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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,658 929 1,074
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.22% 2.97% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.79% 3.27% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 632 787
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.19% -5.86%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £606
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £485
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.64% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
10th Percentile £29.96 - £30.83
25th Percentile £34.51 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +5.49% -32.59%
75th Percentile £63.88 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.09 £85.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -25.64% +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 43,799 28,390 37,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.78% 85.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,227 17,909 23,638
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,638 1,396 2,532
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.21 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.66 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.26% -35.31% +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 3 July 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 3 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 3 July 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 +10 1,480 £500 -2.34% 439
UK excluding London +12 754 £469 +1.41% 283
London +6 736 £520 -3.21% 220
Work from Home +17 526 £500 - 220
Midlands +29 269 £459 +1.89% 52
West Midlands +44 234 £455 -8.54% 30
North of England -21 181 £463 -2.63% 65
South East +14 137 £473 -5.50% 98
North West -14 90 £450 -10.00% 40
Yorkshire -24 70 £500 +18.34% 15
South West -14 66 £523 +10.00% 44
Scotland -5 55 £425 -0.47% 6
East of England -3 45 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -14 34 £525 +18.89% 22
North East -23 21 £550 +30.95% 11
Wales -13 8 £313 -29.78% 7
Northern Ireland +2 3 £334 -36.38% 4

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
1 143 (8.62%) Apache Spark
2 133 (8.02%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.37%) Apache
4 77 (4.64%) SAS
5 65 (3.92%) Confluence
6 17 (1.03%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
10 6 (0.36%) Appian
10 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.24%) Camunda
12 4 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.66%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 669 (40.35%) Azure
2 515 (31.06%) AWS
3 410 (24.73%) Power Platform
4 221 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 202 (12.18%) GCP
6 187 (11.28%) Snowflake
7 153 (9.23%) Amazon S3
7 153 (9.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 151 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
9 142 (8.56%) Serverless
10 114 (6.88%) dbt
11 112 (6.76%) AWS Lambda
12 111 (6.69%) GitHub
13 57 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
15 48 (2.90%) Collibra
16 38 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.87%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
19 26 (1.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 12 (0.72%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) 4G
6 1 (0.060%) 5G
6 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.060%) DHCP
6 1 (0.060%) DNS
6 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 505 (30.46%) Data Warehouse
2 390 (23.52%) Power BI
3 252 (15.20%) Data Lake
4 170 (10.25%) SQL Server
5 149 (8.99%) Metadata
6 101 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
7 100 (6.03%) Delta Lake
7 100 (6.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 99 (5.97%) Big Data
9 98 (5.91%) Tableau
10 89 (5.37%) Relational Database
11 84 (5.07%) NoSQL
11 84 (5.07%) Pentaho
12 82 (4.95%) BigQuery
13 75 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 74 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (4.16%) Snowflake Schema
16 63 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
17 61 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (2.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (11.58%) Git
2 153 (9.23%) JIRA
3 96 (5.79%) GitLab
4 71 (4.28%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.59%) Postman
6 39 (2.35%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.33%) MLflow
8 13 (0.78%) Selenium
9 7 (0.42%) ERwin
9 7 (0.42%) JMeter
10 6 (0.36%) Gatling
10 6 (0.36%) NeoLoad
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 413 (24.91%) Social Skills
2 398 (24.00%) Finance
3 290 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 179 (10.80%) Public Sector
5 119 (7.18%) Banking
6 48 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.87%) Marketing
8 30 (1.81%) Retail
9 24 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.45%) Legal
10 22 (1.33%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.21%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.21%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.66%) Billing
13 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.54%) Law
13 9 (0.54%) Publishing
14 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 680 (41.01%) Data Engineer
2 222 (13.39%) Developer
3 214 (12.91%) Architect
4 189 (11.40%) Senior
5 175 (10.55%) Lead
6 131 (7.90%) Data Architect
7 127 (7.66%) Senior Data Engineer
8 121 (7.30%) Analyst
9 66 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
12 50 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.77%) AWS Data Engineer
14 42 (2.53%) Python Engineer
14 42 (2.53%) Snowflake Engineer
14 42 (2.53%) SQL Developer
15 40 (2.41%) Lead Data Engineer
16 38 (2.29%) Azure Data Engineer
17 35 (2.11%) Data Migration Lead
18 34 (2.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.52%) PySpark
2 144 (8.69%) Kafka
3 79 (4.76%) REST
4 48 (2.90%) JSON
5 46 (2.77%) Pandas
6 43 (2.59%) .NET
7 34 (2.05%) XML
8 28 (1.69%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) Spring
10 25 (1.51%) Spring Boot
11 24 (1.45%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.27%) OAuth
12 21 (1.27%) RESTful
13 19 (1.15%) pytest
14 18 (1.09%) NumPy
14 18 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
14 18 (1.09%) React
14 18 (1.09%) YAML
15 17 (1.03%) Web Services
16 16 (0.97%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.01%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 23 (1.39%) NHS
9 22 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 21 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.27%) Reference Data
11 19 (1.15%) Clustering
12 16 (0.97%) Replication
13 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.84%) Taxonomies
15 13 (0.78%) IoT
15 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 39 (2.35%) Unix
2 35 (2.11%) Linux
3 20 (1.21%) Windows
4 11 (0.66%) Solaris
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (46.86%) Data Modelling
2 666 (40.17%) Data Pipeline
3 639 (38.54%) Analytics
4 521 (31.42%) Data Engineering
5 496 (29.92%) CI/CD
6 485 (29.25%) Business Intelligence
7 430 (25.93%) Agile
8 420 (25.33%) Migration
9 371 (22.38%) DevOps
10 347 (20.93%) Data Governance
11 326 (19.66%) Validation
12 318 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
13 302 (18.21%) Data Integration
14 283 (17.07%) AI
15 253 (15.26%) Data Migration
16 250 (15.08%) Data Architecture
17 226 (13.63%) Decision-Making
18 220 (13.27%) Test Automation
19 199 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 176 (10.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,114 (67.19%) SQL
2 690 (41.62%) Python
3 142 (8.56%) Java
4 93 (5.61%) T-SQL
5 77 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 73 (4.40%) PL/SQL
7 62 (3.74%) C#
8 55 (3.32%) Scala
9 39 (2.35%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.69%) Bash
12 26 (1.57%) TypeScript
13 24 (1.45%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.03%) R
15 16 (0.97%) Bicep
16 11 (0.66%) Cypher
17 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) VBA
18 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
18 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 450 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 372 (22.44%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.15%) Degree
4 47 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.12%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (33.53%) Data Quality
2 147 (8.87%) QA
3 115 (6.94%) GDPR
4 18 (1.09%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (0.84%) IFRS
7 13 (0.78%) PMO
8 11 (0.66%) IFRS 17
9 10 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.60%) SLA
10 9 (0.54%) GRC
11 8 (0.48%) FATCA
12 7 (0.42%) Solvency II
13 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
14 4 (0.24%) GMP
14 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.24%) HL7
14 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
15 3 (0.18%) GAAP
System Software
1 116 (7.00%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.36%) Active Directory
5 5 (0.30%) HDFS
6 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.060%) RACF
7 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (9.23%) Terraform
2 126 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.47%) Grafana
4 18 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.97%) Ansible
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.30%) Control-M
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 331 (19.96%) Databricks
2 293 (17.67%) Oracle
3 291 (17.55%) Microsoft
4 158 (9.53%) Informatica
5 142 (8.56%) Talend
6 74 (4.46%) SAP
7 66 (3.98%) Google
8 62 (3.74%) Denodo
9 41 (2.47%) ServiceNow
10 39 (2.35%) IBM
11 34 (2.05%) Salesforce
12 28 (1.69%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.33%) Sage
14 19 (1.15%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.09%) Splunk
16 17 (1.03%) OpenAI
17 14 (0.84%) Palantir
18 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 12 (0.72%) Workday
19 11 (0.66%) ESRI