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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 86 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,639 954 1,034
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.01% 2.91% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.21% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 655 713
10th Percentile £358 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £481 £493
% change year-on-year -2.55% -2.28% -6.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.33 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.06 £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 45,850 29,737 32,777
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.30% 90.62% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,722 18,491 19,844
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £403 £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 £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,198 1,854 1,372
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.23 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.00 £74.49
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +1 1,436 £500 -1.48% 1,083
London -2 753 £525 - 587
UK excluding London +8 683 £469 -2.55% 575
Work from Home -3 492 £500 -0.79% 503
Midlands +22 228 £469 -5.73% 107
West Midlands +22 197 £469 -8.04% 80
North of England -6 167 £463 -2.63% 169
South East +22 131 £459 -3.37% 94
South West -3 81 £506 +6.53% 67
Yorkshire -1 77 £460 - 51
North West -36 69 £475 -5.00% 103
Scotland -22 41 £428 -10.00% 57
East of England -11 38 £475 -9.52% 39
East Midlands -9 30 £486 +10.45% 27
North East -21 22 £481 +10.00% 16
Wales -16 8 £313 -37.19% 13
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -26.79% 34

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
1 140 (8.54%) Apache Spark
2 136 (8.30%) Apache Airflow
3 107 (6.53%) Apache
4 89 (5.43%) SAS
5 62 (3.78%) Confluence
6 26 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.34%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.73%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.55%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.43%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.37%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.31%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) CMS
Applications
1 32 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.43%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.49%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.31%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 630 (38.44%) Azure
2 489 (29.84%) AWS
3 350 (21.35%) Power Platform
4 238 (14.52%) GCP
5 231 (14.09%) Snowflake
6 216 (13.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 141 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
8 139 (8.48%) dbt
9 132 (8.05%) Amazon S3
10 131 (7.99%) Serverless
11 125 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 109 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
13 106 (6.47%) GitHub
14 60 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
15 48 (2.93%) Amazon EMR
16 46 (2.81%) Azure Databricks
17 35 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.95%) Collibra
18 32 (1.95%) SaaS
19 30 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.61%) HTTP
2 8 (0.49%) Firewall
3 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.43%) 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
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.061%) DMZ
6 1 (0.061%) Internet
6 1 (0.061%) LTE
6 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 562 (34.29%) Data Warehouse
2 339 (20.68%) Power BI
3 251 (15.31%) Data Lake
4 164 (10.01%) Metadata
5 144 (8.79%) SQL Server
6 111 (6.77%) BigQuery
6 111 (6.77%) Relational Database
7 100 (6.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 90 (5.49%) Big Data
8 90 (5.49%) Delta Lake
9 81 (4.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 81 (4.94%) Tableau
10 75 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
11 70 (4.27%) Oracle Reports
12 69 (4.21%) NoSQL
13 61 (3.72%) Pentaho
14 60 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
15 57 (3.48%) Oracle Database
16 47 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
17 44 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 185 (11.29%) Git
2 139 (8.48%) JIRA
3 104 (6.35%) GitLab
4 56 (3.42%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.44%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.26%) Postman
7 18 (1.10%) Selenium
8 14 (0.85%) MLflow
9 7 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.37%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.31%) 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%) ER Studio
General
1 406 (24.77%) Social Skills
2 352 (21.48%) Finance
3 291 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 157 (9.58%) Banking
6 39 (2.38%) Retail
7 34 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.46%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.46%) Marketing
9 23 (1.40%) Law
10 22 (1.34%) Legal
11 19 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.10%) Front Office
12 18 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 14 (0.85%) Billing
13 14 (0.85%) Financial Institution
13 14 (0.85%) Police
14 11 (0.67%) Military
