ETL Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 88 141 119
Rank change year-on-year +53 -22 -16
Contract jobs citing ETL 355 322 533
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.78% 1.55% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 1.83% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 245 388
10th Percentile £300 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £69.98 £22.93 -
25th Percentile £80.07 £24.74 £35.00
Median hourly rate £91.05 £30.37 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +199.81% -16.22% -8.75%
75th Percentile £101.14 £31.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £102.00 £32.67 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year +6.06% +13.45% +5.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK excluding London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 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
North of England +26 113 £463 -9.31% 80
North West +11 67 £475 -9.52% 52
South East +50 60 £521 +4.20% 168
Scotland +35 54 £425 -12.51% 23
Midlands +4 53 £475 +2.70% 77
South West +56 51 £500 -4.76% 60
Yorkshire +20 37 £350 -28.21% 22
West Midlands -4 33 £497 +16.82% 51
East Midlands +11 19 £415 -19.02% 21
East of England +27 17 £494 +3.95% 28
North East +4 9 £475 +21.17% 8
Wales +4 7 £400 - 7
Northern Ireland -6 4 £500 +25.00% 13
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 27 (7.61%) Apache
1 27 (7.61%) Apache Spark
2 24 (6.76%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.35%) Confluence
4 10 (2.82%) SAS
5 5 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.85%) nginx
7 2 (0.56%) CICS
7 2 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 2 (0.56%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.28%) Luigi
8 1 (0.28%) Mule
Applications
1 10 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (2.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.28%) Adobe Captivate
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.54%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.85%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.56%) Maximo
4 2 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.28%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.28%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.28%) Shopify
5 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 110 (30.99%) Azure
2 103 (29.01%) AWS
3 61 (17.18%) Power Platform
4 52 (14.65%) GCP
5 38 (10.70%) Snowflake
6 32 (9.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (7.04%) Amazon S3
7 25 (7.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 20 (5.63%) Serverless
9 17 (4.79%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (4.51%) dbt
11 14 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (3.94%) GitHub
12 8 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.25%) Matillion
13 7 (1.97%) Adobe Analytics
13 7 (1.97%) Amazon EMR
14 5 (1.41%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 129 (36.34%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (17.18%) Power BI
3 34 (9.58%) Big Data
4 32 (9.01%) SQL Server
5 29 (8.17%) Hadoop
6 28 (7.89%) Relational Database
7 26 (7.32%) Data Lake
8 25 (7.04%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (6.48%) Metadata
10 22 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (5.92%) Oracle Database
12 19 (5.35%) Tableau
13 18 (5.07%) NoSQL
14 17 (4.79%) BigQuery
15 16 (4.51%) MySQL
16 15 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
18 10 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
18 10 (2.82%) Looker
19 9 (2.54%) Flink
Development Applications
1 28 (7.89%) JIRA
2 19 (5.35%) Git
3 12 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.82%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (2.54%) GitLab
5 9 (2.54%) PVCS
5 9 (2.54%) Subversion
6 8 (2.25%) ERwin
7 6 (1.69%) ER Studio
8 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.85%) Selenium
10 2 (0.56%) SOAtest
10 2 (0.56%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.56%) TestRail
11 1 (0.28%) Flyway
11 1 (0.28%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 136 (38.31%) Social Skills
2 67 (18.87%) Finance
3 63 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.61%) Banking
4 27 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.38%) Manufacturing
5 12 (3.38%) Marketing
6 8 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (1.97%) Legal
7 7 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (1.69%) Retail
9 4 (1.13%) Automotive
10 3 (0.85%) Billing
10 3 (0.85%) General Ledger
10 3 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 105 (29.58%) Data Engineer
2 56 (15.77%) Developer
3 53 (14.93%) Analyst
4 39 (10.99%) Architect
5 35 (9.86%) Senior
6 34 (9.58%) Data Analyst
7 26 (7.32%) Lead
8 23 (6.48%) Data Architect
9 21 (5.92%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.23%) Business Analyst
10 15 (4.23%) Data Manager
11 14 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (3.38%) Migration Engineer
13 11 (3.10%) Consultant
14 10 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
14 10 (2.82%) Data Migration Engineer
14 10 (2.82%) Data Modeller
14 10 (2.82%) Oracle Developer
14 10 (2.82%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 10 (2.82%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (7.32%) PySpark
2 25 (7.04%) Kafka
3 10 (2.82%) OAuth
4 9 (2.54%) Java EE
4 9 (2.54%) REST
5 6 (1.69%) RESTful
5 6 (1.69%) YAML
6 5 (1.41%) JSON
6 5 (1.41%) SAML
6 5 (1.41%) Web Services
7 4 (1.13%) .NET
7 4 (1.13%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (1.13%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.13%) Lightning Web Components
7 4 (1.13%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.13%) OpenID
7 4 (1.13%) XML
8 3 (0.85%) Keycloak
8 3 (0.85%) PostGIS
8 3 (0.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (8.17%) Legacy Systems
2 22 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 8 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 6 (1.69%) Cloud Native
4 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.13%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.85%) IoT
7 3 (0.85%) NHS
7 3 (0.85%) Replication
8 2 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.56%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.56%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.25%) Linux
2 5 (1.41%) Unix
3 3 (0.85%) Windows
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (34.93%) Data Modelling
2 106 (29.86%) Analytics
3 99 (27.89%) Problem-Solving
4 97 (27.32%) Data Pipeline
5 96 (27.04%) Migration
6 75 (21.13%) Data Migration
7 72 (20.28%) Business Intelligence
7 72 (20.28%) Data Governance
8 68 (19.15%) Data Engineering
9 66 (18.59%) Agile
10 65 (18.31%) CI/CD
11 58 (16.34%) Data Integration
12 51 (14.37%) Visualisation
13 42 (11.83%) Data Transformation
13 42 (11.83%) DevOps
14 41 (11.55%) Data Management
15 40 (11.27%) Validation
16 36 (10.14%) Data Analysis
17 35 (9.86%) Data Security
18 33 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (61.69%) SQL
2 121 (34.08%) Python
3 33 (9.30%) Java
4 25 (7.04%) PL/SQL
5 17 (4.79%) R
5 17 (4.79%) Scala
6 9 (2.54%) C
6 9 (2.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 9 (2.54%) ProC
6 9 (2.54%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.69%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.41%) Bash
10 4 (1.13%) Apex Code
10 4 (1.13%) SPARQL
11 3 (0.85%) C#
12 2 (0.56%) ABAP
12 2 (0.56%) COBOL
12 2 (0.56%) JCL
12 2 (0.56%) REXX
Qualifications
1 46 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 28 (7.89%) Degree
3 23 (6.48%) SC Cleared
4 15 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 14 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.85%) PMP
10 2 (0.56%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.28%) CITP
11 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (23.10%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.04%) QA
3 13 (3.66%) GDPR
4 5 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
4 5 (1.41%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) Basel III
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
6 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 21 (5.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.28%) HDFS
3 1 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (7.61%) Terraform
2 24 (6.76%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.97%) Grafana
4 4 (1.13%) Ansible
4 4 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.85%) HAProxy
5 3 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.28%) Kibana
6 1 (0.28%) logstash
6 1 (0.28%) Perfmon
6 1 (0.28%) SCOM
6 1 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 47 (13.24%) Databricks
2 46 (12.96%) Oracle
3 45 (12.68%) Microsoft
4 29 (8.17%) Google
5 20 (5.63%) SAP
6 15 (4.23%) Informatica
7 11 (3.10%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.54%) Adobe
8 9 (2.54%) Talend
8 9 (2.54%) Teradata
9 8 (2.25%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.41%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.41%) IBM
12 4 (1.13%) IDERA
13 3 (0.85%) Splunk
13 3 (0.85%) UiPath
14 2 (0.56%) Epicor
14 2 (0.56%) ESRI
14 2 (0.56%) ServiceNow