ETL Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 150 124
Rank change year-on-year +50 -26 -15
Contract jobs citing ETL 60 55 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.99% 0.99% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.17% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 36 63
10th Percentile £367 £406 £401
25th Percentile £470 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.20% - -
75th Percentile £675 £659 £588
90th Percentile £739 £738 £628
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £43.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £50.50
90th Percentile - - £54.70
England median hourly rate £78.70 £49.50 £46.82
% change year-on-year +58.99% +5.74% +4.03%

All Process and 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 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the South East

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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
Thames Valley +53 37 £575 +24.32% 35
Berkshire +42 28 £575 +19.79% 23
West Sussex +23 12 £468 +10.12% 3
Buckinghamshire +14 6 £455 +1.11% 6
Oxfordshire +8 5 £530 +19.10% 14
Surrey +14 4 £488 +14.71% 11
Hampshire +17 3 £775 +14.81% 13
East Sussex - 2 £450 - 2
Kent +7 1 £585 +17.00% 3
Home Counties 0 1 - -
ETL
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Adobe Captivate
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Maximo
2 1 (1.67%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 28 (46.67%) Azure
2 13 (21.67%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Power Platform
3 9 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 9 (15.00%) GCP
4 7 (11.67%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.33%) Azure API Management
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (3.33%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.67%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.67%) dbt
8 1 (1.67%) OCI
8 1 (1.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (48.33%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (21.67%) Power BI
3 12 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 10 (16.67%) Big Data
5 9 (15.00%) Data Lake
5 9 (15.00%) Metadata
6 5 (8.33%) MySQL
7 4 (6.67%) Hadoop
7 4 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 4 (6.67%) NoSQL
7 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (6.67%) Spark SQL
8 3 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.00%) Apache Hive
8 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 3 (5.00%) OLAP
8 3 (5.00%) SSDT
9 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (3.33%) ERwin
2 2 (3.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.67%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.67%) GitLab
3 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Finance
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
6 2 (3.33%) Billing
6 2 (3.33%) Electronics
6 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Publishing
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Architect
3 9 (15.00%) Data Architect
4 8 (13.33%) Lead
5 6 (10.00%) Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Data Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Data Modeller
9 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Data Migration Analyst
9 2 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Test Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.33%) Kafka
1 8 (13.33%) PySpark
2 5 (8.33%) OAuth
3 3 (5.00%) YAML
4 2 (3.33%) Gherkin
4 2 (3.33%) JDBC
4 2 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.33%) RESTful
4 2 (3.33%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.67%) .NET
5 1 (1.67%) ADO
5 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.67%) Blazor
5 1 (1.67%) CSS
5 1 (1.67%) HTML
5 1 (1.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) IoT
3 2 (3.33%) Learning Management System
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.33%) Reference Data
3 2 (3.33%) Replication
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Linux
1 3 (5.00%) Unix
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Analytics
2 22 (36.67%) Data Modelling
2 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (33.33%) Migration
4 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (26.67%) Data Governance
5 15 (25.00%) Data Management
5 15 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 14 (23.33%) CI/CD
6 14 (23.33%) Data Integration
6 14 (23.33%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (21.67%) Agile
7 13 (21.67%) DevOps
8 12 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 11 (18.33%) Validation
10 10 (16.67%) Data Security
11 9 (15.00%) Data Architecture
11 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 39 (65.00%) SQL
2 21 (35.00%) Python
3 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
4 4 (6.67%) Bash
5 3 (5.00%) C#
5 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.00%) Java
5 3 (5.00%) R
5 3 (5.00%) Scala
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) Perl
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.67%) VBA
6 1 (1.67%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Azure Certification
2 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.00%) PMP
4 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.00%) GDPR
3 5 (8.33%) HIPAA
4 3 (5.00%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Databricks
3 4 (6.67%) Alteryx
3 4 (6.67%) Google
3 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (5.00%) IBM
4 3 (5.00%) UiPath
5 2 (3.33%) Adobe
5 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.67%) Cognos
6 1 (1.67%) Foundry
6 1 (1.67%) Palantir
6 1 (1.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.67%) Talend
6 1 (1.67%) Workday