ETL Contract Job Trends in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 120 110
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 131 44 72
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.00% 1.24% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.39% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 30 52
10th Percentile £358 £310 £383
25th Percentile £413 £385 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £500 £628 £638
90th Percentile £550 £738 £658
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £68.07 - -
25th Percentile £70.27 - -
Median hourly rate £75.36 - -
75th Percentile £80.27 - -
90th Percentile £82.36 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,289 3,171 3,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.66% 89.07% 82.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,117 1,978 2,202
10th Percentile £275 £216 £255
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 655 317 211
10th Percentile £13.44 £13.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.33 £16.17 £30.21
Median hourly rate £47.54 £22.19 £58.38
Median % change year-on-year +114.24% -61.99% +9.11%
75th Percentile £69.79 £48.75 £70.84
90th Percentile £87.96 £69.11 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the South East over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in the South East over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 October 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
Thames Valley -24 41 £425 -15.00% 60
West Sussex +4 38 £425 -32.00% 11
Hampshire -13 31 £475 +18.16% 7
Berkshire -12 24 £433 -16.99% 28
Surrey -5 18 £500 +5.26% 17
Buckinghamshire -16 17 £413 +12.24% 21
Middlesex - 1 £470 -
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 1
ETL
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 20 (15.27%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.05%) Confluence
5 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.76%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.05%) NetSuite
1 4 (3.05%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.53%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.76%) BASE24
3 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.76%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (35.88%) Azure
2 37 (28.24%) Power Platform
3 28 (21.37%) AWS
4 20 (15.27%) GCP
5 16 (12.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.40%) Snowflake
7 8 (6.11%) GitHub
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.82%) dbt
11 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.05%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (3.05%) Fivetran
11 4 (3.05%) Serverless
12 3 (2.29%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
13 2 (1.53%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (1.53%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.53%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (36.64%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (27.48%) Power BI
3 29 (22.14%) Oracle Reports
4 21 (16.03%) Oracle ODI
5 10 (7.63%) Big Data
5 10 (7.63%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.87%) Metadata
7 7 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.34%) DataStage
7 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
8 6 (4.58%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.58%) BusinessObjects
8 6 (4.58%) GIS
8 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.58%) SAP Data Services
9 5 (3.82%) Spatial Data
9 5 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.29%) Oracle Database
10 3 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (10.69%) JIRA
2 7 (5.34%) GitLab
3 6 (4.58%) Git
4 5 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.29%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.76%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.76%) Postman
General
1 25 (19.08%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.40%) Finance
4 8 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.05%) Billing
6 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.29%) Legal
7 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Developer
2 28 (21.37%) Data Engineer
3 18 (13.74%) Senior
4 17 (12.98%) Oracle Developer
5 15 (11.45%) Lead
5 15 (11.45%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
7 11 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Analyst
8 9 (6.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (6.11%) Architect
9 8 (6.11%) Data Architect
9 8 (6.11%) Data Migration Lead
10 6 (4.58%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) DataStage Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Data Migration Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Lead Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Lead Data Architect
11 5 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.63%) Terraform
2 9 (6.87%) PySpark
3 3 (2.29%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.53%) Kafka
4 2 (1.53%) REST
4 2 (1.53%) Spring
4 2 (1.53%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.76%) JSON
5 1 (0.76%) OAuth
5 1 (0.76%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.53%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.76%) AS400
5 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Life Science
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) Media Streaming
5 1 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Unix
2 10 (7.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Data Modelling
2 44 (33.59%) Analytics
2 44 (33.59%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (31.30%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (22.14%) Lakehouse
5 28 (21.37%) CI/CD
6 26 (19.85%) Data Engineering
6 26 (19.85%) Migration
7 25 (19.08%) Data Integration
8 23 (17.56%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (16.79%) AI
10 21 (16.03%) Agile
11 17 (12.98%) Business Analytics
11 17 (12.98%) Data Governance
12 15 (11.45%) Data Migration
12 15 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (10.69%) Test Automation
14 13 (9.92%) DevOps
14 13 (9.92%) Machine Learning
14 13 (9.92%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 83 (63.36%) SQL
2 30 (22.90%) Python
3 16 (12.21%) T-SQL
4 13 (9.92%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.34%) Bash
6 6 (4.58%) Java
7 4 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.76%) Bicep
9 1 (0.76%) C#
9 1 (0.76%) Groovy
9 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.76%) Scala
9 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 43 (32.82%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.72%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.29%) Degree
3 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.37%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.45%) QA
3 6 (4.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (6.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.53%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
Vendors
1 37 (28.24%) Oracle
2 33 (25.19%) Microsoft
3 28 (21.37%) Databricks
4 13 (9.92%) SAP
5 7 (5.34%) IBM
6 5 (3.82%) Informatica
6 5 (3.82%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.05%) Google
7 4 (3.05%) PagerDuty
7 4 (3.05%) Sage
7 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.29%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.53%) Denodo
9 2 (1.53%) Talend
9 2 (1.53%) Teradata
10 1 (0.76%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.76%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.76%) ESRI
10 1 (0.76%) Fiserv