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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 86 81
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,672 981 1,037
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.95% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.26% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 692 712
10th Percentile £363 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £491
% change year-on-year -1.05% -3.26% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 5
10th Percentile £21.49 £32.78 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.81 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +11.15% -46.15%
75th Percentile £57.00 £47.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £53.75 £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -61.81%

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 46,870 30,047 32,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 90.49% 86.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,156 18,700 19,515
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,444 1,888 1,247
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.94 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £65.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -3 1,460 £490 -2.00% 224
London -4 765 £520 -0.95% 95
UK excluding London +7 705 £470 -1.05% 156
Work from Home -4 498 £500 -0.05% 135
Midlands +27 234 £470 -6.00% 40
West Midlands +21 207 £469 -8.49% 29
North of England -15 180 £473 -0.53% 39
South East +9 130 £461 +2.39% 43
South West -6 84 £505 +6.32% 22
North West -21 83 £475 -2.56% 22
Yorkshire -2 78 £475 +3.26% 12
Scotland -10 46 £425 -10.53%
East of England -20 34 £463 -11.90% 10
East Midlands -9 26 £478 +8.24% 11
North East -18 24 £500 +14.29% 6
Wales -15 8 £313 -36.87% 2
Northern Ireland -2 6 £463 +15.63% 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
1 153 (9.15%) Apache Spark
2 144 (8.61%) Apache Airflow
3 124 (7.42%) Apache
4 104 (6.22%) SAS
5 65 (3.89%) Confluence
6 28 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 19 (1.14%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.66%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.48%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.12%) CMS
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
17 1 (0.060%) JBoss
17 1 (0.060%) WebSphere
Applications
1 35 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 652 (39.00%) Azure
2 518 (30.98%) AWS
3 350 (20.93%) Power Platform
4 245 (14.65%) GCP
5 239 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 223 (13.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 147 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (8.55%) dbt
9 136 (8.13%) Amazon S3
10 131 (7.83%) Serverless
11 123 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 109 (6.52%) GitHub
13 106 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
15 56 (3.35%) Azure Databricks
16 53 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 36 (2.15%) SaaS
18 32 (1.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 28 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.48%) Firewall
1 8 (0.48%) HTTP
2 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.18%) DHCP
2 3 (0.18%) DNS
2 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (0.18%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.060%) Broadband
4 1 (0.060%) DMZ
4 1 (0.060%) Internet
4 1 (0.060%) LTE
4 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 550 (32.89%) Data Warehouse
2 336 (20.10%) Power BI
3 260 (15.55%) Data Lake
4 156 (9.33%) Metadata
5 139 (8.31%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.70%) BigQuery
7 106 (6.34%) Relational Database
8 105 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (5.32%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.26%) Big Data
11 82 (4.90%) Tableau
12 78 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 74 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
14 71 (4.25%) Pentaho
15 63 (3.77%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (3.59%) Oracle Reports
17 58 (3.47%) NoSQL
17 58 (3.47%) Oracle Database
18 50 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
19 44 (2.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 204 (12.20%) Git
2 143 (8.55%) JIRA
3 106 (6.34%) GitLab
4 64 (3.83%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.97%) Zephyr
6 30 (1.79%) Postman
7 14 (0.84%) MLflow
8 11 (0.66%) Selenium
9 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 419 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 383 (22.91%) Finance
3 311 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 173 (10.35%) Banking
6 44 (2.63%) Retail
7 42 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.50%) Investment Banking
8 25 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.44%) Law
10 22 (1.32%) Marketing
11 21 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.20%) Front Office
12 20 (1.20%) Legal
13 18 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.08%) Police
14 17 (1.02%) Billing
15 13 (0.78%) Military
16 11 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 669 (40.01%) Data Engineer
2 237 (14.17%) Senior
3 228 (13.64%) Developer
4 222 (13.28%) Architect
5 153 (9.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 142 (8.49%) Lead
7 130 (7.78%) Analyst
8 117 (7.00%) Data Architect
9 71 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
10 70 (4.19%) Data Analyst
11 69 (4.13%) Databricks Engineer
12 59 (3.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 50 (2.99%) Azure Data Engineer
14 48 (2.87%) Consultant
15 44 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
16 42 (2.51%) Tester
17 39 (2.33%) Python Engineer
18 36 (2.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 36 (2.15%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.11%) PySpark
2 152 (9.09%) Terraform
3 131 (7.83%) Kafka
4 85 (5.08%) REST
5 56 (3.35%) .NET
5 56 (3.35%) JSON
6 31 (1.85%) Middleware
6 31 (1.85%) XML
7 29 (1.73%) Pandas
8 28 (1.67%) React
9 19 (1.14%) pytest
9 19 (1.14%) SOAP
9 19 (1.14%) Spring
9 19 (1.14%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.14%) YAML
10 14 (0.84%) Web Services
11 13 (0.78%) HTML
11 13 (0.78%) LangChain
11 13 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (0.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 168 (10.05%) Cloud Native
2 118 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 68 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
4 64 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 47 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (1.97%) AI Agents
8 28 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.56%) Reference Data
10 24 (1.44%) Replication
11 23 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.20%) NHS
13 18 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.96%) Clustering
15 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.84%) Data Fabric
16 14 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
17 13 (0.78%) CMDB
17 13 (0.78%) IoT
17 13 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.19%) Linux
2 51 (3.05%) Unix
3 18 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (45.93%) Data Modelling
2 728 (43.54%) Data Pipeline
3 616 (36.84%) Analytics
4 582 (34.81%) Data Engineering
5 551 (32.95%) CI/CD
6 497 (29.72%) Agile
7 470 (28.11%) Migration
8 425 (25.42%) Data Integration
9 422 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
10 389 (23.27%) DevOps
11 375 (22.43%) Validation
12 367 (21.95%) Data Governance
13 329 (19.68%) AI
14 312 (18.66%) Stakeholder Management
15 286 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
16 270 (16.15%) Data Migration
17 267 (15.97%) Data Transformation
18 239 (14.29%) Data Architecture
19 218 (13.04%) Test Automation
20 199 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,121 (67.05%) SQL
2 702 (41.99%) Python
3 120 (7.18%) Java
4 81 (4.84%) PL/SQL
5 75 (4.49%) T-SQL
6 59 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 55 (3.29%) C#
8 52 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 47 (2.81%) Scala
10 42 (2.51%) PowerShell
11 37 (2.21%) Bash
12 34 (2.03%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.38%) R
14 20 (1.20%) Bicep
15 19 (1.14%) TypeScript
16 13 (0.78%) Cypher
17 8 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.42%) Go
18 7 (0.42%) Perl
18 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 463 (27.69%) Security Cleared
2 406 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.77%) Degree
4 57 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.51%) AWS Certification
6 34 (2.03%) Azure Certification
6 34 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 34 (2.03%) ISTQB
7 27 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.48%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CBAP
14 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (36.42%) Data Quality
2 146 (8.73%) QA
3 78 (4.67%) GDPR
4 36 (2.15%) GRC
5 25 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.54%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) COREP
System Software
1 113 (6.76%) Docker
2 15 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.12%) HDFS
4 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 125 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.97%) Grafana
3 23 (1.38%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 15 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Istio
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 386 (23.09%) Databricks
2 288 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 288 (17.22%) Oracle
3 123 (7.36%) Informatica
4 109 (6.52%) Talend
5 94 (5.62%) Google
6 69 (4.13%) SAP
7 45 (2.69%) IBM
8 43 (2.57%) Denodo
9 38 (2.27%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 24 (1.44%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.32%) OpenAI
13 21 (1.26%) Foundry
14 19 (1.14%) Palantir
15 16 (0.96%) Teradata
16 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) Sage
17 9 (0.54%) ESRI
17 9 (0.54%) MuleSoft