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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 98 145
Rank change year-on-year +2 +47 -23
Contract jobs citing ETL 136 55 59
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.24% 1.82% 1.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 1.99% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 40 39
10th Percentile £363 £359 £410
25th Percentile £411 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £541 £638 £574
90th Percentile £575 £693 £692
England median daily rate £500 £505 £513
% change year-on-year -0.89% -1.56% -4.65%
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 £51.21 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -2.46% +15.38% -35.00%

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 4,919 2,768 4,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.88% 91.63% 82.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,126 1,751 2,740
10th Percentile £280 £250 £260
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -0.10% -1.38%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £661 £700
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 200 469
10th Percentile £15.05 £13.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £15.12 £18.32
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £82.25 £57.80 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.89
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%

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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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -24 48 £425 -19.05% 8
West Sussex -6 30 £380 -18.98% 5
Hampshire -9 23 £463 +8.57% 7
Buckinghamshire -17 23 £425 -6.59% 3
Surrey -3 22 £500 +2.56% 3
Berkshire -21 22 £425 -19.05% 5
Kent +6 5 - - 5
Oxfordshire -29 3 £500 +40.85%
Middlesex - 2 £475 - 1
East Sussex - 1 £459 - 1
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 14 (10.29%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (7.35%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.41%) Confluence
4 5 (3.68%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.47%) ArcGIS
6 2 (1.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.74%) Apache
7 1 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (8.09%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (5.15%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (3.68%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (2.21%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (1.47%) NetSuite
5 2 (1.47%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.74%) BASE24
6 1 (0.74%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.74%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.82%) Azure
2 32 (23.53%) Power Platform
3 27 (19.85%) AWS
4 18 (13.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (11.76%) GCP
6 15 (11.03%) Snowflake
7 14 (10.29%) Serverless
8 11 (8.09%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.09%) GitHub
9 10 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.62%) dbt
11 8 (5.88%) Azure Functions
12 6 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.41%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.68%) Azure API Management
13 5 (3.68%) Azure Storage
13 5 (3.68%) OCI
14 4 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
15 3 (2.21%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (30.15%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (23.53%) Power BI
3 20 (14.71%) Oracle Reports
4 16 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 15 (11.03%) Oracle ODI
6 14 (10.29%) Big Data
7 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
8 11 (8.09%) NoSQL
9 10 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (7.35%) Relational Database
10 9 (6.62%) DynamoDB
11 8 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.88%) Metadata
11 8 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (5.15%) GIS
13 5 (3.68%) Spatial Data
13 5 (3.68%) Star Schema
14 4 (2.94%) BigQuery
14 4 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.82%) Git
2 10 (7.35%) JIRA
3 8 (5.88%) GitLab
4 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.21%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
General
1 32 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.97%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (11.76%) Finance
4 4 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.21%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.47%) Billing
6 2 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.47%) Marketing
6 2 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.74%) Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Local Government
7 1 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (27.94%) Data Engineer
2 32 (23.53%) Developer
3 18 (13.24%) Senior
4 16 (11.76%) Lead
5 15 (11.03%) Microsoft Engineer
6 14 (10.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (8.09%) Architect
7 11 (8.09%) Oracle Developer
8 10 (7.35%) Data Architect
9 9 (6.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 8 (5.88%) Data Migration Lead
11 7 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) Analyst
13 5 (3.68%) Applications Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Azure Software Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.68%) Data Warehouse Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Lead Architect
13 5 (3.68%) Lead Data Architect
13 5 (3.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.09%) PySpark
2 10 (7.35%) REST
3 9 (6.62%) Kafka
4 7 (5.15%) Oracle Fusion
5 6 (4.41%) Spring
5 6 (4.41%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.68%) .NET
6 5 (3.68%) ARM Templates
7 3 (2.21%) JSON
8 2 (1.47%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.47%) XML
8 2 (1.47%) YAML
9 1 (0.74%) Apache Beam
9 1 (0.74%) JWT
9 1 (0.74%) Oracle GoldenGate
9 1 (0.74%) pytest
9 1 (0.74%) React
9 1 (0.74%) SOAP
9 1 (0.74%) Vue
9 1 (0.74%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.21%) Clustering
4 3 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.21%) Replication
5 2 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.47%) Wiki
6 1 (0.74%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.74%) Housing Association
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.88%) Unix
2 3 (2.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.85%) Data Modelling
2 43 (31.62%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (30.88%) Analytics
4 39 (28.68%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (24.26%) Migration
6 29 (21.32%) CI/CD
7 25 (18.38%) Data Engineering
8 22 (16.18%) Data Governance
9 21 (15.44%) Performance Tuning
9 21 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (14.71%) Agile
10 20 (14.71%) Data Migration
11 18 (13.24%) AI
11 18 (13.24%) Data Integration
11 18 (13.24%) DevOps
11 18 (13.24%) ERP
12 16 (11.76%) Runbook
13 14 (10.29%) Data Architecture
14 13 (9.56%) Business Analytics
15 12 (8.82%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 89 (65.44%) SQL
2 42 (30.88%) Python
3 23 (16.91%) T-SQL
4 12 (8.82%) PL/SQL
5 10 (7.35%) Java
6 9 (6.62%) Bash
7 8 (5.88%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.15%) C#
9 6 (4.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (3.68%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.21%) Bicep
12 2 (1.47%) Scala
12 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.47%) VB
13 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 39 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.68%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.21%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) Degree
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (16.91%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.56%) QA
3 5 (3.68%) SLA
4 3 (2.21%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.41%) Kubernetes
1 6 (4.41%) Terraform
2 2 (1.47%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (27.94%) Oracle
2 34 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (20.59%) Databricks
4 7 (5.15%) Ab Initio
5 6 (4.41%) Alteryx
6 5 (3.68%) SAP
6 5 (3.68%) Teradata
7 4 (2.94%) Dataiku
8 3 (2.21%) Informatica
8 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.47%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.47%) Cognos
9 2 (1.47%) ESRI
9 2 (1.47%) Foundry
9 2 (1.47%) HP
9 2 (1.47%) IBM
9 2 (1.47%) Palantir
9 2 (1.47%) Sage
9 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.47%) Talend