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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 91 86
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,696 928 983
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 2.82% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.11% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,214 626 697
10th Percentile £360 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -3.77%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 5
10th Percentile £22.12 £34.70 £32.22
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.47 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.49 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -8.33% -40.97%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.22 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -44.82% +105.80% -58.40%

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 45,621 29,800 32,930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,920 18,562 20,756
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £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 2,892 1,765 1,620
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.21 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.03
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.16% +0.31%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.15 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.11 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.48% -47.37% +14.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +8 1,492 £500 - 821
London 0 764 £520 -0.95% 549
UK excluding London +20 724 £470 -1.05% 391
Work from Home +17 534 £500 - 362
Midlands +21 247 £469 +1.41% 56
West Midlands +34 211 £469 -6.20% 41
North of England -1 184 £475 +2.70% 106
South East +17 142 £458 -2.24% 105
Yorkshire -3 81 £475 +13.10% 20
North West -28 80 £470 -6.00% 65
South West -26 63 £523 +10.00% 52
East of England +2 50 £475 -13.64% 23
Scotland -14 38 £440 -3.56% 26
East Midlands -12 35 £490 +13.10% 15
North East -19 24 £520 +18.86% 21
Wales -12 8 £313 -33.86% 11
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 14

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
1 132 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 98 (5.78%) Apache
4 97 (5.72%) SAS
5 63 (3.71%) Confluence
6 28 (1.65%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.71%) nginx
9 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.59%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 19 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.59%) Aladdin
2 10 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
3 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.47%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.41%) Sage X3
5 7 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 674 (39.74%) Azure
2 515 (30.37%) AWS
3 402 (23.70%) Power Platform
4 234 (13.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 226 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 224 (13.21%) GCP
7 149 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 148 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 142 (8.37%) Amazon S3
10 141 (8.31%) Serverless
11 130 (7.67%) dbt
12 119 (7.02%) GitHub
13 114 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.77%) Amazon EMR
16 39 (2.30%) Collibra
17 34 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.89%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.83%) SaaS
20 29 (1.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.71%) Firewall
2 11 (0.65%) HTTP
3 8 (0.47%) VPN
4 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.18%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.059%) LTE
7 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 594 (35.02%) Data Warehouse
2 390 (23.00%) Power BI
3 266 (15.68%) Data Lake
4 169 (9.96%) Metadata
5 158 (9.32%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.60%) Relational Database
7 109 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 96 (5.66%) BigQuery
8 96 (5.66%) Delta Lake
9 94 (5.54%) Tableau
10 85 (5.01%) Big Data
10 85 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 72 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
12 71 (4.19%) Oracle Reports
13 69 (4.07%) NoSQL
14 65 (3.83%) Pentaho
15 64 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 61 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
17 60 (3.54%) Oracle Database
17 60 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 180 (10.61%) Git
2 142 (8.37%) JIRA
3 102 (6.01%) GitLab
4 57 (3.36%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.36%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.06%) Postman
7 15 (0.88%) Selenium
8 12 (0.71%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.29%) Gatling
11 5 (0.29%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 408 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 372 (21.93%) Finance
3 320 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 199 (11.73%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.72%) Banking
6 37 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.00%) Retail
8 29 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 27 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 25 (1.47%) Legal
11 24 (1.42%) Marketing
12 21 (1.24%) Law
13 18 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 13 (0.77%) Billing
15 13 (0.77%) Front Office
15 13 (0.77%) Police
16 12 (0.71%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 663 (39.09%) Data Engineer
2 253 (14.92%) Developer
3 236 (13.92%) Architect
3 236 (13.92%) Senior
4 165 (9.73%) Lead
5 154 (9.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 131 (7.72%) Data Architect
7 123 (7.25%) Analyst
8 67 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
9 61 (3.60%) Data Analyst
10 55 (3.24%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
12 47 (2.77%) Snowflake Engineer
13 44 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
13 44 (2.59%) Tester
14 42 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 39 (2.30%) Oracle Developer
15 39 (2.30%) Python Engineer
15 39 (2.30%) SQL Developer
16 38 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (10.44%) PySpark
2 154 (9.08%) Terraform
3 137 (8.08%) Kafka
4 75 (4.42%) REST
5 60 (3.54%) JSON
6 48 (2.83%) .NET
7 31 (1.83%) Pandas
8 29 (1.71%) XML
9 27 (1.59%) React
10 25 (1.47%) Middleware
11 23 (1.36%) Spring
11 23 (1.36%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.00%) YAML
13 14 (0.83%) pytest
14 13 (0.77%) SOAP
15 12 (0.71%) OAuth
16 11 (0.65%) HTML
16 11 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
16 11 (0.65%) RESTful
16 11 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.66%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.42%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.42%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.12%) Distributed Systems
6 27 (1.59%) NHS
7 25 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.00%) Clustering
13 17 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
13 17 (1.00%) Replication
14 15 (0.88%) Data Fabric
15 14 (0.83%) IoT
16 13 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.71%) Linux
2 58 (3.42%) Unix
3 17 (1.00%) Windows
4 6 (0.35%) Solaris
5 5 (0.29%) 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
1 801 (47.23%) Data Modelling
2 708 (41.75%) Data Pipeline
3 648 (38.21%) Analytics
4 544 (32.08%) Data Engineering
5 517 (30.48%) CI/CD
6 480 (28.30%) Agile
7 479 (28.24%) Business Intelligence
8 448 (26.42%) Migration
9 398 (23.47%) Data Integration
10 386 (22.76%) DevOps
11 354 (20.87%) Data Governance
12 332 (19.58%) Validation
13 299 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
14 292 (17.22%) AI
15 267 (15.74%) Data Migration
16 266 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
17 246 (14.50%) Data Architecture
18 239 (14.09%) Data Transformation
19 216 (12.74%) Test Automation
20 200 (11.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,126 (66.39%) SQL
2 654 (38.56%) Python
3 148 (8.73%) Java
4 88 (5.19%) PL/SQL
5 82 (4.83%) T-SQL
6 67 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 53 (3.13%) C#
8 50 (2.95%) Scala
9 48 (2.83%) PowerShell
10 47 (2.77%) JavaScript
11 39 (2.30%) Shell Script
12 35 (2.06%) Bash
13 21 (1.24%) R
13 21 (1.24%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.12%) Bicep
15 9 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.47%) Cypher
17 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.35%) Perl
19 5 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 470 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 401 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 75 (4.42%) Degree
4 53 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.77%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 7 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 612 (36.08%) Data Quality
2 137 (8.08%) QA
3 87 (5.13%) GDPR
4 39 (2.30%) GRC
5 25 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.59%) HL7
8 8 (0.47%) IFRS
8 8 (0.47%) PMO
8 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.47%) WCAG
9 7 (0.41%) SLA
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (6.96%) Docker
2 16 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.41%) 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 (0.059%) RACF
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.30%) Grafana
3 20 (1.18%) Ansible
4 16 (0.94%) Control-M
5 12 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 359 (21.17%) Databricks
2 325 (19.16%) Oracle
3 305 (17.98%) Microsoft
4 144 (8.49%) Informatica
5 118 (6.96%) Talend
6 76 (4.48%) Google
7 75 (4.42%) SAP
8 57 (3.36%) Denodo
9 49 (2.89%) IBM
10 36 (2.12%) ServiceNow
11 34 (2.00%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.71%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.18%) Palantir
14 17 (1.00%) Teradata
15 16 (0.94%) Foundry
16 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.77%) Sage
18 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
19 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
19 11 (0.65%) Workday