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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 73 94
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,370 963 1,007
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.31% 3.14% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.49% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 645 765
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -6.28% -1.30% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £51.21 - £30.65
25th Percentile £54.06 £26.25 £39.01
Median hourly rate £65.67 £35.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +87.64% -31.45% +45.87%
75th Percentile £71.60 £78.70 £63.14
90th Percentile £78.53 £102.00 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +138.81% -9.84% -12.86%

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 35,955 27,589 38,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.76% 89.91% 86.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,818 17,125 24,933
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £411 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £721 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £482 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,143 864 2,185
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.99 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £26.61 £32.66 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -18.53% -1.24% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.18 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.81% -9.26% -

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 26 February 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 26 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 26 February 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 0 1,200 £500 -4.76% 273
London +21 704 £525 -4.55% 103
UK excluding London -10 524 £463 -6.28% 193
Work from Home -4 426 £500 -0.50% 131
Midlands +14 176 £485 +1.68% 48
West Midlands +14 152 £498 +0.91% 38
North of England -43 132 £450 -2.70% 49
North West -15 80 £442 -4.38% 21
South East -37 69 £475 -13.64% 49
South West -10 63 £525 -14.29% 29
Scotland +20 57 £463 +5.71% 10
Yorkshire -60 41 £500 +38.89% 24
East Midlands -18 24 £470 +21.29% 10
East of England -17 21 £504 -4.05% 10
Northern Ireland +6 10 £400 +3.23%
North East -11 10 £475 -5.00% 5
Wales -12 10 £410 -18.00% 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
1 135 (9.85%) Apache Spark
2 109 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (5.99%) Apache
4 66 (4.82%) SAS
5 24 (1.75%) Confluence
6 15 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.58%) Appian
8 8 (0.58%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.073%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.073%) Moodle
Applications
1 47 (3.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.36%) Maximo
5 5 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 588 (42.92%) Azure
2 446 (32.55%) AWS
3 316 (23.07%) Power Platform
4 220 (16.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 181 (13.21%) GCP
6 159 (11.61%) Snowflake
7 153 (11.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (10.51%) Amazon S3
9 125 (9.12%) Serverless
10 111 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
11 95 (6.93%) GitHub
12 87 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (5.40%) dbt
14 48 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (3.21%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.77%) Collibra
17 37 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (2.63%) SaaS
19 29 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
20 28 (2.04%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.58%) HTTP
2 7 (0.51%) 5G
3 6 (0.44%) 2G
3 6 (0.44%) 4G
3 6 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.15%) DSL
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.073%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.073%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (29.27%) Data Warehouse
2 295 (21.53%) Power BI
3 227 (16.57%) Data Lake
4 165 (12.04%) SQL Server
5 137 (10.00%) Metadata
6 94 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 92 (6.72%) Big Data
8 90 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
9 81 (5.91%) Relational Database
10 79 (5.77%) Tableau
11 74 (5.40%) Amazon Redshift
11 74 (5.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 70 (5.11%) Pentaho
13 69 (5.04%) NoSQL
14 65 (4.74%) Delta Lake
15 62 (4.53%) BigQuery
16 58 (4.23%) Snowflake Schema
17 54 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.65%) Oracle Database
19 47 (3.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 175 (12.77%) Git
2 104 (7.59%) JIRA
3 83 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 60 (4.38%) GitLab
5 36 (2.63%) Postman
6 23 (1.68%) MLflow
7 16 (1.17%) Zephyr
8 15 (1.09%) ERwin
8 15 (1.09%) Selenium
9 9 (0.66%) JMeter
10 7 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.36%) NUnit
11 5 (0.36%) TestRail
11 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.29%) MSTest
12 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.29%) Toad
General
1 419 (30.58%) Social Skills
2 346 (25.26%) Finance
3 224 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.88%) Banking
6 39 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.04%) Retail
8 22 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.31%) Marketing
10 15 (1.09%) Legal
10 15 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.95%) Law