14 11 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 653 (39.84%) Data Engineer
2 240 (14.64%) Senior
3 238 (14.52%) Developer
4 228 (13.91%) Architect
5 156 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
6 148 (9.03%) Lead
7 121 (7.38%) Data Architect
8 118 (7.20%) Analyst
9 71 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
10 63 (3.84%) Databricks Engineer
11 56 (3.42%) Data Analyst
11 56 (3.42%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 53 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
13 44 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
14 43 (2.62%) Tester
15 41 (2.50%) Snowflake Engineer
16 40 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 39 (2.38%) SQL Developer
18 38 (2.32%) Consultant
19 37 (2.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (9.15%) PySpark
1 150 (9.15%) Terraform
2 127 (7.75%) Kafka
3 76 (4.64%) REST
4 55 (3.36%) JSON
5 50 (3.05%) .NET
6 30 (1.83%) XML
7 29 (1.77%) Middleware
7 29 (1.77%) React
8 28 (1.71%) Pandas
9 23 (1.40%) Spring
9 23 (1.40%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.10%) SOAP
10 18 (1.10%) YAML
11 17 (1.04%) pytest
12 13 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (0.73%) HTML
13 12 (0.73%) LangChain
13 12 (0.73%) Web Services
14 11 (0.67%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.83%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 59 (3.60%) Onboarding
5 57 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 43 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.77%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 24 (1.46%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.46%) NHS
10 22 (1.34%) Replication
11 21 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 16 (0.98%) Clustering
15 15 (0.92%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.92%) Data Fabric
16 14 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
17 12 (0.73%) IoT
17 12 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 66 (4.03%) Linux
2 61 (3.72%) Unix
3 20 (1.22%) Windows
4 5 (0.31%) Solaris
5 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.12%) HPUX
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 756 (46.13%) Data Modelling
2 688 (41.98%) Data Pipeline
3 608 (37.10%) Analytics
4 541 (33.01%) Data Engineering
5 516 (31.48%) CI/CD
6 472 (28.80%) Agile
7 451 (27.52%) Migration
8 426 (25.99%) Business Intelligence
9 395 (24.10%) Data Integration
10 374 (22.82%) DevOps
11 341 (20.81%) Validation
12 335 (20.44%) Data Governance
13 312 (19.04%) AI
14 297 (18.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 281 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
16 252 (15.38%) Data Migration
17 246 (15.01%) Data Architecture
18 232 (14.15%) Data Transformation
19 213 (13.00%) Test Automation
20 185 (11.29%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,087 (66.32%) SQL
2 655 (39.96%) Python
3 138 (8.42%) Java
4 88 (5.37%) PL/SQL
5 80 (4.88%) T-SQL
6 55 (3.36%) JavaScript
7 51 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 51 (3.11%) Scala
8 50 (3.05%) C#
9 44 (2.68%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 36 (2.20%) Bash
12 21 (1.28%) R
13 20 (1.22%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.10%) Bicep
15 13 (0.79%) Cypher
16 7 (0.43%) Perl
16 7 (0.43%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.37%) Go
17 6 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 453 (27.64%) Security Cleared
2 393 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.84%) Degree
4 55 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.71%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.59%) ISTQB
9 24 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.16%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (0.49%) SnowPro
13 7 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 6 (0.37%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 4 (0.24%) CISM
16 4 (0.24%) CISSP
16 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 577 (35.20%) Data Quality
2 140 (8.54%) QA
3 70 (4.27%) GDPR
4 37 (2.26%) GRC
5 25 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.61%) SLA
8 8 (0.49%) IFRS
8 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.43%) HL7
10 6 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
10 6 (0.37%) NIST
10 6 (0.37%) WCAG
11 5 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.31%) FATCA
11 5 (0.31%) PMO
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 110 (6.71%) Docker
2 16 (0.98%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
4 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.061%) RACF
Systems Management
1 112 (6.83%) Kubernetes
2 35 (2.14%) Grafana
3 20 (1.22%) Ansible
4 15 (0.92%) Control-M
5 12 (0.73%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.061%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 366 (22.33%) Databricks
2 312 (19.04%) Oracle
3 281 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 121 (7.38%) Informatica
5 107 (6.53%) Talend
6 92 (5.61%) Google
7 66 (4.03%) SAP
8 49 (2.99%) Denodo
8 49 (2.99%) IBM
9 38 (2.32%) Salesforce
10 32 (1.95%) ServiceNow
11 27 (1.65%) Alteryx
12 18 (1.10%) Foundry
12 18 (1.10%) OpenAI
12 18 (1.10%) Palantir
12 18 (1.10%) Teradata
13 11 (0.67%) Cloudera
14 10 (0.61%) Bloomberg
14 10 (0.61%) Sage
15 9 (0.55%) ESRI