Complex ETL Contracts

Complex Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Complex ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Complex ETL over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 590 682
Rank change year-on-year +49 +92 +168
Contract jobs citing Complex ETL 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.014% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.016% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £438 £333 -
25th Percentile £438 £405 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% -22.22% +45.95%
75th Percentile £494 £645 £688
90th Percentile £505 £717 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +58.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,907 36,912 51,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.67% 85.33% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,194 23,557 35,146
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,436 2,507 1,728
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.79
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.09 £16.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.03
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.82% +66.81%

Complex ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Complex ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Complex ETL in the UK

Complex ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Complex ETL.

Daily rate trend for Complex ETL in the UK

Complex ETL
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 July 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
UK excluding London +49 1 £475 - 4
England +48 1 £440 -16.19% 4
London +28 1 £440 -16.19% 1
Scotland - 1 £475 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £475 - 4

Complex ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft