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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,593 884 1,016
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.02% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.32% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 603 751
10th Percentile £352 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £585 £622 £625
90th Percentile £686 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 14
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +13.45%
75th Percentile £69.00 £96.64 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.31 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -34.65% +199.81% -16.22%

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 39,989 26,597 37,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.62% 90.89% 86.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,206 17,155 24,229
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +0.62% -3.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,068 2,445
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.96 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.65
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -18.65% -4.42%
75th Percentile £66.00 £60.84 £59.95
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.76 £37.18
% change year-on-year +57.38% -25.34% +3.28%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +15 1,424 £500 -4.76% 393
London +30 752 £512 -4.78% 174
UK excluding London +12 687 £470 -1.05% 266
Work from Home +17 486 £500 - 172
Midlands +26 240 £469 -1.26% 52
West Midlands +35 205 £469 -5.54% 38
North of England -22 174 £460 -0.54% 68
South East -11 106 £475 -8.83% 79
North West -20 91 £447 -5.89% 40
South West -16 66 £525 +5.00% 35
Yorkshire -24 66 £500 +42.86% 20
Scotland +1 56 £450 +5.88% 6
East of England -1 43 £500 +1.27% 19
East Midlands -15 34 £485 +16.87% 14
North East -12 16 £525 +10.53% 8
Wales -8 7 £325 -18.75% 9
Northern Ireland +5 5 £400 -20.00% 1

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
1 152 (9.54%) Apache Spark
2 119 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.59%) Apache
4 74 (4.65%) SAS
5 50 (3.14%) Confluence
6 19 (1.19%) SharePoint
7 14 (0.88%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.63%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.56%) Appian
9 9 (0.56%) nginx
10 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
12 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
Applications
1 44 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.44%) Notepad++
5 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Maximo
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) Actimize
9 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 655 (41.12%) Azure
2 476 (29.88%) AWS
3 393 (24.67%) Power Platform
4 245 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 187 (11.74%) GCP
6 179 (11.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 155 (9.73%) Amazon S3
8 153 (9.60%) Snowflake
9 139 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
10 135 (8.47%) Serverless
11 110 (6.91%) GitHub
12 100 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.59%) dbt
14 56 (3.52%) Collibra
15 49 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
16 46 (2.89%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
19 33 (2.07%) Power Automate
20 29 (1.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.69%) Firewall
1 11 (0.69%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.063%) 4G
5 1 (0.063%) 5G
5 1 (0.063%) DSL
5 1 (0.063%) SMS
5 1 (0.063%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 482 (30.26%) Data Warehouse
2 371 (23.29%) Power BI
3 266 (16.70%) Data Lake
4 191 (11.99%) SQL Server
5 174 (10.92%) Metadata
6 107 (6.72%) Big Data
7 103 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 99 (6.21%) Tableau
9 91 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
10 89 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (5.59%) Delta Lake
11 80 (5.02%) Pentaho
12 79 (4.96%) NoSQL
12 79 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
13 78 (4.90%) Relational Database
14 66 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
15 65 (4.08%) BigQuery
16 61 (3.83%) Amazon Athena
17 51 (3.20%) Oracle Reports
18 49 (3.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 186 (11.68%) Git
2 139 (8.73%) JIRA
3 83 (5.21%) GitLab
4 72 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.76%) Postman
6 29 (1.82%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.69%) MLflow
8 21 (1.32%) Selenium
9 12 (0.75%) ERwin
10 7 (0.44%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) NUnit
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 430 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 406 (25.49%) Finance
3 276 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 114 (7.16%) Banking
6 41 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (1.82%) Marketing
8 25 (1.57%) Legal
9 24 (1.51%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.32%) Retail
11 16 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.82%) Law
14 11 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.63%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.44%) Front Office
17 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
18 6 (0.38%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 648 (40.68%) Data Engineer
2 212 (13.31%) Developer
3 183 (11.49%) Senior
4 177 (11.11%) Architect
5 164 (10.30%) Lead
6 137 (8.60%) Analyst
7 119 (7.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 107 (6.72%) Data Architect
9 83 (5.21%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
12 48 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.89%) AWS Data Engineer
14 39 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
15 38 (2.39%) Snowflake Engineer
16 33 (2.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 32 (2.01%) Consultant
17 32 (2.01%) Lead Data Engineer
17 32 (2.01%) Python Engineer
17 32 (2.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (12.05%) PySpark
2 144 (9.04%) Kafka
3 94 (5.90%) REST
4 54 (3.39%) Pandas
5 44 (2.76%) JSON
6 42 (2.64%) .NET
7 34 (2.13%) XML
8 29 (1.82%) RESTful
9 26 (1.63%) NumPy
10 25 (1.57%) OAuth
10 25 (1.57%) PyTorch
11 24 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
12 21 (1.32%) Middleware
12 21 (1.32%) Spring
13 20 (1.26%) pytest
14 19 (1.19%) Spring Boot
15 18 (1.13%) Great Expectations
16 17 (1.07%) FastAPI
16 17 (1.07%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 114 (7.16%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 46 (2.89%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.76%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 20 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.13%) Clustering
11 18 (1.13%) Reference Data
12 17 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (0.94%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.94%) NHS
14 14 (0.88%) Replication
15 13 (0.82%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.82%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.13%) Unix
2 28 (1.76%) Linux
3 19 (1.19%) Windows
4 11 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.56%) Solaris
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.063%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (48.15%) Data Modelling
2 653 (40.99%) Analytics
3 601 (37.73%) Data Pipeline
4 501 (31.45%) Data Engineering
5 489 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
6 451 (28.31%) CI/CD
7 402 (25.24%) Agile
8 370 (23.23%) Data Governance
9 366 (22.98%) Migration
10 361 (22.66%) DevOps
11 320 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
12 295 (18.52%) Validation
13 249 (15.63%) Data Architecture
13 249 (15.63%) Data Integration
14 235 (14.75%) Data Migration
15 232 (14.56%) AI
16 205 (12.87%) Decision-Making
17 185 (11.61%) Test Automation
18 178 (11.17%) Stakeholder Management
19 167 (10.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,063 (66.73%) SQL
2 687 (43.13%) Python
3 141 (8.85%) Java
4 71 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 69 (4.33%) PL/SQL
6 65 (4.08%) C#
6 65 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 55 (3.45%) Scala
8 39 (2.45%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.07%) PowerShell
10 24 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.26%) Bash
12 19 (1.19%) R
13 18 (1.13%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.00%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) PHP
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 408 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 331 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 105 (6.59%) Degree
4 52 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.69%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.32%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.50%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.25%) PMP
16 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.13%) CISA
17 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 150 (9.42%) QA
3 121 (7.60%) GDPR
4 23 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 22 (1.38%) IFRS
6 17 (1.07%) IFRS 17
7 16 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.69%) PMO
9 9 (0.56%) SLA
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) FATCA
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.31%) MiFID
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.25%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 124 (7.78%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.31%) HDFS
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.063%) RACF
6 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (9.48%) Terraform
2 126 (7.91%) Kubernetes
3 37 (2.32%) Grafana
4 18 (1.13%) Ansible
4 18 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.31%) 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 (0.063%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.063%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.063%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.063%) logstash
9 1 (0.063%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (20.65%) Databricks
2 292 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 264 (16.57%) Oracle
4 163 (10.23%) Informatica
5 132 (8.29%) Talend
6 71 (4.46%) SAP
7 64 (4.02%) Google
8 57 (3.58%) Denodo
9 49 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 39 (2.45%) IBM
11 32 (2.01%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.57%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.19%) Sage
13 19 (1.19%) Splunk
14 17 (1.07%) Workday
15 15 (0.94%) Alteryx
16 13 (0.82%) Ab Initio
16 13 (0.82%) Teradata
17 12 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.69%) Palantir