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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 78 93
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,616 881 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.33% 3.08% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.38% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 598 739
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 13
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.27
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -25.38%
75th Percentile £69.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £78.70 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £30.37
% change year-on-year -15.72% +132.47% -44.78%

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 40,998 26,034 36,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 91.02% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,676 16,714 23,582
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,064 2,485
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.01 £74.63 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.35 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +76.32% -32.93% +7.14%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 1,442 £500 -4.76% 334
London +19 757 £512 -6.88% 174
UK excluding London +11 703 £469 -1.26% 191
Work from Home +18 494 £500 - 156
Midlands +24 243 £468 +2.92% 38
West Midlands +34 214 £459 -8.88% 28
North of England -18 177 £463 -1.91% 52
South East -3 123 £459 -8.20% 53
North West -13 92 £450 -10.00% 21
Yorkshire -20 68 £500 +21.95% 22
South West -22 61 £525 +7.69% 26
Scotland -1 55 £450 +5.88% 5
East of England -16 44 £494 -1.25% 8
East Midlands -27 28 £525 +23.67% 10
North East -14 17 £538 +23.56% 10
Wales -9 8 £313 -17.76% 9
Northern Ireland +2 4 £415 -17.00% 2

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
1 148 (9.16%) Apache Spark
2 123 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (5.57%) Apache
4 71 (4.39%) SAS
5 55 (3.40%) Confluence
6 16 (0.99%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.62%) nginx
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.43%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.25%) Camunda
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 38 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.43%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.19%) Trello
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 12 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) Actimize
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 679 (42.02%) Azure
2 495 (30.63%) AWS
3 412 (25.50%) Power Platform
4 244 (15.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 191 (11.82%) GCP
6 174 (10.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 157 (9.72%) Snowflake
8 150 (9.28%) Azure DevOps
9 146 (9.03%) Amazon S3
10 136 (8.42%) Serverless
11 111 (6.87%) GitHub
12 101 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (5.57%) dbt
14 54 (3.34%) Collibra
14 54 (3.34%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (2.17%) Amazon EMR
17 34 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.92%) Power Automate
18 31 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.43%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.062%) DHCP
4 1 (0.062%) DNS
4 1 (0.062%) DSL
4 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.062%) SMS
4 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (29.39%) Data Warehouse
2 388 (24.01%) Power BI
3 273 (16.89%) Data Lake
4 196 (12.13%) SQL Server
5 160 (9.90%) Metadata
6 106 (6.56%) Big Data
7 100 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 97 (6.00%) Tableau
9 94 (5.82%) Delta Lake
10 90 (5.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 83 (5.14%) NoSQL
12 78 (4.83%) Relational Database
13 76 (4.70%) Pentaho
14 75 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
15 71 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
16 70 (4.33%) BigQuery
17 60 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (3.59%) Oracle Reports
19 46 (2.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (11.26%) Git
2 146 (9.03%) JIRA
3 93 (5.75%) GitLab
4 71 (4.39%) Jenkins
5 46 (2.85%) Postman
6 34 (2.10%) Zephyr
7 26 (1.61%) MLflow
8 20 (1.24%) Selenium
9 11 (0.68%) ERwin
10 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Flyway
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NUnit
12 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 414 (25.62%) Social Skills
2 406 (25.12%) Finance
3 267 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 121 (7.49%) Banking
6 45 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.92%) Marketing
8 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 23 (1.42%) Retail
10 21 (1.30%) Legal
11 14 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.68%) Law
13 10 (0.62%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.43%) Front Office
16 7 (0.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 668 (41.34%) Data Engineer
2 200 (12.38%) Developer
3 184 (11.39%) Architect
4 182 (11.26%) Senior
5 172 (10.64%) Lead
6 130 (8.04%) Analyst
7 122 (7.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 112 (6.93%) Data Architect
9 78 (4.83%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 44 (2.72%) AWS Data Engineer
13 43 (2.66%) Python Engineer
14 39 (2.41%) Azure Data Engineer
15 38 (2.35%) Snowflake Engineer
16 35 (2.17%) Integration Engineer
17 34 (2.10%) Senior Developer
18 32 (1.98%) Data Migration Lead
19 31 (1.92%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (12.19%) PySpark
2 142 (8.79%) Kafka
3 95 (5.88%) REST
4 57 (3.53%) Pandas
5 43 (2.66%) .NET
6 38 (2.35%) JSON
7 34 (2.10%) XML
8 28 (1.73%) PyTorch
9 27 (1.67%) Middleware
10 25 (1.55%) OAuth
11 24 (1.49%) NumPy
11 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (1.49%) RESTful
11 24 (1.49%) Spring
12 22 (1.36%) pytest
13 21 (1.30%) Great Expectations
13 21 (1.30%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.18%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.11%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.81%) Data Structures
3 86 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.85%) Onboarding
6 30 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
7 24 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 24 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 16 (0.99%) Clustering
10 16 (0.99%) Replication
11 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (0.87%) NHS
13 13 (0.80%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.98%) Unix
2 28 (1.73%) Linux
3 19 (1.18%) Windows
4 12 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Solaris
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.062%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (46.97%) Data Modelling
2 638 (39.48%) Analytics
3 620 (38.37%) Data Pipeline
4 499 (30.88%) Data Engineering
5 496 (30.69%) Business Intelligence
6 457 (28.28%) CI/CD
7 402 (24.88%) Agile
8 375 (23.21%) DevOps
9 369 (22.83%) Migration
10 345 (21.35%) Data Governance
11 310 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
12 300 (18.56%) Validation
13 267 (16.52%) AI
14 258 (15.97%) Data Integration
15 244 (15.10%) Data Architecture
16 230 (14.23%) Data Migration
17 213 (13.18%) Decision-Making
18 197 (12.19%) Test Automation
19 175 (10.83%) Machine Learning
20 173 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (67.33%) SQL
2 698 (43.19%) Python
3 147 (9.10%) Java
4 80 (4.95%) T-SQL
5 74 (4.58%) PL/SQL
6 71 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 67 (4.15%) C#
8 54 (3.34%) Scala
9 43 (2.66%) JavaScript
10 30 (1.86%) PowerShell
11 24 (1.49%) Bash
12 20 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.18%) R
14 15 (0.93%) Bicep
15 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.43%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.43%) VBA
17 6 (0.37%) Cypher
18 5 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 410 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 336 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.25%) Degree
4 47 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
15 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (32.92%) Data Quality
2 150 (9.28%) QA
3 110 (6.81%) GDPR
4 23 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.18%) IFRS
6 16 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.74%) PMO
8 12 (0.74%) SLA
9 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.50%) FATCA
10 7 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) GAAP
11 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.25%) HL7
12 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 116 (7.18%) Docker
2 8 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (9.22%) Terraform
2 123 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.48%) Grafana
4 18 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.05%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Control-M
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.062%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.062%) logstash
Vendors
1 344 (21.29%) Databricks
2 300 (18.56%) Microsoft
3 276 (17.08%) Oracle
4 155 (9.59%) Informatica
5 135 (8.35%) Talend
6 62 (3.84%) Google
7 61 (3.77%) SAP
8 59 (3.65%) Denodo
9 49 (3.03%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.10%) IBM
11 25 (1.55%) MuleSoft
12 24 (1.49%) Salesforce
13 20 (1.24%) Alteryx
14 18 (1.11%) Splunk
15 17 (1.05%) Sage
15 17 (1.05%) Workday
16 16 (0.99%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.74%) Teradata
18 10 (0.62%) Cloudera
18 10 (0.62%) Red Hat