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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 79 96
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,600 886 1,006
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.36% 3.02% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.32% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 606 749
10th Percentile £358 £352 £375
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 14
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +5.74%
75th Percentile £69.00 £96.64 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.31 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -34.65% +199.81% -23.84%

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 40,206 26,654 37,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,270 17,186 24,018
10th Percentile £320 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £482 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,084 2,441
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.33% +0.42%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.84% -26.13% +7.14%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 +13 1,430 £500 -4.76% 471
London +26 755 £513 -4.56% 166
UK excluding London +8 692 £469 -1.26% 366
Work from Home +21 483 £500 - 232
Midlands +26 239 £468 -1.47% 59
West Midlands +34 207 £465 -9.27% 39
North of England -16 176 £460 -0.54% 89
South East -4 110 £475 -8.12% 108
North West -18 93 £442 -6.89% 42
Yorkshire -29 66 £500 +21.95% 30
South West -22 65 £525 +5.00% 40
Scotland +5 57 £450 +5.88% 13
East of England -8 43 £500 +1.27% 41
East Midlands -18 31 £485 +15.48% 20
North East -13 16 £525 +16.67% 17
Wales -14 7 £325 -14.47% 14
Northern Ireland +2 5 £400 -20.00% 7

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
1 147 (9.19%) Apache Spark
2 117 (7.31%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.56%) Apache
4 74 (4.63%) SAS
5 52 (3.25%) Confluence
6 19 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.56%) Appian
9 9 (0.56%) nginx
10 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
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%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
Applications
1 43 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.44%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Actimize
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 657 (41.06%) Azure
2 478 (29.88%) AWS
3 395 (24.69%) Power Platform
4 242 (15.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 187 (11.69%) GCP
6 179 (11.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 154 (9.63%) Amazon S3
8 152 (9.50%) Snowflake
9 141 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
10 135 (8.44%) Serverless
11 111 (6.94%) GitHub
12 100 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.56%) dbt
14 57 (3.56%) Collibra
15 49 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (2.06%) Power Automate
20 29 (1.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.69%) Firewall
1 11 (0.69%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.063%) 4G
5 1 (0.063%) 5G
5 1 (0.063%) DSL
5 1 (0.063%) SMS
5 1 (0.063%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (29.94%) Data Warehouse
2 373 (23.31%) Power BI
3 265 (16.56%) Data Lake
4 190 (11.88%) SQL Server
5 173 (10.81%) Metadata
6 104 (6.50%) Big Data
7 103 (6.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 95 (5.94%) Tableau
9 92 (5.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 89 (5.56%) Delta Lake
11 87 (5.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (5.06%) NoSQL
13 80 (5.00%) Relational Database
14 78 (4.88%) Pentaho
14 78 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
15 68 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 67 (4.19%) BigQuery
17 59 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
18 53 (3.31%) Oracle Reports
19 48 (3.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 186 (11.63%) Git
2 141 (8.81%) JIRA
3 86 (5.38%) GitLab
4 73 (4.56%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.75%) Postman
6 30 (1.88%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.69%) MLflow
8 21 (1.31%) Selenium
9 12 (0.75%) ERwin
10 7 (0.44%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) NUnit
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 425 (26.56%) Social Skills
2 409 (25.56%) Finance
3 277 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.25%) Banking
6 41 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.88%) Marketing
8 25 (1.56%) Legal
9 24 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.31%) Retail
11 15 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.81%) Law
14 12 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.44%) Front Office
17 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 651 (40.69%) Data Engineer
2 214 (13.38%) Developer
3 180 (11.25%) Senior
4 179 (11.19%) Architect
5 165 (10.31%) Lead
6 133 (8.31%) Analyst
7 117 (7.31%) Senior Data Engineer
8 109 (6.81%) Data Architect
9 81 (5.06%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 44 (2.75%) AWS Data Engineer
13 39 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
13 39 (2.44%) Snowflake Engineer
14 34 (2.13%) Python Engineer
15 33 (2.06%) Integration Engineer
15 33 (2.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (2.00%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (12.25%) PySpark
2 143 (8.94%) Kafka
3 94 (5.88%) REST
4 55 (3.44%) Pandas
5 42 (2.63%) .NET
5 42 (2.63%) JSON
6 31 (1.94%) XML
7 29 (1.81%) RESTful
8 26 (1.63%) NumPy
9 25 (1.56%) OAuth
9 25 (1.56%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
11 23 (1.44%) Middleware
12 22 (1.38%) Spring
13 20 (1.25%) pytest
13 20 (1.25%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.13%) Great Expectations
15 17 (1.06%) FastAPI
15 17 (1.06%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.06%) Cloud Native
2 113 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.88%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.13%) Clustering
11 18 (1.13%) Reference Data
12 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.00%) NHS
14 15 (0.94%) Replication
15 14 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.81%) Low-Code
16 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
16 13 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.06%) Unix
2 26 (1.63%) Linux
3 19 (1.19%) Windows
4 11 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.56%) Solaris
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.063%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (48.00%) Data Modelling
2 652 (40.75%) Analytics
3 605 (37.81%) Data Pipeline
4 503 (31.44%) Data Engineering
5 490 (30.63%) Business Intelligence
6 453 (28.31%) CI/CD
7 408 (25.50%) Agile
8 366 (22.88%) DevOps
9 365 (22.81%) Data Governance
9 365 (22.81%) Migration
10 319 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
11 292 (18.25%) Validation
12 253 (15.81%) Data Integration
13 245 (15.31%) Data Architecture
14 240 (15.00%) AI
15 234 (14.63%) Data Migration
16 208 (13.00%) Decision-Making
17 188 (11.75%) Test Automation
18 179 (11.19%) Stakeholder Management
19 166 (10.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,069 (66.81%) SQL
2 688 (43.00%) Python
3 144 (9.00%) Java
4 73 (4.56%) PL/SQL
5 71 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 69 (4.31%) T-SQL
7 67 (4.19%) C#
8 55 (3.44%) Scala
9 41 (2.56%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.06%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.25%) Bash
12 20 (1.25%) R
13 18 (1.13%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.00%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) PHP
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.38%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 406 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 331 (20.69%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.44%) Degree
4 50 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.38%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.50%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.25%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (33.13%) Data Quality
2 149 (9.31%) QA
3 119 (7.44%) GDPR
4 24 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 23 (1.44%) IFRS
6 18 (1.13%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.94%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.69%) PMO
9 10 (0.63%) SLA
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) FATCA
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.31%) MiFID
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 123 (7.69%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.31%) HDFS
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.063%) RACF
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (9.38%) Terraform
2 126 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.38%) Grafana
4 18 (1.13%) Ansible
4 18 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.31%) 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 (0.063%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.063%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.063%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.063%) logstash
9 1 (0.063%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 331 (20.69%) Databricks
2 300 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 268 (16.75%) Oracle
4 162 (10.13%) Informatica
5 133 (8.31%) Talend
6 70 (4.38%) SAP
7 65 (4.06%) Google
8 59 (3.69%) Denodo
9 49 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.25%) IBM
11 32 (2.00%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.56%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.19%) Splunk
14 17 (1.06%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.06%) Sage
14 17 (1.06%) Workday
15 13 (0.81%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.81%) Teradata
16 11 (0.69%) Ab Initio
17 10 (0.63%) Cognos