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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 78 96
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,547 885 1,004
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.38% 3.02% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.34% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 592 752
10th Percentile £358 £332 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -0.38%
75th Percentile £585 £613 £638
90th Percentile £682 £690 £737
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.35 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +16.09%
75th Percentile £70.08 £87.67 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £100.62 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £84.56 £30.37
% change year-on-year -24.31% +178.42% -15.64%

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 38,904 26,533 37,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.62% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,602 17,197 24,340
10th Percentile £315 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,022 2,384
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.99 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.38 £18.86 £15.88
Median hourly rate £37.00 £30.79 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +20.16% -6.87% -8.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.88 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.13 £75.00 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £33.03
% change year-on-year +27.59% -12.21% -8.24%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 +20 1,386 £500 -4.76% 422
London +31 757 £513 -5.75% 184
UK excluding London +14 637 £470 -1.05% 301
Work from Home +7 470 £500 - 187
Midlands +19 223 £473 -0.53% 66
West Midlands +21 190 £475 -4.33% 45
North of England -17 169 £460 +2.22% 70
North West -3 90 £442 -4.38% 46
South East -28 83 £475 -5.47% 92
South West -16 66 £525 +5.00% 34
Yorkshire -33 63 £500 +42.86% 20
Scotland -3 50 £450 +5.88% 9
East of England 0 44 £510 +10.27% 26
East Midlands -20 33 £465 +13.41% 21
North East -12 15 £538 +13.16% 6
Wales -15 7 £325 -25.71% 6
Northern Ireland +2 6 £400 -20.00% 1

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
1 145 (9.37%) Apache Spark
2 122 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (5.95%) Apache
4 76 (4.91%) SAS
5 39 (2.52%) Confluence
6 18 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
7 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.58%) Appian
8 9 (0.58%) nginx
9 8 (0.52%) Oracle Application Server
9 8 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.26%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 46 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Notepad++
5 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 15 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.32%) Maximo
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 647 (41.82%) Azure
2 480 (31.03%) AWS
3 383 (24.76%) Power Platform
4 245 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (11.76%) GCP
6 179 (11.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 162 (10.47%) Amazon S3
8 158 (10.21%) Snowflake
9 137 (8.86%) Serverless
10 128 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
11 118 (7.63%) GitHub
12 101 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (5.82%) dbt
14 54 (3.49%) Collibra
15 52 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (2.13%) SaaS
19 32 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (2.07%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.65%) HTTP
2 7 (0.45%) Firewall
2 7 (0.45%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.45%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) 4G
4 2 (0.13%) 5G
4 2 (0.13%) DSL
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.065%) 2G
5 1 (0.065%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.065%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (30.32%) Data Warehouse
2 361 (23.34%) Power BI
3 244 (15.77%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.22%) SQL Server
5 171 (11.05%) Metadata
6 100 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (6.33%) Tableau
8 94 (6.08%) Big Data
9 91 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 86 (5.56%) Delta Lake
11 86 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
12 81 (5.24%) Relational Database
13 77 (4.98%) Pentaho
14 75 (4.85%) NoSQL
15 74 (4.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 61 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (3.94%) BigQuery
17 50 (3.23%) Star Schema
18 46 (2.97%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 185 (11.96%) Git
2 130 (8.40%) JIRA
3 84 (5.43%) Jenkins
4 71 (4.59%) GitLab
5 36 (2.33%) Postman
6 25 (1.62%) MLflow
7 19 (1.23%) Zephyr
8 14 (0.90%) ERwin
8 14 (0.90%) Selenium
9 7 (0.45%) JMeter
9 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.32%) NUnit
10 5 (0.32%) TestRail
11 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.26%) MSTest
11 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 433 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 400 (25.86%) Finance
3 274 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 104 (6.72%) Banking
6 38 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.62%) Marketing
8 24 (1.55%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.55%) Legal
9 20 (1.29%) Retail
10 17 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 17 (1.10%) Telecoms
11 15 (0.97%) Law
11 15 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 12 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.39%) Military
15 6 (0.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 630 (40.72%) Data Engineer
2 202 (13.06%) Developer
3 176 (11.38%) Senior
4 167 (10.80%) Architect
5 158 (10.21%) Lead
6 136 (8.79%) Analyst
7 112 (7.24%) Senior Data Engineer
8 98 (6.33%) Data Architect
9 89 (5.75%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (3.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 44 (2.84%) Snowflake Engineer
14 42 (2.71%) AWS Data Engineer
15 38 (2.46%) Azure Data Engineer
15 38 (2.46%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 35 (2.26%) Lead Data Engineer
17 33 (2.13%) Consultant
17 33 (2.13%) Senior Developer
18 32 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (12.15%) PySpark
2 147 (9.50%) Kafka
3 98 (6.33%) REST
4 55 (3.56%) Pandas
5 46 (2.97%) JSON
6 39 (2.52%) XML
7 37 (2.39%) .NET
8 31 (2.00%) RESTful
9 29 (1.87%) NumPy
10 26 (1.68%) OAuth
11 23 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
12 22 (1.42%) PyTorch
13 21 (1.36%) Middleware
13 21 (1.36%) pytest
14 20 (1.29%) Great Expectations
15 19 (1.23%) YAML
16 18 (1.16%) Spring
17 17 (1.10%) scikit-learn
18 16 (1.03%) Spring Boot
18 16 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 130 (8.40%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 80 (5.17%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (1.81%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.16%) Reference Data
12 17 (1.10%) Algorithms
12 17 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (0.97%) NHS
14 14 (0.90%) Clustering
14 14 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.84%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.84%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.33%) Unix
2 29 (1.87%) Linux
3 18 (1.16%) Windows
4 11 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (48.93%) Data Modelling
2 656 (42.40%) Analytics
3 590 (38.14%) Data Pipeline
4 504 (32.58%) Data Engineering
5 494 (31.93%) Business Intelligence
6 457 (29.54%) CI/CD
7 386 (24.95%) Agile
8 371 (23.98%) Data Governance
9 358 (23.14%) DevOps
10 329 (21.27%) Migration
11 325 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
12 284 (18.36%) Validation
13 250 (16.16%) Data Integration
14 248 (16.03%) Data Architecture
15 210 (13.57%) Data Migration
16 209 (13.51%) AI
17 206 (13.32%) Decision-Making
18 175 (11.31%) Test Automation
19 171 (11.05%) Data Science
20 165 (10.67%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,043 (67.42%) SQL
2 694 (44.86%) Python
3 136 (8.79%) Java
4 69 (4.46%) C#
4 69 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 62 (4.01%) PL/SQL
5 62 (4.01%) T-SQL
6 55 (3.56%) Scala
7 37 (2.39%) PowerShell
8 35 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 25 (1.62%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.29%) Bash
11 19 (1.23%) R
12 18 (1.16%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.10%) Bicep
14 10 (0.65%) Go
15 9 (0.58%) PHP
15 9 (0.58%) VBA
16 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 378 (24.43%) Security Cleared
2 302 (19.52%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.11%) Degree
4 57 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (2.97%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.78%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.52%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.26%) PMP
16 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (34.78%) Data Quality
2 140 (9.05%) QA
3 122 (7.89%) GDPR
4 22 (1.42%) IFRS
5 21 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.10%) IFRS 17
8 12 (0.78%) PMO
9 9 (0.58%) SLA
10 8 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.39%) GRC
11 6 (0.39%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
12 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.26%) MiFID
14 3 (0.19%) Basel III
14 3 (0.19%) FATCA
System Software
1 138 (8.92%) Docker
2 9 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.26%) HDFS
6 1 (0.065%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.065%) RACF
6 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (9.76%) Terraform
2 140 (9.05%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.81%) Grafana
4 20 (1.29%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.97%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) logstash
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.065%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 321 (20.75%) Databricks
2 285 (18.42%) Microsoft
3 238 (15.38%) Oracle
4 149 (9.63%) Informatica
5 129 (8.34%) Talend
6 68 (4.40%) SAP
7 64 (4.14%) Google
8 63 (4.07%) Denodo
9 49 (3.17%) ServiceNow
10 35 (2.26%) IBM
11 30 (1.94%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.62%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.23%) Workday
14 18 (1.16%) Splunk
15 16 (1.03%) Sage
16 15 (0.97%) Ab Initio
17 14 (0.90%) Alteryx
18 12 (0.78%) Palantir
19 11 (0.71%) OpenAI
19 11 (0.71%) Teradata