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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 79 95
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,557 895 1,009
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.40% 3.06% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.38% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 603 761
10th Percentile £360 £334 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £578 £616 £638
90th Percentile £681 £690 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -1.05% -6.13% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £31.59 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +39.31%
75th Percentile £70.08 £87.67 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £100.62 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £78.70 £30.44
% change year-on-year -18.68% +158.58% -13.04%

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 39,061 26,469 37,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.38% 90.57% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,736 17,183 24,573
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £636 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,329 996 2,365
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £19.10 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.51 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.25% -4.52% -11.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.38 £70.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +20.00% -7.69% -10.34%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +19 1,393 £500 -4.76% 532
London +28 764 £513 -4.65% 193
UK excluding London +7 640 £470 -1.05% 413
Work from Home +10 470 £500 - 210
Midlands +20 220 £473 -0.53% 75
West Midlands +19 188 £478 -3.14% 48
North of England -19 167 £460 +0.82% 101
North West 0 90 £442 -5.50% 55
South East -22 86 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -15 68 £525 +5.00% 53
Yorkshire -32 62 £500 +42.86% 31
Scotland +4 51 £450 +5.88% 14
East of England -3 44 £510 +10.27% 52
East Midlands -18 32 £460 +12.20% 27
North East -12 14 £550 +15.79% 16
Wales -12 8 £400 -8.57% 12
Northern Ireland +1 7 £400 -20.00% 2

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
1 146 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 121 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (6.04%) Apache
4 75 (4.82%) SAS
5 37 (2.38%) Confluence
6 18 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.58%) Appian
8 9 (0.58%) nginx
8 9 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
9 8 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 7 (0.45%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) Camunda
13 3 (0.19%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.32%) Notepad++
6 3 (0.19%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.064%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.32%) Maximo
5 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.26%) BambooHR
6 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 655 (42.07%) Azure
2 488 (31.34%) AWS
3 388 (24.92%) Power Platform
4 248 (15.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 187 (12.01%) GCP
6 181 (11.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 162 (10.40%) Amazon S3
8 161 (10.34%) Snowflake
9 138 (8.86%) Serverless
10 128 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
11 118 (7.58%) GitHub
12 100 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
13 91 (5.84%) dbt
14 55 (3.53%) Collibra
15 52 (3.34%) AWS CloudFormation
16 51 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.38%) SaaS
18 32 (2.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (2.06%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.64%) HTTP
2 7 (0.45%) 5G
2 7 (0.45%) Firewall
3 6 (0.39%) 2G
3 6 (0.39%) 4G
3 6 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (0.39%) VPN
4 5 (0.32%) PuTTY
4 5 (0.32%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.13%) DSL
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.064%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 470 (30.19%) Data Warehouse
2 366 (23.51%) Power BI
3 249 (15.99%) Data Lake
4 192 (12.33%) SQL Server
5 170 (10.92%) Metadata
6 104 (6.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (6.29%) Tableau
8 94 (6.04%) Big Data
9 90 (5.78%) Azure SQL Database
10 89 (5.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 89 (5.72%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (5.39%) Delta Lake
12 83 (5.33%) Relational Database
13 78 (5.01%) Pentaho
14 77 (4.95%) NoSQL
15 73 (4.69%) Snowflake Schema
16 63 (4.05%) BigQuery
17 60 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (3.28%) Star Schema
19 48 (3.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 186 (11.95%) Git
2 127 (8.16%) JIRA
3 84 (5.39%) Jenkins
4 72 (4.62%) GitLab
5 35 (2.25%) Postman
6 25 (1.61%) MLflow
7 17 (1.09%) Zephyr
8 14 (0.90%) ERwin
9 12 (0.77%) Selenium
10 7 (0.45%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.32%) NUnit
11 5 (0.32%) TestRail
12 4 (0.26%) MSTest
12 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.26%) Toad
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 437 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 396 (25.43%) Finance
3 274 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 110 (7.06%) Banking
6 41 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (1.54%) Financial Institution
7 24 (1.54%) Marketing
8 23 (1.48%) Legal
9 22 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 20 (1.28%) Retail
11 18 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (0.96%) Law
12 15 (0.96%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.45%) Publishing
16 6 (0.39%) Front Office
16 6 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 630 (40.46%) Data Engineer
2 201 (12.91%) Developer
3 173 (11.11%) Senior
4 167 (10.73%) Architect
5 155 (9.96%) Lead
6 133 (8.54%) Analyst
7 111 (7.13%) Senior Data Engineer
8 101 (6.49%) Data Architect
9 89 (5.72%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 43 (2.76%) Snowflake Engineer
13 41 (2.63%) AWS Data Engineer
14 37 (2.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 35 (2.25%) Azure Data Engineer
15 35 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
16 33 (2.12%) Consultant
16 33 (2.12%) Python Engineer
16 33 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (12.01%) PySpark
2 150 (9.63%) Kafka
3 100 (6.42%) REST
4 55 (3.53%) Pandas
5 48 (3.08%) JSON
6 41 (2.63%) XML
7 37 (2.38%) .NET
8 31 (1.99%) RESTful
9 29 (1.86%) NumPy
10 25 (1.61%) OAuth
11 22 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.41%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.35%) Middleware
12 21 (1.35%) pytest
13 20 (1.28%) Great Expectations
14 19 (1.22%) YAML
15 18 (1.16%) Spring
16 17 (1.09%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.09%) SOAP
17 16 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 112 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 81 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (2.83%) Onboarding
4 44 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 30 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
6 28 (1.80%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.22%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.03%) Clustering
11 16 (1.03%) IoT
12 15 (0.96%) NHS
12 15 (0.96%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.90%) Replication
14 13 (0.83%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.18%) Unix
2 29 (1.86%) Linux
3 17 (1.09%) Windows
4 11 (0.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 754 (48.43%) Data Modelling
2 662 (42.52%) Analytics
3 592 (38.02%) Data Pipeline
4 506 (32.50%) Data Engineering
5 500 (32.11%) Business Intelligence
6 463 (29.74%) CI/CD
7 389 (24.98%) Agile
8 380 (24.41%) Data Governance
9 357 (22.93%) DevOps
10 330 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
11 329 (21.13%) Migration
12 282 (18.11%) Validation
13 259 (16.63%) Data Integration
14 249 (15.99%) Data Architecture
15 210 (13.49%) AI
15 210 (13.49%) Data Migration
16 205 (13.17%) Decision-Making
17 174 (11.18%) Test Automation
18 172 (11.05%) Data Science
19 170 (10.92%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,055 (67.76%) SQL
2 697 (44.77%) Python
3 135 (8.67%) Java
4 71 (4.56%) C#
5 69 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 63 (4.05%) T-SQL
7 61 (3.92%) PL/SQL
8 52 (3.34%) Scala
9 38 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.25%) JavaScript
11 23 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.28%) Bash
13 19 (1.22%) R
14 18 (1.16%) TypeScript
15 17 (1.09%) Bicep
16 10 (0.64%) Go
17 9 (0.58%) PHP
17 9 (0.58%) VBA
18 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 376 (24.15%) Security Cleared
2 296 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.06%) Degree
4 57 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.89%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (1.93%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.16%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.51%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.32%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.26%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) CISSP
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 543 (34.87%) Data Quality
2 140 (8.99%) QA
3 125 (8.03%) GDPR
4 22 (1.41%) IFRS
5 21 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.09%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.77%) PMO
8 9 (0.58%) SLA
9 8 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.32%) GAAP
12 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.26%) MiFID
14 3 (0.19%) Basel III
14 3 (0.19%) FATCA
System Software
1 138 (8.86%) Docker
2 7 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.26%) HDFS
5 1 (0.064%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.064%) RACF
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (9.70%) Terraform
2 141 (9.06%) Kubernetes
3 28 (1.80%) Grafana
4 20 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.96%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.32%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 3 (0.19%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) logstash
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.064%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 319 (20.49%) Databricks
2 287 (18.43%) Microsoft
3 240 (15.41%) Oracle
4 150 (9.63%) Informatica
5 131 (8.41%) Talend
6 69 (4.43%) SAP
7 64 (4.11%) Google
8 62 (3.98%) Denodo
9 49 (3.15%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.18%) IBM
11 30 (1.93%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.61%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.16%) Splunk
13 18 (1.16%) Workday
14 16 (1.03%) Sage
15 15 (0.96%) Ab Initio
16 14 (0.90%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.83%) Palantir
18 11 (0.71%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.71%) Teradata