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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 80 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,720 945 1,054
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.90% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.21% 2.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 641 766
10th Percentile £350 £355 £360
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £480
% change year-on-year - -3.65% -6.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 10
10th Percentile £29.96 - £29.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £51.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.78 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -40.83% +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 44,825 29,480 35,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.35% 85.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,802 18,519 22,641
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,641 1,572 2,187
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.06
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.86
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%
75th Percentile £68.50 £50.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £68.75 £73.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +84.88% -39.15% -1.95%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +14 1,525 £500 -0.89% 376
UK excluding London +22 783 £463 - 228
London +7 752 £525 -2.05% 192
Work from Home +21 537 £500 +0.50% 183
Midlands +23 278 £459 +1.94% 44
West Midlands +33 243 £450 -9.09% 28
North of England -17 187 £463 -2.63% 67
South East +16 141 £459 -2.86% 62
North West -18 84 £460 -8.00% 33
Yorkshire -14 80 £475 +11.76% 20
South West -23 69 £523 +10.00% 35
Scotland 0 57 £425 +2.41% 8
East of England +7 51 £494 - 9
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +10.96% 16
North East -18 24 £537 +23.45% 15
Wales -13 8 £313 -32.07% 4
Northern Ireland +3 3 £334 -36.38% 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
1 145 (8.43%) Apache Spark
2 136 (7.91%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (5.81%) SAS
4 98 (5.70%) Apache
5 68 (3.95%) Confluence
6 21 (1.22%) Oracle Application Server
6 21 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.87%) nginx
7 15 (0.87%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.47%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.29%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.23%) Appian
11 4 (0.23%) Camunda
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 40 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) Actimize
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 666 (38.72%) Azure
2 518 (30.12%) AWS
3 402 (23.37%) Power Platform
4 221 (12.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 211 (12.27%) GCP
6 203 (11.80%) Snowflake
7 155 (9.01%) Amazon S3
8 154 (8.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 145 (8.43%) Serverless
10 142 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
11 127 (7.38%) dbt
12 118 (6.86%) AWS Lambda
13 103 (5.99%) GitHub
14 55 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
16 49 (2.85%) Collibra
17 41 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
19 30 (1.74%) SaaS
20 29 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.93%) HTTP
2 12 (0.70%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 551 (32.03%) Data Warehouse
2 384 (22.33%) Power BI
3 257 (14.94%) Data Lake
4 168 (9.77%) SQL Server
5 161 (9.36%) Metadata
6 106 (6.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 103 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 103 (5.99%) Tableau
8 99 (5.76%) Big Data
9 97 (5.64%) Relational Database
10 90 (5.23%) Delta Lake
11 89 (5.17%) BigQuery
12 79 (4.59%) Pentaho
13 78 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
14 77 (4.48%) NoSQL
15 73 (4.24%) Oracle Reports
16 66 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
16 66 (3.84%) Snowflake Schema
17 61 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
18 53 (3.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (11.16%) Git
2 154 (8.95%) JIRA
3 90 (5.23%) GitLab
4 67 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.50%) Zephyr
6 38 (2.21%) Postman
7 18 (1.05%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 6 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) Gatling
12 3 (0.17%) MSTest
12 3 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 406 (23.60%) Social Skills
2 389 (22.62%) Finance
3 304 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.93%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.21%) Banking
6 50 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.86%) Marketing
8 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.45%) Legal
9 24 (1.40%) Retail
10 22 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 16 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.64%) Billing
14 11 (0.64%) Front Office
14 11 (0.64%) Law
15 10 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (0.52%) Military
16 9 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 677 (39.36%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.36%) Developer
3 234 (13.60%) Architect
4 205 (11.92%) Senior
5 174 (10.12%) Lead
6 137 (7.97%) Senior Data Engineer
7 132 (7.67%) Data Architect
8 126 (7.33%) Analyst
9 67 (3.90%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.26%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 48 (2.79%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 45 (2.62%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.62%) SQL Developer
15 44 (2.56%) Tester
16 42 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 39 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
18 35 (2.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (10.58%) PySpark
2 146 (8.49%) Kafka
3 78 (4.53%) REST
4 60 (3.49%) JSON
5 43 (2.50%) .NET
6 42 (2.44%) Pandas
7 30 (1.74%) Middleware
7 30 (1.74%) XML
8 25 (1.45%) Spring
9 24 (1.40%) React
10 23 (1.34%) Spring Boot
11 21 (1.22%) RESTful
12 20 (1.16%) OAuth
12 20 (1.16%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.05%) YAML
14 17 (0.99%) Web Services
15 15 (0.87%) Apache Avro
15 15 (0.87%) Great Expectations
15 15 (0.87%) NumPy
15 15 (0.87%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.12%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 35 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.51%) NHS
8 24 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
11 20 (1.16%) Clustering
11 20 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.05%) Replication
13 13 (0.76%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.76%) IoT
13 13 (0.76%) Taxonomies
14 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.20%) Linux
1 55 (3.20%) Unix
2 22 (1.28%) Windows
3 12 (0.70%) Solaris
4 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (46.74%) Data Modelling
2 706 (41.05%) Data Pipeline
3 661 (38.43%) Analytics
4 535 (31.10%) Data Engineering
5 505 (29.36%) CI/CD
6 487 (28.31%) Business Intelligence
7 455 (26.45%) Migration
8 449 (26.10%) Agile
9 376 (21.86%) Data Governance
10 364 (21.16%) DevOps
11 345 (20.06%) Validation
12 335 (19.48%) Data Integration
13 312 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
14 276 (16.05%) AI
15 272 (15.81%) Data Migration
16 252 (14.65%) Data Architecture
17 232 (13.49%) Test Automation
18 219 (12.73%) Decision-Making
19 211 (12.27%) Stakeholder Management
20 195 (11.34%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,146 (66.63%) SQL
2 687 (39.94%) Python
3 148 (8.60%) Java
4 91 (5.29%) T-SQL
5 84 (4.88%) PL/SQL
6 73 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 59 (3.43%) C#
8 49 (2.85%) Scala
9 40 (2.33%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.80%) Bash
13 24 (1.40%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.10%) Bicep
14 19 (1.10%) R
15 9 (0.52%) VBA
16 8 (0.47%) Cypher
16 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.47%) SPARQL
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 481 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 403 (23.43%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.70%) Degree
4 44 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
12 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
15 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.23%) CISM
15 4 (0.23%) CISSP
15 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 588 (34.19%) Data Quality
2 152 (8.84%) QA
3 116 (6.74%) GDPR
4 29 (1.69%) GRC
5 26 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.70%) IFRS
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.47%) FATCA
11 7 (0.41%) HL7
11 7 (0.41%) IFRS 17
11 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.35%) WCAG
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) GMP
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (6.86%) Docker
2 13 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.35%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (8.55%) Terraform
2 126 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.62%) Grafana
4 22 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.10%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 8 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 330 (19.19%) Oracle
2 325 (18.90%) Databricks
3 300 (17.44%) Microsoft
4 165 (9.59%) Informatica
5 138 (8.02%) Talend
6 84 (4.88%) SAP
7 71 (4.13%) Google
8 60 (3.49%) Denodo
9 51 (2.97%) IBM
10 38 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 38 (2.21%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.69%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.34%) Sage
13 18 (1.05%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.05%) Splunk
14 17 (0.99%) OpenAI
14 17 (0.99%) Palantir
15 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
15 13 (0.76%) Workday
16 12 (0.70%) Cloudera