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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 73 95
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,435 979 1,008
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.36% 3.21% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.89% 3.56% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 664 762
10th Percentile £358 £351 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £612
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -4.74% -1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 17
10th Percentile £35.53 - £32.10
25th Percentile £51.22 £26.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.86% -30.69% +40.28%
75th Percentile £70.39 £78.70 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.58 £102.00 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +132.73% -9.84% -12.86%

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 36,846 27,490 38,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.38% 90.18% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,348 17,263 25,101
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -2.18% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,189 895 2,262
10th Percentile £14.79 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.05 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £71.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.38 £31.76 £33.28
% change year-on-year -20.09% -4.57% -4.91%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +7 1,265 £500 -4.76% 480
London +18 723 £524 -4.73% 173
UK excluding London -11 563 £468 -4.74% 374
Work from Home 0 441 £500 - 268
Midlands +21 194 £485 +1.68% 71
West Midlands +24 168 £498 +0.91% 55
North of England -41 144 £452 -2.38% 86
North West -6 84 £431 -7.31% 41
South East -48 74 £475 -9.52% 122
South West -8 65 £525 -12.50% 49
Scotland +14 53 £463 +8.82% 12
Yorkshire -52 47 £500 +38.89% 32
East of England -17 27 £475 -9.52% 27
East Midlands -11 26 £465 +20.00% 15
North East -9 12 £525 +5.00% 14
Northern Ireland +4 10 £400 -23.81% 1
Wales -8 10 £410 -18.00% 14

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
1 138 (9.62%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.94%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (5.92%) Apache
4 68 (4.74%) SAS
5 26 (1.81%) Confluence
6 17 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.56%) Appian
7 8 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.56%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.49%) nginx
9 6 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
12 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 47 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
8 1 (0.070%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.98%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.84%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.42%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.35%) Maximo
8 4 (0.28%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle 11i
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 611 (42.58%) Azure
2 462 (32.20%) AWS
3 344 (23.97%) Power Platform
4 232 (16.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 186 (12.96%) GCP
6 167 (11.64%) Snowflake
7 160 (11.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 151 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 128 (8.92%) Serverless
10 115 (8.01%) Azure DevOps
11 100 (6.97%) GitHub
12 91 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (5.37%) dbt
14 50 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 47 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
16 42 (2.93%) Collibra
17 38 (2.65%) SaaS
18 37 (2.58%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (2.16%) AWS Step Functions
20 28 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.56%) HTTP
2 7 (0.49%) 5G
3 6 (0.42%) 2G
3 6 (0.42%) 4G
3 6 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (0.28%) VPN
5 3 (0.21%) Firewall
6 2 (0.14%) DSL
6 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.070%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.070%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 430 (29.97%) Data Warehouse
2 326 (22.72%) Power BI
3 234 (16.31%) Data Lake
4 175 (12.20%) SQL Server
5 144 (10.03%) Metadata
6 101 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 95 (6.62%) Big Data
8 93 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
9 89 (6.20%) Tableau
10 87 (6.06%) Relational Database
11 86 (5.99%) Amazon Redshift
12 79 (5.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 73 (5.09%) Pentaho
14 71 (4.95%) NoSQL
15 70 (4.88%) Delta Lake
16 64 (4.46%) BigQuery
17 63 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
18 57 (3.97%) Amazon Athena
19 49 (3.41%) Hadoop
19 49 (3.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 183 (12.75%) Git
2 108 (7.53%) JIRA
3 87 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 62 (4.32%) GitLab
5 34 (2.37%) Postman
6 23 (1.60%) MLflow
7 16 (1.11%) ERwin
7 16 (1.11%) Zephyr
8 15 (1.05%) Selenium
9 9 (0.63%) JMeter
10 7 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.49%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.35%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.35%) NUnit
11 5 (0.35%) TestRail
11 5 (0.35%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.28%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.28%) MSTest
12 4 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 437 (30.45%) Social Skills
2 358 (24.95%) Finance
3 237 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 107 (7.46%) Banking
6 41 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (1.88%) Retail
8 24 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 23 (1.60%) Marketing
10 19 (1.32%) Legal
11 18 (1.25%) Telecoms
12 17 (1.18%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 13 (0.91%) Law
15 11 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.56%) Publishing
17 6 (0.42%) Front Office
17 6 (0.42%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 563 (39.23%) Data Engineer
2 174 (12.13%) Developer
3 155 (10.80%) Architect
4 153 (10.66%) Senior
5 146 (10.17%) Lead
6 128 (8.92%) Analyst
7 97 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 94 (6.55%) Data Architect
9 84 (5.85%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 40 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
13 37 (2.58%) Azure Data Engineer
13 37 (2.58%) Snowflake Engineer
14 33 (2.30%) AWS Data Engineer
14 33 (2.30%) Python Engineer
15 32 (2.23%) Lead Data Engineer
16 31 (2.16%) Consultant
17 30 (2.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 28 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (12.13%) PySpark
2 125 (8.71%) Kafka
3 90 (6.27%) REST
4 51 (3.55%) Pandas
5 43 (3.00%) JSON
5 43 (3.00%) XML
6 35 (2.44%) .NET
7 33 (2.30%) NumPy
8 30 (2.09%) RESTful
9 28 (1.95%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.67%) OAuth
10 24 (1.67%) pytest
11 23 (1.60%) Middleware
12 19 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
12 19 (1.32%) scikit-learn
12 19 (1.32%) TensorFlow
12 19 (1.32%) YAML
13 18 (1.25%) SOAP
14 17 (1.18%) Great Expectations
14 17 (1.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 117 (8.15%) Cloud Native
2 103 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 73 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (2.30%) Product Ownership
5 28 (1.95%) Onboarding
6 26 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.74%) Algorithms
7 25 (1.74%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.18%) Replication
12 16 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.11%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.91%) IoT
16 12 (0.84%) Clustering
16 12 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.23%) Linux
2 24 (1.67%) Unix
3 16 (1.11%) Windows
4 11 (0.77%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.49%) Solaris
7 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.28%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.070%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 671 (46.76%) Data Modelling
2 611 (42.58%) Analytics
3 543 (37.84%) Data Pipeline
4 460 (32.06%) Business Intelligence
5 457 (31.85%) Data Engineering
6 422 (29.41%) CI/CD
7 364 (25.37%) Agile
8 351 (24.46%) Data Governance
9 325 (22.65%) DevOps
10 324 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
11 299 (20.84%) Migration
12 240 (16.72%) Data Architecture
13 233 (16.24%) Data Integration
14 230 (16.03%) Validation
15 194 (13.52%) Data Migration
16 184 (12.82%) Decision-Making
17 180 (12.54%) AI
18 178 (12.40%) Data Science
19 165 (11.50%) Test Automation
20 158 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 947 (65.99%) SQL
2 683 (47.60%) Python
3 117 (8.15%) Java
4 60 (4.18%) C#
4 60 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 59 (4.11%) T-SQL
6 52 (3.62%) Scala
7 50 (3.48%) PL/SQL
8 45 (3.14%) JavaScript
9 31 (2.16%) PowerShell
10 21 (1.46%) Bash
11 20 (1.39%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.18%) Bicep
13 16 (1.11%) R
13 16 (1.11%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.91%) VBA
15 12 (0.84%) Go
16 10 (0.70%) PHP
17 6 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 321 (22.37%) Security Cleared
2 259 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 109 (7.60%) Degree
4 56 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.34%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.93%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.37%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.42%) PMP
12 4 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.28%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.21%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.070%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 482 (33.59%) Data Quality
2 119 (8.29%) QA
3 117 (8.15%) GDPR
4 24 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.53%) IFRS
6 19 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.18%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.56%) PMO
9 8 (0.56%) SLA
10 7 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.35%) GAAP
11 5 (0.35%) MiFID
12 4 (0.28%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.21%) Basel III
13 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.21%) FATCA
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 132 (9.20%) Docker
2 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.28%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) HDFS
4 3 (0.21%) zsh
5 1 (0.070%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 142 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 140 (9.76%) Terraform
3 19 (1.32%) Grafana
4 17 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.05%) Ansible
6 5 (0.35%) Control-M
6 5 (0.35%) Kibana
7 4 (0.28%) logstash
7 4 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.14%) Foglight
8 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.070%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.070%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.070%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 305 (21.25%) Databricks
2 242 (16.86%) Microsoft
3 210 (14.63%) Oracle
4 122 (8.50%) Informatica
5 116 (8.08%) Talend
6 61 (4.25%) Google
7 58 (4.04%) SAP
8 47 (3.28%) Denodo
9 39 (2.72%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.23%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.95%) IBM
12 23 (1.60%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.32%) Splunk
13 19 (1.32%) Workday
14 15 (1.05%) Palantir
14 15 (1.05%) Sage
15 13 (0.91%) Ab Initio
16 12 (0.84%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.77%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.77%) Foundry