.64%) Grafana
3 18 (1.23%) Ansible
4 13 (0.89%) Control-M
4 13 (0.89%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.21%) Kibana
7 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.14%) Puppet
7 2 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.068%) Argo
8 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
8 1 (0.068%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.068%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 324 (22.15%) Databricks
2 287 (19.62%) Oracle
3 246 (16.81%) Microsoft
4 104 (7.11%) Informatica
5 94 (6.43%) Talend
6 74 (5.06%) Google
7 63 (4.31%) SAP
8 50 (3.42%) Denodo
9 45 (3.08%) IBM
10 32 (2.19%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.98%) Alteryx
12 28 (1.91%) Salesforce
13 18 (1.23%) Teradata
14 17 (1.16%) Foundry
14 17 (1.16%) Palantir
15 14 (0.96%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.75%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.68%) Bloomberg
17 10 (0.68%) Sage
18 8 (0.55%) Red Hat