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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 89 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 -13 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,637 958 1,040
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.01% 2.90% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 3.21% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,171 668 715
10th Percentile £358 £361 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £478 £488
% change year-on-year -1.70% -1.92% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 5
10th Percentile £21.37 £33.05 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £55.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.95 £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 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
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 £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 1,434 £500 -0.10% 1,326
London -5 757 £525 - 739
UK excluding London +3 678 £470 -1.70% 728
Work from Home -5 490 £500 -1.48% 646
Midlands +21 226 £470 -6.10% 125
West Midlands +17 197 £469 -8.04% 91
North of England -7 173 £466 -1.84% 189
South East +13 128 £458 -3.53% 175
South West -3 83 £514 +8.26% 72
Yorkshire +6 77 £461 +0.27% 59
North West -20 76 £475 -5.00% 110
Scotland -8 43 £425 -10.53% 71
East of England -17 33 £475 -9.52% 51
East Midlands -7 28 £486 +9.94% 34
North East -19 25 £500 +14.29% 24
Wales -17 6 £313 -37.19% 22
Northern Ireland -3 3 £334 -16.50% 31

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
1 143 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 142 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
3 113 (6.90%) Apache
4 87 (5.31%) SAS
5 62 (3.79%) Confluence
6 26 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.34%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.67%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.49%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.37%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.31%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
16 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
17 2 (0.12%) CMS
17 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 17 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.31%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
8 2 (0.12%) iTrent
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 637 (38.91%) Azure
2 485 (29.63%) AWS
3 349 (21.32%) Power Platform
4 238 (14.54%) GCP
5 237 (14.48%) Snowflake
6 217 (13.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 144 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (8.61%) dbt
9 129 (7.88%) Amazon S3
10 125 (7.64%) Serverless
11 122 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 106 (6.48%) GitHub
13 103 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.99%) Azure Databricks
16 48 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (2.14%) SaaS
18 33 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 30 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 28 (1.71%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.49%) Firewall
1 8 (0.49%) HTTP
2 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.18%) DHCP
2 3 (0.18%) DNS
2 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.12%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.12%) VPN
3 2 (0.12%) WinSCP
4 1 (0.061%) Broadband
4 1 (0.061%) DMZ
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) LTE
4 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 550 (33.60%) Data Warehouse
2 338 (20.65%) Power BI
3 250 (15.27%) Data Lake
4 158 (9.65%) Metadata
5 142 (8.67%) SQL Server
6 114 (6.96%) BigQuery
7 104 (6.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 104 (6.35%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.44%) Delta Lake
9 86 (5.25%) Big Data
10 81 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 81 (4.95%) Tableau
11 72 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
12 68 (4.15%) Oracle Reports
13 63 (3.85%) NoSQL
14 60 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
14 60 (3.67%) Pentaho
15 57 (3.48%) Oracle Database
16 49 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
17 43 (2.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 187 (11.42%) Git
2 134 (8.19%) JIRA
3 105 (6.41%) GitLab
4 54 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.20%) Postman
7 18 (1.10%) Selenium
8 13 (0.79%) MLflow
9 7 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.31%) Gatling
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%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 408 (24.92%) Social Skills
2 368 (22.48%) Finance
3 297 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (11.61%) Public Sector
5 165 (10.08%) Banking
6 42 (2.57%) Retail
7 38 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.53%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.47%) Marketing
10 23 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.34%) Law
