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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 72 97
Rank change year-on-year +2 +25 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,426 959 1,001
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.38% 3.22% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.57% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,063 656 759
10th Percentile £358 £352 £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 £688 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -4.88% -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 36,399 26,862 38,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 90.27% 86.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,113 17,118 25,178
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 £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,154 913 2,346
10th Percentile £14.64 £15.52 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.25 £71.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.76 £31.50
% change year-on-year -18.86% +0.83% -10.00%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +6 1,256 £500 -4.76% 472
London +19 711 £523 -4.91% 176
UK excluding London -6 568 £468 -4.88% 361
Work from Home +1 438 £500 +0.05% 226
Midlands +19 196 £489 +2.41% 66
West Midlands +19 170 £499 +1.17% 50
North of England -33 144 £454 -1.84% 88
North West -12 82 £431 -7.85% 43
South East -42 78 £475 -5.94% 119
South West -8 65 £525 -10.64% 48
Scotland +12 53 £463 +8.82% 11
Yorkshire -47 48 £500 +38.89% 31
East Midlands -21 26 £465 +20.00% 15
East of England -25 26 £475 -9.52% 26
North East -6 13 £525 +5.00% 15
Wales -13 11 £410 -18.00% 10
Northern Ireland +4 10 £400 -23.81%

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
1 139 (9.75%) Apache Spark
2 110 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (6.03%) Apache
4 68 (4.77%) SAS
5 29 (2.03%) Confluence
6 18 (1.26%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.56%) Appian
7 8 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.49%) nginx
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 46 (3.23%) 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 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.35%) Maximo
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 603 (42.29%) Azure
2 453 (31.77%) AWS
3 342 (23.98%) Power Platform
4 230 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 181 (12.69%) GCP
6 162 (11.36%) Snowflake
7 157 (11.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 150 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 123 (8.63%) Serverless
10 116 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
11 99 (6.94%) GitHub
12 89 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (5.40%) dbt
14 49 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 46 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (2.95%) Collibra
17 38 (2.66%) SaaS
18 35 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
19 30 (2.10%) AWS Step Functions
20 28 (1.96%) 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%) VPN
5 3 (0.21%) Firewall
6 2 (0.14%) DSL
6 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (29.59%) Data Warehouse
2 324 (22.72%) Power BI
3 228 (15.99%) Data Lake
4 173 (12.13%) SQL Server
5 141 (9.89%) Metadata
6 101 (7.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.52%) Big Data
8 92 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
9 90 (6.31%) Tableau
10 87 (6.10%) Relational Database
11 83 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 78 (5.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 73 (5.12%) Pentaho
14 70 (4.91%) Delta Lake
15 69 (4.84%) NoSQL
16 63 (4.42%) BigQuery
17 60 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
18 56 (3.93%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (3.44%) Hadoop
20 48 (3.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 185 (12.97%) Git
2 108 (7.57%) JIRA
3 86 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 62 (4.35%) GitLab
5 34 (2.38%) Postman
6 23 (1.61%) MLflow
7 16 (1.12%) ERwin
7 16 (1.12%) Zephyr
8 14 (0.98%) 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%) DBeaver
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 427 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 353 (24.75%) Finance
3 235 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.29%) Banking
6 41 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.82%) Retail
8 23 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.54%) Marketing
10 19 (1.33%) Legal
11 18 (1.26%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.19%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.91%) Law
15 11 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.56%) Publishing
18 7 (0.49%) Front Office
19 6 (0.42%) General Ledger
19 6 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 560 (39.27%) Data Engineer
2 176 (12.34%) Developer
3 153 (10.73%) Architect
3 153 (10.73%) Senior
4 143 (10.03%) Lead
5 130 (9.12%) Analyst
6 97 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 92 (6.45%) Data Architect
8 85 (5.96%) Data Analyst
9 47 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
10 44 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 40 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (2.52%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (2.38%) Python Engineer
15 33 (2.31%) AWS Data Engineer
16 31 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
17 30 (2.10%) Consultant
18 29 (2.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 28 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (12.27%) PySpark
2 123 (8.63%) Kafka
3 91 (6.38%) REST
4 52 (3.65%) Pandas
5 42 (2.95%) JSON
5 42 (2.95%) XML
6 36 (2.52%) .NET
7 32 (2.24%) NumPy
8 30 (2.10%) RESTful
9 27 (1.89%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.68%) OAuth
11 22 (1.54%) Middleware
11 22 (1.54%) pytest
12 20 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
13 19 (1.33%) SOAP
14 18 (1.26%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.26%) TensorFlow
14 18 (1.26%) YAML
15 17 (1.19%) Hugging Face
15 17 (1.19%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 116 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.29%) Data Structures
3 70 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.61%) Algorithms
10 21 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 17 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.12%) Reinsurance
12 16 (1.12%) Replication
13 15 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.91%) IoT
15 12 (0.84%) Clustering
15 12 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.10%) Linux
2 23 (1.61%) Unix
3 16 (1.12%) 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
1 663 (46.49%) Data Modelling
2 608 (42.64%) Analytics
3 537 (37.66%) Data Pipeline
4 459 (32.19%) Data Engineering
5 458 (32.12%) Business Intelligence
6 418 (29.31%) CI/CD
7 365 (25.60%) Agile
8 343 (24.05%) Data Governance
9 325 (22.79%) DevOps
10 323 (22.65%) Problem-Solving
11 300 (21.04%) Migration
12 233 (16.34%) Data Integration
13 232 (16.27%) Data Architecture
13 232 (16.27%) Validation
14 197 (13.81%) Data Migration
15 183 (12.83%) Decision-Making
16 179 (12.55%) AI
17 173 (12.13%) Data Science
18 164 (11.50%) Test Automation
19 156 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 944 (66.20%) SQL
2 678 (47.55%) Python
3 119 (8.35%) Java
4 61 (4.28%) C#
5 58 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 57 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 52 (3.65%) Scala
8 51 (3.58%) PL/SQL
9 44 (3.09%) JavaScript
10 32 (2.24%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.40%) Bash
11 20 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.19%) Bicep
13 15 (1.05%) R
13 15 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.91%) VBA
15 12 (0.84%) Go
16 10 (0.70%) PHP
17 7 (0.49%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.42%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 321 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 257 (18.02%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.57%) Degree
4 55 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.51%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.88%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.45%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.42%) PMP
12 4 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.21%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.21%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.070%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 479 (33.59%) Data Quality
2 119 (8.35%) QA
3 114 (7.99%) GDPR
4 24 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.54%) IFRS
6 19 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.19%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.70%) 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 (9.12%) 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 (9.89%) Kubernetes
2 138 (9.68%) Terraform
3 19 (1.33%) Grafana
4 17 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.05%) 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
1 300 (21.04%) Databricks
2 240 (16.83%) Microsoft
3 210 (14.73%) Oracle
4 122 (8.56%) Informatica
5 116 (8.13%) Talend
6 61 (4.28%) Google
7 57 (4.00%) SAP
8 47 (3.30%) Denodo
9 39 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.24%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.96%) IBM
12 23 (1.61%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.33%) Splunk
14 18 (1.26%) Workday
15 16 (1.12%) Palantir
16 15 (1.05%) Sage
17 13 (0.91%) Ab Initio
18 12 (0.84%) Foundry
18 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
19 11 (0.77%) Alteryx