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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 111 130
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 -10
Contract jobs citing ETL 146 52 62
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.19% 1.49% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.66% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 34 42
10th Percentile £363 £353 £378
25th Percentile £408 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £588
90th Percentile £566 £708 £671
England median daily rate £500 £508 £510
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.49% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £34.84 - -
25th Percentile £36.09 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £53.39 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% - -
75th Percentile £73.30 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £79.57 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%

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 5,396 3,141 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.98% 90.08% 82.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,338 1,957 2,488
10th Percentile £280 £250 £255
25th Percentile £414 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.31%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £702 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 287 327
10th Percentile £15.23 £13.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £26.00 £15.13 £26.03
Median hourly rate £57.79 £21.58 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +167.83% -62.38% +14.70%
75th Percentile £80.00 £50.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £74.25 £76.91
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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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 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -33 47 £425 -15.42% 23
West Sussex -3 37 £425 -9.19% 4
Hampshire -12 35 £475 +18.16% 10
Berkshire -14 28 £425 -16.83% 11
Buckinghamshire -29 17 £408 +7.24% 5
Surrey -13 14 £500 +8.11%
Kent - 5 - - 4
Oxfordshire -19 2 £500 +40.85% 8
Middlesex - 2 £473 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 3
ETL
England

ETL
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 22 (15.07%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (6.85%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.74%) Confluence
3 4 (2.74%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.05%) SAS
5 2 (1.37%) Apache
5 2 (1.37%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.42%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (2.74%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.74%) Sage X3
4 3 (2.05%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (2.05%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.68%) BASE24
5 1 (0.68%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (30.82%) Azure
2 35 (23.97%) Power Platform
3 34 (23.29%) AWS
4 23 (15.75%) GCP
5 15 (10.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (10.27%) Snowflake
6 11 (7.53%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.16%) dbt
8 8 (5.48%) GitHub
8 8 (5.48%) Serverless
9 6 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.42%) Fivetran
10 5 (3.42%) OCI
11 4 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.74%) OpenShift
12 3 (2.05%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.05%) Azure Functions
12 3 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (38.36%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (23.97%) Power BI
3 31 (21.23%) Oracle Reports
4 23 (15.75%) Oracle ODI
5 13 (8.90%) Big Data
6 12 (8.22%) Metadata
6 12 (8.22%) SQL Server
7 10 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (6.85%) Data Lake
8 9 (6.16%) NoSQL
8 9 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (6.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (5.48%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.79%) BigQuery
10 7 (4.79%) DataStage
10 7 (4.79%) DynamoDB
10 7 (4.79%) GIS
11 5 (3.42%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (3.42%) SAP Data Services
11 5 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.59%) JIRA
2 13 (8.90%) Git
3 9 (6.16%) GitLab
4 7 (4.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.05%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 27 (18.49%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (5.48%) Finance
4 5 (3.42%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.74%) Billing
5 4 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.37%) Marketing
6 2 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.37%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.68%) Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.68%) Local Government
7 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (31.51%) Developer
2 34 (23.29%) Data Engineer
3 22 (15.07%) Senior
4 18 (12.33%) Oracle Developer
5 15 (10.27%) Microsoft Engineer
6 14 (9.59%) Lead
6 14 (9.59%) Senior Data Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Architect
8 11 (7.53%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.85%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 9 (6.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 9 (6.16%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Data Migration Lead
12 6 (4.11%) DataStage Developer
13 5 (3.42%) Analyst
13 5 (3.42%) Data Migration Architect
13 5 (3.42%) Integration Engineer
13 5 (3.42%) Lead Architect
13 5 (3.42%) Lead Data Architect
13 5 (3.42%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.53%) PySpark
2 6 (4.11%) Kafka
3 5 (3.42%) REST
4 4 (2.74%) Spring
4 4 (2.74%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.05%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.05%) JSON
5 3 (2.05%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.37%) OAuth
6 2 (1.37%) XML
6 2 (1.37%) YAML
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.68%) JWT
7 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.68%) Pandas
7 1 (0.68%) pytest
7 1 (0.68%) SAML
7 1 (0.68%) SOAP
7 1 (0.68%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.74%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.05%) Clustering
3 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.37%) Replication
4 2 (1.37%) Wiki
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
5 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.22%) Unix
2 9 (6.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (50.68%) Data Modelling
2 48 (32.88%) Analytics
3 45 (30.82%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (30.14%) Data Pipeline
5 34 (23.29%) Migration
6 32 (21.92%) CI/CD
7 28 (19.18%) Data Engineering
7 28 (19.18%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (17.12%) Agile
8 25 (17.12%) Data Integration
9 23 (15.75%) Data Governance
10 22 (15.07%) AI
11 21 (14.38%) Data Migration
12 19 (13.01%) Business Analytics
13 18 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (11.64%) ERP
15 16 (10.96%) Runbook
16 14 (9.59%) Data Architecture
16 14 (9.59%) Decision-Making
17 13 (8.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (65.75%) SQL
2 39 (26.71%) Python
3 21 (14.38%) T-SQL
4 14 (9.59%) PL/SQL
5 10 (6.85%) Bash
5 10 (6.85%) Java
6 9 (6.16%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.37%) Bicep
8 2 (1.37%) C#
8 2 (1.37%) Scala
8 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.37%) VB
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.05%) Degree
3 3 (2.05%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.05%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.59%) QA
3 5 (3.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.16%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (6.16%) Terraform
2 8 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 44 (30.14%) Oracle
2 32 (21.92%) Microsoft
3 23 (15.75%) Databricks
4 11 (7.53%) SAP
5 7 (4.79%) IBM
6 5 (3.42%) Google
6 5 (3.42%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.74%) Ab Initio
7 4 (2.74%) Informatica
7 4 (2.74%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.74%) Sage
7 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.05%) Teradata
9 2 (1.37%) Denodo
9 2 (1.37%) ESRI
9 2 (1.37%) Foundry
9 2 (1.37%) HP
9 2 (1.37%) Palantir
9 2 (1.37%) Talend
10 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace