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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 73 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,437 948 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 3.21% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.55% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 647 759
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £620
90th Percentile £675 £689 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -4.78% -1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 17
10th Percentile £35.53 £26.13 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.22 £26.31 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £38.75 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.16% -23.27% +40.28%
75th Percentile £70.39 £87.67 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.58 £102.00 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £58.96 £30.44
% change year-on-year +8.55% +93.72% -13.04%

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 36,537 26,694 38,745
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 90.29% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,174 17,018 25,183
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,160 902 2,347
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.51 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £77.10 £71.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.55 £31.76 £31.80
% change year-on-year -16.40% -0.13% -9.14%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +8 1,269 £500 -4.76% 443
London +26 715 £523 -5.00% 125
UK excluding London -3 576 £468 -4.78% 316
Work from Home +3 442 £500 - 222
Midlands +18 199 £495 +3.72% 69
West Midlands +16 173 £500 +1.42% 53
North of England -29 150 £460 -0.54% 72
North West -14 85 £442 -5.50% 36
South East -40 79 £475 -5.47% 101
South West -5 65 £525 -10.64% 41
Scotland +12 53 £450 +5.88% 11
Yorkshire -44 50 £500 +38.89% 26
East Midlands -19 26 £465 +20.00% 16
East of England -26 24 £475 -9.52% 20
North East -7 14 £525 +5.00% 11
Northern Ireland +4 10 £400 -23.81%
Wales -11 9 £405 -19.00% 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
1 140 (9.74%) Apache Spark
2 110 (7.65%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (6.12%) Apache
4 69 (4.80%) SAS
5 29 (2.02%) Confluence
6 18 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.56%) Appian
8 8 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.56%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.49%) nginx
10 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.21%) Camunda
12 3 (0.21%) CMS
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 46 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.35%) Maximo
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 607 (42.24%) Azure
2 457 (31.80%) AWS
3 349 (24.29%) Power Platform
4 232 (16.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 183 (12.73%) GCP
6 161 (11.20%) Snowflake
7 158 (11.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 151 (10.51%) Amazon S3
9 122 (8.49%) Serverless
10 118 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
11 101 (7.03%) GitHub
12 88 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
13 76 (5.29%) dbt
14 48 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 48 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (2.99%) Collibra
16 38 (2.64%) SaaS
17 34 (2.37%) Amazon EMR
18 30 (2.09%) AWS Step Functions
19 28 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.56%) HTTP
2 7 (0.49%) 5G
3 6 (0.42%) 2G
3 6 (0.42%) 4G
3 6 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (0.35%) Firewall
4 5 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.14%) DSL
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (29.51%) Data Warehouse
2 331 (23.03%) Power BI
3 228 (15.87%) Data Lake
4 177 (12.32%) SQL Server
5 139 (9.67%) Metadata
6 101 (7.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
8 93 (6.47%) Big Data
9 90 (6.26%) Tableau
10 87 (6.05%) Relational Database
11 82 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 80 (5.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 73 (5.08%) Pentaho
14 72 (5.01%) Delta Lake
14 72 (5.01%) NoSQL
15 64 (4.45%) BigQuery
16 60 (4.18%) Snowflake Schema
17 56 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (3.41%) Hadoop
18 49 (3.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 186 (12.94%) Git
2 108 (7.52%) JIRA
3 86 (5.98%) Jenkins
4 62 (4.31%) GitLab
5 34 (2.37%) Postman
6 23 (1.60%) MLflow
7 16 (1.11%) ERwin
7 16 (1.11%) Zephyr
8 14 (0.97%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.35%) NUnit
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
11 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) MSTest
12 4 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 424 (29.51%) Social Skills
2 353 (24.57%) Finance
3 239 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.31%) Banking
6 41 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.81%) Retail
8 23 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.53%) Marketing
10 21 (1.46%) Legal
11 18 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.97%) Law
14 11 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.56%) Publishing
17 7 (0.49%) Front Office
18 6 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
18 6 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 563 (39.18%) Data Engineer
