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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 87 83
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,658 935 1,027
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.05% 2.84% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 3.14% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,185 631 725
10th Percentile £360 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.15 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.25 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -16.46% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £67.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £27.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% +41.67% -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 45,937 29,792 32,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.51% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,939 18,514 20,418
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,060 1,790 1,498
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.13 £22.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +78.36% -47.67% +7.50%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +3 1,458 £500 - 877
London -4 767 £521 -0.71% 508
UK excluding London +9 689 £470 -1.05% 474
Work from Home +3 507 £500 - 681
Midlands +24 235 £469 -1.26% 71
West Midlands +27 202 £469 -8.04% 45
North of England -6 170 £470 -1.05% 95
South East +25 135 £454 -4.47% 132
Yorkshire +1 79 £463 +3.93% 31
North West -31 73 £470 -6.00% 53
South West -26 65 £523 +10.00% 76
East of England -6 44 £475 -9.52% 39
Scotland -22 41 £428 -10.00% 36
East Midlands -11 32 £490 +14.22% 25
North East -28 19 £500 +14.29% 12
Wales -15 7 £313 -37.50% 11
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 17

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
1 139 (8.38%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (8.14%) Apache Spark
3 105 (6.33%) Apache
4 93 (5.61%) SAS
5 61 (3.68%) Confluence
6 26 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.51%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
9 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Actimize
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 656 (39.57%) Azure
2 493 (29.73%) AWS
3 374 (22.56%) Power Platform
4 234 (14.11%) Snowflake
5 229 (13.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 223 (13.45%) GCP
7 151 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
8 142 (8.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 138 (8.32%) dbt
9 138 (8.32%) Serverless
10 130 (7.84%) Amazon S3
11 117 (7.06%) GitHub
12 110 (6.63%) AWS Lambda
13 59 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
14 46 (2.77%) Azure Databricks
15 45 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
16 36 (2.17%) Collibra
17 34 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.87%) Power Automate
19 30 (1.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 10 (0.60%) 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
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
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
1 575 (34.68%) Data Warehouse
2 362 (21.83%) Power BI
3 258 (15.56%) Data Lake
4 171 (10.31%) Metadata
5 157 (9.47%) SQL Server
6 110 (6.63%) Relational Database
7 97 (5.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 97 (5.85%) BigQuery
8 95 (5.73%) Delta Lake
9 88 (5.31%) Big Data
10 83 (5.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 83 (5.01%) Tableau
11 75 (4.52%) Oracle Reports
12 71 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
13 67 (4.04%) NoSQL
14 62 (3.74%) Pentaho
15 60 (3.62%) Amazon Athena
16 58 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 58 (3.50%) Oracle Database
17 51 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (10.80%) Git
2 147 (8.87%) JIRA
3 102 (6.15%) GitLab
4 54 (3.26%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.41%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.11%) Postman
7 16 (0.97%) Selenium
8 15 (0.90%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
13 3 (0.18%) ERwin
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
13 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 407 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 370 (22.32%) Finance
3 308 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 184 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 143 (8.62%) Banking
6 37 (2.23%) Retail
7 36 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 25 (1.51%) Marketing
9 24 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.33%) Legal
11 21 (1.27%) Law
12 16 (0.97%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.90%) Front Office
13 15 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (0.84%) Billing
14 14 (0.84%) Police
15 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 650 (39.20%) Data Engineer
2 245 (14.78%) Developer
3 241 (14.54%) Senior
4 227 (13.69%) Architect
5 156 (9.41%) Lead
6 154 (9.29%) Senior Data Engineer
7 124 (7.48%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.36%) Analyst
9 69 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.62%) Data Analyst
11 56 (3.38%) Databricks Engineer
12 52 (3.14%) Azure Data Engineer
13 48 (2.90%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 47 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
15 44 (2.65%) Tester
16 40 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 38 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
17 38 (2.29%) Consultant
17 38 (2.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (10.01%) PySpark
2 152 (9.17%) Terraform
3 133 (8.02%) Kafka
4 74 (4.46%) REST
5 59 (3.56%) JSON
6 50 (3.02%) .NET
7 29 (1.75%) XML
8 28 (1.69%) Pandas
8 28 (1.69%) React
9 26 (1.57%) Middleware
10 23 (1.39%) Spring
10 23 (1.39%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.09%) YAML
12 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (0.90%) SOAP
13 14 (0.84%) pytest
14 12 (0.72%) LangChain
14 12 (0.72%) OAuth
15 11 (0.66%) Playwright
15 11 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 120 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 69 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.20%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.75%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.45%) NHS
9 23 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.21%) Replication
12 19 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.90%) Clustering
14 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
15 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.86%) Linux
2 59 (3.56%) Unix
3 21 (1.27%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (47.10%) Data Modelling
2 705 (42.52%) Data Pipeline
3 627 (37.82%) Analytics
4 545 (32.87%) Data Engineering
5 519 (31.30%) CI/CD
6 476 (28.71%) Agile
7 449 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
8 443 (26.72%) Migration
9 390 (23.52%) Data Integration
10 388 (23.40%) DevOps
11 348 (20.99%) Data Governance
12 338 (20.39%) Validation
13 313 (18.88%) AI
14 294 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
15 284 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
16 257 (15.50%) Data Migration
17 249 (15.02%) Data Architecture
18 235 (14.17%) Data Transformation
19 219 (13.21%) Test Automation
20 190 (11.46%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,094 (65.98%) SQL
2 644 (38.84%) Python
3 143 (8.62%) Java
4 90 (5.43%) PL/SQL
5 83 (5.01%) T-SQL
6 60 (3.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.32%) C#
8 50 (3.02%) Scala
9 48 (2.90%) JavaScript
10 45 (2.71%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.93%) Bash
13 21 (1.27%) R
13 21 (1.27%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.09%) Bicep
15 13 (0.78%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
17 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 466 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 401 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 65 (3.92%) Degree
4 52 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 28 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 26 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 17 (1.03%) Master's Degree
9 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
10 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.24%) CISM
13 4 (0.24%) CISSP
13 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.18%) CCSP
14 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 601 (36.25%) Data Quality
2 140 (8.44%) QA
3 77 (4.64%) GDPR
4 40 (2.41%) GRC
5 27 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.48%) WCAG
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
9 7 (0.42%) PMO
10 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) SLA
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 120 (7.24%) Docker
2 16 (0.97%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 119 (7.18%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.35%) Grafana
3 21 (1.27%) Ansible
4 16 (0.97%) Control-M
5 14 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 365 (22.01%) Databricks
2 322 (19.42%) Oracle
3 297 (17.91%) Microsoft
4 136 (8.20%) Informatica
5 116 (7.00%) Talend
6 77 (4.64%) Google
7 75 (4.52%) SAP
8 54 (3.26%) Denodo
9 48 (2.90%) IBM
10 36 (2.17%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.99%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.75%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.03%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.03%) Palantir
13 17 (1.03%) Teradata
14 16 (0.97%) Foundry
15 11 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage