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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 82 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 +26 -12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,023 1,007 1,068
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.87% 2.78% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.19% 3.22% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 670 807
10th Percentile £360 £356 £382
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £695 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £485 £525
% change year-on-year -0.90% -7.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 16
10th Percentile £32.50 - £48.13
25th Percentile £35.63 £26.25 £50.40
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -45.31% +77.78%
75th Percentile £64.01 £47.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £60.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.26 £27.50 £61.53
% change year-on-year +170.04% -55.30% +75.79%

All Process and 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 32,049 31,289 41,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 89.77% 86.33% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,064 18,819 27,584
10th Percentile £300 £310 £308
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,120 1,102 1,587
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.11 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.14 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
% change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -13 885 £500 -2.44% 733
London -9 518 £525 - 441
UK excluding London -5 385 £481 -0.90% 377
Work from Home -17 334 £525 +6.06% 367
Midlands -5 125 £513 +15.22% 72
North of England -39 93 £450 - 68
West Midlands -5 92 £519 +8.70% 55
South West +12 51 £520 -9.57% 43
North West -17 49 £431 -1.43% 40
South East -29 43 £445 -19.09% 120
Scotland +22 39 £469 +4.11% 29
Yorkshire -46 37 £475 +5.56% 21
East Midlands -5 33 £442 +10.40% 17
East of England -12 23 £550 +10.00% 34
Northern Ireland +4 13 £400 -23.81% 5
Wales -1 10 £498 -7.01% 9
North East -8 6 £450 -5.26% 7

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
1 109 (10.65%) Apache Airflow
2 97 (9.48%) Apache Spark
3 79 (7.72%) Apache
4 44 (4.30%) SAS
5 10 (0.98%) Confluence
6 9 (0.88%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.78%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.49%) IIS
9 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.39%) Luigi
10 3 (0.29%) nginx
10 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.098%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.098%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 59 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
5 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.098%) Maple
6 1 (0.098%) SPSS
6 1 (0.098%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
3 7 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.68%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.59%) SAP PM
5 5 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.39%) Maximo
6 4 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.29%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 394 (38.51%) Azure
2 352 (34.41%) AWS
3 216 (21.11%) Power Platform
4 161 (15.74%) GCP
5 158 (15.44%) Snowflake
6 141 (13.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 112 (10.95%) Amazon S3
8 96 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 94 (9.19%) Serverless
10 70 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (6.84%) dbt
11 63 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 50 (4.89%) GitHub
13 36 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
14 29 (2.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (2.83%) SaaS
15 23 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
17 20 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
17 20 (1.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.59%) 2G
1 6 (0.59%) 5G
1 6 (0.59%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.49%) 4G
2 5 (0.49%) Internet
3 4 (0.39%) DNS
4 3 (0.29%) SSH
4 3 (0.29%) SSL
4 3 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.20%) BGP
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.20%) DMZ
5 2 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.20%) OSPF
5 2 (0.20%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.098%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.098%) Multicast
6 1 (0.098%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (32.84%) Data Warehouse
2 204 (19.94%) Power BI
3 137 (13.39%) Data Lake
4 112 (10.95%) SQL Server
5 93 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 86 (8.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 78 (7.62%) Metadata
8 76 (7.43%) Big Data
9 75 (7.33%) PostgreSQL
10 74 (7.23%) BigQuery
11 64 (6.26%) NoSQL
12 63 (6.16%) Tableau
13 59 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 49 (4.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 48 (4.69%) Pentaho
16 41 (4.01%) Hadoop
17 36 (3.52%) Snowflake Schema
18 35 (3.42%) Delta Lake
19 31 (3.03%) Oracle Database
19 31 (3.03%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 118 (11.53%) Git
2 66 (6.45%) JIRA
3 60 (5.87%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.86%) ERwin
4 19 (1.86%) GitLab
5 13 (1.27%) Postman
6 9 (0.88%) MLflow
7 8 (0.78%) DBeaver
7 8 (0.78%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.68%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.59%) Selenium
10 5 (0.49%) JMeter
10 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.29%) Maven
12 3 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
13 2 (0.20%) SpecFlow
13 2 (0.20%) Subversion
General
1 307 (30.01%) Social Skills
2 250 (24.44%) Finance
3 186 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 70 (6.84%) Banking
6 25 (2.44%) Retail
7 18 (1.76%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 16 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (1.37%) Marketing
11 12 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.17%) Local Government
