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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 80 92
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,647 915 1,020
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 3.13% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.44% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 624 748
10th Percentile £358 £357 £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 £602
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £468 £500
% change year-on-year +0.21% -6.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 12
10th Percentile £36.07 - £30.83
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +15.38% -32.59%
75th Percentile £69.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £86.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -15.72% +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 42,104 26,621 36,920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.94% 85.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,283 16,896 23,594
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 2,537 1,167 2,565
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £56.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.24 £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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +9 1,475 £500 -2.34% 294
London +17 762 £512 -4.51% 140
UK excluding London +16 722 £469 +0.21% 217
Work from Home +15 520 £500 - 578
Midlands +25 246 £465 +5.30% 34
West Midlands +38 217 £459 -1.29% 25
North of England -12 182 £460 -3.16% 56
South East +7 133 £459 -8.20% 70
North West -12 93 £450 -10.00% 35
Yorkshire -26 69 £500 +19.05% 14
South West -20 65 £525 +10.53% 24
Scotland -12 50 £430 -4.44% 14
East of England -10 44 £494 - 9
East Midlands -30 28 £525 +23.67% 8
North East -14 20 £538 +19.44% 8
Wales -7 8 £313 -26.04% 8
Northern Ireland +4 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
1 149 (9.05%) Apache Spark
2 127 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (5.28%) Apache
4 74 (4.49%) SAS
5 62 (3.76%) Confluence
6 18 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.91%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.79%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.73%) nginx
10 10 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
11 9 (0.55%) Appian
12 8 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (0.43%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 5 (0.30%) WebLogic
15 4 (0.24%) Camunda
15 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
16 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
17 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
17 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 39 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) 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 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 8 (0.49%) Sage X3
5 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 685 (41.59%) Azure
2 507 (30.78%) AWS
3 419 (25.44%) Power Platform
4 240 (14.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 195 (11.84%) GCP
6 167 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 167 (10.14%) Snowflake
7 158 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
8 152 (9.23%) Amazon S3
9 145 (8.80%) Serverless
10 114 (6.92%) GitHub
11 111 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
12 101 (6.13%) dbt
13 58 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 53 (3.22%) Collibra
15 42 (2.55%) Amazon EMR
16 38 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 35 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
18 34 (2.06%) SaaS
19 30 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.79%) HTTP
2 11 (0.67%) Firewall
3 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.43%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 1 (0.061%) 4G
5 1 (0.061%) 5G
5 1 (0.061%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.061%) DHCP
5 1 (0.061%) DNS
5 1 (0.061%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 490 (29.75%) Data Warehouse
2 395 (23.98%) Power BI
3 276 (16.76%) Data Lake
4 195 (11.84%) SQL Server
5 153 (9.29%) Metadata
6 108 (6.56%) Big Data
7 101 (6.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 100 (6.07%) Tableau
9 96 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
10 93 (5.65%) Delta Lake
11 90 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
12 84 (5.10%) NoSQL
13 81 (4.92%) Pentaho
13 81 (4.92%) Relational Database
14 71 (4.31%) BigQuery
15 69 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (4.01%) Snowflake Schema
17 65 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
18 61 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
19 48 (2.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 198 (12.02%) Git
2 154 (9.35%) JIRA
3 102 (6.19%) GitLab
4 76 (4.61%) Jenkins
5 49 (2.98%) Postman
6 38 (2.31%) Zephyr
7 24 (1.46%) MLflow
8 19 (1.15%) Selenium
9 10 (0.61%) ERwin
10 7 (0.43%) 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%) ER Studio
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
General
1 428 (25.99%) Social Skills
2 405 (24.59%) Finance
3 267 (16.21%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 127 (7.71%) Banking
6 48 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.94%) Marketing
8 26 (1.58%) Financial Institution
8 26 (1.58%) Retail
9 21 (1.28%) Legal
10 17 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.91%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.73%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.61%) Law
14 9 (0.55%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.49%) Billing
15 8 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.49%) Military
15 8 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 678 (41.17%) Data Engineer
2 206 (12.51%) Developer
3 193 (11.72%) Architect
3 193 (11.72%) Senior
4 176 (10.69%) Lead
5 128 (7.77%) Senior Data Engineer
6 125 (7.59%) Analyst
7 115 (6.98%) Data Architect
8 74 (4.49%) Data Analyst
9 52 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 50 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (2.67%) AWS Data Engineer
12 44 (2.67%) Python Engineer
13 38 (2.31%) Snowflake Engineer
14 36 (2.19%) Integration Engineer
14 36 (2.19%) SQL Developer
15 34 (2.06%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.06%) Senior Developer
16 33 (2.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (12.02%) PySpark
2 137 (8.32%) Kafka
3 94 (5.71%) REST
4 56 (3.40%) Pandas
5 47 (2.85%) .NET
6 39 (2.37%) JSON
7 36 (2.19%) XML
8 33 (2.00%) Middleware
9 27 (1.64%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
11 24 (1.46%) OAuth
11 24 (1.46%) RESTful
11 24 (1.46%) Spring
12 23 (1.40%) NumPy
13 22 (1.34%) pytest
13 22 (1.34%) 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
1 152 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 108 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
4 51 (3.10%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.79%) Product Ownership
6 27 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
6 27 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.28%) Reference Data
11 16 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (0.97%) Clustering
12 15 (0.91%) Algorithms
12 15 (0.91%) NHS
13 14 (0.85%) Replication
14 13 (0.79%) IoT
14 13 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.25%) Unix
2 35 (2.13%) Linux
3 21 (1.28%) Windows
4 12 (0.73%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.67%) Solaris
5 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (46.93%) Data Modelling
2 639 (38.80%) Data Pipeline
3 633 (38.43%) Analytics
4 505 (30.66%) Data Engineering
5 501 (30.42%) Business Intelligence
6 482 (29.27%) CI/CD
7 414 (25.14%) Agile
8 385 (23.38%) DevOps
9 384 (23.32%) Migration
10 334 (20.28%) Data Governance
11 310 (18.82%) Validation
12 306 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
13 272 (16.51%) AI
14 270 (16.39%) Data Integration
15 247 (15.00%) Data Architecture
16 238 (14.45%) Data Migration
17 214 (12.99%) Test Automation
18 212 (12.87%) Decision-Making
19 179 (10.87%) Machine Learning
20 176 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (67.88%) SQL
2 703 (42.68%) Python
3 149 (9.05%) Java
4 89 (5.40%) T-SQL
5 78 (4.74%) PL/SQL
6 73 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 67 (4.07%) C#
8 53 (3.22%) Scala
9 41 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 25 (1.52%) Bash
12 22 (1.34%) Shell Script
13 21 (1.28%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.15%) R
15 15 (0.91%) Bicep
16 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.43%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.43%) VBA
18 6 (0.36%) Cypher
19 5 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 434 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 361 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.07%) Degree
4 46 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.43%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (2.25%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.88%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.73%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) PMP
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 546 (33.15%) Data Quality
2 155 (9.41%) QA
3 104 (6.31%) GDPR
4 22 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.09%) IFRS
6 16 (0.97%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.91%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.79%) PMO
9 12 (0.73%) SLA
10 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.49%) FATCA
10 8 (0.49%) GRC
11 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.30%) GAAP
11 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) HL7
12 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.18%) Basel III
System Software
1 117 (7.10%) Docker
2 8 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
6 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 153 (9.29%) Terraform
2 121 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.37%) Grafana
4 18 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.97%) Ansible
6 8 (0.49%) Control-M
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.061%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.061%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.061%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.061%) Kibana
10 1 (0.061%) logstash
Vendors
1 341 (20.70%) Databricks
2 303 (18.40%) Microsoft
3 294 (17.85%) Oracle
4 155 (9.41%) Informatica
5 136 (8.26%) Talend
6 65 (3.95%) SAP
7 62 (3.76%) Denodo
8 57 (3.46%) Google
9 51 (3.10%) ServiceNow
10 40 (2.43%) IBM
11 25 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 23 (1.40%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.15%) Sage
14 18 (1.09%) Splunk
15 17 (1.03%) OpenAI
15 17 (1.03%) Workday
16 12 (0.73%) Red Hat
17 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.61%) Teradata