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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 88 83
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,650 951 1,029
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.92% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.22% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,179 653 709
10th Percentile £358 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £481 £493
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.28% -6.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.33 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -62.33%

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 46,073 29,551 32,512
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.64% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,867 18,364 19,652
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £731 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,200 1,847 1,359
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.05% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.88 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 0 1,444 £500 -1.48% 1,054
London -5 761 £524 -0.24% 569
UK excluding London +10 683 £469 -2.55% 566
Work from Home 0 495 £500 -0.79% 503
Midlands +21 228 £469 -5.73% 107
West Midlands +23 197 £469 -8.04% 83
North of England -20 166 £463 -2.63% 166
South East +10 131 £459 -3.37% 95
South West -5 82 £506 +6.53% 66
Yorkshire 0 76 £460 - 51
North West -31 69 £475 -5.00% 99
Scotland -22 41 £428 -10.00% 58
East of England -17 38 £475 -9.52% 35
East Midlands -11 30 £486 +10.45% 24
North East -23 22 £481 +10.00% 18
Wales -15 8 £313 -37.19% 11
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -26.79% 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
1 141 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 138 (8.36%) Apache Airflow
3 109 (6.61%) Apache
4 89 (5.39%) SAS
5 62 (3.76%) Confluence
6 26 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.73%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.55%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.30%) 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%) Appian
Applications
1 33 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 636 (38.55%) Azure
2 494 (29.94%) AWS
3 352 (21.33%) Power Platform
4 239 (14.48%) GCP
5 233 (14.12%) Snowflake
6 217 (13.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 142 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (8.55%) dbt
9 133 (8.06%) Amazon S3
10 131 (7.94%) Serverless
11 126 (7.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 109 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
13 106 (6.42%) GitHub
14 60 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
15 48 (2.91%) Azure Databricks
16 35 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (2.00%) SaaS
18 32 (1.94%) Collibra
19 30 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.61%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.061%) DMZ
6 1 (0.061%) Internet
6 1 (0.061%) LTE
6 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 564 (34.18%) Data Warehouse
2 340 (20.61%) Power BI
3 252 (15.27%) Data Lake
4 164 (9.94%) Metadata
5 144 (8.73%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.79%) BigQuery
7 111 (6.73%) Relational Database
8 102 (6.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 90 (5.45%) Big Data
9 90 (5.45%) Delta Lake
10 81 (4.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 81 (4.91%) Tableau
11 76 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
12 70 (4.24%) Oracle Reports
13 69 (4.18%) NoSQL
14 61 (3.70%) Pentaho
15 60 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
16 57 (3.45%) Oracle Database
17 48 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
18 44 (2.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 187 (11.33%) Git
2 139 (8.42%) JIRA
3 104 (6.30%) GitLab
4 56 (3.39%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.42%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.24%) Postman
7 18 (1.09%) Selenium
8 14 (0.85%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 407 (24.67%) Social Skills
2 358 (21.70%) Finance
3 293 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 160 (9.70%) Banking
6 40 (2.42%) Retail
7 35 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.45%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.45%) Marketing
9 23 (1.39%) Law
10 22 (1.33%) Legal
11 19 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.15%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.09%) Front Office
13 15 (0.91%) Billing
14 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.85%) Police
15 11 (0.67%) Military
15 11 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 656 (39.76%) Data Engineer
2 241 (14.61%) Senior
3 236 (14.30%) Developer
4 229 (13.88%) Architect
5 156 (9.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 149 (9.03%) Lead
7 122 (7.39%) Data Architect
8 121 (7.33%) Analyst
9 71 (4.30%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (3.82%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.52%) Data Analyst
12 56 (3.39%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 53 (3.21%) Azure Data Engineer
14 44 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
15 43 (2.61%) Tester
16 41 (2.48%) Consultant
16 41 (2.48%) Snowflake Engineer
17 40 (2.42%) Python Engineer
18 38 (2.30%) SQL Developer
19 36 (2.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (9.27%) PySpark
2 150 (9.09%) Terraform
3 129 (7.82%) Kafka
4 77 (4.67%) REST
5 55 (3.33%) JSON
6 50 (3.03%) .NET
7 30 (1.82%) React
7 30 (1.82%) XML
8 29 (1.76%) Middleware
8 29 (1.76%) Pandas
9 24 (1.45%) Spring
9 24 (1.45%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.09%) SOAP
10 18 (1.09%) YAML
11 17 (1.03%) pytest
12 13 (0.79%) HTML
12 13 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (0.73%) LangChain
13 12 (0.73%) Web Services
14 11 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.79%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (3.58%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.58%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.45%) NHS
11 22 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.33%) Replication
12 20 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.97%) Clustering
15 15 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.91%) Data Fabric
16 14 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
17 12 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.00%) Linux
2 61 (3.70%) Unix
3 20 (1.21%) Windows
4 5 (0.30%) Solaris
5 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.12%) HPUX
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (46.06%) Data Modelling
2 690 (41.82%) Data Pipeline
3 611 (37.03%) Analytics
4 545 (33.03%) Data Engineering
5 518 (31.39%) CI/CD
6 474 (28.73%) Agile
7 456 (27.64%) Migration
8 428 (25.94%) Business Intelligence
9 398 (24.12%) Data Integration
10 377 (22.85%) DevOps
11 346 (20.97%) Validation
12 337 (20.42%) Data Governance
13 314 (19.03%) AI
14 301 (18.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 283 (17.15%) Problem-Solving
16 256 (15.52%) Data Migration
17 248 (15.03%) Data Architecture
18 236 (14.30%) Data Transformation
19 213 (12.91%) Test Automation
20 186 (11.27%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,094 (66.30%) SQL
2 662 (40.12%) Python
3 139 (8.42%) Java
4 88 (5.33%) PL/SQL
5 80 (4.85%) T-SQL
6 56 (3.39%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.09%) Scala
8 50 (3.03%) C#
9 44 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.36%) Shell Script
11 36 (2.18%) Bash
12 22 (1.33%) R
13 20 (1.21%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.09%) Bicep
15 13 (0.79%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Go
17 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 455 (27.58%) Security Cleared
2 395 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.88%) Degree
4 55 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.24%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.88%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.70%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.24%) CISM
16 4 (0.24%) CISSP
16 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.18%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (35.21%) Data Quality
2 142 (8.61%) QA
3 70 (4.24%) GDPR
4 36 (2.18%) GRC
5 25 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.61%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) PMO
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 111 (6.73%) Docker
2 16 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
4 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
Systems Management
1 114 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.12%) Grafana
3 20 (1.21%) Ansible
4 15 (0.91%) Control-M
5 12 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.061%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 371 (22.48%) Databricks
2 313 (18.97%) Oracle
3 285 (17.27%) Microsoft
4 121 (7.33%) Informatica
5 107 (6.48%) Talend
6 92 (5.58%) Google
7 67 (4.06%) SAP
8 50 (3.03%) IBM
9 49 (2.97%) Denodo
10 38 (2.30%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.88%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.58%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.15%) Foundry
13 19 (1.15%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.09%) Palantir
14 18 (1.09%) Teradata
15 11 (0.67%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.61%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.61%) Sage
17 9 (0.55%) ESRI