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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 96
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,572 884 1,003
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.35% 3.01% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.32% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 602 744
10th Percentile £358 £350 £365
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £583 £619 £625
90th Percentile £685 £700 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £36.24 £36.69 £28.54
25th Percentile £51.22 £37.83 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £56.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% +14.14% +13.62%
75th Percentile £69.33 £92.16 £53.25
90th Percentile £79.75 £100.97 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -33.01% +199.81% -15.93%

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 39,735 26,655 37,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.81% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,044 17,231 24,097
10th Percentile £319 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,400 1,068 2,424
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.98 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.25 £29.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.08% -16.71% -6.27%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £59.44
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.00 £28.00 £35.98
% change year-on-year +50.00% -22.17% -0.07%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +18 1,406 £500 -4.76% 324
London +28 743 £513 -4.47% 134
UK excluding London +13 675 £470 -1.05% 264
Work from Home +14 482 £500 - 148
Midlands +28 230 £469 -1.26% 54
West Midlands +37 196 £468 -6.40% 43
North of England -20 174 £460 -0.54% 62
South East -25 103 £475 -9.52% 87
North West -7 92 £438 -7.89% 45
South West -22 67 £525 +5.00% 26
Yorkshire -33 65 £500 +42.86% 12
Scotland -2 55 £450 +5.88% 5
East of England -4 44 £500 +1.27% 19
East Midlands -22 33 £478 +15.06% 10
North East -12 16 £525 +10.53% 5
Wales -11 7 £325 -18.75% 12
Northern Ireland +7 5 £400 -20.00% 4

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
1 149 (9.48%) Apache Spark
2 120 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (5.73%) Apache
4 72 (4.58%) SAS
5 47 (2.99%) Confluence
6 19 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.89%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.57%) Appian
9 9 (0.57%) nginx
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
12 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
Applications
1 44 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Notepad++
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Maximo
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 640 (40.71%) Azure
2 477 (30.34%) AWS
3 380 (24.17%) Power Platform
4 239 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 183 (11.64%) GCP
6 178 (11.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 156 (9.92%) Amazon S3
8 152 (9.67%) Snowflake
9 137 (8.72%) Serverless
10 136 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
11 112 (7.12%) GitHub
12 102 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (5.60%) dbt
14 56 (3.56%) Collibra
15 51 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
16 49 (3.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 37 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (2.10%) SaaS
20 31 (1.97%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.70%) Firewall
1 11 (0.70%) HTTP
2 7 (0.45%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.45%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) DSL
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
5 1 (0.064%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (30.47%) Data Warehouse
2 358 (22.77%) Power BI
3 251 (15.97%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.02%) SQL Server
5 174 (11.07%) Metadata
6 107 (6.81%) Big Data
7 103 (6.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 100 (6.36%) Tableau
9 91 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (5.60%) Delta Lake
11 80 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
12 79 (5.03%) NoSQL
13 78 (4.96%) Pentaho
14 75 (4.77%) Relational Database
15 68 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 64 (4.07%) BigQuery
17 60 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.18%) Oracle Reports
18 50 (3.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (11.58%) Git
2 136 (8.65%) JIRA
3 82 (5.22%) GitLab
4 73 (4.64%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.80%) Postman
6 28 (1.78%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.72%) MLflow
8 21 (1.34%) Selenium
9 13 (0.83%) ERwin
10 7 (0.45%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.32%) NUnit
11 5 (0.32%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 427 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 401 (25.51%) Finance
3 277 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.19%) Banking
6 39 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.65%) Marketing
8 25 (1.59%) Legal
9 24 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.34%) Retail
11 16 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.83%) Law
14 11 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.64%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.45%) Front Office
17 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 633 (40.27%) Data Engineer
2 210 (13.36%) Developer
3 178 (11.32%) Senior
4 176 (11.20%) Architect
5 164 (10.43%) Lead
6 138 (8.78%) Analyst
7 113 (7.19%) Senior Data Engineer
8 104 (6.62%) Data Architect
9 84 (5.34%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (3.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 45 (2.86%) AWS Data Engineer
13 39 (2.48%) Snowflake Engineer
14 37 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 33 (2.10%) Lead Data Engineer
16 33 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (2.04%) Consultant
17 32 (2.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (12.15%) PySpark
2 145 (9.22%) Kafka
3 95 (6.04%) REST
4 54 (3.44%) Pandas
5 45 (2.86%) JSON
6 42 (2.67%) .NET
7 36 (2.29%) XML
8 29 (1.84%) RESTful
9 26 (1.65%) NumPy
10 25 (1.59%) OAuth
10 25 (1.59%) PyTorch
11 24 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
12 22 (1.40%) Middleware
13 21 (1.34%) pytest
13 21 (1.34%) Spring
14 19 (1.21%) Spring Boot
15 18 (1.15%) Great Expectations
16 17 (1.08%) FastAPI
16 17 (1.08%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.65%) Cloud Native
2 113 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 82 (5.22%) Legacy Systems
4 45 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
7 27 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.15%) Clustering
10 18 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (0.95%) NHS
13 14 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.89%) Replication
13 14 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.83%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.23%) Unix
2 28 (1.78%) Linux
3 19 (1.21%) Windows
4 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Solaris
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.064%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (48.22%) Data Modelling
2 642 (40.84%) Analytics
3 588 (37.40%) Data Pipeline
4 496 (31.55%) Data Engineering
5 475 (30.22%) Business Intelligence
6 448 (28.50%) CI/CD
7 401 (25.51%) Agile
8 366 (23.28%) Data Governance
9 358 (22.77%) Migration
10 357 (22.71%) DevOps
11 318 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
12 286 (18.19%) Validation
13 247 (15.71%) Data Architecture
14 246 (15.65%) Data Integration
15 230 (14.63%) Data Migration
16 224 (14.25%) AI
17 207 (13.17%) Decision-Making
18 183 (11.64%) Test Automation
19 175 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
20 168 (10.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,046 (66.54%) SQL
2 683 (43.45%) Python
3 137 (8.72%) Java
4 70 (4.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 68 (4.33%) PL/SQL
6 66 (4.20%) C#
7 65 (4.13%) T-SQL
8 55 (3.50%) Scala
9 38 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.65%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.21%) Bash
12 19 (1.21%) R
13 18 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.08%) Bicep
15 9 (0.57%) PHP
15 9 (0.57%) VBA
16 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 406 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 331 (21.06%) SC Cleared
3 106 (6.74%) Degree
4 54 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.74%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.51%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.13%) CISA
15 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 528 (33.59%) Data Quality
2 147 (9.35%) QA
3 121 (7.70%) GDPR
4 22 (1.40%) IFRS
4 22 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (1.08%) IFRS 17
6 16 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.70%) PMO
8 9 (0.57%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.51%) FATCA
10 7 (0.45%) GRC
11 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
12 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.25%) HL7
13 4 (0.25%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.25%) MiFID
13 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 127 (8.08%) Docker
2 9 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (9.73%) Terraform
2 129 (8.21%) Kubernetes
3 35 (2.23%) Grafana
4 19 (1.21%) Ansible
4 19 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) SCCM
9 1 (0.064%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.064%) logstash
9 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 323 (20.55%) Databricks
2 287 (18.26%) Microsoft
3 260 (16.54%) Oracle
4 159 (10.11%) Informatica
5 128 (8.14%) Talend
6 69 (4.39%) SAP
7 64 (4.07%) Google
8 56 (3.56%) Denodo
9 49 (3.12%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.54%) IBM
11 33 (2.10%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.59%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.21%) Sage
13 19 (1.21%) Splunk
14 17 (1.08%) Workday
15 15 (0.95%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.83%) Ab Initio
16 13 (0.83%) Teradata
17 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.70%) Palantir