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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 86 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,736 939 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 2.85% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.15% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 630 708
10th Percentile £358 £356 £360
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -1.26% -1.04% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 7
10th Percentile £22.12 £36.15 £33.15
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +2.35% -40.56%
75th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £82.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -44.82% +105.80% -59.77%

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 45,278 29,786 33,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.80% 90.49% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,840 18,586 21,275
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,823 1,710 1,832
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.46
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £74.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +13.33%

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 14 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 14 August 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 14 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 1,548 £500 - 471
UK excluding London +22 780 £469 -1.26% 258
London +4 763 £525 - 265
Work from Home +16 532 £500 - 207
Midlands +28 292 £459 -0.76% 48
West Midlands +35 257 £459 -8.20% 37
North of England -7 181 £475 - 62
South East +14 147 £459 +2.00% 82
Yorkshire 0 82 £475 +11.76% 14
North West -20 75 £475 -5.00% 35
South West -30 67 £523 +13.59% 30
East of England +8 54 £469 -14.77% 11
Scotland -3 40 £430 +0.23% 12
East Midlands -18 34 £490 +13.10% 11
North East -22 25 £520 +15.56% 14
Wales -11 7 £313 -33.86% 8
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -34.83% 5

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
1 137 (7.89%) Apache Spark
2 132 (7.60%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (6.91%) SAS
4 99 (5.70%) Apache
5 67 (3.86%) Confluence
6 29 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.63%) nginx
9 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.58%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.35%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.23%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 36 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.58%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.17%) Actimize
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 678 (39.06%) Azure
2 526 (30.30%) AWS
3 413 (23.79%) Power Platform
4 237 (13.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 223 (12.85%) GCP
6 216 (12.44%) Snowflake
7 152 (8.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (8.35%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (8.06%) Amazon S3
10 138 (7.95%) Serverless
11 125 (7.20%) dbt
12 116 (6.68%) GitHub
13 110 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
15 50 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
16 41 (2.36%) Collibra
17 34 (1.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.79%) Power Automate
19 28 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
20 27 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 10 (0.58%) HTTP
3 8 (0.46%) VPN
4 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.17%) DHCP
5 3 (0.17%) DNS
5 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.058%) 4G
7 1 (0.058%) 5G
7 1 (0.058%) LTE
7 1 (0.058%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 601 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 398 (22.93%) Power BI
3 263 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 162 (9.33%) Metadata
4 162 (9.33%) SQL Server
5 105 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
6 104 (5.99%) Relational Database
7 99 (5.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 98 (5.65%) BigQuery
9 95 (5.47%) Tableau
10 92 (5.30%) Delta Lake
11 89 (5.13%) Pentaho
12 86 (4.95%) Big Data
13 80 (4.61%) Oracle Reports
14 78 (4.49%) NoSQL
15 77 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
16 67 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
17 63 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
18 61 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
19 52 (3.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 205 (11.81%) Git
2 156 (8.99%) JIRA
3 104 (5.99%) GitLab
4 76 (4.38%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 46 (2.65%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 11 (0.63%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.29%) ERwin
11 5 (0.29%) Gatling
12 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.23%) Claude Code
12 4 (0.23%) Flyway
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 416 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 375 (21.60%) Finance
3 318 (18.32%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.37%) Banking
6 37 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (1.96%) Retail
8 31 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 30 (1.73%) Marketing
10 28 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.27%) Legal
12 19 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 17 (0.98%) Law
13 17 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.81%) Front Office
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.63%) Billing
16 11 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.63%) Police
17 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 690 (39.75%) Data Engineer
2 253 (14.57%) Developer
3 235 (13.54%) Architect
4 225 (12.96%) Senior
5 176 (10.14%) Lead
6 146 (8.41%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.43%) Data Architect
8 117 (6.74%) Analyst
9 63 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 56 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
10 56 (3.23%) Data Analyst
11 51 (2.94%) Azure Data Engineer
12 50 (2.88%) Tester
13 48 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 45 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
15 44 (2.53%) Snowflake Engineer
16 42 (2.42%) SQL Developer
17 40 (2.30%) Lead Data Engineer
17 40 (2.30%) Python Engineer
18 39 (2.25%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (10.25%) PySpark
2 139 (8.01%) Kafka
3 76 (4.38%) REST
4 56 (3.23%) JSON
5 44 (2.53%) .NET
6 34 (1.96%) Pandas
7 27 (1.56%) React
8 26 (1.50%) Middleware
8 26 (1.50%) XML
9 23 (1.32%) Spring
10 22 (1.27%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.09%) YAML
12 15 (0.86%) pytest
12 15 (0.86%) RESTful
13 14 (0.81%) OAuth
13 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.75%) SOAP
15 12 (0.69%) Great Expectations
15 12 (0.69%) HTML
16 11 (0.63%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 80 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.44%) NHS
8 23 (1.32%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.21%) Clustering
11 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
12 18 (1.04%) Replication
13 15 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.69%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.63%) Data Fabric
15 11 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 61 (3.51%) Linux
2 54 (3.11%) Unix
3 16 (0.92%) Windows
4 7 (0.40%) Solaris
5 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (47.29%) Data Modelling
2 720 (41.47%) Data Pipeline
3 675 (38.88%) Analytics
4 537 (30.93%) Data Engineering
5 533 (30.70%) CI/CD
6 505 (29.09%) Agile
7 501 (28.86%) Business Intelligence
8 470 (27.07%) Migration
9 397 (22.87%) DevOps
10 388 (22.35%) Data Integration
11 362 (20.85%) Data Governance
12 329 (18.95%) Validation
13 314 (18.09%) Problem-Solving
14 285 (16.42%) Data Migration
15 276 (15.90%) AI
16 251 (14.46%) Test Automation
17 248 (14.29%) Data Architecture
18 242 (13.94%) Stakeholder Management
19 230 (13.25%) Data Transformation
20 217 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,158 (66.71%) SQL
2 663 (38.19%) Python
3 150 (8.64%) Java
4 89 (5.13%) T-SQL
5 87 (5.01%) PL/SQL
6 72 (4.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.00%) C#
8 51 (2.94%) Scala
9 48 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 44 (2.53%) PowerShell
11 38 (2.19%) Bash
12 33 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.15%) R
13 20 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 17 (0.98%) Bicep
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
15 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) VBA
17 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 499 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 424 (24.42%) SC Cleared
3 77 (4.44%) Degree
4 45 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.96%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation 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
1 616 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 147 (8.47%) QA
3 96 (5.53%) GDPR
4 39 (2.25%) GRC
5 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.58%) PMO
9 9 (0.52%) HL7
9 9 (0.52%) IFRS
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.46%) WCAG
11 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.29%) FATCA
12 5 (0.29%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 131 (7.55%) Docker
2 16 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
5 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 155 (8.93%) Terraform
2 130 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.42%) Grafana
4 22 (1.27%) Ansible
5 15 (0.86%) Control-M
6 12 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.12%) Puppet
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 355 (20.45%) Databricks
2 351 (20.22%) Oracle
3 306 (17.63%) Microsoft
4 161 (9.27%) Informatica
5 140 (8.06%) Talend
6 80 (4.61%) SAP
7 75 (4.32%) Google
8 69 (3.97%) Denodo
9 46 (2.65%) IBM
10 37 (2.13%) Salesforce
11 36 (2.07%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.67%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.27%) Sage
14 21 (1.21%) Palantir
15 16 (0.92%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.86%) Cloudera
16 15 (0.86%) Foundry
17 14 (0.81%) Teradata
18 13 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 12 (0.69%) Workday