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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 77 96
Rank change year-on-year +13 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,430 755 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.09% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.39% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 520 664
10th Percentile £358 £362 £375
25th Percentile £413 £436 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £35.18 £49.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £44.82 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £78.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +58.99% -1.00%
75th Percentile £69.76 £98.56 £53.25
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +5.74%

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 34,459 22,249 31,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.20% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,987 14,574 20,950
10th Percentile £319 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,148 932 2,245
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.67 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +26 755 £513 -4.56% 176
Midlands +26 239 £468 -1.47% 54
West Midlands +34 207 £465 -9.27% 40
North of England -16 176 £460 -0.54% 76
South East -4 110 £475 -8.12% 83
North West -18 93 £442 -6.89% 41
Yorkshire -29 66 £500 +21.95% 22
South West -22 65 £525 +5.00% 33
East of England -8 43 £500 +1.27% 17
East Midlands -18 31 £485 +15.48% 14
North East -13 16 £525 +16.67% 13
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
1 129 (9.02%) Apache Spark
2 94 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
3 70 (4.90%) SAS
4 66 (4.62%) Apache
5 42 (2.94%) Confluence
6 15 (1.05%) Oracle Application Server
6 15 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.63%) Appian
7 9 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.42%) nginx
10 4 (0.28%) Camunda
10 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.070%) CMS
Applications
1 42 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.28%) Actimize
7 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 589 (41.19%) Azure
2 416 (29.09%) AWS
3 350 (24.48%) Power Platform
4 225 (15.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 163 (11.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 162 (11.33%) GCP
7 128 (8.95%) Amazon S3
8 127 (8.88%) Snowflake
9 120 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
10 108 (7.55%) Serverless
11 95 (6.64%) GitHub
12 84 (5.87%) dbt
13 80 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (3.50%) Collibra
15 38 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (2.24%) Power Automate
18 26 (1.82%) SaaS
19 25 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 21 (1.47%) 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 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.070%) 4G
5 1 (0.070%) 5G
5 1 (0.070%) DSL
5 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (29.65%) Data Warehouse
2 328 (22.94%) Power BI
3 225 (15.73%) Data Lake
4 179 (12.52%) SQL Server
5 144 (10.07%) Metadata
6 100 (6.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.29%) Tableau
8 85 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 84 (5.87%) Delta Lake
10 80 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 75 (5.24%) Pentaho
11 75 (5.24%) Relational Database
12 73 (5.10%) Big Data
13 70 (4.90%) NoSQL
14 62 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
15 58 (4.06%) BigQuery
15 58 (4.06%) Snowflake Schema
16 52 (3.64%) Oracle Reports
17 51 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (3.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 159 (11.12%) Git
2 127 (8.88%) JIRA
3 76 (5.31%) GitLab
4 64 (4.48%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.73%) Postman
6 28 (1.96%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.61%) MLflow
8 19 (1.33%) Selenium
9 10 (0.70%) ERwin
10 7 (0.49%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.35%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
12 4 (0.28%) Gatling
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
13 3 (0.21%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.21%) Flyway
General
1 390 (27.27%) Finance
2 379 (26.50%) Social Skills
3 241 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.27%) Banking
6 31 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.89%) Marketing
8 24 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.54%) Legal
10 21 (1.47%) Retail
11 14 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.91%) Law
13 11 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.70%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.49%) Front Office
16 7 (0.49%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.49%) Military
17 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 586 (40.98%) Data Engineer
2 203 (14.20%) Developer
3 165 (11.54%) Senior
4 157 (10.98%) Lead
5 143 (10.00%) Architect
6 122 (8.53%) Analyst
7 112 (7.83%) Senior Data Engineer
8 82 (5.73%) Data Architect
9 77 (5.38%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 43 (3.01%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (2.38%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (2.31%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (2.31%) Snowflake Engineer
