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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 81 96
Rank change year-on-year +16 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,566 890 1,018
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.40% 3.02% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.33% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,152 599 760
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £616 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 16
10th Percentile £36.07 - £29.06
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £56.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +14.14% +13.79%
75th Percentile £70.71 £92.16 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £100.97 £66.27
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £90.42 £30.37
% change year-on-year -29.22% +197.71% -15.64%

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 39,180 26,703 37,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.74% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,749 17,293 24,471
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +0.41% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,327 1,032 2,410
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.85 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%
75th Percentile £65.25 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £28.75 £34.21
% change year-on-year +39.13% -15.96% -2.26%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +18 1,406 £500 -4.76% 430
London +30 756 £514 -4.15% 180
UK excluding London +10 655 £470 -1.05% 317
Work from Home +15 477 £500 - 170
Midlands +20 235 £469 -1.17% 64
West Midlands +26 201 £469 -5.49% 39
North of England -20 168 £460 -0.54% 77
South East -11 93 £475 -5.94% 91
North West -22 88 £447 -5.89% 50
South West -14 65 £525 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -29 64 £500 +42.86% 21
Scotland -2 48 £450 +5.88% 17
East of England -3 44 £500 +8.11% 24
East Midlands -20 34 £470 +14.63% 25
North East -7 15 £538 +13.16% 8
Wales -9 7 £325 -25.71% 8
Northern Ireland +6 6 £400 -20.00% 1

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
1 146 (9.32%) Apache Spark
2 125 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (5.87%) Apache
4 78 (4.98%) SAS
5 45 (2.87%) Confluence
6 18 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.70%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.57%) Appian
9 9 (0.57%) nginx
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.26%) Camunda
13 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 45 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Notepad++
5 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Maximo
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 642 (41.00%) Azure
2 480 (30.65%) AWS
3 381 (24.33%) Power Platform
4 242 (15.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 181 (11.56%) GCP
6 179 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 164 (10.47%) Amazon S3
8 154 (9.83%) Snowflake
9 137 (8.75%) Serverless
10 132 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (7.34%) GitHub
12 102 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
13 94 (6.00%) dbt
14 55 (3.51%) Collibra
15 52 (3.32%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
17 35 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (2.11%) SaaS
19 32 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 31 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.64%) HTTP
2 7 (0.45%) Firewall
2 7 (0.45%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.45%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) DSL
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (30.20%) Data Warehouse
2 359 (22.92%) Power BI
3 245 (15.64%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.07%) SQL Server
5 177 (11.30%) Metadata
6 101 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (6.26%) Big Data
8 97 (6.19%) Tableau
9 92 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 86 (5.49%) Delta Lake
12 83 (5.30%) PostgreSQL
13 81 (5.17%) Pentaho
14 80 (5.11%) NoSQL
14 80 (5.11%) Relational Database
15 72 (4.60%) Snowflake Schema
16 65 (4.15%) BigQuery
17 62 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (3.26%) Star Schema
19 48 (3.07%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 186 (11.88%) Git
2 137 (8.75%) JIRA
3 81 (5.17%) Jenkins
4 75 (4.79%) GitLab
5 45 (2.87%) Postman
6 28 (1.79%) Zephyr
7 25 (1.60%) MLflow
8 21 (1.34%) Selenium
9 13 (0.83%) ERwin
10 7 (0.45%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.32%) NUnit
11 5 (0.32%) TestRail
12 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.26%) Toad
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 432 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 397 (25.35%) Finance
3 272 (17.37%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.39%) Banking
6 40 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.66%) Marketing
8 24 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.53%) Legal
9 21 (1.34%) Retail
10 16 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.96%) Telecoms
12 14 (0.89%) Law
12 14 (0.89%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.45%) Front Office
15 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 635 (40.55%) Data Engineer
2 203 (12.96%) Developer
3 176 (11.24%) Senior
4 173 (11.05%) Architect
5 163 (10.41%) Lead
6 143 (9.13%) Analyst
7 113 (7.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 104 (6.64%) Data Architect
9 85 (5.43%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 44 (2.81%) AWS Data Engineer
14 43 (2.75%) Snowflake Engineer
15 37 (2.36%) Azure Data Engineer
15 37 (2.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 34 (2.17%) Consultant
16 34 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.98%) Senior Developer
18 30 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (12.01%) PySpark
2 145 (9.26%) Kafka
3 96 (6.13%) REST
4 53 (3.38%) Pandas
5 46 (2.94%) JSON
6 38 (2.43%) XML
7 36 (2.30%) .NET
8 30 (1.92%) RESTful
9 27 (1.72%) NumPy
9 27 (1.72%) OAuth
10 24 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.40%) Middleware
11 22 (1.40%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.34%) pytest
13 20 (1.28%) Great Expectations
14 19 (1.21%) YAML
15 18 (1.15%) Spring
16 17 (1.09%) scikit-learn
17 16 (1.02%) React
17 16 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.43%) Cloud Native
2 111 (7.09%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.96%) NHS
14 14 (0.89%) Clustering
15 13 (0.83%) AI Agents
15 13 (0.83%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.17%) Unix
2 27 (1.72%) Linux
3 18 (1.15%) Windows
4 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Solaris
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (48.40%) Data Modelling
2 651 (41.57%) Analytics
3 589 (37.61%) Data Pipeline
4 506 (32.31%) Data Engineering
5 488 (31.16%) Business Intelligence
6 453 (28.93%) CI/CD
7 395 (25.22%) Agile
8 368 (23.50%) Data Governance
9 360 (22.99%) DevOps
10 348 (22.22%) Migration
11 320 (20.43%) Problem-Solving
12 283 (18.07%) Validation
13 253 (16.16%) Data Architecture
14 250 (15.96%) Data Integration
15 226 (14.43%) Data Migration
16 220 (14.05%) AI
17 205 (13.09%) Decision-Making
18 188 (12.01%) Test Automation
19 172 (10.98%) Data Science
20 166 (10.60%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,050 (67.05%) SQL
2 688 (43.93%) Python
3 141 (9.00%) Java
4 69 (4.41%) C#
4 69 (4.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (4.21%) PL/SQL
6 64 (4.09%) T-SQL
7 55 (3.51%) Scala
8 36 (2.30%) PowerShell
9 35 (2.23%) JavaScript
10 24 (1.53%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.21%) Bash
11 19 (1.21%) R
11 19 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.09%) Bicep
13 9 (0.57%) Go
13 9 (0.57%) PHP
13 9 (0.57%) VBA
14 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 398 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 323 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 109 (6.96%) Degree
4 56 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.87%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.34%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.57%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.26%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 529 (33.78%) Data Quality
2 142 (9.07%) QA
3 122 (7.79%) GDPR
4 22 (1.40%) IFRS
5 21 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.09%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.77%) PMO
8 9 (0.57%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.38%) GRC
10 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.32%) FATCA
11 5 (0.32%) GAAP
11 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.26%) HL7
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.26%) MiFID
13 3 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 135 (8.62%) Docker
2 9 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
5 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (9.64%) Terraform
2 134 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.85%) Grafana
4 20 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 14 (0.89%) Ansible
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.064%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.064%) logstash
10 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 325 (20.75%) Databricks
2 285 (18.20%) Microsoft
3 257 (16.41%) Oracle
4 152 (9.71%) Informatica
5 135 (8.62%) Talend
6 67 (4.28%) SAP
7 65 (4.15%) Denodo
7 65 (4.15%) Google
8 50 (3.19%) ServiceNow
9 33 (2.11%) IBM
10 32 (2.04%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.66%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.21%) Workday
13 18 (1.15%) Splunk
14 16 (1.02%) Sage
15 15 (0.96%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.83%) Ab Initio
17 12 (0.77%) Palantir
18 11 (0.70%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.70%) Teradata