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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 91 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,678 928 986
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.12% 2.82% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 3.11% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 627 698
10th Percentile £360 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £594 £597 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.70 £32.22
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.47 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -40.97%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -45.64% +105.80% -58.40%

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 45,455 29,807 32,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.58% 90.45% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,783 18,569 20,737
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,905 1,767 1,609
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.30 £18.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +3.56%
75th Percentile £67.84 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +92.49% -47.37% +14.67%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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 31 August 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 +9 1,479 £500 - 485
London -1 760 £520 -0.95% 296
UK excluding London +15 715 £470 -1.05% 285
Work from Home +13 527 £500 - 222
Midlands +21 244 £469 +1.41% 42
West Midlands +35 209 £469 -6.20% 33
North of England -7 182 £475 +2.70% 71
South East +21 141 £458 -2.24% 90
Yorkshire -3 80 £469 +11.61% 14
North West -19 79 £470 -6.00% 43
South West -28 62 £523 +10.00% 40
East of England +6 48 £475 -9.52% 13
Scotland -12 38 £440 -3.56% 16
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +13.10% 9
North East -18 24 £520 +18.86% 14
Wales -11 8 £313 -33.86% 8
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 6

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
1 131 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
2 128 (7.63%) Apache Spark
3 98 (5.84%) Apache
4 96 (5.72%) SAS
5 63 (3.75%) Confluence
6 28 (1.67%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.72%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 6 (0.36%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 30 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 19 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 667 (39.75%) Azure
2 511 (30.45%) AWS
3 394 (23.48%) Power Platform
4 230 (13.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 224 (13.35%) Snowflake
6 221 (13.17%) GCP
7 149 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
8 146 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 140 (8.34%) Serverless
10 139 (8.28%) Amazon S3
11 129 (7.69%) dbt
12 118 (7.03%) GitHub
13 113 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.80%) Amazon EMR
16 45 (2.68%) Azure Databricks
17 39 (2.32%) Collibra
18 34 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (1.91%) Power Automate
20 31 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.72%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) HTTP
3 8 (0.48%) VPN
4 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.18%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.060%) LTE
7 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 584 (34.80%) Data Warehouse
2 382 (22.77%) Power BI
3 264 (15.73%) Data Lake
4 167 (9.95%) Metadata
5 157 (9.36%) SQL Server
6 111 (6.62%) Relational Database
7 108 (6.44%) Amazon Redshift
8 96 (5.72%) BigQuery
9 94 (5.60%) Delta Lake
10 90 (5.36%) Tableau
11 84 (5.01%) Big Data
11 84 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 71 (4.23%) Oracle Reports
13 70 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
14 69 (4.11%) NoSQL
15 64 (3.81%) Pentaho
16 63 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
18 60 (3.58%) Oracle Database
19 59 (3.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (10.67%) Git
2 141 (8.40%) JIRA
3 102 (6.08%) GitLab
4 57 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.09%) Postman
7 15 (0.89%) Selenium
8 12 (0.72%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.36%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 400 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 369 (21.99%) Finance
3 318 (18.95%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.81%) Banking
6 36 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (2.03%) Retail
8 29 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (1.49%) Legal
9 25 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.43%) Marketing
11 21 (1.25%) Law
12 18 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 16 (0.95%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.77%) Billing
14 13 (0.77%) Front Office
14 13 (0.77%) Police
15 12 (0.72%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 654 (38.97%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.84%) Developer
3 235 (14.00%) Architect
3 235 (14.00%) Senior
4 163 (9.71%) Lead
5 153 (9.12%) Senior Data Engineer
6 131 (7.81%) Data Architect
7 123 (7.33%) Analyst
8 67 (3.99%) Azure Engineer
9 61 (3.64%) Data Analyst
10 54 (3.22%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
12 50 (2.98%) Databricks Engineer
13 46 (2.74%) Snowflake Engineer
14 44 (2.62%) Tester
15 43 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
15 43 (2.56%) Databricks Data Engineer
16 40 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 39 (2.32%) Oracle Developer
18 38 (2.26%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (10.37%) PySpark
2 153 (9.12%) Terraform
3 136 (8.10%) Kafka
4 73 (4.35%) REST
5 59 (3.52%) JSON
6 48 (2.86%) .NET
7 31 (1.85%) Pandas
8 29 (1.73%) XML
9 27 (1.61%) React
10 25 (1.49%) Middleware
11 23 (1.37%) Spring
11 23 (1.37%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.01%) YAML
13 14 (0.83%) pytest
14 13 (0.77%) SOAP
15 12 (0.72%) OAuth
16 11 (0.66%) HTML
16 11 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
16 11 (0.66%) RESTful
16 11 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 75 (4.47%) Legacy Systems
4 57 (3.40%) Product Ownership
5 55 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 36 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 27 (1.61%) NHS
8 25 (1.49%) AI Agents
9 24 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 20 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.19%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.01%) Clustering
13 17 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
13 17 (1.01%) Replication
14 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
15 14 (0.83%) IoT
16 13 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (0.72%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 63 (3.75%) Linux
2 58 (3.46%) Unix
3 17 (1.01%) 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
1 794 (47.32%) Data Modelling
2 701 (41.78%) Data Pipeline
3 644 (38.38%) Analytics
4 540 (32.18%) Data Engineering
5 514 (30.63%) CI/CD
6 474 (28.25%) Agile
7 471 (28.07%) Business Intelligence
8 446 (26.58%) Migration
9 396 (23.60%) Data Integration
10 384 (22.88%) DevOps
11 351 (20.92%) Data Governance
12 328 (19.55%) Validation
13 297 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
14 290 (17.28%) AI
15 266 (15.85%) Data Migration
16 265 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
17 246 (14.66%) Data Architecture
18 237 (14.12%) Data Transformation
19 216 (12.87%) Test Automation
20 200 (11.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,113 (66.33%) SQL
2 647 (38.56%) Python
3 148 (8.82%) Java
4 88 (5.24%) PL/SQL
5 82 (4.89%) T-SQL
6 63 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 53 (3.16%) C#
8 50 (2.98%) Scala
9 48 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 47 (2.80%) JavaScript
11 39 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 34 (2.03%) Bash
13 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.19%) R
15 19 (1.13%) Bicep
16 9 (0.54%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) Cypher
18 6 (0.36%) Perl
19 5 (0.30%) SPARQL
19 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 469 (27.95%) Security Cleared
2 400 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 73 (4.35%) Degree
4 53 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.79%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.31%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 606 (36.11%) Data Quality
2 136 (8.10%) QA
3 86 (5.13%) GDPR
4 39 (2.32%) GRC
5 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) PMO
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.36%) SLA
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) NIST
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 117 (6.97%) 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 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 117 (6.97%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.32%) Grafana
3 20 (1.19%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 356 (21.22%) Databricks
2 323 (19.25%) Oracle
3 297 (17.70%) Microsoft
4 142 (8.46%) Informatica
5 117 (6.97%) Talend
6 75 (4.47%) Google
7 74 (4.41%) SAP
8 57 (3.40%) Denodo
9 49 (2.92%) IBM
10 35 (2.09%) ServiceNow
11 34 (2.03%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.19%) Palantir
14 17 (1.01%) Teradata
15 16 (0.95%) Foundry
16 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.72%) MuleSoft
18 11 (0.66%) Sage
18 11 (0.66%) Workday
19 10 (0.60%) Cloudera