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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,663 914 1,075
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.30% 3.07% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.37% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 631 787
10th Percentile £354 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £695 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £464 £494
% change year-on-year +1.13% -6.12% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 11
10th Percentile £34.60 - £30.37
25th Percentile £36.78 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £86.74 £53.75
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 42,754 27,087 37,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 91.00% 85.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,630 17,192 23,755
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -3.79% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,570 1,249 2,608
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.87 £16.02
Median hourly rate £43.96 £26.21 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +67.72% -29.51% +6.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.32 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +17.29%

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 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 18 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 18 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 1,488 £500 -0.99% 264
London +13 760 £513 -3.85% 121
UK excluding London +13 739 £469 +1.13% 225
Work from Home +23 530 £500 - 143
Midlands +31 258 £460 +2.22% 36
West Midlands +47 226 £459 -7.27% 24
North of England -19 176 £460 -3.16% 46
South East +9 135 £469 -6.25% 72
North West -12 94 £450 -10.00% 28
South West -14 67 £523 +10.00% 28
Yorkshire -33 63 £500 +20.48% 8
Scotland -6 56 £425 -1.39% 9
East of England -7 44 £488 - 9
East Midlands -22 31 £525 +23.67% 12
North East -25 19 £550 +26.44% 11
Wales -9 8 £313 -26.04% 5
Northern Ireland +3 5 £400 -23.81% 25

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
1 141 (8.48%) Apache Spark
2 126 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (4.93%) Apache
4 75 (4.51%) SAS
5 64 (3.85%) Confluence
6 18 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 14 (0.84%) Tomcat
9 13 (0.78%) nginx
10 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.54%) Appian
11 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
12 8 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
15 4 (0.24%) Camunda
15 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
17 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
17 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 42 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.96%) 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 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 682 (41.01%) Azure
2 503 (30.25%) AWS
3 425 (25.56%) Power Platform
4 236 (14.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 192 (11.55%) GCP
6 177 (10.64%) Snowflake
7 156 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
7 156 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 151 (9.08%) Amazon S3
9 143 (8.60%) Serverless
10 113 (6.79%) GitHub
11 109 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
12 103 (6.19%) dbt
13 55 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (3.01%) Collibra
15 42 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
18 32 (1.92%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 12 (0.72%) 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%) Network Security
5 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 495 (29.77%) Data Warehouse
2 404 (24.29%) Power BI
3 269 (16.18%) Data Lake
4 191 (11.49%) SQL Server
5 156 (9.38%) Metadata
6 104 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (6.01%) Big Data
8 99 (5.95%) Tableau
9 94 (5.65%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (5.59%) Delta Lake
11 89 (5.35%) Relational Database
12 86 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 84 (5.05%) NoSQL
13 84 (5.05%) Pentaho
14 74 (4.45%) BigQuery
15 71 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
16 70 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
17 63 (3.79%) Oracle Reports
18 61 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (3.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (11.97%) Git
2 151 (9.08%) JIRA
3 95 (5.71%) GitLab
4 70 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.53%) Postman
6 37 (2.22%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.38%) MLflow
8 12 (0.72%) Selenium
9 9 (0.54%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
13 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 425 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 414 (24.89%) Finance
3 277 (16.66%) Analytical Skills
4 167 (10.04%) Public Sector
5 126 (7.58%) Banking
6 49 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.92%) Marketing
8 26 (1.56%) Retail
9 24 (1.44%) Financial Institution
10 23 (1.38%) Legal
11 19 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.78%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.54%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
14 9 (0.54%) Publishing
15 8 (0.48%) Front Office
15 8 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 675 (40.59%) Data Engineer
2 216 (12.99%) Developer
3 205 (12.33%) Architect
4 194 (11.67%) Senior
5 177 (10.64%) Lead
6 131 (7.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 122 (7.34%) Analyst
7 122 (7.34%) Data Architect
8 74 (4.45%) Data Analyst
9 52 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 50 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (2.89%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
13 43 (2.59%) Python Engineer
14 40 (2.41%) SQL Developer
15 39 (2.35%) Snowflake Engineer
16 37 (2.22%) Consultant
17 36 (2.16%) Data Migration Lead
17 36 (2.16%) Integration Engineer
18 35 (2.10%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (11.18%) PySpark
2 133 (8.00%) Kafka
3 89 (5.35%) REST
4 54 (3.25%) Pandas
5 44 (2.65%) .NET
5 44 (2.65%) JSON
6 42 (2.53%) XML
7 33 (1.98%) Middleware
8 28 (1.68%) PyTorch
9 27 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (1.50%) Spring
11 24 (1.44%) OAuth
11 24 (1.44%) RESTful
12 23 (1.38%) NumPy
12 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.20%) pytest
13 20 (1.20%) TensorFlow
14 19 (1.14%) scikit-learn
14 19 (1.14%) Web Services
15 18 (1.08%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.08%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.16%) Data Structures
3 89 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 29 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.44%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.26%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.14%) Clustering
11 17 (1.02%) NHS
11 17 (1.02%) Replication
12 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.78%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.29%) Unix
2 36 (2.16%) Linux
3 22 (1.32%) 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
1 782 (47.02%) Data Modelling
2 646 (38.85%) Data Pipeline
3 639 (38.42%) Analytics
4 513 (30.85%) Data Engineering
5 502 (30.19%) Business Intelligence
6 471 (28.32%) CI/CD
7 420 (25.26%) Agile
8 403 (24.23%) Migration
9 375 (22.55%) DevOps
10 331 (19.90%) Data Governance
11 317 (19.06%) Problem-Solving
12 316 (19.00%) Validation
13 293 (17.62%) Data Integration
14 283 (17.02%) AI
15 251 (15.09%) Data Architecture
16 249 (14.97%) Data Migration
17 223 (13.41%) Decision-Making
18 211 (12.69%) Test Automation
19 192 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
20 181 (10.88%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,113 (66.93%) SQL
2 692 (41.61%) Python
3 140 (8.42%) Java
4 93 (5.59%) T-SQL
5 77 (4.63%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 65 (3.91%) C#
8 52 (3.13%) Scala
9 40 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 35 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.62%) Bash
12 23 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 22 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.14%) R
15 16 (0.96%) Bicep
16 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.48%) VBA
17 7 (0.42%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
18 5 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 448 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 371 (22.31%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.07%) Degree
4 43 (2.59%) Azure Certification
4 43 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.86%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.24%) PMP
13 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (33.25%) Data Quality
2 150 (9.02%) QA
3 109 (6.55%) GDPR
4 22 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.14%) IFRS
6 17 (1.02%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.90%) 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
10 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 117 (7.04%) 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
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 144 (8.66%) Terraform
2 121 (7.28%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.29%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Ansible
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Control-M
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 333 (20.02%) Databricks
2 311 (18.70%) Microsoft
3 302 (18.16%) Oracle
4 157 (9.44%) Informatica
5 142 (8.54%) Talend
6 73 (4.39%) SAP
7 63 (3.79%) Denodo
8 60 (3.61%) Google
9 46 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 42 (2.53%) IBM
11 29 (1.74%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.38%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.32%) MuleSoft
14 20 (1.20%) Sage
15 18 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 17 (1.02%) Workday
17 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.66%) ESRI