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

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 78 92
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,434 760 871
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.17% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.47% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 514 663
10th Percentile £358 £363 £371
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £625
90th Percentile £690 £710 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 13
10th Percentile £35.18 £48.79 £28.27
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £62.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +28.87% -25.38%
75th Percentile £69.76 £98.56 £51.75
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -19.17%

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 34,973 21,894 31,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.68% 91.30% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,266 14,295 20,565
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 929 2,246
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.11 £29.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.98% -20.55% -0.73%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.44 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.18 £36.05
% change year-on-year +50.82% -21.82% +0.13%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +25 763 £510 -7.27% 135
Midlands +16 234 £468 +0.86% 32
West Midlands +35 208 £459 -8.88% 23
North of England -22 174 £463 -1.91% 56
South East -5 119 £475 -8.83% 56
North West -21 90 £450 -10.00% 25
Yorkshire -20 67 £500 +21.95% 22
South West -20 61 £525 +7.69% 23
East of England -11 42 £500 - 9
East Midlands -23 25 £525 +23.67% 9
North East -20 17 £538 +23.56% 11
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
1 131 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 96 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
3 65 (4.53%) Apache
3 65 (4.53%) SAS
4 44 (3.07%) Confluence
5 15 (1.05%) Oracle Application Server
6 13 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.63%) Appian
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.49%) nginx
9 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.28%) Camunda
12 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
14 1 (0.070%) Anypoint
Applications
1 39 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.49%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.28%) Actimize
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
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
1 601 (41.91%) Azure
2 419 (29.22%) AWS
3 355 (24.76%) Power Platform
4 223 (15.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 164 (11.44%) GCP
6 158 (11.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 127 (8.86%) Azure DevOps
8 126 (8.79%) Snowflake
9 121 (8.44%) Amazon S3
10 106 (7.39%) Serverless
11 92 (6.42%) GitHub
12 82 (5.72%) dbt
13 78 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (3.28%) Collibra
15 39 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
16 33 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (2.09%) Power Automate
18 27 (1.88%) SaaS
19 24 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 20 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.77%) Firewall
2 5 (0.35%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.35%) VPN
2 5 (0.35%) WinSCP
3 4 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.070%) 4G
4 1 (0.070%) 5G
4 1 (0.070%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.070%) DHCP
4 1 (0.070%) DNS
4 1 (0.070%) DSL
4 1 (0.070%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (29.22%) Data Warehouse
2 332 (23.15%) Power BI
3 226 (15.76%) Data Lake
4 185 (12.90%) SQL Server
5 134 (9.34%) Metadata
6 95 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.49%) Tableau
8 88 (6.14%) Delta Lake
9 82 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 75 (5.23%) Big Data
11 74 (5.16%) Amazon Redshift
12 73 (5.09%) Pentaho
13 72 (5.02%) Relational Database
14 70 (4.88%) NoSQL
15 62 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
16 60 (4.18%) BigQuery
17 58 (4.04%) Snowflake Schema
18 53 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
19 52 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
20 45 (3.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 155 (10.81%) Git
2 126 (8.79%) JIRA
3 80 (5.58%) GitLab
4 59 (4.11%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.86%) Postman
6 28 (1.95%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.53%) MLflow
8 19 (1.32%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) ERwin
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.28%) Flyway
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) Robot Framework
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
General
1 387 (26.99%) Finance
2 366 (25.52%) Social Skills
3 237 (16.53%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.39%) Banking
6 32 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.02%) Marketing
8 24 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.46%) Retail
10 19 (1.32%) Legal
11 15 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (0.77%) Law
14 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.49%) Front Office
16 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.49%) Military
17 6 (0.42%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 595 (41.49%) Data Engineer
2 189 (13.18%) Developer
3 164 (11.44%) Senior
4 163 (11.37%) Lead
5 147 (10.25%) Architect
6 121 (8.44%) Analyst
7 115 (8.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 83 (5.79%) Data Architect
9 75 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
10 48 (3.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 36 (2.51%) Azure Data Engineer
12 34 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
13 31 (2.16%) AWS Data Engineer
13 31 (2.16%) Data Migration Lead
13 31 (2.16%) Senior Developer
14 30 (2.09%) SQL Developer
15 29 (2.02%) Lead Data Engineer
15 29 (2.02%) Snowflake Engineer
16 27 (1.88%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (11.79%) PySpark
2 119 (8.30%) Kafka
3 82 (5.72%) REST
4 44 (3.07%) Pandas
5 39 (2.72%) .NET
6 33 (2.30%) JSON
7 27 (1.88%) XML
8 25 (1.74%) Middleware
9 24 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
10 23 (1.60%) Spring
11 20 (1.39%) Great Expectations
11 20 (1.39%) NumPy
11 20 (1.39%) PyTorch
11 20 (1.39%) RESTful
11 20 (1.39%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.26%) OAuth
13 17 (1.19%) HTML
13 17 (1.19%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.12%) OpenID
14 16 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.93%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.42%) Data Structures
3 79 (5.51%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.65%) Onboarding
5 32 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.09%) Distributed Computing
7 23 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.05%) Clustering
11 15 (1.05%) Reference Data
12 14 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (0.91%) NHS
14 12 (0.84%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.84%) Reinsurance
15 11 (0.77%) Replication
15 11 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.02%) Unix
2 24 (1.67%) Linux
3 15 (1.05%) Windows
4 8 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.49%) Solaris
5 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.070%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 679 (47.35%) Data Modelling
2 562 (39.19%) Analytics
3 539 (37.59%) Data Pipeline
4 447 (31.17%) Data Engineering
5 432 (30.13%) Business Intelligence
6 392 (27.34%) CI/CD
7 336 (23.43%) Agile
8 333 (23.22%) Migration
9 328 (22.87%) DevOps
10 295 (20.57%) Data Governance
11 279 (19.46%) Problem-Solving
12 274 (19.11%) Validation
13 232 (16.18%) AI
14 216 (15.06%) Data Migration
15 215 (14.99%) Data Integration
16 210 (14.64%) Data Architecture
17 196 (13.67%) Decision-Making
18 169 (11.79%) Test Automation
19 150 (10.46%) Performance Tuning
20 145 (10.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 969 (67.57%) SQL
2 598 (41.70%) Python
3 128 (8.93%) Java
4 71 (4.95%) T-SQL
5 70 (4.88%) PL/SQL
6 67 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 62 (4.32%) C#
8 54 (3.77%) Scala
9 40 (2.79%) JavaScript
10 28 (1.95%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.53%) Bash
12 19 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.26%) R
13 18 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 15 (1.05%) Bicep
15 8 (0.56%) VBA
16 7 (0.49%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.35%) Cypher
18 5 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 356 (24.83%) Security Cleared
2 291 (20.29%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.79%) Degree
4 45 (3.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.98%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.28%) PMP
13 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.21%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.14%) CISA
14 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 473 (32.98%) Data Quality
2 135 (9.41%) QA
3 94 (6.56%) GDPR
4 22 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (1.46%) IFRS
6 18 (1.26%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.84%) PMO
8 11 (0.77%) SLA
9 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.56%) FATCA
11 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.42%) GRC
12 5 (0.35%) GAAP
12 5 (0.35%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.28%) MiFID
13 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 108 (7.53%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.070%) RACF
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (9.14%) Terraform
2 116 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.46%) Grafana
4 15 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.91%) Ansible
6 6 (0.42%) Control-M
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.21%) Foglight
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.070%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.070%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.070%) Kibana
10 1 (0.070%) logstash
Vendors
1 295 (20.57%) Databricks
2 278 (19.39%) Microsoft
3 250 (17.43%) Oracle
4 128 (8.93%) Informatica
5 113 (7.88%) Talend
6 58 (4.04%) SAP
7 54 (3.77%) Denodo
8 49 (3.42%) Google
9 48 (3.35%) ServiceNow
10 25 (1.74%) IBM
11 23 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.53%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.32%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.19%) Sage
14 17 (1.19%) Splunk
14 17 (1.19%) Workday
15 15 (1.05%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.77%) Teradata
17 9 (0.63%) Cloudera
18 8 (0.56%) Ab Initio