Complex ETL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Complex Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Complex ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 363 419
Rank change year-on-year -16 +56 +95
Contract jobs citing Complex ETL 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.025% 0.017% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.021% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +90.14%
75th Percentile £506 - £688
90th Percentile £510 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £434 £675
% change year-on-year +15.23% -35.72% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Complex 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,287 14,350 18,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.18% 83.70% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,592 8,124 12,416
10th Percentile £225 £247 £252
25th Percentile £369 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,593 975 1,313
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.45 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.19 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -44.53% -8.57% +62.16%
75th Percentile £38.94 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.59 £43.90
% change year-on-year -36.66% -9.82% +35.08%

Complex ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Complex ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Complex ETL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Complex ETL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Complex ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Complex ETL

Complex ETL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Complex ETL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
North West - 3 £500 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
Scotland - 1 £475 -
Complex ETL
UK

Complex ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Big Data
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Coaching
2 3 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Workload Management
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks