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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 77 89
Rank change year-on-year +8 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,654 908 1,030
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 3.09% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.40% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 618 756
10th Percentile £357 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £608
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -0.21% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £35.13 - £30.83
25th Percentile £44.82 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.38% -32.59%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.22 £86.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +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 42,291 26,731 37,187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 91.01% 85.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,385 16,984 23,772
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 2,541 1,182 2,587
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.00 £61.16
90th Percentile £81.25 £73.75 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.93% -34.02% +8.91%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +6 1,481 £500 -2.39% 307
London +13 760 £512 -3.91% 153
UK excluding London +16 732 £469 -0.21% 220
Work from Home +18 530 £500 - 157
Midlands +21 251 £459 +2.96% 33
West Midlands +42 222 £459 -4.38% 27
North of England -19 183 £460 -3.16% 54
South East +3 134 £469 -6.25% 72
North West -15 93 £450 -10.00% 34
Yorkshire -19 69 £500 +19.05% 13
South West -18 63 £525 +10.53% 29
Scotland -11 53 £428 -5.00% 11
East of England -3 44 £494 - 13
East Midlands -30 28 £525 +23.67% 6
North East -16 21 £525 +16.67% 8
Wales -8 8 £313 -26.04% 6
Northern Ireland +6 6 £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
1 147 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 125 (7.56%) Apache Airflow
3 84 (5.08%) Apache
4 75 (4.53%) SAS
5 60 (3.63%) Confluence
6 15 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
6 15 (0.91%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.79%) Tomcat
8 12 (0.73%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.54%) Appian
11 8 (0.48%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.30%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.24%) Camunda
13 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 39 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.12%) Trello
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 15 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.48%) Sage X3
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.18%) Actimize
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
11 2 (0.12%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 683 (41.29%) Azure
2 506 (30.59%) AWS
3 421 (25.45%) Power Platform
4 238 (14.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 196 (11.85%) GCP
6 174 (10.52%) Snowflake
7 160 (9.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 154 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
9 152 (9.19%) Amazon S3
10 146 (8.83%) Serverless
11 112 (6.77%) GitHub
12 111 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
13 102 (6.17%) dbt
14 56 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (3.14%) Collibra
16 42 (2.54%) Amazon EMR
17 38 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
18 35 (2.12%) SaaS
19 31 (1.87%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.79%) HTTP
2 11 (0.67%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.060%) 4G
5 1 (0.060%) 5G
5 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.060%) DHCP
5 1 (0.060%) DNS
5 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 488 (29.50%) Data Warehouse
2 398 (24.06%) Power BI
3 269 (16.26%) Data Lake
4 193 (11.67%) SQL Server
5 153 (9.25%) Metadata
6 105 (6.35%) Big Data
7 100 (6.05%) Tableau
8 99 (5.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 94 (5.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 94 (5.68%) Delta Lake
10 86 (5.20%) Azure SQL Database
11 85 (5.14%) NoSQL
12 83 (5.02%) Relational Database
13 82 (4.96%) Pentaho
14 72 (4.35%) BigQuery
15 69 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
16 67 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
17 64 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
18 62 (3.75%) Oracle Reports
19 47 (2.84%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 198 (11.97%) Git
2 152 (9.19%) JIRA
3 101 (6.11%) GitLab
4 76 (4.59%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.96%) Postman
6 38 (2.30%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.39%) MLflow
8 19 (1.15%) Selenium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 6 (0.36%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.30%) TestRail
13 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
13 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.24%) LSMW
13 4 (0.24%) MSTest
13 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.24%) NUnit
13 4 (0.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 427 (25.82%) Social Skills
2 409 (24.73%) Finance
3 269 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (9.43%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.80%) Banking
6 47 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (2.00%) Marketing
8 26 (1.57%) Financial Institution
8 26 (1.57%) Retail
9 22 (1.33%) Legal
10 17 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.54%) Law
13 9 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.48%) Billing
14 8 (0.48%) Military
14 8 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 676 (40.87%) Data Engineer
2 210 (12.70%) Developer
3 197 (11.91%) Senior
4 194 (11.73%) Architect
5 179 (10.82%) Lead
6 130 (7.86%) Senior Data Engineer
7 127 (7.68%) Analyst
8 113 (6.83%) Data Architect
9 74 (4.47%) Data Analyst
10 54 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 50 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (2.96%) Azure Engineer
13 44 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
13 44 (2.66%) Python Engineer
14 38 (2.30%) Snowflake Engineer
14 38 (2.30%) SQL Developer
15 36 (2.18%) Integration Engineer
16 35 (2.12%) Azure Data Engineer
16 35 (2.12%) Consultant
17 34 (2.06%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (11.43%) PySpark
2 134 (8.10%) Kafka
3 94 (5.68%) REST
4 54 (3.26%) Pandas
5 48 (2.90%) .NET
6 41 (2.48%) JSON
7 39 (2.36%) XML
8 33 (2.00%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (1.45%) OAuth
11 24 (1.45%) RESTful
11 24 (1.45%) Spring
12 23 (1.39%) NumPy
13 22 (1.33%) pytest
13 22 (1.33%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.15%) TensorFlow
14 19 (1.15%) Web Services
15 18 (1.09%) Great Expectations
15 18 (1.09%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 111 (6.71%) Data Structures
3 89 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.72%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.57%) Distributed Computing
8 24 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 23 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.27%) Reference Data
11 19 (1.15%) Clustering
12 16 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.97%) NHS
13 15 (0.91%) Replication
14 14 (0.85%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.79%) IoT
15 13 (0.79%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.24%) Unix
2 35 (2.12%) Linux
3 21 (1.27%) Windows
4 12 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Solaris
5 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (47.04%) Data Modelling
2 641 (38.75%) Data Pipeline
3 635 (38.39%) Analytics
4 511 (30.89%) Data Engineering
5 502 (30.35%) Business Intelligence
6 478 (28.90%) CI/CD
7 415 (25.09%) Agile
8 391 (23.64%) Migration
9 379 (22.91%) DevOps
10 327 (19.77%) Data Governance
11 313 (18.92%) Validation
12 305 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
13 280 (16.93%) Data Integration
14 274 (16.57%) AI
15 246 (14.87%) Data Architecture
16 241 (14.57%) Data Migration
17 217 (13.12%) Test Automation
18 213 (12.88%) Decision-Making
19 180 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
20 175 (10.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,117 (67.53%) SQL
2 702 (42.44%) Python
3 146 (8.83%) Java
4 91 (5.50%) T-SQL
5 76 (4.59%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 67 (4.05%) C#
8 52 (3.14%) Scala
9 42 (2.54%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 26 (1.57%) Bash
12 22 (1.33%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.21%) R
15 15 (0.91%) Bicep
16 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.42%) VBA
18 6 (0.36%) Cypher
19 5 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 438 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 365 (22.07%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.17%) Degree
4 46 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.36%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.18%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.57%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.79%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.24%) PMP
16 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 544 (32.89%) Data Quality
2 156 (9.43%) QA
3 108 (6.53%) GDPR
4 22 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.09%) IFRS
6 16 (0.97%) IFRS 17
7 14 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.79%) PMO
8 13 (0.79%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.48%) FATCA
9 8 (0.48%) GRC
10 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.30%) GAAP
10 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) HL7
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 115 (6.95%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (9.01%) Terraform
2 119 (7.19%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.30%) Grafana
4 17 (1.03%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.97%) Ansible
6 8 (0.48%) Control-M
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 340 (20.56%) Databricks
2 304 (18.38%) Microsoft
3 293 (17.71%) Oracle
4 156 (9.43%) Informatica
5 138 (8.34%) Talend
6 70 (4.23%) SAP
7 62 (3.75%) Denodo
8 59 (3.57%) Google
9 51 (3.08%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.48%) IBM
11 26 (1.57%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.39%) MuleSoft
13 20 (1.21%) Alteryx
14 19 (1.15%) Sage
15 18 (1.09%) Splunk
16 17 (1.03%) OpenAI
16 17 (1.03%) Workday
17 12 (0.73%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.67%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.67%) ESRI