ETL Development Contracts

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ETL Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL Development 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 480 542 639
Rank change year-on-year +62 +97 +120
Contract jobs citing ETL Development 40 40 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.092% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 31 56
10th Percentile £135 - £359
25th Percentile £174 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £480 £435
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +10.34% -17.14%
75th Percentile £457 £551 £525
90th Percentile £503 £638 £572
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -39.00% -2.70% -5.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL Development 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%

ETL Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ETL Development in the UK

ETL Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ETL Development in the UK

ETL Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL Development in the UK

ETL Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ETL Development in the UK

ETL Development
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL Development 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 +46 25 £338 -29.58% 36
Work from Home +52 24 £269 -46.20% 22
UK excluding London +62 23 £275 -39.00% 19
North of England +23 9 £140 -77.60% 2
Scotland +19 9 £300 -33.33% 1
London +35 8 £450 -18.26% 19
Yorkshire +14 8 £140 -77.60% 1
Midlands +21 4 £475 -9.52% 7
West Midlands +14 3 £475 -9.52% 6
South East +37 1 £500 +17.65% 5
North West +15 1 £351 -21.12% 1
East Midlands +9 1 - -

ETL Development
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 11 (27.50%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (7.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) GCP
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 5 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.00%) Serverless
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (5.00%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.50%) dbt
8 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.50%) Route 53
8 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (47.50%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (32.50%) Oracle Database
3 9 (22.50%) Power BI
4 6 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (12.50%) Big Data
5 5 (12.50%) Looker
6 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (10.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.50%) BigQuery
7 3 (7.50%) Flink
7 3 (7.50%) Power Query
7 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (5.00%) DataStage
8 2 (5.00%) Tableau
9 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 1 (2.50%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (32.50%) Git
2 11 (27.50%) JIRA
3 10 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
3 10 (25.00%) PVCS
3 10 (25.00%) Subversion
4 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.00%) Liquibase
5 1 (2.50%) ER Studio
5 1 (2.50%) Postman
General
1 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Finance
3 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.50%) Military
4 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) Analyst
3 11 (27.50%) Data Analyst
4 10 (25.00%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Junior
5 6 (15.00%) Lead
6 5 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Junior Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Junior Data Analyst
7 4 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Senior
8 3 (7.50%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (7.50%) Business Analyst
8 3 (7.50%) Consultant
8 3 (7.50%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Senior Oracle Developer
8 3 (7.50%) SQL Developer
9 2 (5.00%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) Java EE
2 4 (10.00%) PySpark
2 4 (10.00%) Web Services
3 2 (5.00%) hapi
3 2 (5.00%) Node.js
3 2 (5.00%) Nunjucks
3 2 (5.00%) Sequelize
4 1 (2.50%) Middleware
4 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) FMCG
1 1 (2.50%) NHS
1 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (2.50%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Linux
1 2 (5.00%) Unix
1 2 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) ETL
2 15 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 14 (35.00%) Data Modelling
4 12 (30.00%) Technical Analysis
5 11 (27.50%) Decision-Making
6 10 (25.00%) Unit Testing
7 9 (22.50%) Data Analysis
7 9 (22.50%) Data Strategy
8 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (20.00%) Migration
8 8 (20.00%) Technical Debt
9 7 (17.50%) Data Integration
10 6 (15.00%) Agile
10 6 (15.00%) Analytics
10 6 (15.00%) Data Engineering
10 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
10 6 (15.00%) Data Transformation
10 6 (15.00%) Validation
11 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (62.50%) SQL
2 11 (27.50%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) C
3 10 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 10 (25.00%) ProC
3 10 (25.00%) Python
4 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) R
5 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
2 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Grafana
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Oracle
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) Informatica
4 5 (12.50%) Databricks
4 5 (12.50%) Google
5 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) IDERA
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) Splunk