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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 81 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,706 963 1,078
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.95% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.26% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 651 792
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.32%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £465 £485
% change year-on-year -0.27% -4.02% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 10
10th Percentile £29.96 - £29.51
25th Percentile £34.01 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £51.38
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.74 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -29.18% +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 44,845 29,559 36,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.12% 90.45% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,888 18,632 23,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.67% -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 2,665 1,513 2,446
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +82.48% -35.31% +0.51%

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 13 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 13 July 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 13 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 +12 1,518 £500 -0.99% 392
UK excluding London +15 784 £464 -0.27% 252
London +6 747 £520 -1.89% 210
Work from Home +14 538 £500 - 187
Midlands +29 278 £459 +2.00% 44
West Midlands +39 241 £455 -2.15% 26
North of England -15 189 £463 -2.63% 65
South East +2 145 £463 -7.50% 64
North West -21 89 £450 -10.00% 34
Yorkshire -18 77 £483 +10.92% 17
South West -21 67 £523 +10.00% 56
Scotland -11 56 £425 -0.47% 8
East of England 0 48 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -12 36 £525 +17.77% 18
North East -18 23 £525 +25.00% 15
Wales -10 9 £313 -32.07% 3
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -36.38% 7

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 (8.68%) Apache Spark
2 136 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
3 96 (5.63%) Apache
4 85 (4.98%) SAS
5 64 (3.75%) Confluence
6 20 (1.17%) Oracle Application Server
7 16 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.88%) nginx
8 15 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.53%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 680 (39.86%) Azure
2 527 (30.89%) AWS
3 412 (24.15%) Power Platform
4 221 (12.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 210 (12.31%) GCP
6 191 (11.20%) Snowflake
7 156 (9.14%) Amazon S3
8 154 (9.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 148 (8.68%) Azure DevOps
10 145 (8.50%) Serverless
11 117 (6.86%) dbt
12 116 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
13 111 (6.51%) GitHub
14 57 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
16 49 (2.87%) Collibra
17 39 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.76%) Power Automate
19 29 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
20 28 (1.64%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.88%) 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 (0.059%) 4G
6 1 (0.059%) 5G
6 1 (0.059%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.059%) DHCP
6 1 (0.059%) DNS
6 1 (0.059%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 526 (30.83%) Data Warehouse
2 391 (22.92%) Power BI
3 251 (14.71%) Data Lake
4 171 (10.02%) SQL Server
5 157 (9.20%) Metadata
6 104 (6.10%) Big Data
7 103 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
7 103 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 101 (5.92%) Delta Lake
8 101 (5.92%) Tableau
9 92 (5.39%) Relational Database
10 85 (4.98%) BigQuery
10 85 (4.98%) Pentaho
11 83 (4.87%) NoSQL
12 78 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
13 70 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 70 (4.10%) Oracle Reports
13 70 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
14 60 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
15 48 (2.81%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.43%) Git
2 155 (9.09%) JIRA
3 96 (5.63%) GitLab
4 72 (4.22%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.46%) Postman
6 39 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 21 (1.23%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 7 (0.41%) Gatling
10 6 (0.35%) ERwin
10 6 (0.35%) JMeter
10 6 (0.35%) NeoLoad
11 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.23%) Flyway
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) MSTest
12 4 (0.23%) NUnit
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 413 (24.21%) Social Skills
2 397 (23.27%) Finance
3 306 (17.94%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 116 (6.80%) Banking
6 48 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.82%) Marketing
8 28 (1.64%) Retail
9 24 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.35%) Legal
11 22 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.64%) Billing
14 11 (0.64%) Law
15 10 (0.59%) Front Office
15 10 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.53%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.53%) Military
16 9 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 696 (40.80%) Data Engineer
2 240 (14.07%) Developer
3 217 (12.72%) Architect
4 199 (11.66%) Senior
5 177 (10.38%) Lead
6 135 (7.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.56%) Data Architect
8 120 (7.03%) Analyst
9 66 (3.87%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
12 50 (2.93%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.70%) AWS Data Engineer
13 46 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
15 43 (2.52%) SQL Developer
16 42 (2.46%) Python Engineer
17 41 (2.40%) Lead Data Engineer
18 38 (2.23%) Tester
19 37 (2.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.20%) PySpark
2 146 (8.56%) Kafka
3 78 (4.57%) REST
4 54 (3.17%) JSON
5 45 (2.64%) Pandas
6 41 (2.40%) .NET
7 31 (1.82%) XML
8 28 (1.64%) Spring
9 27 (1.58%) Middleware
10 26 (1.52%) Spring Boot
11 23 (1.35%) PyTorch
11 23 (1.35%) RESTful
12 21 (1.23%) OAuth
13 20 (1.17%) React
14 18 (1.06%) YAML
15 17 (1.00%) NumPy
15 17 (1.00%) pytest
16 16 (0.94%) Web Services
17 15 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
17 15 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 167 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.68%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 47 (2.75%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.52%) NHS
8 22 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.23%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.17%) Clustering
10 20 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.00%) Replication
12 15 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.76%) IoT
13 13 (0.76%) Reinsurance
13 13 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.52%) Unix
2 41 (2.40%) Linux
3 20 (1.17%) Windows
4 12 (0.70%) Solaris
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (46.95%) Data Modelling
2 696 (40.80%) Data Pipeline
3 657 (38.51%) Analytics
4 532 (31.18%) Data Engineering
5 509 (29.84%) CI/CD
6 489 (28.66%) Business Intelligence
7 440 (25.79%) Agile
8 433 (25.38%) Migration
9 372 (21.81%) DevOps
10 357 (20.93%) Data Governance
11 339 (19.87%) Validation
12 328 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
13 322 (18.87%) Data Integration
14 281 (16.47%) AI
15 258 (15.12%) Data Migration
16 250 (14.65%) Data Architecture
17 231 (13.54%) Test Automation
18 227 (13.31%) Decision-Making
19 202 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
20 180 (10.55%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,138 (66.71%) SQL
2 699 (40.97%) Python
3 153 (8.97%) Java
4 90 (5.28%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.45%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 60 (3.52%) C#
8 56 (3.28%) Scala
9 38 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 34 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.64%) Bash
11 28 (1.64%) TypeScript
12 26 (1.52%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.06%) R
14 16 (0.94%) Bicep
15 11 (0.64%) Cypher
16 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.47%) VBA
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 472 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 395 (23.15%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.10%) Degree
4 50 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 18 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
11 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
15 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 566 (33.18%) Data Quality
2 154 (9.03%) QA
3 114 (6.68%) GDPR
4 21 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.94%) GRC
6 15 (0.88%) IFRS
7 14 (0.82%) PMO
7 14 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.64%) IFRS 17
9 9 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.53%) SLA
10 8 (0.47%) FATCA
11 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.35%) HL7
12 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) GMP
13 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
13 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 122 (7.15%) Docker
2 8 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
5 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.059%) RACF
7 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (8.97%) Terraform
2 130 (7.62%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.40%) Grafana
4 18 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.94%) Ansible
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.29%) Control-M
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 334 (19.58%) Databricks
2 312 (18.29%) Oracle
3 292 (17.12%) Microsoft
4 160 (9.38%) Informatica
5 145 (8.50%) Talend
6 75 (4.40%) SAP
7 68 (3.99%) Google
8 62 (3.63%) Denodo
9 43 (2.52%) IBM
10 40 (2.34%) ServiceNow
11 36 (2.11%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.70%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.35%) Sage
14 19 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.06%) Splunk
16 17 (1.00%) OpenAI
17 14 (0.82%) Palantir
18 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
19 11 (0.64%) Cloudera
19 11 (0.64%) Teradata