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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 79 155
Rank change year-on-year -50 +76 -41
Contract jobs citing ETL 73 79 53
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.44% 2.57% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 2.81% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 52 36
10th Percentile £309 £368 -
25th Percentile £407 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +6.06% -1.00%
75th Percentile £558 £639 £659
90th Percentile £591 £686 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £34.29 - -
25th Percentile £34.70 - £50.53
Median hourly rate £37.63 - £51.06
75th Percentile £40.10 - £51.58
90th Percentile £40.24 - -
England median hourly rate £68.39 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +60.92% -15.84% +39.79%

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 4,226 2,815 4,790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.24% 91.51% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,770 1,756 2,884
10th Percentile £263 £250 £213
25th Percentile £403 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +0.75% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £610
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 127 367
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £13.22
25th Percentile £17.25 £21.43 £18.54
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +3.85% -3.71%
75th Percentile £71.99 £62.50 £62.52
90th Percentile £87.20 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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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 5 March 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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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 5 March 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 -42 45 £425 -22.73% 27
Buckinghamshire +6 28 £413 -25.00% 8
Surrey +3 15 £500 +2.56% 5
Berkshire -51 13 £488 -7.14% 17
Hampshire -25 5 £525 +16.67% 12
Oxfordshire -13 4 £525 -0.94% 2
Kent -9 2 - - 12
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 2
West Sussex -22 1 £725 +16.00% 1
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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 5 (6.85%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (5.48%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.48%) Confluence
2 4 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.11%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.37%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (4.11%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.37%) NEC Housing
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.37%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.37%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.10%) Azure
2 15 (20.55%) Power Platform
3 13 (17.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (16.44%) Serverless
5 11 (15.07%) AWS
5 11 (15.07%) Snowflake
6 9 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.33%) Azure Functions
6 9 (12.33%) GCP
7 6 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (8.22%) GitHub
7 6 (8.22%) OCI
8 5 (6.85%) Azure API Management
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Storage
8 5 (6.85%) dbt
9 4 (5.48%) SaaS
10 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (4.11%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.99%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (20.55%) Power BI
3 14 (19.18%) Data Lake
4 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
5 11 (15.07%) Relational Database
6 10 (13.70%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (12.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (10.96%) Big Data
9 7 (9.59%) Metadata
9 7 (9.59%) Star Schema
10 6 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (5.48%) Tableau
12 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
12 3 (4.11%) NoSQL
12 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
12 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database 11g
12 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database 12c
12 3 (4.11%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Git
2 4 (5.48%) JIRA
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.51%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Finance
4 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Banking
6 2 (2.74%) Marketing
7 1 (1.37%) Local Government
7 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.37%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (28.77%) Data Engineer
2 13 (17.81%) Developer
3 9 (12.33%) Architect
4 8 (10.96%) Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (10.96%) Data Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) Oracle Specialist
5 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
5 7 (9.59%) Senior
6 5 (6.85%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Informatica Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Lead
8 3 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Test Leader
9 2 (2.74%) Azure Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Cloud Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.44%) REST
2 7 (9.59%) PySpark
3 6 (8.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (6.85%) .NET
4 5 (6.85%) ARM Templates
4 5 (6.85%) SOAP
5 4 (5.48%) Kafka
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 3 (4.11%) Spring
6 3 (4.11%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.74%) JSON
7 2 (2.74%) OAuth
7 2 (2.74%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.74%) XML
7 2 (2.74%) YAML
8 1 (1.37%) Apache Beam
8 1 (1.37%) Middleware
8 1 (1.37%) Pandas
8 1 (1.37%) Vue
8 1 (1.37%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.11%) Clustering
4 3 (4.11%) Replication
5 2 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.74%) Wiki
6 1 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.37%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.37%) IoT
6 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (38.36%) Analytics
2 27 (36.99%) Data Modelling
3 24 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (31.51%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (30.14%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (28.77%) Data Governance
7 18 (24.66%) Migration
8 14 (19.18%) Agile
8 14 (19.18%) DevOps
9 13 (17.81%) Data Integration
10 12 (16.44%) CI/CD
10 12 (16.44%) ERP
11 10 (13.70%) Data Analysis
11 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
11 10 (13.70%) Integration Patterns
12 8 (10.96%) Data Architecture
12 8 (10.96%) High Availability
13 7 (9.59%) Dimensional Modelling
13 7 (9.59%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (9.59%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (67.12%) SQL
2 28 (38.36%) Python
3 7 (9.59%) C#
3 7 (9.59%) T-SQL
4 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.85%) PL/SQL
4 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.48%) Java
5 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.11%) Bicep
6 3 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.74%) Bash
8 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.22%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.48%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (30.14%) Data Quality
2 8 (10.96%) QA
3 5 (6.85%) SLA
4 2 (2.74%) GDPR
5 1 (1.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 17 (23.29%) Databricks
3 15 (20.55%) Oracle
4 7 (9.59%) Informatica
5 5 (6.85%) Ab Initio
5 5 (6.85%) Alteryx
6 4 (5.48%) Dataiku
7 3 (4.11%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.11%) Foundry
7 3 (4.11%) Palantir
7 3 (4.11%) Teradata
8 2 (2.74%) Cognos
8 2 (2.74%) SAP
9 1 (1.37%) ESRI
9 1 (1.37%) Google
9 1 (1.37%) NEC
9 1 (1.37%) RedGate
9 1 (1.37%) Salesforce