ETL Development Contracts

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ETL Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETL Development over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 640 738
Rank change year-on-year +94 +98 -155
Contract jobs citing ETL Development 40 82 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.14% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.15% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 58 79
10th Percentile - £361 £377
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £443 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% -15.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £551 £525 £595
90th Percentile £638 £566 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 13 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 25 April 2024. 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 +84 36 £480 +10.34% 32
UK excluding London +64 24 £450 -2.70% 22
Work from Home +88 13 £500 +11.11% 26
London +74 11 £551 +26.55% 9
South East +17 10 £425 +21.43% 2
North of England +36 5 £625 +19.05%
Midlands +28 5 £525 +41.89% 16
West Midlands +28 3 £525 +41.89% 6
Scotland +25 3 £450 -28.00%
North West +18 3 £445 -
South West +17 3 £550 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire +28 2 £625 +19.05%
East Midlands - 2 £513 - 10

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 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (47.50%) Azure
2 14 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (17.50%) Snowflake
5 5 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 5 (12.50%) Pulumi
5 5 (12.50%) Serverless
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.50%) dbt
6 3 (7.50%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) CloudBees
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (35.00%) Power BI
3 6 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (10.00%) MySQL
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
7 2 (5.00%) Big Data
7 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 2 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (5.00%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.50%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) ER Studio
1 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Data Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Developer
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Lead
3 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) ETL Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Ab Initio Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Analytics Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Data Modeller
5 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Finance Modeller
5 2 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.50%) Flask
1 5 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
3 1 (2.50%) pytest
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
1 5 (12.50%) Smart Meter
2 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (5.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.50%) Unix
2 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) ETL
2 18 (45.00%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (42.50%) Data Modelling
4 14 (35.00%) Analytics
5 12 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 7 (17.50%) Data Analytics
6 7 (17.50%) Data Science
7 6 (15.00%) Agile
7 6 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 6 (15.00%) Dimensional Modelling
7 6 (15.00%) Scrum
8 5 (12.50%) Front End Development
8 5 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Test Strategy
9 4 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (10.00%) DevOps
9 4 (10.00%) Performance Improvement
9 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) SQL
2 18 (45.00%) Python
3 9 (22.50%) PL/SQL
4 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (10.00%) VB
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.00%) Groovy
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.00%) Ansible
1 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Ab Initio
3 6 (15.00%) Informatica
4 5 (12.50%) Oracle
5 4 (10.00%) Databricks
6 2 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (5.00%) IDERA
6 2 (5.00%) JD Edwards
6 2 (5.00%) QAD
6 2 (5.00%) Teradata
7 1 (2.50%) Murex
7 1 (2.50%) SnapLogic