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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 80 97
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,445 755 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.11% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.18% 3.41% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,081 516 661
10th Percentile £358 £360 £375
25th Percentile £413 £434 £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 £701 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £525
% change year-on-year -0.89% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £35.18 £51.25 £28.54
25th Percentile £44.82 £58.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £57.25 £84.56 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.29% +70.82% -1.00%
75th Percentile £69.76 £99.42 £53.25
90th Percentile £78.17 £102.00 £63.70
UK median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.48% +16.16% +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 34,571 22,170 31,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.83% 91.23% 86.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,077 14,511 20,880
10th Percentile £319 £308 £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 £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,146 929 2,248
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.50 £12.91
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.65 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.47% -20.36% -2.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.40 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +21 765 £513 -4.56% 162
Midlands +26 241 £469 -1.26% 39
West Midlands +31 211 £468 -7.56% 29
North of England -22 174 £460 -0.54% 68
South East -12 115 £475 -8.12% 63
North West -15 93 £447 -8.31% 37
South West -20 64 £525 +7.69% 24
Yorkshire -23 64 £500 +21.95% 21
East of England -14 43 £500 +1.27% 9
East Midlands -23 29 £505 +20.24% 10
North East -11 16 £525 +20.69% 10
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
1 127 (8.79%) Apache Spark
2 96 (6.64%) Apache Airflow
3 71 (4.91%) SAS
4 66 (4.57%) Apache
5 42 (2.91%) Confluence
6 16 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 15 (1.04%) Oracle Application Server
8 9 (0.62%) Appian
8 9 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
9 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.48%) nginx
10 7 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.28%) Camunda
12 4 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.21%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
15 1 (0.069%) CMS
Applications
1 41 (2.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Notepad++
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 9 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
5 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.35%) Actimize
7 5 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.35%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.21%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
10 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 595 (41.18%) Azure
2 421 (29.13%) AWS
3 350 (24.22%) Power Platform
4 223 (15.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 165 (11.42%) GCP
6 161 (11.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 129 (8.93%) Snowflake
8 126 (8.72%) Amazon S3
9 123 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
10 106 (7.34%) Serverless
11 96 (6.64%) GitHub
12 85 (5.88%) dbt
13 78 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
14 50 (3.46%) Collibra
15 40 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (2.28%) Power Automate
18 27 (1.87%) SaaS
19 25 (1.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 21 (1.45%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.76%) 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 (0.069%) 4G
5 1 (0.069%) 5G
5 1 (0.069%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.069%) DHCP
5 1 (0.069%) DNS
5 1 (0.069%) DSL
5 1 (0.069%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.069%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (29.48%) Data Warehouse
2 327 (22.63%) Power BI
3 224 (15.50%) Data Lake
4 179 (12.39%) SQL Server
5 143 (9.90%) Metadata
6 100 (6.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.23%) Tableau
8 86 (5.95%) Delta Lake
9 85 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 79 (5.47%) Pentaho
11 78 (5.40%) Amazon Redshift
12 75 (5.19%) Relational Database
13 74 (5.12%) Big Data
14 69 (4.78%) NoSQL
15 63 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
16 59 (4.08%) BigQuery
16 59 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
17 53 (3.67%) Oracle Reports
18 51 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (3.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 160 (11.07%) Git
2 127 (8.79%) JIRA
3 80 (5.54%) GitLab
4 64 (4.43%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.70%) Postman
6 28 (1.94%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.59%) MLflow
8 19 (1.31%) Selenium
9 9 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.48%) JMeter
10 7 (0.48%) 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%) Visual Studio
General
1 396 (27.40%) Finance
2 376 (26.02%) Social Skills
3 240 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.20%) Banking
6 31 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.87%) Marketing
8 24 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.52%) Legal
10 21 (1.45%) Retail
11 15 (1.04%) Telecoms
12 14 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 13 (0.90%) Law
