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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 77 94
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,243 932 1,033
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.18% 3.00% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.35% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 922 621 778
10th Percentile £363 £356 £379
25th Percentile £413 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £624
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile £35.48 - £41.42
25th Percentile £51.22 £26.25 £48.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.86% -42.15% +68.06%
75th Percentile £70.39 £78.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.58 £102.00 £72.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year +138.81% -45.57% +44.36%

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 34,050 27,793 39,321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.05% 89.38% 87.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,585 16,924 25,862
10th Percentile £306 £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 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -3.73% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,077 859 2,130
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.50 £61.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.18% -9.97% +11.43%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -1 1,070 £500 -4.76% 429
London +18 653 £525 -0.94% 190
UK excluding London -15 443 £475 -5.00% 311
Work from Home -5 391 £512 +2.36% 238
Midlands +4 124 £515 +7.97% 59
North of England -47 124 £450 - 68
West Midlands -6 99 £515 +4.78% 38
North West -4 79 £450 -2.70% 44
South East -35 63 £450 -23.08% 111
South West -8 58 £525 -14.29% 35
Scotland +16 52 £500 +11.11% 15
Yorkshire -63 32 £500 +38.89% 19
East Midlands -9 25 £455 +18.18% 21
East of England -22 16 £551 +7.41% 23
North East -10 12 £450 -10.00% 5
Northern Ireland +9 11 £400 +3.23%
Wales -6 11 £410 -18.00% 4

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
1 121 (9.73%) Apache Spark
2 105 (8.45%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (6.76%) Apache
4 40 (3.22%) SAS
5 15 (1.21%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.13%) Confluence
7 10 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
8 7 (0.56%) Appian
8 7 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
8 7 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.32%) nginx
11 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.24%) CMS
12 3 (0.24%) IIS
12 3 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 1 (0.080%) Moodle
Applications
1 42 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.32%) Trello
6 3 (0.24%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.080%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (1.05%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.40%) Maximo
7 5 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.32%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.16%) Actimize
10 2 (0.16%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 545 (43.85%) Azure
2 402 (32.34%) AWS
3 290 (23.33%) Power Platform
4 212 (17.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 170 (13.68%) GCP
6 162 (13.03%) Snowflake
7 141 (11.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 132 (10.62%) Amazon S3
9 120 (9.65%) Serverless
10 103 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
11 89 (7.16%) GitHub
12 80 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
13 69 (5.55%) dbt
14 42 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
15 41 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
16 38 (3.06%) SaaS
17 32 (2.57%) Amazon EMR
18 30 (2.41%) Collibra
19 27 (2.17%) Azure Functions
19 27 (2.17%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.48%) 2G
1 6 (0.48%) 5G
1 6 (0.48%) HTTP
1 6 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.40%) 4G
3 2 (0.16%) BGP
3 2 (0.16%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.16%) DSL
3 2 (0.16%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.16%) Firewall
3 2 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.16%) OSPF
3 2 (0.16%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.080%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.080%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.080%) Multicast
4 1 (0.080%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (29.28%) Data Warehouse
2 277 (22.28%) Power BI
3 216 (17.38%) Data Lake
4 149 (11.99%) SQL Server
5 122 (9.81%) Metadata
6 92 (7.40%) Big Data
7 88 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
8 85 (6.84%) Relational Database
9 81 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 78 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 74 (5.95%) Tableau
12 71 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
13 60 (4.83%) NoSQL
14 59 (4.75%) Delta Lake
15 58 (4.67%) BigQuery
16 53 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 49 (3.94%) Oracle Database
18 47 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
19 46 (3.70%) Pentaho
20 39 (3.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 137 (11.02%) Git
2 84 (6.76%) JIRA
3 64 (5.15%) Jenkins
4 47 (3.78%) GitLab
5 22 (1.77%) Postman
6 21 (1.69%) MLflow
7 17 (1.37%) ERwin
8 13 (1.05%) Selenium
9 9 (0.72%) JMeter
10 7 (0.56%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.56%) TestRail
11 6 (0.48%) DBeaver
11 6 (0.48%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.40%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.40%) NUnit
13 4 (0.32%) Gatling
13 4 (0.32%) MSTest
13 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 373 (30.01%) Social Skills
2 316 (25.42%) Finance
3 203 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (7.80%) Public Sector
5 95 (7.64%) Banking
6 33 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.85%) Retail
8 19 (1.53%) Financial Institution
8 19 (1.53%) Marketing
9 15 (1.21%) Legal
10 13 (1.05%) Law
11 12 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.80%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.64%) Publishing
