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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 85 81
Rank change year-on-year +12 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,737 946 1,012
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.87% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.18% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 638 727
10th Percentile £358 £355 £358
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £594 £603 £621
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -0.21% -1.05% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 8
10th Percentile £22.12 - £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -51.15% +171.02% -52.64%

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 45,262 29,771 33,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,917 18,660 21,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,788 1,660 1,878
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.30 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.67% -43.09% +3.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +11 1,556 £500 -2.34% 490
UK excluding London +16 779 £469 -0.21% 274
London +7 773 £525 - 272
Work from Home +21 541 £500 - 236
Midlands +19 286 £459 -0.76% 50
West Midlands +36 251 £459 -8.20% 40
North of England -1 184 £463 -2.63% 64
South East +18 144 £459 - 83
North West -24 81 £450 -10.00% 34
Yorkshire -10 79 £461 +6.03% 15
South West -28 68 £523 +11.76% 33
East of England +8 54 £475 -9.52% 16
Scotland -2 44 £425 - 17
East Midlands -9 34 £490 +12.00% 10
North East -18 25 £525 +16.67% 16
Wales -8 7 £313 -32.07% 7
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -34.83% 4

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
1 137 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 129 (7.43%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (6.91%) SAS
4 96 (5.53%) Apache
5 68 (3.91%) Confluence
6 27 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.38%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.69%) nginx
8 12 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) Appian
Applications
1 41 (2.36%) 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
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.63%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.17%) Actimize
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 677 (38.98%) Azure
2 522 (30.05%) AWS
3 412 (23.72%) Power Platform
4 233 (13.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 220 (12.67%) GCP
6 210 (12.09%) Snowflake
7 152 (8.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (8.18%) Amazon S3
10 138 (7.94%) Serverless
11 123 (7.08%) dbt
12 111 (6.39%) AWS Lambda
13 104 (5.99%) GitHub
14 55 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
16 43 (2.48%) Collibra
17 40 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.84%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
20 29 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 11 (0.63%) HTTP
3 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.40%) VPN
3 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.17%) DHCP
4 3 (0.17%) DNS
4 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 577 (33.22%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (22.68%) Power BI
3 261 (15.03%) Data Lake
4 167 (9.61%) SQL Server
5 158 (9.10%) Metadata
6 105 (6.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (5.76%) Relational Database
8 98 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 98 (5.64%) Tableau
9 93 (5.35%) Delta Lake
10 92 (5.30%) BigQuery
11 88 (5.07%) Pentaho
12 87 (5.01%) Big Data
13 78 (4.49%) NoSQL
14 77 (4.43%) Oracle Reports
15 71 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
16 65 (3.74%) Azure SQL Database
16 65 (3.74%) Snowflake Schema
17 60 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (2.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (11.46%) Git
2 153 (8.81%) JIRA
3 100 (5.76%) GitLab
4 74 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 45 (2.59%) Zephyr
6 42 (2.42%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 13 (0.75%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.29%) Gatling
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)
11 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 415 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 388 (22.34%) Finance
3 316 (18.19%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.17%) Public Sector
5 127 (7.31%) Banking
6 42 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.78%) Marketing
7 31 (1.78%) Retail
8 28 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.27%) Legal
11 21 (1.21%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.09%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.75%) Front Office
13 13 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.69%) Law
15 11 (0.63%) Billing
16 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 690 (39.72%) Data Engineer
2 250 (14.39%) Developer
3 239 (13.76%) Architect
4 213 (12.26%) Senior
5 170 (9.79%) Lead
6 140 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 130 (7.48%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.02%) Analyst
9 62 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
10 59 (3.40%) Data Analyst
11 55 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
13 49 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 45 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.59%) Tester
15 43 (2.48%) Snowflake Engineer
15 43 (2.48%) SQL Developer
16 40 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
17 39 (2.25%) Python Engineer
18 37 (2.13%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 181 (10.42%) PySpark
2 136 (7.83%) Kafka
3 76 (4.38%) REST
4 54 (3.11%) JSON
5 42 (2.42%) .NET
6 38 (2.19%) Pandas
7 29 (1.67%) Middleware
8 26 (1.50%) React
9 25 (1.44%) Spring
10 24 (1.38%) XML
11 23 (1.32%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.09%) YAML
13 17 (0.98%) OAuth
14 16 (0.92%) RESTful
15 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.81%) pytest
16 13 (0.75%) Great Expectations
16 13 (0.75%) NumPy
16 13 (0.75%) PyTorch
16 13 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.62%) Data Structures
3 81 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 54 (3.11%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 24 (1.38%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.21%) Clustering
10 21 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.15%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
13 18 (1.04%) Replication
14 15 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.69%) IoT
16 11 (0.63%) Data Fabric
17 10 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.17%) Linux
1 55 (3.17%) Unix
2 19 (1.09%) Windows
3 9 (0.52%) Solaris
4 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (0.40%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
9 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 822 (47.32%) Data Modelling
2 721 (41.51%) Data Pipeline
3 677 (38.98%) Analytics
4 532 (30.63%) Data Engineering
5 524 (30.17%) CI/CD
6 504 (29.02%) Business Intelligence
7 479 (27.58%) Agile
8 464 (26.71%) Migration
9 388 (22.34%) DevOps
10 370 (21.30%) Data Integration
11 362 (20.84%) Data Governance
12 337 (19.40%) Validation
13 315 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
14 277 (15.95%) Data Migration
15 273 (15.72%) AI
16 244 (14.05%) Data Architecture
17 241 (13.87%) Test Automation
18 229 (13.18%) Decision-Making
18 229 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
19 216 (12.44%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,150 (66.21%) SQL
2 669 (38.51%) Python
3 144 (8.29%) Java
4 92 (5.30%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.72%) PL/SQL
6 76 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.17%) C#
8 48 (2.76%) Scala
9 47 (2.71%) JavaScript
10 41 (2.36%) PowerShell
11 35 (2.01%) Bash
12 33 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.15%) R
15 19 (1.09%) Bicep
16 10 (0.58%) Cypher
17 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 9 (0.52%) VBA
18 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
18 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 496 (28.55%) Security Cleared
2 422 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 77 (4.43%) Degree
4 47 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 20 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.92%) 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%) TOGAF 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%) CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 601 (34.60%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.52%) QA
3 103 (5.93%) GDPR
4 38 (2.19%) GRC
5 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) PMO
8 11 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.58%) IFRS
10 9 (0.52%) SLA
11 8 (0.46%) HL7
11 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
11 8 (0.46%) WCAG
12 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.29%) FATCA
13 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.23%) NIST
14 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 129 (7.43%) Docker
2 15 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
5 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 145 (8.35%) Terraform
2 135 (7.77%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.48%) Grafana
4 21 (1.21%) Ansible
5 18 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.58%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
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
1 342 (19.69%) Databricks
2 337 (19.40%) Oracle
3 305 (17.56%) Microsoft
4 157 (9.04%) Informatica
5 138 (7.94%) Talend
6 83 (4.78%) SAP
7 72 (4.15%) Google
8 68 (3.91%) Denodo
9 46 (2.65%) IBM
10 37 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 37 (2.13%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.67%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.27%) Sage
13 21 (1.21%) Palantir
14 17 (0.98%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.86%) Foundry
15 15 (0.86%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.75%) Cloudera
16 13 (0.75%) Splunk
17 12 (0.69%) Workday