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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 72 94
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,331 955 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 3.13% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.78% 3.48% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 993 638 775
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £51.21 - £30.65
25th Percentile £54.06 £26.25 £39.01
Median hourly rate £65.67 £35.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +87.64% -31.45% +45.87%
75th Percentile £71.60 £78.70 £63.14
90th Percentile £78.53 £102.00 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +138.81% -9.84% -12.86%

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 35,244 27,423 38,727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.69% 89.85% 87.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,345 16,931 25,318
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,112 856 2,183
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.94 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.91 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.68% -3.93% -2.14%
75th Percentile £60.79 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.38 £72.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +2 1,161 £500 -4.76% 379
London +25 694 £525 -4.55% 147
UK excluding London -16 495 £475 -4.43% 300
Work from Home -7 415 £508 +1.00% 180
Midlands +5 154 £500 +4.82% 66
North of England -36 133 £453 +0.67% 70
West Midlands +1 130 £513 +3.96% 47
North West -15 83 £450 -2.70% 37
South East -40 64 £475 -18.80% 106
South West -6 61 £525 -14.29% 32
Scotland +20 57 £463 +5.71% 11
Yorkshire -54 39 £500 +40.85% 25
East Midlands -17 24 £470 +21.29% 19
East of England -28 20 £520 -0.95% 16
Northern Ireland +7 10 £400 +3.23%
Wales -13 10 £410 -18.00% 2
North East -14 10 £475 -5.00% 9

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 (9.92%) Apache Spark
2 107 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (6.16%) Apache
4 61 (4.58%) SAS
5 17 (1.28%) Confluence
6 15 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.68%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.60%) Appian
8 8 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.53%) nginx
9 7 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.45%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.38%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.23%) CMS
12 3 (0.23%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.075%) Camunda
13 1 (0.075%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.60%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 1 (0.075%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.38%) Maximo
6 5 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.15%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 581 (43.65%) Azure
2 437 (32.83%) AWS
3 308 (23.14%) Power Platform
4 215 (16.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 179 (13.45%) GCP
6 157 (11.80%) Snowflake
7 150 (11.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 143 (10.74%) Amazon S3
9 124 (9.32%) Serverless
10 108 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (7.06%) GitHub
12 87 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (5.33%) dbt
14 47 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
16 36 (2.70%) Collibra
16 36 (2.70%) SaaS
17 29 (2.18%) AWS Step Functions
18 28 (2.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.60%) HTTP
2 7 (0.53%) 5G
3 6 (0.45%) 2G
3 6 (0.45%) 4G
3 6 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
4 2 (0.15%) DSL
4 2 (0.15%) Firewall
4 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.075%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.075%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 385 (28.93%) Data Warehouse
2 287 (21.56%) Power BI
3 227 (17.05%) Data Lake
4 160 (12.02%) SQL Server
5 136 (10.22%) Metadata
6 93 (6.99%) Big Data
6 93 (6.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 86 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
8 81 (6.09%) Relational Database
9 78 (5.86%) Tableau
10 73 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 72 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
12 67 (5.03%) NoSQL
13 65 (4.88%) Delta Lake
14 63 (4.73%) Pentaho
15 61 (4.58%) BigQuery
16 56 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
17 54 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.76%) Oracle Database
19 42 (3.16%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 163 (12.25%) Git
2 92 (6.91%) JIRA
3 76 (5.71%) Jenkins
4 54 (4.06%) GitLab
5 28 (2.10%) Postman
6 23 (1.73%) MLflow
7 17 (1.28%) ERwin
8 15 (1.13%) Selenium
9 9 (0.68%) JMeter
10 7 (0.53%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.53%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.38%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.38%) NUnit
11 5 (0.38%) TestRail
11 5 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.30%) DBeaver
12 4 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.30%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.30%) Toad
General
1 407 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 343 (25.77%) Finance
3 219 (16.45%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 104 (7.81%) Banking
6 38 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.95%) Retail
8 21 (1.58%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.35%) Marketing
10 15 (1.13%) Legal
11 14 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.98%) Law
12 13 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.60%) Publishing
15 7 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.45%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 521 (39.14%) Data Engineer
2 166 (12.47%) Developer
3 143 (10.74%) Senior
4 138 (10.37%) Architect
4 138 (10.37%) Lead
5 127 (9.54%) Analyst
6 89 (6.69%) Data Architect
7 88 (6.61%) Senior Data Engineer
8 86 (6.46%) Data Analyst
9 47 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 37 (2.78%) Python Engineer
11 36 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
12 35 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
12 35 (2.63%) Azure Data Engineer
13 30 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
14 29 (2.18%) AWS Data Engineer
14 29 (2.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 28 (2.10%) Consultant
16 27 (2.03%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (12.85%) PySpark
2 116 (8.72%) Kafka
3 87 (6.54%) REST
4 48 (3.61%) Pandas
5 47 (3.53%) XML
6 45 (3.38%) JSON
7 34 (2.55%) NumPy
8 32 (2.40%) .NET
9 30 (2.25%) PyTorch
10 27 (2.03%) RESTful
11 24 (1.80%) OAuth
12 23 (1.73%) pytest
13 21 (1.58%) TensorFlow
14 20 (1.50%) Middleware
15 19 (1.43%) scikit-learn
16 18 (1.35%) SOAP
16 18 (1.35%) YAML
17 17 (1.28%) Hugging Face
17 17 (1.28%) Node.js
18 16 (1.20%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 108 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 97 (7.29%) Data Structures
3 68 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 24 (1.80%) Algorithms
5 24 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
6 23 (1.73%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.20%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.20%) Replication
12 15 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.05%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.98%) IoT
15 12 (0.90%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.83%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.55%) Linux
2 22 (1.65%) Unix
3 16 (1.20%) Windows
4 11 (0.83%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.53%) Solaris
7 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.30%) VMS
9 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.075%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 631 (47.41%) Data Modelling
2 565 (42.45%) Analytics
3 503 (37.79%) Data Pipeline
4 428 (32.16%) Data Engineering
5 415 (31.18%) Business Intelligence
6 388 (29.15%) CI/CD
7 332 (24.94%) Agile
8 326 (24.49%) Data Governance
9 304 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
10 300 (22.54%) DevOps
11 272 (20.44%) Migration
12 222 (16.68%) Data Architecture
13 217 (16.30%) Data Integration
14 211 (15.85%) Validation
15 174 (13.07%) Data Migration
16 173 (13.00%) AI
16 173 (13.00%) Data Science
17 157 (11.80%) Decision-Making
18 153 (11.50%) Machine Learning
19 150 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 873 (65.59%) SQL
2 650 (48.84%) Python
3 108 (8.11%) Java
4 60 (4.51%) C#
5 53 (3.98%) T-SQL
6 50 (3.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 50 (3.76%) Scala
7 46 (3.46%) PL/SQL
8 44 (3.31%) JavaScript
9 32 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.35%) Bash
12 17 (1.28%) Bicep
13 16 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 14 (1.05%) Go
14 14 (1.05%) R
15 11 (0.83%) VBA
16 10 (0.75%) PHP
17 6 (0.45%) Cypher
18 5 (0.38%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 283 (21.26%) Security Cleared
2 228 (17.13%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.74%) Degree
4 52 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (3.38%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.31%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (0.98%) DV Cleared
9 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 7 (0.53%) PMP
12 5 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.38%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.23%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.075%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 445 (33.43%) Data Quality
2 108 (8.11%) GDPR
2 108 (8.11%) QA
3 22 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 21 (1.58%) IFRS
5 19 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.28%) IFRS 17
7 10 (0.75%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.60%) PMO
9 6 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.38%) GAAP
10 5 (0.38%) MiFID
10 5 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.38%) SLA
11 3 (0.23%) Basel III
11 3 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.23%) FATCA
11 3 (0.23%) GMP
11 3 (0.23%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 122 (9.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.30%) zsh
4 1 (0.075%) HDFS
4 1 (0.075%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 131 (9.84%) Kubernetes
1 131 (9.84%) Terraform
2 16 (1.20%) Prometheus
3 13 (0.98%) Grafana
4 12 (0.90%) Ansible
5 5 (0.38%) Control-M
5 5 (0.38%) Kibana
6 4 (0.30%) logstash
6 4 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.075%) Foglight
8 1 (0.075%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.075%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.075%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 288 (21.64%) Databricks
2 223 (16.75%) Microsoft
3 181 (13.60%) Oracle
4 111 (8.34%) Informatica
5 102 (7.66%) Talend
6 54 (4.06%) Google
7 53 (3.98%) SAP
8 38 (2.85%) Denodo
9 33 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.40%) Salesforce
11 29 (2.18%) IBM
12 23 (1.73%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.20%) Palantir
14 15 (1.13%) Splunk
14 15 (1.13%) Workday
15 13 (0.98%) Ab Initio
16 12 (0.90%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.90%) Cognos
16 12 (0.90%) Foundry
16 12 (0.90%) OpenAI