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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 91 87
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,678 915 981
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.13% 2.81% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.70% 3.11% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,199 618 694
10th Percentile £360 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £626
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.70 £33.63
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.47 £38.53
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -16.22% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -45.64% +105.80% -58.40%

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 45,377 29,398 32,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,769 18,279 20,543
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,906 1,760 1,592
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.73 £17.30 £18.69
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.03 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.58 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +88.14% -47.37% +14.67%

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 3 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 3 September 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 3 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 +10 1,477 £500 - 923
London +6 774 £525 - 619
UK excluding London +14 702 £470 -1.05% 431
Work from Home +17 525 £500 - 417
Midlands +18 235 £469 +1.41% 47
West Midlands +26 201 £467 -6.60% 33
North of England +3 179 £475 +2.70% 109
South East +19 140 £454 -3.25% 104
Yorkshire +2 81 £463 +10.12% 19
North West -17 77 £473 -5.50% 73
South West -25 62 £523 +10.00% 71
East of England -1 46 £488 -7.14% 27
Scotland -17 40 £440 -4.86% 40
East Midlands -18 33 £490 +13.10% 14
North East -26 22 £510 +16.57% 17
Wales -12 8 £313 -33.86% 14
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 20

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
1 135 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
2 132 (7.87%) Apache Spark
3 105 (6.26%) Apache
4 95 (5.66%) SAS
5 64 (3.81%) Confluence
6 27 (1.61%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.72%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 33 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 20 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 666 (39.69%) Azure
2 510 (30.39%) AWS
3 382 (22.77%) Power Platform
4 231 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 230 (13.71%) Snowflake
6 226 (13.47%) GCP
7 153 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (8.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 140 (8.34%) Serverless
10 138 (8.22%) Amazon S3
11 131 (7.81%) dbt
12 119 (7.09%) GitHub
13 112 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.80%) Azure Databricks
16 46 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.21%) Collibra
18 33 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 31 (1.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.72%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) HTTP
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 4 (0.24%) VPN
5 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.18%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.060%) LTE
7 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 581 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 370 (22.05%) Power BI
3 262 (15.61%) Data Lake
4 171 (10.19%) Metadata
5 162 (9.65%) SQL Server
6 111 (6.62%) Relational Database
7 102 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 96 (5.72%) BigQuery
9 95 (5.66%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.24%) Big Data
11 86 (5.13%) Tableau
12 84 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 73 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
14 72 (4.29%) Oracle Reports
15 70 (4.17%) NoSQL
16 63 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
16 63 (3.75%) Pentaho
17 60 (3.58%) Oracle Database
18 58 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
19 56 (3.34%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (10.91%) Git
2 144 (8.58%) JIRA
3 100 (5.96%) GitLab
4 54 (3.22%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.09%) Postman
7 15 (0.89%) Selenium
8 14 (0.83%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 407 (24.26%) Social Skills
2 372 (22.17%) Finance
3 322 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.44%) Public Sector
5 140 (8.34%) Banking
6 36 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
6 36 (2.15%) Retail
7 27 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.49%) Marketing
9 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.31%) Law
10 22 (1.31%) Legal
11 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
12 15 (0.89%) Front Office
13 14 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 14 (0.83%) Police
14 13 (0.77%) Billing
15 12 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
16 10 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 656 (39.09%) Data Engineer
2 253 (15.08%) Developer
3 238 (14.18%) Senior
4 230 (13.71%) Architect
5 162 (9.65%) Lead
6 152 (9.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 128 (7.63%) Data Architect
8 124 (7.39%) Analyst
9 68 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
10 62 (3.69%) Data Analyst
11 53 (3.16%) Databricks Engineer
12 51 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
14 46 (2.74%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 46 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
15 44 (2.62%) Tester
16 41 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 40 (2.38%) AWS Data Engineer
18 39 (2.32%) Oracle Developer
18 39 (2.32%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (10.25%) PySpark
2 153 (9.12%) Terraform
3 137 (8.16%) Kafka
4 75 (4.47%) REST
5 60 (3.58%) JSON
6 50 (2.98%) .NET
7 31 (1.85%) Pandas
8 30 (1.79%) XML
9 28 (1.67%) React
10 25 (1.49%) Middleware
11 23 (1.37%) Spring
11 23 (1.37%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.01%) YAML
13 14 (0.83%) pytest
13 14 (0.83%) SOAP
14 12 (0.72%) LangChain
14 12 (0.72%) OAuth
14 12 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
15 11 (0.66%) Playwright
15 11 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 118 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 73 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.58%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.34%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.67%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.61%) NHS
9 25 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.31%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.13%) Replication
14 17 (1.01%) Clustering
15 16 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
16 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
17 14 (0.83%) IoT
18 13 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.75%) Linux
2 58 (3.46%) Unix
3 18 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 800 (47.68%) Data Modelling
2 701 (41.78%) Data Pipeline
3 635 (37.84%) Analytics
4 543 (32.36%) Data Engineering
5 523 (31.17%) CI/CD
6 479 (28.55%) Agile
7 456 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
8 445 (26.52%) Migration
9 398 (23.72%) Data Integration
10 387 (23.06%) DevOps
11 356 (21.22%) Data Governance
12 336 (20.02%) Validation
13 297 (17.70%) AI
13 297 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
14 273 (16.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 263 (15.67%) Data Migration
16 245 (14.60%) Data Architecture
17 238 (14.18%) Data Transformation
18 216 (12.87%) Test Automation
19 191 (11.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,114 (66.39%) SQL
2 648 (38.62%) Python
3 145 (8.64%) Java
4 90 (5.36%) PL/SQL
5 84 (5.01%) T-SQL
6 61 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.28%) C#
8 52 (3.10%) Scala
9 47 (2.80%) JavaScript
9 47 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.32%) Shell Script
11 32 (1.91%) Bash
12 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.19%) R
14 19 (1.13%) Bicep
15 12 (0.72%) Cypher
16 6 (0.36%) Perl
16 6 (0.36%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 467 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 399 (23.78%) SC Cleared
3 73 (4.35%) Degree
4 51 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.73%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 24 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.24%) CISM
13 4 (0.24%) CISSP
13 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.18%) CCSP
14 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 611 (36.41%) Data Quality
2 138 (8.22%) QA
3 83 (4.95%) GDPR
4 40 (2.38%) GRC
5 24 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) PMO
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) NIST
10 5 (0.30%) SLA
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (7.09%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 115 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.15%) Grafana
3 20 (1.19%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 11 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) Foglight
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 361 (21.51%) Databricks
2 323 (19.25%) Oracle
3 302 (18.00%) Microsoft
4 142 (8.46%) Informatica
5 117 (6.97%) Talend
6 77 (4.59%) Google
7 74 (4.41%) SAP
8 54 (3.22%) Denodo
9 49 (2.92%) IBM
10 36 (2.15%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.97%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.19%) Palantir
14 18 (1.07%) Foundry
15 17 (1.01%) OpenAI
15 17 (1.01%) Teradata
16 12 (0.72%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 11 (0.66%) Sage
18 9 (0.54%) ESRI