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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 88 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,662 955 1,019
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.03% 2.91% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.21% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 656 699
10th Percentile £358 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £616
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £478 £489
% change year-on-year -1.91% -2.17% -6.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.33 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £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 46,343 29,774 32,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.43% 90.67% 85.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,026 18,502 19,486
10th Percentile £325 £296 £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 £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,222 1,849 1,345
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.19 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.86 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.51% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.27 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.98% -48.10% +1.18%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -2 1,455 £500 -1.48% 1,117
London -4 767 £521 -0.71% 605
UK excluding London +5 688 £469 -1.91% 607
Work from Home -5 502 £500 -0.79% 514
Midlands +23 230 £469 -5.73% 114
West Midlands +26 199 £469 -8.04% 87
North of England -20 167 £463 -2.63% 173
South East +22 132 £459 -3.37% 106
South West -2 82 £506 +6.53% 69
Yorkshire -2 77 £460 - 51
North West -32 69 £475 -5.00% 105
Scotland -15 42 £428 -10.00% 61
East of England -16 38 £475 -9.52% 37
East Midlands -11 30 £486 +10.45% 27
North East -22 22 £481 +10.00% 19
Wales -14 8 £313 -37.19% 14
Northern Ireland -3 3 £334 -26.79% 40

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
1 142 (8.54%) Apache Spark
2 138 (8.30%) Apache Airflow
3 110 (6.62%) Apache
4 89 (5.35%) SAS
5 63 (3.79%) Confluence
6 27 (1.62%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.72%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.54%) 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 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) Appian
Applications
1 33 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 19 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 643 (38.69%) Azure
2 496 (29.84%) AWS
3 355 (21.36%) Power Platform
4 240 (14.44%) GCP
5 234 (14.08%) Snowflake
6 220 (13.24%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (8.48%) dbt
9 133 (8.00%) Amazon S3
10 132 (7.94%) Serverless
11 128 (7.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 109 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
13 107 (6.44%) GitHub
14 60 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.95%) Azure Databricks
16 48 (2.89%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (1.99%) SaaS
19 32 (1.93%) Collibra
20 30 (1.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.60%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) Broadband
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 569 (34.24%) Data Warehouse
2 342 (20.58%) Power BI
3 253 (15.22%) Data Lake
4 164 (9.87%) Metadata
5 147 (8.84%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.74%) BigQuery
7 111 (6.68%) Relational Database
8 102 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (5.42%) Big Data
9 90 (5.42%) Delta Lake
10 81 (4.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 81 (4.87%) Tableau
11 76 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (4.21%) Oracle Reports
13 69 (4.15%) NoSQL
14 61 (3.67%) Pentaho
15 60 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
16 57 (3.43%) Oracle Database
17 49 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
18 44 (2.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 187 (11.25%) Git
2 140 (8.42%) JIRA
3 104 (6.26%) GitLab
4 56 (3.37%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.41%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.23%) Postman
7 18 (1.08%) Selenium
8 14 (0.84%) 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
1 410 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 362 (21.78%) Finance
3 294 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (11.49%) Public Sector
5 162 (9.75%) Banking
6 42 (2.53%) Retail
7 38 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.44%) Marketing
9 23 (1.38%) Law
10 22 (1.32%) Legal
11 20 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 19 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.08%) Front Office
14 16 (0.96%) Police
15 15 (0.90%) Billing
15 15 (0.90%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.66%) Military
16 11 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 659 (39.65%) Data Engineer
2 241 (14.50%) Senior
3 238 (14.32%) Developer
4 231 (13.90%) Architect
5 156 (9.39%) Senior Data Engineer
6 149 (8.97%) Lead
7 123 (7.40%) Analyst
7 123 (7.40%) Data Architect
8 72 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
9 63 (3.79%) Databricks Engineer
10 59 (3.55%) Data Analyst
11 56 (3.37%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 53 (3.19%) Azure Data Engineer
13 44 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
14 43 (2.59%) Tester
15 41 (2.47%) Consultant
15 41 (2.47%) Snowflake Engineer
16 40 (2.41%) Python Engineer
17 38 (2.29%) SQL Developer
18 36 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (9.21%) PySpark
2 150 (9.03%) Terraform
3 130 (7.82%) Kafka
4 82 (4.93%) REST
5 55 (3.31%) JSON
6 53 (3.19%) .NET
7 31 (1.87%) Middleware
8 30 (1.81%) React
8 30 (1.81%) XML
9 29 (1.74%) Pandas
10 24 (1.44%) Spring
10 24 (1.44%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.08%) SOAP
11 18 (1.08%) YAML
12 17 (1.02%) pytest
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.84%) Web Services
15 13 (0.78%) HTML
16 12 (0.72%) LangChain
17 11 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.51%) Cloud Native
2 113 (6.80%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (3.55%) Onboarding
5 58 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.56%) Reference Data
9 24 (1.44%) NHS
10 22 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.32%) Replication
11 20 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.96%) Clustering
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
15 14 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
16 12 (0.72%) CMDB
16 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.97%) Linux
2 61 (3.67%) Unix
3 20 (1.20%) Windows
4 5 (0.30%) Solaris
5 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.12%) HPUX
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (45.73%) Data Modelling
2 696 (41.88%) Data Pipeline
3 613 (36.88%) Analytics
4 547 (32.91%) Data Engineering
5 519 (31.23%) CI/CD
6 477 (28.70%) Agile
7 459 (27.62%) Migration
8 430 (25.87%) Business Intelligence
9 400 (24.07%) Data Integration
10 380 (22.86%) DevOps
11 348 (20.94%) Validation
12 338 (20.34%) Data Governance
13 316 (19.01%) AI
14 303 (18.23%) Stakeholder Management
15 284 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
16 257 (15.46%) Data Migration
17 248 (14.92%) Data Architecture
18 240 (14.44%) Data Transformation
19 215 (12.94%) Test Automation
20 188 (11.31%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,101 (66.25%) SQL
2 664 (39.95%) Python
3 139 (8.36%) Java
4 89 (5.35%) PL/SQL
5 80 (4.81%) T-SQL
6 57 (3.43%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.19%) C#
8 51 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 51 (3.07%) Scala
9 44 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 36 (2.17%) Bash
12 23 (1.38%) R
13 20 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.08%) Bicep
15 13 (0.78%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Go
17 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 457 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 397 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 65 (3.91%) Degree
4 55 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.23%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.87%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.68%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) CISM
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 584 (35.14%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.60%) QA
3 70 (4.21%) GDPR
4 36 (2.17%) GRC
5 25 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.60%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 111 (6.68%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
4 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 114 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.11%) Grafana
3 20 (1.20%) Ansible
4 15 (0.90%) Control-M
5 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 375 (22.56%) Databricks
2 315 (18.95%) Oracle
3 289 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 121 (7.28%) Informatica
5 107 (6.44%) Talend
6 93 (5.60%) Google
7 68 (4.09%) SAP
8 50 (3.01%) IBM
9 49 (2.95%) Denodo
10 38 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.56%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.14%) Foundry
13 19 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.08%) Palantir
14 18 (1.08%) Teradata
15 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.60%) Sage
17 9 (0.54%) ESRI