15 7 (0.56%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.48%) Front Office
16 6 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 471 (37.89%) Data Engineer
2 156 (12.55%) Developer
3 135 (10.86%) Lead
4 132 (10.62%) Senior
5 125 (10.06%) Architect
6 120 (9.65%) Analyst
7 82 (6.60%) Data Architect
8 80 (6.44%) Data Analyst
8 80 (6.44%) Senior Data Engineer
9 51 (4.10%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (3.14%) Azure Data Engineer
11 35 (2.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 35 (2.82%) Snowflake Engineer
12 34 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (2.65%) Python Engineer
14 31 (2.49%) Business Analyst
15 28 (2.25%) AWS Data Engineer
15 28 (2.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 27 (2.17%) Consultant
17 25 (2.01%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (12.39%) PySpark
2 108 (8.69%) Kafka
3 85 (6.84%) REST
4 50 (4.02%) XML
5 44 (3.54%) JSON
5 44 (3.54%) Pandas
6 31 (2.49%) .NET
6 31 (2.49%) NumPy
7 27 (2.17%) PyTorch
7 27 (2.17%) RESTful
8 24 (1.93%) OAuth
9 23 (1.85%) Node.js
10 20 (1.61%) pytest
11 18 (1.45%) Middleware
12 17 (1.37%) Hugging Face
12 17 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.37%) SOAP
12 17 (1.37%) TensorFlow
13 15 (1.21%) JWT
13 15 (1.21%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 101 (8.13%) Cloud Native
2 91 (7.32%) Data Structures
3 63 (5.07%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 27 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 25 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
6 23 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.61%) Onboarding
8 19 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 19 (1.53%) Replication
9 16 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 16 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.13%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 12 (0.97%) IoT
12 12 (0.97%) Public Cloud
12 12 (0.97%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.98%) Linux
2 22 (1.77%) Unix
3 15 (1.21%) Windows
4 7 (0.56%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.32%) VMS
7 3 (0.24%) Solaris
7 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.16%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.080%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (45.70%) Data Modelling
2 514 (41.35%) Analytics
3 466 (37.49%) Data Pipeline
4 391 (31.46%) Business Intelligence
5 387 (31.13%) Data Engineering
6 355 (28.56%) CI/CD
7 300 (24.14%) Agile
8 290 (23.33%) Data Governance
9 282 (22.69%) DevOps
10 277 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
11 240 (19.31%) Migration
12 212 (17.06%) Data Architecture
13 206 (16.57%) Data Integration
14 180 (14.48%) Validation
15 163 (13.11%) Data Science
16 159 (12.79%) AI
16 159 (12.79%) Data Migration
17 152 (12.23%) Machine Learning
18 138 (11.10%) Stakeholder Management
19 137 (11.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 798 (64.20%) SQL
2 620 (49.88%) Python
3 109 (8.77%) Java
4 54 (4.34%) C#
5 52 (4.18%) Scala
6 46 (3.70%) PL/SQL
7 45 (3.62%) T-SQL
8 42 (3.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 42 (3.38%) JavaScript
9 31 (2.49%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.29%) TypeScript
12 15 (1.21%) Bicep
13 14 (1.13%) Go
13 14 (1.13%) PHP
13 14 (1.13%) R
14 12 (0.97%) Bash
15 10 (0.80%) VBA
16 5 (0.40%) Korn
16 5 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 241 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 188 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 101 (8.13%) Degree
4 52 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (3.78%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.46%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.57%) AWS Certification
8 24 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.21%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.64%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.56%) PMP
13 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.40%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.24%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
16 1 (0.080%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 401 (32.26%) Data Quality
2 104 (8.37%) GDPR
3 92 (7.40%) QA
4 22 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.53%) IFRS
6 16 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.21%) IFRS 17
8 11 (0.88%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 5 (0.40%) GAAP
9 5 (0.40%) MiFID
9 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.40%) PMO
10 4 (0.32%) SLA
11 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.24%) Basel III
11 3 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.24%) FATCA
11 3 (0.24%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.24%) NIST
System Software
1 118 (9.49%) Docker
2 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.40%) zsh
3 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.16%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.16%) KVM
5 2 (0.16%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.080%) HDFS
6 1 (0.080%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 124 (9.98%) Terraform
2 120 (9.65%) Kubernetes
3 15 (1.21%) Grafana
4 13 (1.05%) Ansible
5 8 (0.64%) Prometheus
6 7 (0.56%) Kibana
7 6 (0.48%) logstash
8 5 (0.40%) Control-M
9 4 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.16%) SCCM
11 1 (0.080%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.080%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.080%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.080%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 271 (21.80%) Databricks
2 208 (16.73%) Microsoft
3 165 (13.27%) Oracle
4 94 (7.56%) Informatica
5 81 (6.52%) Talend
6 54 (4.34%) Google
7 46 (3.70%) SAP
8 32 (2.57%) Denodo
9 31 (2.49%) ServiceNow
10 29 (2.33%) Salesforce
11 25 (2.01%) IBM
12 19 (1.53%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.29%) Palantir
14 15 (1.21%) Workday
15 13 (1.05%) Foundry
16 12 (0.97%) Ab Initio
16 12 (0.97%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.97%) Cognos
17 11 (0.88%) OpenAI
18 8 (0.64%) UiPath