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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 96
Rank change year-on-year +13 +17 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,573 890 1,008
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.02% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.98% 3.32% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 608 750
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £733
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £36.24 £36.69 £28.54
25th Percentile £51.22 £37.83 £35.00
Median hourly rate £61.00 £56.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.96% +14.14% +13.62%
75th Percentile £69.33 £92.16 £53.25
90th Percentile £79.75 £100.97 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.00 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -33.01% +199.81% -15.93%

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 39,506 26,799 37,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.79% 86.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,946 17,322 24,335
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% -0.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £744 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -0.36% -2.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,360 1,068 2,432
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.51 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.60% -16.94% -6.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 £62.24 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £28.00 £35.58
% change year-on-year +49.48% -21.29% -4.62%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +15 1,406 £500 -4.76% 297
London +30 746 £513 -4.47% 122
UK excluding London +8 671 £470 -1.05% 235
Work from Home +15 481 £500 - 237
Midlands +29 229 £469 -1.26% 47
West Midlands +39 195 £469 -6.30% 37
North of England -17 174 £460 -0.54% 54
South East -25 101 £475 -9.52% 79
North West -13 92 £438 -7.89% 33
South West -27 66 £525 +5.00% 28
Yorkshire -31 65 £500 +42.86% 15
Scotland +6 54 £450 +5.88% 5
East of England -12 44 £500 +1.27% 15
East Midlands -20 33 £478 +15.06% 10
North East -11 16 £525 +10.53% 7
Wales -9 7 £325 -23.08% 5
Northern Ireland +5 5 £400 -20.00% 6

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
1 148 (9.41%) Apache Spark
2 126 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (5.85%) Apache
4 71 (4.51%) SAS
5 46 (2.92%) Confluence
6 19 (1.21%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.83%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.64%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.57%) Appian
9 9 (0.57%) nginx
10 8 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
12 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
Applications
1 44 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.45%) Notepad++
5 5 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.38%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.32%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.32%) Maximo
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 642 (40.81%) Azure
2 479 (30.45%) AWS
3 383 (24.35%) Power Platform
4 240 (15.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 184 (11.70%) GCP
6 179 (11.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 158 (10.04%) Amazon S3
8 155 (9.85%) Snowflake
9 137 (8.71%) Serverless
10 134 (8.52%) Azure DevOps
11 111 (7.06%) GitHub
12 102 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 93 (5.91%) dbt
14 56 (3.56%) Collibra
15 51 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 51 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
16 35 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 34 (2.16%) Amazon EMR
18 33 (2.10%) SaaS
19 32 (2.03%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.70%) Firewall
1 11 (0.70%) HTTP
2 7 (0.45%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.45%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.064%) 4G
5 1 (0.064%) 5G
5 1 (0.064%) DSL
5 1 (0.064%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 479 (30.45%) Data Warehouse
2 361 (22.95%) Power BI
3 251 (15.96%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.08%) SQL Server
5 173 (11.00%) Metadata
6 107 (6.80%) Big Data
7 104 (6.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 101 (6.42%) Tableau
9 91 (5.79%) Amazon Redshift
10 88 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 87 (5.53%) Delta Lake
12 81 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
13 78 (4.96%) NoSQL
14 76 (4.83%) Pentaho
14 76 (4.83%) Relational Database
15 68 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
16 66 (4.20%) BigQuery
17 61 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (3.24%) Star Schema
19 49 (3.12%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 182 (11.57%) Git
2 135 (8.58%) JIRA
3 81 (5.15%) GitLab
4 73 (4.64%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.80%) Postman
6 28 (1.78%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.72%) MLflow
8 21 (1.34%) Selenium
9 13 (0.83%) ERwin
10 7 (0.45%) JMeter
10 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.32%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.32%) NUnit
11 5 (0.32%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 428 (27.21%) Social Skills
2 400 (25.43%) Finance
3 277 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.18%) Banking
6 40 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.65%) Marketing
8 25 (1.59%) Legal
9 24 (1.53%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.34%) Retail
11 17 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.89%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.83%) Law