15 30 (2.10%) Lead Data Engineer
15 30 (2.10%) Senior Developer
15 30 (2.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 29 (2.03%) Consultant
17 28 (1.96%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (11.47%) PySpark
2 123 (8.60%) Kafka
3 80 (5.59%) REST
4 41 (2.87%) Pandas
5 38 (2.66%) .NET
6 34 (2.38%) JSON
7 28 (1.96%) XML
8 25 (1.75%) RESTful
9 24 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
10 22 (1.54%) Middleware
11 21 (1.47%) Spring
12 20 (1.40%) NumPy
13 19 (1.33%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.26%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.26%) PyTorch
15 17 (1.19%) OAuth
15 17 (1.19%) YAML
16 16 (1.12%) Web Services
17 15 (1.05%) HTML
17 15 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 129 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 92 (6.43%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (2.73%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.10%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (1.54%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.12%) Clustering
11 16 (1.12%) NHS
12 15 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
13 13 (0.91%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.91%) Low-Code
14 12 (0.84%) Public Cloud
14 12 (0.84%) Reference Data
14 12 (0.84%) Reinsurance
15 10 (0.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.17%) Unix
2 20 (1.40%) Linux
3 15 (1.05%) Windows
4 7 (0.49%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.42%) Solaris
5 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.070%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (48.18%) Data Modelling
2 581 (40.63%) Analytics
3 534 (37.34%) Data Pipeline
4 459 (32.10%) Data Engineering
5 434 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
6 390 (27.27%) CI/CD
7 347 (24.27%) Agile
8 329 (23.01%) Migration
9 324 (22.66%) DevOps
10 312 (21.82%) Data Governance
11 287 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
12 266 (18.60%) Validation
13 219 (15.31%) Data Migration
14 216 (15.10%) AI
15 215 (15.03%) Data Architecture
15 215 (15.03%) Data Integration
16 192 (13.43%) Decision-Making
17 166 (11.61%) Test Automation
18 153 (10.70%) Performance Tuning
19 152 (10.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 962 (67.27%) SQL
2 599 (41.89%) Python
3 126 (8.81%) Java
4 68 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 67 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 62 (4.34%) C#
6 62 (4.34%) T-SQL
7 54 (3.78%) Scala
8 38 (2.66%) JavaScript
9 29 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.40%) R
10 20 (1.40%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.33%) Bash
12 17 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.12%) Bicep
14 9 (0.63%) PHP
15 8 (0.56%) SAS Macro
15 8 (0.56%) VBA
16 6 (0.42%) Go
16 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 357 (24.97%) Security Cleared
2 290 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.80%) Degree
4 48 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.54%) ISTQB
9 16 (1.12%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.77%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.35%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.28%) PMP
14 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) CISA
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (33.29%) Data Quality
2 138 (9.65%) QA
3 101 (7.06%) GDPR
4 23 (1.61%) IFRS
4 23 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.26%) IFRS 17
6 11 (0.77%) PMO
7 10 (0.70%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.70%) SLA
8 8 (0.56%) FATCA
9 6 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.42%) GRC
10 5 (0.35%) GAAP
10 5 (0.35%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.35%) MiFID
11 4 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.28%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.21%) Basel III
System Software
1 114 (7.97%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
3 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.21%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.070%) RACF
6 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (9.37%) Terraform
2 118 (8.25%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.47%) Grafana
4 15 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.98%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) 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
10 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 286 (20.00%) Databricks
2 274 (19.16%) Microsoft
3 246 (17.20%) Oracle
4 137 (9.58%) Informatica
5 113 (7.90%) Talend
6 66 (4.62%) SAP
7 55 (3.85%) Denodo
8 50 (3.50%) Google
9 48 (3.36%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.03%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.89%) IBM
12 24 (1.68%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.26%) Splunk
14 17 (1.19%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.19%) Sage
14 17 (1.19%) Workday
15 13 (0.91%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.84%) Teradata
17 11 (0.77%) Ab Initio
18 10 (0.70%) Cognos