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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 79 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,624 907 1,001
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.31% 3.13% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.90% 3.44% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 617 740
10th Percentile £358 £357 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.65% -1.16%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £469 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 11
10th Percentile £36.07 - £30.37
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £45.73 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.11% -5.71% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.00 £56.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £77.21 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -15.72% +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 41,594 26,332 36,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.70% 91.01% 85.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,970 16,762 23,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £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 2,502 1,133 2,525
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.25 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.29 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +80.09% -34.02% +8.91%

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 5 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 5 June 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 5 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 +13 1,454 £500 -2.44% 395
London +17 754 £505 -8.18% 202
UK excluding London +11 710 £469 - 248
Work from Home +18 511 £500 - 202
Midlands +30 246 £465 +4.31% 40
West Midlands +41 217 £459 -1.29% 29
North of England -16 177 £460 -3.16% 68
South East -3 131 £459 -8.20% 75
North West -11 91 £450 -10.00% 42
Yorkshire -19 69 £500 +19.05% 19
South West -23 61 £525 +10.53% 32
Scotland -7 50 £430 -4.44% 12
East of England -7 44 £494 - 9
East Midlands -25 28 £525 +22.38% 11
North East -20 17 £538 +19.44% 8
Wales -14 8 £313 -26.04% 8
Northern Ireland +5 4 £415 -17.00% 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
1 148 (9.11%) Apache Spark
2 124 (7.64%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (5.36%) Apache
4 74 (4.56%) SAS
5 61 (3.76%) Confluence
6 17 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.80%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.74%) nginx
10 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.55%) Appian
12 8 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.43%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
14 5 (0.31%) WebLogic
15 4 (0.25%) Camunda
15 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
17 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
17 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 39 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.37%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 678 (41.75%) Azure
2 502 (30.91%) AWS
3 415 (25.55%) Power Platform
4 239 (14.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 192 (11.82%) GCP
6 165 (10.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 164 (10.10%) Snowflake
8 156 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
9 150 (9.24%) Amazon S3
10 143 (8.81%) Serverless
11 111 (6.83%) GitHub
12 109 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
13 98 (6.03%) dbt
14 55 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
15 53 (3.26%) Collibra
16 41 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
17 38 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
19 33 (2.03%) SaaS
20 28 (1.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.80%) HTTP
2 11 (0.68%) Firewall
3 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.43%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.37%) VPN
5 1 (0.062%) 4G
5 1 (0.062%) 5G
5 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.062%) DHCP
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 482 (29.68%) Data Warehouse
2 391 (24.08%) Power BI
3 273 (16.81%) Data Lake
4 193 (11.88%) SQL Server
5 151 (9.30%) Metadata
6 108 (6.65%) Big Data
7 100 (6.16%) Tableau
8 99 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 93 (5.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.73%) Delta Lake
10 89 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 84 (5.17%) NoSQL
12 81 (4.99%) Pentaho
13 79 (4.86%) Relational Database
14 68 (4.19%) BigQuery
15 67 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (4.06%) Snowflake Schema
17 63 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
18 61 (3.76%) Oracle Reports
19 47 (2.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (11.88%) Git
2 153 (9.42%) JIRA
3 102 (6.28%) GitLab
4 76 (4.68%) Jenkins
5 49 (3.02%) Postman
6 38 (2.34%) Zephyr
7 24 (1.48%) MLflow
8 19 (1.17%) Selenium
9 10 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.43%) JMeter
11 6 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.31%) TestRail
13 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.25%) Flyway
13 4 (0.25%) Gatling
13 4 (0.25%) MSTest
13 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 420 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 403 (24.82%) Finance
3 264 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.64%) Banking
6 47 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.97%) Marketing
8 26 (1.60%) Financial Institution
8 26 (1.60%) Retail
9 21 (1.29%) Legal
