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 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 519 580 716
Rank change year-on-year +61 +136 +120
Contract jobs citing Complex ETL 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.005% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% 0.005% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £285 £538
Median % change year-on-year +92.98% -46.98% +26.47%
75th Percentile - - £544
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 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
England +56 1 £550 +92.98% 4
Work from Home - 1 £550 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £550 - 3
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -

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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality