ETL Contracts in England

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 85 93
Rank change year-on-year +5 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 809 941 1,162
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.10% 2.52% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.40% 2.94% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 708 844
10th Percentile £363 £359 £388
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -5.56% +1.89%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £506 £538
% change year-on-year -1.19% -5.86% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 13
10th Percentile £38.69 £30.83 £35.25
25th Percentile £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -35.00% +45.21%
75th Percentile £74.96 £51.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £89.73 £53.55 £88.00
UK median hourly rate £48.00 £45.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +5.49% -32.59% +40.02%

All Process and 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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in England.

Daily rate trend for ETL in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in England.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in England

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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 3 July 2025. 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 -3 461 £537 +2.33% 694
North of England -4 107 £475 -5.00% 124
Midlands +8 72 £451 +12.63% 79
North West -12 59 £500 -1.96% 68
South West +41 55 £475 -9.52% 55
South East +30 52 £500 +2.04% 114
Yorkshire +7 42 £423 -12.89% 30
West Midlands -13 35 £498 +32.67% 48
East Midlands +19 34 £442 -0.76% 30
East of England +30 26 £450 - 27
North East +2 7 £420 +17.48% 26
ETL
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (9.15%) Apache Spark
3 56 (6.92%) Apache
4 19 (2.35%) SAS
5 15 (1.85%) Confluence
6 5 (0.62%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.37%) Luigi
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.25%) CICS
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.49%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.12%) Maple
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 17 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (1.48%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.87%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.74%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.49%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.25%) Maximo
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 310 (38.32%) Azure
2 265 (32.76%) AWS
3 167 (20.64%) Power Platform
4 148 (18.29%) GCP
5 109 (13.47%) Snowflake
6 90 (11.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 71 (8.78%) dbt
8 65 (8.03%) Serverless
9 64 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 50 (6.18%) Amazon S3
11 47 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
13 31 (3.83%) GitHub
14 26 (3.21%) PaaS
14 26 (3.21%) SaaS
15 23 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
16 22 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
17 21 (2.60%) IaaS
18 17 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
18 17 (2.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.36%) Firewall
2 9 (1.11%) VPN
3 4 (0.49%) Internet
4 2 (0.25%) DMZ
5 1 (0.12%) FTP
5 1 (0.12%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.12%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (33.37%) Data Warehouse
2 153 (18.91%) Power BI
3 101 (12.48%) Data Lake
4 95 (11.74%) SQL Server
5 74 (9.15%) Big Data
6 72 (8.90%) Relational Database
7 65 (8.03%) BigQuery
8 58 (7.17%) Tableau
9 55 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 54 (6.67%) Metadata
11 51 (6.30%) NoSQL
12 44 (5.44%) Hadoop
13 39 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
14 38 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
15 36 (4.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 32 (3.96%) Delta Lake
17 26 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
18 25 (3.09%) Oracle Database
19 24 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
20 23 (2.84%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 38 (4.70%) Git
2 33 (4.08%) JIRA
3 22 (2.72%) ERwin
4 17 (2.10%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.24%) GitLab
6 9 (1.11%) Selenium
7 8 (0.99%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.62%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.49%) LSMW
9 4 (0.49%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.37%) Postman
10 3 (0.37%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.25%) DBeaver
11 2 (0.25%) Gradle
11 2 (0.25%) Maven
11 2 (0.25%) MLflow
11 2 (0.25%) PROIV
11 2 (0.25%) SOAtest
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 258 (31.89%) Social Skills
2 201 (24.85%) Finance
3 129 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (9.39%) Banking
5 40 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.21%) Marketing
6 26 (3.21%) Retail
7 19 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 18 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.48%) Legal
12 11 (1.36%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 10 (1.24%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.11%) Retail Banking
15 8 (0.99%) General Ledger
15 8 (0.99%) Local Government
15 8 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (30.53%) Data Engineer
2 139 (17.18%) Architect
3 105 (12.98%) Developer
4 95 (11.74%) Senior
5 87 (10.75%) Data Architect
6 75 (9.27%) Analyst
7 61 (7.54%) Lead
8 57 (7.05%) Senior Data Engineer
9 53 (6.55%) Data Analyst
10 35 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (3.83%) Consultant
12 29 (3.58%) Azure Data Engineer
12 29 (3.58%) Data Manager
13 23 (2.84%) Business Analyst
14 22 (2.72%) Data Modeller
15 21 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (2.47%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 20 (2.47%) Data Consultant
17 19 (2.35%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.90%) PySpark
2 63 (7.79%) Kafka
3 18 (2.22%) XML
4 17 (2.10%) JSON
5 14 (1.73%) Middleware
6 13 (1.61%) .NET
6 13 (1.61%) RESTful
7 11 (1.36%) REST
7 11 (1.36%) Web Services
8 9 (1.11%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (1.11%) Pandas
8 9 (1.11%) pytest
9 8 (0.99%) Node.js
9 8 (0.99%) OAuth
10 7 (0.87%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.87%) Apache Avro
10 7 (0.87%) Django
10 7 (0.87%) HTML
11 6 (0.74%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.80%) Data Structures
2 51 (6.30%) Legacy Systems
3 40 (4.94%) Cloud Native
4 14 (1.73%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.11%) Replication
8 8 (0.99%) Algorithms
9 7 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (0.87%) IoT
9 7 (0.87%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 6 (0.74%) Data Fabric
10 6 (0.74%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.60%) Linux
2 15 (1.85%) Unix
3 10 (1.24%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (38.07%) Data Modelling
2 252 (31.15%) Data Pipeline
3 248 (30.66%) Analytics
4 205 (25.34%) Data Engineering
4 205 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
5 192 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
6 191 (23.61%) Data Governance
7 186 (22.99%) Migration
8 171 (21.14%) Data Integration
9 135 (16.69%) Agile
10 131 (16.19%) Data Migration
11 126 (15.57%) CI/CD
12 121 (14.96%) DevOps
13 118 (14.59%) Visualisation
14 106 (13.10%) Data Architecture
15 99 (12.24%) Validation
16 96 (11.87%) Data Transformation
17 81 (10.01%) Stakeholder Management
18 79 (9.77%) Data Management
19 78 (9.64%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 518 (64.03%) SQL
2 346 (42.77%) Python
3 79 (9.77%) Java
4 59 (7.29%) Scala
5 39 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 30 (3.71%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.46%) T-SQL
8 26 (3.21%) C#
8 26 (3.21%) R
9 17 (2.10%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.73%) Bash
12 11 (1.36%) Bicep
13 9 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.99%) ABAP
15 7 (0.87%) Go
15 7 (0.87%) PHP
15 7 (0.87%) VBA
16 5 (0.62%) C++
16 5 (0.62%) Perl
Qualifications
1 95 (11.74%) Security Cleared
2 59 (7.29%) SC Cleared
3 47 (5.81%) Degree
4 27 (3.34%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.10%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.99%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.37%) MCSE
13 2 (0.25%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.25%) PMP
13 2 (0.25%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.12%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.12%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.12%) ISEB
14 1 (0.12%) MCSA
14 1 (0.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (25.96%) Data Quality
2 49 (6.06%) GDPR
3 35 (4.33%) QA
4 20 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.11%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.62%) IFRS
7 5 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.49%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.49%) SLA
9 3 (0.37%) GAAP
9 3 (0.37%) HL7
9 3 (0.37%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.25%) Basel III
10 2 (0.25%) EMIR
10 2 (0.25%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) GxP
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (6.30%) Docker
2 7 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.37%) HDFS
5 2 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.12%) NFS
6 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 67 (8.28%) Terraform
2 57 (7.05%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.36%) Grafana
3 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.87%) Ansible
5 5 (0.62%) Control-M
6 4 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.37%) Kibana
8 2 (0.25%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.12%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) logstash
9 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 122 (15.08%) Microsoft
2 111 (13.72%) Databricks
3 90 (11.12%) Oracle
4 76 (9.39%) Google
5 59 (7.29%) Informatica
6 54 (6.67%) SAP
7 24 (2.97%) Talend
8 17 (2.10%) IBM
9 16 (1.98%) Teradata
10 14 (1.73%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.36%) Alteryx
12 10 (1.24%) Adobe
12 10 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.99%) Palantir
13 8 (0.99%) Workday
14 7 (0.87%) Splunk
15 5 (0.62%) AppDynamics
15 5 (0.62%) Cognos
15 5 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
15 5 (0.62%) ServiceNow