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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 104 144
Rank change year-on-year +9 +40 -32
Contract jobs citing ETL 130 52 59
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.10% 1.71% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 1.87% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 38 39
10th Percentile £363 £357 £395
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £574
90th Percentile £575 £703 £692
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £34.56 - -
25th Percentile £35.39 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £38.56 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.31% - -
75th Percentile £62.04 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £75.07 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -39.29%

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 5,013 2,777 4,741
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.12% 91.29% 82.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 1,743 2,733
10th Percentile £280 £250 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -2.44% +0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £634
90th Percentile £700 £663 £700
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 215 479
10th Percentile £15.08 £13.25 £13.04
25th Percentile £23.21 £15.06 £18.32
Median hourly rate £53.90 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +124.58% -52.00% -4.03%
75th Percentile £82.25 £55.00 £65.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.09
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
% change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%

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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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -29 42 £486 -11.59% 10
West Sussex -6 31 £380 -18.80% 5
Hampshire -14 25 £481 +12.97% 6
Berkshire -31 21 £425 -26.09% 3
Surrey -4 19 £500 +2.56% 3
Buckinghamshire -22 18 £513 +12.64% 4
Kent - 5 - - 3
Oxfordshire -28 3 £500 +40.85% 3
Middlesex - 2 £475 -
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
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 14 (10.77%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (3.08%) Confluence
5 2 (1.54%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.54%) SAS
5 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.77%) Apache
6 1 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.77%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (5.38%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (3.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (2.31%) NetSuite
4 3 (2.31%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (2.31%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.77%) BASE24
5 1 (0.77%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.77%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.31%) Azure
2 31 (23.85%) Power Platform
3 28 (21.54%) AWS
4 17 (13.08%) GCP
5 15 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (11.54%) Serverless
6 14 (10.77%) Snowflake
7 12 (9.23%) Amazon S3
7 12 (9.23%) GitHub
8 9 (6.92%) dbt
9 8 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (6.15%) Azure Functions
10 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.62%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.85%) Azure API Management
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Storage
12 5 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.85%) OCI
13 4 (3.08%) Fivetran
14 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (31.54%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (23.85%) Power BI
3 20 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
4 15 (11.54%) Oracle ODI
5 12 (9.23%) Big Data
6 11 (8.46%) Data Lake
6 11 (8.46%) NoSQL
7 10 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
8 9 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (6.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (6.92%) DynamoDB
8 9 (6.92%) Metadata
8 9 (6.92%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.38%) GIS
9 7 (5.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (3.85%) BigQuery
10 5 (3.85%) Spatial Data
11 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Git
2 8 (6.15%) GitLab
2 8 (6.15%) JIRA
3 6 (4.62%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.31%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.77%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 27 (20.77%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (2.31%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.31%) Billing
5 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.54%) Marketing
6 2 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.77%) Banking
7 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (27.69%) Data Engineer
2 30 (23.08%) Developer
3 19 (14.62%) Senior
4 15 (11.54%) Lead
4 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Engineer
4 15 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Architect
5 11 (8.46%) Oracle Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.15%) Data Migration Lead
8 7 (5.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Data Migration Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 5 (3.85%) Lead Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Lead Data Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Migration Architect
10 5 (3.85%) Oracle Specialist
10 5 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) PySpark
1 10 (7.69%) REST
2 9 (6.92%) Kafka
3 7 (5.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (4.62%) Spring
4 6 (4.62%) Spring Boot
5 5 (3.85%) .NET
5 5 (3.85%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.31%) JSON
7 2 (1.54%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.54%) XML
7 2 (1.54%) YAML
8 1 (0.77%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.77%) JWT
8 1 (0.77%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.77%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.77%) Pandas
8 1 (0.77%) pytest
8 1 (0.77%) Vue
8 1 (0.77%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.31%) Clustering
4 3 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.31%) Replication
5 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.54%) Wiki
6 1 (0.77%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.77%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.15%) Unix
2 3 (2.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.38%) Data Modelling
2 44 (33.85%) Data Pipeline
3 38 (29.23%) Analytics
4 37 (28.46%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (24.62%) Migration
6 29 (22.31%) CI/CD
7 28 (21.54%) Data Engineering
8 21 (16.15%) Data Migration
8 21 (16.15%) Performance Tuning
9 20 (15.38%) AI
10 19 (14.62%) Agile
10 19 (14.62%) Data Governance
10 19 (14.62%) ERP
11 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (13.08%) Data Integration
13 16 (12.31%) Runbook
14 15 (11.54%) DevOps
15 14 (10.77%) Data Architecture
16 13 (10.00%) Business Analytics
17 12 (9.23%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 83 (63.85%) SQL
2 41 (31.54%) Python
3 21 (16.15%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.69%) Java
4 10 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.92%) Bash
6 8 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.38%) C#
8 5 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (3.85%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.31%) Bicep
10 2 (1.54%) Scala
10 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.54%) VB
11 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 38 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 29 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.15%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.23%) QA
3 5 (3.85%) SLA
4 3 (2.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.38%) Terraform
2 6 (4.62%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (29.23%) Oracle
2 32 (24.62%) Microsoft
3 25 (19.23%) Databricks
4 6 (4.62%) Ab Initio
5 5 (3.85%) Alteryx
5 5 (3.85%) SAP
5 5 (3.85%) Teradata
6 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.31%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.31%) PagerDuty
7 3 (2.31%) Sage
8 2 (1.54%) Cognos
8 2 (1.54%) Denodo
8 2 (1.54%) ESRI
8 2 (1.54%) Foundry
8 2 (1.54%) HP
8 2 (1.54%) IBM
8 2 (1.54%) Palantir
8 2 (1.54%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.54%) Talend