ETL Contracts in the Thames Valley

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 118 109
Rank change year-on-year +53 -9 -11
Contract jobs citing ETL 37 27 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.45% 1.01% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 1.15% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 27
10th Percentile £369 £379 £404
25th Percentile £492 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +24.32% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £681 £591 £606
90th Percentile £700 £950 £784
South East median daily rate £521 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.20% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +42 28 £575 +19.79% 45
Buckinghamshire +14 6 £455 +1.11% 28
Oxfordshire +8 5 £530 +19.10% 25
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (24.32%) Apache Spark
2 4 (10.81%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 8 (21.62%) GCP
4 6 (16.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (16.22%) Snowflake
5 5 (13.51%) Azure API Management
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (13.51%) Entra ID
5 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 2 (5.41%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.70%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (21.62%) Big Data
3 7 (18.92%) Data Lake
4 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
5 5 (13.51%) MySQL
5 5 (13.51%) Power BI
6 4 (10.81%) Hadoop
6 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (10.81%) Spark SQL
7 3 (8.11%) Apache Hive
7 3 (8.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
7 3 (8.11%) SSDT
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (5.41%) IBM InfoSphere
8 2 (5.41%) Metadata
8 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
8 2 (5.41%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.70%) ERwin
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 4 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Publishing
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Data Engineer
2 8 (21.62%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Data Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (13.51%) Lead
5 4 (10.81%) Analyst
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Developer
5 4 (10.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Consultant
6 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Tester
6 2 (5.41%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) Kafka
1 8 (21.62%) PySpark
2 5 (13.51%) OAuth
3 3 (8.11%) YAML
4 2 (5.41%) Gherkin
4 2 (5.41%) JDBC
4 2 (5.41%) PyTorch
4 2 (5.41%) RESTful
4 2 (5.41%) scikit-learn
4 2 (5.41%) TensorFlow
5 1 (2.70%) .NET
5 1 (2.70%) ADO
5 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (2.70%) Blazor
5 1 (2.70%) CSS
5 1 (2.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.41%) IoT
2 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.70%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Unix
2 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (32.43%) Analytics
2 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
2 12 (32.43%) Data Management
3 11 (29.73%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (29.73%) DevOps
3 11 (29.73%) Migration
4 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
4 10 (27.03%) Data Integration
5 9 (24.32%) Data Migration
5 9 (24.32%) Data Modelling
6 8 (21.62%) RBAC
7 7 (18.92%) Agile
7 7 (18.92%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
7 7 (18.92%) Data Engineering
7 7 (18.92%) Data Security
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Deployment
8 6 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (16.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) SQL
2 15 (40.54%) Python
3 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.11%) Bash
4 3 (8.11%) R
5 2 (5.41%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) Perl
6 1 (2.70%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.70%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
2 2 (5.41%) PMP
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.11%) GDPR
2 3 (8.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (5.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Databricks
2 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.81%) Google
4 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 3 (8.11%) UiPath
5 2 (5.41%) Alteryx
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle
6 1 (2.70%) StreamSets