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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 84 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,703 951 1,028
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.90% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.20% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,237 645 745
10th Percentile £358 £356 £360
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £589 £603 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 8
10th Percentile £22.12 - £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £35.86 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £54.38 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.98 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.86 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -49.21% +171.02% -52.64%

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 44,620 29,684 34,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.91% 90.46% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,627 18,648 21,888
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,682 1,621 1,980
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.33 £17.74
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.35 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.55% -41.56% -

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +11 1,524 £500 - 347
UK excluding London +14 766 £463 - 225
London +9 757 £525 -0.47% 166
Work from Home +15 535 £500 - 161
Midlands +23 276 £459 +2.00% 45
West Midlands +36 241 £455 -5.21% 32
North of England -9 184 £463 -2.63% 68
South East +9 140 £459 -1.92% 52
North West -23 81 £460 -8.00% 38
Yorkshire -12 79 £475 +11.76% 16
South West -27 65 £523 +10.00% 35
East of England +13 56 £475 -5.00% 9
Scotland -15 45 £425 - 9
East Midlands -15 34 £490 +12.00% 13
North East -25 25 £531 +11.79% 17
Wales -11 8 £313 -32.07% 6
Northern Ireland -3 3 £334 -34.83% 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
1 138 (8.10%) Apache Spark
2 127 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
3 114 (6.69%) SAS
4 94 (5.52%) Apache
5 64 (3.76%) Confluence
6 23 (1.35%) Oracle Application Server
6 23 (1.35%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.70%) nginx
7 12 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.18%) Appian
13 3 (0.18%) Camunda
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.65%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 657 (38.58%) Azure
2 509 (29.89%) AWS
3 402 (23.61%) Power Platform
4 218 (12.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 216 (12.68%) GCP
6 197 (11.57%) Snowflake
7 152 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (8.46%) Amazon S3
9 140 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
9 140 (8.22%) Serverless
10 118 (6.93%) dbt
11 112 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
12 100 (5.87%) GitHub
13 55 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
15 45 (2.64%) Collibra
16 40 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.76%) Power Automate
18 29 (1.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.65%) HTTP
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.059%) 4G
6 1 (0.059%) 5G
6 1 (0.059%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.059%) DHCP
6 1 (0.059%) DNS
6 1 (0.059%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 553 (32.47%) Data Warehouse
2 384 (22.55%) Power BI
3 257 (15.09%) Data Lake
4 163 (9.57%) SQL Server
5 158 (9.28%) Metadata
6 106 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (5.87%) Relational Database
8 98 (5.75%) Tableau
9 97 (5.70%) Amazon Redshift
10 91 (5.34%) Big Data
11 89 (5.23%) BigQuery
12 88 (5.17%) Delta Lake
13 86 (5.05%) Pentaho
14 75 (4.40%) NoSQL
14 75 (4.40%) Oracle Reports
14 75 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
15 66 (3.88%) Snowflake Schema
16 63 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
18 52 (3.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 190 (11.16%) Git
2 146 (8.57%) JIRA
3 92 (5.40%) GitLab
4 69 (4.05%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.52%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.29%) Postman
7 15 (0.88%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) Gatling
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.18%) ERwin
12 3 (0.18%) JMeter
12 3 (0.18%) NeoLoad
General
1 401 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 383 (22.49%) Finance
3 303 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.16%) Banking
6 46 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.82%) Marketing
8 26 (1.53%) Retail
9 25 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.35%) Legal
11 22 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.06%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.76%) Front Office
16 11 (0.65%) Billing
16 11 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.65%) Law
17 9 (0.53%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 676 (39.69%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.50%) Developer
3 235 (13.80%) Architect
4 206 (12.10%) Senior
5 169 (9.92%) Lead
6 134 (7.87%) Senior Data Engineer
7 131 (7.69%) Data Architect
8 118 (6.93%) Analyst
9 59 (3.46%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
12 47 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.70%) Tester
14 45 (2.64%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.64%) SQL Developer
15 41 (2.41%) Python Engineer
16 38 (2.23%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (10.69%) PySpark
2 142 (8.34%) Kafka
3 75 (4.40%) REST
4 61 (3.58%) JSON
5 41 (2.41%) .NET
6 40 (2.35%) Pandas
7 30 (1.76%) Middleware
7 30 (1.76%) XML
8 24 (1.41%) React
8 24 (1.41%) Spring
9 22 (1.29%) Spring Boot
10 19 (1.12%) RESTful
11 18 (1.06%) YAML
12 17 (1.00%) OAuth
12 17 (1.00%) PyTorch
13 16 (0.94%) Web Services
14 15 (0.88%) NumPy
15 14 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.82%) pytest
15 14 (0.82%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.69%) Data Structures
3 83 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 51 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.53%) NHS
8 24 (1.41%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.29%) Distributed Computing
10 21 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.23%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.17%) Clustering
12 19 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.06%) Replication
14 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.76%) IoT
15 12 (0.70%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.65%) Data Fabric
16 11 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.23%) Unix
2 52 (3.05%) Linux
3 19 (1.12%) Windows
4 9 (0.53%) Solaris
5 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 801 (47.03%) Data Modelling
2 704 (41.34%) Data Pipeline
3 665 (39.05%) Analytics
4 526 (30.89%) Data Engineering
5 504 (29.59%) CI/CD
6 491 (28.83%) Business Intelligence
7 457 (26.83%) Agile
8 448 (26.31%) Migration
9 367 (21.55%) DevOps
10 366 (21.49%) Data Governance
11 353 (20.73%) Data Integration
12 336 (19.73%) Validation
13 305 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
14 274 (16.09%) Data Migration
15 268 (15.74%) AI
16 244 (14.33%) Data Architecture
17 229 (13.45%) Test Automation
18 221 (12.98%) Decision-Making
19 204 (11.98%) Data Transformation
20 203 (11.92%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,133 (66.53%) SQL
2 670 (39.34%) Python
3 143 (8.40%) Java
4 91 (5.34%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.82%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 57 (3.35%) C#
8 48 (2.82%) Scala
9 43 (2.52%) JavaScript
10 40 (2.35%) PowerShell
11 35 (2.06%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.82%) Bash
13 24 (1.41%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.12%) Bicep
14 19 (1.12%) R
15 9 (0.53%) Cypher
15 9 (0.53%) VBA
16 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.47%) SPARQL
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 491 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 418 (24.54%) SC Cleared
3 84 (4.93%) Degree
4 43 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.59%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.53%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.23%) DV Cleared
10 20 (1.17%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.59%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 (0.18%) CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 590 (34.64%) Data Quality
2 146 (8.57%) QA
3 108 (6.34%) GDPR
4 37 (2.17%) GRC
5 23 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.82%) PMO
6 14 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.59%) IFRS
7 10 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.53%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) FATCA
9 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.41%) HL7
11 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.35%) WCAG
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 119 (6.99%) Docker
2 12 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
5 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.059%) RACF
7 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (8.40%) Terraform
2 127 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.52%) Grafana
4 20 (1.17%) Ansible
5 19 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.53%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.059%) Argo
10 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.059%) Istio
10 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 337 (19.79%) Oracle
2 326 (19.14%) Databricks
3 297 (17.44%) Microsoft
4 162 (9.51%) Informatica
5 141 (8.28%) Talend
6 82 (4.82%) SAP
7 71 (4.17%) Google
8 66 (3.88%) Denodo
9 46 (2.70%) IBM
10 39 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 38 (2.23%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.70%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.35%) Sage
14 20 (1.17%) Palantir
15 17 (1.00%) MuleSoft
16 16 (0.94%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.94%) Splunk
17 13 (0.76%) Foundry
18 12 (0.70%) Cloudera
18 12 (0.70%) Workday