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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 81 103
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,048 1,024 1,055
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.91% 2.81% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.25% 3.23% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 683 806
10th Percentile £360 £358 £381
25th Percentile £413 £420 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £491 £525
% change year-on-year -1.12% -6.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 15
10th Percentile £32.50 - £47.75
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £50.26
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -32.54% +75.00%
75th Percentile £66.88 £60.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £82.23 £100.93 £75.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 £27.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +170.04% -46.14% +45.87%

All Process and 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 32,237 31,694 40,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.44% 86.89% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,185 19,077 27,186
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,109 1,149 1,555
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £14.31
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.85 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.69% -26.97% +48.33%

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 26 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -10 909 £500 -2.91% 389
London +1 539 £525 - 188
UK excluding London -5 385 £485 -1.12% 333
Work from Home -12 341 £525 +5.00% 250
Midlands -6 121 £515 +8.42% 44
North of England -40 99 £441 -1.94% 44
West Midlands -2 91 £519 +8.86% 27
North West -8 55 £416 -4.86% 27
South West +6 52 £520 -9.57% 34
Scotland +19 40 £488 +8.27% 27
South East -42 40 £445 -19.09% 153
Yorkshire -40 37 £475 +5.56% 13
East Midlands +2 30 £438 +15.13% 17
East of England -9 23 £550 +7.32% 28
Northern Ireland +8 13 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales -6 10 £498 -6.13% 6
North East -9 6 £450 -5.26% 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
1 109 (10.40%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (9.64%) Apache Spark
3 78 (7.44%) Apache
4 48 (4.58%) SAS
5 13 (1.24%) SharePoint
6 10 (0.95%) Confluence
7 8 (0.76%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.48%) IIS
9 4 (0.38%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.38%) Luigi
10 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.19%) CMS
12 1 (0.095%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.095%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.095%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.095%) Maple
6 1 (0.095%) SPSS
6 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.67%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.67%) SAP HR
3 6 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.57%) SAP PM
4 5 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.38%) Maximo
5 4 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
7 2 (0.19%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 402 (38.36%) Azure
2 354 (33.78%) AWS
3 218 (20.80%) Power Platform
4 167 (15.94%) GCP
5 159 (15.17%) Snowflake
6 149 (14.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 114 (10.88%) Amazon S3
8 100 (9.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 93 (8.87%) Serverless
10 69 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
10 69 (6.58%) dbt
11 63 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (5.34%) GitHub
13 33 (3.15%) Amazon EMR
14 30 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (2.67%) SaaS
16 23 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
17 21 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
17 21 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.57%) 2G
1 6 (0.57%) 5G
1 6 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.48%) 4G
3 4 (0.38%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) SSH
4 3 (0.29%) SSL
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.19%) BGP
5 2 (0.19%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.19%) HTTP
5 2 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.19%) Internet
5 2 (0.19%) OSPF
5 2 (0.19%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.095%) DSL
6 1 (0.095%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.095%) Firewall
6 1 (0.095%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (32.63%) Data Warehouse
2 206 (19.66%) Power BI
3 140 (13.36%) Data Lake
4 111 (10.59%) SQL Server
5 95 (9.06%) Relational Database
6 85 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
6 85 (8.11%) Metadata
7 79 (7.54%) Big Data
8 78 (7.44%) BigQuery
9 76 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
10 65 (6.20%) Tableau
11 62 (5.92%) NoSQL
12 61 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 51 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
14 49 (4.68%) Pentaho
15 42 (4.01%) Hadoop
16 39 (3.72%) Snowflake Schema
17 38 (3.63%) Delta Lake
18 36 (3.44%) Oracle Database
19 32 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 119 (11.35%) Git
2 65 (6.20%) JIRA
3 60 (5.73%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.10%) GitLab
5 19 (1.81%) ERwin
6 13 (1.24%) Postman
7 10 (0.95%) MLflow
8 8 (0.76%) DBeaver
8 8 (0.76%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.67%) Selenium
9 7 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.57%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.48%) JMeter
12 4 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.38%) Toad
12 4 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.29%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.29%) Poetry
13 3 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 315 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 260 (24.81%) Finance
3 200 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 92 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 71 (6.77%) Banking
6 25 (2.39%) Retail
7 18 (1.72%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (1.43%) Marketing
11 14 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.15%) Legal
12 12 (1.15%) Local Government
