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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 81 84
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,732 961 984
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 2.90% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.20% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 649 706
10th Percentile £358 £350 £360
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £594 £603 £620
90th Percentile £675 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £468 £480
% change year-on-year +0.21% -2.50% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 8
10th Percentile £22.12 £36.15 £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +12.26% -40.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £82.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £26.05
% change year-on-year -44.82% +139.92% -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 45,268 29,990 33,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.86% 90.46% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,764 21,291
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £729 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,826 1,696 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £18.89 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £42.50
% change year-on-year +94.26% -46.75% +13.33%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +9 1,555 £500 -0.79% 540
UK excluding London +20 783 £469 +0.21% 293
London -1 769 £525 - 310
Work from Home +21 534 £500 - 252
Midlands +24 291 £459 -0.76% 55
West Midlands +36 256 £459 -8.20% 43
North of England -3 184 £475 - 70
South East +6 148 £459 +2.00% 79
Yorkshire -1 82 £475 +9.20% 17
North West -21 78 £456 -8.75% 42
South West -26 66 £523 +13.59% 37
East of England +9 53 £475 -13.64% 14
Scotland -10 42 £425 - 21
East Midlands -12 34 £490 +13.10% 12
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 12
Wales -12 7 £313 -33.86% 8
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -34.83% 9

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 (7.79%) Apache Spark
2 129 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
3 120 (6.93%) SAS
4 96 (5.54%) Apache
5 68 (3.93%) Confluence
6 27 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 25 (1.44%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.75%) nginx
9 12 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 11 (0.64%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.17%) Camunda
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.58%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.17%) Actimize
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 674 (38.91%) Azure
2 519 (29.97%) AWS
3 412 (23.79%) Power Platform
4 233 (13.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 219 (12.64%) GCP
6 213 (12.30%) Snowflake
7 150 (8.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (8.31%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (8.14%) Amazon S3
10 140 (8.08%) Serverless
11 120 (6.93%) dbt
12 112 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
13 106 (6.12%) GitHub
14 55 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
16 42 (2.42%) Collibra
17 39 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.79%) Power Automate
19 29 (1.67%) SaaS
20 28 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.40%) VPN
3 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.17%) DHCP
4 3 (0.17%) DNS
4 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) LTE
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 585 (33.78%) Data Warehouse
2 395 (22.81%) Power BI
3 259 (14.95%) Data Lake
4 165 (9.53%) SQL Server
5 159 (9.18%) Metadata
6 103 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 101 (5.83%) Relational Database
8 98 (5.66%) Tableau
9 94 (5.43%) BigQuery
10 92 (5.31%) Delta Lake
11 88 (5.08%) Big Data
11 88 (5.08%) Pentaho
12 79 (4.56%) Oracle Reports
13 78 (4.50%) NoSQL
14 73 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
15 66 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
16 64 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
17 58 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (11.49%) Git
2 154 (8.89%) JIRA
3 100 (5.77%) GitLab
4 73 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 46 (2.66%) Zephyr
6 43 (2.48%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 11 (0.64%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 418 (24.13%) Social Skills
2 384 (22.17%) Finance
3 318 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.45%) Banking
6 41 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.91%) Retail
8 30 (1.73%) Marketing
9 28 (1.62%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.27%) Legal
12 21 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.75%) Front Office
15 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.69%) Law
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.64%) Billing
17 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 684 (39.49%) Data Engineer
2 246 (14.20%) Developer
3 236 (13.63%) Architect
4 216 (12.47%) Senior
5 174 (10.05%) Lead
6 141 (8.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.45%) Data Architect
8 123 (7.10%) Analyst
9 63 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.46%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
13 48 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 46 (2.66%) Tester
15 44 (2.54%) AWS Data Engineer
16 43 (2.48%) Snowflake Engineer
17 41 (2.37%) SQL Developer
18 40 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
19 38 (2.19%) Python Engineer
20 37 (2.14%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (10.16%) PySpark
2 137 (7.91%) Kafka
3 74 (4.27%) REST
4 54 (3.12%) JSON
5 43 (2.48%) .NET
6 37 (2.14%) Pandas
7 29 (1.67%) Middleware
8 26 (1.50%) React
9 25 (1.44%) Spring
10 24 (1.39%) XML
11 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.15%) YAML
13 16 (0.92%) OAuth
14 15 (0.87%) RESTful
15 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
16 13 (0.75%) pytest
16 13 (0.75%) SOAP
17 12 (0.69%) Apache Avro
17 12 (0.69%) HTML
17 12 (0.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.41%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.58%) Data Structures
3 79 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 23 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.21%) Clustering
11 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
12 19 (1.10%) Reference Data
13 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
13 18 (1.04%) Replication
14 14 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (0.69%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.64%) IoT
16 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.46%) Linux
2 54 (3.12%) Unix
3 18 (1.04%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (47.34%) Data Modelling
2 720 (41.57%) Data Pipeline
3 679 (39.20%) Analytics
4 538 (31.06%) Data Engineering
5 521 (30.08%) CI/CD
6 502 (28.98%) Business Intelligence
7 487 (28.12%) Agile
8 464 (26.79%) Migration
9 393 (22.69%) DevOps
10 376 (21.71%) Data Integration
11 361 (20.84%) Data Governance
12 335 (19.34%) Validation
13 315 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
14 278 (16.05%) Data Migration
15 271 (15.65%) AI
16 247 (14.26%) Data Architecture
17 242 (13.97%) Test Automation
18 234 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
19 226 (13.05%) Decision-Making
20 218 (12.59%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (66.28%) SQL
2 662 (38.22%) Python
3 146 (8.43%) Java
4 91 (5.25%) T-SQL
5 83 (4.79%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.18%) C#
8 48 (2.77%) Scala
9 47 (2.71%) JavaScript
10 44 (2.54%) PowerShell
11 38 (2.19%) Bash
12 32 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.21%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.15%) R
15 19 (1.10%) Bicep
16 9 (0.52%) Cypher
17 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.46%) VBA
18 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
18 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 496 (28.64%) Security Cleared
2 422 (24.36%) SC Cleared
3 77 (4.45%) Degree
4 47 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.73%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.87%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.17%) CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 604 (34.87%) Data Quality
2 149 (8.60%) QA
3 101 (5.83%) GDPR
4 39 (2.25%) GRC
5 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 16 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.52%) IFRS
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) HL7
9 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.46%) WCAG
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (7.51%) Docker
2 16 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (8.49%) Terraform
2 134 (7.74%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.54%) Grafana
4 21 (1.21%) Ansible
5 19 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.64%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.058%) Argo
10 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Puppet
10 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 341 (19.69%) Databricks
2 339 (19.57%) Oracle
3 305 (17.61%) Microsoft
4 153 (8.83%) Informatica
5 138 (7.97%) Talend
6 83 (4.79%) SAP
7 72 (4.16%) Google
8 68 (3.93%) Denodo
9 47 (2.71%) IBM
10 37 (2.14%) ServiceNow
11 36 (2.08%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.67%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.27%) Sage
14 21 (1.21%) Palantir
15 16 (0.92%) MuleSoft
16 15 (0.87%) Foundry
17 14 (0.81%) OpenAI
18 13 (0.75%) Cloudera
18 13 (0.75%) Splunk
19 12 (0.69%) Teradata