ETL Development Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring ETL Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 111 134
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 +31
Contract jobs citing ETL Development 5 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.33% 0.19% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.21% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £353 £378 -
25th Percentile - £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year -23.09% +3.44% -21.74%
75th Percentile £469 £520 £463
90th Percentile - £553 -
UK median daily rate £421 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -11.32% +5.56% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

ETL Development 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,300 1,462 2,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 85.70% 91.03% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 864 1,284
10th Percentile £234 £229 £264
25th Percentile £388 £364 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £653 £638 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 44 80
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.30 £11.99
25th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £16.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +12.54%
75th Percentile £29.16 £24.18 £60.19
90th Percentile £61.50 £40.10 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.67% +12.44%

ETL Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ETL Development job vacancy trend in Scotland

ETL Development
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ETL Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ETL Development

ETL Development
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 January 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
Glasgow +3 3 £358 +0.56% 1
Edinburgh 0 2 £463 -19.57%
ETL Development
UK

ETL Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Collibra
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Big Data
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Data Mart
2 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum Master
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (60.00%) Reference Data
1 3 (60.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Burndown Charts
2 3 (60.00%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (60.00%) Data Lineage
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) KYC
2 3 (60.00%) Matrix Organization
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (60.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft