Complex ETL Contract Job Trends

Complex Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Complex ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 550 632
Rank change year-on-year -5 +82 +189
Contract jobs citing Complex ETL 6 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.018% 0.019% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% 0.022% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £439 £201 £601
25th Percentile £440 £244 £641
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £434 £675
Median % change year-on-year +15.23% -35.72% +17.39%
75th Percentile - £641 £688
90th Percentile £508 £716 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +90.14%

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 30,023 31,897 42,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.48% 86.05% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,650 19,171 28,953
10th Percentile £294 £310 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,923 1,198 1,595
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.77
Median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -44.34% -5.88% +58.88%

Complex ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Complex ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Complex ETL job vacancy trend in the UK

Complex ETL
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Complex ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Complex ETL

Complex ETL
Top 7 Contract Job 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 20 October 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 +2 5 £500 +15.23% 2
UK excluding London -8 4 £500 - 2
Work from Home - 4 £500 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
North West - 3 £500 - 1
London +16 2 £470 +8.32%
Scotland - 1 £475 -

Complex ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
1 3 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Playwright
1 3 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ETL
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (50.00%) Coaching
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (50.00%) User Stories
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Workload Management
6 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Observability
6 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft