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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 75 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,484 913 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.14% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.47% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 623 768
10th Percentile £360 £349 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £588 £616 £625
90th Percentile £682 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.47% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £29.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £56.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +11.88% +39.31%
75th Percentile £70.08 £92.16 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £100.97 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £78.70 £30.44
% change year-on-year -18.68% +158.58% -13.04%

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 37,733 26,318 38,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.81% 90.56% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,910 17,091 24,889
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £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 £725 £738 £746
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.89% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 949 2,344
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.19 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.45 £16.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -1.54% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £76.00 £76.25 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £31.52 £31.80
% change year-on-year -4.82% -0.88% -12.28%

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 March 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 March 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 26 March 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 1,324 £500 -4.76% 532
London +32 738 £513 -6.82% 193
UK excluding London -8 597 £468 -1.47% 413
Work from Home -5 446 £500 - 210
Midlands +19 204 £485 +2.11% 75
West Midlands +19 173 £498 +0.91% 48
North of England -25 160 £460 -0.54% 101
North West -14 88 £430 -8.12% 55
South East -40 82 £475 -5.47% 110
South West -8 69 £525 -10.64% 53
Yorkshire -40 56 £500 +40.85% 31
Scotland +9 48 £425 - 14
East of England -14 32 £488 +5.41% 52
East Midlands -22 31 £465 +16.61% 27
North East -6 15 £538 +13.16% 16
Northern Ireland +2 9 £400 -23.81% 2
Wales -19 6 £325 -35.64% 12

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
1 140 (9.43%) Apache Spark
2 121 (8.15%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (6.06%) Apache
4 66 (4.45%) SAS
5 34 (2.29%) Confluence
6 17 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.54%) Appian
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.47%) nginx
8 7 (0.47%) Oracle Application Server
9 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.27%) Camunda
11 3 (0.20%) CMS
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 47 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Trello
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.067%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.34%) Maximo
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 632 (42.59%) Azure
2 475 (32.01%) AWS
3 369 (24.87%) Power Platform
4 235 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (12.26%) GCP
6 173 (11.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 162 (10.92%) Amazon S3
8 161 (10.85%) Snowflake
9 133 (8.96%) Serverless
10 120 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (7.75%) GitHub
12 95 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
13 85 (5.73%) dbt
14 51 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 48 (3.23%) Collibra
15 48 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.49%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (2.49%) SaaS
17 31 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 30 (2.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.54%) Firewall
2 7 (0.47%) 5G
2 7 (0.47%) HTTP
3 6 (0.40%) 2G
3 6 (0.40%) 4G
3 6 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (0.34%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) DSL
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.067%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.067%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 437 (29.45%) Data Warehouse
2 349 (23.52%) Power BI
3 236 (15.90%) Data Lake
4 186 (12.53%) SQL Server
5 156 (10.51%) Metadata
6 103 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (6.33%) Tableau
8 89 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (6.00%) Big Data
8 89 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
9 88 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 78 (5.26%) Delta Lake
11 77 (5.19%) Relational Database
12 73 (4.92%) NoSQL
13 71 (4.78%) Pentaho
14 67 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
15 61 (4.11%) BigQuery
16 59 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
17 49 (3.30%) Star Schema
18 48 (3.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 173 (11.66%) Git
2 112 (7.55%) JIRA
3 80 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 68 (4.58%) GitLab
5 33 (2.22%) Postman
6 23 (1.55%) MLflow
7 14 (0.94%) ERwin
7 14 (0.94%) Zephyr
8 12 (0.81%) Selenium
9 7 (0.47%) JMeter
9 7 (0.47%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.34%) NUnit
10 5 (0.34%) TestRail
10 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.27%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) MSTest
11 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
General
1 420 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 389 (26.21%) Finance
3 258 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.41%) Banking
6 40 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.68%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.62%) Marketing
9 22 (1.48%) Legal
9 22 (1.48%) Retail
10 19 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.94%) Law
14 12 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.54%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.47%) Front Office
17 7 (0.47%) Publishing
18 6 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 594 (40.03%) Data Engineer
2 184 (12.40%) Developer
3 165 (11.12%) Senior
4 159 (10.71%) Architect
5 151 (10.18%) Lead
6 139 (9.37%) Analyst
7 105 (7.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 96 (6.47%) Data Architect
9 91 (6.13%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
11 45 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
11 45 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 41 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
13 40 (2.70%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (2.36%) Lead Data Engineer
15 34 (2.29%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (2.16%) Consultant
17 30 (2.02%) Python Engineer
17 30 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (12.13%) PySpark
2 144 (9.70%) Kafka
3 97 (6.54%) REST
4 50 (3.37%) Pandas
5 48 (3.23%) JSON
6 42 (2.83%) XML
7 35 (2.36%) .NET
8 30 (2.02%) RESTful
9 27 (1.82%) NumPy
10 23 (1.55%) OAuth
10 23 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.42%) pytest
11 21 (1.42%) PyTorch
12 20 (1.35%) Middleware
13 19 (1.28%) Great Expectations
13 19 (1.28%) YAML
14 17 (1.15%) scikit-learn
14 17 (1.15%) SOAP
15 16 (1.08%) Apache Avro
15 16 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 126 (8.49%) Cloud Native
2 105 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 79 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 41 (2.76%) Product Ownership
5 37 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.28%) Algorithms
10 18 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.21%) Reference Data
11 16 (1.08%) IoT
12 15 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.01%) Replication
12 15 (1.01%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.94%) Clustering
14 13 (0.88%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.88%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.95%) Linux
2 24 (1.62%) Unix
3 15 (1.01%) Windows
4 11 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.47%) Solaris
7 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.067%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 713 (48.05%) Data Modelling
2 641 (43.19%) Analytics
3 555 (37.40%) Data Pipeline
4 493 (33.22%) Data Engineering
5 479 (32.28%) Business Intelligence
6 434 (29.25%) CI/CD
7 368 (24.80%) Data Governance
8 364 (24.53%) Agile
9 340 (22.91%) DevOps
10 315 (21.23%) Migration
10 315 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
11 268 (18.06%) Validation
12 241 (16.24%) Data Architecture
13 239 (16.11%) Data Integration
14 207 (13.95%) Data Migration
15 199 (13.41%) AI
16 197 (13.27%) Decision-Making
17 174 (11.73%) Data Science
18 160 (10.78%) Test Automation
19 159 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 991 (66.78%) SQL
2 672 (45.28%) Python
3 123 (8.29%) Java
4 69 (4.65%) C#
5 62 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 57 (3.84%) T-SQL
7 54 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 53 (3.57%) Scala
9 35 (2.36%) JavaScript
10 32 (2.16%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.35%) Bash
12 18 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.15%) Bicep
13 17 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.08%) R
15 12 (0.81%) Go
16 9 (0.61%) PHP
16 9 (0.61%) VBA
17 7 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.47%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 350 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 277 (18.67%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.41%) Degree
4 58 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.40%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.27%) PMP
14 3 (0.20%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 518 (34.91%) Data Quality
2 135 (9.10%) QA
3 120 (8.09%) GDPR
4 22 (1.48%) IFRS
5 21 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.35%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.15%) IFRS 17
8 11 (0.74%) PMO
9 8 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.54%) SLA
10 7 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.34%) GAAP
11 5 (0.34%) MiFID
12 4 (0.27%) GRC
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
12 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.20%) Basel III
13 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 130 (8.76%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.067%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.067%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (9.97%) Terraform
2 139 (9.37%) Kubernetes
3 21 (1.42%) Grafana
4 20 (1.35%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.08%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Kibana
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.067%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.067%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.067%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 305 (20.55%) Databricks
2 267 (17.99%) Microsoft
3 216 (14.56%) Oracle
4 143 (9.64%) Informatica
5 118 (7.95%) Talend
6 66 (4.45%) SAP
7 63 (4.25%) Google
8 46 (3.10%) Denodo
9 43 (2.90%) ServiceNow
10 30 (2.02%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.95%) IBM
12 25 (1.68%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.28%) Splunk
14 17 (1.15%) Workday
15 16 (1.08%) Sage
16 14 (0.94%) Palantir
17 13 (0.88%) Ab Initio
18 11 (0.74%) OpenAI
19 10 (0.67%) Alteryx
19 10 (0.67%) Foundry