10 15 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (0.80%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.68%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.62%) Law
14 9 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.43%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 672 (41.38%) Data Engineer
2 201 (12.38%) Developer
3 187 (11.51%) Architect
3 187 (11.51%) Senior
4 174 (10.71%) Lead
5 125 (7.70%) Analyst
5 125 (7.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 110 (6.77%) Data Architect
7 74 (4.56%) Data Analyst
8 50 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 49 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
10 48 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (2.71%) AWS Data Engineer
11 44 (2.71%) Python Engineer
12 37 (2.28%) Snowflake Engineer
13 36 (2.22%) Integration Engineer
14 34 (2.09%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (2.09%) Senior Developer
14 34 (2.09%) SQL Developer
15 33 (2.03%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (11.95%) PySpark
2 136 (8.37%) Kafka
3 94 (5.79%) REST
4 56 (3.45%) Pandas
5 46 (2.83%) .NET
6 39 (2.40%) JSON
7 35 (2.16%) XML
8 33 (2.03%) Middleware
9 27 (1.66%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.48%) OAuth
10 24 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (1.48%) RESTful
10 24 (1.48%) Spring
11 23 (1.42%) NumPy
12 22 (1.35%) pytest
13 21 (1.29%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.17%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.11%) Great Expectations
15 18 (1.11%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.05%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 150 (9.24%) Cloud Native
2 106 (6.53%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.35%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.29%) Reference Data
11 16 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (0.99%) Clustering
12 15 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.92%) NHS
13 14 (0.86%) Replication
14 13 (0.80%) IoT
14 13 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.22%) Unix
2 35 (2.16%) Linux
3 21 (1.29%) Windows
4 12 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.68%) Solaris
5 11 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 763 (46.98%) Data Modelling
2 628 (38.67%) Analytics
3 626 (38.55%) Data Pipeline
4 496 (30.54%) Business Intelligence
5 494 (30.42%) Data Engineering
6 476 (29.31%) CI/CD
7 410 (25.25%) Agile
8 381 (23.46%) DevOps
9 378 (23.28%) Migration
10 330 (20.32%) Data Governance
11 303 (18.66%) Validation
12 300 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
13 269 (16.56%) AI
14 263 (16.19%) Data Integration
15 243 (14.96%) Data Architecture
16 233 (14.35%) Data Migration
17 214 (13.18%) Test Automation
18 211 (12.99%) Decision-Making
19 176 (10.84%) Machine Learning
20 174 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,107 (68.17%) SQL
2 692 (42.61%) Python
3 147 (9.05%) Java
4 86 (5.30%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.68%) PL/SQL
6 70 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 66 (4.06%) C#
8 53 (3.26%) Scala
9 40 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 32 (1.97%) PowerShell
11 25 (1.54%) Bash
12 21 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.29%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.17%) R
14 15 (0.92%) Bicep
15 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.43%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.43%) VBA
17 6 (0.37%) Cypher
18 5 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 424 (26.11%) Security Cleared
2 354 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 99 (6.10%) Degree
4 46 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.46%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (2.28%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.91%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.60%) AWS Certification
9 11 (0.68%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.55%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 536 (33.00%) Data Quality
2 155 (9.54%) QA
3 103 (6.34%) GDPR
4 22 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.11%) IFRS
6 16 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 14 (0.86%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.74%) PMO
8 12 (0.74%) SLA
9 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.49%) FATCA
10 7 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) GAAP
11 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.25%) HL7
12 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.18%) Basel III
System Software
1 114 (7.02%) Docker
2 8 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.31%) HDFS
5 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.062%) RACF
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (9.11%) Terraform
2 119 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.40%) Grafana
4 18 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.99%) Ansible
6 8 (0.49%) Control-M
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.062%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.062%) Kibana
10 1 (0.062%) logstash
Vendors
1 336 (20.69%) Databricks
2 298 (18.35%) Microsoft
3 289 (17.80%) Oracle
4 155 (9.54%) Informatica
5 136 (8.37%) Talend
6 65 (4.00%) SAP
7 62 (3.82%) Denodo
8 57 (3.51%) Google
9 50 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 38 (2.34%) IBM
11 24 (1.48%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.35%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.17%) Alteryx
14 18 (1.11%) Splunk
15 17 (1.05%) OpenAI
15 17 (1.05%) Sage
15 17 (1.05%) Workday
16 11 (0.68%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.62%) Cloudera
18 9 (0.55%) ESRI