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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 91 78
Rank change year-on-year +3 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,648 952 1,036
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.90% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.20% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 665 711
10th Percentile £358 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £616
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £481 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.28% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 5
10th Percentile £21.41 £33.05 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £57.00 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.60 £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 46,176 29,707 32,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.53% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,774 18,450 19,527
10th Percentile £325 £297 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,315 1,863 1,324
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
Median % change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%
75th Percentile £65.41 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.40 £65.00 £74.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £42.50
% change year-on-year +73.52% -47.49% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +2 1,444 £500 -0.79% 1,332
London -1 762 £525 - 742
UK excluding London 0 683 £470 -2.44% 752
Work from Home -10 494 £500 -1.48% 651
Midlands +22 228 £470 -6.10% 128
West Midlands +18 199 £469 -8.04% 97
North of England -13 173 £466 -1.84% 196
South East +16 129 £458 -3.53% 174
South West +1 83 £514 +8.26% 71
Yorkshire +1 77 £461 +0.27% 58
North West -21 76 £475 -5.00% 113
Scotland -17 43 £425 -10.53% 81
East of England -17 35 £463 -11.90% 46
East Midlands -4 28 £486 +9.94% 31
North East -18 25 £500 +14.29% 28
Wales -18 6 £313 -37.19% 24
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -16.50% 39

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
1 144 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 141 (8.56%) Apache Airflow
3 114 (6.92%) Apache
4 87 (5.28%) SAS
5 64 (3.88%) Confluence
6 26 (1.58%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.67%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.49%) 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%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) CMS
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 17 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
8 2 (0.12%) iTrent
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 642 (38.96%) Azure
2 487 (29.55%) AWS
3 350 (21.24%) Power Platform
4 238 (14.44%) GCP
5 236 (14.32%) Snowflake
6 220 (13.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (8.56%) dbt
9 129 (7.83%) Amazon S3
10 125 (7.58%) Serverless
11 123 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 106 (6.43%) GitHub
13 103 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 53 (3.22%) Azure Databricks
16 48 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (2.12%) SaaS
18 33 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 28 (1.70%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.49%) Firewall
1 8 (0.49%) HTTP
2 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.18%) DHCP
2 3 (0.18%) DNS
2 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.12%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.12%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.061%) Broadband
4 1 (0.061%) DMZ
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) LTE
4 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 556 (33.74%) Data Warehouse
2 339 (20.57%) Power BI
3 253 (15.35%) Data Lake
4 159 (9.65%) Metadata
5 143 (8.68%) SQL Server
6 113 (6.86%) BigQuery
7 105 (6.37%) Relational Database
8 103 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (5.40%) Delta Lake
10 86 (5.22%) Big Data
11 81 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 80 (4.85%) Tableau
13 72 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (4.13%) Oracle Reports
15 63 (3.82%) NoSQL
16 61 (3.70%) Pentaho
17 60 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
18 59 (3.58%) Oracle Database
19 50 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
20 43 (2.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 188 (11.41%) Git
2 138 (8.37%) JIRA
3 106 (6.43%) GitLab
4 54 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.37%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.18%) Postman
7 18 (1.09%) Selenium
8 13 (0.79%) 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
1 413 (25.06%) Social Skills
2 372 (22.57%) Finance
3 301 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 168 (10.19%) Banking
6 42 (2.55%) Retail
7 40 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.46%) Marketing
10 23 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.40%) Investment Banking
11 22 (1.33%) Law
12 21 (1.27%) Legal
13 20 (1.21%) Front Office
13 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.97%) Billing
14 16 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.97%) Police
15 12 (0.73%) Military
16 11 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 645 (39.14%) Data Engineer
2 242 (14.68%) Senior
3 238 (14.44%) Developer
4 228 (13.83%) Architect
5 156 (9.47%) Senior Data Engineer
6 147 (8.92%) Lead
7 125 (7.58%) Analyst
8 122 (7.40%) Data Architect
9 70 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.00%) Databricks Engineer
11 59 (3.58%) Data Analyst
12 57 (3.46%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 52 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
14 45 (2.73%) Consultant
15 42 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
15 42 (2.55%) Snowflake Engineer
15 42 (2.55%) Tester
16 40 (2.43%) Python Engineer
17 38 (2.31%) SQL Developer
18 36 (2.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (9.41%) PySpark
2 149 (9.04%) Terraform
3 128 (7.77%) Kafka
4 80 (4.85%) REST
5 54 (3.28%) JSON
6 53 (3.22%) .NET
7 31 (1.88%) Middleware
8 30 (1.82%) XML
9 29 (1.76%) React
10 28 (1.70%) Pandas
11 19 (1.15%) pytest
11 19 (1.15%) Spring
11 19 (1.15%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.15%) YAML
12 18 (1.09%) SOAP
13 15 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.85%) Web Services
15 13 (0.79%) HTML
16 12 (0.73%) LangChain
16 12 (0.73%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 116 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.52%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.58%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.40%) NHS
11 22 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.33%) Replication
12 20 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.03%) Algorithms
14 16 (0.97%) Clustering
14 16 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.85%) Data Fabric
15 14 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
16 12 (0.73%) CMDB
16 12 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 67 (4.07%) Linux
2 52 (3.16%) Unix
3 19 (1.15%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (46.06%) Data Modelling
2 698 (42.35%) Data Pipeline
3 609 (36.95%) Analytics
4 554 (33.62%) Data Engineering
5 523 (31.74%) CI/CD
6 481 (29.19%) Agile
7 454 (27.55%) Migration
8 425 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
9 402 (24.39%) Data Integration
10 381 (23.12%) DevOps
11 353 (21.42%) Validation
12 339 (20.57%) Data Governance
13 318 (19.30%) AI
14 305 (18.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 290 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
16 257 (15.59%) Data Migration
17 251 (15.23%) Data Transformation
18 243 (14.75%) Data Architecture
19 213 (12.92%) Test Automation
20 189 (11.47%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,088 (66.02%) SQL
2 664 (40.29%) Python
3 129 (7.83%) Java
4 85 (5.16%) PL/SQL
5 78 (4.73%) T-SQL
6 58 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.22%) C#
8 51 (3.09%) Scala
9 49 (2.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 39 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 35 (2.12%) Shell Script
12 34 (2.06%) Bash
13 24 (1.46%) R
14 19 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 18 (1.09%) Bicep
16 13 (0.79%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Go
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 448 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 391 (23.73%) SC Cleared
3 65 (3.94%) Degree
4 57 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.52%) ISTQB
10 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.49%) 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%) CBAP
16 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 3 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 586 (35.56%) Data Quality
2 145 (8.80%) QA
3 65 (3.94%) GDPR
4 36 (2.18%) GRC
5 24 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 8 (0.49%) IFRS
8 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) COREP
System Software
1 104 (6.31%) Docker
2 15 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 111 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.94%) Grafana
3 21 (1.27%) Ansible
4 16 (0.97%) Control-M
5 13 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) 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%) 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
1 376 (22.82%) Databricks
2 305 (18.51%) Oracle
3 284 (17.23%) Microsoft
4 120 (7.28%) Informatica
5 101 (6.13%) Talend
6 91 (5.52%) Google
7 67 (4.07%) SAP
8 47 (2.85%) IBM
9 39 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 37 (2.25%) Denodo
11 29 (1.76%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.58%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.27%) Foundry
13 21 (1.27%) OpenAI
14 19 (1.15%) Palantir
15 16 (0.97%) Teradata
16 10 (0.61%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.61%) Sage
17 9 (0.55%) ESRI