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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 90 152
Rank change year-on-year -49 +62 -31
Contract jobs citing ETL 46 81 49
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.04% 2.25% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 2.55% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 58 39
10th Percentile £307 £380 £425
25th Percentile £329 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £531 £638 £675
90th Percentile £623 £672 £950
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
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 £47.36 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -29.75% +70.42%

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 3,723 3,180 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.46% 88.48% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,447 1,981 2,819
10th Percentile £225 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -1.45% +1.57%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £684 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 119 237
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.84 £19.13
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.13 £27.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.38% -14.10% +37.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £66.44
90th Percentile £75.50 £74.89 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -29 34 £420 -30.00% 184
Buckinghamshire +17 19 £329 -34.30% 41
Berkshire -33 14 £488 -20.08% 125
Surrey -8 6 £490 +11.36% 46
Hampshire -19 4 £475 +5.56% 59
West Sussex -15 2 £675 +8.00% 21
Oxfordshire -14 1 £750 +7.14% 18
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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 (10.87%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.70%) Confluence
3 3 (6.52%) WebLogic
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (4.35%) SAP HR
1 2 (4.35%) SAP PM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 17 (36.96%) Azure
2 8 (17.39%) AWS
2 8 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
2 8 (17.39%) GCP
3 7 (15.22%) Power Platform
4 5 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (10.87%) OCI
4 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) Serverless
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.35%) GitHub
8 1 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.17%) Dataform
8 1 (2.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) DNS
1 1 (2.17%) SSH
1 1 (2.17%) SSL
1 1 (2.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (45.65%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (26.09%) Data Lake
3 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
4 7 (15.22%) Power BI
5 6 (13.04%) SQL Server
6 5 (10.87%) Big Data
6 5 (10.87%) Tableau
7 4 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (8.70%) Star Schema
8 3 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.52%) Metadata
8 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
8 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database 11g
8 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database 12c
8 3 (6.52%) Oracle ODI
8 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (4.35%) Parquet
10 1 (2.17%) RDBMS
10 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) MLflow
4 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Poetry
4 1 (2.17%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.17%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.91%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
6 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Analyst
1 9 (19.57%) Data Analyst
1 9 (19.57%) Developer
2 8 (17.39%) Architect
3 7 (15.22%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Informatica Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Lead
6 3 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Oracle Specialist
6 3 (6.52%) Senior
6 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Tester
7 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 5 (10.87%) PySpark
3 4 (8.70%) SOAP
4 3 (6.52%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 2 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (4.35%) SAP PI
5 2 (4.35%) Visualforce
6 1 (2.17%) .NET
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Avro
6 1 (2.17%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.17%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.17%) JSON
6 1 (2.17%) Kafka
6 1 (2.17%) Middleware
6 1 (2.17%) NumPy
6 1 (2.17%) OAuth
6 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) IoT
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Data Modelling
2 18 (39.13%) Analytics
3 15 (32.61%) Migration
4 14 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
4 14 (30.43%) Data Governance
4 14 (30.43%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (23.91%) Data Integration
5 11 (23.91%) Validation
6 10 (21.74%) Data Analysis
7 8 (17.39%) Data Migration
7 8 (17.39%) DevOps
8 7 (15.22%) Agile
8 7 (15.22%) Integration Patterns
9 6 (13.04%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.04%) Data Architecture
9 6 (13.04%) ETL Development
9 6 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
10 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (60.87%) SQL
2 15 (32.61%) Python
3 5 (10.87%) PL/SQL
4 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.35%) Apex Code
5 2 (4.35%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) C#
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.17%) Groovy
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (41.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (13.04%) QA
3 3 (6.52%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Argo
2 1 (2.17%) Istio
2 1 (2.17%) Kubeflow
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.57%) Databricks
2 7 (15.22%) Informatica
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.22%) Oracle
3 3 (6.52%) CheckPoint
3 3 (6.52%) Foundry
3 3 (6.52%) Palantir
3 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.52%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.17%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.17%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.17%) Dataiku
5 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.17%) RedGate