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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 124 129
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 37 62 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.07% 1.34% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 1.63% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 47 68
10th Percentile £348 £380 £425
25th Percentile £401 £426 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £663 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £47.75
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £66.20
England median hourly rate £41.23 £46.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year -11.33% -32.12% +47.22%

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 3,091 3,811 5,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.15% 82.51% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 2,290 3,376
10th Percentile £220 £257 £250
25th Percentile £380 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £623
90th Percentile £656 £690 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 261 258
10th Percentile £13.35 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £32.00 £23.52
Median hourly rate £20.40 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.43% +9.24% +64.96%
75th Percentile £50.00 £71.90 £66.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +48.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ETL 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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -5 19 £517 -12.00% 46
Berkshire +9 14 £525 -16.00% 34
Hampshire +11 10 £402 -13.55% 11
West Sussex +5 6 £625 +24.38% 3
Buckinghamshire +6 5 £423 -0.59% 8
Surrey +6 2 £475 +25.00% 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (5.41%) SAP HR
2 2 (5.41%) SAP PM
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) AWS
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) GCP
3 7 (18.92%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
5 5 (13.51%) Amazon S3
5 5 (13.51%) dbt
5 5 (13.51%) Serverless
6 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (8.11%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.70%) OCI
9 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DNS
1 1 (2.70%) SSH
1 1 (2.70%) SSL
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (45.95%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (16.22%) Power BI
2 6 (16.22%) Relational Database
2 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.81%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (10.81%) NoSQL
3 4 (10.81%) Tableau
4 3 (8.11%) Big Data
4 3 (8.11%) MySQL
4 3 (8.11%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.41%) Data Mart
5 2 (5.41%) Hadoop
5 2 (5.41%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (5.41%) Metadata
5 2 (5.41%) OLAP
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) MLflow
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) Poetry
3 1 (2.70%) PyCharm
3 1 (2.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Telecoms
4 4 (10.81%) Finance
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
7 1 (2.70%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Automotive
7 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (29.73%) Data Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Architect
3 7 (18.92%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Data Architect
5 4 (10.81%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.11%) Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
7 2 (5.41%) Finance Modeller
7 2 (5.41%) Scrum Master
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.41%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Kafka
2 2 (5.41%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (5.41%) SAP PI
2 2 (5.41%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) ADO
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.70%) Blazor
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) Flask
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) NumPy
3 1 (2.70%) ODBC
3 1 (2.70%) Pandas
3 1 (2.70%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Data Modelling
2 13 (35.14%) Data Engineering
2 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (32.43%) Validation
4 11 (29.73%) Analytics
4 11 (29.73%) Data Governance
5 10 (27.03%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (27.03%) Migration
6 8 (21.62%) Agile
6 8 (21.62%) Data Integration
6 8 (21.62%) Data Migration
6 8 (21.62%) Data Transformation
7 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
7 7 (18.92%) DevOps
7 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (18.92%) Visualisation
8 6 (16.22%) Data Architecture
8 6 (16.22%) Data Security
8 6 (16.22%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) Java
4 4 (10.81%) Scala
5 2 (5.41%) Apex Code
5 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 2 (5.41%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) R
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.70%) Groovy
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) Master's Degree
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.70%) PMP
5 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (43.24%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) Argo
2 1 (2.70%) Istio
2 1 (2.70%) Kubeflow
2 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Databricks
2 5 (13.51%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) Adobe
5 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.70%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow