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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 87 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,669 945 1,053
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.87% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.17% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,194 644 737
10th Percentile £359 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £478 £493
% change year-on-year -1.70% -2.92% -2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.88 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £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 46,068 29,787 33,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.40% 90.53% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,926 18,499 20,227
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,164 1,816 1,455
10th Percentile £13.81 £14.23 £14.90
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £67.48 £44.05 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.91% -47.67% +1.18%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 1,464 £500 -2.34% 1,234
London -5 762 £525 - 753
UK excluding London +13 700 £470 -1.70% 588
Work from Home -3 503 £500 -2.15% 488
Midlands +22 234 £469 -3.92% 96
West Midlands +18 200 £469 -7.59% 69
North of England -13 168 £466 -1.84% 146
South East +25 136 £458 -8.50% 141
Yorkshire -3 79 £463 +3.93% 36
South West -10 76 £523 +10.00% 84
North West -30 68 £475 -5.00% 95
East of England -10 46 £488 -7.14% 38
Scotland -19 42 £428 -10.00% 47
East Midlands -10 33 £490 +12.00% 27
North East -26 22 £481 +10.00% 16
Wales -12 8 £313 -37.50% 13
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -34.02% 27

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
1 140 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
2 139 (8.33%) Apache Spark
3 109 (6.53%) Apache
4 95 (5.69%) SAS
5 62 (3.71%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
6 26 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 35 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 641 (38.41%) Azure
2 502 (30.08%) AWS
3 363 (21.75%) Power Platform
4 234 (14.02%) GCP
5 230 (13.78%) Snowflake
6 222 (13.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 144 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
8 140 (8.39%) dbt
9 136 (8.15%) Amazon S3
9 136 (8.15%) Serverless
10 129 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 115 (6.89%) GitHub
12 113 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
14 50 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
15 44 (2.64%) Azure Databricks
16 37 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 33 (1.98%) Collibra
18 31 (1.86%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 575 (34.45%) Data Warehouse
2 353 (21.15%) Power BI
3 254 (15.22%) Data Lake
4 173 (10.37%) Metadata
5 148 (8.87%) SQL Server
6 113 (6.77%) Relational Database
7 103 (6.17%) BigQuery
8 101 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.57%) Delta Lake
10 91 (5.45%) Big Data
11 83 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 79 (4.73%) Tableau
13 75 (4.49%) Oracle Reports
14 72 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (4.01%) NoSQL
16 62 (3.71%) Amazon Athena
16 62 (3.71%) Pentaho
17 58 (3.48%) Oracle Database
18 51 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
19 49 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 188 (11.26%) Git
2 146 (8.75%) JIRA
3 108 (6.47%) GitLab
4 59 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.40%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.16%) Postman
7 18 (1.08%) Selenium
8 15 (0.90%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
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%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 416 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 361 (21.63%) Finance
3 310 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (11.26%) Public Sector
5 159 (9.53%) Banking
6 38 (2.28%) Retail
7 36 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.44%) Marketing
9 22 (1.32%) Law
10 21 (1.26%) Legal
11 18 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.02%) Front Office
12 17 (1.02%) Investment Banking
13 14 (0.84%) Billing
13 14 (0.84%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.84%) Police
14 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 661 (39.60%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.92%) Developer
3 239 (14.32%) Senior
4 233 (13.96%) Architect
5 157 (9.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 150 (8.99%) Lead
7 125 (7.49%) Data Architect
8 118 (7.07%) Analyst
9 70 (4.19%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.59%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.48%) Data Analyst
12 53 (3.18%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 52 (3.12%) Azure Data Engineer
14 47 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
15 43 (2.58%) Snowflake Engineer
15 43 (2.58%) Tester
16 41 (2.46%) Consultant
17 40 (2.40%) Python Engineer
18 39 (2.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 39 (2.34%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (9.65%) PySpark
2 151 (9.05%) Terraform
3 130 (7.79%) Kafka
4 75 (4.49%) REST
5 59 (3.54%) JSON
6 48 (2.88%) .NET
7 30 (1.80%) XML
8 29 (1.74%) React
9 28 (1.68%) Middleware
9 28 (1.68%) Pandas
10 26 (1.56%) Spring
10 26 (1.56%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.08%) SOAP
11 18 (1.08%) YAML
12 17 (1.02%) pytest
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.78%) LangChain
15 12 (0.72%) HTML
16 11 (0.66%) Apache NiFi
16 11 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.13%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.59%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.54%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 25 (1.50%) Reference Data
9 24 (1.44%) NHS
10 22 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.32%) Replication
11 21 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
15 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.90%) Clustering
15 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
16 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.95%) Linux
2 61 (3.65%) Unix
3 21 (1.26%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (47.33%) Data Modelling
2 709 (42.48%) Data Pipeline
3 626 (37.51%) Analytics
4 550 (32.95%) Data Engineering
5 528 (31.64%) CI/CD
6 480 (28.76%) Agile
7 455 (27.26%) Migration
8 439 (26.30%) Business Intelligence
9 400 (23.97%) Data Integration
10 382 (22.89%) DevOps
11 346 (20.73%) Data Governance
11 346 (20.73%) Validation
12 309 (18.51%) AI
13 299 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
14 295 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
15 255 (15.28%) Data Migration
16 251 (15.04%) Data Architecture
17 233 (13.96%) Data Transformation
18 217 (13.00%) Test Automation
19 194 (11.62%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (66.27%) SQL
2 655 (39.25%) Python
3 144 (8.63%) Java
4 91 (5.45%) PL/SQL
5 82 (4.91%) T-SQL
6 57 (3.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.12%) JavaScript
8 51 (3.06%) C#
8 51 (3.06%) Scala
9 44 (2.64%) PowerShell
10 40 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 34 (2.04%) Bash
12 21 (1.26%) R
13 20 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.02%) Bicep
15 13 (0.78%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 469 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 404 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 67 (4.01%) Degree
4 52 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.86%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 27 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 26 (1.56%) ISTQB
10 20 (1.20%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 607 (36.37%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.57%) QA
3 71 (4.25%) GDPR
4 39 (2.34%) GRC
5 25 (1.50%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) SLA
9 7 (0.42%) WCAG
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) PMO
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 122 (7.31%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 117 (7.01%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.34%) Grafana
3 21 (1.26%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 14 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 371 (22.23%) Databricks
2 324 (19.41%) Oracle
3 281 (16.84%) Microsoft
4 129 (7.73%) Informatica
5 115 (6.89%) Talend
6 86 (5.15%) Google
7 70 (4.19%) SAP
8 55 (3.30%) Denodo
9 49 (2.94%) IBM
10 37 (2.22%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.98%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.74%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.14%) Teradata
14 18 (1.08%) Foundry
14 18 (1.08%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.08%) Palantir
15 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage