ETL Contract Job Trends

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,661 911 1,077
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 3.03% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.33% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 624 783
10th Percentile £356 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £693 £699 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +1.41% -5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 11
10th Percentile £32.39 - £30.37
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £86.74 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +171.02% -59.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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 43,234 27,342 36,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 91.04% 85.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,976 17,315 23,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,595 1,301 2,587
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.79 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +77.47% -34.22% +17.29%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the UK

ETL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ETL

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the UK over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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 +11 1,485 £500 -1.96% 274
London +13 759 £513 -4.56% 124
UK excluding London +15 736 £469 +1.41% 227
Work from Home +16 533 £500 - 139
Midlands +30 260 £459 +2.00% 43
West Midlands +46 229 £459 -7.27% 31
North of England -26 179 £460 -3.16% 51
South East +5 131 £475 -5.00% 84
North West -21 94 £440 -12.00% 29
South West -19 65 £523 +10.00% 21
Yorkshire -23 65 £500 +20.48% 14
Scotland -10 56 £428 +0.59% 9
East of England -8 44 £488 +4.00% 10
East Midlands -18 30 £525 +23.67% 12
North East -22 20 £550 +30.95% 10
Wales -8 8 £313 -26.04% 4
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -36.38% 10

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:

Application Platforms
1 144 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 128 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (5.12%) Apache
4 75 (4.52%) SAS
5 62 (3.73%) Confluence
6 16 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.48%) Appian
11 8 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.24%) Camunda
15 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
15 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
Applications
1 41 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.60%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 678 (40.82%) Azure
2 508 (30.58%) AWS
3 421 (25.35%) Power Platform
4 233 (14.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 198 (11.92%) GCP
6 178 (10.72%) Snowflake
7 160 (9.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 156 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (9.15%) Amazon S3
10 144 (8.67%) Serverless
11 116 (6.98%) GitHub
12 110 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
13 106 (6.38%) dbt
14 57 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
15 47 (2.83%) Collibra
16 38 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 32 (1.93%) Power Automate
18 31 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) 4G
6 1 (0.060%) 5G
6 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.060%) DHCP
6 1 (0.060%) DNS
6 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 496 (29.86%) Data Warehouse
2 401 (24.14%) Power BI
3 264 (15.89%) Data Lake
4 183 (11.02%) SQL Server
5 152 (9.15%) Metadata
6 101 (6.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (5.90%) Tableau
8 97 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 96 (5.78%) Big Data
9 96 (5.78%) Delta Lake
10 92 (5.54%) Relational Database
11 85 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
11 85 (5.12%) Pentaho
12 82 (4.94%) NoSQL
13 77 (4.64%) BigQuery
14 71 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 63 (3.79%) Oracle Reports
17 62 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 197 (11.86%) Git
2 150 (9.03%) JIRA
3 97 (5.84%) GitLab
4 70 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.47%) Postman
6 37 (2.23%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.32%) MLflow
8 13 (0.78%) Selenium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
13 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 422 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 408 (24.56%) Finance
3 281 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (10.60%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.47%) Banking
6 46 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.87%) Marketing
8 25 (1.51%) Retail
9 23 (1.38%) Legal
10 22 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.96%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.60%) Billing
15 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.54%) Law
15 9 (0.54%) Publishing
16 8 (0.48%) Front Office
16 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 678 (40.82%) Data Engineer
2 216 (13.00%) Developer
3 207 (12.46%) Architect
4 191 (11.50%) Senior
5 179 (10.78%) Lead
6 131 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
7 126 (7.59%) Data Architect
8 116 (6.98%) Analyst
9 69 (4.15%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
10 51 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 45 (2.71%) AWS Data Engineer
13 41 (2.47%) Python Engineer
14 40 (2.41%) Snowflake Engineer
15 39 (2.35%) SQL Developer
16 36 (2.17%) Data Migration Lead
16 36 (2.17%) Integration Engineer
16 36 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.11%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (11.68%) PySpark
2 138 (8.31%) Kafka
3 82 (4.94%) REST
4 50 (3.01%) Pandas
5 45 (2.71%) JSON
6 43 (2.59%) .NET
7 42 (2.53%) XML
8 33 (1.99%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 27 (1.63%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.57%) Spring
11 24 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 23 (1.38%) OAuth
12 23 (1.38%) RESTful
13 20 (1.20%) NumPy
14 19 (1.14%) pytest
14 19 (1.14%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.08%) scikit-learn
15 18 (1.08%) Web Services
16 17 (1.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 117 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.51%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
9 23 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.32%) NHS
11 21 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 20 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.14%) Clustering
14 17 (1.02%) Replication
15 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
17 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
17 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.23%) Unix
2 35 (2.11%) Linux
3 22 (1.32%) Windows
4 12 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.66%) Solaris
5 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (46.90%) Data Modelling
2 660 (39.74%) Data Pipeline
3 641 (38.59%) Analytics
4 520 (31.31%) Data Engineering
5 497 (29.92%) Business Intelligence
6 486 (29.26%) CI/CD
7 436 (26.25%) Agile
8 412 (24.80%) Migration
9 375 (22.58%) DevOps
10 333 (20.05%) Data Governance
11 322 (19.39%) Validation
12 316 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
13 292 (17.58%) Data Integration
14 286 (17.22%) AI
15 253 (15.23%) Data Architecture
16 252 (15.17%) Data Migration
17 222 (13.37%) Decision-Making
18 213 (12.82%) Test Automation
19 200 (12.04%) Stakeholder Management
20 180 (10.84%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (66.95%) SQL
2 692 (41.66%) Python
3 142 (8.55%) Java
4 94 (5.66%) T-SQL
5 77 (4.64%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 64 (3.85%) C#
8 52 (3.13%) Scala
9 40 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.63%) Bash
12 23 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.02%) Bicep
13 17 (1.02%) R
14 8 (0.48%) Cypher
14 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.48%) VBA
15 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
16 6 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 454 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 375 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.08%) Degree
4 47 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.59%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 35 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.87%) ISTQB
8 25 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
11 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.24%) PMP
14 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 555 (33.41%) Data Quality
2 149 (8.97%) QA
3 114 (6.86%) GDPR
4 22 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (1.26%) IFRS
6 18 (1.08%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.78%) PMO
8 13 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.48%) FATCA
9 8 (0.48%) GRC
10 6 (0.36%) GAAP
10 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (7.22%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (8.97%) Terraform
2 125 (7.53%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.29%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Ansible
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Control-M
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 330 (19.87%) Databricks
2 307 (18.48%) Microsoft
3 302 (18.18%) Oracle
4 160 (9.63%) Informatica
5 143 (8.61%) Talend
6 73 (4.39%) SAP
7 63 (3.79%) Denodo
8 62 (3.73%) Google
9 44 (2.65%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.47%) IBM
11 30 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.51%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.26%) Sage
14 20 (1.20%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 17 (1.02%) Workday
17 13 (0.78%) Palantir
18 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
19 11 (0.66%) ESRI