14 11 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.48%) Front Office
17 7 (0.48%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.48%) Military
18 6 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 597 (41.31%) Data Engineer
2 201 (13.91%) Developer
3 167 (11.56%) Senior
4 159 (11.00%) Lead
5 143 (9.90%) Architect
6 120 (8.30%) Analyst
7 115 (7.96%) Senior Data Engineer
8 81 (5.61%) Data Architect
9 75 (5.19%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
12 37 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
13 34 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
13 34 (2.35%) Snowflake Engineer
14 33 (2.28%) AWS Data Engineer
15 30 (2.08%) Data Migration Lead
15 30 (2.08%) Lead Data Engineer
15 30 (2.08%) Senior Developer
15 30 (2.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 29 (2.01%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (11.42%) PySpark
2 123 (8.51%) Kafka
3 81 (5.61%) REST
4 41 (2.84%) Pandas
5 39 (2.70%) .NET
6 33 (2.28%) JSON
7 26 (1.80%) XML
8 25 (1.73%) RESTful
9 24 (1.66%) Middleware
10 23 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
10 23 (1.59%) Spring
11 20 (1.38%) NumPy
11 20 (1.38%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.31%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.25%) Great Expectations
13 18 (1.25%) OAuth
13 18 (1.25%) YAML
14 16 (1.11%) OpenID
14 16 (1.11%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.86%) Cloud Native
2 94 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 76 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.63%) Onboarding
5 31 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
5 31 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 22 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
6 22 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (1.11%) AI Agents
9 16 (1.11%) Clustering
10 15 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
12 13 (0.90%) Low-Code
12 13 (0.90%) NHS
12 13 (0.90%) Reference Data
13 12 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 12 (0.83%) Reinsurance
14 10 (0.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.15%) Unix
2 23 (1.59%) Linux
3 16 (1.11%) Windows
4 8 (0.55%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.48%) Solaris
5 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.28%) VMS
8 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.069%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 690 (47.75%) Data Modelling
2 580 (40.14%) Analytics
3 537 (37.16%) Data Pipeline
4 461 (31.90%) Data Engineering
5 432 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
6 395 (27.34%) CI/CD
7 346 (23.94%) Agile
8 334 (23.11%) Migration
9 324 (22.42%) DevOps
10 309 (21.38%) Data Governance
11 291 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
12 272 (18.82%) Validation
13 224 (15.50%) AI
14 223 (15.43%) Data Migration
15 218 (15.09%) Data Integration
16 213 (14.74%) Data Architecture
17 195 (13.49%) Decision-Making
18 168 (11.63%) Test Automation
19 155 (10.73%) Performance Tuning
20 150 (10.38%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 980 (67.82%) SQL
2 605 (41.87%) Python
3 129 (8.93%) Java
4 71 (4.91%) PL/SQL
5 67 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 65 (4.50%) T-SQL
7 63 (4.36%) C#
8 56 (3.88%) Scala
9 40 (2.77%) JavaScript
10 28 (1.94%) PowerShell
11 21 (1.45%) Bash
12 20 (1.38%) R
12 20 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.11%) Bicep
15 9 (0.62%) PHP
16 8 (0.55%) SAS Macro
16 8 (0.55%) VBA
17 6 (0.42%) Kotlin
18 5 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 358 (24.78%) Security Cleared
2 292 (20.21%) SC Cleared
3 83 (5.74%) Degree
4 48 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 16 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.42%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.28%) PMP
13 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.14%) CISA
14 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 476 (32.94%) Data Quality
2 139 (9.62%) QA
3 100 (6.92%) GDPR
4 23 (1.59%) IFRS
4 23 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.25%) IFRS 17
6 11 (0.76%) PMO
7 10 (0.69%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.69%) SLA
8 8 (0.55%) 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%) NIST
System Software
1 112 (7.75%) Docker
2 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.35%) HDFS
4 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.069%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.069%) RACF
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (9.20%) Terraform
2 119 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.45%) Grafana
4 15 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 13 (0.90%) 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 (0.069%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.069%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.069%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.069%) Kibana
10 1 (0.069%) logstash
10 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 285 (19.72%) Databricks
2 279 (19.31%) Microsoft
3 252 (17.44%) Oracle
4 140 (9.69%) Informatica
5 117 (8.10%) Talend
6 67 (4.64%) SAP
7 57 (3.94%) Denodo
8 50 (3.46%) Google
9 48 (3.32%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.01%) Salesforce
11 27 (1.87%) IBM
12 25 (1.73%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.25%) Splunk
14 17 (1.18%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.18%) Sage
14 17 (1.18%) Workday
15 13 (0.90%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.76%) Teradata
17 10 (0.69%) Cognos
18 9 (0.62%) Ab Initio