ETL Developer Contracts

ETL Developer
UK

The median ETL Developer daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 545 637
Rank change year-on-year +3 +92 +144
Contract jobs requiring an ETL Developer 8 29 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.067% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.072% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 31
10th Percentile £316 £350 -
25th Percentile £387 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% +7.22% -16.67%
75th Percentile £530 £522 £504
90th Percentile £536 £620 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £318 £360 £438
% change year-on-year -11.67% -17.71% -16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

ETL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured ETL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL Developer in the UK

ETL Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ETL Developer in the UK

ETL Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL Developer over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL Developer in the UK

ETL Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL Developer.

Hourly rate trend for ETL Developer in the UK

ETL Developer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +33 7 £485 +0.52% 15
London +34 6 £520 +4.00% 14
UK excluding London +34 2 £318 -11.67% 4
Work from Home +19 2 £368 -26.50% 2
North West +4 1 £351 -
North of England -1 1 £351 -2.16% 1
Scotland - 1 £285 -

ETL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 July 2025, ETL Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring ETL Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) ETL
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
4 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (50.00%) RESTful
4 4 (50.00%) Capacity Management
4 4 (50.00%) ETL Development
4 4 (50.00%) Nutanix
5 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (37.50%) vCenter Server
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) JSON
5 3 (37.50%) XML
5 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
5 3 (37.50%) VBA
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (37.50%) EMC
6 2 (25.00%) Control-M
6 2 (25.00%) Validation
6 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
6 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) Git
6 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Data Quality

ETL Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Nutanix
2 3 (37.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (12.50%) PVCS
2 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) JSON
2 3 (37.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) Java EE
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 4 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Data Acquisition
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 3 (37.50%) VBA
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
4 1 (12.50%) ProC
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) vCenter Server
2 2 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) EMC
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Informatica
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle