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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,721 940 1,071
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 2.89% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.20% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 636 786
10th Percentile £350 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £614
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £484
% change year-on-year - -4.44% -3.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 10
10th Percentile £29.96 - £29.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £61.75 £61.25 £51.38
90th Percentile £68.00 £85.74 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -36.26% +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 44,779 29,366 36,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.09% 90.39% 85.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,449 23,259
10th Percentile £325 £300 £304
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
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 2,648 1,547 2,431
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.22 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.21 £17.45 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.29%
75th Percentile £68.50 £52.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.65 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.34 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.88% -36.15% -3.74%

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 16 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 16 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 16 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 1,527 £500 -2.39% 262
UK excluding London +21 788 £463 - 185
London +9 751 £525 -2.05% 121
Work from Home +14 540 £500 - 132
Midlands +27 277 £459 +1.94% 37
West Midlands +37 243 £455 -2.15% 21
North of England -18 187 £463 -2.63% 43
South East +14 145 £461 -5.49% 57
North West -24 86 £455 -9.00% 20
Yorkshire -19 79 £478 +12.35% 13
South West -11 71 £523 +10.00% 27
Scotland +4 57 £425 +1.19% 6
East of England +3 50 £500 +2.56% 7
East Midlands -11 33 £490 +8.89% 16
North East -21 23 £537 +23.45% 11
Wales -4 9 £313 -32.07% 4
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -36.38% 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
1 147 (8.54%) Apache Spark
2 137 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (5.81%) Apache
4 94 (5.46%) SAS
5 64 (3.72%) Confluence
6 21 (1.22%) Oracle Application Server
7 16 (0.93%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.87%) nginx
8 15 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.52%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Appian
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (2.32%) 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
5 3 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.46%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.17%) Actimize
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
10 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 675 (39.22%) Azure
2 519 (30.16%) AWS
3 412 (23.94%) Power Platform
4 223 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 209 (12.14%) GCP
6 194 (11.27%) Snowflake
7 157 (9.12%) Amazon S3
7 157 (9.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 147 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
9 144 (8.37%) Serverless
10 120 (6.97%) dbt
11 115 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
12 105 (6.10%) GitHub
13 54 (3.14%) Amazon EMR
13 54 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
14 48 (2.79%) Collibra
15 39 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 30 (1.74%) Power Automate
17 29 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.69%) Matillion
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
1 546 (31.73%) Data Warehouse
2 393 (22.84%) Power BI
3 260 (15.11%) Data Lake
4 171 (9.94%) SQL Server
5 159 (9.24%) Metadata
6 106 (6.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 103 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 101 (5.87%) Tableau
9 100 (5.81%) Big Data
10 94 (5.46%) Delta Lake
10 94 (5.46%) Relational Database
11 87 (5.06%) BigQuery
12 80 (4.65%) NoSQL
12 80 (4.65%) Pentaho
13 77 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
14 73 (4.24%) Oracle Reports
15 69 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 67 (3.89%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (3.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.33%) Git
2 151 (8.77%) JIRA
3 91 (5.29%) GitLab
4 67 (3.89%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.27%) Zephyr
6 38 (2.21%) Postman
7 20 (1.16%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.29%) ERwin
9 5 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.23%) Flyway
10 4 (0.23%) LSMW
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Gatling
11 3 (0.17%) MSTest
11 3 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 406 (23.59%) Social Skills
2 390 (22.66%) Finance
3 312 (18.13%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 116 (6.74%) Banking
6 51 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.80%) Marketing
8 26 (1.51%) Retail
9 24 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.39%) Legal
10 22 (1.28%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.64%) Billing
13 11 (0.64%) Front Office
13 11 (0.64%) Law
13 11 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.52%) Military
14 9 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 693 (40.27%) Data Engineer
2 246 (14.29%) Developer
3 227 (13.19%) Architect
4 204 (11.85%) Senior
5 173 (10.05%) Lead
6 138 (8.02%) Senior Data Engineer
7 133 (7.73%) Data Architect
8 123 (7.15%) Analyst
9 68 (3.95%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.67%) AWS Data Engineer
13 46 (2.67%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.61%) SQL Developer
15 43 (2.50%) Python Engineer
16 42 (2.44%) Tester
17 41 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
18 36 (2.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.81%) PySpark
2 145 (8.43%) Kafka
3 78 (4.53%) REST
4 55 (3.20%) JSON
5 45 (2.61%) Pandas
6 44 (2.56%) .NET
7 31 (1.80%) XML
8 27 (1.57%) Middleware
9 25 (1.45%) Spring
10 23 (1.34%) PyTorch
10 23 (1.34%) Spring Boot
11 21 (1.22%) OAuth
11 21 (1.22%) React
11 21 (1.22%) RESTful
12 19 (1.10%) YAML
13 17 (0.99%) NumPy
14 16 (0.93%) pytest
14 16 (0.93%) Web Services
15 15 (0.87%) Great Expectations
15 15 (0.87%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.65%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.91%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 47 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 34 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.51%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.51%) NHS
8 24 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
9 22 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.28%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.16%) Clustering
10 20 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
11 19 (1.10%) Replication
12 15 (0.87%) Algorithms
13 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.76%) IoT
14 12 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (3.02%) Unix
2 50 (2.91%) Linux
3 21 (1.22%) Windows
4 12 (0.70%) Solaris
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (47.53%) Data Modelling
2 706 (41.02%) Data Pipeline
3 659 (38.29%) Analytics
4 535 (31.09%) Data Engineering
5 506 (29.40%) CI/CD
6 494 (28.70%) Business Intelligence
7 456 (26.50%) Migration
8 441 (25.62%) Agile
9 371 (21.56%) Data Governance
10 368 (21.38%) DevOps
11 342 (19.87%) Validation
12 331 (19.23%) Data Integration
13 323 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
14 280 (16.27%) AI
15 268 (15.57%) Data Migration
16 252 (14.64%) Data Architecture
17 229 (13.31%) Test Automation
18 224 (13.02%) Decision-Making
19 207 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 189 (10.98%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (66.71%) SQL
2 696 (40.44%) Python
3 147 (8.54%) Java
4 93 (5.40%) T-SQL
5 83 (4.82%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 63 (3.66%) C#
8 52 (3.02%) Scala
9 40 (2.32%) JavaScript
10 39 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 32 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 30 (1.74%) Bash
13 24 (1.39%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.10%) Bicep
15 18 (1.05%) R
16 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) VBA
17 7 (0.41%) Cypher
17 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 482 (28.01%) Security Cleared
2 404 (23.47%) SC Cleared
3 99 (5.75%) Degree
4 47 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 43 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 27 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.10%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
10 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
11 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.23%) CISM
12 4 (0.23%) CISSP
12 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (33.76%) Data Quality
2 146 (8.48%) QA
3 117 (6.80%) GDPR
4 22 (1.28%) Accessibility
4 22 (1.28%) GRC
5 14 (0.81%) PMO
5 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 11 (0.64%) IFRS
7 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) FATCA
10 7 (0.41%) HL7
10 7 (0.41%) IFRS 17
10 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
11 4 (0.23%) GMP
11 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.23%) NIST
11 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
11 4 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 118 (6.86%) Docker
2 10 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
3 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.35%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (8.54%) Terraform
2 127 (7.38%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.38%) Grafana
4 18 (1.05%) Prometheus
5 17 (0.99%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 8 (0.46%) 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%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 333 (19.35%) Databricks
2 319 (18.54%) Oracle
3 299 (17.37%) Microsoft
4 165 (9.59%) Informatica
5 137 (7.96%) Talend
6 80 (4.65%) SAP
7 69 (4.01%) Google
8 60 (3.49%) Denodo
9 46 (2.67%) IBM
10 36 (2.09%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 31 (1.80%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.34%) Sage
14 18 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.05%) Splunk
15 17 (0.99%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.93%) Palantir
17 12 (0.70%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.70%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.64%) ESRI