ETL Contracts in the South East

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 138 112
Rank change year-on-year +26 -26 +23
Contract jobs citing ETL 53 62 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.62% 1.09% 1.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.32% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 42 76
10th Percentile £355 £401 £416
25th Percentile £402 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £558 £608
90th Percentile £713 £688 £675
England median daily rate £513 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +0.49% -5.56% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £63.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £45.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -32.59% +40.02%

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 2,973 4,709 5,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.64% 82.73% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,851 2,740 3,569
10th Percentile £250 £255 £252
25th Percentile £398 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 448 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.13 £18.32 £21.89
Median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.00% - +122.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £67.86 £64.53
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the South East

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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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 5 July 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 +10 26 £525 +9.38% 75
Berkshire +19 20 £525 - 42
West Sussex +21 14 £468 +10.12% 8
Hampshire +28 9 £426 -22.55% 29
Buckinghamshire +3 6 £455 +7.06% 21
Surrey +17 4 £488 +14.71% 19
Oxfordshire -1 2 £355 -29.00% 12
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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 6 (11.32%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Apache
4 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.89%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (3.77%) Maximo
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 15 (28.30%) Power Platform
3 13 (24.53%) AWS
4 10 (18.87%) GCP
5 7 (13.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (11.32%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (11.32%) Snowflake
7 5 (9.43%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.55%) dbt
8 4 (7.55%) Serverless
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (3.77%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.89%) Asana
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (56.60%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (28.30%) Power BI
3 12 (22.64%) SQL Server
4 7 (13.21%) Big Data
4 7 (13.21%) Metadata
4 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
5 6 (11.32%) MySQL
5 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
6 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (9.43%) Tableau
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (7.55%) MongoDB
7 4 (7.55%) OLAP
7 4 (7.55%) Spark SQL
8 3 (5.66%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.66%) Hadoop
8 3 (5.66%) IBM InfoSphere
9 2 (3.77%) Apache Hive
9 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.77%) NewSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) ERwin
2 2 (3.77%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (43.40%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.55%) Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Billing
7 2 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Advertising
8 1 (1.89%) Automotive
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (28.30%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Data Architect
4 7 (13.21%) Senior
5 6 (11.32%) Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Data Modeller
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Finance Modeller
7 3 (5.66%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.98%) Kafka
2 4 (7.55%) PySpark
3 2 (3.77%) JDBC
3 2 (3.77%) OAuth
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) ADO
4 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.89%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (1.89%) Blazor
4 1 (1.89%) CSS
4 1 (1.89%) HTML
4 1 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (1.89%) ODBC
4 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Learning Management System
3 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.77%) Replication
3 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.89%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
2 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) Data Modelling
2 23 (43.40%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (37.74%) Analytics
3 20 (37.74%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (32.08%) Data Pipeline
5 16 (30.19%) Data Engineering
5 16 (30.19%) Data Integration
5 16 (30.19%) Validation
6 15 (28.30%) Migration
7 14 (26.42%) Data Governance
8 13 (24.53%) Data Security
9 12 (22.64%) CI/CD
10 11 (20.75%) Data Migration
11 10 (18.87%) Visualisation
12 9 (16.98%) Agile
12 9 (16.98%) Data Ingestion
12 9 (16.98%) Data Transformation
12 9 (16.98%) DevOps
13 8 (15.09%) Data Management
13 8 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 40 (75.47%) SQL
2 24 (45.28%) Python
3 7 (13.21%) Java
4 6 (11.32%) Scala
5 4 (7.55%) Bash
5 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.66%) R
7 2 (3.77%) C#
8 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.89%) VBA
8 1 (1.89%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Master's Degree
2 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.89%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PMP
5 1 (1.89%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.89%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (28.30%) Data Quality
2 6 (11.32%) GDPR
3 5 (9.43%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.77%) QA
5 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Databricks
3 4 (7.55%) IBM
4 2 (3.77%) Adobe
4 2 (3.77%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.89%) Cognos
5 1 (1.89%) Foundry
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Palantir
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) Talend
5 1 (1.89%) UiPath
5 1 (1.89%) Workday