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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 76 92
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,616 884 1,007
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 3.03% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.33% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,190 602 746
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -3.90% -
75th Percentile £588 £617 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 14
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £57.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +16.16% +5.74%
75th Percentile £69.00 £97.12 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.66 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -34.65% +199.81% -23.84%

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 40,321 26,530 37,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.95% 86.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,358 17,078 23,948
10th Percentile £321 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.30% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,401 1,077 2,439
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.47 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £27.13 £37.50
% change year-on-year +62.21% -27.67% +7.14%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +14 1,445 £500 -4.76% 341
London +21 765 £513 -4.56% 163
UK excluding London +12 697 £469 -1.26% 213
Work from Home +20 489 £500 - 167
Midlands +26 241 £469 -1.26% 38
West Midlands +31 211 £468 -7.56% 28
North of England -22 174 £460 -0.54% 68
South East -12 115 £475 -8.12% 63
North West -15 93 £447 -8.31% 37
South West -20 64 £525 +7.69% 23
Yorkshire -23 64 £500 +21.95% 21
Scotland +3 58 £450 +5.88% 7
East of England -14 43 £500 +1.27% 9
East Midlands -23 29 £505 +20.24% 10
North East -11 16 £525 +20.69% 10
Wales -10 7 £325 -14.47% 7
Northern Ireland +4 4 £400 -20.00%

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 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 119 (7.36%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.51%) Apache
4 75 (4.64%) SAS
5 52 (3.22%) Confluence
6 20 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.62%) nginx
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.25%) Camunda
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
Applications
1 42 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.43%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.31%) Actimize
8 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 663 (41.03%) Azure
2 482 (29.83%) AWS
3 397 (24.57%) Power Platform
4 240 (14.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 190 (11.76%) GCP
6 177 (10.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 155 (9.59%) Snowflake
8 151 (9.34%) Amazon S3
9 144 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
10 133 (8.23%) Serverless
11 112 (6.93%) GitHub
12 98 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (5.57%) dbt
14 57 (3.53%) Collibra
15 51 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
16 43 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (2.10%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.43%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.062%) 4G
5 1 (0.062%) 5G
5 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.062%) DHCP
5 1 (0.062%) DNS
5 1 (0.062%) DSL
5 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.062%) SMS
5 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (29.76%) Data Warehouse
2 374 (23.14%) Power BI
3 264 (16.34%) Data Lake
4 190 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 172 (10.64%) Metadata
6 106 (6.56%) Big Data
7 103 (6.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 95 (5.88%) Tableau
9 92 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 91 (5.63%) Delta Lake
11 85 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 82 (5.07%) Pentaho
13 80 (4.95%) NoSQL
13 80 (4.95%) Relational Database
14 78 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
15 70 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 68 (4.21%) BigQuery
17 59 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (3.34%) Oracle Reports
19 48 (2.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 188 (11.63%) Git
2 141 (8.73%) JIRA
3 90 (5.57%) GitLab
4 73 (4.52%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.66%) Postman
6 30 (1.86%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.67%) MLflow
8 21 (1.30%) Selenium
9 11 (0.68%) ERwin
10 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) NUnit
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 421 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 415 (25.68%) Finance
3 276 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.10%) Public Sector
5 117 (7.24%) Banking
6 41 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.86%) Marketing
8 25 (1.55%) Legal
9 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.30%) Retail
11 15 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.80%) Law
13 12 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.43%) Front Office
16 7 (0.43%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 664 (41.09%) Data Engineer
2 212 (13.12%) Developer
3 181 (11.20%) Senior
4 179 (11.08%) Architect
5 167 (10.33%) Lead
6 130 (8.04%) Analyst
7 120 (7.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 108 (6.68%) Data Architect
9 79 (4.89%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 49 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
13 43 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
14 41 (2.54%) Snowflake Engineer
15 40 (2.48%) Azure Data Engineer
16 38 (2.35%) Python Engineer
17 34 (2.10%) Integration Engineer
18 33 (2.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
19 32 (1.98%) Lead Data Engineer
19 32 (1.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (12.19%) PySpark
2 144 (8.91%) Kafka
3 95 (5.88%) REST
4 55 (3.40%) Pandas
5 43 (2.66%) .NET
6 40 (2.48%) JSON
7 29 (1.79%) RESTful
7 29 (1.79%) XML
8 26 (1.61%) NumPy
8 26 (1.61%) OAuth
8 26 (1.61%) PyTorch
9 25 (1.55%) Middleware
10 24 (1.49%) Spring
11 23 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
12 21 (1.30%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.24%) pytest
14 18 (1.11%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.11%) YAML
15 17 (1.05%) FastAPI
15 17 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 144 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 115 (7.12%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 25 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.18%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.11%) Clustering
11 17 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.99%) AI Agents
13 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (0.93%) Replication
14 14 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.80%) Low-Code
15 13 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.04%) Unix
2 29 (1.79%) Linux
3 20 (1.24%) Windows
4 12 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Solaris
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.062%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (47.59%) Data Modelling
2 653 (40.41%) Analytics
3 610 (37.75%) Data Pipeline
4 506 (31.31%) Data Engineering
5 490 (30.32%) Business Intelligence
6 458 (28.34%) CI/CD
7 407 (25.19%) Agile
8 368 (22.77%) Migration
9 366 (22.65%) DevOps
10 362 (22.40%) Data Governance
11 323 (19.99%) Problem-Solving
12 297 (18.38%) Validation
13 257 (15.90%) Data Integration
14 249 (15.41%) AI
15 243 (15.04%) Data Architecture
16 236 (14.60%) Data Migration
17 211 (13.06%) Decision-Making
18 190 (11.76%) Test Automation
19 177 (10.95%) Stakeholder Management
20 170 (10.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (67.33%) SQL
2 697 (43.13%) Python
3 147 (9.10%) Java
4 76 (4.70%) PL/SQL
5 73 (4.52%) T-SQL
6 71 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 68 (4.21%) C#
8 57 (3.53%) Scala
9 44 (2.72%) JavaScript
10 31 (1.92%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.36%) Bash
11 22 (1.36%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.24%) R
13 18 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.99%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) PHP
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.37%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 406 (25.12%) Security Cleared
2 332 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.37%) Degree
4 50 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.36%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.25%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (32.80%) Data Quality
2 149 (9.22%) QA
3 118 (7.30%) GDPR
4 24 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 23 (1.42%) IFRS
6 18 (1.11%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.68%) PMO
9 10 (0.62%) SLA
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) FATCA
11 7 (0.43%) GRC
12 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.31%) MiFID
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 121 (7.49%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (9.22%) Terraform
2 127 (7.86%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.41%) Grafana
4 18 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.05%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.31%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.062%) logstash
10 1 (0.062%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 331 (20.48%) Databricks
2 306 (18.94%) Microsoft
3 274 (16.96%) Oracle
4 165 (10.21%) Informatica
5 137 (8.48%) Talend
6 71 (4.39%) SAP
7 65 (4.02%) Google
8 61 (3.77%) Denodo
9 49 (3.03%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.23%) IBM
11 32 (1.98%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.61%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.18%) Splunk
14 17 (1.05%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.05%) Sage
14 17 (1.05%) Workday
15 13 (0.80%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.74%) Teradata
17 10 (0.62%) Cognos
17 10 (0.62%) Red Hat