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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,703 959 1,077
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.97% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.28% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,236 647 790
10th Percentile £351 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.28% -5.42%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £468 £485
% change year-on-year -0.05% -3.51% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 11
10th Percentile £29.96 - £30.37
25th Percentile £34.01 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +12.94% -34.62%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -29.18% +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 44,694 29,246 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.15% 90.54% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,812 18,436 23,663
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,657 1,477 2,496
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% -3.62%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +10 1,516 £500 -2.44% 370
UK excluding London +15 782 £468 -0.05% 223
London +1 746 £520 -2.44% 201
Work from Home +15 540 £500 - 176
Midlands +25 277 £459 +1.89% 39
West Midlands +37 239 £455 -8.54% 22
North of England -18 189 £463 -2.63% 56
South East +16 144 £470 -6.00% 66
North West -10 90 £450 -10.00% 34
Yorkshire -16 77 £483 +10.92% 15
South West -23 67 £523 +10.00% 39
Scotland -4 56 £425 -0.47% 6
East of England -1 48 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -10 37 £525 +18.89% 17
North East -17 22 £538 +27.98% 8
Wales -10 9 £313 -32.07% 3
Northern Ireland +5 3 £334 -36.38% 7

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
1 147 (8.63%) Apache Spark
2 136 (7.99%) Apache Airflow
3 96 (5.64%) Apache
4 81 (4.76%) SAS
5 64 (3.76%) Confluence
6 20 (1.17%) Oracle Application Server
7 17 (1.00%) SharePoint
8 14 (0.82%) nginx
8 14 (0.82%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.53%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Appian
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 40 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.65%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 682 (40.05%) Azure
2 524 (30.77%) AWS
3 415 (24.37%) Power Platform
4 221 (12.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 207 (12.16%) GCP
6 190 (11.16%) Snowflake
7 156 (9.16%) Amazon S3
7 156 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 150 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (8.46%) Serverless
10 118 (6.93%) dbt
11 114 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
12 113 (6.64%) GitHub
13 58 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
14 52 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
15 51 (2.99%) Collibra
16 38 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.76%) Power Automate
18 27 (1.59%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.82%) HTTP
2 12 (0.70%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.059%) 4G
6 1 (0.059%) 5G
6 1 (0.059%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.059%) DHCP
6 1 (0.059%) DNS
6 1 (0.059%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 519 (30.48%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (23.14%) Power BI
3 253 (14.86%) Data Lake
4 171 (10.04%) SQL Server
5 157 (9.22%) Metadata
6 102 (5.99%) Big Data
6 102 (5.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (5.93%) Delta Lake
7 101 (5.93%) Tableau
8 100 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (5.40%) Relational Database
10 85 (4.99%) Pentaho
11 84 (4.93%) NoSQL
12 82 (4.82%) BigQuery
13 79 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
14 73 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 70 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
16 69 (4.05%) Oracle Reports
17 60 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (2.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 194 (11.39%) Git
2 155 (9.10%) JIRA
3 97 (5.70%) GitLab
4 72 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.52%) Postman
6 39 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 21 (1.23%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 6 (0.35%) ERwin
9 6 (0.35%) Gatling
9 6 (0.35%) JMeter
9 6 (0.35%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) MSTest
11 4 (0.23%) NUnit
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (24.25%) Social Skills
2 402 (23.61%) Finance
3 301 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 117 (6.87%) Banking
6 48 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.82%) Marketing
8 30 (1.76%) Retail
9 24 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.35%) Legal
11 22 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.65%) Billing
15 10 (0.59%) Law
15 10 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.53%) Front Office
16 9 (0.53%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.53%) Military
16 9 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 699 (41.05%) Data Engineer
2 239 (14.03%) Developer
3 216 (12.68%) Architect
4 199 (11.69%) Senior
5 173 (10.16%) Lead
6 136 (7.99%) Senior Data Engineer
7 130 (7.63%) Data Architect
8 120 (7.05%) Analyst
9 66 (3.88%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 47 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
15 44 (2.58%) Azure Data Engineer
15 44 (2.58%) SQL Developer
16 43 (2.52%) Python Engineer
17 40 (2.35%) Lead Data Engineer
18 36 (2.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 35 (2.06%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (11.16%) PySpark
2 148 (8.69%) Kafka
3 79 (4.64%) REST
4 53 (3.11%) JSON
5 45 (2.64%) Pandas
6 42 (2.47%) .NET
7 31 (1.82%) XML
8 29 (1.70%) Middleware
9 28 (1.64%) Spring
10 26 (1.53%) Spring Boot
11 23 (1.35%) PyTorch
11 23 (1.35%) RESTful
12 21 (1.23%) OAuth
13 18 (1.06%) pytest
13 18 (1.06%) React
14 17 (1.00%) NumPy
14 17 (1.00%) YAML
15 16 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
15 16 (0.94%) Web Services
16 15 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.87%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 48 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.53%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.53%) NHS
8 22 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.23%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.17%) Clustering
11 17 (1.00%) Replication
12 15 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.82%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.76%) IoT
14 13 (0.76%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.47%) Unix
2 40 (2.35%) Linux
3 20 (1.17%) Windows
4 11 (0.65%) Solaris
4 11 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (47.27%) Data Modelling
2 692 (40.63%) Data Pipeline
3 658 (38.64%) Analytics
4 534 (31.36%) Data Engineering
5 508 (29.83%) CI/CD
6 492 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
7 440 (25.84%) Agile
8 431 (25.31%) Migration
9 372 (21.84%) DevOps
10 356 (20.90%) Data Governance
11 337 (19.79%) Validation
12 325 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
13 313 (18.38%) Data Integration
14 281 (16.50%) AI
15 260 (15.27%) Data Migration
16 252 (14.80%) Data Architecture
17 230 (13.51%) Decision-Making
18 227 (13.33%) Test Automation
19 200 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
20 179 (10.51%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,134 (66.59%) SQL
2 705 (41.40%) Python
3 150 (8.81%) Java
4 93 (5.46%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 76 (4.46%) PL/SQL
6 63 (3.70%) C#
7 57 (3.35%) Scala
8 39 (2.29%) JavaScript
9 34 (2.00%) PowerShell
10 28 (1.64%) Bash
10 28 (1.64%) TypeScript
11 25 (1.47%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.00%) R
13 16 (0.94%) Bicep
14 11 (0.65%) Cypher
15 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.47%) VBA
16 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 466 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 389 (22.84%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.11%) Degree
4 49 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.94%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.64%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.59%) AWS Certification
10 17 (1.00%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
12 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
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%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 567 (33.29%) Data Quality
2 151 (8.87%) QA
3 115 (6.75%) GDPR
4 20 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.88%) IFRS
5 15 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (0.82%) PMO
7 12 (0.70%) GRC
8 11 (0.65%) IFRS 17
9 10 (0.59%) SLA
10 9 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 8 (0.47%) FATCA
12 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
13 6 (0.35%) HL7
13 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.23%) GMP
14 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
15 3 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 119 (6.99%) Docker
2 8 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
5 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.059%) RACF
7 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 154 (9.04%) Terraform
2 128 (7.52%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.41%) Grafana
4 18 (1.06%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.94%) Ansible
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.29%) Control-M
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.059%) Argo
10 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.059%) Istio
10 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 336 (19.73%) Databricks
2 307 (18.03%) Oracle
3 296 (17.38%) Microsoft
4 161 (9.45%) Informatica
5 144 (8.46%) Talend
6 75 (4.40%) SAP
7 67 (3.93%) Google
8 62 (3.64%) Denodo
9 41 (2.41%) IBM
9 41 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.11%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.70%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.35%) Sage
13 19 (1.12%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.06%) Splunk
15 17 (1.00%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.82%) Palantir
17 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.65%) ESRI