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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 91 154
Rank change year-on-year -33 +63 -36
Contract jobs citing ETL 84 64 54
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.51% 2.14% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.34% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 42 37
10th Percentile £319 £367 £408
25th Percentile £406 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £548 £638 £688
90th Percentile £575 £688 £830
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £34.29 - -
25th Percentile £34.70 £61.25 £50.53
Median hourly rate £37.63 £62.50 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year -39.79% +22.42% +17.37%
75th Percentile £40.10 £63.75 £51.58
90th Percentile £40.24 - -
England median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +24.14%

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 4,574 2,739 4,842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.07% 91.76% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,979 1,756 2,845
10th Percentile £285 £257 £225
25th Percentile £411 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% +0.90% -0.74%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £615
90th Percentile £713 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 156 431
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.97 £16.95 £18.26
Median hourly rate £40.78 £28.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.08% -36.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.50 £62.48
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%

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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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -37 47 £438 -20.45% 28
Buckinghamshire -7 28 £425 -22.73% 6
Berkshire -48 15 £475 -9.52% 14
Surrey 0 14 £500 +2.56% 5
Hampshire -23 12 £475 -15.06% 11
Kent -6 5 - - 10
Oxfordshire -16 4 £525 -0.94% 8
Middlesex - 2 £475 -
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 7 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (4.76%) Confluence
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.57%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.19%) Apache
5 1 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle 11i
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle Payables
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 3 (3.57%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.19%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.19%) SAP ERP
4 1 (1.19%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (36.90%) Azure
2 16 (19.05%) AWS
2 16 (19.05%) Power Platform
3 15 (17.86%) Serverless
4 12 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (14.29%) Snowflake
5 10 (11.90%) GCP
6 9 (10.71%) Amazon S3
6 9 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.71%) Azure Functions
7 8 (9.52%) GitHub
7 8 (9.52%) OCI
8 7 (8.33%) dbt
9 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (7.14%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.95%) Azure API Management
10 5 (5.95%) Azure Storage
10 5 (5.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 4 (4.76%) SaaS
12 2 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (35.71%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (20.24%) Data Lake
3 16 (19.05%) Power BI
4 14 (16.67%) Relational Database
5 13 (15.48%) Big Data
6 12 (14.29%) SQL Server
7 10 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 10 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (9.52%) DynamoDB
8 8 (9.52%) NoSQL
8 8 (9.52%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (8.33%) Star Schema
10 6 (7.14%) Metadata
11 5 (5.95%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (5.95%) Tableau
12 4 (4.76%) Oracle Database
12 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (3.57%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 11 (13.10%) Git
2 4 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle APEX
General
1 34 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (23.81%) Finance
4 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.57%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.38%) Marketing
7 1 (1.19%) Local Government
7 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Data Engineer
2 21 (25.00%) Developer
3 10 (11.90%) Analyst
3 10 (11.90%) Data Analyst
3 10 (11.90%) Senior
4 8 (9.52%) Oracle Specialist
5 7 (8.33%) Architect
5 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Data Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Applications Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Azure Software Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Business Data Analyst
8 4 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (3.57%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) REST
2 9 (10.71%) Kafka
2 9 (10.71%) PySpark
3 7 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (7.14%) Spring
4 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.95%) .NET
5 5 (5.95%) ARM Templates
6 4 (4.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 4 (4.76%) SOAP
7 2 (2.38%) JSON
7 2 (2.38%) XML
7 2 (2.38%) YAML
8 1 (1.19%) JWT
8 1 (1.19%) OAuth
8 1 (1.19%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.19%) Pandas
8 1 (1.19%) pytest
8 1 (1.19%) React
8 1 (1.19%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.57%) Clustering
3 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.57%) Replication
4 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.38%) Wiki
5 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Housing Association
5 1 (1.19%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (45.24%) Data Modelling
2 33 (39.29%) Analytics
3 25 (29.76%) Business Intelligence
3 25 (29.76%) Data Governance
4 24 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (27.38%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.81%) Migration
7 16 (19.05%) CI/CD
7 16 (19.05%) ERP
8 15 (17.86%) Agile
8 15 (17.86%) Data Engineering
9 14 (16.67%) Data Integration
10 13 (15.48%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (14.29%) DevOps
11 12 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
11 12 (14.29%) Validation
12 10 (11.90%) Data Transformation
12 10 (11.90%) High Availability
13 9 (10.71%) Data Analysis
13 9 (10.71%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 58 (69.05%) SQL
2 29 (34.52%) Python
3 9 (10.71%) Java
3 9 (10.71%) PL/SQL
4 8 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.33%) C#
5 7 (8.33%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.95%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.76%) Bash
8 3 (3.57%) Bicep
8 3 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.57%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.38%) Scala
9 2 (2.38%) VB
10 1 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.38%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (27.38%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.71%) QA
3 5 (5.95%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (25.00%) Databricks
2 20 (23.81%) Oracle
3 17 (20.24%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.33%) Ab Initio
5 5 (5.95%) Alteryx
5 5 (5.95%) Teradata
6 4 (4.76%) Dataiku
6 4 (4.76%) Foundry
6 4 (4.76%) Palantir
7 3 (3.57%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.57%) Informatica
7 3 (3.57%) SAP
8 2 (2.38%) Cognos
8 2 (2.38%) HP
9 1 (1.19%) ESRI
9 1 (1.19%) Google
9 1 (1.19%) NEC
9 1 (1.19%) Salesforce