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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 84 96
Rank change year-on-year +17 +12 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,563 882 1,016
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.40% 3.01% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.32% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 589 761
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 £586 £613 £638
90th Percentile £682 £692 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 17
10th Percentile £36.07 £29.56 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.25 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £56.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +11.88% +16.09%
75th Percentile £70.71 £92.16 £61.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £100.97 £69.60
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 39,056 26,574 37,868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.05% 90.71% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,707 17,203 24,522
10th Percentile £316 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,310 1,024 2,401
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.54 £18.51 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £57.83
90th Percentile £78.25 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.25 £29.00 £33.07
% change year-on-year +31.90% -12.29% -8.47%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,404 £500 -4.76% 357
London +32 759 £513 -6.82% 145
UK excluding London +13 652 £470 -1.05% 273
Work from Home +16 479 £500 - 165
Midlands +21 234 £470 -1.05% 59
West Midlands +27 199 £470 -5.34% 41
North of England -16 165 £460 +2.22% 63
South East -23 91 £475 -5.47% 89
North West -8 86 £447 -3.35% 42
South West -16 66 £525 +5.00% 30
Yorkshire -30 63 £500 +42.86% 18
Scotland 0 49 £450 +5.88% 6
East of England -7 44 £500 +8.11% 24
East Midlands -18 35 £465 +13.41% 18
North East -11 15 £538 +13.16% 5
Wales -16 7 £325 -25.71% 6
Northern Ireland +2 6 £400 -20.00%

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
1 148 (9.47%) Apache Spark
2 124 (7.93%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (6.01%) Apache
4 79 (5.05%) SAS
5 45 (2.88%) Confluence
6 18 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 12 (0.77%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.58%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) 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 46 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.58%) 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 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.58%) 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%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 643 (41.14%) Azure
2 479 (30.65%) AWS
3 381 (24.38%) Power Platform
4 241 (15.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (11.64%) GCP
6 178 (11.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 163 (10.43%) Amazon S3
8 154 (9.85%) Snowflake
9 139 (8.89%) Serverless
10 129 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (7.36%) GitHub
12 104 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (5.95%) dbt
14 55 (3.52%) Collibra
15 52 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
17 38 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (2.05%) SaaS
19 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%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.064%) 2G
5 1 (0.064%) DSL
5 1 (0.064%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (30.26%) Data Warehouse
2 359 (22.97%) Power BI
3 244 (15.61%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.16%) SQL Server
5 175 (11.20%) Metadata
6 100 (6.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 99 (6.33%) Tableau
8 97 (6.21%) Big Data
9 92 (5.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 85 (5.44%) Delta Lake
12 84 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
13 81 (5.18%) Pentaho
14 80 (5.12%) Relational Database
15 79 (5.05%) NoSQL
16 72 (4.61%) Snowflake Schema
17 64 (4.09%) BigQuery
18 61 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (3.26%) Star Schema
20 48 (3.07%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 184 (11.77%) Git
2 136 (8.70%) JIRA
3 85 (5.44%) Jenkins
4 73 (4.67%) GitLab
5 42 (2.69%) Postman
6 25 (1.60%) MLflow
6 25 (1.60%) Zephyr
7 21 (1.34%) Selenium
8 13 (0.83%) ERwin
9 7 (0.45%) JMeter
9 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) NUnit
10 5 (0.32%) TestRail
11 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
11 4 (0.26%) Toad
11 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 433 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 400 (25.59%) Finance
3 276 (17.66%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 102 (6.53%) Banking
6 39 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.66%) Marketing
8 24 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.54%) Legal
9 21 (1.34%) Retail
10 17 (1.09%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.90%) Law
14 11 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.45%) Front Office
16 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 631 (40.37%) Data Engineer
2 206 (13.18%) Developer
3 174 (11.13%) Senior
4 170 (10.88%) Architect
5 160 (10.24%) Lead
6 141 (9.02%) Analyst
7 112 (7.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 101 (6.46%) Data Architect
9 87 (5.57%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 43 (2.75%) AWS Data Engineer
14 41 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
15 37 (2.37%) Azure Data Engineer
16 35 (2.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 34 (2.18%) Consultant
17 34 (2.18%) Lead Data Engineer
18 32 (2.05%) Senior Developer
18 32 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (11.96%) PySpark
2 145 (9.28%) Kafka
3 96 (6.14%) REST
4 54 (3.45%) Pandas
5 46 (2.94%) JSON
6 38 (2.43%) XML
7 36 (2.30%) .NET
8 30 (1.92%) RESTful
9 28 (1.79%) NumPy
10 26 (1.66%) OAuth
11 24 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
12 22 (1.41%) Middleware
12 22 (1.41%) PyTorch
13 21 (1.34%) pytest
14 20 (1.28%) Great Expectations
15 19 (1.22%) YAML
16 18 (1.15%) Spring
17 17 (1.09%) scikit-learn
18 16 (1.02%) Spring Boot
18 16 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 132 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 110 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.69%) Onboarding
4 42 (2.69%) Product Ownership
5 30 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
6 28 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.15%) Algorithms
9 18 (1.15%) Reference Data
10 17 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (0.96%) NHS
12 14 (0.90%) Clustering
13 13 (0.83%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.83%) Replication
13 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.24%) Unix
2 28 (1.79%) Linux
3 18 (1.15%) Windows
4 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.58%) 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
1 759 (48.56%) Data Modelling
2 658 (42.10%) Analytics
3 589 (37.68%) Data Pipeline
4 506 (32.37%) Data Engineering
5 490 (31.35%) Business Intelligence
6 457 (29.24%) CI/CD
7 395 (25.27%) Agile
8 369 (23.61%) Data Governance
9 361 (23.10%) DevOps
10 342 (21.88%) Migration
11 329 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
12 283 (18.11%) Validation
13 251 (16.06%) Data Architecture
14 250 (15.99%) Data Integration
15 220 (14.08%) Data Migration
16 219 (14.01%) AI
17 206 (13.18%) Decision-Making
18 186 (11.90%) Test Automation
19 176 (11.26%) Data Science
20 166 (10.62%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (66.99%) SQL
2 693 (44.34%) Python
3 141 (9.02%) Java
4 69 (4.41%) C#
5 67 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 66 (4.22%) PL/SQL
7 64 (4.09%) T-SQL
8 56 (3.58%) Scala
9 36 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.24%) JavaScript
11 24 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.34%) Bash
13 19 (1.22%) R
14 18 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 17 (1.09%) Bicep
16 9 (0.58%) Go
16 9 (0.58%) PHP
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 396 (25.34%) Security Cleared
2 319 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.04%) Degree
4 58 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.15%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.77%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.51%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.26%) PMP
16 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (34.23%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.89%) QA
3 122 (7.81%) GDPR
4 22 (1.41%) 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 (0.58%) 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%) GAAP
11 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.26%) FATCA
12 4 (0.26%) HL7
12 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.26%) MiFID
13 3 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 138 (8.83%) Docker
2 9 (0.58%) 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%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (9.72%) Terraform
2 138 (8.83%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.79%) Grafana
4 20 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.02%) 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
1 322 (20.60%) Databricks
2 287 (18.36%) Microsoft
3 254 (16.25%) Oracle
4 150 (9.60%) Informatica
5 135 (8.64%) Talend
6 68 (4.35%) SAP
7 66 (4.22%) Denodo
8 65 (4.16%) Google
9 49 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.18%) IBM
11 31 (1.98%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.60%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.22%) Workday
14 18 (1.15%) Splunk
15 16 (1.02%) Sage
16 15 (0.96%) Alteryx
17 14 (0.90%) Ab Initio
18 12 (0.77%) Palantir
19 11 (0.70%) OpenAI
19 11 (0.70%) Teradata