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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 83 81
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,479 819 879
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.23% 2.95% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.25% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 565 626
10th Percentile £363 £359 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.65% -3.90%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £675 £709 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.60 £32.22
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.90% +2.35% -40.97%
75th Percentile £56.19 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £84.73 -
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -40.97%

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 38,818 25,195 28,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.84% 90.79% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,932 16,050 18,115
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,599 1,473 1,445
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.87 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 -1 760 £520 -0.95% 290
Midlands +21 244 £469 +1.41% 40
West Midlands +35 209 £469 -6.20% 31
North of England -7 182 £475 +2.70% 68
South East +21 141 £458 -2.24% 90
Yorkshire -3 80 £469 +11.61% 13
North West -19 79 £470 -6.00% 41
South West -28 62 £523 +10.00% 38
East of England +6 48 £475 -9.52% 12
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +13.10% 9
North East -18 24 £520 +18.86% 14
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
1 118 (7.98%) Apache Spark
2 115 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (5.81%) SAS
4 79 (5.34%) Apache
5 51 (3.45%) Confluence
6 26 (1.76%) Oracle Application Server
7 24 (1.62%) SharePoint
8 10 (0.68%) nginx
9 9 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.41%) ArcGIS
12 5 (0.34%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.34%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.14%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.14%) Camunda
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.14%) PowerExchange
15 1 (0.068%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.34%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.34%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.34%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.20%) Actimize
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.20%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.14%) Maximo
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle 11i
9 2 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.14%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 587 (39.69%) Azure
2 436 (29.48%) AWS
3 345 (23.33%) Power Platform
4 214 (14.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 195 (13.18%) Snowflake
6 188 (12.71%) GCP
7 132 (8.92%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (8.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 121 (8.18%) dbt
10 115 (7.78%) Amazon S3
10 115 (7.78%) Serverless
11 102 (6.90%) GitHub
12 91 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 39 (2.64%) Azure Databricks
15 36 (2.43%) Collibra
16 31 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (2.03%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.76%) SaaS
19 23 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.81%) Firewall
2 8 (0.54%) HTTP
3 5 (0.34%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.34%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.20%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.20%) DHCP
4 3 (0.20%) DNS
4 3 (0.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.068%) Network Security
5 1 (0.068%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 514 (34.75%) Data Warehouse
2 336 (22.72%) Power BI
3 221 (14.94%) Data Lake
4 150 (10.14%) SQL Server
5 147 (9.94%) Metadata
6 97 (6.56%) Relational Database
7 93 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (6.02%) Delta Lake
9 87 (5.88%) BigQuery
10 86 (5.81%) Tableau
11 77 (5.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 68 (4.60%) Big Data
13 63 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
14 59 (3.99%) Pentaho
14 59 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (3.92%) NoSQL
16 54 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
17 53 (3.58%) Oracle Database
18 49 (3.31%) Snowflake Schema
19 48 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 152 (10.28%) Git
2 120 (8.11%) JIRA
3 86 (5.81%) GitLab
4 51 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 37 (2.50%) Zephyr
6 33 (2.23%) Postman
7 13 (0.88%) Selenium
8 8 (0.54%) MLflow
9 7 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.41%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.34%) Gatling
12 4 (0.27%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.27%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.27%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.27%) ERwin
12 4 (0.27%) Newman
12 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.20%) JMeter
13 3 (0.20%) JUnit
13 3 (0.20%) LSMW
General
1 347 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 345 (23.33%) Finance
3 277 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 120 (8.11%) Banking
6 32 (2.16%) Retail
7 26 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.62%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.62%) Marketing
10 21 (1.42%) Legal
11 17 (1.15%) Law
12 16 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 15 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.88%) Front Office
15 12 (0.81%) Billing
16 11 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.68%) Military
18 9 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
19 8 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 578 (39.08%) Data Engineer
2 223 (15.08%) Developer
3 204 (13.79%) Senior
4 189 (12.78%) Architect
5 147 (9.94%) Lead
6 140 (9.47%) Senior Data Engineer
7 112 (7.57%) Analyst
8 98 (6.63%) Data Architect
9 55 (3.72%) Azure Engineer
9 55 (3.72%) Data Analyst
10 45 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
11 44 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
12 42 (2.84%) Databricks Engineer
13 40 (2.70%) Tester
14 39 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 38 (2.57%) Oracle Developer
15 38 (2.57%) Snowflake Engineer
16 36 (2.43%) Databricks Data Engineer
17 35 (2.37%) SQL Developer
18 34 (2.30%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (10.62%) PySpark
2 135 (9.13%) Terraform
3 114 (7.71%) Kafka
4 59 (3.99%) REST
5 48 (3.25%) .NET
6 47 (3.18%) JSON
7 27 (1.83%) React
8 24 (1.62%) Pandas
9 21 (1.42%) Middleware
9 21 (1.42%) XML
10 20 (1.35%) Spring
10 20 (1.35%) Spring Boot
11 14 (0.95%) YAML
12 11 (0.74%) Great Expectations
12 11 (0.74%) Playwright
12 11 (0.74%) Web Services
13 10 (0.68%) HTML
13 10 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (0.68%) pytest
13 10 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 140 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 89 (6.02%) Data Structures
3 65 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 48 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 33 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 23 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 20 (1.35%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.35%) NHS
9 19 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.22%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
12 14 (0.95%) Clustering
13 13 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.88%) IoT
14 11 (0.74%) Replication
14 11 (0.74%) SCADA
15 10 (0.68%) Algorithms
15 10 (0.68%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 57 (3.85%) Linux
2 50 (3.38%) Unix
3 17 (1.15%) Windows
4 5 (0.34%) Solaris
4 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.14%) HPUX
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (46.99%) Data Modelling
2 608 (41.11%) Data Pipeline
3 559 (37.80%) Analytics
4 481 (32.52%) Data Engineering
5 460 (31.10%) CI/CD
6 413 (27.92%) Business Intelligence
7 408 (27.59%) Agile
8 385 (26.03%) Migration
9 338 (22.85%) DevOps
10 330 (22.31%) Data Integration
11 297 (20.08%) Data Governance
12 287 (19.41%) Validation
13 262 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
14 256 (17.31%) AI
15 238 (16.09%) Data Migration
16 222 (15.01%) Stakeholder Management
17 213 (14.40%) Data Transformation
18 210 (14.20%) Data Architecture
19 197 (13.32%) Test Automation
20 185 (12.51%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 987 (66.73%) SQL
2 551 (37.25%) Python
3 133 (8.99%) Java
4 78 (5.27%) PL/SQL
5 74 (5.00%) T-SQL
6 58 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 49 (3.31%) C#
8 46 (3.11%) Scala
9 43 (2.91%) PowerShell
10 41 (2.77%) JavaScript
11 33 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 30 (2.03%) Bash
13 18 (1.22%) R
14 17 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.95%) Bicep
16 8 (0.54%) Cypher
17 5 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.34%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.27%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 403 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 339 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.60%) Degree
4 38 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.30%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 21 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 21 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.08%) Master's Degree
10 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.47%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.27%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 2 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (35.97%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.45%) QA
3 76 (5.14%) GDPR
4 35 (2.37%) GRC
5 24 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.54%) IFRS
8 8 (0.54%) PMO
8 8 (0.54%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.54%) WCAG
9 6 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.41%) HL7
9 6 (0.41%) SLA
10 5 (0.34%) FATCA
11 4 (0.27%) GAAP
11 4 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.20%) IFRS 17
13 2 (0.14%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 105 (7.10%) Docker
2 11 (0.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.14%) HDFS
6 1 (0.068%) RACF
6 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (1.62%) Grafana
3 17 (1.15%) Ansible
4 14 (0.95%) Control-M
5 10 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Foglight
8 2 (0.14%) Puppet
9 1 (0.068%) Argo
9 1 (0.068%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.068%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.068%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.068%) Kibana
9 1 (0.068%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.068%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.068%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 312 (21.10%) Databricks
2 288 (19.47%) Oracle
3 261 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 117 (7.91%) Informatica
5 99 (6.69%) Talend
6 68 (4.60%) SAP
7 64 (4.33%) Google
8 53 (3.58%) Denodo
9 44 (2.97%) IBM
10 34 (2.30%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.96%) Alteryx
12 25 (1.69%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.28%) Palantir
14 16 (1.08%) Teradata
15 15 (1.01%) Foundry
16 11 (0.74%) Sage
17 10 (0.68%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.68%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.68%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.68%) Workday