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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 80 90
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,395 758 880
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 3.11% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 3.42% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 514 680
10th Percentile £362 £351 £376
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 16
10th Percentile £34.90 £39.75 £29.06
25th Percentile £40.39 £53.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.92 £70.60 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% +42.63% +24.14%
75th Percentile £73.37 £98.08 £55.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +39.31%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £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 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +29 762 £513 -6.82% 193
Midlands +18 222 £474 -0.26% 75
West Midlands +25 190 £480 -2.64% 48
North of England -23 169 £460 +0.82% 101
North West -4 90 £442 -5.50% 55
South East -30 86 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -11 68 £525 +5.00% 53
Yorkshire -31 63 £500 +42.86% 31
East of England -7 44 £510 +10.27% 52
East Midlands -21 32 £460 +12.20% 27
North East -10 15 £538 +13.16% 16
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 (9.10%) Apache Spark
2 98 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (5.23%) SAS
4 72 (5.16%) Apache
5 30 (2.15%) Confluence
6 14 (1.00%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.65%) Appian
7 9 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
7 9 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 7 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 7 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.43%) nginx
9 6 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.29%) Camunda
12 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.14%) CMS
Applications
1 45 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.36%) Notepad++
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.36%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.36%) Maximo
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 579 (41.51%) Azure
2 419 (30.04%) AWS
3 349 (25.02%) Power Platform
4 225 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 164 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 160 (11.47%) GCP
7 141 (10.11%) Snowflake
8 136 (9.75%) Amazon S3
9 114 (8.17%) Serverless
10 105 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
11 101 (7.24%) GitHub
12 84 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
12 84 (6.02%) dbt
13 48 (3.44%) Collibra
14 45 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
16 34 (2.44%) SaaS
17 30 (2.15%) Power Automate
18 24 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 24 (1.72%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.50%) 5G
1 7 (0.50%) Firewall
2 6 (0.43%) 2G
2 6 (0.43%) 4G
2 6 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (0.36%) PuTTY
3 5 (0.36%) VPN
3 5 (0.36%) WinSCP
4 4 (0.29%) HTTP
5 2 (0.14%) DSL
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.072%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (29.82%) Data Warehouse
2 327 (23.44%) Power BI
3 213 (15.27%) Data Lake
4 176 (12.62%) SQL Server
5 140 (10.04%) Metadata
6 98 (7.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 90 (6.45%) Tableau
8 83 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 82 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
10 79 (5.66%) Delta Lake
11 78 (5.59%) Relational Database
12 74 (5.30%) Pentaho
13 68 (4.87%) Big Data
13 68 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
14 66 (4.73%) NoSQL
15 63 (4.52%) Snowflake Schema
16 54 (3.87%) BigQuery
17 53 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
18 48 (3.44%) Star Schema
19 45 (3.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 162 (11.61%) Git
2 116 (8.32%) JIRA
3 75 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 63 (4.52%) GitLab
5 30 (2.15%) Postman
6 22 (1.58%) MLflow
7 17 (1.22%) Zephyr
8 12 (0.86%) ERwin
8 12 (0.86%) Selenium
9 7 (0.50%) JMeter
9 7 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.36%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.36%) TestRail
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.29%) Toad
11 4 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 401 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 378 (27.10%) Finance
3 242 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 101 (7.24%) Banking
6 29 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 22 (1.58%) Marketing
8 22 (1.58%) Telecoms
9 21 (1.51%) Legal
10 20 (1.43%) Retail
11 18 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.08%) Law
12 15 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.50%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.43%) Front Office
15 6 (0.43%) Military
15 6 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 575 (41.22%) Data Engineer
2 190 (13.62%) Developer
3 159 (11.40%) Senior
4 149 (10.68%) Lead
5 130 (9.32%) Architect
6 122 (8.75%) Analyst
7 106 (7.60%) Senior Data Engineer
8 83 (5.95%) Data Analyst
9 73 (5.23%) Data Architect
10 47 (3.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
12 39 (2.80%) Snowflake Engineer
13 37 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
14 34 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
14 34 (2.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 33 (2.37%) Azure Data Engineer
16 31 (2.22%) AWS Data Engineer
17 30 (2.15%) Consultant
18 29 (2.08%) Senior Developer
19 26 (1.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (11.11%) PySpark
2 135 (9.68%) Kafka
3 84 (6.02%) REST
4 44 (3.15%) Pandas
5 35 (2.51%) JSON
6 34 (2.44%) XML
7 33 (2.37%) .NET
8 27 (1.94%) RESTful
9 24 (1.72%) NumPy
10 22 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.51%) Middleware
12 20 (1.43%) Great Expectations
13 18 (1.29%) OAuth
13 18 (1.29%) PyTorch
14 17 (1.22%) Spring
14 17 (1.22%) YAML
15 16 (1.15%) pytest
15 16 (1.15%) Web Services
16 15 (1.08%) scikit-learn
16 15 (1.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.24%) Cloud Native
2 96 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 72 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
4 35 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 30 (2.15%) Distributed Computing
5 30 (2.15%) Product Ownership
6 23 (1.65%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.08%) IoT
9 15 (1.08%) NHS
10 14 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.00%) Clustering
11 13 (0.93%) Low-Code
11 13 (0.93%) Reference Data
12 12 (0.86%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 12 (0.86%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.08%) Unix
2 19 (1.36%) Linux
3 13 (0.93%) Windows
4 7 (0.50%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.43%) Solaris
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.29%) VMS
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (48.60%) Data Modelling
2 594 (42.58%) Analytics
3 528 (37.85%) Data Pipeline
4 464 (33.26%) Data Engineering
5 447 (32.04%) Business Intelligence
6 399 (28.60%) CI/CD
7 332 (23.80%) Agile
8 325 (23.30%) Data Governance
9 311 (22.29%) DevOps
10 296 (21.22%) Migration
11 292 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
12 253 (18.14%) Validation
13 224 (16.06%) Data Integration
14 221 (15.84%) Data Architecture
15 197 (14.12%) Data Migration
16 194 (13.91%) AI
17 189 (13.55%) Decision-Making
18 155 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
19 153 (10.97%) Test Automation
20 145 (10.39%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 956 (68.53%) SQL
2 616 (44.16%) Python
3 116 (8.32%) Java
4 66 (4.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 64 (4.59%) C#
6 58 (4.16%) PL/SQL
7 56 (4.01%) T-SQL
8 51 (3.66%) Scala
9 33 (2.37%) JavaScript
10 30 (2.15%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.36%) R
13 18 (1.29%) Bash
14 17 (1.22%) Bicep
14 17 (1.22%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.72%) Go
16 9 (0.65%) PHP
17 8 (0.57%) SAS Macro
17 8 (0.57%) VBA
18 6 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 331 (23.73%) Security Cleared
2 260 (18.64%) SC Cleared
3 87 (6.24%) Degree
4 53 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 27 (1.94%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.29%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.86%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.29%) PMP
15 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.14%) CISSP
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (34.77%) Data Quality
2 129 (9.25%) QA
3 107 (7.67%) GDPR
4 22 (1.58%) IFRS
5 20 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.22%) IFRS 17
7 14 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.86%) PMO
9 9 (0.65%) SLA
10 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.36%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.29%) MiFID
13 3 (0.22%) GMP
13 3 (0.22%) HL7
13 3 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 129 (9.25%) Docker
2 6 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
3 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.29%) HDFS
4 4 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.072%) RACF
6 1 (0.072%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 134 (9.61%) Kubernetes
1 134 (9.61%) Terraform
2 19 (1.36%) Grafana
3 17 (1.22%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.79%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.22%) Foglight
8 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.14%) Kibana
8 2 (0.14%) logstash
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.072%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.072%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.072%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.072%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 282 (20.22%) Databricks
2 257 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 219 (15.70%) Oracle
4 127 (9.10%) Informatica
5 112 (8.03%) Talend
6 65 (4.66%) SAP
7 59 (4.23%) Denodo
8 48 (3.44%) Google
8 48 (3.44%) ServiceNow
9 27 (1.94%) Salesforce
10 25 (1.79%) IBM
11 24 (1.72%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.36%) Workday
13 18 (1.29%) Splunk
14 16 (1.15%) Sage
15 14 (1.00%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.93%) Ab Initio
17 12 (0.86%) Palantir
18 11 (0.79%) OpenAI
19 10 (0.72%) Teradata