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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 82 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,707 955 1,079
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.24% 2.94% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.25% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 647 792
10th Percentile £350 £352 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.54%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £485
% change year-on-year - -4.54% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 10
10th Percentile £29.96 - £29.51
25th Percentile £34.01 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £51.38
90th Percentile £69.00 £85.74 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -29.18% +171.02% -59.30%

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 44,765 29,340 36,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.42% 85.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,853 18,476 23,295
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £418 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,647 1,521 2,449
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.61 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.70 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.25 £24.64 £38.12
% change year-on-year +83.64% -35.36% -0.99%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +12 1,517 £500 -0.40% 407
UK excluding London +16 784 £463 - 341
London +7 746 £523 -1.32% 150
Work from Home +11 532 £500 - 296
Midlands +27 276 £459 +2.00% 64
West Midlands +36 241 £457 -1.72% 33
North of England -14 187 £463 -2.63% 81
South East +9 145 £461 -5.49% 84
North West -17 87 £460 -8.00% 36
Yorkshire -20 77 £475 +6.74% 26
South West -18 68 £523 +10.00% 39
Scotland -3 57 £425 - 22
East of England +1 50 £500 +11.11% 29
East Midlands -12 34 £508 +13.84% 31
North East -23 23 £525 +25.00% 20
Wales -7 9 £313 -32.07% 16
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -36.38% 13

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
1 147 (8.61%) Apache Spark
2 138 (8.08%) Apache Airflow
3 99 (5.80%) Apache
4 89 (5.21%) SAS
5 64 (3.75%) Confluence
6 21 (1.23%) Oracle Application Server
7 16 (0.94%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.88%) nginx
8 15 (0.88%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.53%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.47%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Appian
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
13 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 670 (39.25%) Azure
2 522 (30.58%) AWS
3 411 (24.08%) Power Platform
4 219 (12.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 209 (12.24%) GCP
6 195 (11.42%) Snowflake
7 157 (9.20%) Amazon S3
8 148 (8.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 143 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (8.38%) Serverless
10 121 (7.09%) dbt
11 115 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
12 106 (6.21%) GitHub
13 54 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
13 54 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
14 49 (2.87%) Collibra
15 39 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (1.76%) Power Automate
17 29 (1.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.70%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.88%) HTTP
2 12 (0.70%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.059%) 4G
6 1 (0.059%) 5G
6 1 (0.059%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.059%) DHCP
6 1 (0.059%) DNS
6 1 (0.059%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 537 (31.46%) Data Warehouse
2 391 (22.91%) Power BI
3 253 (14.82%) Data Lake
4 172 (10.08%) SQL Server
5 157 (9.20%) Metadata
6 103 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 103 (6.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (5.92%) Big Data
8 100 (5.86%) Tableau
9 96 (5.62%) Delta Lake
10 93 (5.45%) Relational Database
11 87 (5.10%) BigQuery
12 81 (4.75%) NoSQL
12 81 (4.75%) Pentaho
13 78 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
14 72 (4.22%) Oracle Reports
15 69 (4.04%) Snowflake Schema
16 67 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
18 52 (3.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 196 (11.48%) Git
2 150 (8.79%) JIRA
3 91 (5.33%) GitLab
4 68 (3.98%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.28%) Zephyr
6 38 (2.23%) Postman
7 20 (1.17%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.29%) ERwin
9 5 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.23%) Flyway
10 4 (0.23%) LSMW
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.18%) Gatling
11 3 (0.18%) MSTest
11 3 (0.18%) NUnit
General
1 406 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 390 (22.85%) Finance
3 308 (18.04%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 117 (6.85%) Banking
6 47 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.82%) Marketing
8 28 (1.64%) Retail
9 24 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.41%) Legal
10 22 (1.29%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 19 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.64%) Billing
13 11 (0.64%) Law
13 11 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.59%) Front Office
15 9 (0.53%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.53%) Police
15 9 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 690 (40.42%) Data Engineer
2 245 (14.35%) Developer
3 219 (12.83%) Architect
4 201 (11.78%) Senior
5 173 (10.13%) Lead
