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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 95 152
Rank change year-on-year -23 +57 -36
Contract jobs citing ETL 94 61 53
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.64% 2.04% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.22% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 40 36
10th Percentile £322 £367 £406
25th Percentile £409 £464 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +2.20% -
75th Percentile £552 £675 £659
90th Percentile £575 £704 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
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 £64.92 £78.70 £48.50
% change year-on-year -17.51% +62.27% +11.33%

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 4,663 2,742 4,788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.56% 91.61% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,039 1,754 2,793
10th Percentile £282 £253 £231
25th Percentile £406 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -0.99%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £713 £675 £699
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 168 433
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.80 £18.20
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -37.78% -6.41%
75th Percentile £81.00 £62.31 £62.47
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -6.67%

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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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -36 48 £475 -15.56% 15
Buckinghamshire -2 25 £425 -22.73% 4
Berkshire -36 19 £475 -17.39% 8
Surrey +1 16 £525 +7.69% 9
Hampshire -12 16 £450 -33.33% 9
Kent -2 5 - - 7
Oxfordshire -19 4 £525 -0.94% 3
West Sussex -17 3 £358 -19.82% 1
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 1
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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 9 (9.57%) Oracle Application Server
2 8 (8.51%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle Workflow
4 4 (4.26%) Confluence
4 4 (4.26%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.06%) Apache
5 1 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.06%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (6.38%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (5.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (1.06%) NEC Housing
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (1.06%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.06%) SAP MDG
5 1 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (36.17%) Azure
2 19 (20.21%) AWS
3 16 (17.02%) Power Platform
4 15 (15.96%) Serverless
5 13 (13.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (12.77%) GCP
6 12 (12.77%) Snowflake
7 9 (9.57%) Amazon S3
7 9 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.57%) Azure Functions
8 8 (8.51%) GitHub
9 7 (7.45%) dbt
10 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (6.38%) OpenShift
11 5 (5.32%) Azure API Management
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Storage
11 5 (5.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.32%) OCI
12 2 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.13%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (35.11%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (17.02%) Power BI
3 14 (14.89%) Big Data
3 14 (14.89%) Data Lake
4 12 (12.77%) SQL Server
5 11 (11.70%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (11.70%) Relational Database
6 10 (10.64%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (10.64%) NoSQL
6 10 (10.64%) Oracle ODI
6 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (8.51%) DynamoDB
7 8 (8.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (7.45%) Metadata
8 7 (7.45%) Star Schema
9 5 (5.32%) Tableau
10 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.19%) GIS
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) GitLab
3 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.06%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (1.06%) Postman
4 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (19.15%) Finance
4 5 (5.32%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.13%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (1.06%) Banking
7 1 (1.06%) Local Government
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (29.79%) Data Engineer
2 25 (26.60%) Developer
3 12 (12.77%) Senior
4 11 (11.70%) Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) Data Analyst
6 9 (9.57%) Architect
6 9 (9.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Data Architect
7 8 (8.51%) Lead
7 8 (8.51%) Oracle Developer
8 7 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Applications Developer
10 5 (5.32%) Azure Software Engineer
10 5 (5.32%) Oracle Specialist
10 5 (5.32%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Data Migration Lead
11 4 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) Java Developer
11 4 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.57%) Kafka
1 9 (9.57%) PySpark
1 9 (9.57%) REST
2 7 (7.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (6.38%) Spring
3 6 (6.38%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.32%) .NET
4 5 (5.32%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.13%) JSON
5 2 (2.13%) XML
5 2 (2.13%) YAML
6 1 (1.06%) JWT
6 1 (1.06%) OAuth
6 1 (1.06%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (1.06%) Pandas
6 1 (1.06%) pytest
6 1 (1.06%) React
6 1 (1.06%) SOAP
6 1 (1.06%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.32%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.19%) Clustering
4 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.19%) Replication
5 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.13%) Wiki
6 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.06%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.06%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Data Modelling
2 36 (38.30%) Analytics
3 26 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (27.66%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (26.60%) Data Governance
4 25 (26.60%) Migration
5 21 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.09%) Data Engineering
7 16 (17.02%) CI/CD
8 15 (15.96%) Performance Tuning
9 14 (14.89%) DevOps
10 13 (13.83%) Agile
10 13 (13.83%) ERP
10 13 (13.83%) Validation
11 12 (12.77%) Data Integration
11 12 (12.77%) Data Migration
11 12 (12.77%) Integration Patterns
12 10 (10.64%) Data Architecture
13 9 (9.57%) Data Analysis
13 9 (9.57%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 61 (64.89%) SQL
2 33 (35.11%) Python
3 9 (9.57%) Java
4 8 (8.51%) PL/SQL
4 8 (8.51%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.51%) T-SQL
5 7 (7.45%) C#
6 6 (6.38%) Bash
7 5 (5.32%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.19%) Bicep
8 3 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.19%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.13%) Scala
9 2 (2.13%) VB
10 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.13%) Degree
4 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.06%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.70%) QA
3 5 (5.32%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (26.60%) Oracle
2 21 (22.34%) Databricks
3 18 (19.15%) Microsoft
4 7 (7.45%) Ab Initio
5 5 (5.32%) Alteryx
5 5 (5.32%) Teradata
6 4 (4.26%) Dataiku
6 4 (4.26%) Foundry
6 4 (4.26%) Palantir
7 3 (3.19%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.19%) Informatica
7 3 (3.19%) SAP
8 2 (2.13%) Cognos
8 2 (2.13%) HP
9 1 (1.06%) ESRI
9 1 (1.06%) Google
9 1 (1.06%) NEC
9 1 (1.06%) Salesforce