ETL Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 13 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.18% 3.33% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 3.90% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £548 - -
25th Percentile £581 - £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £365
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +91.78% -37.20%
75th Percentile £706 - £373
90th Percentile £733 - -
South East median daily rate £445 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -19.09% -8.33% +23.71%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 142 77 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 84.02% 85.56% 86.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 47 118
10th Percentile £200 £248 £143
25th Percentile £309 £406 £257
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% +17.65% -6.34%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £538
90th Percentile £626 £645 £623
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 26
10th Percentile £15.62 £44.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £16.76 £47.50 £16.15
Median hourly rate £20.18 £55.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.31% +182.05% -25.00%
75th Percentile £25.04 £62.50 £26.00
90th Percentile £26.80 £65.50 £41.88
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £45.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -44.44% -5.26% +5.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

ETL job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Oxfordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing ETL

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 4 February 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
Oxford -3 1 £750 +7.14% 2
ETL
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Semantic Layer
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft