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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 78 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,563 906 1,007
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.07% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.39% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 617 751
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.17% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 14
10th Percentile £36.42 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.23 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +22.22% +13.62%
75th Percentile £70.08 £96.64 £53.25
90th Percentile £79.50 £101.31 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -31.36% +199.81% -15.93%

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 39,324 26,741 37,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.82% 90.76% 86.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,807 17,298 24,232
10th Percentile £318 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.09% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,359 1,048 2,416
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.88 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.31 £75.00 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £28.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.01% -17.86% -6.67%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 1,400 £500 -4.76% 407
London +26 756 £513 -3.30% 168
UK excluding London +13 649 £469 -1.17% 311
Work from Home +15 476 £500 - 164
Midlands +17 225 £469 -1.26% 62
West Midlands +28 192 £469 -5.64% 38
North of England -22 169 £460 -0.54% 73
South East -17 96 £475 -8.83% 85
North West -18 89 £447 -5.89% 44
South West -23 66 £525 +5.00% 43
Yorkshire -28 65 £500 +42.86% 20
Scotland -6 48 £450 +5.88% 14
East of England -4 43 £500 +2.56% 21
East Midlands -22 33 £478 +16.46% 24
North East -14 14 £525 +10.53% 11
Wales -8 7 £325 -25.71% 7
Northern Ireland +2 5 £400 -20.00% 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
1 149 (9.53%) Apache Spark
2 125 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (5.95%) Apache
4 69 (4.41%) SAS
5 45 (2.88%) Confluence
6 18 (1.15%) SharePoint
7 11 (0.70%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.58%) Appian
9 9 (0.58%) nginx
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.26%) Camunda
12 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 45 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Notepad++
5 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Maximo
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 648 (41.46%) Azure
2 479 (30.65%) AWS
3 381 (24.38%) Power Platform
4 243 (15.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 184 (11.77%) GCP
6 181 (11.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 159 (10.17%) Amazon S3
8 154 (9.85%) Snowflake
9 136 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
10 135 (8.64%) Serverless
11 114 (7.29%) GitHub
12 100 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (5.95%) dbt
14 56 (3.58%) Collibra
15 53 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
17 33 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (2.05%) SaaS
19 31 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 30 (1.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.64%) Firewall
1 10 (0.64%) HTTP
2 7 (0.45%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.45%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) DSL
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (30.33%) Data Warehouse
2 359 (22.97%) Power BI
3 252 (16.12%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.09%) SQL Server
5 175 (11.20%) Metadata
6 101 (6.46%) Big Data
6 101 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 101 (6.46%) Tableau
7 92 (5.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 89 (5.69%) Delta Lake
9 88 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 81 (5.18%) NoSQL
10 81 (5.18%) PostgreSQL
11 79 (5.05%) Relational Database
12 72 (4.61%) Pentaho
13 68 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
14 66 (4.22%) BigQuery
15 61 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
16 51 (3.26%) Star Schema
17 50 (3.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 180 (11.52%) Git
2 135 (8.64%) JIRA
3 76 (4.86%) GitLab
4 74 (4.73%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.82%) Postman
6 28 (1.79%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.73%) MLflow
8 21 (1.34%) Selenium
9 13 (0.83%) ERwin
10 7 (0.45%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.32%) NUnit
11 5 (0.32%) TestRail
12 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.26%) Toad
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 426 (27.26%) Social Skills
2 399 (25.53%) Finance
3 274 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 108 (6.91%) Banking
6 39 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.66%) Marketing
8 24 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.54%) Legal
9 21 (1.34%) Retail
10 16 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.83%) Law
13 11 (0.70%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.45%) Front Office
