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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 91 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,671 931 1,018
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.82% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.12% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 627 718
10th Percentile £360 £358 £360
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.70 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.47 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -16.22% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.64% +127.27% -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 46,202 29,871 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.47% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,118 18,549 20,447
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £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 £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,059 1,786 1,512
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.71
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.09
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%
75th Percentile £67.50 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +76.76% -47.37% +8.72%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +5 1,472 £500 - 535
London +2 777 £520 -0.95% 303
UK excluding London +10 692 £470 -1.05% 328
Work from Home +10 514 £500 - 253
Midlands +21 235 £469 +1.41% 49
West Midlands +33 201 £467 -6.60% 36
North of England -13 170 £466 +0.81% 65
South East +27 136 £450 -5.26% 103
Yorkshire +2 80 £463 +8.82% 18
North West -18 72 £470 -1.05% 38
South West -28 68 £523 +10.00% 56
East of England -16 45 £475 -9.52% 18
Scotland -15 39 £440 -7.37% 24
East Midlands -10 33 £490 +13.10% 13
North East -33 19 £500 +14.29% 10
Wales -14 7 £313 -43.18% 7
Northern Ireland -3 3 £334 -34.02% 9

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
1 139 (8.32%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (8.02%) Apache Spark
3 103 (6.16%) Apache
4 94 (5.63%) SAS
5 63 (3.77%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.50%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
9 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) 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 37 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) ResourceLink
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 664 (39.74%) Azure
2 504 (30.16%) AWS
3 375 (22.44%) Power Platform
4 234 (14.00%) Snowflake
5 229 (13.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 224 (13.41%) GCP
7 152 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (8.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 138 (8.26%) Serverless
10 137 (8.20%) dbt
11 132 (7.90%) Amazon S3
12 120 (7.18%) GitHub
13 110 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (2.69%) Amazon EMR
15 45 (2.69%) Azure Databricks
16 36 (2.15%) Collibra
17 35 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (1.80%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 10 (0.60%) 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%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 578 (34.59%) Data Warehouse
2 363 (21.72%) Power BI
3 256 (15.32%) Data Lake
4 173 (10.35%) Metadata
5 161 (9.63%) SQL Server
6 111 (6.64%) Relational Database
7 101 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (5.69%) BigQuery
9 94 (5.63%) Delta Lake
10 90 (5.39%) Big Data
11 85 (5.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 85 (5.09%) Tableau
12 75 (4.49%) Oracle Reports
13 73 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
14 66 (3.95%) NoSQL
15 62 (3.71%) Pentaho
16 60 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.59%) Oracle Database
17 58 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 180 (10.77%) Git
2 148 (8.86%) JIRA
3 102 (6.10%) GitLab
4 55 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.39%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.09%) Postman
7 15 (0.90%) MLflow
7 15 (0.90%) Selenium
8 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
9 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
9 5 (0.30%) Gatling
9 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.24%) ERwin
10 4 (0.24%) Newman
11 3 (0.18%) JMeter
11 3 (0.18%) JUnit
11 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 409 (24.48%) Social Skills
2 374 (22.38%) Finance
3 321 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.56%) Banking
6 37 (2.21%) Retail
7 36 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (1.56%) Marketing
9 25 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.38%) Legal
12 21 (1.26%) Law
13 17 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.90%) Front Office
15 14 (0.84%) Billing
15 14 (0.84%) Police
16 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 657 (39.32%) Data Engineer
2 246 (14.72%) Developer
3 243 (14.54%) Senior
4 228 (13.64%) Architect
5 158 (9.46%) Lead
6 156 (9.34%) Senior Data Engineer
7 125 (7.48%) Data Architect
8 124 (7.42%) Analyst
9 69 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (3.65%) Data Analyst
11 55 (3.29%) Databricks Engineer
12 52 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
13 47 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
13 47 (2.81%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 45 (2.69%) Tester
15 44 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
16 40 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 38 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
17 38 (2.27%) Senior Developer
18 37 (2.21%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (10.05%) PySpark
2 154 (9.22%) Terraform
3 135 (8.08%) Kafka
4 73 (4.37%) REST
5 59 (3.53%) JSON
6 50 (2.99%) .NET
7 30 (1.80%) Pandas
7 30 (1.80%) XML
8 28 (1.68%) React
9 26 (1.56%) Middleware
10 23 (1.38%) Spring
10 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.08%) YAML
12 14 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.84%) pytest
12 14 (0.84%) SOAP
13 12 (0.72%) LangChain
13 12 (0.72%) OAuth
14 11 (0.66%) HTML
14 11 (0.66%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 72 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 52 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.62%) NHS
9 24 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 23 (1.38%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.26%) Replication
12 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
15 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.90%) Clustering
15 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
16 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.83%) Linux
2 59 (3.53%) Unix
3 21 (1.26%) 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
1 795 (47.58%) Data Modelling
2 706 (42.25%) Data Pipeline
3 631 (37.76%) Analytics
4 549 (32.85%) Data Engineering
5 520 (31.12%) CI/CD
6 481 (28.79%) Agile
7 448 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
8 445 (26.63%) Migration
9 398 (23.82%) Data Integration
10 387 (23.16%) DevOps
11 351 (21.01%) Data Governance
12 339 (20.29%) Validation
13 308 (18.43%) AI
14 295 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
15 276 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 258 (15.44%) Data Migration
17 251 (15.02%) Data Architecture
18 237 (14.18%) Data Transformation
19 217 (12.99%) Test Automation
20 190 (11.37%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (66.25%) SQL
2 649 (38.84%) Python
3 142 (8.50%) Java
4 89 (5.33%) PL/SQL
5 83 (4.97%) T-SQL
6 60 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 54 (3.23%) C#
8 52 (3.11%) Scala
9 47 (2.81%) JavaScript
10 46 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 34 (2.03%) Bash
13 22 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 21 (1.26%) R
15 18 (1.08%) Bicep
16 13 (0.78%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 465 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 400 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 70 (4.19%) Degree
4 52 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.50%) DV Cleared
10 17 (1.02%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.24%) CISM
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (36.51%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.62%) QA
3 78 (4.67%) GDPR
4 40 (2.39%) GRC
5 25 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) PMO
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) SLA
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (7.12%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 117 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.27%) Grafana
3 21 (1.26%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 13 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.060%) Foglight
9 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 367 (21.96%) Databricks
2 325 (19.45%) Oracle
3 299 (17.89%) Microsoft
4 140 (8.38%) Informatica
5 119 (7.12%) Talend
6 76 (4.55%) SAP
7 75 (4.49%) Google
8 54 (3.23%) Denodo
9 49 (2.93%) IBM
10 36 (2.15%) Salesforce
11 34 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.74%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.02%) Palantir
13 17 (1.02%) Teradata
14 16 (0.96%) Foundry
15 12 (0.72%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.60%) ESRI
17 10 (0.60%) Sage