ETL Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -39 - -
Contract jobs citing ETL 15 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 2.08% 1.95% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 2.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £372 - -
25th Percentile £453 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £499 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% - -
75th Percentile £519 £690 -
90th Percentile £544 £738 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £472 £450 -
% change year-on-year +4.78% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 689 283 372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 95.56% 91.88% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 161 235
10th Percentile £317 £220 £385
25th Percentile £400 £421 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £650
90th Percentile £620 £675 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £515 £539
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.41% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £19.10
25th Percentile £14.71 £14.35 £20.00
Median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £25.15 £20.38 £23.75
90th Percentile - £21.05 £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £20.08 £18.10 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -19.58% +52.54%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Sheffield

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ETL

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Sheffield over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Sheffield

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.67%) IIS
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) GCP
3 8 (53.33%) AWS
4 6 (40.00%) SaaS
5 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (13.33%) Collibra
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (6.67%) GitHub
7 1 (6.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) MySQL
1 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (20.00%) DataStage
2 3 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) DB2
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
4 1 (6.67%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (6.67%) OLTP
4 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 6 (40.00%) Postman
2 6 (40.00%) Selenium
3 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 5 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 5 (33.33%) TestRail
4 1 (6.67%) Git
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Maven
4 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Lead
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Test Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Lead Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.67%) ETL Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) NetSuite Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Scala Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Scala Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) REST
2 6 (40.00%) LDAP
2 6 (40.00%) OpenID
2 6 (40.00%) SailPoint
3 5 (33.33%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) Middleware
4 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
1 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
2 6 (40.00%) API Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
2 6 (40.00%) GitOps
2 6 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
2 6 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (33.33%) BDD
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 5 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 5 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (33.33%) TDD
3 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) PHP
4 3 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (13.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) Informatica
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Palantir
4 1 (6.67%) Talend