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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +14 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,487 791 940
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.15% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.45% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 545 708
10th Percentile £358 £363 £362
25th Percentile £415 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% -5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £507
% change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 11
10th Percentile £29.96 £38.42 £30.37
25th Percentile £34.51 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -39.29%
75th Percentile £61.75 £78.70 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.44 £90.71 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%

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 37,051 22,942 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 91.40% 85.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,408 14,828 20,735
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £416 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £514 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,328 1,099 2,362
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.76
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +77.69% -29.47% +6.72%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +8 755 £520 -3.08% 149
Midlands +26 260 £459 +2.00% 46
West Midlands +45 229 £459 -7.27% 32
North of England -24 181 £463 -2.63% 57
South East +3 133 £475 -5.00% 85
North West -14 96 £445 -11.00% 35
South West -31 67 £523 +10.00% 30
Yorkshire -28 65 £500 +19.05% 14
East of England -9 44 £488 +4.00% 11
East Midlands -18 30 £525 +23.67% 14
North East -22 20 £550 +30.95% 9
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
1 128 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 103 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.71%) SAS
4 64 (4.30%) Apache
5 53 (3.56%) Confluence
6 15 (1.01%) Oracle Application Server
7 12 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.67%) nginx
8 10 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.54%) Appian
11 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.34%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Camunda
14 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
14 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
15 1 (0.067%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 40 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.67%) Sage X3
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.20%) Actimize
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 608 (40.89%) Azure
2 443 (29.79%) AWS
3 367 (24.68%) Power Platform
4 219 (14.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 172 (11.57%) GCP
6 156 (10.49%) Snowflake
7 144 (9.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 135 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
9 122 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 114 (7.67%) Serverless
11 100 (6.72%) dbt
12 97 (6.52%) GitHub
13 85 (5.72%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (2.69%) Collibra
16 32 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
17 29 (1.95%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (1.68%) Matillion
20 24 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.74%) Firewall
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.067%) 4G
4 1 (0.067%) 5G
4 1 (0.067%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.067%) DHCP
4 1 (0.067%) DNS
4 1 (0.067%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.067%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (29.93%) Data Warehouse
2 348 (23.40%) Power BI
3 231 (15.53%) Data Lake
4 170 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 122 (8.20%) Metadata
6 98 (6.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.25%) Tableau
8 90 (6.05%) Delta Lake
9 89 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 82 (5.51%) Pentaho
10 82 (5.51%) Relational Database
11 77 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
12 72 (4.84%) NoSQL
13 69 (4.64%) Big Data
14 68 (4.57%) BigQuery
15 61 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
16 58 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
16 58 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
17 50 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 169 (11.37%) Git
2 135 (9.08%) JIRA
3 85 (5.72%) GitLab
4 61 (4.10%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.62%) Postman
6 34 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.14%) MLflow
8 11 (0.74%) Selenium
9 8 (0.54%) ERwin
10 7 (0.47%) JMeter
11 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Flyway
12 4 (0.27%) Gatling
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) LSMW
12 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.20%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 394 (26.50%) Finance
2 380 (25.55%) Social Skills
3 252 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.82%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.46%) Banking
6 37 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.95%) Marketing
8 27 (1.82%) Retail
9 19 (1.28%) Financial Institution
9 19 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.28%) Legal
9 19 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 9 (0.61%) Billing
11 9 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (0.61%) Law
12 8 (0.54%) Front Office
13 7 (0.47%) General Ledger
13 7 (0.47%) Military
14 6 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 605 (40.69%) Data Engineer
2 199 (13.38%) Developer
3 177 (11.90%) Senior
4 175 (11.77%) Architect
5 171 (11.50%) Lead
6 121 (8.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 112 (7.53%) Analyst
8 102 (6.86%) Data Architect
9 64 (4.30%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 43 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (2.49%) SQL Developer
14 35 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
14 35 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
15 34 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
16 33 (2.22%) Consultant
17 31 (2.08%) Azure Data Engineer
17 31 (2.08%) Oracle Developer
17 31 (2.08%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (11.37%) PySpark
2 115 (7.73%) Kafka
3 73 (4.91%) REST
4 40 (2.69%) Pandas
5 39 (2.62%) .NET
5 39 (2.62%) JSON
6 36 (2.42%) XML
7 31 (2.08%) Middleware
8 27 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
9 26 (1.75%) Spring
10 24 (1.61%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.28%) PyTorch
11 19 (1.28%) RESTful
12 18 (1.21%) Web Services
13 17 (1.14%) OAuth
13 17 (1.14%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.08%) NumPy
14 16 (1.08%) React
15 15 (1.01%) scikit-learn
15 15 (1.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.94%) Cloud Native
2 93 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.45%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.61%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.55%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.34%) NHS
11 16 (1.08%) Clustering
12 15 (1.01%) Reference Data
13 14 (0.94%) Reinsurance
14 12 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.74%) IoT
15 11 (0.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.29%) Unix
2 31 (2.08%) Linux
3 18 (1.21%) Windows
4 8 (0.54%) Solaris
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.47%) 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
1 701 (47.14%) Data Modelling
2 583 (39.21%) Data Pipeline
3 568 (38.20%) Analytics
4 462 (31.07%) Data Engineering
5 434 (29.19%) Business Intelligence
6 431 (28.98%) CI/CD
7 374 (25.15%) Migration
8 372 (25.02%) Agile
9 329 (22.13%) DevOps
10 291 (19.57%) Validation
11 280 (18.83%) Problem-Solving
12 279 (18.76%) Data Governance
13 251 (16.88%) AI
14 249 (16.75%) Data Integration
15 235 (15.80%) Data Migration
16 222 (14.93%) Data Architecture
17 202 (13.58%) Decision-Making
18 195 (13.11%) Test Automation
19 170 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
20 152 (10.22%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,004 (67.52%) SQL
2 599 (40.28%) Python
3 126 (8.47%) Java
4 86 (5.78%) T-SQL
5 72 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 71 (4.77%) PL/SQL
7 56 (3.77%) C#
8 50 (3.36%) Scala
9 34 (2.29%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.22%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.75%) Bash
12 21 (1.41%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.41%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.08%) R
14 15 (1.01%) Bicep
15 8 (0.54%) VBA
16 7 (0.47%) Cypher
16 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.40%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 398 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 329 (22.13%) SC Cleared
3 81 (5.45%) Degree
4 42 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.42%) Azure Certification
7 28 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 23 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 16 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.61%) SnowPro
12 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.27%) PMP
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 494 (33.22%) Data Quality
2 139 (9.35%) QA
3 97 (6.52%) GDPR
4 21 (1.41%) IFRS
5 20 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.87%) PMO
7 13 (0.87%) SLA
8 12 (0.81%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.54%) FATCA
10 7 (0.47%) GRC
11 6 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.40%) GAAP
11 6 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.34%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.27%) GMP
13 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.20%) HL7
14 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (7.26%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.34%) HDFS
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 1 (0.067%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.067%) RACF
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (9.01%) Terraform
2 113 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.34%) Grafana
4 14 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.87%) Ansible
6 8 (0.54%) 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 (0.067%) Argo
10 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.067%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.067%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 301 (20.24%) Databricks
2 280 (18.83%) Oracle
3 277 (18.63%) Microsoft
4 135 (9.08%) Informatica
5 124 (8.34%) Talend
6 68 (4.57%) SAP
7 59 (3.97%) Denodo
8 46 (3.09%) Google
9 43 (2.89%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.15%) IBM
11 27 (1.82%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.75%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.41%) Sage
14 19 (1.28%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.21%) Workday
16 17 (1.14%) Splunk
17 16 (1.08%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.81%) Palantir
19 11 (0.74%) Cloudera
20 10 (0.67%) Red Hat