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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 83 152
Rank change year-on-year -39 +69 -34
Contract jobs citing ETL 64 74 53
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.34% 2.34% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 2.59% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 51 36
10th Percentile £309 £422 £413
25th Percentile £408 £475 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% +11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £558 £648 £691
90th Percentile £588 £688 £950
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.68
25th Percentile £36.78 - £47.32
Median hourly rate £38.56 - £49.28
75th Percentile £40.33 - £50.87
90th Percentile - - £51.30
England median hourly rate £67.35 £42.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +58.46% -16.76% +43.82%

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 4,001 2,857 4,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.70% 90.47% 87.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,624 1,758 2,880
10th Percentile £256 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £612 £614
90th Percentile £694 £675 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 104 356
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.29 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £63.00
90th Percentile £82.78 £75.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% - -

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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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -36 39 £425 -30.33% 25
Buckinghamshire +12 25 £419 -23.86% 10
Surrey -2 14 £490 -2.00% 7
Berkshire -40 12 £475 -22.13% 12
Hampshire -23 5 £525 +16.67% 10
Oxfordshire -17 2 £650 -7.14% 3
West Sussex -18 2 £675 +8.00% 1
Kent -11 1 - - 6
Middlesex - 1 £475 - 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 (7.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.25%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (4.69%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Assets
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (1.56%) NEC Housing
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.56%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 13 (20.31%) Power Platform
3 12 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (18.75%) Serverless
4 10 (15.63%) AWS
5 9 (14.06%) Snowflake
6 8 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 8 (12.50%) GCP
7 6 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (9.38%) GitHub
8 5 (7.81%) Azure API Management
8 5 (7.81%) Azure Storage
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.25%) OCI
9 4 (6.25%) SaaS
10 3 (4.69%) dbt
10 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
11 2 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (39.06%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (20.31%) Data Lake
2 13 (20.31%) Power BI
3 10 (15.63%) Relational Database
4 8 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 7 (10.94%) Big Data
5 7 (10.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (10.94%) Star Schema
6 4 (6.25%) Metadata
6 4 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (6.25%) Tableau
7 3 (4.69%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (4.69%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Git
2 4 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Data Engineer
2 12 (18.75%) Developer
3 8 (12.50%) Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.94%) Oracle Specialist
5 6 (9.38%) Architect
5 6 (9.38%) Senior
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Informatica Developer
7 4 (6.25%) Lead
8 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.13%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (3.13%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) REST
2 8 (12.50%) PySpark
3 5 (7.81%) .NET
3 5 (7.81%) ARM Templates
4 4 (6.25%) Kafka
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (6.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (6.25%) SOAP
5 3 (4.69%) JSON
5 3 (4.69%) Spring
5 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.69%) XML
6 2 (3.13%) YAML
7 1 (1.56%) Middleware
7 1 (1.56%) OAuth
7 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.56%) React
7 1 (1.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Wiki
4 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Housing Association
4 1 (1.56%) IoT
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Analytics
2 22 (34.38%) Data Modelling
3 21 (32.81%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (32.81%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (26.56%) Data Governance
5 14 (21.88%) Migration
6 13 (20.31%) DevOps
7 12 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 12 (18.75%) Data Integration
8 11 (17.19%) Agile
9 10 (15.63%) Data Analysis
9 10 (15.63%) ERP
10 8 (12.50%) Data Engineering
10 8 (12.50%) Validation
11 7 (10.94%) Integration Patterns
11 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
12 6 (9.38%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (9.38%) Workflow
12 6 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 42 (65.63%) SQL
2 24 (37.50%) Python
3 7 (10.94%) C#
4 5 (7.81%) JavaScript
4 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
4 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
5 4 (6.25%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.69%) Bicep
6 3 (4.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.69%) Java
7 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.81%) Degree
3 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (28.13%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.50%) QA
3 4 (6.25%) SLA
4 2 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Databricks
2 16 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (18.75%) Oracle
4 7 (10.94%) Informatica
5 5 (7.81%) Ab Initio
5 5 (7.81%) Alteryx
6 4 (6.25%) Dataiku
7 3 (4.69%) CheckPoint
7 3 (4.69%) Foundry
7 3 (4.69%) Palantir
7 3 (4.69%) Teradata
8 2 (3.13%) Cognos
8 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
8 2 (3.13%) SAP
9 1 (1.56%) ESRI
9 1 (1.56%) NEC
9 1 (1.56%) RedGate