ETL Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 114 107
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 -14
Contract jobs citing ETL 330 528 731
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.61% 2.26% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.53% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 257 378 552
10th Percentile £354 £362 £362
25th Percentile £413 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £694 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 2
10th Percentile £22.93 - £36.00
25th Percentile £24.74 £35.00 £37.50
Median hourly rate £30.37 £39.88 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.84% -0.31% +61.62%
75th Percentile £31.81 £62.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £32.67 £77.75 £44.00
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £46.82 £45.50
% change year-on-year +5.74% +2.89% +75.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the UK excluding London

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 ETL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 of England +33 112 £510 +2.00% 62
North West +31 81 £525 +13.51% 39
Midlands +8 71 £475 -12.04% 57
South East -26 55 £500 - 24
West Midlands -10 52 £425 -21.30% 40
South West -8 42 £525 +5.00% 25
Scotland -16 33 £500 +2.04% 10
Yorkshire +5 26 £475 -19.15% 17
East Midlands +22 18 £513 +12.64% 17
East of England -16 15 £525 +40.00% 14
North East +15 5 £345 -42.50% 6
Wales +14 3 £450 -10.00% 9
Northern Ireland -1 2 £400 -5.88% 14
ETL
UK

ETL
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 24 (7.27%) Apache Spark
2 14 (4.24%) Apache
3 8 (2.42%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.61%) CMS
4 2 (0.61%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.30%) CICS
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.91%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.91%) SAP FI
2 3 (0.91%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.61%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.61%) SAP CRM
3 2 (0.61%) SAP IS-U
3 2 (0.61%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.30%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.30%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.30%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.30%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.30%) PeopleSoft HCM
4 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.73%) Azure
2 106 (32.12%) Power Platform
3 70 (21.21%) AWS
4 55 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 32 (9.70%) Amazon S3
6 30 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 28 (8.48%) Serverless
8 23 (6.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (6.97%) GCP
9 17 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (4.24%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
12 10 (3.03%) Azure Functions
13 9 (2.73%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.42%) Amazon ECR
14 8 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.42%) Route 53
14 8 (2.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.73%) FTP
2 4 (1.21%) Firewall
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (32.73%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (32.12%) Power BI
3 52 (15.76%) SQL Server
4 46 (13.94%) Tableau
5 45 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 43 (13.03%) Data Lake
7 31 (9.39%) Big Data
8 30 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (8.48%) Relational Database
10 25 (7.58%) MySQL
11 19 (5.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 16 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (4.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 14 (4.24%) NoSQL
15 12 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (3.64%) Hadoop
16 11 (3.33%) BigQuery
17 10 (3.03%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (8.79%) Git
2 14 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.33%) GitLab
4 10 (3.03%) JIRA
5 8 (2.42%) webpack
6 3 (0.91%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.61%) ERwin
8 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.30%) LSMW
8 1 (0.30%) Selenium
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 70 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.06%) Finance
3 48 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.36%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.15%) Manufacturing
5 17 (5.15%) Pharmaceutical
6 10 (3.03%) Banking
7 9 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.12%) Retail
9 6 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Local Government
11 4 (1.21%) Marketing
12 2 (0.61%) Automotive
13 1 (0.30%) Back Office
13 1 (0.30%) Law
13 1 (0.30%) Police
13 1 (0.30%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.30%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 94 (28.48%) Data Engineer
2 80 (24.24%) Developer
3 28 (8.48%) Architect
4 26 (7.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 25 (7.58%) Analyst
5 25 (7.58%) Lead
6 22 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
7 20 (6.06%) Senior
8 19 (5.76%) Azure Data Engineer
9 15 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 15 (4.55%) Power BI Developer
10 14 (4.24%) Data Manager
11 11 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
11 11 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (3.03%) Consultant
13 9 (2.73%) Data Analyst
13 9 (2.73%) Project Manager
14 8 (2.42%) Data Modeller
14 8 (2.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.24%) PySpark
1 14 (4.24%) XML
2 12 (3.64%) React
3 10 (3.03%) Kafka
3 10 (3.03%) Node.js
4 8 (2.42%) AWS CDK
4 8 (2.42%) Express.js
4 8 (2.42%) JSON
4 8 (2.42%) Redux
5 4 (1.21%) Apache Avro
5 4 (1.21%) Flask
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.21%) Middleware
5 4 (1.21%) SQLAlchemy
6 3 (0.91%) .NET
6 3 (0.91%) HTML
6 3 (0.91%) OAuth
6 3 (0.91%) REST
6 3 (0.91%) Spring
6 3 (0.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.24%) Data Structures
2 12 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.03%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.82%) Smart Meter
7 5 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.52%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.91%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.61%) FMCG
10 2 (0.61%) NHS
10 2 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.24%) Unix
2 13 (3.94%) Linux
3 12 (3.64%) Windows
4 7 (2.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (41.21%) Business Intelligence
2 122 (36.97%) Data Modelling
3 111 (33.64%) Analytics
4 69 (20.91%) Agile
5 64 (19.39%) Migration
6 52 (15.76%) Data Integration
7 50 (15.15%) Data Engineering
7 50 (15.15%) Visualisation
8 48 (14.55%) Data Migration
8 48 (14.55%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (12.73%) Data Analytics
10 37 (11.21%) Data Extraction
11 36 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
12 35 (10.61%) Scrum
13 32 (9.70%) Data Analysis
13 32 (9.70%) DevOps
14 31 (9.39%) CI/CD
15 29 (8.79%) Software Engineering
16 26 (7.88%) Data Management
17 25 (7.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 169 (51.21%) SQL
2 87 (26.36%) Python
3 34 (10.30%) Java
4 25 (7.58%) T-SQL
5 13 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (3.64%) C#
7 11 (3.33%) Scala
8 10 (3.03%) JavaScript
9 9 (2.73%) PL/SQL
10 8 (2.42%) Shell Script
10 8 (2.42%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.82%) Search Processing Language
12 5 (1.52%) R
13 4 (1.21%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.21%) VB
14 3 (0.91%) Groovy
15 2 (0.61%) ABAP
15 2 (0.61%) Bash
15 2 (0.61%) VBA
16 1 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 54 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 47 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 23 (6.97%) Degree
4 10 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.61%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.61%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.58%) QA
3 12 (3.64%) Accessibility
4 9 (2.73%) GDPR
5 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.61%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.30%) PMO
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (4.24%) Docker
2 3 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (6.97%) Grafana
2 17 (5.15%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.73%) Terraform
4 3 (0.91%) Ansible
4 3 (0.91%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) Control-M
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 47 (14.24%) Microsoft
2 34 (10.30%) Databricks
3 29 (8.79%) Oracle
4 28 (8.48%) Talend
5 22 (6.67%) Informatica
6 17 (5.15%) Denodo
6 17 (5.15%) SAP
7 10 (3.03%) Ab Initio
8 8 (2.42%) Google
8 8 (2.42%) Splunk
9 7 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.82%) F5
11 5 (1.52%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.52%) Autodesk
11 5 (1.52%) IBM
12 4 (1.21%) Cloudera
12 4 (1.21%) IFS
13 3 (0.91%) Cognizant
13 3 (0.91%) JD Edwards
13 3 (0.91%) Teradata