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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 118 125
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing ETL 136 40 55
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.08% 1.16% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 1.30% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 28 42
10th Percentile £358 £357 £380
25th Percentile £406 £402 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% -10.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £500 £591 £638
90th Percentile £550 £668 £669
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £68.07 - -
25th Percentile £70.27 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.36 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.57% - -
75th Percentile £80.27 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £82.36 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -35.42%

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 5,269 3,081 3,820
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.57% 89.20% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,202 1,922 2,304
10th Percentile £276 £226 £258
25th Percentile £420 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.66%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £712 £663 £700
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 600 305 280
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £15.92
25th Percentile £18.09 £15.50 £30.00
Median hourly rate £52.46 £21.90 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +139.55% -61.81% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £71.37
90th Percentile £87.16 £69.65 £77.17
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -22 43 £425 -18.43% 19
West Sussex 0 37 £425 -9.57% 8
Hampshire -8 36 £475 +18.16% 11
Berkshire -9 25 £425 -22.73% 8
Buckinghamshire -22 18 £425 +0.59% 1
Surrey -6 16 £500 +5.26% 14
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 2
Middlesex - 1 £470 -
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 24 (17.65%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (8.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.94%) Confluence
3 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.21%) SAS
5 2 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.94%) NetSuite
1 4 (2.94%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.47%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.74%) BASE24
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.74%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.82%) Azure
2 34 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 32 (23.53%) AWS
4 21 (15.44%) GCP
5 15 (11.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.82%) Snowflake
7 9 (6.62%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.88%) GitHub
9 7 (5.15%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.41%) dbt
11 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.94%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.94%) Fivetran
11 4 (2.94%) Serverless
12 3 (2.21%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.21%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.47%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.47%) Power Automate
13 2 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (39.71%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (25.00%) Power BI
3 32 (23.53%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (19.12%) Oracle ODI
5 12 (8.82%) Big Data
6 9 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (6.62%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.62%) Metadata
7 8 (5.88%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.15%) DataStage
8 7 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.41%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.41%) GIS
9 6 (4.41%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.68%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (3.68%) DynamoDB
10 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.68%) SAP Data Services
10 5 (3.68%) Spatial Data
11 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (10.29%) JIRA
2 8 (5.88%) Git
2 8 (5.88%) GitLab
3 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.21%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 27 (19.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Finance
4 8 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.41%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.94%) Billing
6 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.21%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.47%) Banking
8 2 (1.47%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Advertising
9 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 45 (33.09%) Developer
2 27 (19.85%) Data Engineer
3 20 (14.71%) Senior
4 19 (13.97%) Oracle Developer
5 15 (11.03%) Lead
5 15 (11.03%) Microsoft Engineer
6 12 (8.82%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 12 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Analyst
9 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Architect
10 8 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 8 (5.88%) Data Migration Lead
11 7 (5.15%) Data Analyst
12 6 (4.41%) DataStage Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Lead Architect
13 5 (3.68%) Lead Data Architect
13 5 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.09%) PySpark
2 10 (7.35%) Terraform
3 4 (2.94%) Kafka
4 3 (2.21%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.21%) Spring
4 3 (2.21%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.47%) REST
6 1 (0.74%) JSON
6 1 (0.74%) OAuth
6 1 (0.74%) Pulumi
6 1 (0.74%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.68%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.74%) IoT
4 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.74%) Life Science
4 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
4 1 (0.74%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.74%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.82%) Unix
2 10 (7.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.26%) Data Modelling
2 48 (35.29%) Analytics
3 41 (30.15%) Business Intelligence
3 41 (30.15%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (22.06%) CI/CD
4 30 (22.06%) Lakehouse
5 29 (21.32%) Migration
6 27 (19.85%) Data Engineering
6 27 (19.85%) Data Integration
6 27 (19.85%) Performance Tuning
7 22 (16.18%) AI
8 19 (13.97%) Agile
8 19 (13.97%) Business Analytics
8 19 (13.97%) Data Governance
9 16 (11.76%) Data Migration
10 15 (11.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (9.56%) Data Ingestion
12 13 (9.56%) Runbook
12 13 (9.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 85 (62.50%) SQL
2 31 (22.79%) Python
3 16 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 14 (10.29%) PL/SQL
5 8 (5.88%) Bash
5 8 (5.88%) Java
6 4 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.47%) Scala
8 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) Groovy
9 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.74%) VB
9 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 38 (27.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.21%) Degree
3 3 (2.21%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.47%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.56%) QA
3 6 (4.41%) GDPR
4 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 9 (6.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (30.15%) Oracle
2 30 (22.06%) Microsoft
3 26 (19.12%) Databricks
4 13 (9.56%) SAP
5 7 (5.15%) IBM
6 5 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.94%) Google
7 4 (2.94%) Informatica
7 4 (2.94%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.94%) Sage
7 4 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.21%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.47%) Denodo
9 2 (1.47%) Talend
9 2 (1.47%) Teradata
10 1 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.74%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.74%) Fiserv
10 1 (0.74%) Foundry
10 1 (0.74%) Palantir