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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 72 99
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,444 984 1,014
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.38% 3.21% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.56% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,074 665 767
10th Percentile £358 £352 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £612
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 17
10th Percentile £35.53 - £32.10
25th Percentile £51.22 £26.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.86% -30.69% +40.28%
75th Percentile £70.39 £78.70 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.58 £102.00 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +132.73% -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 36,884 27,639 38,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.36% 90.19% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,378 17,377 25,379
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 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -2.58% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,184 915 2,310
10th Percentile £14.72 £15.62 £13.16
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.03 £16.06
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.81 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.66% +0.95% -7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £58.64
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.95 £71.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.30% -0.77% -7.14%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +9 1,273 £500 -4.76% 450
London +20 723 £524 -4.73% 179
UK excluding London -7 572 £463 -6.19% 333
Work from Home -1 445 £500 - 227
Midlands +20 196 £489 +2.41% 66
West Midlands +21 170 £499 +1.17% 52
North of England -37 146 £452 -2.38% 79
North West -19 84 £431 -7.85% 39
South East -31 79 £475 -9.52% 108
South West -10 65 £525 -10.64% 45
Scotland +15 53 £463 +8.82% 10
Yorkshire -51 48 £500 +38.89% 28
East of England -14 27 £475 -9.52% 22
East Midlands -19 26 £465 +20.00% 14
North East -6 13 £525 +5.00% 13
Wales -8 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 (9.63%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (5.96%) Apache
4 68 (4.71%) SAS
5 29 (2.01%) Confluence
6 19 (1.32%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.55%) Appian
7 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.48%) 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 47 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.55%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.35%) Maximo
8 5 (0.35%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 612 (42.38%) Azure
2 464 (32.13%) AWS
3 347 (24.03%) Power Platform
4 231 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 187 (12.95%) GCP
6 168 (11.63%) Snowflake
7 159 (11.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 152 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 128 (8.86%) Serverless
10 116 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (6.93%) GitHub
12 92 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (5.40%) dbt
14 50 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 47 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (2.91%) Collibra
17 38 (2.63%) SaaS
18 37 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (2.15%) AWS Step Functions
20 28 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.55%) HTTP
2 7 (0.48%) 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 (0.069%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.069%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (29.71%) Data Warehouse
2 329 (22.78%) Power BI
3 232 (16.07%) Data Lake
4 175 (12.12%) SQL Server
5 142 (9.83%) Metadata
6 102 (7.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.44%) Big Data
8 92 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
9 91 (6.30%) Tableau
10 88 (6.09%) Relational Database
11 86 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 78 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 73 (5.06%) Pentaho
14 71 (4.92%) NoSQL
15 70 (4.85%) Delta Lake
16 65 (4.50%) BigQuery
16 65 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 57 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.46%) Oracle Database
19 49 (3.39%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 184 (12.74%) Git
2 109 (7.55%) JIRA
3 87 (6.02%) Jenkins
4 62 (4.29%) GitLab
5 34 (2.35%) Postman
6 23 (1.59%) MLflow
7 16 (1.11%) ERwin
7 16 (1.11%) Zephyr
8 15 (1.04%) Selenium
9 9 (0.62%) JMeter
10 7 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.48%) 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
1 432 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 360 (24.93%) Finance
3 237 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.34%) Banking
6 41 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.87%) Retail
8 24 (1.66%) Financial Institution
9 23 (1.59%) Marketing
10 19 (1.32%) Legal
11 18 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 15 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.90%) Law
15 11 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.55%) Publishing
18 7 (0.48%) Front Office
19 6 (0.42%) General Ledger
19 6 (0.42%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 566 (39.20%) Data Engineer
2 178 (12.33%) Developer
3 155 (10.73%) Architect
4 153 (10.60%) Senior
5 144 (9.97%) Lead
6 131 (9.07%) Analyst
7 97 (6.72%) Senior Data Engineer
8 93 (6.44%) Data Architect
9 86 (5.96%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 40 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
13 38 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
14 36 (2.49%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (2.42%) Python Engineer
16 33 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
17 32 (2.22%) Lead Data Engineer
18 31 (2.15%) Consultant
18 31 (2.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 28 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (12.26%) PySpark
2 126 (8.73%) Kafka
3 92 (6.37%) REST
4 52 (3.60%) Pandas
5 43 (2.98%) JSON
5 43 (2.98%) XML
6 36 (2.49%) .NET
7 32 (2.22%) NumPy
8 30 (2.08%) RESTful
9 27 (1.87%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.66%) OAuth
11 23 (1.59%) Middleware
11 23 (1.59%) pytest
12 20 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
13 19 (1.32%) SOAP
13 19 (1.32%) YAML
14 18 (1.25%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.25%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.18%) Great Expectations
15 17 (1.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 118 (8.17%) Cloud Native
2 104 (7.20%) Data Structures
3 72 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.66%) Algorithms
8 24 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.18%) Replication
12 16 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.11%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.90%) Clustering
14 13 (0.90%) IoT
15 12 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.15%) Linux
2 24 (1.66%) Unix
3 16 (1.11%) Windows
4 11 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.48%) Solaris
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.28%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 674 (46.68%) Data Modelling
2 615 (42.59%) Analytics
3 546 (37.81%) Data Pipeline
4 465 (32.20%) Business Intelligence
5 462 (31.99%) Data Engineering
6 423 (29.29%) CI/CD
7 367 (25.42%) Agile
8 348 (24.10%) Data Governance
9 327 (22.65%) DevOps
10 325 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
11 303 (20.98%) Migration
12 236 (16.34%) Data Integration
13 234 (16.20%) Data Architecture
13 234 (16.20%) Validation
14 198 (13.71%) Data Migration
15 187 (12.95%) Decision-Making
16 180 (12.47%) AI
17 176 (12.19%) Data Science
18 165 (11.43%) Test Automation
19 156 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 958 (66.34%) SQL
2 688 (47.65%) Python
3 119 (8.24%) Java
4 61 (4.22%) C#
5 60 (4.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 60 (4.16%) T-SQL
6 53 (3.67%) PL/SQL
7 52 (3.60%) Scala
8 46 (3.19%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.29%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.39%) Bash
10 20 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.18%) Bicep
12 16 (1.11%) R
12 16 (1.11%) TypeScript
13 13 (0.90%) VBA
14 12 (0.83%) Go
15 10 (0.69%) PHP
16 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.42%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 325 (22.51%) Security Cleared
2 261 (18.07%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.62%) Degree
4 57 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.46%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.91%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.49%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.97%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.90%) 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%) SnowPro
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
14 1 (0.069%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (33.38%) Data Quality
2 120 (8.31%) QA
3 116 (8.03%) GDPR
4 24 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.52%) IFRS
6 19 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.18%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.69%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.55%) PMO
9 8 (0.55%) SLA
10 7 (0.48%) 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
1 133 (9.21%) 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 (0.069%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (9.83%) Kubernetes
2 140 (9.70%) Terraform
3 19 (1.32%) Grafana
4 17 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.04%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Control-M
6 5 (0.35%) Kibana
7 4 (0.28%) logstash
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.14%) Foglight
8 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.069%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 304 (21.05%) Databricks
2 243 (16.83%) Microsoft
3 213 (14.75%) Oracle
4 122 (8.45%) Informatica
5 116 (8.03%) Talend
6 62 (4.29%) Google
7 58 (4.02%) SAP
8 47 (3.25%) Denodo
9 39 (2.70%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.22%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.94%) IBM
12 23 (1.59%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.32%) Splunk
13 19 (1.32%) Workday
14 16 (1.11%) Palantir
15 15 (1.04%) Sage
16 13 (0.90%) Ab Initio
17 12 (0.83%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.83%) Foundry
17 12 (0.83%) OpenAI