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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 81 83
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,718 941 1,071
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.89% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.20% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 636 782
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -4.98%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £618
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £485
% change year-on-year - -4.54% -3.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 10
10th Percentile £29.96 - £29.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £51.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.78 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -40.83% +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 44,805 29,397 36,049
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.38% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,846 18,489 23,062
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,636 1,550 2,325
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.34 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.65 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.75 £70.00 £73.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.18% -4.70%

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 17 July 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 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 17 July 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 +13 1,523 £500 -0.99% 255
UK excluding London +25 790 £463 - 174
London +6 746 £525 -1.50% 116
Work from Home +21 542 £500 - 128
Midlands +29 278 £459 +1.94% 36
West Midlands +37 243 £453 -5.73% 22
North of England -17 186 £463 -2.63% 48
South East +14 146 £459 -5.85% 50
North West -20 85 £460 -8.00% 20
Yorkshire -10 79 £478 +9.77% 15
South West -21 72 £523 +10.00% 25
Scotland +6 57 £425 +1.19% 6
East of England +3 50 £500 +2.56% 9
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +9.91% 14
North East -20 23 £537 +23.45% 14
Wales -8 9 £313 -32.07% 3
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -36.38%

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
1 148 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 137 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
3 101 (5.88%) Apache
4 94 (5.47%) SAS
5 64 (3.73%) Confluence
6 21 (1.22%) Oracle Application Server
7 17 (0.99%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.87%) nginx
8 15 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.52%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.47%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Appian
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.17%) Actimize
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.12%) Maximo
10 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 673 (39.17%) Azure
2 518 (30.15%) AWS
3 412 (23.98%) Power Platform
4 224 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 208 (12.11%) GCP
6 197 (11.47%) Snowflake
7 157 (9.14%) Amazon S3
8 156 (9.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 147 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
10 144 (8.38%) Serverless
11 122 (7.10%) dbt
12 115 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
13 106 (6.17%) GitHub
14 55 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (3.14%) Amazon EMR
16 49 (2.85%) Collibra
17 39 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.75%) Power Automate
19 29 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (1.69%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.93%) HTTP
2 12 (0.70%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 548 (31.90%) Data Warehouse
2 393 (22.88%) Power BI
3 260 (15.13%) Data Lake
4 167 (9.72%) SQL Server
5 159 (9.25%) Metadata
6 107 (6.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 103 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 100 (5.82%) Big Data
8 100 (5.82%) Tableau
9 94 (5.47%) Relational Database
10 92 (5.36%) Delta Lake
11 87 (5.06%) BigQuery
12 80 (4.66%) NoSQL
13 79 (4.60%) Pentaho
14 76 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
15 73 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
16 68 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
17 67 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 61 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
19 54 (3.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (11.23%) Git
2 148 (8.61%) JIRA
3 91 (5.30%) GitLab
4 67 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.27%) Zephyr
6 38 (2.21%) Postman
7 20 (1.16%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.23%) ERwin
10 4 (0.23%) Flyway
10 4 (0.23%) LSMW
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Gatling
11 3 (0.17%) NUnit
11 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 401 (23.34%) Social Skills
2 390 (22.70%) Finance
3 309 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (11.00%) Public Sector
5 117 (6.81%) Banking
6 51 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.80%) Marketing
8 25 (1.46%) Retail
9 24 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.34%) Legal
11 22 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 17 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.64%) Billing
14 11 (0.64%) Front Office
14 11 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.58%) Law
16 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.52%) Military
16 9 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 688 (40.05%) Data Engineer
2 246 (14.32%) Developer
3 228 (13.27%) Architect
4 203 (11.82%) Senior
5 175 (10.19%) Lead
6 137 (7.97%) Senior Data Engineer
7 134 (7.80%) Data Architect
8 123 (7.16%) Analyst
9 68 (3.96%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.38%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.68%) AWS Data Engineer
13 46 (2.68%) Azure Data Engineer
14 45 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.62%) SQL Developer
15 43 (2.50%) Tester
16 42 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 41 (2.39%) Lead Data Engineer
18 35 (2.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (10.77%) PySpark
2 145 (8.44%) Kafka
3 77 (4.48%) REST
4 56 (3.26%) JSON
5 44 (2.56%) .NET
6 43 (2.50%) Pandas
7 31 (1.80%) XML
8 27 (1.57%) Middleware
9 25 (1.46%) Spring
10 23 (1.34%) Spring Boot
11 22 (1.28%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.22%) OAuth
12 21 (1.22%) React
12 21 (1.22%) RESTful
13 19 (1.11%) YAML
14 16 (0.93%) Great Expectations
14 16 (0.93%) NumPy
14 16 (0.93%) pytest
14 16 (0.93%) Web Services
15 14 (0.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.66%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.93%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 49 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.51%) NHS
8 25 (1.46%) AI Agents
9 24 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
10 22 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 20 (1.16%) Clustering
12 20 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.11%) Replication
14 15 (0.87%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.76%) IoT
16 12 (0.70%) Taxonomies
16 12 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.03%) Unix
2 50 (2.91%) Linux
3 21 (1.22%) Windows
4 12 (0.70%) Solaris
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 813 (47.32%) Data Modelling
2 699 (40.69%) Data Pipeline
3 658 (38.30%) Analytics
4 534 (31.08%) Data Engineering
5 508 (29.57%) CI/CD
6 493 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
7 453 (26.37%) Migration
8 442 (25.73%) Agile
9 371 (21.59%) Data Governance
10 368 (21.42%) DevOps
11 342 (19.91%) Validation
12 327 (19.03%) Data Integration
13 317 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
14 278 (16.18%) AI
15 265 (15.42%) Data Migration
16 253 (14.73%) Data Architecture
17 229 (13.33%) Test Automation
18 222 (12.92%) Decision-Making
19 207 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
20 192 (11.18%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,144 (66.59%) SQL
2 691 (40.22%) Python
3 148 (8.61%) Java
4 92 (5.36%) T-SQL
5 83 (4.83%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 61 (3.55%) C#
8 53 (3.08%) Scala
9 40 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 32 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.75%) Bash
13 24 (1.40%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.11%) Bicep
14 19 (1.11%) R
15 9 (0.52%) VBA
16 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.41%) Cypher
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 483 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 404 (23.52%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.70%) Degree
4 47 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 42 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.75%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
10 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
11 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.23%) CISM
12 4 (0.23%) CISSP
12 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 576 (33.53%) Data Quality
2 145 (8.44%) QA
3 117 (6.81%) GDPR
4 23 (1.34%) GRC
5 22 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.70%) IFRS
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.47%) FATCA
11 7 (0.41%) HL7
11 7 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.23%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (6.87%) Docker
2 10 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.35%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (8.56%) Terraform
2 126 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.39%) Grafana
4 18 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.99%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 8 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 334 (19.44%) Databricks
2 318 (18.51%) Oracle
3 299 (17.40%) Microsoft
4 164 (9.55%) Informatica
5 136 (7.92%) Talend
6 80 (4.66%) SAP
7 70 (4.07%) Google
8 60 (3.49%) Denodo
9 47 (2.74%) IBM
10 36 (2.10%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.04%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.80%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.34%) Sage
14 18 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.05%) Splunk
15 16 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 16 (0.93%) Palantir
16 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.70%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.64%) ESRI