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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 77 103
Rank change year-on-year -6 +26 -2
Contract jobs citing ETL 942 833 845
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.98% 2.89% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 3.26% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 695 540 658
10th Percentile £358 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £691 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 15
10th Percentile £32.50 £26.25 £44.32
25th Percentile £35.63 £28.44 £49.63
Median hourly rate £43.50 £46.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% -23.14% +70.42%
75th Percentile £72.49 £87.67 £64.77
90th Percentile £79.00 £102.00 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £38.75 £60.50
% change year-on-year +12.26% -35.95% +70.42%

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 28,018 25,529 32,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.67% 88.68% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,807 15,764 21,976
10th Percentile £300 £312 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 837 1,391
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +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 24 December 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 24 December 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 24 December 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 +11 562 £525 - 273
Midlands -5 124 £515 +7.97% 99
North of England -46 103 £450 - 144
West Midlands +5 99 £520 +5.48% 53
North West -19 57 £450 +4.65% 76
South West +3 53 £538 -6.52% 70
South East -42 46 £425 -22.73% 171
Yorkshire -40 37 £472 +4.78% 49
East Midlands -5 25 £442 +17.93% 42
East of England -7 21 £575 +4.55% 80
North East -10 8 £450 -7.22% 19
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 (9.66%) Apache Spark
2 82 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (7.01%) Apache
4 47 (4.99%) SAS
5 15 (1.59%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.17%) Confluence
7 8 (0.85%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.53%) IIS
9 3 (0.32%) Luigi
9 3 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.11%) Appian
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 52 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.32%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.32%) Trello
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.85%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.74%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.64%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.53%) Maximo
6 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.32%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.21%) Eagle PACE
8 2 (0.21%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 377 (40.02%) Azure
2 285 (30.25%) AWS
3 207 (21.97%) Power Platform
4 135 (14.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 135 (14.33%) GCP
5 128 (13.59%) Snowflake
6 96 (10.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 90 (9.55%) Amazon S3
8 80 (8.49%) Serverless
9 59 (6.26%) GitHub
10 56 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
11 55 (5.84%) dbt
12 30 (3.18%) SaaS
13 27 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (2.65%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (2.23%) Azure Logic Apps
17 19 (2.02%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (2.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.64%) 2G
1 6 (0.64%) 5G
1 6 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.53%) 4G
3 4 (0.42%) DNS
4 3 (0.32%) SSH
4 3 (0.32%) SSL
4 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.21%) BGP
5 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.21%) DSL
5 2 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.21%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.21%) Internet
5 2 (0.21%) OSPF
5 2 (0.21%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.11%) Firewall
6 1 (0.11%) Multicast
6 1 (0.11%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (30.57%) Data Warehouse
2 194 (20.59%) Power BI
3 135 (14.33%) Data Lake
4 103 (10.93%) SQL Server
5 84 (8.92%) Metadata
6 77 (8.17%) Relational Database
7 69 (7.32%) Big Data
8 67 (7.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 66 (7.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 63 (6.69%) Tableau
11 60 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (5.84%) BigQuery
13 45 (4.78%) Pentaho
14 44 (4.67%) Delta Lake
15 41 (4.35%) NoSQL
16 39 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (4.03%) Snowflake Schema
18 35 (3.72%) Oracle Database
19 31 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
19 31 (3.29%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 118 (12.53%) Git
2 73 (7.75%) JIRA
3 65 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.65%) GitLab
5 15 (1.59%) Postman
6 14 (1.49%) Selenium
7 12 (1.27%) ERwin
7 12 (1.27%) MLflow
8 7 (0.74%) DBeaver
8 7 (0.74%) REST Assured
8 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.74%) TestRail
9 6 (0.64%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.64%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.42%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.42%) Toad
10 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.32%) Poetry
11 3 (0.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 292 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 238 (25.27%) Finance
3 170 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 66 (7.01%) Banking
6 18 (1.91%) Retail
7 16 (1.70%) Marketing
7 16 (1.70%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (1.38%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.17%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.06%) Legal
13 9 (0.96%) Law
14 8 (0.85%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.85%) Local Government
14 8 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.85%) Publishing
15 7 (0.74%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 321 (34.08%) Data Engineer
2 147 (15.61%) Developer
3 103 (10.93%) Analyst
4 99 (10.51%) Lead
5 96 (10.19%) Senior
6 90 (9.55%) Architect
7 68 (7.22%) Data Analyst
8 50 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 48 (5.10%) Data Architect
10 40 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (3.82%) Azure Data Engineer
12 31 (3.29%) Business Analyst
13 30 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 29 (3.08%) Consultant
15 26 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
16 23 (2.44%) Senior Developer
17 20 (2.12%) Snowflake Engineer
18 19 (2.02%) AWS Data Engineer
19 18 (1.91%) Lead Data Engineer
19 18 (1.91%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (10.08%) PySpark
2 79 (8.39%) Kafka
3 42 (4.46%) REST
4 38 (4.03%) XML
5 27 (2.87%) JSON
6 26 (2.76%) Node.js
7 23 (2.44%) Pandas
8 21 (2.23%) RESTful
9 18 (1.91%) .NET
9 18 (1.91%) NumPy
10 14 (1.49%) OAuth
11 12 (1.27%) Keycloak
12 11 (1.17%) React
13 10 (1.06%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.06%) Great Expectations
13 10 (1.06%) Middleware
13 10 (1.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
13 10 (1.06%) pytest
14 9 (0.96%) PyTorch
14 9 (0.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (7.64%) Cloud Native
2 58 (6.16%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 22 (2.34%) Algorithms
6 19 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
7 16 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 14 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.49%) Replication
9 13 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 12 (1.27%) IoT
11 11 (1.17%) Data Centre
12 10 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.96%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.85%) Data Fabric
14 8 (0.85%) Fixed Income
14 8 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.55%) Linux
2 10 (1.06%) Unix
3 7 (0.74%) Windows
4 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (44.27%) Data Modelling
2 380 (40.34%) Analytics
3 353 (37.47%) Data Pipeline
4 298 (31.63%) Business Intelligence
5 279 (29.62%) Data Engineering
6 253 (26.86%) CI/CD
7 238 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
8 230 (24.42%) Agile
9 225 (23.89%) Data Governance
10 216 (22.93%) DevOps
11 200 (21.23%) Migration
12 172 (18.26%) Data Integration
13 154 (16.35%) Data Architecture
14 141 (14.97%) Data Migration
15 126 (13.38%) Validation
16 115 (12.21%) Data Science
17 114 (12.10%) Data Transformation
18 107 (11.36%) Visualisation
19 102 (10.83%) Machine Learning
20 96 (10.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 606 (64.33%) SQL
2 450 (47.77%) Python
3 81 (8.60%) Java
4 43 (4.56%) Scala
5 39 (4.14%) C#
6 35 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 31 (3.29%) PL/SQL
8 30 (3.18%) T-SQL
9 27 (2.87%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.70%) Go
10 16 (1.70%) R
11 15 (1.59%) PHP
12 14 (1.49%) Bash
12 14 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.49%) VBA
13 10 (1.06%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.96%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.74%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.74%) Bicep
16 6 (0.64%) Korn
Qualifications
1 167 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 128 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.01%) Degree
4 42 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (3.72%) Azure Certification
6 31 (3.29%) AWS Certification
7 18 (1.91%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.53%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.53%) PMP
12 4 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.32%) CISSP
13 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.32%) MCP
14 1 (0.11%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.11%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 295 (31.32%) Data Quality
2 69 (7.32%) GDPR
3 68 (7.22%) QA
4 15 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.96%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.64%) IFRS
8 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.42%) MiFID
9 4 (0.42%) SLA
9 4 (0.42%) WCAG
10 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.32%) PMO
11 2 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.21%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.21%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.21%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 109 (11.57%) Docker
2 5 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.53%) zsh
3 4 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.21%) KVM
5 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 100 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 80 (8.49%) Terraform
3 10 (1.06%) Ansible
4 9 (0.96%) Grafana
5 6 (0.64%) Kibana
5 6 (0.64%) logstash
6 5 (0.53%) Control-M
6 5 (0.53%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.32%) Argo
8 3 (0.32%) Istio
8 3 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.11%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.11%) Puppet
10 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 185 (19.64%) Databricks
2 150 (15.92%) Microsoft
3 120 (12.74%) Oracle
4 65 (6.90%) Talend
5 57 (6.05%) Informatica
6 45 (4.78%) Google
7 43 (4.56%) SAP
8 37 (3.93%) Denodo
9 29 (3.08%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.80%) IBM
11 15 (1.59%) MuleSoft
12 14 (1.49%) Palantir
12 14 (1.49%) ServiceNow
13 11 (1.17%) Foundry
14 9 (0.96%) VMware
15 8 (0.85%) Ab Initio
15 8 (0.85%) Cognos
16 7 (0.74%) Workday
17 6 (0.64%) Alteryx
17 6 (0.64%) Teradata