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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,659 911 1,078
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 3.04% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.34% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 624 783
10th Percentile £358 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.23%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £697 £699 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £464 £488
% change year-on-year +1.13% -4.87% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 11
10th Percentile £32.39 - £30.37
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £86.74 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +171.02% -59.30%

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 43,108 27,270 37,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.89% 91.01% 84.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,889 17,271 23,587
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £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 2,584 1,289 2,614
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £72.50 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +76.94% -34.02% +17.29%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +12 1,487 £500 -1.96% 323
London +12 761 £513 -3.85% 161
UK excluding London +16 734 £469 +1.13% 238
Work from Home +24 530 £500 - 153
Midlands +31 260 £459 +2.00% 44
West Midlands +43 229 £459 -7.27% 30
North of England -18 178 £460 -3.16% 54
South East +9 130 £475 -5.00% 85
North West -14 95 £440 -12.00% 32
South West -19 66 £524 +10.26% 28
Yorkshire -23 63 £500 +20.48% 13
Scotland -13 55 £428 +0.59% 10
East of England -7 44 £488 - 9
East Midlands -18 30 £525 +23.67% 14
North East -22 20 £550 +30.95% 10
Wales -10 8 £313 -26.04% 3
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -36.38% 10

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 (8.68%) Apache Spark
2 127 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (5.06%) Apache
4 75 (4.52%) SAS
5 62 (3.74%) Confluence
6 16 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.48%) Appian
11 8 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.24%) Camunda
14 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 42 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.60%) Sage X3
5 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
8 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
9 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.18%) Actimize
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 682 (41.11%) Azure
2 505 (30.44%) AWS
3 425 (25.62%) Power Platform
4 237 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 198 (11.93%) GCP
6 178 (10.73%) Snowflake
7 161 (9.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 155 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
9 150 (9.04%) Amazon S3
10 144 (8.68%) Serverless
11 116 (6.99%) GitHub
12 110 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
13 105 (6.33%) dbt
14 56 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.83%) Collibra
16 45 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.93%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
20 27 (1.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.060%) DHCP
5 1 (0.060%) DNS
5 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.060%) Network Security
5 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 498 (30.02%) Data Warehouse
2 405 (24.41%) Power BI
3 267 (16.09%) Data Lake
4 186 (11.21%) SQL Server
5 155 (9.34%) Metadata
6 104 (6.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 99 (5.97%) Tableau
8 96 (5.79%) Big Data
9 95 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 95 (5.73%) Delta Lake
10 90 (5.42%) Relational Database
11 87 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (5.12%) Pentaho
13 84 (5.06%) NoSQL
14 76 (4.58%) BigQuery
15 71 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
16 70 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
17 63 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
18 61 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (2.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 197 (11.87%) Git
2 150 (9.04%) JIRA
3 96 (5.79%) GitLab
4 70 (4.22%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.47%) Postman
6 37 (2.23%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.33%) MLflow
8 12 (0.72%) Selenium
9 9 (0.54%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
13 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 421 (25.38%) Social Skills
2 409 (24.65%) Finance
3 280 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (10.43%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.47%) Banking
6 46 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.87%) Marketing
8 25 (1.51%) Retail
9 23 (1.39%) Legal
10 21 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.08%) Telecoms
12 15 (0.90%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.60%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
15 8 (0.48%) Front Office
15 8 (0.48%) Military
15 8 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 678 (40.87%) Data Engineer
2 213 (12.84%) Developer
3 206 (12.42%) Architect
4 191 (11.51%) Senior
5 179 (10.79%) Lead
6 132 (7.96%) Senior Data Engineer
7 125 (7.53%) Data Architect
8 117 (7.05%) Analyst
9 71 (4.28%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (2.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 43 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
13 41 (2.47%) Python Engineer
14 40 (2.41%) Snowflake Engineer
15 39 (2.35%) SQL Developer
16 36 (2.17%) Data Migration Lead
16 36 (2.17%) Integration Engineer
16 36 (2.17%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.11%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (11.45%) PySpark
2 137 (8.26%) Kafka
3 82 (4.94%) REST
4 50 (3.01%) Pandas
5 44 (2.65%) JSON
6 43 (2.59%) .NET
7 41 (2.47%) XML
8 32 (1.93%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 27 (1.63%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.57%) Spring
11 24 (1.45%) Spring Boot
12 23 (1.39%) OAuth
12 23 (1.39%) RESTful
13 20 (1.21%) NumPy
14 19 (1.15%) pytest
14 19 (1.15%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.08%) scikit-learn
15 18 (1.08%) Web Services
16 17 (1.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.28%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 89 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.45%) AI Agents
7 24 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 24 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 23 (1.39%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.27%) NHS
9 21 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.15%) Clustering
12 17 (1.02%) Replication
13 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.90%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.23%) Unix
2 35 (2.11%) Linux
3 22 (1.33%) Windows
4 12 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.66%) Solaris
5 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (47.02%) Data Modelling
2 657 (39.60%) Data Pipeline
3 643 (38.76%) Analytics
4 522 (31.46%) Data Engineering
5 500 (30.14%) Business Intelligence
6 482 (29.05%) CI/CD
7 430 (25.92%) Agile
8 412 (24.83%) Migration
9 374 (22.54%) DevOps
10 332 (20.01%) Data Governance
11 319 (19.23%) Validation
12 315 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
13 290 (17.48%) Data Integration
14 286 (17.24%) AI
15 255 (15.37%) Data Architecture
16 253 (15.25%) Data Migration
17 223 (13.44%) Decision-Making
18 212 (12.78%) Test Automation
19 199 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 182 (10.97%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (67.03%) SQL
2 691 (41.65%) Python
3 141 (8.50%) Java
4 94 (5.67%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.58%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 64 (3.86%) C#
8 51 (3.07%) Scala
9 40 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.63%) Bash
12 23 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.08%) R
14 17 (1.02%) Bicep
15 8 (0.48%) Cypher
15 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.48%) VBA
16 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 452 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 375 (22.60%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.09%) Degree
4 47 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 35 (2.11%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) PMP
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (33.51%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.92%) QA
3 113 (6.81%) GDPR
4 22 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 21 (1.27%) IFRS
6 18 (1.08%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.90%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.78%) PMO
8 13 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.48%) FATCA
9 8 (0.48%) GRC
10 6 (0.36%) GAAP
10 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (7.23%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (8.80%) Terraform
2 124 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.29%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Ansible
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Control-M
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 328 (19.77%) Databricks
2 311 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 300 (18.08%) Oracle
4 160 (9.64%) Informatica
5 143 (8.62%) Talend
6 71 (4.28%) SAP
7 63 (3.80%) Denodo
8 60 (3.62%) Google
9 46 (2.77%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.47%) IBM
11 30 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.51%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.27%) Sage
14 20 (1.21%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 17 (1.02%) Workday
17 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.66%) ESRI