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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 76 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,165 923 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.09% 2.93% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.30% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 604 742
10th Percentile £363 £354 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £684 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £32.50 - £45.28
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +68.06%
75th Percentile £73.37 £78.70 £71.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.80 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.46% -45.00% +42.86%

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 33,018 28,000 37,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.63% 88.93% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 16,996 25,071
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £645
90th Percentile £720 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,000 892 1,828
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.10
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -13.33% +17.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.37 £74.99 £75.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.55 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.24% -23.05% +53.85%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -4 1,005 £500 -4.76% 490
London +13 620 £525 - 157
UK excluding London -23 401 £500 +0.50% 428
Work from Home -7 370 £511 +2.25% 245
Midlands -6 118 £519 +5.82% 64
North of England -40 110 £450 -2.70% 73
West Midlands -2 95 £523 +5.98% 35
North West -13 72 £442 -4.38% 35
South East -40 58 £425 -22.73% 162
South West -8 52 £550 -10.20% 47
Scotland +6 38 £500 +11.11% 18
Yorkshire -60 28 £475 +15.85% 28
East Midlands -17 23 £449 +16.49% 29
East of England -19 18 £575 +9.52% 47
Northern Ireland +11 15 £400 +3.23% 6
North East -13 9 £450 -9.55% 10
Wales -8 8 £495 -3.88% 18

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
1 107 (9.18%) Apache Spark
2 88 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
3 77 (6.61%) Apache
4 52 (4.46%) SAS
5 15 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.12%) Confluence
7 7 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.43%) Appian
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.26%) Luigi
11 3 (0.26%) nginx
11 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.086%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.34%) Trello
6 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.086%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.43%) Maximo
7 5 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.34%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 499 (42.83%) Azure
2 375 (32.19%) AWS
3 263 (22.58%) Power Platform
4 192 (16.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 159 (13.65%) GCP
6 151 (12.96%) Snowflake
7 133 (11.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 120 (10.30%) Amazon S3
9 112 (9.61%) Serverless
10 92 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
11 77 (6.61%) GitHub
12 73 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (4.81%) dbt
14 36 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (3.09%) SaaS
15 35 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (2.23%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (2.23%) Power Automate
17 25 (2.15%) Azure Functions
17 25 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.52%) 2G
1 6 (0.52%) 5G
1 6 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.43%) 4G
3 2 (0.17%) BGP
3 2 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.17%) DSL
3 2 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) HTTP
3 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.17%) OSPF
3 2 (0.17%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.086%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.086%) Internet
4 1 (0.086%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.086%) Multicast
4 1 (0.086%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (29.44%) Data Warehouse
2 249 (21.37%) Power BI
3 200 (17.17%) Data Lake
4 137 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 107 (9.18%) Metadata
6 84 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.21%) Relational Database
7 81 (6.95%) Big Data
8 77 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 73 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 67 (5.75%) Tableau
11 62 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
12 57 (4.89%) BigQuery
13 55 (4.72%) NoSQL
14 54 (4.64%) Pentaho
15 51 (4.38%) Delta Lake
16 46 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
17 45 (3.86%) Oracle Database
17 45 (3.86%) Snowflake Schema
18 34 (2.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (11.85%) Git
2 91 (7.81%) JIRA
3 73 (6.27%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.86%) GitLab
5 25 (2.15%) Postman
6 19 (1.63%) ERwin
7 16 (1.37%) MLflow
8 13 (1.12%) Selenium
9 10 (0.86%) JMeter
10 8 (0.69%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.60%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.60%) TestRail
12 6 (0.52%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.52%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.43%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.34%) Gatling
14 4 (0.34%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.34%) Toad
15 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 354 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 303 (26.01%) Finance
3 194 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.12%) Banking
6 25 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.97%) Retail
8 22 (1.89%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.55%) Marketing
10 15 (1.29%) Legal
11 14 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.03%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.94%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.86%) Law
15 8 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.60%) Front Office
16 7 (0.60%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.60%) Publishing
17 6 (0.52%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 425 (36.48%) Data Engineer
2 155 (13.30%) Developer
3 129 (11.07%) Senior
4 121 (10.39%) Lead
5 116 (9.96%) Analyst
6 111 (9.53%) Architect
7 77 (6.61%) Data Analyst
8 74 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 68 (5.84%) Data Architect
10 53 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
11 41 (3.52%) Azure Data Engineer
12 36 (3.09%) Consultant
13 34 (2.92%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 33 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
15 32 (2.75%) Python Engineer
16 31 (2.66%) Business Analyst
17 28 (2.40%) Senior Developer
17 28 (2.40%) Snowflake Engineer
18 27 (2.32%) AWS Data Engineer
19 22 (1.89%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (12.02%) PySpark
2 94 (8.07%) Kafka
3 83 (7.12%) REST
4 45 (3.86%) XML
5 40 (3.43%) Pandas
6 39 (3.35%) JSON
7 27 (2.32%) NumPy
8 26 (2.23%) .NET
9 25 (2.15%) Node.js
10 24 (2.06%) RESTful
11 23 (1.97%) OAuth
12 21 (1.80%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.55%) Middleware
14 17 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
14 17 (1.46%) pytest
14 17 (1.46%) SOAP
15 15 (1.29%) React
16 14 (1.20%) Hugging Face
16 14 (1.20%) TensorFlow
17 13 (1.12%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.47%) Cloud Native
2 85 (7.30%) Data Structures
3 54 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 21 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 20 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.63%) Replication
9 18 (1.55%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.29%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.94%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.86%) Data Fabric
14 10 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.86%) IoT
15 9 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.00%) Linux
2 19 (1.63%) Unix
3 11 (0.94%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) VMS
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.086%) Solaris
6 1 (0.086%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (45.84%) Data Modelling
2 474 (40.69%) Analytics
3 448 (38.45%) Data Pipeline
4 371 (31.85%) Business Intelligence
5 340 (29.18%) Data Engineering
6 334 (28.67%) CI/CD
7 296 (25.41%) Agile
8 279 (23.95%) DevOps
9 267 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
10 258 (22.15%) Data Governance
11 226 (19.40%) Migration
12 208 (17.85%) Data Integration
13 187 (16.05%) Data Architecture
14 166 (14.25%) Validation
15 154 (13.22%) Data Migration
16 138 (11.85%) Data Science
17 132 (11.33%) Machine Learning
18 129 (11.07%) AI
19 127 (10.90%) Data Transformation
20 120 (10.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 741 (63.61%) SQL
2 574 (49.27%) Python
3 99 (8.50%) Java
4 51 (4.38%) C#
5 50 (4.29%) Scala
6 43 (3.69%) JavaScript
7 42 (3.61%) PL/SQL
8 40 (3.43%) T-SQL
9 37 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 27 (2.32%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.55%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.37%) Go
13 15 (1.29%) R
13 15 (1.29%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.20%) Bash
14 14 (1.20%) PHP
15 12 (1.03%) Bicep
16 10 (0.86%) VBA
17 6 (0.52%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.43%) Korn
Qualifications
1 220 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 171 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 81 (6.95%) Degree
4 50 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (4.03%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 25 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.77%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.77%) PMP
11 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.34%) MCP
14 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.26%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.086%) CSPO
16 1 (0.086%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (32.79%) Data Quality
2 87 (7.47%) GDPR
3 83 (7.12%) QA
4 25 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.46%) IFRS
5 17 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.12%) IFRS 17
7 7 (0.60%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.43%) GAAP
8 5 (0.43%) MiFID
8 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.43%) SLA
9 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.26%) Basel III
9 3 (0.26%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.26%) NIST
9 3 (0.26%) PMO
9 3 (0.26%) WCAG
10 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 127 (10.90%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.43%) zsh
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.17%) KVM
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.086%) HDFS
5 1 (0.086%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 124 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 111 (9.53%) Terraform
3 14 (1.20%) Ansible
4 13 (1.12%) Grafana
5 7 (0.60%) Kibana
6 6 (0.52%) logstash
7 4 (0.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.086%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.086%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.086%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.086%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.086%) Puppet
10 1 (0.086%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.086%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 251 (21.55%) Databricks
2 199 (17.08%) Microsoft
3 162 (13.91%) Oracle
4 79 (6.78%) Informatica
5 78 (6.70%) Talend
6 50 (4.29%) SAP
7 49 (4.21%) Google
8 41 (3.52%) Denodo
9 33 (2.83%) Salesforce
10 30 (2.58%) ServiceNow
11 21 (1.80%) IBM
12 17 (1.46%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.37%) Palantir
14 14 (1.20%) Workday
15 13 (1.12%) Foundry
16 11 (0.94%) Ab Initio
17 10 (0.86%) Alteryx
17 10 (0.86%) Cognos
18 8 (0.69%) OpenAI
19 7 (0.60%) Avaloq