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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,733 953 1,049
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 2.89% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.20% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 648 769
10th Percentile £356 £358 £360
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -0.27% -2.37% -9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 8
10th Percentile £29.96 - £27.78
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.78 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -40.83% +171.02% -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 45,137 29,773 34,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.43% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,973 18,705 22,228
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.14%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,675 1,607 2,050
10th Percentile £14.81 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.33 £17.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.09% -

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +13 1,538 £500 -0.79% 317
UK excluding London +15 784 £463 -0.27% 206
London +5 763 £525 -0.94% 149
Work from Home +18 546 £500 - 155
Midlands +25 281 £459 +2.00% 40
West Midlands +44 246 £450 -6.25% 27
North of England -11 185 £463 -2.63% 65
South East +3 138 £459 -2.13% 53
North West -19 83 £460 -8.00% 30
Yorkshire -15 78 £463 +8.82% 20
South West -22 69 £523 +10.00% 30
Scotland -1 57 £425 - 6
East of England +5 54 £481 -3.75% 8
East Midlands -14 34 £490 +10.96% 13
North East -22 25 £531 +11.79% 18
Wales -12 8 £313 -32.07% 4
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -36.38% 2

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
1 150 (8.66%) Apache Spark
2 137 (7.91%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (6.17%) SAS
4 101 (5.83%) Apache
5 68 (3.92%) Confluence
6 21 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
6 21 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.75%) nginx
7 13 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Appian
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.63%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.17%) Actimize
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 670 (38.66%) Azure
2 523 (30.18%) AWS
3 407 (23.49%) Power Platform
4 220 (12.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 220 (12.69%) GCP
5 199 (11.48%) Snowflake
6 153 (8.83%) Amazon S3
7 152 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (8.31%) Serverless
9 142 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
10 124 (7.16%) dbt
11 117 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
12 104 (6.00%) GitHub
13 56 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
15 49 (2.83%) Collibra
16 42 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 29 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.81%) HTTP
2 12 (0.69%) Firewall
3 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (32.08%) Data Warehouse
2 389 (22.45%) Power BI
3 263 (15.18%) Data Lake
4 170 (9.81%) SQL Server
5 166 (9.58%) Metadata
6 107 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 103 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 101 (5.83%) Big Data
8 101 (5.83%) Tableau
9 99 (5.71%) Relational Database
10 92 (5.31%) BigQuery
11 90 (5.19%) Delta Lake
12 83 (4.79%) Pentaho
13 80 (4.62%) NoSQL
14 78 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
15 73 (4.21%) Oracle Reports
16 65 (3.75%) Snowflake Schema
17 64 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
18 61 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
19 53 (3.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (11.08%) Git
2 154 (8.89%) JIRA
3 91 (5.25%) GitLab
4 67 (3.87%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.48%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.25%) Postman
7 18 (1.04%) MLflow
8 13 (0.75%) Selenium
9 6 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) NUnit
12 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 412 (23.77%) Social Skills
2 393 (22.68%) Finance
3 309 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.39%) Banking
6 50 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.90%) Marketing
8 25 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.44%) Legal
8 25 (1.44%) Retail
9 22 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 13 (0.75%) Front Office
12 13 (0.75%) Law
12 13 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.63%) Billing
15 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 683 (39.41%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.25%) Developer
3 239 (13.79%) Architect
4 205 (11.83%) Senior
5 172 (9.92%) Lead
6 137 (7.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 134 (7.73%) Data Architect
8 129 (7.44%) Analyst
9 69 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (2.71%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
13 46 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.65%) Tester
14 45 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.60%) SQL Developer
15 43 (2.48%) Python Engineer
16 40 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.73%) PySpark
2 146 (8.42%) Kafka
3 79 (4.56%) REST
4 62 (3.58%) JSON
5 46 (2.65%) Pandas
6 43 (2.48%) .NET
7 31 (1.79%) XML
8 30 (1.73%) Middleware
9 25 (1.44%) Spring
10 24 (1.38%) React
11 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.21%) RESTful
13 20 (1.15%) OAuth
13 20 (1.15%) PyTorch
14 19 (1.10%) YAML
15 18 (1.04%) NumPy
15 18 (1.04%) Web Services
16 16 (0.92%) pytest
17 15 (0.87%) Apache Avro
17 15 (0.87%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 86 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 25 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 24 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
12 21 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
14 19 (1.10%) Clustering
15 18 (1.04%) Replication
16 14 (0.81%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
17 13 (0.75%) IoT
17 13 (0.75%) Taxonomies
18 12 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.17%) Unix
2 53 (3.06%) Linux
3 20 (1.15%) Windows
4 10 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (46.62%) Data Modelling
2 710 (40.97%) Data Pipeline
3 673 (38.83%) Analytics
4 537 (30.99%) Data Engineering
5 511 (29.49%) CI/CD
6 492 (28.39%) Business Intelligence
7 464 (26.77%) Migration
8 461 (26.60%) Agile
9 377 (21.75%) Data Governance
10 369 (21.29%) DevOps
11 348 (20.08%) Data Integration
12 347 (20.02%) Validation
13 317 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
14 279 (16.10%) AI
15 277 (15.98%) Data Migration
16 254 (14.66%) Data Architecture
17 234 (13.50%) Test Automation
18 223 (12.87%) Decision-Making
19 212 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
20 208 (12.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,157 (66.76%) SQL
2 689 (39.76%) Python
3 149 (8.60%) Java
4 91 (5.25%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.73%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 59 (3.40%) C#
8 50 (2.89%) Scala
9 42 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 40 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.79%) Bash
13 24 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.10%) Bicep
14 19 (1.10%) R
15 9 (0.52%) VBA
16 8 (0.46%) Cypher
16 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) SPARQL
17 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 492 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 413 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 97 (5.60%) Degree
4 44 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.63%) SnowPro
12 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
15 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.23%) CISM
15 4 (0.23%) CISSP
15 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 597 (34.45%) Data Quality
2 149 (8.60%) QA
3 115 (6.64%) GDPR
4 33 (1.90%) GRC
5 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.63%) IFRS
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) FATCA
11 7 (0.40%) HL7
11 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.35%) WCAG
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (6.81%) Docker
2 12 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
4 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (8.42%) Terraform
2 129 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.60%) Grafana
4 20 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.10%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 334 (19.27%) Oracle
2 327 (18.87%) Databricks
3 299 (17.25%) Microsoft
4 165 (9.52%) Informatica
5 142 (8.19%) Talend
6 84 (4.85%) SAP
7 76 (4.39%) Google
8 63 (3.64%) Denodo
9 51 (2.94%) IBM
10 39 (2.25%) Salesforce
11 38 (2.19%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.62%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.33%) Sage
14 20 (1.15%) Palantir
15 18 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.04%) Splunk
16 17 (0.98%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.75%) Foundry
18 12 (0.69%) Cloudera
18 12 (0.69%) Red Hat