6 137 (8.03%) Senior Data Engineer
7 132 (7.73%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.15%) Analyst
9 67 (3.93%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (2.87%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 48 (2.81%) Snowflake Engineer
14 46 (2.69%) AWS Data Engineer
15 45 (2.64%) SQL Developer
16 44 (2.58%) Azure Data Engineer
17 43 (2.52%) Python Engineer
18 40 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
18 40 (2.34%) Tester
19 38 (2.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.90%) PySpark
2 144 (8.44%) Kafka
3 76 (4.45%) REST
4 56 (3.28%) JSON
5 45 (2.64%) Pandas
6 44 (2.58%) .NET
7 31 (1.82%) XML
8 27 (1.58%) Middleware
9 26 (1.52%) Spring
10 24 (1.41%) Spring Boot
11 23 (1.35%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.23%) OAuth
12 21 (1.23%) React
12 21 (1.23%) RESTful
13 19 (1.11%) YAML
14 17 (1.00%) NumPy
15 16 (0.94%) pytest
15 16 (0.94%) Web Services
16 15 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
16 15 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.61%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.97%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
4 53 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.64%) Product Ownership
6 33 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.52%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.52%) NHS
8 22 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.29%) Reference Data
9 21 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
10 20 (1.17%) Clustering
10 20 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.11%) Replication
12 15 (0.88%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.76%) IoT
14 12 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 48 (2.81%) Unix
2 46 (2.69%) Linux
3 21 (1.23%) Windows
4 12 (0.70%) Solaris
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (47.39%) Data Modelling
2 702 (41.12%) Data Pipeline
3 655 (38.37%) Analytics
4 531 (31.11%) Data Engineering
5 501 (29.35%) CI/CD
6 489 (28.65%) Business Intelligence
7 447 (26.19%) Migration
8 439 (25.72%) Agile
9 364 (21.32%) DevOps
10 361 (21.15%) Data Governance
11 341 (19.98%) Validation
12 328 (19.21%) Data Integration
13 324 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
14 282 (16.52%) AI
15 266 (15.58%) Data Migration
16 252 (14.76%) Data Architecture
17 228 (13.36%) Test Automation
18 223 (13.06%) Decision-Making
19 202 (11.83%) Stakeholder Management
20 187 (10.95%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,140 (66.78%) SQL
2 694 (40.66%) Python
3 148 (8.67%) Java
4 91 (5.33%) T-SQL
5 81 (4.75%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 63 (3.69%) C#
8 51 (2.99%) Scala
9 40 (2.34%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.28%) PowerShell
11 30 (1.76%) Bash
11 30 (1.76%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.41%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.05%) R
14 16 (0.94%) Bicep
15 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.47%) VBA
16 7 (0.41%) Cypher
16 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 472 (27.65%) Security Cleared
2 395 (23.14%) SC Cleared
3 99 (5.80%) Degree
4 47 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 40 (2.34%) Azure Certification
7 30 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.58%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
15 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
15 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 574 (33.63%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.67%) QA
3 113 (6.62%) GDPR
4 21 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.00%) GRC
6 14 (0.82%) PMO
6 14 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.70%) IFRS
8 9 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.53%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) FATCA
9 8 (0.47%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.41%) HL7
10 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
11 6 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) GMP
12 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
12 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 120 (7.03%) Docker
2 10 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.35%) Active Directory
5 6 (0.35%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.059%) RACF
7 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 145 (8.49%) Terraform
2 128 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.40%) Grafana
4 18 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.00%) Ansible
6 8 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (0.41%) Control-M
8 4 (0.23%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.18%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.059%) Argo
11 1 (0.059%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.059%) Istio
11 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (19.27%) Databricks
2 316 (18.51%) Oracle
3 290 (16.99%) Microsoft
4 160 (9.37%) Informatica
5 141 (8.26%) Talend
6 79 (4.63%) SAP
7 68 (3.98%) Google
8 61 (3.57%) Denodo
9 44 (2.58%) IBM
10 36 (2.11%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.05%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.82%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.35%) Sage
14 18 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.05%) Splunk
15 17 (1.00%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.82%) Palantir
17 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.64%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.64%) ESRI