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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 83 84
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,729 947 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.87% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.18% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 638 706
10th Percentile £358 £356 £360
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £468 £480
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.50% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 8
10th Percentile £22.12 £36.15 £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +12.26% -40.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £82.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £26.05
% change year-on-year -44.82% +139.92% -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 45,292 29,826 33,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.48% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,883 18,657 21,289
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £423 £404 £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 2,827 1,696 1,836
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.80 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £68.00 £47.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.51 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.84 £42.50
% change year-on-year +92.47% -46.26% +17.24%

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 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 12 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 12 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 +11 1,549 £500 - 834
UK excluding London +21 777 £469 +0.21% 403
London +1 766 £525 - 524
Work from Home +14 535 £500 - 350
Midlands +24 292 £459 -0.38% 71
West Midlands +39 257 £459 -8.20% 54
North of England -9 182 £475 - 97
South East +12 146 £459 +2.00% 103
Yorkshire -2 82 £475 +12.43% 26
North West -26 76 £473 -5.50% 58
South West -25 66 £523 +13.59% 46
East of England +7 52 £469 -14.77% 23
Scotland -4 40 £430 +0.23% 33
East Midlands -10 34 £490 +14.22% 17
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 14
Wales -7 7 £313 -33.86% 12
Northern Ireland +2 3 £334 -34.83% 18

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
1 133 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 130 (7.52%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (6.88%) SAS
4 99 (5.73%) Apache
5 68 (3.93%) Confluence
6 28 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.75%) nginx
9 12 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.17%) Camunda
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.58%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.17%) Actimize
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 673 (38.92%) Azure
2 518 (29.96%) AWS
3 410 (23.71%) Power Platform
4 236 (13.65%) Azure Data Factory
5 216 (12.49%) GCP
6 213 (12.32%) Snowflake
7 149 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 146 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
9 139 (8.04%) Amazon S3
10 138 (7.98%) Serverless
11 120 (6.94%) dbt
12 110 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
12 110 (6.36%) GitHub
13 58 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
15 41 (2.37%) Collibra
16 38 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.74%) Power Automate
18 28 (1.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 27 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 8 (0.46%) VPN
4 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.17%) DHCP
5 3 (0.17%) DNS
5 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.058%) 4G
7 1 (0.058%) 5G
7 1 (0.058%) LTE
7 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 591 (34.18%) Data Warehouse
2 393 (22.73%) Power BI
3 260 (15.04%) Data Lake
4 165 (9.54%) SQL Server
5 162 (9.37%) Metadata
6 103 (5.96%) Relational Database
6 103 (5.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (5.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 97 (5.61%) Tableau
9 93 (5.38%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.38%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.09%) Pentaho
11 86 (4.97%) Big Data
12 80 (4.63%) Oracle Reports
13 77 (4.45%) NoSQL
14 76 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
15 66 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
16 64 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
17 56 (3.24%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (2.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 201 (11.63%) Git
2 157 (9.08%) JIRA
3 102 (5.90%) GitLab
4 74 (4.28%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.89%) Zephyr
6 47 (2.72%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 11 (0.64%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.29%) Gatling
10 5 (0.29%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) ERwin
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 417 (24.12%) Social Skills
2 375 (21.69%) Finance
3 318 (18.39%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.46%) Banking
6 39 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.91%) Retail
8 30 (1.74%) Marketing
9 28 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.27%) Legal
12 19 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 17 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.75%) Front Office
15 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.69%) Law
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.64%) Billing
17 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 685 (39.62%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.29%) Developer
3 231 (13.36%) Architect
4 216 (12.49%) Senior
5 175 (10.12%) Lead
6 141 (8.16%) Senior Data Engineer
7 126 (7.29%) Data Architect
8 123 (7.11%) Analyst
9 64 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 59 (3.41%) Data Analyst
11 53 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.89%) Tester
14 48 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 43 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
15 43 (2.49%) Snowflake Engineer
16 41 (2.37%) SQL Developer
17 39 (2.26%) Lead Data Engineer
18 38 (2.20%) Python Engineer
19 37 (2.14%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (10.29%) PySpark
2 132 (7.63%) Kafka
3 74 (4.28%) REST
4 54 (3.12%) JSON
5 44 (2.54%) .NET
6 35 (2.02%) Pandas
7 27 (1.56%) Middleware
8 26 (1.50%) React
9 25 (1.45%) XML
10 24 (1.39%) Spring
11 22 (1.27%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.16%) YAML
13 15 (0.87%) OAuth
13 15 (0.87%) RESTful
14 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.81%) SOAP
15 13 (0.75%) pytest
16 12 (0.69%) Great Expectations
16 12 (0.69%) HTML
17 11 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 81 (4.68%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.45%) NHS
8 22 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.21%) Clustering
10 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 18 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.04%) Replication
12 15 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.69%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.64%) Data Fabric
14 11 (0.64%) IoT
14 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.59%) Linux
2 53 (3.07%) Unix
3 17 (0.98%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (47.31%) Data Modelling
2 718 (41.53%) Data Pipeline
3 675 (39.04%) Analytics
4 532 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 524 (30.31%) CI/CD
6 498 (28.80%) Agile
7 495 (28.63%) Business Intelligence
8 469 (27.13%) Migration
9 396 (22.90%) DevOps
10 377 (21.80%) Data Integration
11 358 (20.71%) Data Governance
12 328 (18.97%) Validation
13 315 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
14 283 (16.37%) Data Migration
15 270 (15.62%) AI
16 248 (14.34%) Test Automation
17 244 (14.11%) Data Architecture
18 238 (13.77%) Stakeholder Management
19 224 (12.96%) Data Transformation
20 221 (12.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,153 (66.69%) SQL
2 657 (38.00%) Python
3 148 (8.56%) Java
4 90 (5.21%) T-SQL
5 84 (4.86%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 53 (3.07%) C#
8 49 (2.83%) Scala
9 48 (2.78%) JavaScript
10 45 (2.60%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.26%) Bash
12 32 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.16%) R
13 20 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.04%) Bicep
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
15 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) VBA
17 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 500 (28.92%) Security Cleared
2 425 (24.58%) SC Cleared
3 77 (4.45%) Degree
4 45 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.97%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.17%) CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (35.22%) Data Quality
2 149 (8.62%) QA
3 98 (5.67%) GDPR
4 39 (2.26%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.52%) HL7
8 9 (0.52%) IFRS
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.46%) WCAG
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 131 (7.58%) Docker
2 16 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (8.73%) Terraform
2 129 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.49%) Grafana
4 21 (1.21%) Ansible
5 14 (0.81%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.75%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.058%) Argo
10 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 347 (20.07%) Databricks
2 346 (20.01%) Oracle
3 305 (17.64%) Microsoft
4 156 (9.02%) Informatica
5 139 (8.04%) Talend
6 81 (4.68%) SAP
7 73 (4.22%) Google
8 68 (3.93%) Denodo
9 47 (2.72%) IBM
10 37 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 36 (2.08%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.68%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.27%) Sage
14 21 (1.21%) Palantir
15 16 (0.93%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.87%) Cloudera
16 15 (0.87%) Foundry
17 13 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.69%) Teradata
18 12 (0.69%) Workday