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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 71 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,382 968 1,011
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 3.21% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.56% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,031 656 765
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 16
10th Percentile £51.21 - £31.38
25th Percentile £54.06 £26.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate £65.67 £35.00 £50.78
Median % change year-on-year +87.64% -31.07% +41.05%
75th Percentile £71.60 £78.70 £62.45
90th Percentile £78.53 £102.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +138.81% -9.84% -12.86%

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 35,800 27,183 38,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.06% 86.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,707 16,972 25,287
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £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 £723 £740 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.13% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 882 2,256
10th Percentile £14.65 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.61 £32.50 £33.03
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -1.61% -5.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £59.44
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.48 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £34.36
% change year-on-year -21.41% -6.85% -1.84%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +4 1,215 £500 -4.76% 516
London +16 703 £525 -4.55% 179
UK excluding London -9 538 £463 -6.00% 405
Work from Home -4 423 £500 -0.50% 276
Midlands +15 180 £485 +1.68% 73
West Midlands +17 156 £495 +0.35% 55
North of England -40 136 £450 -2.70% 86
North West -18 81 £438 -5.96% 39
South East -38 72 £475 -9.52% 136
South West -6 64 £525 -12.50% 58
Scotland +16 56 £463 +8.82% 18
Yorkshire -54 44 £500 +38.89% 34
East Midlands -22 24 £470 +21.29% 16
East of England -22 24 £535 +1.95% 29
Northern Ireland +5 10 £400 -23.81% 2
North East -9 10 £475 -5.00% 14
Wales -12 10 £410 -18.00% 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
1 136 (9.84%) Apache Spark
2 111 (8.03%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (6.01%) Apache
4 66 (4.78%) SAS
5 24 (1.74%) Confluence
6 15 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.58%) Appian
7 8 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.22%) CMS
11 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
13 1 (0.072%) Moodle
Applications
1 44 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.22%) Trello
7 1 (0.072%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.01%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.36%) Maximo
9 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
9 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.29%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.14%) Actimize
11 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 592 (42.84%) Azure
2 447 (32.34%) AWS
3 321 (23.23%) Power Platform
4 223 (16.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (13.17%) GCP
6 162 (11.72%) Snowflake
7 154 (11.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (10.49%) Amazon S3
9 123 (8.90%) Serverless
10 115 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
11 96 (6.95%) GitHub
12 86 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
13 73 (5.28%) dbt
14 47 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.89%) Collibra
17 37 (2.68%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.68%) SaaS
18 29 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
19 27 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.58%) HTTP
2 7 (0.51%) 5G
3 6 (0.43%) 2G
3 6 (0.43%) 4G
3 6 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.14%) DSL
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.072%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.072%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (29.45%) Data Warehouse
2 303 (21.92%) Power BI
3 227 (16.43%) Data Lake
4 170 (12.30%) SQL Server
5 140 (10.13%) Metadata
6 98 (7.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.73%) Big Data
8 91 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
9 84 (6.08%) Relational Database
10 81 (5.86%) Tableau
11 77 (5.57%) Azure SQL Database
12 76 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 71 (5.14%) Pentaho
14 70 (5.07%) NoSQL
15 65 (4.70%) Delta Lake
16 61 (4.41%) BigQuery
17 58 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
18 54 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (3.55%) Hadoop
19 49 (3.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 178 (12.88%) Git
2 106 (7.67%) JIRA
3 83 (6.01%) Jenkins
4 60 (4.34%) GitLab
5 34 (2.46%) Postman
6 23 (1.66%) MLflow
7 16 (1.16%) ERwin
7 16 (1.16%) Zephyr
8 15 (1.09%) Selenium
9 9 (0.65%) JMeter
10 7 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.36%) NUnit
11 5 (0.36%) TestRail
11 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.29%) DBeaver
12 4 (0.29%) Gatling
12 4 (0.29%) MSTest
12 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
General
1 422 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 345 (24.96%) Finance
3 229 (16.57%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.83%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.81%) Banking
6 39 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.03%) Retail
8 23 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.59%) Marketing
10 15 (1.09%) Legal
11 14 (1.01%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.01%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.94%) Law
13 12 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.58%) Publishing
16 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.43%) Front Office
17 6 (0.43%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 541 (39.15%) Data Engineer
2 167 (12.08%) Developer
3 147 (10.64%) Senior
4 146 (10.56%) Architect
5 142 (10.27%) Lead
6 127 (9.19%) Analyst
7 94 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 90 (6.51%) Data Architect
9 83 (6.01%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
11 41 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 36 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.53%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (2.39%) Python Engineer
15 31 (2.24%) Consultant
16 30 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
16 30 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
17 29 (2.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 28 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (12.01%) PySpark
2 120 (8.68%) Kafka
3 87 (6.30%) REST
4 50 (3.62%) Pandas
5 44 (3.18%) XML
6 42 (3.04%) JSON
7 34 (2.46%) .NET
7 34 (2.46%) NumPy
8 29 (2.10%) PyTorch
8 29 (2.10%) RESTful
9 24 (1.74%) OAuth
9 24 (1.74%) pytest
10 23 (1.66%) Middleware
11 20 (1.45%) TensorFlow
12 19 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (1.37%) scikit-learn
12 19 (1.37%) YAML
13 18 (1.30%) SOAP
14 17 (1.23%) Hugging Face
14 17 (1.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.32%) Cloud Native
2 100 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
6 24 (1.74%) Algorithms
6 24 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 24 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.23%) Replication
11 16 (1.16%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.09%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.94%) IoT
14 12 (0.87%) Clustering
14 12 (0.87%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.32%) Linux
2 24 (1.74%) Unix
3 16 (1.16%) Windows
4 11 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.51%) Solaris
7 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.29%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.072%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 651 (47.11%) Data Modelling
2 587 (42.47%) Analytics
3 521 (37.70%) Data Pipeline
4 439 (31.77%) Data Engineering
5 433 (31.33%) Business Intelligence
6 412 (29.81%) CI/CD
7 356 (25.76%) Agile
8 339 (24.53%) Data Governance
9 319 (23.08%) DevOps
10 316 (22.87%) Problem-Solving
11 289 (20.91%) Migration
12 232 (16.79%) Data Architecture
13 225 (16.28%) Data Integration
14 221 (15.99%) Validation
15 187 (13.53%) Data Migration
16 176 (12.74%) Data Science
17 175 (12.66%) AI
18 168 (12.16%) Decision-Making
19 160 (11.58%) Test Automation
20 153 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 911 (65.92%) SQL
2 666 (48.19%) Python
3 114 (8.25%) Java
4 58 (4.20%) C#
5 57 (4.12%) T-SQL
6 53 (3.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.69%) PL/SQL
7 51 (3.69%) Scala
8 44 (3.18%) JavaScript
9 30 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.30%) Bash
12 17 (1.23%) Bicep
13 15 (1.09%) R
13 15 (1.09%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.94%) Go
15 11 (0.80%) VBA
16 10 (0.72%) PHP
17 6 (0.43%) Cypher
17 6 (0.43%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 309 (22.36%) Security Cleared
2 250 (18.09%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.60%) Degree
4 54 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (3.26%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.11%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.24%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.94%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.43%) PMP
12 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.22%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.072%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (33.57%) Data Quality
2 117 (8.47%) QA
3 111 (8.03%) GDPR
4 23 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.59%) IFRS
6 19 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.23%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.58%) PMO
10 7 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.43%) SLA
12 5 (0.36%) GAAP
12 5 (0.36%) MiFID
13 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.22%) Basel III
14 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.22%) FATCA
14 3 (0.22%) GMP
System Software
1 129 (9.33%) Docker
2 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
4 3 (0.22%) zsh
5 1 (0.072%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 138 (9.99%) Kubernetes
2 134 (9.70%) Terraform
3 16 (1.16%) Grafana
3 16 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.09%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
5 5 (0.36%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) logstash
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.072%) Foglight
8 1 (0.072%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.072%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.072%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 294 (21.27%) Databricks
2 228 (16.50%) Microsoft
3 206 (14.91%) Oracle
4 119 (8.61%) Informatica
5 112 (8.10%) Talend
6 57 (4.12%) Google
7 56 (4.05%) SAP
8 44 (3.18%) Denodo
9 35 (2.53%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.32%) Salesforce
11 28 (2.03%) IBM
12 23 (1.66%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.37%) Splunk
14 16 (1.16%) Workday
15 15 (1.09%) Palantir
16 13 (0.94%) Ab Initio
16 13 (0.94%) Sage
17 12 (0.87%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.80%) Alteryx
18 11 (0.80%) Foundry