ETL Development Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ETL Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 347 407
Rank change year-on-year -25 +60 +61
Contract jobs citing ETL Development 8 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.10% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.12% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 7
10th Percentile £381 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £352 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +6.25% -23.66%
75th Percentile £469 £506 £413
90th Percentile £548 £575 £458
UK median daily rate £491 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -1.75% +17.65% -22.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ETL Development 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 13,610 14,676 19,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.16% 83.18% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,179 8,413 12,589
10th Percentile £235 £243 £262
25th Percentile £369 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,446 1,177 1,276
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +81.70%
75th Percentile £41.82 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £74.60 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.69 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.09% -0.72% +48.79%

ETL Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ETL Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ETL Development in the UK excluding London

ETL Development
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ETL Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL Development in the UK excluding London

ETL Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ETL Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ETL Development

ETL Development
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 ETL Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
South West - 3 £450 - 2
Midlands -14 2 £463 -15.91% 2
South East - 2 £468 - 12
East Midlands -5 1 £463 -9.76% 2
Scotland -5 1 £463 +29.92%
West Midlands -12 1 - -
ETL Development
UK

ETL Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) SAP BW
2 2 (25.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
3 1 (12.50%) Data Vault
3 1 (12.50%) DataStage
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Automotive
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Senior
4 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (25.00%) SAP BI Developer
4 2 (25.00%) SAP Developer
4 2 (25.00%) SAP Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (12.50%) ETL Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Informatica Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Informatica Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ETL
2 5 (62.50%) Analytics
2 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) ABAP
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) IBM
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft