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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 78 99
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,243 938 1,000
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.18% 3.01% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 3.37% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 622 753
10th Percentile £363 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £677 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 19
10th Percentile £33.88 - £41.42
25th Percentile £40.69 £26.25 £48.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -42.15% +68.06%
75th Percentile £69.76 £78.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.63 £102.00 £72.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year +138.81% -45.57% +44.36%

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 34,128 27,815 38,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.17% 89.32% 87.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,612 16,932 25,487
10th Percentile £306 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £498 £500
% change year-on-year -3.52% -0.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 868 2,102
10th Percentile £14.51 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £58.75 £62.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.04 £31.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -20.52% -10.64% +18.61%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -1 1,075 £500 -4.76% 452
London +20 655 £525 -0.47% 205
UK excluding London -20 444 £475 -5.00% 327
Work from Home -7 381 £512 +2.43% 253
Midlands 0 132 £515 +7.97% 55
North of England -39 121 £450 -1.37% 68
West Midlands +3 108 £515 +5.10% 38
North West -4 79 £450 -2.70% 42
South East -41 60 £445 -19.09% 124
South West -3 59 £525 -14.29% 35
Scotland +21 51 £500 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -64 30 £475 +31.94% 21
East Midlands -8 24 £450 +18.81% 17
East of England -23 16 £575 +12.20% 30
Northern Ireland +8 12 £400 +3.23% 1
North East -9 11 £450 -10.00% 5
Wales -4 9 £453 -12.14% 4

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
1 122 (9.81%) Apache Spark
2 105 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (6.92%) Apache
4 49 (3.94%) SAS
5 15 (1.21%) Confluence
5 15 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.56%) Appian
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.32%) nginx
10 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.24%) CMS
11 3 (0.24%) IIS
11 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.16%) Luigi
Applications
1 46 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.32%) Trello
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.080%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.40%) Maximo
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.32%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 537 (43.20%) Azure
2 399 (32.10%) AWS
3 290 (23.33%) Power Platform
4 207 (16.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 171 (13.76%) GCP
6 162 (13.03%) Snowflake
7 140 (11.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 132 (10.62%) Amazon S3
9 118 (9.49%) Serverless
10 103 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
11 87 (7.00%) GitHub
12 79 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
13 66 (5.31%) dbt
14 41 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (3.06%) SaaS
16 30 (2.41%) Collibra
17 28 (2.25%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (2.25%) Power Automate
18 25 (2.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.48%) 2G
1 6 (0.48%) 5G
1 6 (0.48%) HTTP
1 6 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.40%) 4G
3 2 (0.16%) BGP
3 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.16%) DSL
3 2 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Firewall
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) OSPF
3 2 (0.16%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.080%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.080%) Internet
4 1 (0.080%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.080%) Multicast
4 1 (0.080%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 357 (28.72%) Data Warehouse
2 276 (22.20%) Power BI
3 214 (17.22%) Data Lake
4 146 (11.75%) SQL Server
5 120 (9.65%) Metadata
6 92 (7.40%) Big Data
7 88 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
8 86 (6.92%) Relational Database
9 80 (6.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (6.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 75 (6.03%) Tableau
11 69 (5.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 62 (4.99%) NoSQL
13 59 (4.75%) BigQuery
13 59 (4.75%) Delta Lake
14 55 (4.42%) Pentaho
15 50 (4.02%) Snowflake Schema
16 48 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
16 48 (3.86%) Oracle Database
17 39 (3.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 143 (11.50%) Git
2 93 (7.48%) JIRA
3 73 (5.87%) Jenkins
4 46 (3.70%) GitLab
5 23 (1.85%) Postman
6 20 (1.61%) MLflow
7 18 (1.45%) ERwin
8 13 (1.05%) Selenium
9 10 (0.80%) JMeter
10 7 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.56%) TestRail
11 6 (0.48%) DBeaver
11 6 (0.48%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.40%) NUnit
13 4 (0.32%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.32%) MSTest
13 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 368 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 312 (25.10%) Finance
3 204 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 92 (7.40%) Banking
6 31 (2.49%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.85%) Retail
8 20 (1.61%) Marketing
9 19 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 15 (1.21%) Legal
11 13 (1.05%) Law
11 13 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.64%) Publishing
15 7 (0.56%) Front Office
15 7 (0.56%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 461 (37.09%) Data Engineer
2 159 (12.79%) Developer
3 133 (10.70%) Lead
4 132 (10.62%) Senior
5 125 (10.06%) Analyst
6 122 (9.81%) Architect
7 85 (6.84%) Data Analyst
8 78 (6.28%) Data Architect
8 78 (6.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 53 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (3.22%) Azure Data Engineer
11 34 (2.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 32 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (2.57%) Business Analyst
12 32 (2.57%) Snowflake Engineer
13 30 (2.41%) Python Engineer
14 28 (2.25%) Consultant
15 27 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
15 27 (2.17%) Senior Developer
16 26 (2.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (11.91%) PySpark
2 105 (8.45%) Kafka
3 86 (6.92%) REST
4 48 (3.86%) XML
5 45 (3.62%) Pandas
6 43 (3.46%) JSON
7 32 (2.57%) .NET
8 31 (2.49%) NumPy
9 29 (2.33%) RESTful
10 26 (2.09%) OAuth
10 26 (2.09%) PyTorch
11 24 (1.93%) Node.js
12 21 (1.69%) pytest
13 18 (1.45%) Middleware
14 17 (1.37%) Hugging Face
14 17 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
14 17 (1.37%) SOAP
14 17 (1.37%) TensorFlow
15 16 (1.29%) JWT
16 15 (1.21%) React
Miscellaneous
1 99 (7.96%) Cloud Native
2 92 (7.40%) Data Structures
3 61 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 24 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
7 23 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 20 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.53%) Replication
11 17 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.13%) Reinsurance
14 13 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.97%) Public Cloud
15 12 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.88%) Data Fabric
16 11 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.98%) Linux
2 22 (1.77%) Unix
3 14 (1.13%) Windows
4 6 (0.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.24%) Solaris
7 3 (0.24%) VMS
7 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.080%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 575 (46.26%) Data Modelling
2 516 (41.51%) Analytics
3 469 (37.73%) Data Pipeline
4 392 (31.54%) Business Intelligence
5 384 (30.89%) Data Engineering
6 363 (29.20%) CI/CD
7 305 (24.54%) Agile
8 291 (23.41%) DevOps
9 289 (23.25%) Data Governance
10 283 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
11 235 (18.91%) Migration
12 210 (16.89%) Data Integration
13 205 (16.49%) Data Architecture
14 179 (14.40%) Validation
15 162 (13.03%) Data Science
16 159 (12.79%) AI
17 155 (12.47%) Data Migration
18 152 (12.23%) Machine Learning
19 138 (11.10%) Stakeholder Management
20 132 (10.62%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 799 (64.28%) SQL
2 613 (49.32%) Python
3 109 (8.77%) Java
4 55 (4.42%) C#
4 55 (4.42%) Scala
5 44 (3.54%) PL/SQL
6 43 (3.46%) JavaScript
7 41 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 41 (3.30%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.45%) Shell Script
10 17 (1.37%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.21%) R
12 14 (1.13%) Go
12 14 (1.13%) PHP
13 13 (1.05%) Bicep
14 12 (0.97%) Bash
15 10 (0.80%) VBA
16 6 (0.48%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 251 (20.19%) Security Cleared
2 197 (15.85%) SC Cleared
3 98 (7.88%) Degree
4 51 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.70%) Azure Certification
6 41 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.41%) AWS Certification
8 25 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.56%) PMP
13 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.40%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.24%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.080%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 410 (32.98%) Data Quality
2 103 (8.29%) GDPR
3 91 (7.32%) QA
4 25 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.53%) IFRS
6 16 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.21%) IFRS 17
8 11 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.40%) GAAP
9 5 (0.40%) MiFID
9 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.40%) SLA
10 4 (0.32%) PMO
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) Basel III
11 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.24%) FATCA
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 128 (10.30%) Docker
2 5 (0.40%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.40%) zsh
3 3 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.16%) KVM
4 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.080%) HDFS
5 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 129 (10.38%) Kubernetes
2 124 (9.98%) Terraform
3 15 (1.21%) Grafana
4 13 (1.05%) Ansible
5 7 (0.56%) Kibana
5 7 (0.56%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.48%) logstash
7 5 (0.40%) Control-M
8 4 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.16%) SCCM
10 1 (0.080%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.080%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.080%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.080%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.080%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 268 (21.56%) Databricks
2 207 (16.65%) Microsoft
3 172 (13.84%) Oracle
4 89 (7.16%) Informatica
5 88 (7.08%) Talend
6 56 (4.51%) Google
7 46 (3.70%) SAP
8 41 (3.30%) Denodo
9 31 (2.49%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.41%) Salesforce
11 25 (2.01%) IBM
12 18 (1.45%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.29%) Palantir
14 15 (1.21%) Workday
15 13 (1.05%) Foundry
16 12 (0.97%) Ab Initio
16 12 (0.97%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.97%) Cognos
17 11 (0.88%) OpenAI
18 8 (0.64%) UiPath