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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 83 93
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 24 44 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.45% 1.89% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 2.23% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 30 37
10th Percentile £351 £396 £450
25th Percentile £390 £413 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £490 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -14.78% +9.52%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £638
90th Percentile £599 £672 £680
South East median daily rate £459 £494 £550
% change year-on-year -7.04% -10.23% +7.32%

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 1,527 1,973 2,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.04% 84.68% 90.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 1,119 1,726
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% +3.00%
75th Percentile £594 £625 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 112 83
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £14.45
25th Percentile £15.12 £22.50 £21.45
Median hourly rate £24.00 £55.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.39% +10.08% +150.00%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.65 £74.96
South East median hourly rate £21.41 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -62.67% +14.70% +105.25%

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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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +12 18 £511 -14.83% 16
Buckinghamshire -4 6 £380 -10.59% 11
Oxfordshire -9 2 £355 -29.00% 7
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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 6 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP HR
1 2 (8.33%) SAP PM
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) GCP
3 6 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (20.83%) dbt
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (54.17%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (29.17%) Relational Database
3 6 (25.00%) MySQL
3 6 (25.00%) Power BI
4 5 (20.83%) Big Data
4 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (20.83%) Tableau
5 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
5 4 (16.67%) Spark SQL
5 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (12.50%) Hadoop
6 3 (12.50%) IBM InfoSphere
6 3 (12.50%) OLAP
6 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (8.33%) Apache Hive
7 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (8.33%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
8 1 (4.17%) Data Vault
8 1 (4.17%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Git
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) ERwin
2 1 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Automotive
5 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Data Modeller
3 3 (12.50%) Finance Modeller
3 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (16.67%) PySpark
3 2 (8.33%) JDBC
3 2 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (8.33%) SAP PI
3 2 (8.33%) Visualforce
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) ADO
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.17%) Blazor
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Data Modelling
2 11 (45.83%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (29.17%) Validation
6 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Data Management
6 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
6 6 (25.00%) Migration
7 5 (20.83%) Analytics
7 5 (20.83%) Data Security
7 5 (20.83%) Data Transformation
7 5 (20.83%) Decision-Making
8 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (16.67%) Scrum
8 4 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) SQL
2 13 (54.17%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Apex Code
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) R
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.17%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.17%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) IBM
2 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Google