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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 82 164
Rank change year-on-year -45 +82 -44
Contract jobs citing ETL 60 76 47
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.32% 2.35% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 2.63% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 51 36
10th Percentile £308 £380 £413
25th Percentile £403 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.77% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £543 £641 £691
90th Percentile £565 £675 £950
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £47.38
25th Percentile - - £49.06
Median hourly rate - - £50.53
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £65.87
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +47.89%

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 3,805 2,889 4,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 83.70% 89.42% 88.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,512 1,768 2,908
10th Percentile £250 £250 £213
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £614
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 105 322
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.58 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £24.18 £21.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £42.88 £47.70
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% -10.10% +5.99%
75th Percentile £53.75 £62.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -22 41 £425 -30.33% 48
Buckinghamshire +17 27 £419 -23.86% 13
Berkshire -36 13 £475 -22.13% 26
Surrey -1 12 £490 +11.36% 15
Hampshire -21 4 £500 +11.11% 8
West Sussex -17 2 £675 +8.00% 6
Oxfordshire -13 1 £750 +7.14% 9
Middlesex - 1 £475 - 2
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 5 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.67%) Confluence
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (5.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Assets
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Payables
1 4 (6.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.33%) SAP HR
2 2 (3.33%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.67%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 24 (40.00%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.33%) AWS
4 8 (13.33%) Serverless
5 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.67%) Snowflake
6 6 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 6 (10.00%) GCP
7 5 (8.33%) Azure API Management
7 5 (8.33%) Azure Storage
7 5 (8.33%) GitHub
7 5 (8.33%) OCI
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.00%) SaaS
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.33%) dbt
11 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.33%) Data Lake
3 9 (15.00%) Power BI
4 8 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 6 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (10.00%) Star Schema
6 5 (8.33%) Big Data
6 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
7 4 (6.67%) Tableau
8 3 (5.00%) Metadata
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (5.00%) Oracle ODI
9 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (3.33%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.67%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) JIRA
2 4 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Data Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Developer
3 9 (15.00%) Analyst
3 9 (15.00%) Data Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) Architect
4 8 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (11.67%) Oracle Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) Azure Software Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Data Architect
6 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Informatica Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Senior
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (5.00%) Test Leader
9 2 (3.33%) Cloud Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 7 (11.67%) PySpark
3 5 (8.33%) .NET
3 5 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 4 (6.67%) SOAP
5 2 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (3.33%) SAP PI
5 2 (3.33%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) Kafka
6 1 (1.67%) Middleware
6 1 (1.67%) OAuth
6 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.67%) Spring
6 1 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.67%) IoT
5 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (36.67%) Data Modelling
2 20 (33.33%) Analytics
3 19 (31.67%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (26.67%) Migration
5 13 (21.67%) Data Governance
6 11 (18.33%) Agile
6 11 (18.33%) Data Analysis
6 11 (18.33%) Data Integration
6 11 (18.33%) DevOps
7 9 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.33%) ERP
8 8 (13.33%) Validation
9 7 (11.67%) Data Migration
9 7 (11.67%) Integration Patterns
10 6 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (10.00%) Software Engineering
10 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 6 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 35 (58.33%) SQL
2 20 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (8.33%) C#
3 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.33%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) Degree
3 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.67%) QA
3 4 (6.67%) SLA
4 3 (5.00%) GDPR
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (28.33%) Databricks
2 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.00%) Oracle
3 7 (11.67%) Informatica
4 5 (8.33%) Alteryx
5 4 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.67%) Dataiku
6 3 (5.00%) Ab Initio
6 3 (5.00%) Foundry
6 3 (5.00%) Palantir
6 3 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 3 (5.00%) SAP
7 2 (3.33%) Cognos
8 1 (1.67%) RedGate
8 1 (1.67%) Teradata