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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 80 96
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,178 927 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.11% 2.93% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 3.29% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 606 740
10th Percentile £361 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 19
10th Percentile £32.50 - £45.61
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.63
Median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +68.06%
75th Percentile £73.37 £78.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.80 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.46% -45.00% +42.86%

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 33,213 28,195 38,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.59% 88.98% 87.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,058 17,139 25,095
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,026 893 1,862
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.94 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.01
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -12.19% +15.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.62 £39.55
% change year-on-year -21.61% -22.59% +52.12%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 23 January 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 1,020 £500 -4.76% 772
London +18 625 £525 - 160
UK excluding London -21 411 £500 - 739
Work from Home -4 372 £511 +2.18% 330
Midlands -2 121 £519 +7.24% 110
North of England -40 111 £450 -2.70% 132
West Midlands -7 96 £525 +6.49% 46
North West -9 72 £442 -4.38% 60
South East -37 61 £425 -22.73% 241
South West +2 56 £525 -14.29% 97
Scotland +2 37 £500 +11.11% 29
Yorkshire -58 28 £488 +18.90% 55
East Midlands -13 25 £447 +16.10% 63
East of England -24 17 £575 +9.52% 97
Northern Ireland +9 15 £400 +3.23% 14
North East -13 10 £450 -7.22% 17
Wales -9 9 £453 -12.14% 35

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
1 107 (9.08%) Apache Spark
2 87 (7.39%) Apache Airflow
3 78 (6.62%) Apache
4 52 (4.41%) SAS
5 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.02%) Confluence
7 7 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.42%) Appian
9 5 (0.42%) nginx
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.25%) Luigi
11 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
13 1 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 45 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.34%) Trello
6 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.42%) Maximo
7 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 506 (42.95%) Azure
2 377 (32.00%) AWS
3 272 (23.09%) Power Platform
4 196 (16.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 158 (13.41%) GCP
6 155 (13.16%) Snowflake
7 132 (11.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 121 (10.27%) Amazon S3
9 110 (9.34%) Serverless
10 96 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
11 79 (6.71%) GitHub
12 71 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
13 57 (4.84%) dbt
14 37 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (3.06%) SaaS
16 26 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 25 (2.12%) Azure Functions
17 25 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.51%) 2G
1 6 (0.51%) 5G
1 6 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.42%) 4G
3 3 (0.25%) HTTP
4 2 (0.17%) BGP
4 2 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.17%) DSL
4 2 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.17%) Firewall
4 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.17%) OSPF
4 2 (0.17%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.085%) FabricPath
5 1 (0.085%) Internet
5 1 (0.085%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.085%) Multicast
5 1 (0.085%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 348 (29.54%) Data Warehouse
2 257 (21.82%) Power BI
3 203 (17.23%) Data Lake
4 137 (11.63%) SQL Server
5 106 (9.00%) Metadata
6 84 (7.13%) Relational Database
7 83 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
8 82 (6.96%) Big Data
9 76 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 75 (6.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (5.69%) Tableau
12 63 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 57 (4.84%) NoSQL
14 56 (4.75%) BigQuery
15 54 (4.58%) Delta Lake
15 54 (4.58%) Pentaho
16 47 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (3.99%) Snowflake Schema
17 45 (3.82%) Oracle Database
18 36 (3.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (11.71%) Git
2 89 (7.56%) JIRA
3 72 (6.11%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.65%) GitLab
5 24 (2.04%) Postman
6 19 (1.61%) ERwin
7 15 (1.27%) MLflow
8 13 (1.10%) Selenium
9 10 (0.85%) JMeter
10 8 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.59%) TestRail
12 6 (0.51%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.51%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.34%) Gatling
14 4 (0.34%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.34%) Toad
15 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 351 (29.80%) Social Skills
2 305 (25.89%) Finance
3 197 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.05%) Banking
6 25 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.95%) Retail
8 22 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.53%) Marketing
10 15 (1.27%) Legal
11 14 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.85%) Law
15 7 (0.59%) Front Office
15 7 (0.59%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.59%) Publishing
16 6 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 436 (37.01%) Data Engineer
2 155 (13.16%) Developer
3 127 (10.78%) Senior
4 125 (10.61%) Lead
5 116 (9.85%) Analyst
6 113 (9.59%) Architect
7 77 (6.54%) Data Analyst
8 73 (6.20%) Senior Data Engineer
9 72 (6.11%) Data Architect
10 53 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (3.40%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 33 (2.80%) Consultant
14 32 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
15 31 (2.63%) Business Analyst
16 30 (2.55%) Python Engineer
17 29 (2.46%) Snowflake Engineer
18 27 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
18 27 (2.29%) Senior Developer
19 23 (1.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (12.05%) PySpark
2 92 (7.81%) Kafka
3 81 (6.88%) REST
4 45 (3.82%) XML
5 38 (3.23%) JSON
5 38 (3.23%) Pandas
6 26 (2.21%) .NET
6 26 (2.21%) NumPy
7 24 (2.04%) Node.js
7 24 (2.04%) RESTful
8 22 (1.87%) OAuth
9 20 (1.70%) PyTorch
10 18 (1.53%) Middleware
11 17 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
11 17 (1.44%) pytest
11 17 (1.44%) SOAP
12 14 (1.19%) React
12 14 (1.19%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.10%) Hugging Face
14 12 (1.02%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 86 (7.30%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 56 (4.75%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.21%) Algorithms
5 24 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
8 19 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.61%) Replication
9 18 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.19%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.93%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.85%) Data Fabric
13 10 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.14%) Linux
2 19 (1.61%) Unix
3 13 (1.10%) Windows
4 5 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.25%) Solaris
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (46.52%) Data Modelling
2 482 (40.92%) Analytics
3 449 (38.12%) Data Pipeline
4 381 (32.34%) Business Intelligence
5 345 (29.29%) Data Engineering
6 335 (28.44%) CI/CD
7 297 (25.21%) Agile
8 279 (23.68%) DevOps
9 269 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
10 260 (22.07%) Data Governance
11 223 (18.93%) Migration
12 209 (17.74%) Data Integration
13 188 (15.96%) Data Architecture
14 165 (14.01%) Validation
15 150 (12.73%) Data Migration
16 141 (11.97%) Data Science
17 134 (11.38%) Machine Learning
18 133 (11.29%) AI
19 125 (10.61%) Data Transformation
20 121 (10.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 750 (63.67%) SQL
2 581 (49.32%) Python
3 104 (8.83%) Java
4 52 (4.41%) Scala
5 51 (4.33%) C#
6 44 (3.74%) PL/SQL
7 43 (3.65%) JavaScript
8 40 (3.40%) T-SQL
9 38 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 27 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.27%) R
13 14 (1.19%) Go
13 14 (1.19%) PHP
13 14 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 13 (1.10%) Bash
15 12 (1.02%) Bicep
16 10 (0.85%) VBA
17 6 (0.51%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 229 (19.44%) Security Cleared
2 181 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 83 (7.05%) Degree
4 51 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.76%) PMP
11 7 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.34%) MCP
14 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.25%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.085%) CBAP
16 1 (0.085%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (32.68%) Data Quality
2 86 (7.30%) GDPR
3 84 (7.13%) QA
4 23 (1.95%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.53%) IFRS
6 17 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.19%) IFRS 17
8 8 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.42%) GAAP
9 5 (0.42%) MiFID
9 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.42%) SLA
10 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.25%) Basel III
10 3 (0.25%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.25%) NIST
10 3 (0.25%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 128 (10.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.42%) zsh
3 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.17%) KVM
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.085%) HDFS
6 1 (0.085%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 121 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.59%) Terraform
3 13 (1.10%) Ansible
4 12 (1.02%) Grafana
5 7 (0.59%) Kibana
6 6 (0.51%) logstash
7 5 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.34%) Control-M
8 4 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.085%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.085%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.085%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.085%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.085%) Puppet
10 1 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.085%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 255 (21.65%) Databricks
2 198 (16.81%) Microsoft
3 164 (13.92%) Oracle
4 78 (6.62%) Talend
5 77 (6.54%) Informatica
6 48 (4.07%) Google
7 47 (3.99%) SAP
8 41 (3.48%) Denodo
9 32 (2.72%) Salesforce
10 30 (2.55%) ServiceNow
11 22 (1.87%) IBM
12 17 (1.44%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.36%) Palantir
14 13 (1.10%) Foundry
14 13 (1.10%) Workday
15 11 (0.93%) Ab Initio
15 11 (0.93%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.85%) Cognos
17 8 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 7 (0.59%) VMware