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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 89
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,607 894 1,005
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.08% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.38% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 607 745
10th Percentile £358 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £620
90th Percentile £688 £700 £736
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.27
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% +3.60%
75th Percentile £69.00 £83.66 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.66 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £85.20 £30.37
% change year-on-year -30.16% +180.52% -23.84%

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 40,228 26,443 36,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.35% 90.98% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,265 17,000 23,677
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,380 1,081 2,436
10th Percentile £14.89 £14.42 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 1,440 £500 -4.76% 331
London +19 761 £512 -4.63% 166
UK excluding London +7 691 £469 -1.26% 195
Work from Home +15 490 £500 - 143
Midlands +26 239 £469 -1.37% 30
West Midlands +32 211 £460 -10.24% 18
North of England -22 174 £460 -0.54% 67
South East -8 118 £475 -8.12% 55
North West -10 94 £447 -8.31% 29
Yorkshire -26 64 £500 +20.48% 28
South West -17 63 £525 +10.53% 26
Scotland -1 52 £475 +11.76% 5
East of England -15 42 £500 - 10
East Midlands -22 27 £525 +25.00% 12
North East -12 16 £525 +20.69% 12
Wales -6 7 £325 -14.47% 5
Northern Ireland -1 4 £415 -17.00%

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
1 145 (9.02%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (5.29%) Apache
4 77 (4.79%) SAS
5 52 (3.24%) Confluence
6 20 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.62%) nginx
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.37%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.25%) Camunda
13 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
Applications
1 43 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.44%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 12 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.31%) Actimize
8 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
11 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 661 (41.13%) Azure
2 475 (29.56%) AWS
3 396 (24.64%) Power Platform
4 236 (14.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 189 (11.76%) GCP
6 174 (10.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 149 (9.27%) Snowflake
8 146 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (8.90%) Amazon S3
10 130 (8.09%) Serverless
11 109 (6.78%) GitHub
12 95 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (5.48%) dbt
14 55 (3.42%) Collibra
15 50 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (1.99%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.062%) DHCP
4 1 (0.062%) DNS
4 1 (0.062%) DSL
4 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.062%) SMS
4 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (29.43%) Data Warehouse
2 373 (23.21%) Power BI
3 261 (16.24%) Data Lake
4 191 (11.89%) SQL Server
5 164 (10.21%) Metadata
6 106 (6.60%) Big Data
7 102 (6.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 98 (6.10%) Tableau
9 91 (5.66%) Delta Lake
10 90 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 81 (5.04%) NoSQL
12 80 (4.98%) Pentaho
13 79 (4.92%) Relational Database
14 75 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
15 71 (4.42%) BigQuery
16 69 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
17 58 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
19 47 (2.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 185 (11.51%) Git
2 142 (8.84%) JIRA
3 88 (5.48%) GitLab
4 73 (4.54%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.61%) Postman
6 30 (1.87%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.68%) MLflow
8 21 (1.31%) Selenium
9 11 (0.68%) ERwin
10 7 (0.44%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) NUnit
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 412 (25.64%) Social Skills
2 406 (25.26%) Finance
3 273 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 117 (7.28%) Banking
6 42 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.99%) Marketing
8 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.31%) Legal
9 21 (1.31%) Retail
10 15 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
11 12 (0.75%) Law
12 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.44%) Front Office
14 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 658 (40.95%) Data Engineer
2 211 (13.13%) Developer
3 182 (11.33%) Architect
4 177 (11.01%) Senior
5 164 (10.21%) Lead
6 131 (8.15%) Analyst
7 120 (7.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 111 (6.91%) Data Architect
9 80 (4.98%) Data Analyst
10 55 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
13 42 (2.61%) Azure Data Engineer
14 41 (2.55%) AWS Data Engineer
15 39 (2.43%) Python Engineer
15 39 (2.43%) Snowflake Engineer
16 34 (2.12%) Integration Engineer
17 32 (1.99%) Data Migration Lead
17 32 (1.99%) Senior Developer
18 31 (1.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (12.07%) PySpark
2 139 (8.65%) Kafka
3 94 (5.85%) REST
4 53 (3.30%) Pandas
5 44 (2.74%) .NET
6 38 (2.36%) JSON
7 30 (1.87%) XML
8 27 (1.68%) PyTorch
9 26 (1.62%) Middleware
9 26 (1.62%) OAuth
9 26 (1.62%) RESTful
10 24 (1.49%) NumPy
10 24 (1.49%) Spring
11 23 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
12 21 (1.31%) Spring Boot
13 20 (1.24%) pytest
14 18 (1.12%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.12%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.06%) FastAPI
15 17 (1.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 140 (8.71%) Cloud Native
2 115 (7.16%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
7 24 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 19 (1.18%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.12%) Clustering
12 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.00%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.00%) Replication
14 13 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 13 (0.81%) NHS
14 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.12%) Unix
2 29 (1.80%) Linux
3 20 (1.24%) Windows
4 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Solaris
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.062%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 762 (47.42%) Data Modelling
2 644 (40.07%) Analytics
3 603 (37.52%) Data Pipeline
4 493 (30.68%) Data Engineering
5 487 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
6 450 (28.00%) CI/CD
7 400 (24.89%) Agile
8 367 (22.84%) DevOps
9 365 (22.71%) Migration
10 349 (21.72%) Data Governance
11 314 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
12 296 (18.42%) Validation
13 254 (15.81%) Data Integration
14 249 (15.49%) AI
15 242 (15.06%) Data Architecture
16 232 (14.44%) Data Migration
17 211 (13.13%) Decision-Making
18 190 (11.82%) Test Automation
19 174 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
20 167 (10.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,079 (67.14%) SQL
2 688 (42.81%) Python
3 145 (9.02%) Java
4 80 (4.98%) T-SQL
5 78 (4.85%) PL/SQL
6 69 (4.29%) C#
6 69 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.42%) Scala
8 44 (2.74%) JavaScript
9 30 (1.87%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.43%) Bash
11 22 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.31%) R
13 18 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 15 (0.93%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) PHP
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.37%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 408 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 335 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 104 (6.47%) Degree
4 50 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.61%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.25%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 526 (32.73%) Data Quality
2 147 (9.15%) QA
3 111 (6.91%) GDPR
4 23 (1.43%) IFRS
4 23 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.12%) IFRS 17
6 14 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.68%) PMO
8 10 (0.62%) SLA
9 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.50%) FATCA
10 7 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
12 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.31%) MiFID
13 4 (0.25%) HL7
13 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 123 (7.65%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (9.09%) Terraform
2 128 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.43%) Grafana
4 18 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.06%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.31%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.062%) logstash
10 1 (0.062%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 332 (20.66%) Databricks
2 305 (18.98%) Microsoft
3 276 (17.17%) Oracle
4 155 (9.65%) Informatica
5 136 (8.46%) Talend
6 67 (4.17%) SAP
7 66 (4.11%) Google
8 61 (3.80%) Denodo
9 49 (3.05%) ServiceNow
10 35 (2.18%) IBM
11 29 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.62%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.12%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.12%) Splunk
14 17 (1.06%) Sage
14 17 (1.06%) Workday
15 14 (0.87%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.75%) Teradata
17 10 (0.62%) ESRI
17 10 (0.62%) Red Hat