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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 79 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,178 929 976
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.12% 2.93% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.29% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 609 733
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 £681 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.96%
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 33,128 28,199 37,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.64% 88.95% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,004 17,123 24,892
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 2,016 901 1,818
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £17.08
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 £69.65 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £40.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -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 22 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 22 January 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 22 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 0 1,019 £500 -4.76% 494
London +16 627 £525 - 156
UK excluding London -28 409 £500 - 442
Work from Home -4 377 £512 +2.36% 256
Midlands -1 119 £519 +5.82% 64
North of England -46 111 £450 -2.70% 74
West Midlands -4 94 £525 +6.49% 35
North West -8 73 £447 -3.35% 36
South East -46 59 £425 -22.73% 173
South West -5 56 £525 -14.29% 52
Scotland -2 38 £500 +11.11% 22
Yorkshire -61 27 £475 +15.85% 29
East Midlands -8 25 £447 +16.10% 29
East of England -17 18 £575 +9.52% 41
Northern Ireland +8 15 £400 +3.23% 5
North East -11 10 £450 -9.55% 9
Wales -11 9 £453 -12.14% 17

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
1 109 (9.25%) Apache Spark
2 89 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
3 79 (6.71%) Apache
4 52 (4.41%) SAS
5 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.10%) Confluence
7 7 (0.59%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.42%) Appian
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.25%) Luigi
11 3 (0.25%) nginx
11 3 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.085%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 46 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.34%) Trello
6 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.10%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.76%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.42%) Maximo
7 5 (0.42%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.25%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 507 (43.04%) Azure
2 379 (32.17%) AWS
3 272 (23.09%) Power Platform
4 193 (16.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 161 (13.67%) GCP
6 153 (12.99%) Snowflake
7 133 (11.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 121 (10.27%) Amazon S3
9 111 (9.42%) Serverless
10 95 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
11 80 (6.79%) GitHub
12 72 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (4.75%) dbt
14 37 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (3.06%) SaaS
16 26 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (2.21%) Power Automate
17 25 (2.12%) Azure Functions
17 25 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.51%) 2G
1 6 (0.51%) 5G
1 6 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.42%) 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 (0.085%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.085%) Internet
4 1 (0.085%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.085%) Multicast
4 1 (0.085%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (29.37%) Data Warehouse
2 257 (21.82%) Power BI
3 203 (17.23%) Data Lake
4 137 (11.63%) SQL Server
5 107 (9.08%) Metadata
6 84 (7.13%) Big Data
6 84 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
6 84 (7.13%) Relational Database
7 76 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 74 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 67 (5.69%) Tableau
10 62 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 57 (4.84%) BigQuery
11 57 (4.84%) NoSQL
12 54 (4.58%) Pentaho
13 53 (4.50%) Delta Lake
14 47 (3.99%) Snowflake Schema
15 46 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
16 45 (3.82%) Oracle Database
17 36 (3.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 139 (11.80%) Git
2 90 (7.64%) JIRA
3 73 (6.20%) Jenkins
4 45 (3.82%) GitLab
5 25 (2.12%) Postman
6 19 (1.61%) ERwin
7 16 (1.36%) MLflow
8 13 (1.10%) Selenium
9 10 (0.85%) JMeter
10 8 (0.68%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 7 (0.59%) TestRail
12 6 (0.51%) DBeaver
12 6 (0.51%) ER Studio
13 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.34%) Gatling
14 4 (0.34%) LoadRunner
14 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
14 4 (0.34%) Toad
15 3 (0.25%) Zephyr
General
1 353 (29.97%) Social Skills
2 305 (25.89%) Finance
3 199 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.96%) Banking
6 25 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.95%) Retail
8 22 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.53%) Marketing
10 15 (1.27%) Legal
11 14 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.02%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.85%) Law
15 7 (0.59%) Front Office
15 7 (0.59%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.59%) Publishing
16 6 (0.51%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 437 (37.10%) Data Engineer
2 154 (13.07%) Developer
3 128 (10.87%) Senior
4 122 (10.36%) Lead
5 117 (9.93%) Analyst
6 112 (9.51%) Architect
7 78 (6.62%) Data Analyst
8 74 (6.28%) Senior Data Engineer
9 70 (5.94%) Data Architect
10 53 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (3.40%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 35 (2.97%) Consultant
13 32 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (2.72%) Python Engineer
14 31 (2.63%) Business Analyst
15 29 (2.46%) Snowflake Engineer
16 27 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
16 27 (2.29%) Senior Developer
17 23 (1.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (12.14%) PySpark
2 94 (7.98%) Kafka
3 83 (7.05%) REST
4 45 (3.82%) XML
5 40 (3.40%) Pandas
6 39 (3.31%) JSON
7 27 (2.29%) NumPy
8 26 (2.21%) .NET
9 24 (2.04%) Node.js
9 24 (2.04%) RESTful
10 23 (1.95%) OAuth
11 21 (1.78%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.53%) Middleware
13 17 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
13 17 (1.44%) pytest
13 17 (1.44%) SOAP
14 14 (1.19%) Hugging Face
14 14 (1.19%) React
14 14 (1.19%) TensorFlow
15 13 (1.10%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 88 (7.47%) Cloud Native
2 86 (7.30%) Data Structures
3 54 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (2.29%) Algorithms
5 25 (2.12%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.78%) Distributed Computing
6 21 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.61%) Replication
9 18 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.27%) Reinsurance
11 14 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 13 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.93%) Data Centre
14 10 (0.85%) Data Fabric
14 10 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
14 10 (0.85%) IoT
14 10 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.97%) Linux
2 19 (1.61%) Unix
3 11 (0.93%) Windows
4 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) VMS
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.085%) Solaris
6 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (46.35%) Data Modelling
2 482 (40.92%) Analytics
3 452 (38.37%) Data Pipeline
4 381 (32.34%) Business Intelligence
5 345 (29.29%) Data Engineering
6 338 (28.69%) CI/CD
7 297 (25.21%) Agile
8 279 (23.68%) DevOps
9 270 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
10 259 (21.99%) Data Governance
11 225 (19.10%) Migration
12 208 (17.66%) Data Integration
13 189 (16.04%) Data Architecture
14 165 (14.01%) Validation
15 151 (12.82%) Data Migration
16 141 (11.97%) Data Science
17 136 (11.54%) Machine Learning
18 132 (11.21%) AI
19 128 (10.87%) Data Transformation
20 120 (10.19%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 747 (63.41%) SQL
2 579 (49.15%) Python
3 102 (8.66%) Java
4 52 (4.41%) Scala
5 51 (4.33%) C#
6 43 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 42 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 40 (3.40%) T-SQL
9 38 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 27 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 18 (1.53%) TypeScript
12 16 (1.36%) Go
13 15 (1.27%) R
13 15 (1.27%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.19%) Bash
14 14 (1.19%) PHP
15 12 (1.02%) Bicep
16 10 (0.85%) VBA
17 6 (0.51%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 227 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 179 (15.20%) SC Cleared
3 82 (6.96%) Degree
4 51 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.99%) Azure Certification
6 31 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 26 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.76%) PMP
11 7 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.34%) MCP
14 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.25%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.085%) CBAP
16 1 (0.085%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 383 (32.51%) Data Quality
2 87 (7.39%) GDPR
3 82 (6.96%) QA
4 24 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.44%) IFRS
5 17 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.10%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.42%) GAAP
8 5 (0.42%) MiFID
8 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.42%) SLA
9 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.25%) Basel III
9 3 (0.25%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.25%) NIST
9 3 (0.25%) PMO
10 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.17%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 128 (10.87%) Docker
2 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.42%) zsh
3 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.17%) KVM
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.085%) HDFS
5 1 (0.085%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 124 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.59%) Terraform
3 14 (1.19%) Ansible
4 13 (1.10%) Grafana
5 7 (0.59%) Kibana
6 6 (0.51%) logstash
7 4 (0.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.085%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.085%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.085%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.085%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.085%) Puppet
10 1 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.085%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 255 (21.65%) Databricks
2 199 (16.89%) Microsoft
3 162 (13.75%) Oracle
4 78 (6.62%) Informatica
4 78 (6.62%) Talend
5 49 (4.16%) Google
6 48 (4.07%) SAP
7 41 (3.48%) Denodo
8 32 (2.72%) Salesforce
9 30 (2.55%) ServiceNow
10 20 (1.70%) IBM
11 18 (1.53%) MuleSoft
12 16 (1.36%) Palantir
13 14 (1.19%) Workday
14 13 (1.10%) Foundry
15 11 (0.93%) Ab Initio
15 11 (0.93%) Alteryx
16 10 (0.85%) Cognos
17 8 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 7 (0.59%) Avaloq