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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,707 928 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.19% 2.83% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.12% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 625 706
10th Percentile £360 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £483
% change year-on-year -1.26% -1.55% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 7
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.95 £33.15
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £41.23 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -2.99% -40.14%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £81.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -45.64% +105.80% -58.11%

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 45,331 29,700 33,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.46% 85.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,838 18,524 21,130
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
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 2,836 1,729 1,767
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.31 £17.33 £18.14
Median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £67.99 £49.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +83.17% -43.53% +17.65%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +7 1,517 £500 - 439
London +4 759 £525 - 244
UK excluding London +19 753 £469 -1.26% 256
Work from Home +12 523 £500 - 186
Midlands +22 271 £459 -0.76% 56
West Midlands +33 235 £459 -8.20% 45
North of England +2 179 £475 - 67
South East +24 147 £459 +2.00% 82
Yorkshire -1 81 £475 +11.76% 12
North West -13 75 £475 -5.00% 39
South West -24 64 £523 +13.59% 23
East of England +11 55 £475 -13.64% 6
Scotland -10 38 £450 +4.41% 12
East Midlands -15 35 £486 +12.06% 11
North East -18 24 £520 +15.56% 16
Wales -11 7 £313 -33.86% 8
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -34.83% 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
1 136 (7.97%) Apache Spark
2 130 (7.62%) Apache Airflow
3 103 (6.03%) SAS
4 97 (5.68%) Apache
5 67 (3.93%) Confluence
6 29 (1.70%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.52%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.70%) nginx
9 11 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.23%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Camunda
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 34 (1.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.59%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.53%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 675 (39.54%) Azure
2 516 (30.23%) AWS
3 406 (23.78%) Power Platform
4 236 (13.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 222 (13.01%) GCP
6 220 (12.89%) Snowflake
7 149 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 148 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
9 135 (7.91%) Amazon S3
10 134 (7.85%) Serverless
11 122 (7.15%) dbt
12 114 (6.68%) GitHub
13 107 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (2.64%) Amazon EMR
16 42 (2.46%) Collibra
17 32 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.82%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 26 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 8 (0.47%) VPN
4 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.18%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.059%) LTE
7 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 598 (35.03%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (23.08%) Power BI
3 262 (15.35%) Data Lake
4 164 (9.61%) SQL Server
5 160 (9.37%) Metadata
6 108 (6.33%) Relational Database
7 107 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (5.57%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.45%) Delta Lake
9 93 (5.45%) Tableau
10 91 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 84 (4.92%) Big Data
12 80 (4.69%) Oracle Reports
13 78 (4.57%) NoSQL
13 78 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
14 74 (4.34%) Pentaho
15 66 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.51%) Snowflake Schema
17 57 (3.34%) Amazon Athena
18 52 (3.05%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.42%) Git
2 152 (8.90%) JIRA
3 104 (6.09%) GitLab
4 67 (3.93%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.93%) Zephyr
6 45 (2.64%) Postman
7 15 (0.88%) Selenium
8 11 (0.64%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.29%) ERwin
11 5 (0.29%) Gatling
12 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.23%) Flyway
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 412 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 371 (21.73%) Finance
3 318 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.36%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.56%) Banking
6 37 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.93%) Retail
8 29 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (1.70%) Manufacturing
9 28 (1.64%) Marketing
10 24 (1.41%) Legal
11 20 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 19 (1.11%) Law
13 16 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.82%) Front Office
15 12 (0.70%) Police
16 11 (0.64%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (0.59%) Billing
17 10 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 662 (38.78%) Data Engineer
2 255 (14.94%) Developer
3 231 (13.53%) Architect
4 226 (13.24%) Senior
5 178 (10.43%) Lead
6 147 (8.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 125 (7.32%) Data Architect
8 116 (6.80%) Analyst
9 66 (3.87%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (3.22%) Data Analyst
11 53 (3.10%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
12 52 (3.05%) Tester
13 45 (2.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 45 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
14 43 (2.52%) AWS Data Engineer
15 41 (2.40%) SQL Developer
16 39 (2.28%) Data Migration Lead
16 39 (2.28%) Lead Data Engineer
16 39 (2.28%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (10.08%) PySpark
2 154 (9.02%) Terraform
3 140 (8.20%) Kafka
4 79 (4.63%) REST
5 58 (3.40%) JSON
6 47 (2.75%) .NET
7 34 (1.99%) Pandas
8 28 (1.64%) Middleware
8 28 (1.64%) React
9 27 (1.58%) XML
10 23 (1.35%) Spring
11 22 (1.29%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.11%) YAML
13 15 (0.88%) RESTful
14 14 (0.82%) OAuth
14 14 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.82%) pytest
14 14 (0.82%) SOAP
15 12 (0.70%) Playwright
16 11 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 108 (6.33%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.45%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.22%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 24 (1.41%) NHS
8 22 (1.29%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.23%) Clustering
10 20 (1.17%) Reference Data
11 19 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
12 18 (1.05%) Replication
13 16 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.76%) Algorithms
15 12 (0.70%) Data Fabric
16 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.64%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.63%) Linux
2 55 (3.22%) Unix
3 19 (1.11%) Windows
4 8 (0.47%) Solaris
5 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 798 (46.75%) Data Modelling
2 703 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
3 659 (38.61%) Analytics
4 530 (31.05%) Data Engineering
5 524 (30.70%) CI/CD
6 491 (28.76%) Agile
7 490 (28.71%) Business Intelligence
8 459 (26.89%) Migration
9 390 (22.85%) DevOps
10 382 (22.38%) Data Integration
11 351 (20.56%) Data Governance
12 322 (18.86%) Validation
13 304 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
14 281 (16.46%) Data Migration
15 276 (16.17%) AI
16 245 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
17 243 (14.24%) Test Automation
18 239 (14.00%) Data Architecture
19 232 (13.59%) Data Transformation
20 210 (12.30%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,135 (66.49%) SQL
2 654 (38.31%) Python
3 154 (9.02%) Java
4 91 (5.33%) PL/SQL
5 86 (5.04%) T-SQL
6 68 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.22%) C#
8 50 (2.93%) Scala
9 48 (2.81%) JavaScript
10 45 (2.64%) PowerShell
11 34 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.93%) Bash
13 21 (1.23%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.17%) R
15 17 (1.00%) Bicep
16 9 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.47%) Cypher
18 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
18 7 (0.41%) VBA
19 6 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 480 (28.12%) Security Cleared
2 407 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 81 (4.75%) Degree
4 46 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.40%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.99%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (35.03%) Data Quality
2 142 (8.32%) QA
3 91 (5.33%) GDPR
4 39 (2.28%) GRC
5 26 (1.52%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.59%) HL7
8 9 (0.53%) IFRS
8 9 (0.53%) PMO
9 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.47%) WCAG
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 124 (7.26%) Docker
2 16 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.059%) RACF
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.46%) Grafana
3 22 (1.29%) Ansible
4 15 (0.88%) Control-M
5 12 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 351 (20.56%) Databricks
2 340 (19.92%) Oracle
3 304 (17.81%) Microsoft
4 146 (8.55%) Informatica
5 123 (7.21%) Talend
6 75 (4.39%) Google
7 74 (4.34%) SAP
8 64 (3.75%) Denodo
9 49 (2.87%) IBM
10 36 (2.11%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.05%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.70%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.17%) Palantir
14 19 (1.11%) Sage
15 15 (0.88%) Foundry
16 14 (0.82%) Teradata
17 13 (0.76%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.70%) Workday
19 11 (0.64%) Cloudera
19 11 (0.64%) MuleSoft