11 12 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.08%) Legal
12 11 (1.08%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.68%) Front Office
14 7 (0.68%) Law
14 7 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 340 (33.24%) Data Engineer
2 146 (14.27%) Developer
3 129 (12.61%) Architect
4 113 (11.05%) Senior
5 111 (10.85%) Analyst
6 98 (9.58%) Lead
7 72 (7.04%) Data Architect
8 67 (6.55%) Data Analyst
9 57 (5.57%) Senior Data Engineer
10 41 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (3.52%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (3.42%) Consultant
13 34 (3.32%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (3.13%) Business Analyst
15 30 (2.93%) Python Engineer
16 26 (2.54%) AWS Data Engineer
16 26 (2.54%) Senior Developer
17 24 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 22 (2.15%) Snowflake Engineer
19 21 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (8.99%) PySpark
2 81 (7.92%) Kafka
3 49 (4.79%) REST
4 45 (4.40%) XML
5 38 (3.71%) JSON
6 30 (2.93%) Node.js
7 28 (2.74%) Pandas
8 25 (2.44%) RESTful
9 23 (2.25%) NumPy
10 17 (1.66%) OAuth
10 17 (1.66%) SOAP
11 16 (1.56%) React
12 15 (1.47%) .NET
13 14 (1.37%) GraphQL
14 13 (1.27%) Middleware
15 12 (1.17%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.17%) PyTorch
16 11 (1.08%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 10 (0.98%) Apache Avro
17 10 (0.98%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 70 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 59 (5.77%) Data Structures
3 39 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (2.64%) Algorithms
5 26 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 17 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 16 (1.56%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.56%) Replication
10 14 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 13 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 12 (1.17%) IoT
13 11 (1.08%) NHS
14 10 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (0.98%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
15 9 (0.88%) Reinsurance
16 8 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.50%) Linux
2 17 (1.66%) Windows
3 15 (1.47%) Unix
4 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.098%) Solaris
6 1 (0.098%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (44.48%) Data Modelling
2 383 (37.44%) Data Pipeline
3 377 (36.85%) Analytics
4 304 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
5 281 (27.47%) Data Engineering
6 266 (26.00%) CI/CD
7 249 (24.34%) Agile
8 248 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
9 232 (22.68%) Data Governance
10 222 (21.70%) Migration
11 221 (21.60%) DevOps
12 209 (20.43%) Data Integration
13 152 (14.86%) Data Migration
14 150 (14.66%) Data Architecture
15 137 (13.39%) Validation
16 134 (13.10%) Visualisation
17 133 (13.00%) Data Transformation
18 126 (12.32%) Data Science
19 109 (10.65%) Machine Learning
20 99 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 651 (63.64%) SQL
2 507 (49.56%) Python
3 95 (9.29%) Java
4 50 (4.89%) Scala
5 47 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (3.62%) C#
7 36 (3.52%) T-SQL
8 29 (2.83%) PowerShell
9 27 (2.64%) PL/SQL
10 25 (2.44%) JavaScript
11 18 (1.76%) Bash
12 16 (1.56%) R
12 16 (1.56%) VBA
13 15 (1.47%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.27%) Go
15 12 (1.17%) PHP
15 12 (1.17%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.78%) Korn
17 7 (0.68%) Apex Code
18 5 (0.49%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 165 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 132 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.14%) Degree
4 42 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 40 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 40 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 10 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (0.68%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.59%) PMP
13 5 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.29%) CISSP
14 3 (0.29%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.29%) MCSE
15 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.20%) MCP
16 1 (0.098%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (30.60%) Data Quality
2 75 (7.33%) QA
3 73 (7.14%) GDPR
4 32 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.88%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.49%) SLA
6 5 (0.49%) WCAG
7 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.29%) HL7
8 3 (0.29%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.20%) EMIR
9 2 (0.20%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.20%) MiFID
9 2 (0.20%) NCSC
10 1 (0.098%) DICOM
System Software
1 111 (10.85%) Docker
2 7 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.49%) zsh
4 3 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.20%) KVM
5 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.098%) HDFS
6 1 (0.098%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 106 (10.36%) Kubernetes
2 79 (7.72%) Terraform
3 16 (1.56%) Grafana
4 10 (0.98%) Ansible
5 7 (0.68%) Control-M
6 5 (0.49%) Kibana
6 5 (0.49%) logstash
6 5 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.39%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.29%) Argo
8 3 (0.29%) Istio
9 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.098%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.098%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.098%) Puppet
10 1 (0.098%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.098%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 171 (16.72%) Databricks
2 160 (15.64%) Microsoft
3 137 (13.39%) Oracle
4 69 (6.74%) Talend
5 58 (5.67%) Informatica
6 57 (5.57%) Google
7 46 (4.50%) SAP
8 37 (3.62%) Denodo
9 28 (2.74%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.05%) IBM
11 16 (1.56%) Palantir
12 13 (1.27%) Foundry
13 12 (1.17%) MuleSoft
14 11 (1.08%) ServiceNow
14 11 (1.08%) VMware
15 10 (0.98%) AppDynamics
15 10 (0.98%) Workday
16 8 (0.78%) Cognos
17 7 (0.68%) Ab Initio
17 7 (0.68%) Alteryx