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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 128 108
Rank change year-on-year +18 -20 +30
Contract jobs citing ETL 130 43 71
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.00% 1.21% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 1.36% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 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 £585 £738 £658
England median daily rate £500 £508 £515
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.46% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £69.54 - -
25th Percentile £73.93 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £87.75 - -
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 5,266 3,165 3,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.93% 88.73% 83.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 1,990 2,156
10th Percentile £275 £213 £255
25th Percentile £422 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £625
90th Percentile £713 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 321 193
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.19 £16.17 £30.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.19 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.06% -63.02% +12.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £70.43
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -20 41 £425 -15.00% 59
West Sussex +6 38 £425 -32.00% 8
Hampshire -12 29 £500 +24.38% 11
Berkshire -8 25 £433 -16.99% 27
Surrey -1 19 £500 +5.26% 14
Buckinghamshire -24 16 £400 +8.84% 25
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 1
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 18 (13.85%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (6.92%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.08%) Confluence
5 2 (1.54%) Apache
5 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.77%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.08%) NetSuite
1 4 (3.08%) Sage X3
2 2 (1.54%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.77%) BASE24
3 1 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.77%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.38%) Azure
2 39 (30.00%) Power Platform
3 28 (21.54%) AWS
4 18 (13.85%) GCP
5 17 (13.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (6.92%) GitHub
6 9 (6.92%) Snowflake
7 7 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.85%) Serverless
10 4 (3.08%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (3.08%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (3.08%) dbt
10 4 (3.08%) Fivetran
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
11 3 (2.31%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.31%) Anthropic Claude
11 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (33.85%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (28.46%) Power BI
3 27 (20.77%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (14.62%) Oracle ODI
5 14 (10.77%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (6.92%) Metadata
7 8 (6.15%) Big Data
8 7 (5.38%) DataStage
8 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.62%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.62%) BusinessObjects
9 6 (4.62%) GIS
9 6 (4.62%) SAP Data Services
10 5 (3.85%) Spatial Data
10 5 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
12 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (10.77%) JIRA
2 7 (5.38%) GitLab
3 6 (4.62%) Git
4 5 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.31%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 22 (16.92%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.69%) Finance
4 8 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.62%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.08%) Billing
6 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.31%) Legal
7 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Advertising
9 1 (0.77%) Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (26.15%) Developer
2 29 (22.31%) Data Engineer
3 16 (12.31%) Senior
4 15 (11.54%) Lead
4 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Engineer
4 15 (11.54%) Oracle Developer
5 11 (8.46%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Analyst
8 8 (6.15%) Architect
8 8 (6.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 8 (6.15%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.15%) Data Migration Lead
9 6 (4.62%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.62%) DataStage Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Data Migration Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Lead Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Lead Data Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.46%) PySpark
2 10 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (2.31%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.31%) REST
4 2 (1.54%) .NET
4 2 (1.54%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.77%) JSON
5 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.77%) OAuth
5 1 (0.77%) Pulumi
5 1 (0.77%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
2 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.54%) AS400
4 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.77%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (0.77%) Clustering
4 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.77%) IoT
4 1 (0.77%) Life Science
4 1 (0.77%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.77%) Media Streaming
4 1 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Linux
2 9 (6.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (46.92%) Data Modelling
2 44 (33.85%) Analytics
2 44 (33.85%) Business Intelligence
3 42 (32.31%) Data Pipeline
4 29 (22.31%) Lakehouse
5 26 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 26 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 25 (19.23%) Data Integration
7 24 (18.46%) AI
7 24 (18.46%) Migration
8 23 (17.69%) Agile
9 21 (16.15%) Performance Tuning
10 17 (13.08%) Data Governance
11 15 (11.54%) Business Analytics
11 15 (11.54%) Data Migration
11 15 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (11.54%) Test Automation
12 14 (10.77%) DevOps
12 14 (10.77%) Machine Learning
13 13 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 82 (63.08%) SQL
2 31 (23.85%) Python
3 16 (12.31%) T-SQL
4 13 (10.00%) PL/SQL
5 7 (5.38%) Bash
6 4 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.08%) Java
7 2 (1.54%) C#
7 2 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.77%) Bicep
8 1 (0.77%) Gremlin
8 1 (0.77%) Groovy
8 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 44 (33.85%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.46%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.31%) Degree
3 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.54%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.54%) QA
3 6 (4.62%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (5.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.54%) Ansible
3 1 (0.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 35 (26.92%) Microsoft
1 35 (26.92%) Oracle
2 29 (22.31%) Databricks
3 13 (10.00%) SAP
4 7 (5.38%) IBM
5 5 (3.85%) Informatica
5 5 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.08%) Google
6 4 (3.08%) PagerDuty
6 4 (3.08%) Sage
6 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.54%) Denodo
7 2 (1.54%) Talend
8 1 (0.77%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.77%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.77%) ESRI
8 1 (0.77%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.77%) OpenAI