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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 110 138
Rank change year-on-year +14 +28 -27
Contract jobs citing ETL 147 54 60
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.26% 1.60% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.78% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 36 42
10th Percentile £363 £355 £401
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £609 £558
90th Percentile £563 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.34%
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 £38.56 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -26.56% +35.48% -42.59%

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 5,305 3,035 4,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.49% 90.14% 82.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,356 1,892 2,705
10th Percentile £281 £250 £259
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -0.49%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £665 £700
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 517 256 437
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.38 £13.00
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.12 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% -52.00% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £53.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.19
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 47 £425 -19.05% 7
West Sussex -5 36 £425 -9.19% 2
Hampshire -9 32 £473 +10.92% 9
Berkshire -30 24 £425 -19.05% 3
Buckinghamshire -19 20 £425 -6.59% 2
Surrey -8 18 £500 +2.56% 4
Kent - 5 - - 4
Oxfordshire -26 3 £500 +40.85% 2
Middlesex - 3 £475 - 1
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 18 (12.24%) Oracle Application Server
2 13 (8.84%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.72%) Confluence
4 3 (2.04%) SAS
5 2 (1.36%) Apache
5 2 (1.36%) ArcGIS
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.68%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (3.40%) Oracle 11i
3 4 (2.72%) NetSuite
3 4 (2.72%) Oracle Assets
3 4 (2.72%) Sage X3
4 3 (2.04%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (1.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.68%) BASE24
6 1 (0.68%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.68%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.29%) Azure
2 34 (23.13%) Power Platform
3 32 (21.77%) AWS
4 21 (14.29%) GCP
5 16 (10.88%) Snowflake
6 13 (8.84%) Amazon S3
6 13 (8.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (7.48%) dbt
7 11 (7.48%) Serverless
8 9 (6.12%) GitHub
9 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.08%) OpenShift
11 5 (3.40%) Fivetran
11 5 (3.40%) OCI
12 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.72%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.72%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (2.04%) Anthropic Claude
13 3 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (34.69%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (23.13%) Power BI
3 26 (17.69%) Oracle Reports
4 19 (12.93%) Oracle ODI
5 15 (10.20%) Big Data
6 11 (7.48%) NoSQL
6 11 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (7.48%) SQL Server
7 10 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (6.80%) Metadata
7 10 (6.80%) Relational Database
8 9 (6.12%) Data Lake
8 9 (6.12%) DynamoDB
8 9 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (4.76%) BigQuery
9 7 (4.76%) GIS
10 6 (4.08%) DataStage
11 5 (3.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.40%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (3.40%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 13 (8.84%) Git
1 13 (8.84%) JIRA
2 8 (5.44%) GitLab
3 6 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.04%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.68%) Postman
General
1 30 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (8.16%) Finance
4 8 (5.44%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.72%) Billing
5 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.72%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.36%) Marketing
7 2 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.36%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.68%) Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (28.57%) Developer
2 41 (27.89%) Data Engineer
3 22 (14.97%) Senior
4 17 (11.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 15 (10.20%) Lead
5 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Engineer
6 14 (9.52%) Oracle Developer
7 12 (8.16%) Architect
8 11 (7.48%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (5.44%) Data Migration Lead
10 8 (5.44%) Data Warehouse Developer
11 7 (4.76%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (3.40%) Analyst
13 5 (3.40%) DataStage Developer
13 5 (3.40%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.40%) Lead Architect
13 5 (3.40%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.52%) PySpark
2 9 (6.12%) Kafka
3 6 (4.08%) REST
3 6 (4.08%) Spring
3 6 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 4 (2.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.04%) JSON
6 2 (1.36%) XML
6 2 (1.36%) YAML
7 1 (0.68%) .NET
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.68%) JWT
7 1 (0.68%) OAuth
7 1 (0.68%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.68%) React
7 1 (0.68%) SOAP
7 1 (0.68%) Vue
7 1 (0.68%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.72%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.04%) Clustering
4 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.04%) Replication
5 2 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.36%) Wiki
6 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.68%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.68%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.68%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Unix
2 8 (5.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.94%) Data Modelling
2 47 (31.97%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (30.61%) Analytics
4 41 (27.89%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (23.81%) Migration
6 31 (21.09%) CI/CD
6 31 (21.09%) Data Engineering
7 26 (17.69%) Performance Tuning
8 25 (17.01%) AI
9 22 (14.97%) Agile
10 21 (14.29%) Data Governance
10 21 (14.29%) Data Integration
10 21 (14.29%) Data Migration
11 20 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (12.24%) ERP
13 17 (11.56%) Business Analytics
14 16 (10.88%) Runbook
15 15 (10.20%) Validation
16 14 (9.52%) Data Architecture
17 13 (8.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 95 (64.63%) SQL
2 40 (27.21%) Python
3 21 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 12 (8.16%) Java
4 12 (8.16%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.12%) Bash
6 8 (5.44%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.04%) Bicep
8 3 (2.04%) C#
9 2 (1.36%) Scala
9 2 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.36%) VB
10 1 (0.68%) Groovy
10 1 (0.68%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 41 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 30 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.04%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.36%) Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 15 (10.20%) QA
3 4 (2.72%) GDPR
4 2 (1.36%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.44%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.44%) Terraform
2 2 (1.36%) Ansible
3 1 (0.68%) Grafana
Vendors
1 41 (27.89%) Oracle
2 29 (19.73%) Microsoft
3 26 (17.69%) Databricks
4 10 (6.80%) SAP
5 6 (4.08%) Ab Initio
5 6 (4.08%) IBM
6 5 (3.40%) Alteryx
6 5 (3.40%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.40%) Teradata
7 4 (2.72%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.72%) Sage
7 4 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.04%) Dataiku
8 3 (2.04%) Informatica
9 2 (1.36%) Cognos
9 2 (1.36%) ESRI
9 2 (1.36%) Foundry
9 2 (1.36%) HP
9 2 (1.36%) Palantir
9 2 (1.36%) Talend