ETL Contracts

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 96 100
Rank change year-on-year +17 +4 -10
Contract jobs citing ETL 886 1,011 1,467
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.03% 2.32% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.69% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 749 1,053
10th Percentile £350 £363 £388
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 17
10th Percentile £36.69 £28.54 -
25th Percentile £37.83 £35.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £49.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year +14.14% +13.45% +5.13%
75th Percentile £92.16 £53.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £100.97 £63.70 £76.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.05 £30.37 £36.25
% change year-on-year +199.81% -16.22% -8.75%

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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +18 748 £525 - 726
London -5 409 £538 +2.38% 439
UK excluding London +60 354 £475 -5.00% 320
Work from Home +12 316 £500 - 434
North of England +26 112 £463 -9.31% 72
North West +7 66 £475 -9.52% 44
South East +49 61 £525 +5.00% 71
Scotland +33 54 £425 -12.51% 21
Midlands +7 52 £475 - 69
South West +55 51 £500 -4.76% 55
Yorkshire +27 37 £350 -28.21% 22
West Midlands 0 32 £497 +16.82% 46
East Midlands +11 19 £415 -19.02% 20
East of England +30 17 £494 +3.95% 17
North East +4 9 £475 +21.17% 6
Wales +8 7 £400 - 6
Northern Ireland -6 4 £500 +25.00% 12

