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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,675 913 1,067
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.98% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.28% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 619 781
10th Percentile £353 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -5.86%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £606
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £485
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.64% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 12
10th Percentile £29.96 - £30.83
25th Percentile £35.06 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £48.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.98% +5.49% -32.59%
75th Percentile £63.94 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.13 £85.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.75 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -23.87% +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 43,613 27,816 36,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.98% 90.91% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,139 17,565 23,448
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -4.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,612 1,364 2,554
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 1,497 £500 -1.96% 286
London +10 754 £520 -3.21% 143
UK excluding London +14 753 £469 +1.41% 209
Work from Home +18 534 £500 - 143
Midlands +28 265 £459 +2.00% 45
West Midlands +47 231 £459 -7.74% 31
North of England -14 183 £463 -1.91% 43
South East +8 137 £475 -5.00% 76
North West -14 94 £450 -10.00% 26
Yorkshire -23 68 £494 +17.56% 11
South West -15 67 £523 +10.00% 29
Scotland -10 56 £425 -0.47% 7
East of England -8 44 £488 +8.33% 5
East Midlands -13 33 £525 +23.67% 14
North East -20 21 £550 +30.95% 7
Wales -9 8 £313 -26.04% 4
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -36.38% 2

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
1 146 (8.72%) Apache Spark
2 132 (7.88%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.31%) Apache
4 75 (4.48%) SAS
5 65 (3.88%) Confluence
6 17 (1.01%) 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 7 (0.42%) Appian
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.24%) Camunda
15 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) 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 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.66%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 680 (40.60%) Azure
2 517 (30.87%) AWS
3 418 (24.96%) Power Platform
4 228 (13.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 205 (12.24%) GCP
6 185 (11.04%) Snowflake
7 158 (9.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 153 (9.13%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (9.07%) Amazon S3
10 142 (8.48%) Serverless
11 114 (6.81%) GitHub
12 113 (6.75%) dbt
13 110 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
14 57 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
16 47 (2.81%) Collibra
17 38 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.91%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
20 27 (1.61%) 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
1 511 (30.51%) Data Warehouse
2 398 (23.76%) Power BI
3 265 (15.82%) Data Lake
4 179 (10.69%) SQL Server
5 152 (9.07%) Metadata
6 105 (6.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 102 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 100 (5.97%) Tableau
9 99 (5.91%) Big Data
10 96 (5.73%) Delta Lake
11 92 (5.49%) Relational Database
12 84 (5.01%) NoSQL
12 84 (5.01%) Pentaho
13 82 (4.90%) BigQuery
14 81 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 73 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
16 69 (4.12%) Snowflake Schema
17 63 (3.76%) Oracle Reports
18 62 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (2.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.64%) Git
2 151 (9.01%) JIRA
3 98 (5.85%) GitLab
4 70 (4.18%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.51%) Postman
6 38 (2.27%) Zephyr
7 21 (1.25%) MLflow
8 13 (0.78%) Selenium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 6 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 424 (25.31%) Social Skills
2 411 (24.54%) Finance
3 290 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.40%) Banking
6 47 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.85%) Marketing
8 29 (1.73%) Retail
9 23 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.37%) Legal
10 22 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 21 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.19%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.66%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
14 9 (0.54%) Publishing
15 8 (0.48%) Front Office
15 8 (0.48%) Military
15 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 684 (40.84%) Data Engineer
2 220 (13.13%) Developer
3 212 (12.66%) Architect
4 195 (11.64%) Senior
5 176 (10.51%) Lead
6 132 (7.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 131 (7.82%) Data Architect
8 121 (7.22%) Analyst
9 69 (4.12%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.75%) AWS Data Engineer
14 42 (2.51%) SQL Developer
15 41 (2.45%) Python Engineer
16 40 (2.39%) Snowflake Engineer
17 37 (2.21%) Azure Data Engineer
17 37 (2.21%) Lead Data Engineer
18 36 (2.15%) Data Migration Lead
19 34 (2.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (11.52%) PySpark
2 143 (8.54%) Kafka
3 81 (4.84%) REST
4 48 (2.87%) JSON
4 48 (2.87%) Pandas
5 44 (2.63%) .NET
6 39 (2.33%) XML
7 31 (1.85%) Middleware
8 27 (1.61%) Spring
9 26 (1.55%) PyTorch
10 25 (1.49%) Spring Boot
11 24 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
12 22 (1.31%) OAuth
12 22 (1.31%) RESTful
13 19 (1.13%) NumPy
13 19 (1.13%) pytest
14 18 (1.07%) React
14 18 (1.07%) TensorFlow
14 18 (1.07%) Web Services
15 16 (0.96%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.25%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.16%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.25%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
10 22 (1.31%) NHS
11 21 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.25%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.13%) Clustering
13 17 (1.01%) Replication
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
15 14 (0.84%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.21%) Unix
2 34 (2.03%) Linux
3 21 (1.25%) Windows
4 11 (0.66%) Solaris
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (46.93%) Data Modelling
2 666 (39.76%) Data Pipeline
3 647 (38.63%) Analytics
4 528 (31.52%) Data Engineering
5 495 (29.55%) Business Intelligence
6 492 (29.37%) CI/CD
7 437 (26.09%) Agile
8 422 (25.19%) Migration
9 371 (22.15%) DevOps
10 343 (20.48%) Data Governance
11 322 (19.22%) Validation
12 320 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
13 300 (17.91%) Data Integration
14 286 (17.07%) AI
15 259 (15.46%) Data Migration
16 257 (15.34%) Data Architecture
17 227 (13.55%) Decision-Making
18 214 (12.78%) Test Automation
19 202 (12.06%) Stakeholder Management
20 180 (10.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,119 (66.81%) SQL
2 700 (41.79%) Python
3 144 (8.60%) Java
4 94 (5.61%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.48%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 64 (3.82%) C#
8 55 (3.28%) Scala
9 41 (2.45%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.03%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.67%) Bash
12 25 (1.49%) TypeScript
13 24 (1.43%) Shell Script
14 18 (1.07%) R
15 15 (0.90%) Bicep
16 10 (0.60%) Cypher
17 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) VBA
18 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
18 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 458 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 379 (22.63%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.21%) Degree
4 47 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 46 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.51%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 558 (33.31%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.84%) QA
3 116 (6.93%) GDPR
4 18 (1.07%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.07%) IFRS
4 18 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 15 (0.90%) IFRS 17
6 13 (0.78%) PMO
6 13 (0.78%) SLA
7 10 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.48%) FATCA
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
9 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.30%) GAAP
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) HL7
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (7.16%) 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
1 151 (9.01%) Terraform
2 127 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.33%) Grafana
4 17 (1.01%) Ansible
4 17 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.36%) Control-M
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.18%) Foglight
7 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.12%) SCCM
8 1 (0.060%) Argo
8 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.060%) Istio
8 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 334 (19.94%) Databricks
2 302 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 298 (17.79%) Oracle
4 161 (9.61%) Informatica
5 143 (8.54%) Talend
6 75 (4.48%) SAP
7 65 (3.88%) Google
8 62 (3.70%) Denodo
9 42 (2.51%) ServiceNow
10 38 (2.27%) IBM
11 34 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 27 (1.61%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.31%) Sage
14 19 (1.13%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.07%) Splunk
16 17 (1.01%) OpenAI
17 15 (0.90%) Workday
18 13 (0.78%) Palantir
19 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
20 11 (0.66%) ESRI