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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 73 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,366 958 1,012
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.31% 3.15% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.50% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 641 769
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £688 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 15
10th Percentile £51.21 - £30.65
25th Percentile £54.06 £26.25 £39.01
Median hourly rate £65.67 £35.00 £51.06
Median % change year-on-year +87.64% -31.45% +45.87%
75th Percentile £71.60 £78.70 £63.14
90th Percentile £78.53 £102.00 £70.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +138.81% -9.84% -12.86%

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 35,855 27,377 38,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.81% 89.88% 87.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 16,975 25,075
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,138 862 2,184
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.96 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.94 £33.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -0.20% -5.53%
75th Percentile £61.18 £63.75 £59.93
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.23 £71.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.41% -8.57% -

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 +3 1,196 £500 -4.76% 366
London +20 704 £525 -4.55% 140
UK excluding London -6 520 £463 -6.19% 294
Work from Home -6 426 £500 - 176
Midlands +9 174 £485 +1.68% 64
West Midlands +8 150 £495 +0.35% 48
North of England -43 134 £452 -1.04% 69
North West -19 83 £450 -2.70% 33
South East -43 65 £475 -13.64% 99
South West -11 63 £525 -14.29% 35
Scotland +19 57 £463 +5.71% 12
Yorkshire -58 40 £500 +40.85% 28
East Midlands -18 24 £470 +21.29% 16
East of England -20 21 £504 -4.05% 15
Northern Ireland +5 10 £400 +3.23%
Wales -10 10 £410 -18.00% 3
North East -13 10 £475 -5.00% 9