13 12 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.58%) Publishing
16 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.44%) Front Office
17 6 (0.44%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 537 (39.20%) Data Engineer
2 167 (12.19%) Developer
3 145 (10.58%) Senior
4 143 (10.44%) Architect
5 142 (10.36%) Lead
6 130 (9.49%) Analyst
7 91 (6.64%) Data Architect
8 90 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
9 86 (6.28%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.43%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (2.70%) Python Engineer
13 36 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
14 35 (2.55%) Azure Data Engineer
15 31 (2.26%) Consultant
16 30 (2.19%) Lead Data Engineer
17 29 (2.12%) AWS Data Engineer
17 29 (2.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 27 (1.97%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (12.55%) PySpark
2 116 (8.47%) Kafka
3 89 (6.50%) REST
4 49 (3.58%) Pandas
5 47 (3.43%) XML
6 45 (3.28%) JSON
7 35 (2.55%) NumPy
8 33 (2.41%) .NET
9 30 (2.19%) PyTorch
10 28 (2.04%) RESTful
11 24 (1.75%) OAuth
12 23 (1.68%) pytest
13 21 (1.53%) Middleware
13 21 (1.53%) TensorFlow
14 19 (1.39%) scikit-learn
15 18 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
15 18 (1.31%) SOAP
15 18 (1.31%) YAML
16 17 (1.24%) Hugging Face
16 17 (1.24%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 111 (8.10%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 70 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (2.19%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
6 24 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 24 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.24%) Replication
11 16 (1.17%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.95%) IoT
15 12 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.48%) Linux
2 25 (1.82%) Unix
3 16 (1.17%) Windows
4 11 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.51%) Solaris
7 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.29%) VMS
9 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (47.08%) Data Modelling
2 583 (42.55%) Analytics
3 515 (37.59%) Data Pipeline
4 436 (31.82%) Data Engineering
5 425 (31.02%) Business Intelligence
6 405 (29.56%) CI/CD
7 349 (25.47%) Agile
8 330 (24.09%) Data Governance
9 311 (22.70%) DevOps
10 310 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
11 290 (21.17%) Migration
12 229 (16.72%) Data Architecture
13 222 (16.20%) Data Integration
14 216 (15.77%) Validation
15 189 (13.80%) Data Migration
16 178 (12.99%) AI
16 178 (12.99%) Data Science
17 163 (11.90%) Decision-Making
18 157 (11.46%) Test Automation
19 154 (11.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 899 (65.62%) SQL
2 666 (48.61%) Python
3 113 (8.25%) Java
4 61 (4.45%) C#
5 55 (4.01%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 50 (3.65%) PL/SQL
7 50 (3.65%) Scala
8 44 (3.21%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.39%) Bash
10 19 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.24%) Bicep
12 16 (1.17%) TypeScript
13 15 (1.09%) R
14 14 (1.02%) Go
15 12 (0.88%) VBA
16 10 (0.73%) PHP
17 6 (0.44%) Cypher
17 6 (0.44%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 303 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 247 (18.03%) SC Cleared
3 106 (7.74%) Degree
4 54 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.26%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.44%) PMP
12 5 (0.36%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.29%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.22%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.073%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 457 (33.36%) Data Quality
2 117 (8.54%) QA
3 108 (7.88%) GDPR
4 22 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.53%) IFRS
6 19 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.24%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.58%) PMO
10 6 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.36%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) MiFID
11 5 (0.36%) SLA
12 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.22%) Basel III
13 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.22%) FATCA
13 3 (0.22%) GMP
13 3 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 128 (9.34%) Docker
2 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
3 4 (0.29%) zsh
4 1 (0.073%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 137 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 133 (9.71%) Terraform
3 16 (1.17%) Grafana
3 16 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.09%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
5 5 (0.36%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) logstash
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.073%) Foglight
8 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.073%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.073%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 292 (21.31%) Databricks
2 227 (16.57%) Microsoft
3 200 (14.60%) Oracle
4 115 (8.39%) Informatica
5 112 (8.18%) Talend
6 55 (4.01%) Google
7 54 (3.94%) SAP
8 44 (3.21%) Denodo
9 33 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 28 (2.04%) IBM
11 23 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 17 (1.24%) Splunk
13 16 (1.17%) Palantir
14 15 (1.09%) Workday
15 13 (0.95%) Ab Initio
15 13 (0.95%) Sage
16 12 (0.88%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.88%) Foundry
16 12 (0.88%) OpenAI