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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 118 131
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing ETL 144 48 56
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.16% 1.36% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 1.52% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 32 44
10th Percentile £363 £369 £380
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £459 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.20% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £541 £638
90th Percentile £550 £638 £671
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £40.53 - -
25th Percentile £50.31 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £68.22 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.14% - -
75th Percentile £76.79 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £80.96 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -34.51%

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 5,356 3,150 3,922
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.47% 89.31% 82.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,274 1,960 2,363
10th Percentile £280 £238 £260
25th Percentile £419 £393 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.66% +0.11%
75th Percentile £616 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 312 309
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.54 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.13 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +118.75% -58.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £72.69 £53.75 £70.18
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.16 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -16.83% 12
West Sussex 0 37 £425 -9.38% 5
Hampshire -5 36 £475 +18.16% 6
Berkshire -17 30 £433 -16.99% 6
Buckinghamshire -24 17 £425 +0.59% 2
Surrey -7 16 £500 +11.11% 6
Kent - 4 - -
Middlesex - 1 £470 -
East Sussex - 1 £459 -
ETL
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 24 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
2 10 (6.94%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.78%) Confluence
3 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.08%) SAS
5 2 (1.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.69%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.78%) NetSuite
2 4 (2.78%) Sage X3
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (2.08%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (1.39%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.69%) BASE24
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 46 (31.94%) Azure
2 35 (24.31%) Power Platform
3 33 (22.92%) AWS
4 23 (15.97%) GCP
5 15 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (8.33%) Snowflake
7 10 (6.94%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.56%) GitHub
9 6 (4.17%) dbt
9 6 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.47%) Serverless
11 4 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.78%) Cloud Functions
11 4 (2.78%) Fivetran
11 4 (2.78%) OCI
12 3 (2.08%) Anthropic Claude
12 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.08%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.69%) OpenFlow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (38.19%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (24.31%) Power BI
3 33 (22.92%) Oracle Reports
4 25 (17.36%) Oracle ODI
5 13 (9.03%) Big Data
6 10 (6.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (6.94%) Data Lake
6 10 (6.94%) Metadata
7 9 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 7 (4.86%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.86%) DataStage
8 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.17%) DynamoDB
9 6 (4.17%) GIS
9 6 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.47%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (3.47%) SAP Data Services
10 5 (3.47%) Spatial Data
11 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.72%) JIRA
2 11 (7.64%) Git
3 9 (6.25%) GitLab
4 7 (4.86%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.08%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.69%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.69%) Postman
General
1 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.64%) Finance
4 8 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.78%) Billing
6 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.08%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.39%) Legal
8 2 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Advertising
9 1 (0.69%) Banking
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (32.64%) Developer
2 29 (20.14%) Data Engineer
3 20 (13.89%) Oracle Developer
3 20 (13.89%) Senior
4 15 (10.42%) Lead
4 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Engineer
5 12 (8.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 12 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 11 (7.64%) Analyst
6 11 (7.64%) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer
7 9 (6.25%) Architect
7 9 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 8 (5.56%) Data Analyst
8 8 (5.56%) Data Migration Lead
9 6 (4.17%) DataStage Developer
10 5 (3.47%) Data Migration Architect
10 5 (3.47%) Lead Architect
10 5 (3.47%) Lead Data Architect
10 5 (3.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.64%) PySpark
2 9 (6.25%) Terraform
3 5 (3.47%) Kafka
4 4 (2.78%) REST
5 3 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (2.08%) Spring
5 3 (2.08%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.39%) OAuth
6 2 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.69%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.69%) JSON
7 1 (0.69%) JWT
7 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.69%) Pandas
7 1 (0.69%) pytest
7 1 (0.69%) SAML
7 1 (0.69%) SOAP
7 1 (0.69%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.78%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.69%) Clustering
4 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.69%) Life Science
4 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.69%) Media Streaming
4 1 (0.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.64%) Unix
2 9 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (50.69%) Data Modelling
2 50 (34.72%) Analytics
3 44 (30.56%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (29.86%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (21.53%) CI/CD
5 31 (21.53%) Migration
6 30 (20.83%) Performance Tuning
7 28 (19.44%) Data Engineering
7 28 (19.44%) Data Integration
8 23 (15.97%) Agile
9 22 (15.28%) AI
9 22 (15.28%) Data Governance
10 20 (13.89%) Business Analytics
11 18 (12.50%) Data Migration
12 15 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (10.42%) Runbook
12 15 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 15 (10.42%) Validation
13 14 (9.72%) Data Ingestion
13 14 (9.72%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 92 (63.89%) SQL
2 33 (22.92%) Python
3 16 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 16 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 10 (6.94%) Java
5 8 (5.56%) Bash
6 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.08%) Scala
9 2 (1.39%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.39%) VB
10 1 (0.69%) Groovy
10 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 49 (34.03%) Security Cleared
2 39 (27.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.08%) Degree
3 3 (2.08%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.08%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.39%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.72%) QA
3 5 (3.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 45 (31.25%) Oracle
2 29 (20.14%) Microsoft
3 26 (18.06%) Databricks
4 13 (9.03%) SAP
5 7 (4.86%) IBM
6 5 (3.47%) Google
6 5 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.78%) Informatica
7 4 (2.78%) PagerDuty
7 4 (2.78%) Sage
7 4 (2.78%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.08%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.39%) Denodo
9 2 (1.39%) Foundry
9 2 (1.39%) HP
9 2 (1.39%) Palantir
9 2 (1.39%) Talend
9 2 (1.39%) Teradata
10 1 (0.69%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.69%) Fiserv