15 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 633 (40.50%) Data Engineer
2 200 (12.80%) Developer
3 179 (11.45%) Architect
4 178 (11.39%) Senior
5 165 (10.56%) Lead
6 141 (9.02%) Analyst
7 114 (7.29%) Senior Data Engineer
8 107 (6.85%) Data Architect
9 86 (5.50%) Data Analyst
10 50 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
11 47 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 42 (2.69%) AWS Data Engineer
13 41 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (2.43%) Azure Data Engineer
15 36 (2.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 34 (2.18%) Lead Data Engineer
17 33 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
18 32 (2.05%) Consultant
19 31 (1.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (12.09%) PySpark
2 145 (9.28%) Kafka
3 95 (6.08%) REST
4 52 (3.33%) Pandas
5 45 (2.88%) JSON
6 40 (2.56%) .NET
7 38 (2.43%) XML
8 30 (1.92%) RESTful
9 26 (1.66%) NumPy
9 26 (1.66%) OAuth
10 24 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.41%) Middleware
11 22 (1.41%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.34%) pytest
13 20 (1.28%) Great Expectations
14 19 (1.22%) YAML
15 18 (1.15%) Spring
16 17 (1.09%) scikit-learn
17 16 (1.02%) Spring Boot
17 16 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.64%) Cloud Native
2 111 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.75%) Onboarding
5 42 (2.69%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 27 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.15%) Clustering
10 18 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.15%) Reference Data
11 15 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 15 (0.96%) NHS
12 13 (0.83%) AI Agents
12 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
12 13 (0.83%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.05%) Unix
2 27 (1.73%) Linux
3 18 (1.15%) Windows
4 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (48.18%) Data Modelling
2 640 (40.95%) Analytics
3 583 (37.30%) Data Pipeline
4 502 (32.12%) Data Engineering
5 477 (30.52%) Business Intelligence
6 449 (28.73%) CI/CD
7 394 (25.21%) Agile
8 371 (23.74%) Data Governance
9 361 (23.10%) Migration
10 357 (22.84%) DevOps
11 317 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
12 287 (18.36%) Validation
13 252 (16.12%) Data Architecture
14 241 (15.42%) Data Integration
15 235 (15.04%) Data Migration
16 221 (14.14%) AI
17 207 (13.24%) Decision-Making
18 181 (11.58%) Test Automation
19 170 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
20 167 (10.68%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (66.47%) SQL
2 680 (43.51%) Python
3 140 (8.96%) Java
4 69 (4.41%) C#
4 69 (4.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 66 (4.22%) PL/SQL
6 64 (4.09%) T-SQL
7 54 (3.45%) Scala
8 35 (2.24%) PowerShell
9 34 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 24 (1.54%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.22%) Bash
11 19 (1.22%) R
11 19 (1.22%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.09%) Bicep
13 9 (0.58%) PHP
13 9 (0.58%) VBA
14 8 (0.51%) Go
14 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 393 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 320 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 107 (6.85%) Degree
4 55 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.62%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 21 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.70%) DV Cleared
12 9 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.26%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) CISA
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (34.23%) Data Quality
2 142 (9.09%) QA
3 121 (7.74%) GDPR
4 22 (1.41%) IFRS
5 21 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.09%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.77%) PMO
8 9 (0.58%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.45%) GRC
11 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) FATCA
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
12 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.26%) MiFID
13 4 (0.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (8.32%) Docker
2 9 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
5 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 157 (10.04%) Terraform
2 126 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.79%) Grafana
4 19 (1.22%) Ansible
4 19 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) SCCM
9 1 (0.064%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.064%) logstash
9 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 326 (20.86%) Databricks
2 289 (18.49%) Microsoft
3 249 (15.93%) Oracle
4 152 (9.72%) Informatica
5 126 (8.06%) Talend
6 66 (4.22%) SAP
7 65 (4.16%) Google
8 56 (3.58%) Denodo
9 49 (3.13%) ServiceNow
10 37 (2.37%) IBM
11 31 (1.98%) Salesforce
12 24 (1.54%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.22%) Workday
14 18 (1.15%) Splunk
15 16 (1.02%) Sage
16 15 (0.96%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.83%) Ab Initio
18 11 (0.70%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.70%) Palantir
18 11 (0.70%) Teradata