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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,073 950 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.91% 2.78% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 3.15% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 622 807
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £695 £707
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +1.42% -6.10% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 17
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.96
25th Percentile £35.63 £26.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £38.75 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% -35.95% +70.42%
75th Percentile £72.49 £69.72 £68.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £101.46 £72.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.80 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.46% -45.00% +42.86%

All Process and 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 32,537 30,122 39,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.36% 88.11% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,461 18,405 26,081
10th Percentile £300 £306 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,095 985 1,517
10th Percentile £14.57 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.52 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.69% -26.97% +39.06%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -8 919 £500 -4.76% 339
London +7 547 £525 - 159
UK excluding London -5 390 £500 +1.42% 269
Work from Home -14 337 £518 +3.50% 218
Midlands -7 123 £515 +7.97% 39
North of England -42 102 £450 +0.56% 65
West Midlands -5 99 £520 +5.48% 24
North West -20 55 £447 +2.17% 32
South West +2 53 £550 -4.35% 30
South East -56 42 £445 -19.09% 102
Scotland +19 40 £500 +11.05% 12
Yorkshire -43 38 £472 +4.78% 17
East Midlands -8 24 £438 +16.67% 15
East of England -11 22 £575 +4.55% 17
Northern Ireland +6 14 £400 +3.23% 1
Wales +1 10 £498 -6.13% 4
North East -8 8 £450 -5.26% 16

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
1 109 (10.16%) Apache Airflow
2 107 (9.97%) Apache Spark
3 82 (7.64%) Apache
4 49 (4.57%) SAS
5 15 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 11 (1.03%) Confluence
7 9 (0.84%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.47%) IIS
9 4 (0.37%) Luigi
10 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.28%) nginx
10 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) CMS
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.093%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.093%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.093%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.093%) Moodle
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 56 (5.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.28%) Trello
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
6 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.093%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.65%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.56%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.47%) Maximo
5 5 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.19%) Actimize
8 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 430 (40.07%) Azure
2 351 (32.71%) AWS
3 232 (21.62%) Power Platform
4 162 (15.10%) GCP
5 159 (14.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (14.63%) Snowflake
7 119 (11.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 115 (10.72%) Amazon S3
9 99 (9.23%) Serverless
10 69 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (6.34%) dbt
12 62 (5.78%) GitHub
13 32 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 30 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
14 30 (2.80%) SaaS
15 28 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.14%) Power Automate
17 22 (2.05%) Azure Logic Apps
17 22 (2.05%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.56%) 2G
1 6 (0.56%) 5G
1 6 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.47%) 4G
3 4 (0.37%) DNS
4 3 (0.28%) SSH
4 3 (0.28%) SSL
4 3 (0.28%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.19%) DSL
5 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.19%) Firewall
5 2 (0.19%) HTTP
5 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) OSPF
5 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.093%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.093%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 345 (32.15%) Data Warehouse
2 217 (20.22%) Power BI
3 159 (14.82%) Data Lake
4 110 (10.25%) SQL Server
5 92 (8.57%) Metadata
6 90 (8.39%) Relational Database
7 83 (7.74%) Big Data
7 83 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
8 79 (7.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 68 (6.34%) Tableau
10 67 (6.24%) BigQuery
11 66 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 54 (5.03%) NoSQL
13 48 (4.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 48 (4.47%) Delta Lake
14 47 (4.38%) Pentaho
15 44 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
16 39 (3.63%) Hadoop
16 39 (3.63%) Oracle Database
17 37 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 131 (12.21%) Git
2 73 (6.80%) JIRA
3 69 (6.43%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.08%) GitLab
5 21 (1.96%) Postman
6 14 (1.30%) MLflow
6 14 (1.30%) Selenium
7 13 (1.21%) ERwin
8 8 (0.75%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.75%) DBeaver
9 7 (0.65%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.65%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.65%) TestRail
10 6 (0.56%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.56%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.47%) JMeter
12 4 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.37%) Toad
12 4 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 327 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 260 (24.23%) Finance
3 202 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.52%) Banking
6 20 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (1.68%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.49%) Marketing
8 16 (1.49%) Retail
9 15 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.12%) Legal
12 11 (1.03%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.84%) Law
13 9 (0.84%) Local Government
13 9 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 8 (0.75%) Publishing
15 7 (0.65%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 371 (34.58%) Data Engineer
2 159 (14.82%) Developer
3 117 (10.90%) Analyst
4 115 (10.72%) Senior
5 109 (10.16%) Architect
6 99 (9.23%) Lead
7 72 (6.71%) Data Analyst
8 63 (5.87%) Data Architect
9 58 (5.41%) Senior Data Engineer
10 48 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (4.10%) Azure Data Engineer
12 36 (3.36%) Consultant
13 33 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (3.08%) Business Analyst
14 29 (2.70%) Python Engineer
15 27 (2.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 26 (2.42%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.42%) Senior Developer
17 24 (2.24%) Snowflake Engineer
18 18 (1.68%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (11.37%) PySpark
2 89 (8.29%) Kafka
3 62 (5.78%) REST
4 43 (4.01%) XML
5 40 (3.73%) JSON
6 34 (3.17%) Pandas
7 27 (2.52%) Node.js
8 26 (2.42%) RESTful
9 24 (2.24%) NumPy
10 20 (1.86%) OAuth
11 18 (1.68%) .NET
12 17 (1.58%) React
12 17 (1.58%) SOAP
13 14 (1.30%) PyTorch
14 12 (1.12%) Keycloak
14 12 (1.12%) pytest
15 11 (1.03%) GraphQL
15 11 (1.03%) Oracle GoldenGate
16 10 (0.93%) Apache Avro
16 10 (0.93%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 70 (6.52%) Data Structures
3 42 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.61%) Algorithms
4 28 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 20 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (1.58%) Replication
8 16 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
9 14 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.21%) IoT
11 12 (1.12%) Data Centre
12 9 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (0.84%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.75%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.75%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.63%) Linux
2 20 (1.86%) Unix
3 9 (0.84%) Windows
4 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.093%) Solaris
6 1 (0.093%) VMS
6 1 (0.093%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (45.20%) Data Modelling
2 419 (39.05%) Analytics
3 414 (38.58%) Data Pipeline
4 331 (30.85%) Business Intelligence
5 312 (29.08%) Data Engineering
6 296 (27.59%) CI/CD
7 267 (24.88%) Agile
8 259 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
9 244 (22.74%) DevOps
10 240 (22.37%) Data Governance
11 233 (21.71%) Migration
12 203 (18.92%) Data Integration
13 165 (15.38%) Data Architecture
14 158 (14.73%) Data Migration
15 148 (13.79%) Validation
16 130 (12.12%) Data Science
17 129 (12.02%) Data Transformation
18 127 (11.84%) Visualisation
19 115 (10.72%) Machine Learning
20 107 (9.97%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 685 (63.84%) SQL
2 532 (49.58%) Python
3 95 (8.85%) Java
4 47 (4.38%) Scala
5 42 (3.91%) C#
6 39 (3.63%) T-SQL
7 38 (3.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 33 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 33 (3.08%) PL/SQL
9 25 (2.33%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.58%) Bash
11 16 (1.49%) Go
11 16 (1.49%) R
12 15 (1.40%) PHP
12 15 (1.40%) VBA
13 14 (1.30%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.21%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.65%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.65%) Bicep
15 7 (0.65%) Korn
Qualifications
1 185 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 144 (13.42%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.08%) Degree
4 43 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.82%) Azure Certification
6 35 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 21 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.65%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.56%) PMP
12 4 (0.37%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.28%) CISSP
13 3 (0.28%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.28%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.19%) MCP
15 1 (0.093%) CCIE
15 1 (0.093%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 333 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 82 (7.64%) QA
3 81 (7.55%) GDPR
4 28 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.84%) HIPAA
5 9 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.56%) IFRS
7 5 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.47%) WCAG
8 4 (0.37%) MiFID
8 4 (0.37%) SLA
9 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.28%) PMO
10 2 (0.19%) CRD IV
10 2 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.19%) EMIR
10 2 (0.19%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 114 (10.62%) Docker
2 6 (0.56%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.47%) zsh
4 3 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) KVM
5 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.093%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.093%) HDFS
6 1 (0.093%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 108 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 92 (8.57%) Terraform
3 13 (1.21%) Ansible
3 13 (1.21%) Grafana
4 7 (0.65%) Kibana
5 6 (0.56%) logstash
6 5 (0.47%) Control-M
6 5 (0.47%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.28%) Argo
8 3 (0.28%) Istio
8 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.093%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.093%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.093%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.093%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.093%) Puppet
10 1 (0.093%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.093%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 217 (20.22%) Databricks
2 174 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 135 (12.58%) Oracle
4 71 (6.62%) Talend
5 67 (6.24%) Informatica
6 51 (4.75%) Google
7 44 (4.10%) SAP
8 37 (3.45%) Denodo
9 34 (3.17%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.77%) IBM
11 17 (1.58%) ServiceNow
12 16 (1.49%) Palantir
13 14 (1.30%) MuleSoft
14 13 (1.21%) Foundry
15 11 (1.03%) VMware
16 10 (0.93%) Ab Initio
17 8 (0.75%) Cognos
18 7 (0.65%) Workday
19 6 (0.56%) Alteryx
19 6 (0.56%) Teradata