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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 83 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,689 946 1,071
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.96% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.27% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 639 784
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.28% -5.42%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £613
90th Percentile £677 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £465 £485
% change year-on-year +0.65% -4.12% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
10th Percentile £29.96 - £30.83
25th Percentile £34.51 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +5.49% -30.00%
75th Percentile £63.88 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.09 £85.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -25.64% +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 44,398 28,953 36,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.10% 90.63% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,615 18,257 23,517
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,640 1,439 2,494
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.20 £12.74
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.45% -35.31% +1.65%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +13 1,506 £500 -2.44% 349
UK excluding London +17 774 £468 +0.65% 219
London +3 744 £516 -4.60% 184
Work from Home +15 532 £500 - 222
Midlands +28 274 £459 +1.89% 39
West Midlands +44 239 £455 -8.54% 21
North of England -19 188 £463 -2.63% 50
South East +10 143 £470 -6.00% 70
North West -20 90 £450 -10.00% 33
Yorkshire -7 76 £485 +14.12% 11
South West -26 65 £523 +10.00% 36
Scotland -13 55 £425 -0.47% 7
East of England -4 47 £488 +8.33% 10
East Midlands -12 34 £525 +18.89% 18
North East -22 22 £538 +27.98% 7
Wales -11 9 £313 -29.78% 4
Northern Ireland +4 3 £334 -36.38% 5

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
1 146 (8.64%) Apache Spark
2 135 (7.99%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (5.39%) Apache
4 80 (4.74%) SAS
5 64 (3.79%) Confluence
6 20 (1.18%) Oracle Application Server
7 17 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.77%) nginx
8 13 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.53%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.36%) Appian
10 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.24%) Camunda
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.65%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 678 (40.14%) Azure
2 520 (30.79%) AWS
3 413 (24.45%) Power Platform
4 219 (12.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 204 (12.08%) GCP
6 189 (11.19%) Snowflake
7 155 (9.18%) Amazon S3
7 155 (9.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (8.53%) Serverless
10 116 (6.87%) dbt
11 114 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
12 112 (6.63%) GitHub
13 58 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (3.02%) Collibra
15 50 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
16 38 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.84%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (1.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.83%) HTTP
2 12 (0.71%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.059%) 4G
6 1 (0.059%) 5G
6 1 (0.059%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.059%) DHCP
6 1 (0.059%) DNS
6 1 (0.059%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 516 (30.55%) Data Warehouse
2 392 (23.21%) Power BI
3 252 (14.92%) Data Lake
4 172 (10.18%) SQL Server
5 155 (9.18%) Metadata
6 102 (6.04%) Delta Lake
7 101 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 101 (5.98%) Big Data
7 101 (5.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 100 (5.92%) Tableau
9 90 (5.33%) Relational Database
10 85 (5.03%) Pentaho
11 84 (4.97%) NoSQL
12 82 (4.85%) BigQuery
13 75 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
14 73 (4.32%) Azure SQL Database
15 70 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
16 68 (4.03%) Oracle Reports
17 61 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (2.90%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (11.43%) Git
2 153 (9.06%) JIRA
3 97 (5.74%) GitLab
4 71 (4.20%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.55%) Postman
6 39 (2.31%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.30%) MLflow
8 13 (0.77%) Selenium
9 6 (0.36%) ERwin
9 6 (0.36%) Gatling
9 6 (0.36%) JMeter
9 6 (0.36%) NeoLoad
10 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.24%) Flyway
11 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.24%) LSMW
11 4 (0.24%) MSTest
11 4 (0.24%) NUnit
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 412 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 401 (23.74%) Finance
3 296 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (10.83%) Public Sector
5 117 (6.93%) Banking
6 48 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.84%) Marketing
8 30 (1.78%) Retail
9 24 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.36%) Legal
11 22 (1.30%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.12%) Financial Institution
14 11 (0.65%) Billing
15 9 (0.53%) Front Office
15 9 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.53%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.53%) Law
15 9 (0.53%) Military
15 9 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 696 (41.21%) Data Engineer
2 233 (13.80%) Developer
3 215 (12.73%) Architect
4 198 (11.72%) Senior
5 173 (10.24%) Lead
6 135 (7.99%) Senior Data Engineer
7 130 (7.70%) Data Architect
8 119 (7.05%) Analyst
9 65 (3.85%) Data Analyst
10 57 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 47 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
15 43 (2.55%) Azure Data Engineer
15 43 (2.55%) Python Engineer
15 43 (2.55%) SQL Developer
16 40 (2.37%) Lead Data Engineer
17 36 (2.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 35 (2.07%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.31%) PySpark
2 145 (8.58%) Kafka
3 80 (4.74%) REST
4 51 (3.02%) JSON
5 47 (2.78%) Pandas
6 42 (2.49%) .NET
7 31 (1.84%) XML
8 27 (1.60%) Middleware
8 27 (1.60%) Spring
9 25 (1.48%) Spring Boot
10 24 (1.42%) PyTorch
11 22 (1.30%) RESTful
12 21 (1.24%) OAuth
13 19 (1.12%) pytest
14 18 (1.07%) NumPy
14 18 (1.07%) React
15 17 (1.01%) Web Services
15 17 (1.01%) YAML
16 16 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
16 16 (0.95%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.71%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.81%) Data Structures
3 86 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 48 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.48%) NHS
9 22 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
9 22 (1.30%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.18%) Clustering
12 17 (1.01%) Replication
13 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.83%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.77%) IoT
15 13 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 42 (2.49%) Unix
2 38 (2.25%) Linux
3 20 (1.18%) Windows
4 11 (0.65%) Solaris
4 11 (0.65%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (47.25%) Data Modelling
2 684 (40.50%) Data Pipeline
3 654 (38.72%) Analytics
4 533 (31.56%) Data Engineering
5 504 (29.84%) CI/CD
6 489 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
7 435 (25.75%) Agile
8 429 (25.40%) Migration
9 370 (21.91%) DevOps
10 354 (20.96%) Data Governance
11 335 (19.83%) Validation
12 323 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
13 309 (18.29%) Data Integration
14 283 (16.76%) AI
15 259 (15.33%) Data Migration
16 250 (14.80%) Data Architecture
17 229 (13.56%) Decision-Making
18 227 (13.44%) Test Automation
19 198 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
20 178 (10.54%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,127 (66.73%) SQL
2 702 (41.56%) Python
3 144 (8.53%) Java
4 92 (5.45%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 73 (4.32%) PL/SQL
7 63 (3.73%) C#
8 56 (3.32%) Scala
9 39 (2.31%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.01%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.66%) Bash
12 27 (1.60%) TypeScript
13 25 (1.48%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.01%) Bicep
14 17 (1.01%) R
15 11 (0.65%) Cypher
16 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.47%) VBA
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 460 (27.24%) Security Cleared
2 383 (22.68%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.04%) Degree
4 49 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.60%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.83%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.71%) SnowPro
12 8 (0.47%) 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
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 565 (33.45%) Data Quality
2 149 (8.82%) QA
3 115 (6.81%) GDPR
4 19 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.89%) IFRS
5 15 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (0.83%) PMO
7 11 (0.65%) GRC
7 11 (0.65%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.59%) SLA
9 9 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.47%) FATCA
11 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.36%) HL7
12 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.24%) GMP
13 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
14 3 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 118 (6.99%) Docker
2 8 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.30%) HDFS
6 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.059%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.059%) RACF
7 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 154 (9.12%) Terraform
2 128 (7.58%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.43%) Grafana
4 18 (1.07%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.95%) Ansible
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.30%) Control-M
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 3 (0.18%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.059%) Argo
10 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.059%) Istio
10 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 335 (19.83%) Databricks
2 302 (17.88%) Oracle
3 294 (17.41%) Microsoft
4 161 (9.53%) Informatica
5 144 (8.53%) Talend
6 75 (4.44%) SAP
7 66 (3.91%) Google
8 62 (3.67%) Denodo
9 41 (2.43%) IBM
9 41 (2.43%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.13%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.72%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.36%) Sage
13 19 (1.12%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.07%) Splunk
15 14 (0.83%) Palantir
16 12 (0.71%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
17 11 (0.65%) ESRI