ETL Contracts in Scotland

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 99 74
Rank change year-on-year +35 -25 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 54 30 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.32% 1.35% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 1.53% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 24 79
10th Percentile £274 £452 £406
25th Percentile £313 £456 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £486 £490
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% -0.87% -2.00%
75th Percentile £488 £506 £519
90th Percentile £541 £529 £590
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year +6.06% +13.45% +5.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for ETL in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in Scotland

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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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Edinburgh +18 30 £450 -10.00% 20
Glasgow +13 18 £325 -31.58% 21
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (31.48%) Confluence
2 6 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.41%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.70%) Apache
4 2 (3.70%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.85%) GeoServer
Applications
1 8 (14.81%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) AWS
2 16 (29.63%) Azure
3 13 (24.07%) Amazon S3
4 9 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (16.67%) Serverless
5 7 (12.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
5 7 (12.96%) Snowflake
6 5 (9.26%) GitHub
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.56%) GCP
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.70%) SaaS
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (29.63%) Oracle Database
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (12.96%) Power BI
5 5 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.70%) Big Data
8 2 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.70%) PowerCenter
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.85%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.85%) Metadata
9 1 (1.85%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JIRA
2 11 (20.37%) Git
3 10 (18.52%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (16.67%) PVCS
4 9 (16.67%) Subversion
5 6 (11.11%) GitLab
6 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.85%) ER Studio
7 1 (1.85%) Selenium
7 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
4 7 (12.96%) Banking
5 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
6 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 13 (24.07%) Analyst
3 11 (20.37%) Developer
4 10 (18.52%) Oracle Developer
5 8 (14.81%) Data Analyst
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Business Analyst
7 5 (9.26%) Senior
8 3 (5.56%) Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) ETL Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Re-Platforming Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) Java EE
2 6 (11.11%) PySpark
3 2 (3.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.85%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.85%) Pandas
4 1 (1.85%) PostGIS
4 1 (1.85%) React
4 1 (1.85%) Spring
4 1 (1.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.85%) NHS
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 16 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (27.78%) Analytics
3 15 (27.78%) Data Transformation
4 13 (24.07%) Data Migration
4 13 (24.07%) Migration
5 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 11 (20.37%) Translating Business Requirements
7 10 (18.52%) Unit Testing
8 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (16.67%) Data Engineering
8 9 (16.67%) DevOps
8 9 (16.67%) ETL Development
8 9 (16.67%) Technical Analysis
9 8 (14.81%) Business Analysis
10 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
10 7 (12.96%) Data Governance
10 7 (12.96%) Data Integration
10 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 40 (74.07%) SQL
2 17 (31.48%) Python
3 10 (18.52%) Java
3 10 (18.52%) PL/SQL
4 9 (16.67%) C
4 9 (16.67%) ProC
5 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) Degree
2 7 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.96%) QA
3 5 (9.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Grafana
Vendors
1 18 (33.33%) Oracle
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Databricks
4 4 (7.41%) Informatica
5 2 (3.70%) Teradata
6 1 (1.85%) Google
6 1 (1.85%) IBM
6 1 (1.85%) IDERA
6 1 (1.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.85%) Sage
6 1 (1.85%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.85%) TSYS