14 11 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.45%) Front Office
17 7 (0.45%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 637 (40.50%) Data Engineer
2 209 (13.29%) Developer
3 179 (11.38%) Senior
4 177 (11.25%) Architect
5 162 (10.30%) Lead
6 138 (8.77%) Analyst
7 114 (7.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 105 (6.68%) Data Architect
9 84 (5.34%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
10 49 (3.12%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (3.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 44 (2.80%) AWS Data Engineer
12 41 (2.61%) Snowflake Engineer
13 37 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 33 (2.10%) Lead Data Engineer
15 33 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (2.03%) Consultant
16 32 (2.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (12.14%) PySpark
2 146 (9.28%) Kafka
3 95 (6.04%) REST
4 54 (3.43%) Pandas
5 45 (2.86%) JSON
6 42 (2.67%) .NET
7 36 (2.29%) XML
8 29 (1.84%) RESTful
9 27 (1.72%) NumPy
10 26 (1.65%) OAuth
11 24 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (1.53%) PyTorch
12 22 (1.40%) Middleware
13 21 (1.34%) pytest
13 21 (1.34%) Spring
14 19 (1.21%) Great Expectations
14 19 (1.21%) Spring Boot
15 17 (1.08%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.08%) YAML
16 16 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 135 (8.58%) Cloud Native
2 113 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 82 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
6 27 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
10 18 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.14%) Clustering
10 18 (1.14%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (0.95%) NHS
13 14 (0.89%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.83%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.83%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (2.23%) Unix
2 28 (1.78%) Linux
3 19 (1.21%) Windows
4 11 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.57%) Solaris
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.064%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (48.12%) Data Modelling
2 644 (40.94%) Analytics
3 587 (37.32%) Data Pipeline
4 498 (31.66%) Data Engineering
5 479 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
6 446 (28.35%) CI/CD
7 398 (25.30%) Agile
8 367 (23.33%) Data Governance
9 358 (22.76%) Migration
10 354 (22.50%) DevOps
11 317 (20.15%) Problem-Solving
12 287 (18.25%) Validation
13 250 (15.89%) Data Architecture
14 246 (15.64%) Data Integration
15 230 (14.62%) Data Migration
16 224 (14.24%) AI
17 206 (13.10%) Decision-Making
18 183 (11.63%) Test Automation
19 173 (11.00%) Stakeholder Management
20 168 (10.68%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,047 (66.56%) SQL
2 684 (43.48%) Python
3 137 (8.71%) Java
4 70 (4.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 68 (4.32%) PL/SQL
6 67 (4.26%) C#
7 65 (4.13%) T-SQL
8 55 (3.50%) Scala
9 38 (2.42%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.10%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.65%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.21%) Bash
12 19 (1.21%) R
13 18 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.08%) Bicep
15 9 (0.57%) PHP
15 9 (0.57%) VBA
16 8 (0.51%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.51%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.45%) Go
Qualifications
1 403 (25.62%) Security Cleared
2 329 (20.92%) SC Cleared
3 107 (6.80%) Degree
4 55 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.84%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.34%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.76%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.57%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.13%) CISA
15 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 530 (33.69%) Data Quality
2 146 (9.28%) QA
3 122 (7.76%) GDPR
4 22 (1.40%) IFRS
5 21 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.08%) IFRS 17
8 11 (0.70%) PMO
9 9 (0.57%) SLA
10 8 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.51%) FATCA
11 7 (0.45%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.32%) GAAP
13 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.25%) IFRS 9
14 4 (0.25%) MiFID
14 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 127 (8.07%) Docker
2 9 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
5 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.064%) RACF
6 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 156 (9.92%) Terraform
2 128 (8.14%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.16%) Grafana
4 19 (1.21%) Ansible
4 19 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.32%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.13%) Kibana
8 2 (0.13%) SCCM
9 1 (0.064%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.064%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.064%) logstash
9 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 324 (20.60%) Databricks
2 287 (18.25%) Microsoft
3 258 (16.40%) Oracle
4 157 (9.98%) Informatica
5 128 (8.14%) Talend
6 69 (4.39%) SAP
7 65 (4.13%) Google
8 56 (3.56%) Denodo
9 49 (3.12%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.54%) IBM
11 33 (2.10%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.59%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.21%) Sage
14 18 (1.14%) Splunk
15 17 (1.08%) Workday
16 15 (0.95%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.83%) Ab Initio
17 13 (0.83%) Teradata
18 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
19 11 (0.70%) Palantir