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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +11 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,678 922 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 2.82% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.11% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 625 698
10th Percentile £360 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.70 £32.22
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.47 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -40.97%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -45.64% +105.80% -58.40%

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 45,369 29,617 32,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.56% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,730 18,446 20,728
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,902 1,758 1,607
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.78 £17.30 £18.82
Median hourly rate £41.09 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.39% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.88 £47.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +9 1,478 £500 - 869
London +2 764 £523 -0.48% 576
UK excluding London +17 711 £470 -1.05% 425
Work from Home +18 526 £500 - 404
Midlands +21 242 £469 +1.41% 52
West Midlands +25 208 £469 -6.20% 40
North of England +1 180 £475 +2.70% 114
South East +23 141 £458 -2.45% 102
Yorkshire +6 80 £469 +11.61% 25
North West -25 79 £470 -6.00% 72
South West -25 62 £523 +10.00% 62
East of England -2 47 £481 -8.33% 24
Scotland -12 39 £440 -3.56% 32
East Midlands -13 33 £490 +13.10% 12
North East -29 22 £510 +16.57% 17
Wales -11 8 £313 -33.86% 13
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.02% 27

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
1 133 (7.93%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 101 (6.02%) Apache
4 95 (5.66%) SAS
5 63 (3.75%) Confluence
6 28 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.72%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.36%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 30 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 19 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
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%) SimCorp Dimension
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%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 663 (39.51%) Azure
2 513 (30.57%) AWS
3 388 (23.12%) Power Platform
4 228 (13.59%) Snowflake
5 227 (13.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 222 (13.23%) GCP
7 148 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (8.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 142 (8.46%) Serverless
10 140 (8.34%) Amazon S3
11 132 (7.87%) dbt
12 119 (7.09%) GitHub
13 115 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
16 45 (2.68%) Azure Databricks
17 38 (2.26%) Collibra
18 34 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (1.91%) Power Automate
20 31 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.72%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) HTTP
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 5 (0.30%) VPN
5 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.18%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.060%) LTE
7 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 583 (34.74%) Data Warehouse
2 376 (22.41%) Power BI
3 263 (15.67%) Data Lake
4 168 (10.01%) Metadata
5 158 (9.42%) SQL Server
6 113 (6.73%) Relational Database
7 109 (6.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (5.66%) BigQuery
8 95 (5.66%) Delta Lake
9 90 (5.36%) Tableau
10 86 (5.13%) Big Data
11 84 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 71 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
12 71 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
13 69 (4.11%) NoSQL
14 63 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 63 (3.75%) Pentaho
15 60 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
16 59 (3.52%) Oracle Database
17 58 (3.46%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (10.67%) Git
2 141 (8.40%) JIRA
3 102 (6.08%) GitLab
4 56 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.09%) Postman
7 15 (0.89%) Selenium
8 13 (0.77%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 404 (24.08%) Social Skills
2 372 (22.17%) Finance
3 319 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 132 (7.87%) Banking
6 36 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.03%) Retail
8 29 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (1.49%) Legal
9 25 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.37%) Marketing
11 21 (1.25%) Law
12 18 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 16 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.83%) Billing
14 14 (0.83%) Front Office
15 13 (0.77%) Police
16 12 (0.72%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 655 (39.03%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.84%) Developer
3 236 (14.06%) Senior
4 233 (13.89%) Architect
5 162 (9.65%) Lead
6 153 (9.12%) Senior Data Engineer
7 132 (7.87%) Data Architect
8 123 (7.33%) Analyst
9 67 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (3.64%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
12 51 (3.04%) Databricks Engineer
13 47 (2.80%) Snowflake Engineer
14 44 (2.62%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 44 (2.62%) Tester
15 43 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 39 (2.32%) Oracle Developer
18 38 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (10.43%) PySpark
2 154 (9.18%) Terraform
3 137 (8.16%) Kafka
4 73 (4.35%) REST
5 59 (3.52%) JSON
6 48 (2.86%) .NET
7 31 (1.85%) Pandas
8 29 (1.73%) XML
9 27 (1.61%) React
10 25 (1.49%) Middleware
11 23 (1.37%) Spring
11 23 (1.37%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.01%) YAML
13 14 (0.83%) pytest
14 13 (0.77%) SOAP
15 12 (0.72%) OAuth
16 11 (0.66%) HTML
16 11 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
16 11 (0.66%) Playwright
16 11 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 111 (6.62%) Data Structures
3 75 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.46%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.61%) NHS
8 26 (1.55%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 21 (1.25%) Reference Data
12 20 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (1.07%) Replication
15 17 (1.01%) Clustering
15 17 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
17 14 (0.83%) IoT
18 13 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
19 12 (0.72%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.75%) Linux
2 58 (3.46%) Unix
3 17 (1.01%) 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 (47.44%) Data Modelling
2 700 (41.72%) Data Pipeline
3 642 (38.26%) Analytics
4 542 (32.30%) Data Engineering
5 514 (30.63%) CI/CD
6 476 (28.37%) Agile
7 464 (27.65%) Business Intelligence
8 442 (26.34%) Migration
9 394 (23.48%) Data Integration
10 383 (22.82%) DevOps
11 351 (20.92%) Data Governance
12 329 (19.61%) Validation
13 296 (17.64%) Problem-Solving
14 291 (17.34%) AI
15 266 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
16 263 (15.67%) Data Migration
17 245 (14.60%) Data Architecture
18 240 (14.30%) Data Transformation
19 216 (12.87%) Test Automation
20 196 (11.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (66.51%) SQL
2 647 (38.56%) Python
3 145 (8.64%) Java
4 89 (5.30%) PL/SQL
5 81 (4.83%) T-SQL
6 61 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.10%) C#
7 52 (3.10%) Scala
8 48 (2.86%) PowerShell
9 47 (2.80%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.32%) Shell Script
11 34 (2.03%) Bash
12 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.19%) R
14 19 (1.13%) Bicep
15 9 (0.54%) Cypher
16 6 (0.36%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.36%) Perl
17 5 (0.30%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 466 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 397 (23.66%) SC Cleared
3 73 (4.35%) Degree
4 53 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.24%) CISM
13 4 (0.24%) CISSP
13 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.18%) CCSP
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (36.00%) Data Quality
2 136 (8.10%) QA
3 85 (5.07%) GDPR
4 39 (2.32%) GRC
5 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) 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%) SLA
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) NIST
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (6.91%) 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 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.32%) Grafana
3 20 (1.19%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
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
1 361 (21.51%) Databricks
2 323 (19.25%) Oracle
3 297 (17.70%) Microsoft
4 143 (8.52%) Informatica
5 118 (7.03%) Talend
6 75 (4.47%) Google
7 74 (4.41%) SAP
8 56 (3.34%) Denodo
9 49 (2.92%) IBM
10 35 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 34 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.19%) Palantir
14 17 (1.01%) Foundry
14 17 (1.01%) Teradata
15 15 (0.89%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.72%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.66%) Sage
17 11 (0.66%) Workday
18 10 (0.60%) Cloudera