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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,730 942 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.86% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.16% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 634 705
10th Percentile £358 £357 £360
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £470 £480
% change year-on-year -0.21% -2.08% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 8
10th Percentile £22.12 £36.15 £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +12.26% -40.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £82.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £26.05
% change year-on-year -44.82% +139.92% -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 45,250 29,801 33,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.81% 90.48% 85.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,843 18,616 21,279
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,819 1,703 1,838
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.31 £18.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.38 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +13.33%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 1,546 £500 -0.79% 484
UK excluding London +21 780 £469 -0.21% 266
London +1 761 £525 - 272
Work from Home +21 532 £500 - 204
Midlands +22 292 £459 -0.76% 51
West Midlands +39 257 £459 -8.20% 39
North of England -4 181 £475 - 62
South East +21 147 £459 +2.00% 86
Yorkshire -2 82 £475 +11.76% 16
North West -23 75 £475 -5.00% 34
South West -24 67 £523 +13.59% 30
East of England +8 54 £469 -14.77% 12
Scotland -5 40 £430 +0.23% 13
East Midlands -16 34 £490 +15.43% 12
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 13
Wales -8 7 £313 -33.86% 7
Northern Ireland +2 3 £334 -34.83% 5

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
1 133 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 130 (7.51%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (6.94%) SAS
4 99 (5.72%) Apache
5 67 (3.87%) Confluence
6 28 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.75%) nginx
9 12 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.17%) Camunda
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.58%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.17%) Actimize
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 672 (38.84%) Azure
2 521 (30.12%) AWS
3 409 (23.64%) Power Platform
4 235 (13.58%) Azure Data Factory
5 220 (12.72%) GCP
6 216 (12.49%) Snowflake
7 147 (8.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
9 136 (7.86%) Amazon S3
10 135 (7.80%) Serverless
11 120 (6.94%) dbt
12 111 (6.42%) GitHub
13 107 (6.18%) AWS Lambda
14 59 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
16 40 (2.31%) Collibra
17 34 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.73%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 8 (0.46%) VPN
4 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.17%) DHCP
5 3 (0.17%) DNS
5 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.058%) 4G
7 1 (0.058%) 5G
7 1 (0.058%) LTE
7 1 (0.058%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 596 (34.45%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (22.77%) Power BI
3 265 (15.32%) Data Lake
4 164 (9.48%) Metadata
5 162 (9.36%) SQL Server
6 104 (6.01%) Relational Database
7 102 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
8 99 (5.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 95 (5.49%) Tableau
10 94 (5.43%) BigQuery
11 93 (5.38%) Delta Lake
12 89 (5.14%) Pentaho
13 86 (4.97%) Big Data
14 80 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
15 79 (4.57%) NoSQL
16 78 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
17 67 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
18 63 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
19 56 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
20 51 (2.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 200 (11.56%) Git
2 156 (9.02%) JIRA
3 102 (5.90%) GitLab
4 75 (4.34%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.89%) Zephyr
6 46 (2.66%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 11 (0.64%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.29%) ERwin
10 5 (0.29%) Gatling
10 5 (0.29%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
General
1 418 (24.16%) Social Skills
2 372 (21.50%) Finance
3 318 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (11.50%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.40%) Banking
6 38 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (1.97%) Retail
8 30 (1.73%) Manufacturing
8 30 (1.73%) Marketing
9 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.27%) Legal
11 19 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 17 (0.98%) Telecoms
13 16 (0.92%) Law
14 13 (0.75%) Front Office
15 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.64%) Billing
16 11 (0.64%) Police
17 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 686 (39.65%) Data Engineer
2 248 (14.34%) Developer
3 234 (13.53%) Architect
4 221 (12.77%) Senior
5 174 (10.06%) Lead
6 145 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 128 (7.40%) Data Architect
8 118 (6.82%) Analyst
9 63 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (3.29%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.89%) Tester
14 48 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 43 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
15 43 (2.49%) Snowflake Engineer
16 41 (2.37%) SQL Developer
17 40 (2.31%) Python Engineer
18 38 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
19 37 (2.14%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (10.23%) PySpark
2 135 (7.80%) Kafka
3 76 (4.39%) REST
4 56 (3.24%) JSON
5 45 (2.60%) .NET
6 35 (2.02%) Pandas
7 27 (1.56%) Middleware
7 27 (1.56%) React
8 26 (1.50%) XML
9 24 (1.39%) Spring
10 22 (1.27%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.10%) YAML
12 15 (0.87%) RESTful
13 14 (0.81%) OAuth
13 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.75%) pytest
14 13 (0.75%) SOAP
15 12 (0.69%) Great Expectations
15 12 (0.69%) HTML
16 11 (0.64%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 81 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.45%) NHS
8 22 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.21%) Clustering
10 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
10 20 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 18 (1.04%) Replication
12 15 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.64%) Data Fabric
14 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.58%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.64%) Linux
2 53 (3.06%) Unix
3 18 (1.04%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (47.17%) Data Modelling
2 717 (41.45%) Data Pipeline
3 676 (39.08%) Analytics
4 531 (30.69%) Data Engineering
5 526 (30.40%) CI/CD
6 502 (29.02%) Agile
7 496 (28.67%) Business Intelligence
8 468 (27.05%) Migration
9 397 (22.95%) DevOps
10 383 (22.14%) Data Integration
11 362 (20.92%) Data Governance
12 329 (19.02%) Validation
13 313 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
14 286 (16.53%) Data Migration
15 273 (15.78%) AI
16 249 (14.39%) Test Automation
17 248 (14.34%) Data Architecture
18 243 (14.05%) Stakeholder Management
19 226 (13.06%) Data Transformation
20 217 (12.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,152 (66.59%) SQL
2 658 (38.03%) Python
3 150 (8.67%) Java
4 87 (5.03%) T-SQL
5 85 (4.91%) PL/SQL
6 72 (4.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 53 (3.06%) C#
8 51 (2.95%) Scala
9 49 (2.83%) JavaScript
10 44 (2.54%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.25%) Bash
12 32 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.16%) R
13 20 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 17 (0.98%) Bicep
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
15 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) VBA
17 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 503 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 426 (24.62%) SC Cleared
3 77 (4.45%) Degree
4 45 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.97%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 612 (35.38%) Data Quality
2 147 (8.50%) QA
3 97 (5.61%) GDPR
4 39 (2.25%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.58%) PMO
9 9 (0.52%) HL7
9 9 (0.52%) IFRS
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.46%) WCAG
11 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.29%) FATCA
12 5 (0.29%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 132 (7.63%) Docker
2 16 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (8.79%) Terraform
2 130 (7.51%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.43%) Grafana
4 22 (1.27%) Ansible
5 13 (0.75%) Control-M
6 12 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.058%) Argo
10 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 349 (20.17%) Databricks
2 348 (20.12%) Oracle
3 304 (17.57%) Microsoft
4 157 (9.08%) Informatica
5 140 (8.09%) Talend
6 81 (4.68%) SAP
7 75 (4.34%) Google
8 69 (3.99%) Denodo
9 47 (2.72%) IBM
10 37 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 36 (2.08%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.68%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.27%) Sage
14 21 (1.21%) Palantir
15 16 (0.92%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.87%) Cloudera
16 15 (0.87%) Foundry
17 14 (0.81%) Teradata
18 13 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 12 (0.69%) Workday