ETL Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 83 94
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -29
Contract jobs citing ETL 38 32 51
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.37% 1.71% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 1.98% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 43
10th Percentile £366 £431 £403
25th Percentile £429 £453 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.50% +2.04%
75th Percentile £537 £499 £544
90th Percentile £555 £500 £589
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -1.48% -3.33% -

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 1,458 1,615 2,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 90.95% 86.13% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 963 1,375
10th Percentile £263 £205 £250
25th Percentile £399 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £555
90th Percentile £613 £661 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 47 53
10th Percentile £16.57 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.07 £13.16
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +3.49% -2.30%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.40
90th Percentile £38.00 £43.12 £77.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.49% -0.55% +44.07%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Scotland

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ETL

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ETL

ETL
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 3 October 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
Glasgow -4 20 £475 +5.56% 8
Edinburgh +12 17 £463 -7.50% 4
ETL
UK

ETL
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 13 (34.21%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (28.95%) Apache
3 7 (18.42%) Apache Spark
4 6 (15.79%) Confluence
5 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) AWS
2 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) Snowflake
3 9 (23.68%) Amazon S3
4 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.53%) Serverless
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.89%) GCP
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (5.26%) Dagster
7 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (44.74%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (21.05%) Power BI
3 6 (15.79%) Hadoop
4 5 (13.16%) Big Data
5 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 4 (10.53%) SQL Server
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (7.89%) Data Lake
6 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.26%) Data Mart
7 2 (5.26%) Metadata
7 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
8 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (2.63%) DB2
8 1 (2.63%) Delta Lake
8 1 (2.63%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
2 5 (13.16%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) MLflow
4 1 (2.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (39.47%) Finance
2 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.68%) Banking
4 6 (15.79%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Data Engineer
2 10 (26.32%) Python Engineer
3 9 (23.68%) Analyst
4 8 (21.05%) Python Data Engineer
5 7 (18.42%) Senior
5 7 (18.42%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (13.16%) Business Analyst
7 4 (10.53%) Data Analyst
8 3 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Informatica Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Lead
9 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (5.26%) Snowflake Engineer
10 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
10 1 (2.63%) Business Data Analyst
10 1 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 1 (2.63%) ETL Analyst
10 1 (2.63%) Open Source Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) Pandas
1 7 (18.42%) REST
2 6 (15.79%) NumPy
2 6 (15.79%) PySpark
3 5 (13.16%) boto
3 5 (13.16%) Hugging Face
3 5 (13.16%) OpenCV
3 5 (13.16%) PyTorch
3 5 (13.16%) SQLAlchemy
4 4 (10.53%) RESTful
5 3 (7.89%) AWS CDK
5 3 (7.89%) FastAPI
5 3 (7.89%) JWT
5 3 (7.89%) OAuth
6 1 (2.63%) Great Expectations
6 1 (2.63%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Structures
2 4 (10.53%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 16 (42.11%) Data Modelling
3 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (26.32%) Analytics
4 10 (26.32%) Data Cleansing
5 9 (23.68%) Data Engineering
5 9 (23.68%) Data Integration
6 8 (21.05%) Data Management
6 8 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (21.05%) Migration
7 7 (18.42%) API Integration
7 7 (18.42%) CI/CD
7 7 (18.42%) Data Migration
7 7 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (18.42%) Visualisation
8 6 (15.79%) Data Governance
8 6 (15.79%) Data Transformation
8 6 (15.79%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (60.53%) Python
2 17 (44.74%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.63%) R
4 1 (2.63%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.53%) Accessibility
2 4 (10.53%) QA
3 3 (7.89%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (7.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Grafana
2 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (28.95%) Databricks
2 5 (13.16%) Informatica
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.26%) Teradata
5 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.63%) Google
5 1 (2.63%) Greenplum
5 1 (2.63%) IBM
5 1 (2.63%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.63%) Talend
5 1 (2.63%) TSYS