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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 89 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,690 931 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.15% 2.85% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.15% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 628 703
10th Percentile £362 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £473 £485
% change year-on-year -0.53% -2.58% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 6
10th Percentile £22.12 £34.70 £32.69
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.47 £36.56
Median hourly rate £34.49 £38.96 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -16.22% -35.42%
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% -58.11%

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 45,367 29,590 33,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.44% 85.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,794 18,422 20,982
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 2,879 1,766 1,695
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.86
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.26% -37.90% -4.71%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +6.25%

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 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 26 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 26 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 1,489 £500 - 598
London +1 761 £525 - 373
UK excluding London +17 725 £470 -0.53% 278
Work from Home +21 532 £500 - 263
Midlands +21 245 £469 +1.41% 51
West Midlands +21 210 £469 -6.20% 40
North of England -5 183 £475 +2.70% 86
South East +14 144 £459 - 45
Yorkshire +3 81 £475 +13.10% 19
North West -19 79 £473 -5.50% 51
South West -33 61 £523 +11.76% 47
East of England +4 53 £475 -13.64% 14
Scotland -11 38 £450 +2.16% 17
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +13.10% 11
North East -23 24 £520 +18.86% 16
Wales -9 9 £313 -37.50% 10
Northern Ireland -5 3 £334 -34.83% 10

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 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
2 129 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 96 (5.68%) Apache
3 96 (5.68%) SAS
4 61 (3.61%) Confluence
5 29 (1.72%) SharePoint
6 26 (1.54%) Oracle Application Server
7 11 (0.65%) nginx
8 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
13 3 (0.18%) Camunda
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 32 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) 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 18 (1.07%) 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 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 679 (40.18%) Azure
2 505 (29.88%) AWS
3 403 (23.85%) Power Platform
4 235 (13.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 226 (13.37%) Snowflake
6 225 (13.31%) GCP
7 151 (8.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 146 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (7.99%) Amazon S3
10 134 (7.93%) Serverless
11 127 (7.51%) dbt
12 115 (6.80%) GitHub
13 109 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (2.66%) Amazon EMR
16 41 (2.43%) Collibra
17 33 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.89%) Power Automate
19 29 (1.72%) SaaS
20 27 (1.60%) 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
1 590 (34.91%) Data Warehouse
2 391 (23.14%) Power BI
3 267 (15.80%) Data Lake
4 166 (9.82%) Metadata
5 160 (9.47%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.63%) Relational Database
7 109 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 97 (5.74%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.50%) Delta Lake
9 93 (5.50%) Tableau
10 90 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 87 (5.15%) Big Data
12 73 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
13 72 (4.26%) NoSQL
14 69 (4.08%) Oracle Reports
15 66 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
16 65 (3.85%) Pentaho
17 58 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
17 58 (3.43%) Oracle Database
18 57 (3.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (10.53%) Git
2 140 (8.28%) JIRA
3 99 (5.86%) GitLab
4 57 (3.37%) Jenkins
5 38 (2.25%) Zephyr
6 33 (1.95%) Postman
7 15 (0.89%) Selenium
8 12 (0.71%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.30%) ERwin
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) Flyway
13 3 (0.18%) NeoLoad
General
1 406 (24.02%) Social Skills
2 369 (21.83%) Finance
3 315 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (11.66%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.63%) Banking
6 36 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.01%) Retail
8 29 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (1.66%) Marketing
10 27 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.48%) Legal
12 19 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.12%) Law
13 16 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.71%) Billing
14 12 (0.71%) Front Office
14 12 (0.71%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.71%) Police
15 11 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 652 (38.58%) Data Engineer
2 252 (14.91%) Developer
3 239 (14.14%) Architect
4 229 (13.55%) Senior
5 168 (9.94%) Lead
6 149 (8.82%) Senior Data Engineer
7 130 (7.69%) Data Architect
8 120 (7.10%) Analyst
9 67 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.55%) Data Analyst
11 52 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (3.08%) Azure Data Engineer
12 44 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
13 43 (2.54%) Tester
14 42 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
14 42 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 39 (2.31%) Oracle Developer
15 39 (2.31%) SQL Developer
16 38 (2.25%) Data Migration Lead
16 38 (2.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (10.18%) PySpark
2 150 (8.88%) Terraform
3 140 (8.28%) Kafka
4 78 (4.62%) REST
5 58 (3.43%) JSON
6 45 (2.66%) .NET
7 33 (1.95%) Pandas
8 27 (1.60%) Middleware
8 27 (1.60%) XML
9 26 (1.54%) React
10 23 (1.36%) Spring
10 23 (1.36%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.01%) YAML
12 14 (0.83%) OAuth
12 14 (0.83%) pytest
12 14 (0.83%) SOAP
13 13 (0.77%) RESTful
14 12 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
15 11 (0.65%) Playwright
15 11 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.60%) NHS
8 23 (1.36%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.07%) Clustering
13 17 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
13 17 (1.01%) Replication
14 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
15 13 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
17 10 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.55%) Linux
2 57 (3.37%) Unix
3 17 (1.01%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) 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
1 799 (47.28%) Data Modelling
2 703 (41.60%) Data Pipeline
3 644 (38.11%) Analytics
4 528 (31.24%) Data Engineering
5 514 (30.41%) CI/CD
6 477 (28.22%) Agile
6 477 (28.22%) Business Intelligence
7 443 (26.21%) Migration
8 393 (23.25%) Data Integration
9 384 (22.72%) DevOps
10 357 (21.12%) Data Governance
11 328 (19.41%) Validation
12 300 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
13 281 (16.63%) AI
14 266 (15.74%) Data Migration
15 264 (15.62%) Stakeholder Management
16 245 (14.50%) Data Architecture
17 239 (14.14%) Data Transformation
18 214 (12.66%) Test Automation
19 203 (12.01%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,122 (66.39%) SQL
2 643 (38.05%) Python
3 149 (8.82%) Java
4 88 (5.21%) PL/SQL
5 84 (4.97%) T-SQL
6 63 (3.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.02%) C#
7 51 (3.02%) Scala
8 47 (2.78%) JavaScript
9 44 (2.60%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 33 (1.95%) Bash
12 20 (1.18%) R
12 20 (1.18%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.07%) Bicep
14 9 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.47%) Cypher
16 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Perl
18 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 466 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 394 (23.31%) SC Cleared
3 75 (4.44%) Degree
4 49 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 36 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.54%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.07%) 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%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 607 (35.92%) Data Quality
2 136 (8.05%) QA
3 90 (5.33%) GDPR
4 39 (2.31%) GRC
5 26 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.59%) HL7
8 9 (0.53%) IFRS
9 8 (0.47%) PMO
9 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.47%) WCAG
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) 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 (6.98%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) 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
1 116 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.25%) Grafana
3 18 (1.07%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 11 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) 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%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 359 (21.24%) Databricks
2 325 (19.23%) Oracle
3 301 (17.81%) Microsoft
4 147 (8.70%) Informatica
5 115 (6.80%) Talend
6 77 (4.56%) SAP
7 76 (4.50%) Google
8 57 (3.37%) Denodo
9 50 (2.96%) IBM
10 39 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 34 (2.01%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.72%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.18%) Palantir
14 16 (0.95%) Foundry
14 16 (0.95%) Teradata
15 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.77%) Sage
17 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
17 12 (0.71%) Workday
18 11 (0.65%) Cloudera