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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 88 82
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,670 960 1,045
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.04% 2.90% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.20% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 662 716
10th Percentile £358 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -3.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £481 £490
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.05 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £52.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -62.33%

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 46,382 30,011 32,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.49% 90.62% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 18,637 19,780
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £734 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,269 1,869 1,352
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -48.10% +1.18%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +2 1,461 £500 -1.91% 1,336
London +1 765 £525 - 783
UK excluding London +8 698 £470 -2.34% 716
Work from Home -3 502 £500 -0.79% 606
Midlands +18 235 £469 -6.20% 126
West Midlands +23 206 £469 -8.04% 96
North of England -13 174 £473 -0.53% 183
South East +12 131 £459 -3.37% 164
South West 0 83 £514 +8.26% 78
Yorkshire +8 81 £463 +0.54% 49
North West -26 74 £475 -5.00% 113
Scotland -22 44 £428 -10.00% 71
East of England -16 37 £469 -10.71% 43
East Midlands -11 28 £486 +9.94% 30
North East -23 24 £500 +14.29% 25
Wales -14 8 £313 -37.19% 26
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -26.79% 33

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
1 146 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 143 (8.56%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (7.01%) Apache
4 88 (5.27%) SAS
5 62 (3.71%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.66%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.48%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
16 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
17 2 (0.12%) CMS
17 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 32 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 649 (38.86%) Azure
2 498 (29.82%) AWS
3 354 (21.20%) Power Platform
4 242 (14.49%) GCP
5 240 (14.37%) Snowflake
6 222 (13.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 147 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
8 145 (8.68%) dbt
9 132 (7.90%) Amazon S3
10 130 (7.78%) Serverless
11 127 (7.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 109 (6.53%) GitHub
13 107 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
14 62 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
15 50 (2.99%) Azure Databricks
16 49 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 34 (2.04%) SaaS
19 30 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 29 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.54%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
5 2 (0.12%) VPN
6 1 (0.060%) Broadband
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 570 (34.13%) Data Warehouse
2 342 (20.48%) Power BI
3 253 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 163 (9.76%) Metadata
5 145 (8.68%) SQL Server
6 114 (6.83%) BigQuery
7 111 (6.65%) Relational Database
8 102 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (5.51%) Big Data
10 90 (5.39%) Delta Lake
11 82 (4.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 80 (4.79%) Tableau
13 75 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
14 71 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
15 66 (3.95%) NoSQL
16 59 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
16 59 (3.53%) Pentaho
17 57 (3.41%) Oracle Database
18 49 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
19 44 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (11.44%) Git
2 141 (8.44%) JIRA
3 109 (6.53%) GitLab
4 55 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.51%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.34%) Postman
7 18 (1.08%) Selenium
8 14 (0.84%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 414 (24.79%) Social Skills
2 369 (22.10%) Finance
3 298 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
4 194 (11.62%) Public Sector
5 164 (9.82%) Banking
6 42 (2.51%) Retail
7 38 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.44%) Marketing
10 23 (1.38%) Law
11 22 (1.32%) Legal
12 21 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 19 (1.14%) Front Office
13 19 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.96%) Police
15 15 (0.90%) Billing
16 13 (0.78%) Military
17 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 664 (39.76%) Data Engineer
2 250 (14.97%) Senior
3 240 (14.37%) Developer
4 227 (13.59%) Architect
5 162 (9.70%) Senior Data Engineer
6 147 (8.80%) Lead
7 123 (7.37%) Analyst
8 121 (7.25%) Data Architect
9 72 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (3.95%) Databricks Engineer
11 59 (3.53%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 58 (3.47%) Data Analyst
13 52 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
14 45 (2.69%) Tester
15 44 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
16 42 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
16 42 (2.51%) Python Engineer
17 41 (2.46%) Consultant
18 38 (2.28%) SQL Developer
19 36 (2.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (9.28%) PySpark
2 149 (8.92%) Terraform
3 132 (7.90%) Kafka
4 81 (4.85%) REST
5 54 (3.23%) JSON
6 53 (3.17%) .NET
7 32 (1.92%) Middleware
8 30 (1.80%) Pandas
8 30 (1.80%) XML
9 29 (1.74%) React
10 23 (1.38%) Spring
10 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.14%) pytest
12 18 (1.08%) SOAP
12 18 (1.08%) YAML
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.84%) Web Services
15 13 (0.78%) HTML
15 13 (0.78%) PyTorch
16 12 (0.72%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.59%) Onboarding
4 60 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 45 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.56%) Reference Data
8 24 (1.44%) NHS
9 22 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.32%) Replication
10 20 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.02%) Algorithms
11 17 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (0.96%) Clustering
13 14 (0.84%) Data Fabric
13 14 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (0.72%) CMDB
14 12 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.95%) Linux
2 59 (3.53%) Unix
3 18 (1.08%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 707 (42.34%) Data Pipeline
3 615 (36.83%) Analytics
4 553 (33.11%) Data Engineering
5 528 (31.62%) CI/CD
6 483 (28.92%) Agile
7 460 (27.54%) Migration
8 430 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
9 402 (24.07%) Data Integration
10 383 (22.93%) DevOps
11 352 (21.08%) Validation
12 333 (19.94%) Data Governance
13 319 (19.10%) AI
14 300 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 289 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
16 257 (15.39%) Data Migration
17 248 (14.85%) Data Architecture
18 247 (14.79%) Data Transformation
19 218 (13.05%) Test Automation
20 191 (11.44%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,108 (66.35%) SQL
2 671 (40.18%) Python
3 137 (8.20%) Java
4 88 (5.27%) PL/SQL
5 81 (4.85%) T-SQL
6 58 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.17%) C#
8 52 (3.11%) Scala
9 50 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 41 (2.46%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.34%) Shell Script
12 35 (2.10%) Bash
13 23 (1.38%) R
14 19 (1.14%) TypeScript
15 18 (1.08%) Bicep
16 13 (0.78%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Go
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 458 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 398 (23.83%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.83%) Degree
4 54 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.80%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.68%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.48%) SnowPro
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.18%) CBAP
17 3 (0.18%) CCSP
17 3 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 589 (35.27%) Data Quality
2 147 (8.80%) QA
3 68 (4.07%) GDPR
4 36 (2.16%) GRC
5 24 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) IFRS
9 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.42%) HL7
11 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.36%) NIST
11 6 (0.36%) WCAG
12 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) NCSC
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 111 (6.65%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 115 (6.89%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.98%) Grafana
3 20 (1.20%) Ansible
4 15 (0.90%) Control-M
5 12 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 377 (22.57%) Databricks
2 314 (18.80%) Oracle
3 287 (17.19%) Microsoft
4 123 (7.37%) Informatica
5 103 (6.17%) Talend
6 92 (5.51%) Google
7 68 (4.07%) SAP
8 48 (2.87%) IBM
9 46 (2.75%) Denodo
10 39 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.80%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.56%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.14%) Foundry
13 19 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.08%) Palantir
14 18 (1.08%) Teradata
15 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.60%) Sage
16 9 (0.54%) ESRI