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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 78 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,559 898 1,007
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.05% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.36% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 608 751
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.71% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £687 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 14
10th Percentile £36.42 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.23 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +22.22% +13.62%
75th Percentile £70.08 £96.64 £53.25
90th Percentile £79.50 £101.31 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -31.36% +199.81% -15.93%

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 39,258 26,720 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.83% 90.74% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,768 17,301 24,236
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.31% -3.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,351 1,041 2,413
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -17.14% -6.67%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +13 1,398 £500 -4.76% 403
London +26 755 £514 -3.07% 166
UK excluding London +8 648 £469 -1.26% 314
Work from Home +13 477 £500 - 165
Midlands +19 227 £469 -1.26% 58
West Midlands +26 194 £469 -5.54% 33
North of England -15 170 £460 -0.54% 74
South East -23 94 £475 -7.05% 86
North West -20 91 £447 -5.89% 47
South West -16 65 £525 +5.00% 42
Yorkshire -36 64 £500 +42.86% 20
Scotland -3 48 £450 +5.88% 14
East of England -3 43 £500 +8.11% 24
East Midlands -21 33 £478 +16.46% 25
North East -9 14 £525 +10.53% 9
Wales -9 7 £325 -25.71% 9
Northern Ireland +4 5 £400 -20.00% 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
1 145 (9.30%) Apache Spark
2 126 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (5.90%) Apache
4 70 (4.49%) SAS
5 45 (2.89%) Confluence
6 18 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.71%) 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 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 45 (2.89%) 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 16 (1.03%) 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%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 643 (41.24%) Azure
2 477 (30.60%) AWS
3 384 (24.63%) Power Platform
4 243 (15.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 181 (11.61%) GCP
6 180 (11.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 161 (10.33%) Amazon S3
8 155 (9.94%) Snowflake
9 136 (8.72%) Serverless
10 132 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (7.38%) GitHub
12 101 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (5.97%) dbt
14 56 (3.59%) Collibra
15 52 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (2.12%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (2.05%) SaaS
19 30 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.64%) HTTP
2 8 (0.51%) Firewall
3 7 (0.45%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.45%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.064%) 4G
6 1 (0.064%) 5G
6 1 (0.064%) DSL
6 1 (0.064%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 475 (30.47%) Data Warehouse
2 362 (23.22%) Power BI
3 250 (16.04%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.12%) SQL Server
5 177 (11.35%) Metadata
6 101 (6.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (6.41%) Tableau
8 98 (6.29%) Big Data
9 90 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 87 (5.58%) Delta Lake
12 82 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
13 80 (5.13%) NoSQL
14 79 (5.07%) Relational Database
15 73 (4.68%) Pentaho
16 72 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
17 65 (4.17%) BigQuery
18 61 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (3.27%) Star Schema
20 49 (3.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 179 (11.48%) Git
2 132 (8.47%) JIRA
3 75 (4.81%) GitLab
3 75 (4.81%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.82%) Postman
5 28 (1.80%) Zephyr
6 25 (1.60%) MLflow
7 21 (1.35%) 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
1 426 (27.33%) Social Skills
2 399 (25.59%) Finance
3 272 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 102 (6.54%) Banking
6 39 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.60%) Marketing
8 24 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.54%) Legal
9 21 (1.35%) Retail
10 16 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.83%) Law
12 13 (0.83%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.45%) Front Office
15 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 632 (40.54%) Data Engineer
2 202 (12.96%) Developer
3 177 (11.35%) Senior
4 176 (11.29%) Architect
5 163 (10.46%) Lead
6 141 (9.04%) Analyst
7 114 (7.31%) Senior Data Engineer
8 106 (6.80%) Data Architect
9 85 (5.45%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (3.08%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 43 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
13 43 (2.76%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (2.44%) Azure Data Engineer
15 37 (2.37%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 33 (2.12%) Consultant
16 33 (2.12%) Lead Data Engineer
17 31 (1.99%) Senior Developer
17 31 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (12.06%) PySpark
2 146 (9.36%) Kafka
3 95 (6.09%) REST
4 52 (3.34%) Pandas
5 45 (2.89%) JSON
6 38 (2.44%) XML
7 37 (2.37%) .NET
8 30 (1.92%) RESTful
9 27 (1.73%) OAuth
10 26 (1.67%) NumPy
11 24 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
12 23 (1.48%) Middleware
13 22 (1.41%) PyTorch
14 21 (1.35%) pytest
15 20 (1.28%) Great Expectations
16 19 (1.22%) YAML
17 18 (1.15%) Spring
18 17 (1.09%) scikit-learn
19 16 (1.03%) React
19 16 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 133 (8.53%) Cloud Native
2 110 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 41 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.96%) Clustering
12 15 (0.96%) NHS
13 13 (0.83%) AI Agents
13 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.18%) Unix
2 27 (1.73%) Linux
3 18 (1.15%) Windows
4 11 (0.71%) 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
1 753 (48.30%) Data Modelling
2 643 (41.24%) Analytics
3 581 (37.27%) Data Pipeline
4 501 (32.14%) Data Engineering
5 482 (30.92%) Business Intelligence
6 446 (28.61%) CI/CD
7 390 (25.02%) Agile
8 371 (23.80%) Data Governance
9 353 (22.64%) DevOps
10 352 (22.58%) Migration
11 314 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
12 282 (18.09%) Validation
13 253 (16.23%) Data Architecture
14 244 (15.65%) Data Integration
15 227 (14.56%) Data Migration
16 220 (14.11%) AI
17 206 (13.21%) Decision-Making
18 183 (11.74%) Test Automation
19 169 (10.84%) Data Science
20 167 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (66.84%) SQL
2 686 (44.00%) Python
3 139 (8.92%) Java
4 69 (4.43%) C#
4 69 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (4.23%) PL/SQL
6 64 (4.11%) T-SQL
7 54 (3.46%) Scala
8 35 (2.25%) PowerShell
9 34 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 24 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.22%) Bash
11 19 (1.22%) R
11 19 (1.22%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.09%) Bicep
13 9 (0.58%) Go
13 9 (0.58%) PHP
13 9 (0.58%) VBA
14 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 390 (25.02%) Security Cleared
2 317 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 108 (6.93%) Degree
4 55 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.86%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.35%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.26%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (34.06%) Data Quality
2 140 (8.98%) QA
3 121 (7.76%) GDPR
4 22 (1.41%) IFRS
5 21 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.35%) 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 7 (0.45%) GRC
11 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) FATCA
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
12 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.26%) MiFID
14 3 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 130 (8.34%) 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%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (9.75%) Terraform
2 128 (8.21%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.86%) Grafana
4 20 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.96%) 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
1 324 (20.78%) Databricks
2 286 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 250 (16.04%) Oracle
4 152 (9.75%) Informatica
5 127 (8.15%) Talend
6 66 (4.23%) SAP
7 65 (4.17%) Google
8 58 (3.72%) Denodo
9 49 (3.14%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.18%) IBM
11 31 (1.99%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.60%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.22%) Workday
14 18 (1.15%) Splunk
15 16 (1.03%) Sage
16 15 (0.96%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.83%) Ab Initio
18 11 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.71%) Palantir
18 11 (0.71%) Teradata