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
1 134 (9.81%) Apache Spark
2 109 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
3 82 (6.00%) Apache
4 69 (5.05%) SAS
5 24 (1.76%) Confluence
6 15 (1.10%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.59%) Appian
8 8 (0.59%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.51%) nginx
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.44%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.22%) CMS
12 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.073%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.073%) Moodle
Applications
1 48 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 11 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.59%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.37%) Maximo
5 5 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.22%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.22%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 584 (42.75%) Azure
2 445 (32.58%) AWS
3 314 (22.99%) Power Platform
4 218 (15.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 181 (13.25%) GCP
6 157 (11.49%) Snowflake
7 153 (11.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (10.54%) Amazon S3
9 124 (9.08%) Serverless
10 108 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
11 94 (6.88%) GitHub
12 87 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (5.20%) dbt
14 48 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 44 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.78%) Collibra
17 37 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
18 36 (2.64%) SaaS
19 29 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
20 28 (2.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.59%) HTTP
2 7 (0.51%) 5G
3 6 (0.44%) 2G
3 6 (0.44%) 4G
3 6 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.22%) Firewall
5 2 (0.15%) DSL
5 2 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.073%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.073%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (29.43%) Data Warehouse
2 293 (21.45%) Power BI
3 229 (16.76%) Data Lake
4 162 (11.86%) SQL Server
5 137 (10.03%) Metadata
6 94 (6.88%) Big Data
6 94 (6.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 89 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
8 83 (6.08%) Relational Database
9 79 (5.78%) Tableau
10 74 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 70 (5.12%) Pentaho
12 68 (4.98%) NoSQL
13 65 (4.76%) Delta Lake
14 62 (4.54%) BigQuery
15 58 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
16 54 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (3.66%) Oracle Database
18 46 (3.37%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 174 (12.74%) Git
2 104 (7.61%) JIRA
3 83 (6.08%) Jenkins
4 60 (4.39%) GitLab
5 36 (2.64%) Postman
6 23 (1.68%) MLflow
7 17 (1.24%) ERwin
8 16 (1.17%) Zephyr
9 15 (1.10%) Selenium
10 9 (0.66%) JMeter
11 7 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.37%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.37%) NUnit
12 5 (0.37%) TestRail
12 5 (0.37%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.29%) MSTest
13 4 (0.29%) Toad
General
1 416 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 349 (25.55%) Finance
3 222 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.91%) Banking
6 39 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.98%) Retail
8 22 (1.61%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.32%) Marketing
10 15 (1.10%) Legal
10 15 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.02%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.95%) Law
12 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (0.59%) Publishing
15 7 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.44%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.37%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 534 (39.09%) Data Engineer
2 170 (12.45%) Developer
3 144 (10.54%) Senior
4 141 (10.32%) Architect
5 140 (10.25%) Lead
6 130 (9.52%) Analyst
7 89 (6.52%) Data Architect
7 89 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 86 (6.30%) Data Analyst
9 47 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 37 (2.71%) Python Engineer
12 36 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
13 35 (2.56%) Azure Data Engineer
14 29 (2.12%) AWS Data Engineer
14 29 (2.12%) Consultant
14 29 (2.12%) Lead Data Engineer
14 29 (2.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 27 (1.98%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (12.59%) PySpark
2 116 (8.49%) Kafka
3 89 (6.52%) REST
4 49 (3.59%) Pandas
5 47 (3.44%) XML
6 45 (3.29%) JSON
7 35 (2.56%) NumPy
8 33 (2.42%) .NET
9 30 (2.20%) PyTorch
10 28 (2.05%) RESTful
11 24 (1.76%) OAuth
12 23 (1.68%) pytest
13 21 (1.54%) Middleware
13 21 (1.54%) TensorFlow
14 19 (1.39%) scikit-learn
15 18 (1.32%) SOAP
15 18 (1.32%) YAML
16 17 (1.24%) Hugging Face
16 17 (1.24%) Node.js
16 17 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.98%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.39%) Data Structures
3 68 (4.98%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 25 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
6 24 (1.76%) Algorithms
6 24 (1.76%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (1.54%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.17%) Reinsurance
11 16 (1.17%) Replication
12 15 (1.10%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.02%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.95%) IoT
15 12 (0.88%) Low-Code
16 11 (0.81%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.49%) Linux
2 25 (1.83%) Unix
3 16 (1.17%) Windows
4 11 (0.81%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.51%) Solaris
7 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.29%) VMS
9 2 (0.15%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.073%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 642 (47.00%) Data Modelling
2 583 (42.68%) Analytics
3 512 (37.48%) Data Pipeline
4 433 (31.70%) Data Engineering
5 425 (31.11%) Business Intelligence
6 402 (29.43%) CI/CD
7 351 (25.70%) Agile
8 330 (24.16%) Data Governance
9 309 (22.62%) DevOps
9 309 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
10 285 (20.86%) Migration
11 226 (16.54%) Data Architecture
12 222 (16.25%) Data Integration
13 216 (15.81%) Validation
14 185 (13.54%) Data Migration
15 178 (13.03%) Data Science
16 177 (12.96%) AI
17 162 (11.86%) Decision-Making
18 156 (11.42%) Test Automation
19 154 (11.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 896 (65.59%) SQL
2 662 (48.46%) Python
3 111 (8.13%) Java
4 61 (4.47%) C#
5 54 (3.95%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 50 (3.66%) PL/SQL
7 50 (3.66%) Scala
8 44 (3.22%) JavaScript
9 32 (2.34%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.39%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.32%) Bash
12 17 (1.24%) Bicep
13 16 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 14 (1.02%) Go
14 14 (1.02%) R
15 12 (0.88%) VBA
16 10 (0.73%) PHP
17 6 (0.44%) Cypher
17 6 (0.44%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 301 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 246 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.83%) Degree
4 55 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (3.29%) Azure Certification
6 44 (3.22%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.51%) PMP
12 5 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.37%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.22%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.073%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 454 (33.24%) Data Quality
2 117 (8.57%) QA
3 108 (7.91%) GDPR
4 22 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.54%) IFRS
6 19 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.24%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.59%) PMO
10 6 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.37%) GAAP
11 5 (0.37%) MiFID
11 5 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.37%) SLA
12 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.22%) Basel III
12 3 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.22%) FATCA
12 3 (0.22%) GMP
12 3 (0.22%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 128 (9.37%) Docker
2 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
3 4 (0.29%) zsh
4 1 (0.073%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 136 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 133 (9.74%) Terraform
3 16 (1.17%) Grafana
3 16 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.10%) Ansible
5 5 (0.37%) Control-M
5 5 (0.37%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) logstash
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.15%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.15%) SCCM
8 1 (0.073%) Foglight
8 1 (0.073%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.073%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.073%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 290 (21.23%) Databricks
2 227 (16.62%) Microsoft
3 199 (14.57%) Oracle
4 115 (8.42%) Informatica
5 112 (8.20%) Talend
6 55 (4.03%) Google
7 54 (3.95%) SAP
8 44 (3.22%) Denodo
9 33 (2.42%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.42%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.12%) IBM
11 23 (1.68%) MuleSoft
12 16 (1.17%) Palantir
12 16 (1.17%) Splunk
13 15 (1.10%) Workday
14 13 (0.95%) Ab Initio
14 13 (0.95%) Sage
15 12 (0.88%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.88%) Cognos
15 12 (0.88%) Foundry