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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 85 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,652 929 1,024
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.05% 2.84% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.14% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 627 723
10th Percentile £360 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £621
90th Percentile £675 £700 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.88 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.19 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -16.46% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £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 45,698 29,594 32,877
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.42% 90.53% 85.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,784 18,388 20,318
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £726 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,048 1,782 1,485
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £66.95 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.00 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.22% -47.67% +7.50%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +5 1,452 £500 - 1,211
London 0 764 £523 -0.48% 734
UK excluding London +12 687 £470 -1.05% 605
Work from Home 0 504 £500 - 767
Midlands +24 233 £469 -1.91% 84
West Midlands +27 200 £469 -8.04% 53
North of England -15 169 £473 -0.53% 137
South East +32 135 £454 -4.47% 149
Yorkshire +5 79 £463 +3.93% 42
North West -28 72 £473 -5.50% 78
South West -30 66 £523 +10.00% 90
East of England -15 44 £475 -9.52% 52
Scotland -18 41 £428 -10.00% 57
East Midlands -11 32 £490 +13.10% 30
North East -26 19 £500 +14.29% 18
Wales -13 7 £313 -37.50% 13
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.02% 26

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
1 138 (8.35%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 104 (6.30%) Apache
4 93 (5.63%) SAS
5 61 (3.69%) Confluence
6 26 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.51%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.79%) nginx
9 11 (0.67%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.61%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
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%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (2.18%) 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
Business Applications
1 21 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Actimize
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 649 (39.29%) Azure
2 491 (29.72%) AWS
3 373 (22.58%) Power Platform
4 233 (14.10%) Snowflake
5 226 (13.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 224 (13.56%) GCP
7 150 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
8 140 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 139 (8.41%) dbt
10 136 (8.23%) Serverless
11 130 (7.87%) Amazon S3
12 117 (7.08%) GitHub
13 110 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
14 59 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
15 45 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
16 36 (2.18%) Collibra
17 34 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.88%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.67%) HTTP
2 9 (0.54%) 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 (0.061%) DMZ
6 1 (0.061%) Internet
6 1 (0.061%) LTE
6 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 572 (34.62%) Data Warehouse
2 362 (21.91%) Power BI
3 256 (15.50%) Data Lake
4 171 (10.35%) Metadata
5 157 (9.50%) SQL Server
6 110 (6.66%) Relational Database
7 97 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 97 (5.87%) BigQuery
8 93 (5.63%) Delta Lake
9 87 (5.27%) Big Data
10 83 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 83 (5.02%) Tableau
11 75 (4.54%) Oracle Reports
12 70 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
13 66 (4.00%) NoSQL
14 61 (3.69%) Pentaho
15 60 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
16 58 (3.51%) Oracle Database
17 57 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
18 51 (3.09%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (10.84%) Git
2 146 (8.84%) JIRA
3 102 (6.17%) GitLab
4 54 (3.27%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.42%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.12%) Postman
7 16 (0.97%) Selenium
8 14 (0.85%) 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%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.18%) ERwin
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 406 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 369 (22.34%) Finance
3 307 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (11.08%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.66%) Banking
6 37 (2.24%) Retail
7 36 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.45%) Marketing
9 22 (1.33%) Legal
10 21 (1.27%) Law
11 16 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 16 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (0.91%) Front Office
13 14 (0.85%) Billing
13 14 (0.85%) Police
14 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.73%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 646 (39.10%) Data Engineer
2 244 (14.77%) Developer
3 239 (14.47%) Senior
4 227 (13.74%) Architect
5 156 (9.44%) Lead
6 153 (9.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 123 (7.45%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.38%) Analyst
9 68 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.63%) Data Analyst
11 55 (3.33%) Databricks Engineer
12 51 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
13 48 (2.91%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 47 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
15 44 (2.66%) Tester
16 40 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 38 (2.30%) AWS Data Engineer
17 38 (2.30%) Consultant
18 37 (2.24%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (9.93%) PySpark
2 149 (9.02%) Terraform
3 131 (7.93%) Kafka
4 73 (4.42%) REST
5 59 (3.57%) JSON
6 49 (2.97%) .NET
7 29 (1.76%) XML
8 28 (1.69%) Pandas
8 28 (1.69%) React
9 26 (1.57%) Middleware
10 22 (1.33%) Spring
10 22 (1.33%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.09%) YAML
12 15 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (0.91%) SOAP
13 14 (0.85%) pytest
14 12 (0.73%) LangChain
14 12 (0.73%) OAuth
15 11 (0.67%) HTML
15 11 (0.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.44%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.26%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
4 61 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 38 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.76%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.45%) NHS
9 23 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.15%) Replication
13 16 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.91%) Clustering
14 15 (0.91%) Data Fabric
15 13 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (0.73%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.87%) Linux
2 59 (3.57%) Unix
3 21 (1.27%) 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
1 780 (47.22%) Data Modelling
2 703 (42.55%) Data Pipeline
3 624 (37.77%) Analytics
4 542 (32.81%) Data Engineering
5 516 (31.23%) CI/CD
6 472 (28.57%) Agile
7 449 (27.18%) Business Intelligence
8 442 (26.76%) Migration
9 389 (23.55%) Data Integration
10 385 (23.31%) DevOps
11 346 (20.94%) Data Governance
12 337 (20.40%) Validation
13 312 (18.89%) AI
14 293 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
15 285 (17.25%) Stakeholder Management
16 256 (15.50%) Data Migration
17 248 (15.01%) Data Architecture
18 234 (14.16%) Data Transformation
19 218 (13.20%) Test Automation
20 189 (11.44%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,092 (66.10%) SQL
2 644 (38.98%) Python
3 142 (8.60%) Java
4 90 (5.45%) PL/SQL
5 83 (5.02%) T-SQL
6 60 (3.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.33%) C#
8 49 (2.97%) Scala
9 48 (2.91%) JavaScript
10 45 (2.72%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.36%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.94%) Bash
13 21 (1.27%) R
13 21 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.09%) Bicep
15 13 (0.79%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 464 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 400 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 65 (3.93%) Degree
4 52 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 25 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.03%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.67%) SnowPro
11 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (36.20%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.41%) QA
3 76 (4.60%) GDPR
4 40 (2.42%) GRC
5 26 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) PMO
9 7 (0.42%) WCAG
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) SLA
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 119 (7.20%) Docker
2 16 (0.97%) 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 (0.061%) RACF
Systems Management
1 118 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.36%) Grafana
3 20 (1.21%) Ansible
4 16 (0.97%) Control-M
5 14 (0.85%) 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 (0.061%) Argo
9 1 (0.061%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.061%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.061%) Istio
9 1 (0.061%) Kibana
9 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.061%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 362 (21.91%) Databricks
2 320 (19.37%) Oracle
3 295 (17.86%) Microsoft
4 135 (8.17%) Informatica
5 115 (6.96%) Talend
6 78 (4.72%) Google
7 75 (4.54%) SAP
8 54 (3.27%) Denodo
9 48 (2.91%) IBM
10 36 (2.18%) Salesforce
11 32 (1.94%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.76%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.03%) Palantir
13 17 (1.03%) Teradata
14 16 (0.97%) Foundry
15 11 (0.67%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.61%) ESRI
16 10 (0.61%) Sage