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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 108 143
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 -19
Contract jobs citing ETL 42 75 73
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.10% 1.81% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 2.14% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 57 57
10th Percentile £309 £380 £450
25th Percentile £375 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £675
90th Percentile £608 £655 £688
England median daily rate £500 £507 £530
% change year-on-year -1.38% -4.34% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £47.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £51.58
90th Percentile - - £63.83
England median hourly rate £41.23 £35.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% -44.44% +47.37%

All Process and 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 3,369 3,508 4,807
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 87.87% 84.63% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,126 2,133 3,148
10th Percentile £219 £255 £221
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £617
90th Percentile £650 £688 £699
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 369 168 246
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%
75th Percentile £33.05 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -13 27 £431 -21.59% 146
Berkshire -8 16 £500 -19.35% 129
Buckinghamshire +10 11 £400 -5.88% 10
Hampshire -1 9 £402 -10.67% 12
Surrey +2 3 £475 +25.00% 5
West Sussex -12 3 £625 - 3
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 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.14%) WebLogic
3 2 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (4.76%) SAP HR
2 2 (4.76%) SAP PM
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 13 (30.95%) AWS
2 11 (26.19%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) GCP
4 9 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 7 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
6 5 (11.90%) OCI
6 5 (11.90%) Serverless
7 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (9.52%) dbt
7 4 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (7.14%) SaaS
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) DNS
1 1 (2.38%) SSH
1 1 (2.38%) SSL
1 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (54.76%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (26.19%) Relational Database
3 9 (21.43%) Power BI
4 6 (14.29%) Tableau
5 5 (11.90%) Data Lake
5 5 (11.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database 11g
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle Database 12c
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle ODI
7 3 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.76%) Data Mart
8 2 (4.76%) Parquet
9 1 (2.38%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.38%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Git
2 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
3 2 (4.76%) MLflow
4 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.38%) Poetry
4 1 (2.38%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (45.24%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Retail
6 1 (2.38%) Advertising
6 1 (2.38%) Automotive
6 1 (2.38%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.38%) Legal
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Data Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Developer
3 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Informatica Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Oracle Specialist
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (4.76%) Data Migration Tester
6 2 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) REST
2 4 (9.52%) Kafka
2 4 (9.52%) SOAP
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 3 (7.14%) PySpark
4 2 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (4.76%) SAP PI
4 2 (4.76%) Visualforce
5 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.38%) Flask
5 1 (2.38%) Hugging Face
5 1 (2.38%) JSON
5 1 (2.38%) Middleware
5 1 (2.38%) NumPy
5 1 (2.38%) OAuth
5 1 (2.38%) ODBC
5 1 (2.38%) Pandas
5 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 3 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.38%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Data Modelling
2 17 (40.48%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (35.71%) Analytics
4 15 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (35.71%) Migration
5 14 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 14 (33.33%) Validation
6 11 (26.19%) Data Engineering
7 10 (23.81%) Agile
8 9 (21.43%) Data Governance
8 9 (21.43%) Data Migration
8 9 (21.43%) Visualisation
9 8 (19.05%) DevOps
10 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 7 (16.67%) Computer Science
10 7 (16.67%) Data Transformation
10 7 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 6 (14.29%) Containerisation
11 6 (14.29%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) SQL
2 18 (42.86%) Python
3 4 (9.52%) Java
3 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 3 (7.14%) Scala
5 2 (4.76%) Apex Code
5 2 (4.76%) R
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Degree
2 6 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.38%) PMP
6 1 (2.38%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (47.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (9.52%) QA
3 3 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.38%) Argo
2 1 (2.38%) Istio
2 1 (2.38%) Kubeflow
2 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.90%) Informatica
4 3 (7.14%) Databricks
4 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 2 (4.76%) Foundry
5 2 (4.76%) Palantir
6 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
6 1 (2.38%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.38%) RedGate
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow