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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 77 95
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,619 902 1,005
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.31% 3.10% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.40% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 615 742
10th Percentile £357 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year - -3.65% -1.16%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £469 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 11
10th Percentile £36.07 - £30.37
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -28.15%
75th Percentile £69.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £78.70 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -15.72% +171.02% -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 41,434 26,510 36,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.66% 90.99% 85.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,895 16,942 23,625
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,120 2,526
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £57.50 £60.71
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +11 1,448 £500 -3.10% 422
London +17 754 £510 -7.27% 214
UK excluding London +14 709 £469 - 247
Work from Home +17 503 £500 - 208
Midlands +26 246 £468 +5.87% 48
West Midlands +42 217 £459 -1.29% 35
North of England -15 177 £460 -3.16% 64
South East -1 126 £459 -8.20% 70
North West -22 90 £450 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire -22 70 £500 +19.05% 21
South West -24 60 £525 +10.53% 40
Scotland -2 54 £450 +5.14% 8
East of England -10 45 £500 +1.27% 8
East Midlands -26 28 £525 +23.67% 13
North East -18 17 £538 +19.44% 9
Wales -8 8 £313 -21.88% 6
Northern Ireland +4 4 £415 -17.00% 7

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 (9.20%) Apache Spark
2 125 (7.72%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (5.56%) Apache
4 69 (4.26%) SAS
5 54 (3.34%) Confluence
6 17 (1.05%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.62%) nginx
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.43%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.25%) Camunda
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.43%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.19%) Actimize
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 679 (41.94%) Azure
2 496 (30.64%) AWS
3 420 (25.94%) Power Platform
4 242 (14.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 192 (11.86%) GCP
6 169 (10.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 166 (10.25%) Snowflake
8 155 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
9 145 (8.96%) Amazon S3
10 138 (8.52%) Serverless
11 111 (6.86%) GitHub
12 103 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (5.74%) dbt
14 55 (3.40%) Collibra
14 55 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
16 35 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (2.04%) SaaS
19 32 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.43%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.062%) DHCP
4 1 (0.062%) DNS
4 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.062%) SMS
4 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 477 (29.46%) Data Warehouse
2 396 (24.46%) Power BI
3 274 (16.92%) Data Lake
4 195 (12.04%) SQL Server
5 154 (9.51%) Metadata
6 108 (6.67%) Big Data
7 101 (6.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (6.24%) Tableau
8 94 (5.81%) Delta Lake
9 89 (5.50%) Azure SQL Database
10 85 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 84 (5.19%) NoSQL
12 79 (4.88%) Relational Database
13 77 (4.76%) Pentaho
14 73 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
15 70 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
16 69 (4.26%) BigQuery
17 59 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (3.58%) Oracle Reports
19 45 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (11.30%) Git
2 144 (8.89%) JIRA
3 96 (5.93%) GitLab
4 71 (4.39%) Jenkins
5 46 (2.84%) Postman
6 35 (2.16%) Zephyr
7 24 (1.48%) MLflow
8 19 (1.17%) Selenium
9 10 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.43%) JMeter
11 6 (0.37%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.31%) TestRail
13 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
13 4 (0.25%) Flyway
13 4 (0.25%) Gatling
13 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.25%) NUnit
13 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 415 (25.63%) Social Skills
2 409 (25.26%) Finance
3 267 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.66%) Banking
6 45 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.98%) Marketing
8 27 (1.67%) Retail
9 24 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.30%) Legal
11 15 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (0.80%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.68%) Law
13 11 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.62%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.43%) Front Office
17 7 (0.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 668 (41.26%) Data Engineer
2 202 (12.48%) Developer
3 186 (11.49%) Senior
4 182 (11.24%) Architect
5 172 (10.62%) Lead
6 130 (8.03%) Analyst
7 123 (7.60%) Senior Data Engineer
8 110 (6.79%) Data Architect
9 77 (4.76%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.15%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 49 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 49 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (2.72%) AWS Data Engineer
12 44 (2.72%) Python Engineer
13 37 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
14 36 (2.22%) Integration Engineer
15 35 (2.16%) Azure Data Engineer
16 34 (2.10%) Senior Developer
17 33 (2.04%) Data Migration Lead
18 32 (1.98%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.80%) PySpark
2 139 (8.59%) Kafka
3 96 (5.93%) REST
4 57 (3.52%) Pandas
5 45 (2.78%) .NET
6 38 (2.35%) JSON
7 35 (2.16%) XML
8 29 (1.79%) Middleware
9 27 (1.67%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.48%) NumPy
10 24 (1.48%) OAuth
10 24 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (1.48%) RESTful
11 23 (1.42%) Spring
12 22 (1.36%) pytest
13 20 (1.24%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.17%) Great Expectations
14 19 (1.17%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.11%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.05%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.08%) Cloud Native
2 108 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.37%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.84%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.36%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 16 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (0.99%) Clustering
11 16 (0.99%) Replication
12 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.86%) NHS
14 13 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.80%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.10%) Unix
2 30 (1.85%) Linux
3 20 (1.24%) Windows
4 12 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Solaris
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (47.07%) Data Modelling
2 630 (38.91%) Analytics
3 620 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
4 502 (31.01%) Business Intelligence
5 496 (30.64%) Data Engineering
6 462 (28.54%) CI/CD
7 398 (24.58%) Agile
8 376 (23.22%) DevOps
9 374 (23.10%) Migration
10 335 (20.69%) Data Governance
11 306 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
12 299 (18.47%) Validation
13 264 (16.31%) AI
14 253 (15.63%) Data Integration
15 243 (15.01%) Data Architecture
16 232 (14.33%) Data Migration
17 212 (13.09%) Decision-Making
18 201 (12.42%) Test Automation
19 175 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
20 174 (10.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,095 (67.63%) SQL
2 695 (42.93%) Python
3 147 (9.08%) Java
4 85 (5.25%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.63%) PL/SQL
6 72 (4.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 67 (4.14%) C#
8 51 (3.15%) Scala
9 40 (2.47%) JavaScript
10 30 (1.85%) PowerShell
11 24 (1.48%) Bash
12 21 (1.30%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.24%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.11%) R
15 15 (0.93%) Bicep
16 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.43%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.43%) VBA
18 6 (0.37%) Cypher
19 5 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 410 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 339 (20.94%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.24%) Degree
4 46 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.53%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.67%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.30%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
15 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 533 (32.92%) Data Quality
2 152 (9.39%) QA
3 104 (6.42%) GDPR
4 23 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.17%) IFRS
6 16 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.74%) PMO
8 12 (0.74%) SLA
9 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.49%) FATCA
10 7 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) GAAP
11 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.25%) HL7
12 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.19%) Basel III
System Software
1 113 (6.98%) Docker
2 8 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (9.02%) Terraform
2 119 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.41%) Grafana
4 18 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.05%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Control-M
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.062%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.062%) Kibana
9 1 (0.062%) logstash
Vendors
1 341 (21.06%) Databricks
2 300 (18.53%) Microsoft
3 281 (17.36%) Oracle
4 152 (9.39%) Informatica
5 134 (8.28%) Talend
6 65 (4.01%) SAP
7 60 (3.71%) Denodo
8 59 (3.64%) Google
9 48 (2.96%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.10%) IBM
11 25 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 22 (1.36%) Salesforce
13 20 (1.24%) Alteryx
14 18 (1.11%) Splunk
15 17 (1.05%) Sage
15 17 (1.05%) Workday
16 16 (0.99%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.62%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.62%) Red Hat
18 9 (0.56%) ESRI