13 11 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.86%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.67%) Front Office
15 7 (0.67%) Law
15 7 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 344 (32.82%) Data Engineer
2 158 (15.08%) Developer
3 128 (12.21%) Architect
4 117 (11.16%) Analyst
5 115 (10.97%) Senior
6 97 (9.26%) Lead
7 74 (7.06%) Data Analyst
8 72 (6.87%) Data Architect
9 58 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
10 44 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (3.72%) Azure Data Engineer
12 36 (3.44%) Consultant
13 35 (3.34%) AWS Engineer
14 34 (3.24%) Business Analyst
15 30 (2.86%) Python Engineer
16 27 (2.58%) AWS Data Engineer
17 26 (2.48%) Senior Developer
18 24 (2.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 24 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
19 20 (1.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.73%) PySpark
2 81 (7.73%) Kafka
3 50 (4.77%) REST
4 43 (4.10%) XML
5 39 (3.72%) JSON
6 32 (3.05%) Node.js
7 29 (2.77%) Pandas
8 25 (2.39%) RESTful
9 23 (2.19%) NumPy
10 18 (1.72%) OAuth
11 17 (1.62%) SOAP
12 16 (1.53%) React
13 14 (1.34%) .NET
14 13 (1.24%) GraphQL
15 12 (1.15%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.15%) Middleware
15 12 (1.15%) PyTorch
16 11 (1.05%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 10 (0.95%) Apache Avro
18 9 (0.86%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 71 (6.77%) Cloud Native
2 67 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 40 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.67%) Algorithms
5 23 (2.19%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.62%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.53%) Replication
10 14 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.05%) IoT
12 11 (1.05%) NHS
13 10 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (0.86%) Reinsurance
14 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 44 (4.20%) Linux
2 19 (1.81%) Unix
3 16 (1.53%) Windows
4 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.19%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.095%) Solaris
6 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 473 (45.13%) Data Modelling
2 395 (37.69%) Data Pipeline
3 390 (37.21%) Analytics
4 305 (29.10%) Business Intelligence
5 289 (27.58%) Data Engineering
6 273 (26.05%) CI/CD
7 259 (24.71%) Agile
8 255 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
9 242 (23.09%) Data Governance
10 232 (22.14%) Migration
11 219 (20.90%) DevOps
12 209 (19.94%) Data Integration
13 157 (14.98%) Data Migration
14 154 (14.69%) Data Architecture
15 139 (13.26%) Validation
16 135 (12.88%) Data Transformation
17 131 (12.50%) Visualisation
18 123 (11.74%) Data Science
19 110 (10.50%) Machine Learning
20 102 (9.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 671 (64.03%) SQL
2 519 (49.52%) Python
3 88 (8.40%) Java
4 47 (4.48%) Scala
5 45 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 40 (3.82%) T-SQL
7 37 (3.53%) C#
8 32 (3.05%) PL/SQL
9 30 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 27 (2.58%) JavaScript
11 19 (1.81%) Bash
12 18 (1.72%) VBA
13 17 (1.62%) R
14 16 (1.53%) PHP
15 15 (1.43%) TypeScript
16 14 (1.34%) Go
16 14 (1.34%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.86%) Perl
18 8 (0.76%) Korn
19 7 (0.67%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 172 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 134 (12.79%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.06%) Degree
4 44 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 40 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 37 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 21 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.05%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.67%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.57%) PMP
12 5 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.29%) CISSP
13 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.29%) MCSE
14 2 (0.19%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.19%) MCP
15 1 (0.095%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (30.63%) Data Quality
2 78 (7.44%) QA
3 74 (7.06%) GDPR
4 32 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.95%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.48%) IFRS
6 5 (0.48%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.48%) WCAG
7 4 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.38%) SLA
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.29%) HL7
8 3 (0.29%) MiFID
8 3 (0.29%) PMO
9 2 (0.19%) CRD IV
9 2 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.19%) EMIR
9 2 (0.19%) FINREP
9 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 112 (10.69%) Docker
2 7 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.48%) zsh
4 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.19%) KVM
5 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.095%) HDFS
6 1 (0.095%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 108 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 80 (7.63%) Terraform
3 16 (1.53%) Grafana
4 10 (0.95%) Ansible
5 5 (0.48%) Control-M
5 5 (0.48%) Kibana
5 5 (0.48%) logstash
5 5 (0.48%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.29%) Argo
7 3 (0.29%) Istio
8 2 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.19%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.095%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.095%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.095%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.095%) Puppet
9 1 (0.095%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.095%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 179 (17.08%) Databricks
2 169 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 140 (13.36%) Oracle
4 68 (6.49%) Talend
5 60 (5.73%) Google
6 58 (5.53%) Informatica
7 48 (4.58%) SAP
8 37 (3.53%) Denodo
9 31 (2.96%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.91%) IBM
11 18 (1.72%) Palantir
12 15 (1.43%) Foundry
13 13 (1.24%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.05%) VMware
15 10 (0.95%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.95%) Cognos
15 10 (0.95%) ServiceNow
15 10 (0.95%) Workday
16 8 (0.76%) Ab Initio
17 7 (0.67%) Teradata