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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 86 80
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,665 926 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.85% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.15% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 624 719
10th Percentile £360 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.88 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.19 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -16.46% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -62.33%

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 45,945 29,375 32,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.50% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,954 18,237 20,159
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,063 1,777 1,475
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.47 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.08 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.13% -47.67% +6.17%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 1,463 £500 - 1,433
London +2 771 £525 - 880
UK excluding London +6 692 £470 -1.05% 691
Work from Home -2 508 £500 - 631
Midlands +22 234 £469 -1.91% 107
West Midlands +22 201 £469 -8.04% 75
North of England -7 170 £470 -1.05% 166
South East +20 135 £454 -4.47% 155
Yorkshire +7 79 £463 +3.93% 46
North West -20 73 £470 -6.00% 99
South West -30 68 £523 +10.00% 92
East of England -14 44 £475 -9.52% 55
Scotland -14 41 £428 -10.00% 68
East Midlands -6 32 £490 +13.10% 32
North East -25 19 £500 +14.29% 22
Wales -12 8 £313 -37.50% 15
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.02% 38

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
1 140 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 106 (6.37%) Apache
4 94 (5.65%) SAS
5 62 (3.72%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.50%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
9 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 651 (39.10%) Azure
2 497 (29.85%) AWS
3 375 (22.52%) Power Platform
4 235 (14.11%) Snowflake
5 226 (13.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 226 (13.57%) GCP
6 151 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
7 140 (8.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 140 (8.41%) dbt
7 140 (8.41%) Serverless
8 134 (8.05%) Amazon S3
9 120 (7.21%) GitHub
10 113 (6.79%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (2.76%) Amazon EMR
13 45 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
14 36 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (2.16%) Collibra
15 31 (1.86%) Power Automate
16 30 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 9 (0.54%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (34.59%) Data Warehouse
2 364 (21.86%) Power BI
3 258 (15.50%) Data Lake
4 173 (10.39%) Metadata
5 159 (9.55%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.73%) Relational Database
7 99 (5.95%) BigQuery
8 98 (5.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.59%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.29%) Big Data
11 83 (4.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 83 (4.98%) Tableau
12 75 (4.50%) Oracle Reports
13 71 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (4.08%) NoSQL
15 62 (3.72%) Pentaho
16 61 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
17 58 (3.48%) Oracle Database
18 57 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
19 51 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (10.93%) Git
2 149 (8.95%) JIRA
3 104 (6.25%) GitLab
4 55 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.40%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.16%) Postman
7 16 (0.96%) Selenium
8 14 (0.84%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 410 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 374 (22.46%) Finance
3 311 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 147 (8.83%) Banking
6 38 (2.28%) Retail
7 36 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.44%) Marketing
9 22 (1.32%) Legal
10 21 (1.26%) Law
11 17 (1.02%) Front Office
11 17 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.84%) Billing
13 14 (0.84%) Investment Banking
13 14 (0.84%) Police
14 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 655 (39.34%) Data Engineer
2 245 (14.71%) Developer
3 240 (14.41%) Senior
4 228 (13.69%) Architect
5 158 (9.49%) Lead
6 154 (9.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 124 (7.45%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.33%) Analyst
9 68 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.60%) Data Analyst
11 56 (3.36%) Databricks Engineer
12 51 (3.06%) Azure Data Engineer
13 49 (2.94%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 47 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
15 45 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
16 44 (2.64%) Tester
17 40 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 38 (2.28%) AWS Data Engineer
18 38 (2.28%) Consultant
18 38 (2.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (9.85%) PySpark
2 150 (9.01%) Terraform
3 132 (7.93%) Kafka
4 74 (4.44%) REST
5 61 (3.66%) JSON
6 49 (2.94%) .NET
7 30 (1.80%) XML
8 29 (1.74%) React
9 28 (1.68%) Pandas
10 26 (1.56%) Middleware
11 23 (1.38%) Spring
11 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.08%) YAML
13 16 (0.96%) SOAP
14 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.84%) pytest
16 12 (0.72%) HTML
16 12 (0.72%) LangChain
16 12 (0.72%) OAuth
17 11 (0.66%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.67%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 70 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
4 61 (3.66%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.24%) Onboarding
6 38 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.44%) NHS
8 24 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 22 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 19 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.14%) Replication
12 16 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
13 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.90%) Clustering
13 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
14 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.84%) Linux
2 59 (3.54%) Unix
3 21 (1.26%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (47.33%) Data Modelling
2 711 (42.70%) Data Pipeline
3 630 (37.84%) Analytics
4 549 (32.97%) Data Engineering
5 521 (31.29%) CI/CD
6 478 (28.71%) Agile
7 451 (27.09%) Business Intelligence
8 448 (26.91%) Migration
9 392 (23.54%) Data Integration
10 388 (23.30%) DevOps
11 348 (20.90%) Data Governance
12 342 (20.54%) Validation
13 315 (18.92%) AI
14 297 (17.84%) Problem-Solving
15 286 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 257 (15.44%) Data Migration
17 250 (15.02%) Data Architecture
18 237 (14.23%) Data Transformation
19 220 (13.21%) Test Automation
20 192 (11.53%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,103 (66.25%) SQL
2 651 (39.10%) Python
3 144 (8.65%) Java
4 90 (5.41%) PL/SQL
5 83 (4.98%) T-SQL
6 60 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 56 (3.36%) C#
8 49 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 49 (2.94%) Scala
9 45 (2.70%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 32 (1.92%) Bash
12 22 (1.32%) R
12 22 (1.32%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.08%) Bicep
14 13 (0.78%) Cypher
15 7 (0.42%) Perl
15 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
17 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 466 (27.99%) Security Cleared
2 402 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 66 (3.96%) Degree
4 52 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 29 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.24%) CISM
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 607 (36.46%) Data Quality
2 141 (8.47%) QA
3 76 (4.56%) GDPR
4 40 (2.40%) GRC
5 26 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) PMO
9 7 (0.42%) WCAG
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) SLA
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 121 (7.27%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 119 (7.15%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.34%) Grafana
3 20 (1.20%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 14 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 365 (21.92%) Databricks
2 322 (19.34%) Oracle
3 296 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.11%) Informatica
5 115 (6.91%) Talend
6 79 (4.74%) Google
7 75 (4.50%) SAP
8 55 (3.30%) Denodo
9 48 (2.88%) IBM
10 37 (2.22%) Salesforce
11 32 (1.92%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.74%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.02%) Palantir
13 17 (1.02%) Teradata
14 16 (0.96%) Foundry
15 11 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage