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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 87 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,679 939 1,047
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.85% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.15% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 638 735
10th Percentile £358 £362 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £490
% change year-on-year -1.05% -3.06% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.88 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -62.33%

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 46,340 29,830 33,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.48% 90.53% 85.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,136 18,534 20,247
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,159 1,812 1,459
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.96
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.76 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +1.18%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +4 1,474 £500 -1.48% 1,255
London -4 768 £525 - 763
UK excluding London +12 704 £470 -1.05% 598
Work from Home +1 505 £500 -1.96% 484
Midlands +20 234 £469 -3.92% 95
West Midlands +21 200 £469 -7.59% 68
North of England -13 171 £463 -2.63% 149
South East +25 136 £458 -10.03% 149
Yorkshire +5 80 £463 +3.93% 39
South West -9 76 £523 +10.00% 83
North West -34 70 £473 -3.08% 95
East of England -7 47 £488 -7.14% 37
Scotland -14 42 £428 -10.00% 49
East Midlands -6 33 £490 +12.00% 27
North East -34 22 £481 +10.00% 16
Wales -11 8 £313 -37.50% 14
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 26

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 (8.40%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (8.28%) Apache Spark
3 109 (6.49%) Apache
4 95 (5.66%) SAS
5 62 (3.69%) Confluence
6 26 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 26 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.77%) nginx
8 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 35 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 644 (38.36%) Azure
2 504 (30.02%) AWS
3 368 (21.92%) Power Platform
4 236 (14.06%) GCP
5 235 (14.00%) Snowflake
6 224 (13.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 144 (8.58%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (8.40%) dbt
9 137 (8.16%) Amazon S3
9 137 (8.16%) Serverless
10 130 (7.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 117 (6.97%) GitHub
12 113 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (2.98%) Amazon EMR
15 44 (2.62%) Azure Databricks
16 37 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (2.08%) Collibra
18 31 (1.85%) Power Automate
18 31 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 576 (34.31%) Data Warehouse
2 357 (21.26%) Power BI
3 255 (15.19%) Data Lake
4 175 (10.42%) Metadata
5 152 (9.05%) SQL Server
6 113 (6.73%) Relational Database
7 104 (6.19%) BigQuery
8 102 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.54%) Delta Lake
10 91 (5.42%) Big Data
11 84 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 81 (4.82%) Tableau
13 75 (4.47%) Oracle Reports
14 72 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (3.99%) NoSQL
16 62 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
16 62 (3.69%) Pentaho
17 58 (3.45%) Oracle Database
18 52 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
19 50 (2.98%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 188 (11.20%) Git
2 148 (8.81%) JIRA
3 108 (6.43%) GitLab
4 59 (3.51%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.14%) Postman
7 18 (1.07%) Selenium
8 15 (0.89%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 419 (24.96%) Social Skills
2 366 (21.80%) Finance
3 309 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 158 (9.41%) Banking
6 38 (2.26%) Retail
7 36 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.43%) Marketing
9 22 (1.31%) Law
10 21 (1.25%) Legal
11 18 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.01%) Front Office
12 17 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 14 (0.83%) Billing
13 14 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.83%) Police
14 12 (0.71%) Telecoms
15 11 (0.66%) Military
Job Titles
1 664 (39.55%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.83%) Developer
3 239 (14.23%) Senior
4 233 (13.88%) Architect
5 157 (9.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 152 (9.05%) Lead
7 125 (7.44%) Data Architect
8 118 (7.03%) Analyst
9 70 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.57%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.45%) Data Analyst
12 53 (3.16%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 52 (3.10%) Azure Data Engineer
14 47 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
15 45 (2.68%) Tester
16 44 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
17 41 (2.44%) Consultant
18 40 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 40 (2.38%) Python Engineer
19 38 (2.26%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (9.71%) PySpark
2 152 (9.05%) Terraform
3 132 (7.86%) Kafka
4 77 (4.59%) REST
5 60 (3.57%) JSON
6 48 (2.86%) .NET
7 30 (1.79%) XML
8 29 (1.73%) React
9 28 (1.67%) Middleware
9 28 (1.67%) Pandas
10 26 (1.55%) Spring
10 26 (1.55%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.07%) SOAP
11 18 (1.07%) YAML
12 17 (1.01%) pytest
13 15 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.77%) LangChain
15 12 (0.71%) HTML
16 11 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
16 11 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.53%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.15%) Data Structures
3 70 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 61 (3.63%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.32%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.49%) Reference Data
9 24 (1.43%) NHS
10 23 (1.37%) Replication
11 22 (1.31%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
14 17 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.95%) Clustering
15 16 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
17 13 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
18 12 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.93%) Linux
2 61 (3.63%) Unix
3 21 (1.25%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (47.41%) Data Modelling
2 714 (42.53%) Data Pipeline
3 632 (37.64%) Analytics
4 555 (33.06%) Data Engineering
5 533 (31.75%) CI/CD
6 481 (28.65%) Agile
7 457 (27.22%) Migration
8 445 (26.50%) Business Intelligence
9 400 (23.82%) Data Integration
10 386 (22.99%) DevOps
11 350 (20.85%) Data Governance
12 349 (20.79%) Validation
13 314 (18.70%) AI
14 298 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
15 295 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 257 (15.31%) Data Migration
17 252 (15.01%) Data Architecture
18 234 (13.94%) Data Transformation
19 219 (13.04%) Test Automation
20 194 (11.55%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (66.23%) SQL
2 660 (39.31%) Python
3 144 (8.58%) Java
4 91 (5.42%) PL/SQL
5 83 (4.94%) T-SQL
6 57 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.10%) C#
7 52 (3.10%) JavaScript
8 51 (3.04%) Scala
9 44 (2.62%) PowerShell
10 40 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 34 (2.03%) Bash
12 21 (1.25%) R
13 20 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.01%) Bicep
15 13 (0.77%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 469 (27.93%) Security Cleared
2 404 (24.06%) SC Cleared
3 68 (4.05%) Degree
4 52 (3.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.61%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.61%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.19%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
11 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 613 (36.51%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.58%) QA
3 75 (4.47%) GDPR
4 39 (2.32%) GRC
5 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) SLA
9 7 (0.42%) WCAG
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) PMO
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 123 (7.33%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 119 (7.09%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.32%) Grafana
3 21 (1.25%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 14 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 371 (22.10%) Databricks
2 324 (19.30%) Oracle
3 287 (17.09%) Microsoft
4 132 (7.86%) Informatica
5 116 (6.91%) Talend
6 87 (5.18%) Google
7 73 (4.35%) SAP
8 55 (3.28%) Denodo
9 48 (2.86%) IBM
10 37 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.97%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.13%) Teradata
14 18 (1.07%) Foundry
14 18 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.07%) Palantir
15 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage