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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 95
Rank change year-on-year +13 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,588 882 1,006
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.01% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.31% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 602 749
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.11% -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 39,853 26,632 37,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.47% 90.92% 86.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,078 17,168 24,015
10th Percentile £319 £306 £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 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +1.46% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,383 1,080 2,442
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.83
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.06% -0.47%
75th Percentile £67.13 £61.69 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.57 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.59% -26.48% +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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +14 1,418 £500 -4.76% 404
London +24 749 £513 -4.56% 177
UK excluding London +11 686 £470 -1.11% 276
Work from Home +18 482 £500 - 187
Midlands +28 235 £469 -1.26% 52
West Midlands +36 203 £468 -5.74% 38
North of England -22 175 £460 -0.54% 70
South East -8 108 £475 -8.12% 87
North West -15 92 £442 -6.89% 41
Yorkshire -18 66 £500 +21.95% 20
South West -19 65 £525 +5.00% 34
Scotland -2 57 £450 +5.88% 7
East of England -10 43 £500 +1.27% 17
East Midlands -20 31 £485 +15.48% 14
North East -14 16 £525 +16.67% 9
Wales -11 7 £325 -14.47% 11
Northern Ireland +2 5 £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
1 147 (9.26%) Apache Spark
2 117 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.60%) Apache
4 74 (4.66%) SAS
5 50 (3.15%) Confluence
6 19 (1.20%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.57%) Appian
9 9 (0.57%) 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 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.44%) Notepad++
5 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.57%) 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%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) Actimize
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
1 650 (40.93%) Azure
2 473 (29.79%) AWS
3 396 (24.94%) Power Platform
4 243 (15.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 186 (11.71%) GCP
6 179 (11.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 153 (9.63%) Amazon S3
8 152 (9.57%) Snowflake
9 139 (8.75%) Azure DevOps
10 133 (8.38%) Serverless
11 110 (6.93%) GitHub
12 98 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.60%) dbt
14 56 (3.53%) Collibra
15 49 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (2.08%) Power Automate
19 29 (1.83%) 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
1 476 (29.97%) Data Warehouse
2 374 (23.55%) Power BI
3 263 (16.56%) Data Lake
4 191 (12.03%) SQL Server
5 173 (10.89%) Metadata
6 105 (6.61%) Big Data
7 103 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 96 (6.05%) Tableau
9 92 (5.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (5.54%) Delta Lake
11 87 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (5.10%) Relational Database
13 80 (5.04%) NoSQL
14 79 (4.97%) Pentaho
15 78 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
16 67 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
17 66 (4.16%) BigQuery
18 60 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (3.21%) Oracle Reports
20 49 (3.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 186 (11.71%) Git
2 138 (8.69%) JIRA
3 83 (5.23%) GitLab
4 72 (4.53%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.77%) Postman
6 29 (1.83%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.70%) MLflow
8 21 (1.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.76%) 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
1 424 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 404 (25.44%) Finance
3 274 (17.25%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.26%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.12%) Banking
6 41 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.83%) Marketing
8 25 (1.57%) Legal
9 24 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.32%) Retail
11 15 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.82%) Law
14 12 (0.76%) 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
1 645 (40.62%) Data Engineer
2 212 (13.35%) Developer
3 179 (11.27%) Architect
3 179 (11.27%) Senior
4 166 (10.45%) Lead
5 134 (8.44%) Analyst
6 116 (7.30%) Senior Data Engineer
7 109 (6.86%) Data Architect
8 81 (5.10%) Data Analyst
9 50 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
9 50 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (2.77%) AWS Data Engineer
12 39 (2.46%) Snowflake Engineer
13 38 (2.39%) Azure Data Engineer
14 33 (2.08%) Python Engineer
14 33 (2.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 32 (2.02%) Lead Data Engineer
15 32 (2.02%) Senior Developer
15 32 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (12.22%) PySpark
2 141 (8.88%) Kafka
3 94 (5.92%) REST
4 55 (3.46%) Pandas
5 43 (2.71%) JSON
6 42 (2.64%) .NET
7 32 (2.02%) XML
8 29 (1.83%) RESTful
9 26 (1.64%) NumPy
10 25 (1.57%) OAuth
10 25 (1.57%) PyTorch
11 24 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
12 22 (1.39%) Spring
13 21 (1.32%) Middleware
14 20 (1.26%) pytest
14 20 (1.26%) Spring Boot
15 18 (1.13%) Great Expectations
16 17 (1.07%) FastAPI
16 17 (1.07%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 113 (7.12%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (1.64%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 20 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.13%) Clustering
10 18 (1.13%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.01%) NHS
13 14 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.88%) Replication
14 13 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.02%) Unix
2 26 (1.64%) Linux
3 19 (1.20%) Windows
4 11 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Solaris
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.57%) 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
1 765 (48.17%) Data Modelling
2 652 (41.06%) Analytics
3 599 (37.72%) Data Pipeline
4 503 (31.68%) Data Engineering
5 491 (30.92%) Business Intelligence
6 448 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 402 (25.31%) Agile
8 365 (22.98%) Data Governance
9 364 (22.92%) Migration
10 360 (22.67%) DevOps
11 316 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
12 292 (18.39%) Validation
13 250 (15.74%) Data Integration
14 245 (15.43%) Data Architecture
15 235 (14.80%) AI
16 233 (14.67%) Data Migration
17 208 (13.10%) Decision-Making
18 184 (11.59%) Test Automation
19 177 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
20 167 (10.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,060 (66.75%) SQL
2 684 (43.07%) Python
3 143 (9.01%) Java
4 73 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 69 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 66 (4.16%) C#
6 66 (4.16%) T-SQL
7 55 (3.46%) Scala
8 40 (2.52%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.08%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.26%) Bash
11 20 (1.26%) R
12 18 (1.13%) TypeScript
13 16 (1.01%) Bicep
14 9 (0.57%) PHP
14 9 (0.57%) VBA
15 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
16 6 (0.38%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 403 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 328 (20.65%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.55%) Degree
4 51 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.64%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.58%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.50%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.25%) PMP
16 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.13%) CISA
17 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 526 (33.12%) Data Quality
2 148 (9.32%) QA
3 119 (7.49%) GDPR
4 23 (1.45%) IFRS
4 23 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.13%) IFRS 17
6 15 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.57%) SLA
9 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.50%) FATCA
10 7 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
12 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.31%) MiFID
13 4 (0.25%) HL7
13 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 123 (7.75%) Docker
2 9 (0.57%) 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
1 149 (9.38%) Terraform
2 126 (7.93%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.39%) 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
1 328 (20.65%) Databricks
2 295 (18.58%) Microsoft
3 263 (16.56%) Oracle
4 161 (10.14%) Informatica
5 130 (8.19%) Talend
6 70 (4.41%) SAP
7 65 (4.09%) Google
8 57 (3.59%) Denodo
9 49 (3.09%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.27%) IBM
11 32 (2.02%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.57%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.20%) Splunk
14 17 (1.07%) Sage
14 17 (1.07%) Workday
15 15 (0.94%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.82%) Teradata
17 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.69%) Ab Initio
19 10 (0.63%) Cognos