2 177 (12.32%) Developer
3 153 (10.65%) Architect
3 153 (10.65%) Senior
4 147 (10.23%) Lead
5 132 (9.19%) Analyst
6 97 (6.75%) Senior Data Engineer
7 92 (6.40%) Data Architect
8 87 (6.05%) Data Analyst
9 48 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (2.51%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (2.37%) AWS Data Engineer
14 34 (2.37%) Python Engineer
15 33 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (2.16%) Consultant
17 30 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
18 29 (2.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (11.97%) PySpark
2 126 (8.77%) Kafka
3 93 (6.47%) REST
4 52 (3.62%) Pandas
5 42 (2.92%) JSON
5 42 (2.92%) XML
6 36 (2.51%) .NET
7 32 (2.23%) NumPy
8 30 (2.09%) RESTful
9 27 (1.88%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.67%) OAuth
11 22 (1.53%) Middleware
11 22 (1.53%) pytest
12 21 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.39%) SOAP
14 18 (1.25%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.25%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.25%) TensorFlow
14 18 (1.25%) YAML
15 17 (1.18%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.35%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.31%) Data Structures
3 73 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.23%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 21 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.11%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.11%) Replication
12 15 (1.04%) IoT
12 15 (1.04%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
14 12 (0.84%) Clustering
14 12 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.09%) Linux
2 23 (1.60%) Unix
3 16 (1.11%) Windows
4 11 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.49%) Solaris
7 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.28%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (46.49%) Data Modelling
2 615 (42.80%) Analytics
3 537 (37.37%) Data Pipeline
4 466 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
5 462 (32.15%) Data Engineering
6 422 (29.37%) CI/CD
7 366 (25.47%) Agile
8 347 (24.15%) Data Governance
9 329 (22.89%) DevOps
10 325 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
11 304 (21.16%) Migration
12 236 (16.42%) Validation
13 232 (16.14%) Data Architecture
13 232 (16.14%) Data Integration
14 199 (13.85%) Data Migration
15 184 (12.80%) Decision-Making
16 182 (12.67%) AI
17 173 (12.04%) Data Science
18 164 (11.41%) Test Automation
19 155 (10.79%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 952 (66.25%) SQL
2 675 (46.97%) Python
3 120 (8.35%) Java
4 62 (4.31%) C#
5 59 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 56 (3.90%) T-SQL
7 52 (3.62%) PL/SQL
7 52 (3.62%) Scala
8 44 (3.06%) JavaScript
9 32 (2.23%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.39%) Bash
10 20 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.32%) Bicep
12 15 (1.04%) R
12 15 (1.04%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.90%) VBA
14 12 (0.84%) Go
15 10 (0.70%) PHP
16 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.42%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 322 (22.41%) Security Cleared
2 257 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.52%) Degree
4 55 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.90%) DV Cleared
12 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.42%) PMP
13 4 (0.28%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.21%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 3 (0.21%) SnowPro
15 1 (0.070%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 483 (33.61%) Data Quality
2 120 (8.35%) QA
3 116 (8.07%) GDPR
4 24 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.53%) IFRS
6 19 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.18%) IFRS 17
8 9 (0.63%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.56%) PMO
9 8 (0.56%) SLA
10 7 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.35%) GAAP
11 5 (0.35%) MiFID
12 4 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.21%) Basel III
13 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.21%) FATCA
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 130 (9.05%) Docker
2 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) HDFS
4 2 (0.14%) zsh
5 1 (0.070%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 141 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 139 (9.67%) Terraform
3 19 (1.32%) Grafana
4 17 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.04%) Ansible
6 4 (0.28%) Control-M
6 4 (0.28%) Kibana
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.21%) logstash
8 2 (0.14%) Foglight
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.070%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.070%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 302 (21.02%) Databricks
2 246 (17.12%) Microsoft
3 211 (14.68%) Oracle
4 124 (8.63%) Informatica
5 116 (8.07%) Talend
6 62 (4.31%) Google
7 58 (4.04%) SAP
8 47 (3.27%) Denodo
9 38 (2.64%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.16%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.95%) IBM
12 23 (1.60%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.32%) Splunk
14 17 (1.18%) Palantir
14 17 (1.18%) Workday
15 15 (1.04%) Sage
16 13 (0.90%) Ab Initio
16 13 (0.90%) Foundry
17 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.70%) Alteryx