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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 79 90
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,660 908 1,036
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 3.09% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.39% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 618 759
10th Percentile £358 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £609
90th Percentile £691 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £469 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £35.13 - £30.83
25th Percentile £44.82 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.38% -32.59%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.22 £86.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +171.02% -59.30%

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 42,365 26,787 37,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.77% 91.01% 85.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,429 17,005 23,768
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,540 1,187 2,585
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +15.02%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +11 1,487 £500 -2.34% 318
London +16 762 £513 -3.30% 160
UK excluding London +23 736 £469 - 229
Work from Home +17 533 £500 - 170
Midlands +23 251 £459 +2.96% 38
West Midlands +43 222 £459 -4.38% 30
North of England -10 184 £460 -3.16% 57
South East -5 136 £475 -5.00% 74
North West -7 94 £450 -10.00% 42
Yorkshire -22 68 £500 +19.05% 9
South West -19 63 £525 +10.53% 29
Scotland -7 54 £430 -4.44% 11
East of England 0 44 £494 - 12
East Midlands -25 28 £525 +23.67% 8
North East -20 22 £525 +20.69% 6
Wales -11 8 £313 -26.04% 6
Northern Ireland +5 6 £400 -23.81% 6

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
1 144 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 126 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (5.00%) Apache
4 75 (4.52%) SAS
5 62 (3.73%) Confluence
6 16 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.72%) nginx
10 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.54%) Appian
12 8 (0.48%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.30%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.24%) Camunda
14 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 38 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.54%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 681 (41.02%) Azure
2 505 (30.42%) AWS
3 423 (25.48%) Power Platform
4 238 (14.34%) Azure Data Factory
5 197 (11.87%) GCP
6 176 (10.60%) Snowflake
7 157 (9.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 153 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (9.16%) Amazon S3
10 145 (8.73%) Serverless
11 114 (6.87%) GitHub
12 111 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
13 102 (6.14%) dbt
14 57 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (3.07%) Collibra
16 42 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
17 38 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (2.05%) SaaS
19 31 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.78%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.060%) DHCP
5 1 (0.060%) DNS
5 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (29.52%) Data Warehouse
2 400 (24.10%) Power BI
3 271 (16.33%) Data Lake
4 194 (11.69%) SQL Server
5 155 (9.34%) Metadata
6 103 (6.20%) Big Data
7 101 (6.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (6.08%) Tableau
8 96 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.60%) Delta Lake
10 85 (5.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 85 (5.12%) NoSQL
10 85 (5.12%) Relational Database
11 82 (4.94%) Pentaho
12 74 (4.46%) BigQuery
13 70 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (4.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 63 (3.80%) Amazon Athena
16 62 (3.73%) Oracle Reports
17 48 (2.89%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (11.99%) Git
2 153 (9.22%) JIRA
3 101 (6.08%) GitLab
4 75 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 48 (2.89%) Postman
6 38 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.39%) MLflow
8 18 (1.08%) Selenium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 430 (25.90%) Social Skills
2 411 (24.76%) Finance
3 269 (16.20%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.77%) Banking
6 47 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.99%) Marketing
8 26 (1.57%) Retail
9 25 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 23 (1.39%) Legal
11 18 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 12 (0.72%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.54%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
15 8 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.48%) Military
15 8 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 678 (40.84%) Data Engineer
2 209 (12.59%) Developer
3 197 (11.87%) Architect
4 195 (11.75%) Senior
5 180 (10.84%) Lead
6 130 (7.83%) Senior Data Engineer
7 126 (7.59%) Analyst
8 116 (6.99%) Data Architect
9 75 (4.52%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.19%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 50 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
12 48 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
14 43 (2.59%) Python Engineer
15 39 (2.35%) SQL Developer
16 38 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
17 36 (2.17%) Data Migration Lead
17 36 (2.17%) Integration Engineer
18 35 (2.11%) Consultant
18 35 (2.11%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (11.39%) PySpark
2 134 (8.07%) Kafka
3 93 (5.60%) REST
4 54 (3.25%) Pandas
5 47 (2.83%) .NET
6 42 (2.53%) JSON
7 40 (2.41%) XML
8 33 (1.99%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (1.45%) OAuth
11 24 (1.45%) RESTful
11 24 (1.45%) Spring
12 23 (1.39%) NumPy
13 22 (1.33%) pytest
13 22 (1.33%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.14%) TensorFlow
14 19 (1.14%) Web Services
15 18 (1.08%) FastAPI
15 18 (1.08%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.75%) Data Structures
3 90 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
8 24 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.27%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.14%) Clustering
13 17 (1.02%) NHS
14 16 (0.96%) Replication
15 15 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
16 14 (0.84%) Algorithms
16 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
17 13 (0.78%) IoT
17 13 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.23%) Unix
2 35 (2.11%) Linux
3 21 (1.27%) Windows
4 12 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.66%) Solaris
5 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (47.05%) Data Modelling
2 647 (38.98%) Data Pipeline
3 640 (38.55%) Analytics
4 515 (31.02%) Data Engineering
5 503 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
6 477 (28.73%) CI/CD
7 419 (25.24%) Agile
8 396 (23.86%) Migration
9 379 (22.83%) DevOps
10 331 (19.94%) Data Governance
11 314 (18.92%) Validation
12 309 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
13 284 (17.11%) Data Integration
14 281 (16.93%) AI
15 250 (15.06%) Data Architecture
16 243 (14.64%) Data Migration
17 216 (13.01%) Decision-Making
18 215 (12.95%) Test Automation
19 190 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
20 183 (11.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,115 (67.17%) SQL
2 704 (42.41%) Python
3 142 (8.55%) Java
4 93 (5.60%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 76 (4.58%) PL/SQL
6 65 (3.92%) C#
7 53 (3.19%) Scala
8 41 (2.47%) JavaScript
9 34 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 26 (1.57%) Bash
11 22 (1.33%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.27%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.20%) R
14 15 (0.90%) Bicep
15 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.42%) VBA
17 6 (0.36%) Cypher
18 5 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 437 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 364 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.02%) Degree
4 44 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.24%) PMP
16 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (33.19%) Data Quality
2 154 (9.28%) QA
3 111 (6.69%) GDPR
4 23 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.14%) IFRS
6 17 (1.02%) IFRS 17
7 14 (0.84%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.78%) PMO
8 13 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.48%) FATCA
9 8 (0.48%) GRC
10 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.30%) GAAP
10 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) HL7
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (6.87%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (8.98%) Terraform
2 120 (7.23%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.29%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.96%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Control-M
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 337 (20.30%) Databricks
2 308 (18.55%) Microsoft
3 296 (17.83%) Oracle
4 156 (9.40%) Informatica
5 138 (8.31%) Talend
6 72 (4.34%) SAP
7 62 (3.73%) Denodo
8 60 (3.61%) Google
9 51 (3.07%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.47%) IBM
11 28 (1.69%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.39%) MuleSoft
13 22 (1.33%) Alteryx
14 20 (1.20%) Sage
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
16 17 (1.02%) Workday
17 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.66%) ESRI