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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,727 950 1,037
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 2.90% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.21% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,253 646 758
10th Percentile £358 £358 £360
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -6.05%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £464 £480
% change year-on-year -0.27% -3.39% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 8
10th Percentile £23.86 - £27.78
25th Percentile £30.71 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £38.03 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £56.19 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -46.14% +171.02% -52.64%

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 44,902 29,618 34,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.94% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,798 18,592 22,057
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,679 1,619 2,026
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.20 £13.56
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.33 £17.55
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.39 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.06% -41.25% -

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +14 1,537 £500 -0.79% 316
UK excluding London +19 782 £463 -0.27% 213
London +5 760 £525 -0.94% 141
Work from Home +16 542 £500 - 154
Midlands +28 279 £459 +2.00% 45
West Midlands +40 244 £453 -5.73% 32
North of England -7 187 £463 -2.63% 67
South East +10 140 £459 -2.13% 49
North West -20 82 £460 -8.00% 36
Yorkshire -8 81 £469 +10.29% 16
South West -20 68 £523 +10.00% 31
East of England +10 55 £481 -3.75% 7
Scotland -6 53 £425 - 7
East Midlands -14 34 £490 +10.96% 13
North East -20 25 £531 +11.79% 18
Wales -11 8 £313 -32.07% 6
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -36.38% 2

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
1 144 (8.34%) Apache Spark
2 136 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
3 112 (6.49%) SAS
4 99 (5.73%) Apache
5 64 (3.71%) Confluence
6 23 (1.33%) Oracle Application Server
7 21 (1.22%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.75%) nginx
8 13 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Camunda
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) Appian
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 39 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.17%) Actimize
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 666 (38.56%) Azure
2 519 (30.05%) AWS
3 403 (23.34%) Power Platform
4 219 (12.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 219 (12.68%) GCP
5 201 (11.64%) Snowflake
6 151 (8.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 150 (8.69%) Amazon S3
8 145 (8.40%) Serverless
9 138 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
10 121 (7.01%) dbt
11 117 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
12 102 (5.91%) GitHub
13 55 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
15 46 (2.66%) Collibra
16 42 (2.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.74%) SaaS
18 29 (1.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.81%) HTTP
2 12 (0.69%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 562 (32.54%) Data Warehouse
2 385 (22.29%) Power BI
3 262 (15.17%) Data Lake
4 167 (9.67%) SQL Server
5 161 (9.32%) Metadata
6 108 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
7 100 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 100 (5.79%) Tableau
8 97 (5.62%) Big Data
9 90 (5.21%) Delta Lake
10 89 (5.15%) BigQuery
11 85 (4.92%) Pentaho
12 80 (4.63%) NoSQL
13 78 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
14 75 (4.34%) Oracle Reports
15 65 (3.76%) Snowflake Schema
16 63 (3.65%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
18 53 (3.07%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (11.06%) Git
2 150 (8.69%) JIRA
3 92 (5.33%) GitLab
4 68 (3.94%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.49%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.26%) Postman
7 17 (0.98%) MLflow
8 13 (0.75%) Selenium
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) Gatling
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 409 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 387 (22.41%) Finance
3 306 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 125 (7.24%) Banking
6 50 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.91%) Marketing
8 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.45%) Legal
8 25 (1.45%) Retail
9 22 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 14 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (0.75%) Front Office
14 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.69%) Law
15 11 (0.64%) Billing
16 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 685 (39.66%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.42%) Developer
3 239 (13.84%) Architect
4 207 (11.99%) Senior
5 170 (9.84%) Lead
6 137 (7.93%) Senior Data Engineer
7 133 (7.70%) Data Architect
8 125 (7.24%) Analyst
9 66 (3.82%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (2.72%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
13 46 (2.66%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
13 46 (2.66%) SQL Developer
13 46 (2.66%) Tester
14 43 (2.49%) Python Engineer
15 38 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
16 36 (2.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (10.71%) PySpark
2 145 (8.40%) Kafka
3 77 (4.46%) REST
4 62 (3.59%) JSON
5 43 (2.49%) Pandas
6 42 (2.43%) .NET
7 31 (1.80%) XML
8 30 (1.74%) Middleware
9 25 (1.45%) Spring
10 24 (1.39%) React
11 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.10%) OAuth
12 19 (1.10%) PyTorch
12 19 (1.10%) RESTful
12 19 (1.10%) YAML
13 17 (0.98%) NumPy
14 16 (0.93%) Web Services
15 15 (0.87%) Apache Avro
16 14 (0.81%) pytest
16 14 (0.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.38%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.95%) Data Structures
3 85 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.01%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.51%) NHS
8 24 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
10 21 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.22%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.10%) Clustering
13 18 (1.04%) Replication
14 14 (0.81%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 13 (0.75%) IoT
16 12 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
16 12 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.18%) Unix
2 52 (3.01%) Linux
3 20 (1.16%) Windows
4 10 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (46.84%) Data Modelling
2 713 (41.29%) Data Pipeline
3 673 (38.97%) Analytics
4 539 (31.21%) Data Engineering
5 510 (29.53%) CI/CD
6 492 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
7 461 (26.69%) Agile
8 456 (26.40%) Migration
9 373 (21.60%) Data Governance
10 367 (21.25%) DevOps
11 353 (20.44%) Data Integration
12 340 (19.69%) Validation
13 313 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
14 275 (15.92%) Data Migration
15 273 (15.81%) AI
16 249 (14.42%) Data Architecture
17 229 (13.26%) Test Automation
18 222 (12.85%) Decision-Making
19 207 (11.99%) Data Transformation
20 206 (11.93%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,153 (66.76%) SQL
2 686 (39.72%) Python
3 150 (8.69%) Java
4 92 (5.33%) T-SQL
5 84 (4.86%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 57 (3.30%) C#
8 49 (2.84%) Scala
9 42 (2.43%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.26%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.80%) Bash
13 24 (1.39%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.10%) Bicep
14 19 (1.10%) R
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
15 9 (0.52%) VBA
16 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) SPARQL
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 497 (28.78%) Security Cleared
2 419 (24.26%) SC Cleared
3 92 (5.33%) Degree
4 43 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.43%) Azure Certification
5 42 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
13 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.23%) CISM
13 4 (0.23%) CISSP
13 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 596 (34.51%) Data Quality
2 145 (8.40%) QA
3 112 (6.49%) GDPR
4 36 (2.08%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.58%) IFRS
7 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) FATCA
9 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.41%) HL7
11 6 (0.35%) WCAG
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 121 (7.01%) Docker
2 12 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
4 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (8.28%) Terraform
2 131 (7.59%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.61%) Grafana
4 20 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.10%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 339 (19.63%) Oracle
2 326 (18.88%) Databricks
3 297 (17.20%) Microsoft
4 164 (9.50%) Informatica
5 143 (8.28%) Talend
6 84 (4.86%) SAP
7 73 (4.23%) Google
8 65 (3.76%) Denodo
9 51 (2.95%) IBM
10 39 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 38 (2.20%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.68%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.33%) Sage
14 20 (1.16%) Palantir
15 18 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.04%) Splunk
16 16 (0.93%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.75%) Foundry
18 12 (0.69%) Cloudera
18 12 (0.69%) Red Hat