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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +13 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,506 824 938
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.09% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.40% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 562 705
10th Percentile £358 £363 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.28% -5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 12
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.69 £30.83
25th Percentile £30.96 £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.56% +15.38% -32.59%
75th Percentile £59.75 £74.96 £51.75
90th Percentile £68.30 £89.73 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year +9.38% +5.49% -30.00%

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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +3 744 £516 -4.60% 185
Midlands +28 274 £459 +1.89% 43
West Midlands +44 239 £455 -8.54% 23
North of England -19 188 £463 -2.63% 52
South East +10 143 £470 -6.00% 71
North West -20 90 £450 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire -7 76 £485 +14.12% 11
South West -26 65 £523 +10.00% 38
East of England -4 47 £488 +8.33% 11
East Midlands -12 34 £525 +18.89% 20
North East -22 22 £538 +27.98% 7
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
1 130 (8.63%) Apache Spark
2 110 (7.30%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (4.85%) SAS
4 69 (4.58%) Apache
5 51 (3.39%) Confluence
6 20 (1.33%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.86%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.66%) nginx
8 10 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.40%) Appian
10 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
10 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
11 4 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.066%) Apache Pig
14 1 (0.066%) CMS
Applications
1 39 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 13 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
1 13 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.73%) Sage X3
3 10 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.46%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.33%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.20%) Actimize
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 606 (40.24%) Azure
2 452 (30.01%) AWS
3 361 (23.97%) Power Platform
4 208 (13.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 178 (11.82%) GCP
6 164 (10.89%) Snowflake
7 141 (9.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 129 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
9 126 (8.37%) Amazon S3
10 116 (7.70%) Serverless
11 109 (7.24%) dbt
12 94 (6.24%) GitHub
13 89 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (2.92%) Collibra
16 33 (2.19%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (1.86%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.73%) Matillion
19 25 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
20 23 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.80%) Firewall
2 7 (0.46%) HTTP
3 5 (0.33%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.33%) VPN
3 5 (0.33%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.066%) 4G
4 1 (0.066%) 5G
4 1 (0.066%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.066%) DHCP
4 1 (0.066%) DNS
4 1 (0.066%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.066%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (30.48%) Data Warehouse
2 342 (22.71%) Power BI
3 218 (14.48%) Data Lake
4 161 (10.69%) SQL Server
5 127 (8.43%) Metadata
6 96 (6.37%) Delta Lake
6 96 (6.37%) Tableau
7 93 (6.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 90 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (5.44%) Pentaho
10 81 (5.38%) Relational Database
11 74 (4.91%) NoSQL
12 73 (4.85%) Big Data
12 73 (4.85%) BigQuery
13 68 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 64 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
15 63 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
16 61 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
17 50 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
18 47 (3.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 167 (11.09%) Git
2 132 (8.76%) JIRA
3 84 (5.58%) GitLab
4 62 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.72%) Postman
6 36 (2.39%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.13%) MLflow
8 11 (0.73%) Selenium
9 6 (0.40%) ERwin
9 6 (0.40%) Gatling
9 6 (0.40%) JMeter
9 6 (0.40%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.27%) Flyway
11 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.27%) LSMW
11 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
General
1 381 (25.30%) Finance
2 363 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 263 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.71%) Banking
6 39 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.93%) Marketing
8 28 (1.86%) Retail
9 21 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.33%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.26%) Legal
12 17 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.66%) Billing
14 9 (0.60%) Front Office
14 9 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.60%) Law
14 9 (0.60%) Military
15 7 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 622 (41.30%) Data Engineer
2 216 (14.34%) Developer
3 181 (12.02%) Senior
4 180 (11.95%) Architect
5 163 (10.82%) Lead
6 126 (8.37%) Senior Data Engineer
7 109 (7.24%) Analyst
8 104 (6.91%) Data Architect
9 59 (3.92%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 48 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (2.72%) SQL Developer
13 40 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
14 39 (2.59%) Azure Data Engineer
15 37 (2.46%) Lead Data Engineer
16 36 (2.39%) Snowflake Engineer
17 35 (2.32%) AWS Data Engineer
18 34 (2.26%) Data Migration Lead
18 34 (2.26%) Oracle Developer
19 33 (2.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (10.96%) PySpark
2 123 (8.17%) Kafka
3 70 (4.65%) REST
4 45 (2.99%) JSON
5 38 (2.52%) .NET
6 37 (2.46%) Pandas
7 27 (1.79%) Spring
7 27 (1.79%) XML
8 25 (1.66%) Middleware
8 25 (1.66%) Spring Boot
9 18 (1.20%) React
9 18 (1.20%) RESTful
10 17 (1.13%) Web Services
10 17 (1.13%) YAML
11 16 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.06%) PyTorch
12 15 (1.00%) Great Expectations
12 15 (1.00%) OAuth
12 15 (1.00%) pytest
13 14 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 139 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.11%) Data Structures
3 78 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 34 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.46%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.46%) NHS
9 21 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.26%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.13%) Clustering
13 15 (1.00%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.80%) IoT
14 12 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.80%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.80%) Replication
15 11 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.73%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.52%) Unix
2 33 (2.19%) Linux
3 16 (1.06%) Windows
4 8 (0.53%) Solaris
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.20%) VMS
7 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.13%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 716 (47.54%) Data Modelling
2 601 (39.91%) Data Pipeline
3 574 (38.11%) Analytics
4 474 (31.47%) Data Engineering
5 444 (29.48%) CI/CD
6 426 (28.29%) Business Intelligence
7 385 (25.56%) Migration
8 369 (24.50%) Agile
9 322 (21.38%) DevOps
10 301 (19.99%) Validation
11 299 (19.85%) Data Governance
12 283 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
13 260 (17.26%) Data Integration
14 249 (16.53%) AI
15 240 (15.94%) Data Migration
16 217 (14.41%) Data Architecture
17 208 (13.81%) Decision-Making
18 206 (13.68%) Test Automation
19 162 (10.76%) Data Transformation
20 161 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (67.33%) SQL
2 605 (40.17%) Python
3 130 (8.63%) Java
4 82 (5.44%) T-SQL
5 72 (4.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 67 (4.45%) PL/SQL
7 55 (3.65%) C#
8 54 (3.59%) Scala
9 33 (2.19%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.19%) PowerShell
10 27 (1.79%) Bash
11 24 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.06%) Bicep
13 16 (1.06%) R
14 10 (0.66%) Cypher
15 8 (0.53%) VBA
16 7 (0.46%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 401 (26.63%) Security Cleared
2 331 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.51%) Degree
4 43 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (2.26%) Azure Certification
7 25 (1.66%) ISTQB
8 20 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 18 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.60%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.13%) Oracle Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 503 (33.40%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.10%) QA
3 99 (6.57%) GDPR
4 16 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.00%) IFRS
6 14 (0.93%) PMO
6 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.73%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.66%) SLA
9 9 (0.60%) GRC
10 8 (0.53%) FATCA
11 7 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 7 (0.46%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.27%) GMP
13 4 (0.27%) HL7
13 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.20%) GAAP
14 3 (0.20%) WCAG
15 2 (0.13%) MiFID
System Software
1 106 (7.04%) Docker
2 6 (0.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.33%) HDFS
3 5 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.066%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.066%) RACF
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 138 (9.16%) Terraform
2 115 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.53%) Grafana
4 15 (1.00%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.86%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.066%) Argo
10 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.066%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.066%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 299 (19.85%) Databricks
2 277 (18.39%) Oracle
3 265 (17.60%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.96%) Informatica
5 126 (8.37%) Talend
6 68 (4.52%) SAP
7 58 (3.85%) Denodo
8 51 (3.39%) Google
9 41 (2.72%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.12%) IBM
11 31 (2.06%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.93%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.53%) Sage
14 18 (1.20%) MuleSoft
15 17 (1.13%) Splunk
16 15 (1.00%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.86%) Palantir
18 11 (0.73%) Cloudera
19 10 (0.66%) Red Hat
19 10 (0.66%) Workday