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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 72 95
Rank change year-on-year +4 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,467 920 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.38% 3.14% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.47% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 626 761
10th Percentile £358 £349 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £620
90th Percentile £675 £689 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -2.52% -4.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £26.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +21.78% +40.28%
75th Percentile £70.08 £97.12 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £101.66 £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 37,265 26,485 38,452
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 90.43% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 17,037 25,025
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 £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £723 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,203 922 2,327
10th Percentile £14.97 £15.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.20% -8.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.52 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £31.76 £30.91
% change year-on-year -13.41% +2.74% -11.68%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +12 1,304 £500 -4.76% 457
London +30 736 £521 -5.23% 195
UK excluding London -3 584 £465 -2.52% 336
Work from Home 0 449 £500 - 215
Midlands +11 199 £481 +1.16% 59
West Midlands +22 171 £495 +0.66% 44
North of England -38 157 £460 -0.54% 80
North West -10 89 £442 -5.50% 44
South East -44 78 £475 -5.94% 114
South West -4 69 £525 -10.64% 40
Yorkshire -48 52 £493 +38.73% 27
Scotland +7 49 £425 - 10
East Midlands -27 28 £455 +14.11% 15
East of England -11 27 £500 +8.11% 32
North East -1 15 £538 +7.50% 10
Northern Ireland +3 10 £400 -23.81%
Wales -15 8 £400 -20.79% 8

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 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (5.93%) Apache
4 65 (4.43%) SAS
5 32 (2.18%) Confluence
6 18 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.55%) Appian
8 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.48%) nginx
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
12 4 (0.27%) Camunda
13 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.068%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.34%) Maximo
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 630 (42.94%) Azure
2 473 (32.24%) AWS
3 365 (24.88%) Power Platform
4 237 (16.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 183 (12.47%) GCP
6 170 (11.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 164 (11.18%) Snowflake
8 159 (10.84%) Amazon S3
9 129 (8.79%) Serverless
10 120 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
11 107 (7.29%) GitHub
12 92 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
13 78 (5.32%) dbt
14 51 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 47 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
16 45 (3.07%) Collibra
17 36 (2.45%) SaaS
18 34 (2.32%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
20 29 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) 5G
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
1 7 (0.48%) HTTP
2 6 (0.41%) 2G
2 6 (0.41%) 4G
2 6 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) DSL
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.068%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.068%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (29.72%) Data Warehouse
2 345 (23.52%) Power BI
3 234 (15.95%) Data Lake
4 187 (12.75%) SQL Server
5 147 (10.02%) Metadata
6 100 (6.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 96 (6.54%) Big Data
8 93 (6.34%) PostgreSQL
9 92 (6.27%) Tableau
10 87 (5.93%) Relational Database
11 86 (5.86%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (5.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 76 (5.18%) Delta Lake
13 74 (5.04%) NoSQL
14 71 (4.84%) Pentaho
15 63 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
16 62 (4.23%) BigQuery
17 57 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (3.34%) Hadoop
19 48 (3.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 178 (12.13%) Git
2 108 (7.36%) JIRA
3 81 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 65 (4.43%) GitLab
5 34 (2.32%) Postman
6 23 (1.57%) MLflow
7 17 (1.16%) ERwin
8 16 (1.09%) Zephyr
9 12 (0.82%) Selenium
10 9 (0.61%) JMeter
11 7 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.34%) NUnit
12 5 (0.34%) TestRail
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 424 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 377 (25.70%) Finance
3 256 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.23%) Banking
6 40 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.70%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.64%) Marketing
9 22 (1.50%) Legal
9 22 (1.50%) Retail
10 18 (1.23%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.23%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (0.89%) Law
13 11 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.48%) Front Office
15 7 (0.48%) Publishing
16 6 (0.41%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 589 (40.15%) Data Engineer
2 178 (12.13%) Developer
3 162 (11.04%) Senior
4 157 (10.70%) Architect
5 152 (10.36%) Lead
6 137 (9.34%) Analyst
7 103 (7.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 97 (6.61%) Data Architect
9 90 (6.13%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 38 (2.59%) Snowflake Engineer
13 36 (2.45%) AWS Data Engineer
13 36 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.39%) Lead Data Engineer
15 32 (2.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 31 (2.11%) Consultant
16 31 (2.11%) Python Engineer
16 31 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (12.00%) PySpark
2 137 (9.34%) Kafka
3 92 (6.27%) REST
4 51 (3.48%) Pandas
5 44 (3.00%) JSON
6 42 (2.86%) XML
7 35 (2.39%) .NET
8 28 (1.91%) NumPy
8 28 (1.91%) RESTful
9 22 (1.50%) PyTorch
10 21 (1.43%) OAuth
10 21 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
10 21 (1.43%) pytest
11 20 (1.36%) Middleware
12 19 (1.30%) Great Expectations
12 19 (1.30%) SOAP
12 19 (1.30%) YAML
13 18 (1.23%) scikit-learn
14 17 (1.16%) TensorFlow
15 15 (1.02%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 124 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 103 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
8 25 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.23%) Replication
12 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.09%) IoT
13 16 (1.09%) Reference Data
14 15 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.02%) Reinsurance
14 15 (1.02%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.95%) NHS
16 13 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.98%) Linux
2 23 (1.57%) Unix
3 15 (1.02%) Windows
4 11 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.48%) Solaris
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (47.44%) Data Modelling
2 629 (42.88%) Analytics
3 546 (37.22%) Data Pipeline
4 481 (32.79%) Data Engineering
5 472 (32.17%) Business Intelligence
6 429 (29.24%) CI/CD
7 367 (25.02%) Agile
8 358 (24.40%) Data Governance
9 335 (22.84%) DevOps
10 319 (21.75%) Problem-Solving
11 313 (21.34%) Migration
12 251 (17.11%) Validation
13 241 (16.43%) Data Architecture
14 240 (16.36%) Data Integration
15 206 (14.04%) Data Migration
16 194 (13.22%) Decision-Making
17 185 (12.61%) AI
18 175 (11.93%) Data Science
19 160 (10.91%) Test Automation
20 154 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 985 (67.14%) SQL
2 681 (46.42%) Python
3 123 (8.38%) Java
4 66 (4.50%) C#
5 61 (4.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 56 (3.82%) T-SQL
7 55 (3.75%) Scala
8 51 (3.48%) PL/SQL
9 38 (2.59%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 21 (1.43%) Bash
12 20 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.16%) Bicep
13 17 (1.16%) R
14 15 (1.02%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.82%) Go
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) PHP
18 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
19 6 (0.41%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 335 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 269 (18.34%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.50%) Degree
4 57 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.39%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.34%) PMP
13 5 (0.34%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.20%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.20%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 507 (34.56%) Data Quality
2 133 (9.07%) QA
3 119 (8.11%) GDPR
4 22 (1.50%) IFRS
5 21 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.16%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.68%) PMO
9 9 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.55%) SLA
11 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.34%) GAAP
12 5 (0.34%) MiFID
13 4 (0.27%) HL7
13 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
14 3 (0.20%) Basel III
14 3 (0.20%) FATCA
14 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 124 (8.45%) 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 (0.068%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.068%) zsh
Systems Management
1 145 (9.88%) Terraform
2 134 (9.13%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.16%) Grafana
3 17 (1.16%) Prometheus
4 16 (1.09%) Ansible
5 4 (0.27%) Control-M
5 4 (0.27%) Kibana
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.20%) Foglight
6 3 (0.20%) logstash
7 2 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.068%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.068%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.068%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.068%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 306 (20.86%) Databricks
2 264 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 212 (14.45%) Oracle
4 136 (9.27%) Informatica
5 116 (7.91%) Talend
6 62 (4.23%) Google
6 62 (4.23%) SAP
7 44 (3.00%) Denodo
8 41 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 31 (2.11%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.98%) IBM
11 25 (1.70%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.30%) Splunk
13 17 (1.16%) Palantir
13 17 (1.16%) Workday
14 16 (1.09%) Sage
15 13 (0.89%) Ab Initio
15 13 (0.89%) Foundry
16 11 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.68%) Alteryx