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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 88 135
Rank change year-on-year -9 +47 -23
Contract jobs citing ETL 118 60 52
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.99% 1.99% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.18% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 41 34
10th Percentile £361 £360 £374
25th Percentile £411 £468 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £517 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +8.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £544 £675 £538
90th Percentile £575 £738 £725
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 £57.25 £70.60 £48.50
% change year-on-year -18.91% +45.57% -19.17%

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 4,782 2,755 4,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.52% 91.44% 84.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,121 1,766 2,674
10th Percentile £280 £250 £250
25th Percentile £410 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -0.10% -1.86%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £625
90th Percentile £706 £663 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 172 439
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.09 £13.00
25th Percentile £24.81 £15.00 £18.20
Median hourly rate £55.00 £27.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +99.06% -41.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £82.25 £62.24 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.07% -20.55% +0.69%

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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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -33 50 £425 -29.17% 13
Buckinghamshire -18 24 £425 -6.59% 4
Berkshire -35 22 £425 -30.61% 5
Surrey +3 21 £525 +7.69% 4
Hampshire -8 19 £475 -34.48% 4
West Sussex -15 15 £380 -18.98% 3
Kent -3 5 - - 2
Oxfordshire -22 4 £525 -0.94% 4
Middlesex - 2 £475 -
East Sussex 0 1 £459 +2.00%
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 13 (11.02%) Oracle Application Server
2 9 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.08%) Confluence
4 5 (4.24%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (4.24%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Oracle ERP
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle 11i
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (4.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (2.54%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.85%) BASE24
5 1 (0.85%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.85%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.90%) Azure
2 26 (22.03%) Power Platform
3 23 (19.49%) AWS
4 16 (13.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (12.71%) Serverless
6 13 (11.02%) GCP
7 12 (10.17%) Snowflake
8 10 (8.47%) Amazon S3
9 9 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (7.63%) Azure Functions
10 8 (6.78%) GitHub
11 7 (5.93%) dbt
12 6 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.08%) OpenShift
13 5 (4.24%) Azure API Management
13 5 (4.24%) Azure Storage
13 5 (4.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (4.24%) OCI
14 2 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 2 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (31.36%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (22.03%) Power BI
3 17 (14.41%) Oracle Reports
4 16 (13.56%) Data Lake
5 15 (12.71%) Big Data
6 14 (11.86%) Oracle ODI
7 12 (10.17%) SQL Server
8 11 (9.32%) NoSQL
9 10 (8.47%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (8.47%) Relational Database
10 9 (7.63%) DynamoDB
10 9 (7.63%) Metadata
11 8 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (5.93%) Star Schema
13 6 (5.08%) GIS
14 5 (4.24%) Spatial Data
15 4 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 4 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) Git
2 7 (5.93%) JIRA
3 4 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.85%) Postman
5 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (16.10%) Finance
3 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.54%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.69%) Marketing
5 2 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.85%) Banking
6 1 (0.85%) Local Government
6 1 (0.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (28.81%) Data Engineer
2 29 (24.58%) Developer
3 14 (11.86%) Senior
4 13 (11.02%) Lead
5 12 (10.17%) Architect
6 11 (9.32%) Data Architect
6 11 (9.32%) Senior Data Engineer
7 10 (8.47%) Oracle Developer
8 9 (7.63%) Analyst
8 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Engineer
9 8 (6.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 8 (6.78%) Data Analyst
9 8 (6.78%) Data Migration Lead
10 7 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Azure Software Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Data Migration Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Lead Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Lead Data Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Migration Architect
11 5 (4.24%) Oracle Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.47%) PySpark
2 9 (7.63%) Kafka
2 9 (7.63%) REST
3 7 (5.93%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (5.08%) Spring
4 6 (5.08%) Spring Boot
5 5 (4.24%) .NET
5 5 (4.24%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.54%) JSON
7 2 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.69%) XML
7 2 (1.69%) YAML
8 1 (0.85%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.85%) JWT
8 1 (0.85%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 1 (0.85%) Pandas
8 1 (0.85%) pytest
8 1 (0.85%) React
8 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.24%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.54%) Clustering
3 3 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.54%) Replication
4 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.69%) Wiki
5 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.85%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Housing Association
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.76%) Data Modelling
2 41 (34.75%) Analytics
3 35 (29.66%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (27.12%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (25.42%) Migration
6 25 (21.19%) Data Governance
7 21 (17.80%) Data Engineering
8 20 (16.95%) CI/CD
8 20 (16.95%) Performance Tuning
8 20 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (15.25%) Data Migration
10 17 (14.41%) DevOps
11 16 (13.56%) Agile
12 15 (12.71%) ERP
12 15 (12.71%) Runbook
13 14 (11.86%) AI
13 14 (11.86%) Data Integration
14 12 (10.17%) Business Analytics
14 12 (10.17%) Data Architecture
14 12 (10.17%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 76 (64.41%) SQL
2 37 (31.36%) Python
3 17 (14.41%) T-SQL
4 12 (10.17%) PL/SQL
5 9 (7.63%) Bash
5 9 (7.63%) Java
6 8 (6.78%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.93%) C#
8 5 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.54%) Bicep
10 2 (1.69%) Scala
10 2 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.69%) VB
11 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 34 (28.81%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.39%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) Degree
6 1 (0.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.49%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.47%) QA
3 5 (4.24%) SLA
4 2 (1.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.39%) Terraform
3 2 (1.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 34 (28.81%) Oracle
2 28 (23.73%) Microsoft
3 25 (21.19%) Databricks
4 7 (5.93%) Ab Initio
5 5 (4.24%) Alteryx
5 5 (4.24%) SAP
5 5 (4.24%) Teradata
6 4 (3.39%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.54%) Informatica
8 2 (1.69%) CheckPoint
8 2 (1.69%) Cognos
8 2 (1.69%) Denodo
8 2 (1.69%) Foundry
8 2 (1.69%) HP
8 2 (1.69%) Palantir
9 1 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.85%) Fiserv
9 1 (0.85%) Google
9 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.85%) Talend