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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,734 951 1,050
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 2.91% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.21% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,258 646 766
10th Percentile £356 £358 £360
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £465 £475
% change year-on-year -0.54% -2.11% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 9
10th Percentile £29.96 - £28.64
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +37.14% -46.15%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 -
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 45,072 29,587 34,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.08% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,942 18,578 22,301
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% -4.55%
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 2,665 1,596 2,086
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £17.33 £17.31
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.80 £68.75 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.00% -1.45%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +12 1,539 £500 -0.99% 344
UK excluding London +16 784 £463 -0.54% 218
London +7 764 £525 -0.94% 166
Work from Home +17 546 £500 - 166
Midlands +24 281 £459 +2.00% 41
West Midlands +39 246 £450 -6.25% 26
North of England -15 185 £463 -2.63% 69
South East +7 138 £459 -2.34% 58
North West -25 83 £460 -8.00% 33
Yorkshire -19 78 £463 +8.82% 21
South West -18 69 £523 +10.00% 32
Scotland -4 57 £425 - 7
East of England +11 54 £481 -3.75% 7
East Midlands -15 34 £490 +10.96% 15
North East -21 25 £531 +11.79% 18
Wales -12 8 £313 -32.07% 4
Northern Ireland +2 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
1 151 (8.71%) Apache Spark
2 138 (7.96%) Apache Airflow
3 106 (6.11%) SAS
4 102 (5.88%) Apache
5 68 (3.92%) Confluence
6 21 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
6 21 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.75%) nginx
7 13 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Appian
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) 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 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.63%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.17%) Actimize
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 672 (38.75%) Azure
2 525 (30.28%) AWS
3 408 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 222 (12.80%) GCP
5 221 (12.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 201 (11.59%) Snowflake
7 153 (8.82%) Amazon S3
8 152 (8.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 144 (8.30%) Serverless
10 142 (8.19%) Azure DevOps
11 126 (7.27%) dbt
12 117 (6.75%) AWS Lambda
13 104 (6.00%) GitHub
14 56 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
16 49 (2.83%) Collibra
17 42 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
19 29 (1.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 29 (1.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.81%) HTTP
2 12 (0.69%) Firewall
3 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.40%) 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
1 557 (32.12%) Data Warehouse
2 390 (22.49%) Power BI
3 263 (15.17%) Data Lake
4 170 (9.80%) SQL Server
5 166 (9.57%) Metadata
6 107 (6.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 103 (5.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 102 (5.88%) Big Data
8 102 (5.88%) Tableau
9 99 (5.71%) Relational Database
10 92 (5.31%) BigQuery
11 90 (5.19%) Delta Lake
12 83 (4.79%) Pentaho
13 81 (4.67%) NoSQL
14 78 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
15 73 (4.21%) Oracle Reports
16 66 (3.81%) Snowflake Schema
17 64 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
18 61 (3.52%) Amazon Athena
19 53 (3.06%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (11.07%) Git
2 154 (8.88%) JIRA
3 91 (5.25%) GitLab
4 67 (3.86%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.48%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.25%) Postman
7 18 (1.04%) MLflow
8 13 (0.75%) 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%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) NUnit
12 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 413 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 393 (22.66%) Finance
3 309 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.13%) Public Sector
5 128 (7.38%) Banking
6 50 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.90%) Marketing
8 25 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.44%) Legal
8 25 (1.44%) Retail
9 22 (1.27%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 18 (1.04%) Financial Institution
12 13 (0.75%) Front Office
12 13 (0.75%) Law
12 13 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.63%) Billing
15 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 683 (39.39%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.24%) Developer
3 239 (13.78%) Architect
4 205 (11.82%) Senior
5 173 (9.98%) Lead
6 137 (7.90%) Senior Data Engineer
7 135 (7.79%) Data Architect
8 129 (7.44%) Analyst
9 69 (3.98%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 55 (3.17%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (2.71%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
13 46 (2.65%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.65%) Tester
14 45 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.60%) SQL Developer
15 43 (2.48%) Python Engineer
16 40 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.02%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.73%) PySpark
2 147 (8.48%) Kafka
3 79 (4.56%) REST
4 62 (3.58%) JSON
5 46 (2.65%) Pandas
6 43 (2.48%) .NET
7 31 (1.79%) XML
8 30 (1.73%) Middleware
9 25 (1.44%) Spring
10 24 (1.38%) React
11 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.21%) RESTful
13 20 (1.15%) OAuth
13 20 (1.15%) PyTorch
14 19 (1.10%) YAML
15 18 (1.04%) NumPy
15 18 (1.04%) Web Services
16 16 (0.92%) Great Expectations
16 16 (0.92%) pytest
17 15 (0.87%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.46%) Cloud Native
2 120 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 86 (4.96%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 39 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 25 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 24 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
12 21 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
13 20 (1.15%) Clustering
13 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
14 18 (1.04%) Replication
15 14 (0.81%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
16 13 (0.75%) IoT
16 13 (0.75%) Taxonomies
17 12 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.17%) Unix
2 53 (3.06%) Linux
3 20 (1.15%) Windows
4 10 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (46.71%) Data Modelling
2 711 (41.00%) Data Pipeline
3 674 (38.87%) Analytics
4 538 (31.03%) Data Engineering
5 511 (29.47%) CI/CD
6 493 (28.43%) Business Intelligence
7 464 (26.76%) Migration
8 462 (26.64%) Agile
9 379 (21.86%) Data Governance
10 370 (21.34%) DevOps
11 347 (20.01%) Data Integration
11 347 (20.01%) Validation
12 318 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
13 280 (16.15%) AI
14 277 (15.97%) Data Migration
15 255 (14.71%) Data Architecture
16 234 (13.49%) Test Automation
17 223 (12.86%) Decision-Making
18 212 (12.23%) Stakeholder Management
19 208 (12.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,159 (66.84%) SQL
2 691 (39.85%) Python
3 150 (8.65%) Java
4 91 (5.25%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.73%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 59 (3.40%) C#
8 50 (2.88%) Scala
9 42 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 40 (2.31%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.08%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.79%) Bash
13 24 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.15%) R
15 19 (1.10%) Bicep
16 9 (0.52%) VBA
17 8 (0.46%) Cypher
17 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.46%) SPARQL
18 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 491 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 412 (23.76%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.65%) Degree
4 44 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.73%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.21%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.69%) 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%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 598 (34.49%) Data Quality
2 150 (8.65%) QA
3 117 (6.75%) GDPR
4 32 (1.85%) GRC
5 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.63%) IFRS
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) FATCA
11 7 (0.40%) HL7
11 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.35%) WCAG
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (6.81%) Docker
2 12 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
4 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (8.42%) Terraform
2 129 (7.44%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.60%) Grafana
4 20 (1.15%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.10%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 7 (0.40%) 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
1 333 (19.20%) Oracle
2 327 (18.86%) Databricks
3 299 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 166 (9.57%) Informatica
5 142 (8.19%) Talend
6 84 (4.84%) SAP
7 76 (4.38%) Google
8 63 (3.63%) Denodo
9 51 (2.94%) IBM
10 39 (2.25%) Salesforce
11 38 (2.19%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.61%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.33%) Sage
14 20 (1.15%) Palantir
15 18 (1.04%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.04%) Splunk
16 17 (0.98%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.75%) Foundry
18 12 (0.69%) Cloudera
18 12 (0.69%) Red Hat