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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 82 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,721 937 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.85% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.15% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,245 630 734
10th Percentile £358 £355 £359
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £590 £607 £618
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +0.54% -2.63% -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 44,879 29,748 33,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.93% 90.41% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,704 18,653 21,488
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 2,741 1,659 1,873
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +90.72% -43.70% +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 4 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 4 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 4 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 +12 1,540 £500 -1.48% 443
UK excluding London +23 771 £465 +0.54% 265
London +7 766 £525 - 221
Work from Home +20 539 £500 - 279
Midlands +24 279 £459 +2.00% 56
West Midlands +38 243 £459 -8.20% 45
North of England +3 184 £470 -1.05% 73
South East +11 145 £459 - 68
Yorkshire -7 81 £469 +7.76% 20
North West -25 79 £450 -10.00% 38
South West -29 66 £523 +11.76% 31
East of England +11 54 £475 -9.52% 17
Scotland -13 43 £425 - 12
East Midlands -9 35 £490 +12.00% 11
North East -18 25 £525 +16.67% 17
Wales -10 8 £313 -32.07% 6
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -34.83% 3

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
1 136 (7.90%) Apache Spark
2 129 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 118 (6.86%) SAS
4 95 (5.52%) Apache
5 67 (3.89%) Confluence
6 27 (1.57%) SharePoint
7 24 (1.39%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.70%) nginx
8 12 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
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 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) 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 16 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.41%) 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%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 674 (39.16%) Azure
2 520 (30.21%) AWS
3 406 (23.59%) Power Platform
4 231 (13.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 219 (12.73%) GCP
6 207 (12.03%) Snowflake
7 154 (8.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (8.31%) Amazon S3
10 140 (8.13%) Serverless
11 124 (7.21%) dbt
12 112 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
13 103 (5.98%) GitHub
14 57 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
16 42 (2.44%) Collibra
17 40 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.86%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
20 29 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) VPN
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.058%) 4G
5 1 (0.058%) 5G
5 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.058%) DHCP
5 1 (0.058%) DNS
5 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 573 (33.29%) Data Warehouse
2 388 (22.55%) Power BI
3 257 (14.93%) Data Lake
4 166 (9.65%) SQL Server
5 153 (8.89%) Metadata
6 108 (6.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (5.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 98 (5.69%) Relational Database
7 98 (5.69%) Tableau
8 92 (5.35%) BigQuery
9 90 (5.23%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.11%) Big Data
11 86 (5.00%) Pentaho
12 75 (4.36%) Oracle Reports
13 74 (4.30%) NoSQL
14 71 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
15 66 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 66 (3.83%) Snowflake Schema
16 60 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
17 51 (2.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.33%) Git
2 149 (8.66%) JIRA
3 98 (5.69%) GitLab
4 74 (4.30%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.44%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.27%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 12 (0.70%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) 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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
12 3 (0.17%) NeoLoad
General
1 410 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 388 (22.55%) Finance
3 310 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.21%) Public Sector
5 127 (7.38%) Banking
6 43 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.86%) Marketing
8 31 (1.80%) Retail
9 26 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.28%) Legal
12 20 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.76%) Front Office
14 13 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (0.64%) Billing
15 11 (0.64%) Law
16 10 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.52%) Military
18 8 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 692 (40.21%) Data Engineer
2 250 (14.53%) Developer
3 236 (13.71%) Architect
4 212 (12.32%) Senior
5 171 (9.94%) Lead
6 140 (8.13%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.50%) Data Architect
8 117 (6.80%) Analyst
9 61 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (3.31%) Data Analyst
11 56 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 46 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
15 45 (2.61%) AWS Data Engineer
16 44 (2.56%) SQL Developer
16 44 (2.56%) Tester
17 41 (2.38%) Python Engineer
18 40 (2.32%) Lead Data Engineer
19 36 (2.09%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (10.58%) PySpark
2 138 (8.02%) Kafka
3 74 (4.30%) REST
4 57 (3.31%) JSON
5 40 (2.32%) .NET
6 38 (2.21%) Pandas
7 29 (1.69%) Middleware
8 27 (1.57%) XML
9 25 (1.45%) React
9 25 (1.45%) Spring
10 23 (1.34%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.05%) YAML
12 17 (0.99%) OAuth
13 16 (0.93%) RESTful
14 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
15 13 (0.76%) Apache Avro
15 13 (0.76%) Great Expectations
15 13 (0.76%) NumPy
15 13 (0.76%) PyTorch
15 13 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.62%) Data Structures
3 80 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.45%) NHS
8 23 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.22%) Clustering
9 21 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 19 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
11 19 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.05%) Replication
13 14 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.70%) Algorithms
14 12 (0.70%) IoT
15 11 (0.64%) Data Fabric
15 11 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.20%) Unix
2 52 (3.02%) Linux
3 18 (1.05%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 817 (47.47%) Data Modelling
2 720 (41.84%) Data Pipeline
3 673 (39.11%) Analytics
4 530 (30.80%) Data Engineering
5 518 (30.10%) CI/CD
6 502 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
7 470 (27.31%) Agile
8 449 (26.09%) Migration
9 381 (22.14%) DevOps
10 365 (21.21%) Data Integration
11 364 (21.15%) Data Governance
12 332 (19.29%) Validation
13 312 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
14 272 (15.80%) Data Migration
15 264 (15.34%) AI
16 244 (14.18%) Data Architecture
17 233 (13.54%) Test Automation
18 228 (13.25%) Decision-Making
19 219 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
20 213 (12.38%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (66.24%) SQL
2 667 (38.76%) Python
3 143 (8.31%) Java
4 94 (5.46%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 78 (4.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.20%) C#
8 47 (2.73%) Scala
9 44 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 41 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 34 (1.98%) Bash
12 33 (1.92%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.34%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.16%) Bicep
14 20 (1.16%) R
15 10 (0.58%) Cypher
16 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.52%) VBA
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 486 (28.24%) Security Cleared
2 414 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 79 (4.59%) Degree
4 46 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 17 (0.99%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.70%) 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
1 593 (34.46%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.37%) QA
3 102 (5.93%) GDPR
4 38 (2.21%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.76%) PMO
8 11 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 10 (0.58%) IFRS
10 9 (0.52%) SLA
11 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
11 8 (0.46%) WCAG
12 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.35%) HL7
13 5 (0.29%) FATCA
13 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.23%) GAAP
14 4 (0.23%) GMP
14 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 128 (7.44%) Docker
2 12 (0.70%) 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 (8.43%) Terraform
2 135 (7.84%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.50%) Grafana
4 20 (1.16%) Ansible
5 19 (1.10%) 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
1 339 (19.70%) Databricks
2 334 (19.41%) Oracle
3 306 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 156 (9.06%) Informatica
5 138 (8.02%) Talend
6 81 (4.71%) SAP
7 71 (4.13%) Google
8 66 (3.83%) Denodo
9 46 (2.67%) IBM
10 37 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 37 (2.15%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.69%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.28%) Sage
13 21 (1.22%) Palantir
14 17 (0.99%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.81%) Foundry
15 14 (0.81%) OpenAI
15 14 (0.81%) Splunk
16 13 (0.76%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.70%) Workday