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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 88 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 -8 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,648 964 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.92% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.22% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 672 720
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -1.70% -2.17% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 5
10th Percentile £21.41 £33.05 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £57.00 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.60 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -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 46,126 29,916 32,545
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.50% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,740 18,573 19,640
10th Percentile £325 £295 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,322 1,863 1,307
10th Percentile £13.63 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £65.23 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +68.05% -47.49% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +4 1,442 £500 -1.48% 1,216
London -4 760 £525 - 702
UK excluding London +8 685 £470 -1.70% 578
Work from Home -10 492 £500 -1.48% 549
Midlands +21 227 £470 -6.00% 102
West Midlands +19 198 £469 -8.49% 83
North of England -10 172 £475 - 173
South East +18 130 £459 -3.37% 102
South West -1 85 £514 +8.26% 58
North West -19 77 £475 -2.56% 102
Yorkshire -1 75 £469 +5.34% 50
Scotland -10 43 £425 -10.53% 67
East of England -27 34 £463 -11.90% 39
East Midlands -8 28 £486 +9.94% 19
North East -20 25 £500 +14.29% 22
Wales -11 6 £313 -37.19% 15
Northern Ireland +4 5 £398 -0.44% 30

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 (8.80%) Apache Spark
2 143 (8.68%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (7.10%) Apache
4 87 (5.28%) SAS
5 64 (3.88%) Confluence
6 27 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.67%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.49%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) CMS
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
15 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 33 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 18 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 637 (38.65%) Azure
2 490 (29.73%) AWS
3 348 (21.12%) Power Platform
4 241 (14.62%) GCP
5 235 (14.26%) Snowflake
6 218 (13.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
7 145 (8.80%) dbt
8 133 (8.07%) Amazon S3
9 129 (7.83%) Serverless
10 119 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 107 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
11 107 (6.49%) GitHub
12 61 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (3.22%) Azure Databricks
14 51 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
15 36 (2.18%) SaaS
16 35 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.49%) Firewall
1 8 (0.49%) HTTP
2 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.18%) DHCP
2 3 (0.18%) DNS
2 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.12%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.12%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.061%) Broadband
4 1 (0.061%) DMZ
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) LTE
4 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (33.74%) Data Warehouse
2 336 (20.39%) Power BI
3 253 (15.35%) Data Lake
4 157 (9.53%) Metadata
5 137 (8.31%) SQL Server
6 113 (6.86%) BigQuery
7 107 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 105 (6.37%) Relational Database
9 88 (5.34%) Delta Lake
10 87 (5.28%) Big Data
11 83 (5.04%) Tableau
12 77 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 70 (4.25%) PostgreSQL
14 66 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
15 63 (3.82%) Pentaho
16 62 (3.76%) Amazon Athena
16 62 (3.76%) NoSQL
17 57 (3.46%) Oracle Database
18 50 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
19 42 (2.55%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 188 (11.41%) Git
2 141 (8.56%) JIRA
3 108 (6.55%) GitLab
4 54 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.37%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.18%) Postman
7 18 (1.09%) Selenium
8 13 (0.79%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 413 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 377 (22.88%) Finance
3 302 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (11.53%) Public Sector
5 169 (10.25%) Banking
6 43 (2.61%) Retail
7 39 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.46%) Investment Banking
10 23 (1.40%) Marketing
11 22 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.33%) Law
12 21 (1.27%) Front Office
12 21 (1.27%) Legal
13 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.03%) Police
15 16 (0.97%) Billing
15 16 (0.97%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.79%) Military
17 11 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 650 (39.44%) Data Engineer
2 240 (14.56%) Senior
3 231 (14.02%) Developer
4 227 (13.77%) Architect
5 153 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 147 (8.92%) Lead
7 128 (7.77%) Analyst
8 120 (7.28%) Data Architect
9 71 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (3.94%) Databricks Engineer
11 61 (3.70%) Data Analyst
12 56 (3.40%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 52 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
14 45 (2.73%) Consultant
15 44 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
16 42 (2.55%) Snowflake Engineer
16 42 (2.55%) Tester
17 39 (2.37%) Python Engineer
18 36 (2.18%) SQL Developer
19 34 (2.06%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (9.59%) PySpark
2 151 (9.16%) Terraform
3 127 (7.71%) Kafka
4 82 (4.98%) REST
5 54 (3.28%) .NET
5 54 (3.28%) JSON
6 31 (1.88%) Middleware
7 30 (1.82%) XML
8 28 (1.70%) Pandas
8 28 (1.70%) React
9 19 (1.15%) pytest
9 19 (1.15%) Spring
9 19 (1.15%) Spring Boot
9 19 (1.15%) YAML
10 18 (1.09%) SOAP
11 15 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.85%) Web Services
13 13 (0.79%) HTML
14 12 (0.73%) LangChain
14 12 (0.73%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.58%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.33%) Replication
11 21 (1.27%) NHS
12 18 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.97%) Clustering
14 15 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.85%) Data Fabric
16 13 (0.79%) CMDB
16 13 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.13%) Linux
2 52 (3.16%) Unix
3 19 (1.15%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (46.06%) Data Modelling
2 698 (42.35%) Data Pipeline
3 609 (36.95%) Analytics
4 555 (33.68%) Data Engineering
5 525 (31.86%) CI/CD
6 485 (29.43%) Agile
7 452 (27.43%) Migration
8 421 (25.55%) Business Intelligence
9 402 (24.39%) Data Integration
10 381 (23.12%) DevOps
11 354 (21.48%) Validation
12 339 (20.57%) Data Governance
13 324 (19.66%) AI
14 307 (18.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 288 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
16 255 (15.47%) Data Migration
17 249 (15.11%) Data Transformation
18 241 (14.62%) Data Architecture
19 217 (13.17%) Test Automation
20 186 (11.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,092 (66.26%) SQL
2 669 (40.59%) Python
3 127 (7.71%) Java
4 85 (5.16%) PL/SQL
5 77 (4.67%) T-SQL
6 59 (3.58%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.22%) C#
8 50 (3.03%) Scala
9 49 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 35 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 34 (2.06%) Bash
13 23 (1.40%) R
14 19 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 18 (1.09%) Bicep
16 13 (0.79%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Go
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 451 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 395 (23.97%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.88%) Degree
4 57 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.06%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 30 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.52%) ISTQB
10 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.42%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) CBAP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 590 (35.80%) Data Quality
2 146 (8.86%) QA
3 64 (3.88%) GDPR
4 36 (2.18%) GRC
5 24 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 8 (0.49%) IFRS
8 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 104 (6.31%) Docker
2 15 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 111 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.88%) Grafana
3 21 (1.27%) Ansible
4 16 (0.97%) Control-M
5 13 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 373 (22.63%) Databricks
2 300 (18.20%) Oracle
3 280 (16.99%) Microsoft
4 121 (7.34%) Informatica
5 103 (6.25%) Talend
6 93 (5.64%) Google
7 67 (4.07%) SAP
8 46 (2.79%) IBM
9 38 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 37 (2.25%) Denodo
11 29 (1.76%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.52%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.33%) OpenAI
14 21 (1.27%) Foundry
15 19 (1.15%) Palantir
16 16 (0.97%) Teradata
17 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.61%) Sage
18 9 (0.55%) Bloomberg
18 9 (0.55%) ESRI