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 84 (9.48%) Apache Spark
2 71 (8.01%) Apache
3 67 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (4.51%) Confluence
5 19 (2.14%) SAS
6 14 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.34%) nginx
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) Mule
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
Applications
1 26 (2.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.23%) Actimize
5 2 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.23%) Maximo
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.11%) Magento
6 1 (0.11%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.11%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.11%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.11%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 312 (35.21%) Azure
2 277 (31.26%) AWS
3 167 (18.85%) Power Platform
4 137 (15.46%) GCP
5 103 (11.63%) Snowflake
6 86 (9.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 72 (8.13%) Serverless
8 70 (7.90%) Amazon S3
9 62 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 59 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
11 56 (6.32%) dbt
12 44 (4.97%) GitHub
13 41 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
14 25 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (2.37%) PowerApps
16 19 (2.14%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (1.92%) PaaS
18 16 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
19 15 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.90%) Firewall
1 8 (0.90%) VPN
2 2 (0.23%) FTP
3 1 (0.11%) HTTP
3 1 (0.11%) Internet
3 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (34.54%) Data Warehouse
2 155 (17.49%) Power BI
3 109 (12.30%) Data Lake
4 89 (10.05%) Big Data
5 74 (8.35%) SQL Server
6 68 (7.67%) Tableau
7 67 (7.56%) NoSQL
8 64 (7.22%) Relational Database
9 60 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 58 (6.55%) PostgreSQL
11 55 (6.21%) Hadoop
12 49 (5.53%) BigQuery
13 46 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
14 43 (4.85%) Metadata
15 40 (4.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 39 (4.40%) Oracle Database
17 33 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
18 26 (2.93%) Snowflake Schema
19 23 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
19 23 (2.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 52 (5.87%) JIRA
2 44 (4.97%) Git
3 25 (2.82%) ERwin
4 20 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.14%) GitLab
6 12 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.24%) ER Studio
7 11 (1.24%) PVCS
7 11 (1.24%) Subversion
8 9 (1.02%) Selenium
9 8 (0.90%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.68%) Liquibase
11 4 (0.45%) Postman
11 4 (0.45%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.45%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 3 (0.34%) MLflow
13 2 (0.23%) LSMW
13 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 288 (32.51%) Social Skills
2 190 (21.44%) Finance
3 136 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (7.90%) Banking
5 66 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 33 (3.72%) Marketing
7 28 (3.16%) Retail
8 19 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 19 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.47%) Legal
11 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.24%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.13%) Retail Banking
13 10 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
15 6 (0.68%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (33.52%) Data Engineer
2 123 (13.88%) Architect
3 111 (12.53%) Developer
4 96 (10.84%) Analyst
5 90 (10.16%) Senior
6 82 (9.26%) Data Architect
7 67 (7.56%) Lead
8 64 (7.22%) Data Analyst
9 56 (6.32%) Senior Data Engineer
10 40 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (4.51%) Consultant
11 32 (3.61%) Data Manager
12 30 (3.39%) Azure Data Engineer
13 29 (3.27%) AWS Engineer
13 29 (3.27%) Data Modeller
14 28 (3.16%) Business Analyst
15 25 (2.82%) AWS Data Engineer
16 24 (2.71%) Data Consultant
17 21 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
17 21 (2.37%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.47%) PySpark
2 69 (7.79%) Kafka
3 20 (2.26%) JSON
4 17 (1.92%) XML
5 15 (1.69%) REST
6 13 (1.47%) OAuth
7 12 (1.35%) Web Services
8 11 (1.24%) Java EE
8 11 (1.24%) Pandas
9 9 (1.02%) .NET
9 9 (1.02%) Apache Avro
9 9 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
9 9 (1.02%) RESTful
9 9 (1.02%) scikit-learn
10 8 (0.90%) Middleware
10 8 (0.90%) Node.js
11 7 (0.79%) pytest
11 7 (0.79%) React
11 7 (0.79%) SAML
11 7 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.66%) Data Structures
2 53 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 15 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 13 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (1.13%) NHS
6 10 (1.13%) Reference Data
7 9 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.79%) Clustering
9 7 (0.79%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.68%) Replication
10 6 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 5 (0.56%) Data Fabric
11 5 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.56%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.37%) Unix
2 18 (2.03%) Linux
3 5 (0.56%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (36.57%) Data Modelling
2 263 (29.68%) Data Pipeline
3 260 (29.35%) Analytics
4 216 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (22.69%) Business Intelligence
6 197 (22.23%) Migration
7 186 (20.99%) Data Engineering
8 177 (19.98%) Data Governance
9 160 (18.06%) Data Integration
10 148 (16.70%) Data Migration
11 139 (15.69%) CI/CD
12 137 (15.46%) Agile
13 130 (14.67%) Visualisation
14 123 (13.88%) DevOps
15 108 (12.19%) Data Architecture
16 102 (11.51%) Data Transformation
17 97 (10.95%) Data Science
18 95 (10.72%) Validation
19 91 (10.27%) Data Management
20 79 (8.92%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 555 (62.64%) SQL
2 366 (41.31%) Python
3 85 (9.59%) Java
4 47 (5.30%) Scala
5 37 (4.18%) PL/SQL
6 31 (3.50%) R
7 30 (3.39%) T-SQL
8 27 (3.05%) JavaScript
9 26 (2.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 19 (2.14%) C#
11 16 (1.81%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.47%) Bash
13 11 (1.24%) C
13 11 (1.24%) ProC
14 9 (1.02%) ABAP
15 8 (0.90%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.90%) Bicep
15 8 (0.90%) SPARQL
16 7 (0.79%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 116 (13.09%) Security Cleared
2 78 (8.80%) SC Cleared
3 57 (6.43%) Degree
4 28 (3.16%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.14%) DV Cleared
7 15 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.34%) PMP
13 2 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.11%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.11%) CITP
14 1 (0.11%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.11%) ISEB
14 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (23.70%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.63%) QA
3 34 (3.84%) GDPR
4 19 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.56%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.34%) SLA
9 2 (0.23%) Basel III
9 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.11%) HL7
10 1 (0.11%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.11%) PMO
10 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.11%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (6.43%) Docker
2 7 (0.79%) HDFS
3 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) NFS
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (9.03%) Terraform
2 65 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.58%) Grafana
4 12 (1.35%) Ansible
4 12 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.34%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) linkerd
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Oozie
8 1 (0.11%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) VxRail
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 124 (14.00%) Databricks
2 104 (11.74%) Microsoft
3 96 (10.84%) Oracle
4 73 (8.24%) Google
5 59 (6.66%) Informatica
6 52 (5.87%) SAP
7 30 (3.39%) Talend
8 24 (2.71%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.81%) IBM
10 14 (1.58%) Alteryx
10 14 (1.58%) Teradata
11 11 (1.24%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.13%) Adobe
13 8 (0.90%) Ab Initio
13 8 (0.90%) Palantir
13 8 (0.90%) Splunk
14 7 (0.79%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.56%) Confluent
15 5 (0.56%) UiPath
16 4 (0.45%) Sparx