11 22 (1.34%) Legal
12 21 (1.28%) Investment Banking
13 20 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.16%) Front Office
15 16 (0.98%) Billing
15 16 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.98%) Police
16 12 (0.73%) Military
16 12 (0.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 642 (39.22%) Data Engineer
2 242 (14.78%) Senior
3 237 (14.48%) Developer
4 226 (13.81%) Architect
5 156 (9.53%) Senior Data Engineer
6 144 (8.80%) Lead
7 123 (7.51%) Analyst
8 120 (7.33%) Data Architect
9 70 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
10 64 (3.91%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.54%) Data Analyst
12 57 (3.48%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 52 (3.18%) Azure Data Engineer
14 43 (2.63%) Consultant
15 42 (2.57%) AWS Engineer
15 42 (2.57%) Snowflake Engineer
15 42 (2.57%) Tester
16 40 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 38 (2.32%) SQL Developer
18 36 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (9.35%) PySpark
2 148 (9.04%) Terraform
3 128 (7.82%) Kafka
4 80 (4.89%) REST
5 54 (3.30%) JSON
6 52 (3.18%) .NET
7 31 (1.89%) Middleware
8 30 (1.83%) XML
9 28 (1.71%) Pandas
9 28 (1.71%) React
10 19 (1.16%) pytest
10 19 (1.16%) Spring
10 19 (1.16%) Spring Boot
10 19 (1.16%) YAML
11 18 (1.10%) SOAP
12 15 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.86%) Web Services
14 13 (0.79%) HTML
15 12 (0.73%) LangChain
15 12 (0.73%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 115 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 58 (3.54%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 23 (1.41%) NHS
10 22 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.34%) Replication
11 20 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (0.98%) Algorithms
12 16 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (0.92%) Clustering
14 14 (0.86%) Data Fabric
14 14 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
15 12 (0.73%) IoT
15 12 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 67 (4.09%) Linux
2 52 (3.18%) Unix
3 19 (1.16%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (46.00%) Data Modelling
2 694 (42.39%) Data Pipeline
3 605 (36.96%) Analytics
4 549 (33.54%) Data Engineering
5 520 (31.77%) CI/CD
6 473 (28.89%) Agile
7 448 (27.37%) Migration
8 423 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
9 397 (24.25%) Data Integration
10 380 (23.21%) DevOps
11 351 (21.44%) Validation
12 334 (20.40%) Data Governance
13 316 (19.30%) AI
14 300 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 285 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
16 251 (15.33%) Data Migration
17 247 (15.09%) Data Transformation
18 242 (14.78%) Data Architecture
19 212 (12.95%) Test Automation
20 188 (11.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,081 (66.04%) SQL
2 660 (40.32%) Python
3 129 (7.88%) Java
4 83 (5.07%) PL/SQL
5 78 (4.76%) T-SQL
6 58 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 52 (3.18%) C#
8 51 (3.12%) Scala
9 49 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 40 (2.44%) PowerShell
11 34 (2.08%) Bash
11 34 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 24 (1.47%) R
13 19 (1.16%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.10%) Bicep
15 13 (0.79%) Cypher
16 7 (0.43%) Go
16 7 (0.43%) Perl
16 7 (0.43%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 443 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 387 (23.64%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.85%) Degree
4 56 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.14%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.49%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) CBAP
16 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 582 (35.55%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.80%) QA
3 66 (4.03%) GDPR
4 36 (2.20%) GRC
5 24 (1.47%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 8 (0.49%) IFRS
8 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.43%) HL7
10 6 (0.37%) NIST
10 6 (0.37%) WCAG
11 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.31%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 104 (6.35%) Docker
2 15 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 111 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.95%) Grafana
3 21 (1.28%) Ansible
4 16 (0.98%) Control-M
5 13 (0.79%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 373 (22.79%) Databricks
2 302 (18.45%) Oracle
3 282 (17.23%) Microsoft
4 119 (7.27%) Informatica
5 100 (6.11%) Talend
6 91 (5.56%) Google
7 67 (4.09%) SAP
8 47 (2.87%) IBM
9 39 (2.38%) Salesforce
10 37 (2.26%) Denodo
11 29 (1.77%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.59%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.16%) Foundry
13 19 (1.16%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.10%) Palantir
15 16 (0.98%) Teradata
16 10 (0.61%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.61%) Sage
17 9 (0.55%) ESRI