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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 89 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 -8 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,680 954 1,038
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.89% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 3.19% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 656 719
10th Percentile £358 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £621
90th Percentile £675 £706 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £484 £491
% change year-on-year -2.97% -1.25% -6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.33 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £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 46,295 29,870 32,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.37% 90.52% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,040 18,573 20,019
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,185 1,844 1,407
10th Percentile £13.72 £14.33 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.33 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +4 1,473 £500 -2.44% 1,320
London -6 772 £524 -1.18% 763
UK excluding London +11 699 £470 -2.97% 684
Work from Home 0 498 £500 -2.34% 560
Midlands +18 234 £469 -5.25% 118
West Midlands +26 203 £469 -8.04% 87
North of England -1 169 £463 -2.63% 184
South East +11 130 £459 +2.00% 158
Yorkshire +4 79 £460 - 55
South West -6 79 £514 +8.26% 79
North West -36 69 £475 -5.00% 111
East of England -14 48 £494 -5.95% 48
Scotland -24 42 £428 -10.00% 55
East Midlands -6 30 £486 +10.97% 31
North East -26 22 £481 +10.00% 21
Wales -15 8 £313 -37.19% 15
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 34

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
1 141 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
1 141 (8.39%) Apache Spark
2 111 (6.61%) Apache
3 94 (5.60%) SAS
4 65 (3.87%) Confluence
5 26 (1.55%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.31%) Oracle Application Server
7 13 (0.77%) nginx
8 11 (0.65%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
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%) CMS
Applications
1 33 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 646 (38.45%) Azure
2 506 (30.12%) AWS
3 363 (21.61%) Power Platform
4 243 (14.46%) GCP
5 236 (14.05%) Snowflake
6 223 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (8.51%) dbt
9 137 (8.15%) Amazon S3
10 135 (8.04%) Serverless
11 128 (7.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 112 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (6.49%) GitHub
14 61 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
16 46 (2.74%) Azure Databricks
17 37 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (2.02%) Collibra
19 32 (1.90%) SaaS
20 31 (1.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.65%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) 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 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 572 (34.05%) Data Warehouse
2 352 (20.95%) Power BI
3 252 (15.00%) Data Lake
4 172 (10.24%) Metadata
5 148 (8.81%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 110 (6.55%) BigQuery
8 102 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.54%) Big Data
10 91 (5.42%) Delta Lake
11 81 (4.82%) Tableau
12 80 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 75 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
14 70 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
15 69 (4.11%) NoSQL
16 64 (3.81%) Pentaho
17 63 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (3.45%) Oracle Database
19 48 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
20 47 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (11.49%) Git
2 148 (8.81%) JIRA
3 104 (6.19%) GitLab
4 60 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.20%) Postman
7 18 (1.07%) Selenium
8 15 (0.89%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 420 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 359 (21.37%) Finance
3 305 (18.15%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (11.19%) Public Sector
5 161 (9.58%) Banking
6 39 (2.32%) Retail
7 35 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.43%) Law
8 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.43%) Marketing
9 22 (1.31%) Legal
10 19 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.07%) Front Office
11 18 (1.07%) Investment Banking
12 15 (0.89%) Billing
12 15 (0.89%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.83%) Police
14 11 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 671 (39.94%) Data Engineer
2 246 (14.64%) Senior
3 245 (14.58%) Developer
4 234 (13.93%) Architect
5 159 (9.46%) Senior Data Engineer
6 154 (9.17%) Lead
7 124 (7.38%) Data Architect
8 120 (7.14%) Analyst
9 72 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (3.75%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.45%) Data Analyst
12 56 (3.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 54 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
14 44 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
14 44 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
15 43 (2.56%) Tester
16 41 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 40 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 40 (2.38%) SQL Developer
18 37 (2.20%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (9.35%) PySpark
2 155 (9.23%) Terraform
3 134 (7.98%) Kafka
4 81 (4.82%) REST
5 59 (3.51%) JSON
6 50 (2.98%) .NET
7 30 (1.79%) React
7 30 (1.79%) XML
8 29 (1.73%) Middleware
8 29 (1.73%) Pandas
9 25 (1.49%) Spring
9 25 (1.49%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.07%) SOAP
10 18 (1.07%) YAML
11 17 (1.01%) pytest
12 13 (0.77%) LangChain
12 13 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
12 13 (0.77%) Web Services
13 12 (0.71%) HTML
14 11 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.64%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.08%) Data Structures
3 66 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 64 (3.81%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 45 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.73%) AI Agents
7 29 (1.73%) Reference Data
8 25 (1.49%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.43%) NHS
10 22 (1.31%) Replication
11 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.01%) Clustering
13 17 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
15 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
16 12 (0.71%) CMDB
16 12 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 67 (3.99%) Linux
2 61 (3.63%) Unix
3 21 (1.25%) 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
1 789 (46.96%) Data Modelling
2 715 (42.56%) Data Pipeline
3 627 (37.32%) Analytics
4 555 (33.04%) Data Engineering
5 536 (31.90%) CI/CD
6 481 (28.63%) Agile
7 462 (27.50%) Migration
8 444 (26.43%) Business Intelligence
9 405 (24.11%) Data Integration
10 385 (22.92%) DevOps
11 350 (20.83%) Validation
12 348 (20.71%) Data Governance
13 319 (18.99%) AI
14 306 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 295 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
16 259 (15.42%) Data Migration
17 250 (14.88%) Data Architecture
18 235 (13.99%) Data Transformation
19 219 (13.04%) Test Automation
20 191 (11.37%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,117 (66.49%) SQL
2 672 (40.00%) Python
3 143 (8.51%) Java
4 89 (5.30%) PL/SQL
5 81 (4.82%) T-SQL
6 56 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.27%) JavaScript
8 51 (3.04%) C#
8 51 (3.04%) Scala
9 47 (2.80%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.32%) Shell Script
11 36 (2.14%) Bash
12 22 (1.31%) R
12 22 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.07%) Bicep
14 13 (0.77%) Cypher
15 7 (0.42%) Perl
15 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.36%) Go
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 465 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 401 (23.87%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.81%) Degree
4 55 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) CISM
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 603 (35.89%) Data Quality
2 142 (8.45%) QA
3 72 (4.29%) GDPR
4 40 (2.38%) GRC
5 26 (1.55%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.60%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) WCAG
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 121 (7.20%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 118 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.32%) Grafana
3 20 (1.19%) Ansible
4 15 (0.89%) Control-M
5 14 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 374 (22.26%) Databricks
2 318 (18.93%) Oracle
3 290 (17.26%) Microsoft
4 124 (7.38%) Informatica
5 114 (6.79%) Talend
6 92 (5.48%) Google
7 68 (4.05%) SAP
8 54 (3.21%) Denodo
9 50 (2.98%) IBM
10 38 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 36 (2.14%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.13%) Teradata
14 18 (1.07%) Foundry
14 18 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.07%) Palantir
15 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage