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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 80 83
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,657 915 1,079
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.28% 3.07% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 3.37% 2.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 633 787
10th Percentile £358 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £614
90th Percentile £694 £694 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £494
% change year-on-year +1.41% -6.38% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 11
10th Percentile £34.51 - £30.37
25th Percentile £36.40 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.22 £86.74 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +171.02% -59.30%

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 42,883 27,154 37,300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.85% 91.05% 85.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,719 17,238 23,736
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,254 2,607
10th Percentile £14.70 £14.20 £12.70
25th Percentile £20.07 £17.79 £16.04
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.19 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.08 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.46% -34.22% +17.29%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +10 1,482 £500 -0.99% 308
London +11 755 £513 -4.47% 145
UK excluding London +13 737 £469 +1.41% 235
Work from Home +19 531 £500 - 152
Midlands +33 259 £460 +2.22% 41
West Midlands +40 227 £459 -7.27% 30
North of England -17 176 £460 -3.16% 53
South East +2 134 £463 -7.50% 84
North West -12 94 £450 -10.00% 34
South West -10 66 £524 +10.26% 29
Yorkshire -31 63 £500 +20.48% 8
Scotland -8 55 £428 -0.12% 7
East of England -8 44 £488 - 10
East Midlands -18 31 £525 +23.67% 11
North East -24 19 £550 +26.44% 12
Wales -11 8 £313 -26.04% 4
Northern Ireland +3 5 £400 -23.81% 12

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 (8.45%) Apache Spark
2 125 (7.54%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (4.89%) Apache
4 75 (4.53%) SAS
5 64 (3.86%) Confluence
6 18 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.48%) Appian
11 8 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.24%) Camunda
14 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 42 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.54%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 677 (40.86%) Azure
2 503 (30.36%) AWS
3 423 (25.53%) Power Platform
4 234 (14.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 193 (11.65%) GCP
6 176 (10.62%) Snowflake
7 156 (9.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 154 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (9.17%) Amazon S3
10 144 (8.69%) Serverless
11 113 (6.82%) GitHub
12 110 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
13 103 (6.22%) dbt
14 55 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.96%) Collibra
16 43 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
19 31 (1.87%) Power Automate
20 27 (1.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.060%) DHCP
5 1 (0.060%) DNS
5 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.060%) Network Security
5 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 491 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
2 403 (24.32%) Power BI
3 269 (16.23%) Data Lake
4 188 (11.35%) SQL Server
5 155 (9.35%) Metadata
6 104 (6.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 99 (5.97%) Big Data
7 99 (5.97%) Tableau
8 94 (5.67%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (5.55%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.31%) Relational Database
11 87 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 84 (5.07%) NoSQL
12 84 (5.07%) Pentaho
13 74 (4.47%) BigQuery
14 71 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
15 70 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
16 63 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
17 61 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 198 (11.95%) Git
2 151 (9.11%) JIRA
3 95 (5.73%) GitLab
4 70 (4.22%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.53%) Postman
6 37 (2.23%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.33%) MLflow
8 12 (0.72%) Selenium
9 9 (0.54%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
13 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 421 (25.41%) Social Skills
2 411 (24.80%) Finance
3 278 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.14%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.48%) Banking
6 48 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.93%) Marketing
8 26 (1.57%) Retail
9 23 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 23 (1.39%) Legal
10 19 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.54%) Billing
13 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.54%) Law
14 8 (0.48%) Front Office
14 8 (0.48%) Military
14 8 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 672 (40.56%) Data Engineer
2 216 (13.04%) Developer
3 206 (12.43%) Architect
4 191 (11.53%) Senior
5 177 (10.68%) Lead
6 130 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 123 (7.42%) Data Architect
8 120 (7.24%) Analyst
9 74 (4.47%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 50 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
14 43 (2.60%) Python Engineer
15 40 (2.41%) SQL Developer
16 39 (2.35%) Snowflake Engineer
17 36 (2.17%) Consultant
17 36 (2.17%) Data Migration Lead
17 36 (2.17%) Integration Engineer
18 35 (2.11%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (11.23%) PySpark
2 134 (8.09%) Kafka
3 85 (5.13%) REST
4 52 (3.14%) Pandas
5 44 (2.66%) JSON
6 43 (2.60%) .NET
7 41 (2.47%) XML
8 32 (1.93%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 27 (1.63%) PyTorch
10 25 (1.51%) Spring
11 23 (1.39%) OAuth
11 23 (1.39%) RESTful
11 23 (1.39%) Spring Boot
12 22 (1.33%) NumPy
13 19 (1.15%) pytest
13 19 (1.15%) TensorFlow
14 18 (1.09%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.09%) Web Services
15 17 (1.03%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.17%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.31%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.96%) Onboarding
5 44 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.45%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
8 24 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
9 21 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.27%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.15%) Clustering
11 17 (1.03%) NHS
11 17 (1.03%) Replication
12 15 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.23%) Unix
2 35 (2.11%) Linux
3 22 (1.33%) Windows
4 12 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.66%) Solaris
5 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (46.89%) Data Modelling
2 644 (38.87%) Data Pipeline
3 639 (38.56%) Analytics
4 511 (30.84%) Data Engineering
5 500 (30.18%) Business Intelligence
6 470 (28.36%) CI/CD
7 421 (25.41%) Agile
8 404 (24.38%) Migration
9 372 (22.45%) DevOps
10 330 (19.92%) Data Governance
11 317 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
12 315 (19.01%) Validation
13 291 (17.56%) Data Integration
14 281 (16.96%) AI
15 251 (15.15%) Data Architecture
16 249 (15.03%) Data Migration
17 221 (13.34%) Decision-Making
18 210 (12.67%) Test Automation
19 191 (11.53%) Stakeholder Management
20 180 (10.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,112 (67.11%) SQL
2 689 (41.58%) Python
3 140 (8.45%) Java
4 93 (5.61%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.59%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 65 (3.92%) C#
8 52 (3.14%) Scala
9 41 (2.47%) JavaScript
10 35 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.63%) Bash
12 23 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.15%) R
14 15 (0.91%) Bicep
15 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.48%) VBA
16 7 (0.42%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 5 (0.30%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 450 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 373 (22.51%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.10%) Degree
4 44 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (2.05%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.97%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.24%) PMP
14 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 551 (33.25%) Data Quality
2 150 (9.05%) QA
3 110 (6.64%) GDPR
4 22 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.15%) IFRS
6 17 (1.03%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.78%) PMO
8 13 (0.78%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.48%) FATCA
9 8 (0.48%) GRC
10 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.30%) GAAP
10 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) HL7
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 117 (7.06%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 143 (8.63%) Terraform
2 121 (7.30%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.29%) Grafana
4 17 (1.03%) Ansible
4 17 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Control-M
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 330 (19.92%) Databricks
2 310 (18.71%) Microsoft
3 300 (18.11%) Oracle
4 158 (9.54%) Informatica
5 142 (8.57%) Talend
6 73 (4.41%) SAP
7 63 (3.80%) Denodo
8 60 (3.62%) Google
9 46 (2.78%) ServiceNow
10 42 (2.53%) IBM
11 29 (1.75%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.33%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.33%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.21%) Sage
14 18 (1.09%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.09%) Splunk
15 17 (1.03%) Workday
16 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
17 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
17 11 (0.66%) ESRI