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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 76 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +31 -9
Contract jobs citing ETL 896 899 890
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.93% 2.89% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.33% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 601 683
10th Percentile £363 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £526
Median % change year-on-year -2.39% -2.57% -1.22%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 14
10th Percentile £32.50 - £47.38
25th Percentile £35.63 £26.25 £50.13
Median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -31.17% +73.94%
75th Percentile £64.01 £51.75 £71.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £67.93 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -45.31% +80.28%

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 27,528 26,989 34,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.13% 86.89% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,469 16,492 23,819
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,814 971 1,471
10th Percentile £14.81 £15.10 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%
75th Percentile £49.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +25.43%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 -6 530 £525 - 464
Midlands -3 121 £515 +15.73% 67
North of England -43 94 £445 -1.11% 68
West Midlands -2 90 £519 +8.70% 48
South West +8 50 £520 -9.57% 43
North West -8 50 £400 -8.57% 39
South East -29 44 £445 -19.09% 137
Yorkshire -45 37 £475 +5.56% 23
East Midlands -1 31 £447 +11.75% 18
East of England -5 23 £550 +10.00% 32
North East -10 6 £450 -5.26% 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 91 (10.16%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (9.04%) Apache Spark
3 64 (7.14%) Apache
4 44 (4.91%) SAS
5 10 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 8 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
7 6 (0.67%) Confluence
8 5 (0.56%) IIS
9 4 (0.45%) Luigi
10 3 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) CMS
11 2 (0.22%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.22%) nginx
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 54 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.78%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.67%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.45%) Maximo
6 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.22%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.22%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 338 (37.72%) Azure
2 290 (32.37%) AWS
3 189 (21.09%) Power Platform
4 142 (15.85%) GCP
5 134 (14.96%) Snowflake
6 120 (13.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 84 (9.38%) Amazon S3
8 79 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 76 (8.48%) Serverless
10 64 (7.14%) dbt
11 55 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
13 48 (5.36%) GitHub
14 31 (3.46%) Amazon EMR
15 29 (3.24%) SaaS
16 22 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (2.34%) Azure Logic Apps
18 20 (2.23%) PaaS
19 18 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
19 18 (2.01%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.67%) 2G
1 6 (0.67%) 5G
1 6 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.56%) 4G
3 4 (0.45%) DNS
4 3 (0.33%) Internet
4 3 (0.33%) SSH
4 3 (0.33%) SSL
4 3 (0.33%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.22%) BGP
5 2 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.22%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.22%) OSPF
5 2 (0.22%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) DSL
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 289 (32.25%) Data Warehouse
2 178 (19.87%) Power BI
3 117 (13.06%) Data Lake
4 97 (10.83%) SQL Server
5 87 (9.71%) Relational Database
6 74 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 69 (7.70%) Metadata
8 66 (7.37%) BigQuery
9 64 (7.14%) Big Data
10 59 (6.58%) Tableau
11 58 (6.47%) PostgreSQL
12 56 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 50 (5.58%) NoSQL
14 46 (5.13%) Pentaho
15 39 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
16 35 (3.91%) Delta Lake
17 33 (3.68%) Snowflake Schema
18 31 (3.46%) Hadoop
19 30 (3.35%) Oracle Database
20 28 (3.13%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 107 (11.94%) Git
2 61 (6.81%) JIRA
3 55 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 18 (2.01%) ERwin
5 10 (1.12%) GitLab
6 8 (0.89%) DBeaver
6 8 (0.89%) MLflow
7 7 (0.78%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.78%) Postman
7 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.67%) Selenium
9 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.33%) Toad
12 2 (0.22%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.22%) JMeter
12 2 (0.22%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.22%) TestRail
General
1 272 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 224 (25.00%) Finance
3 168 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.37%) Banking
6 25 (2.79%) Retail
7 17 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (1.56%) Marketing
10 12 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.12%) Legal
11 10 (1.12%) Local Government
11 10 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.78%) Front Office
14 7 (0.78%) Law
14 7 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 290 (32.37%) Data Engineer
2 140 (15.63%) Developer
3 112 (12.50%) Architect
4 95 (10.60%) Senior
5 93 (10.38%) Lead
6 92 (10.27%) Analyst
7 61 (6.81%) Data Architect
8 60 (6.70%) Data Analyst
9 48 (5.36%) Senior Data Engineer
10 37 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
11 32 (3.57%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (3.13%) Business Analyst
12 28 (3.13%) Consultant
13 27 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (2.68%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 22 (2.46%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.23%) Snowflake Engineer
17 19 (2.12%) AWS Data Engineer
17 19 (2.12%) Lead Data Engineer
17 19 (2.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (8.04%) Kafka
1 72 (8.04%) PySpark
2 40 (4.46%) XML
3 30 (3.35%) REST
4 29 (3.24%) Node.js
5 26 (2.90%) JSON
6 19 (2.12%) RESTful
7 17 (1.90%) Pandas
8 15 (1.67%) NumPy
9 14 (1.56%) .NET
10 13 (1.45%) GraphQL
10 13 (1.45%) OAuth
11 12 (1.34%) AngularJS
11 12 (1.34%) Middleware
12 11 (1.23%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 11 (1.23%) React
13 9 (1.00%) SOAP
14 8 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (0.89%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.70%) Cloud Native
2 50 (5.58%) Data Structures
3 31 (3.46%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 21 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 15 (1.67%) Replication
9 14 (1.56%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.45%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.45%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.12%) IoT
12 10 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.00%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.89%) NHS
15 7 (0.78%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.68%) Linux
2 15 (1.67%) Windows
3 8 (0.89%) Unix
4 2 (0.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 397 (44.31%) Data Modelling
2 348 (38.84%) Analytics
3 337 (37.61%) Data Pipeline
4 266 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
5 253 (28.24%) Data Engineering
6 237 (26.45%) CI/CD
7 230 (25.67%) Problem-Solving
8 218 (24.33%) Agile
9 210 (23.44%) Data Governance
10 198 (22.10%) DevOps
11 191 (21.32%) Migration
12 182 (20.31%) Data Integration
13 140 (15.63%) Data Architecture
14 133 (14.84%) Data Migration
15 117 (13.06%) Visualisation
16 116 (12.95%) Data Transformation
17 114 (12.72%) Data Science
18 109 (12.17%) Validation
19 98 (10.94%) Machine Learning
20 92 (10.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 583 (65.07%) SQL
2 434 (48.44%) Python
3 83 (9.26%) Java
4 46 (5.13%) Scala
5 44 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 33 (3.68%) C#
7 30 (3.35%) T-SQL
8 27 (3.01%) PL/SQL
9 19 (2.12%) JavaScript
10 18 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 16 (1.79%) VBA
12 15 (1.67%) Bash
12 15 (1.67%) PHP
12 15 (1.67%) R
13 13 (1.45%) Go
14 10 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.12%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.89%) Perl
16 7 (0.78%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.78%) Korn
Qualifications
1 148 (16.52%) Security Cleared
2 115 (12.83%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.37%) Degree
4 40 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.91%) AWS Certification
6 34 (3.79%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.67%) Master's Degree
9 14 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.56%) PMP
12 5 (0.56%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.33%) CISSP
13 3 (0.33%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.33%) MCSE
14 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.22%) MCP
15 1 (0.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (30.25%) Data Quality
2 61 (6.81%) QA
3 58 (6.47%) GDPR
4 22 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.00%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.56%) SLA
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.33%) HL7
8 3 (0.33%) PMO
8 3 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.22%) EMIR
9 2 (0.22%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.22%) MiFID
9 2 (0.22%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) PERC
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 106 (11.83%) Docker
2 5 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.56%) zsh
3 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.22%) KVM
4 2 (0.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 98 (10.94%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.70%) Terraform
3 13 (1.45%) Grafana
4 9 (1.00%) Ansible
5 7 (0.78%) Control-M
6 5 (0.56%) Kibana
6 5 (0.56%) logstash
6 5 (0.56%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.33%) Argo
8 3 (0.33%) Istio
9 2 (0.22%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.22%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
10 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (16.52%) Databricks
2 142 (15.85%) Microsoft
3 125 (13.95%) Oracle
4 65 (7.25%) Talend
5 54 (6.03%) Google
6 50 (5.58%) Informatica
7 43 (4.80%) SAP
8 37 (4.13%) Denodo
9 26 (2.90%) Salesforce
10 19 (2.12%) IBM
11 15 (1.67%) Palantir
12 12 (1.34%) Foundry
12 12 (1.34%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.12%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.12%) Workday
14 9 (1.00%) Cognos
14 9 (1.00%) VMware
15 7 (0.78%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.78%) ServiceNow
16 6 (0.67%) Teradata