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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 85 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,725 938 1,026
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 2.86% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.82% 3.16% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 634 741
10th Percentile £358 £355 £360
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 8
10th Percentile £22.12 - £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £35.86 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £54.38 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.98 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.86 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -49.21% +171.02% -52.64%

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 45,107 29,668 33,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.46% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,893 18,635 21,816
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £736 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,744 1,629 1,969
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.66 £17.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £24.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +83.17% -40.48% +0.81%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +11 1,542 £500 - 400
London +11 771 £525 - 196
UK excluding London +20 769 £463 - 254
Work from Home +17 539 £500 - 178
Midlands +23 276 £459 +2.00% 46
West Midlands +35 241 £457 -4.79% 35
North of England -6 186 £463 -2.63% 70
South East +10 140 £459 -1.92% 66
North West -27 82 £460 -8.00% 41
Yorkshire -17 80 £469 +11.61% 15
South West -27 66 £523 +10.00% 37
East of England +12 56 £475 -5.00% 16
Scotland -8 45 £425 - 10
East Midlands -15 34 £490 +12.00% 11
North East -22 25 £531 +11.79% 16
Wales -12 8 £313 -32.07% 6
Northern Ireland -4 3 £334 -34.83% 4

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 (8.06%) Apache Spark
2 133 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
3 115 (6.67%) SAS
4 96 (5.57%) Apache
5 66 (3.83%) Confluence
6 25 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.70%) nginx
8 12 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 3 (0.17%) Appian
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 41 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.17%) Actimize
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 670 (38.84%) Azure
2 520 (30.14%) AWS
3 407 (23.59%) Power Platform
4 226 (13.10%) Azure Data Factory
5 219 (12.70%) GCP
6 205 (11.88%) Snowflake
7 153 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 146 (8.46%) Amazon S3
9 143 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
10 141 (8.17%) Serverless
11 126 (7.30%) dbt
12 113 (6.55%) AWS Lambda
13 104 (6.03%) GitHub
14 57 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
15 51 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
16 44 (2.55%) Collibra
17 41 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.86%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
20 29 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 570 (33.04%) Data Warehouse
2 389 (22.55%) Power BI
3 260 (15.07%) Data Lake
4 166 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 158 (9.16%) Metadata
6 108 (6.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (5.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 100 (5.80%) Relational Database
8 99 (5.74%) Tableau
9 93 (5.39%) BigQuery
10 92 (5.33%) Big Data
11 88 (5.10%) Delta Lake
12 84 (4.87%) Pentaho
13 75 (4.35%) Oracle Reports
13 75 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
14 74 (4.29%) NoSQL
15 67 (3.88%) Snowflake Schema
16 64 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (3.54%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (2.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 192 (11.13%) Git
2 148 (8.58%) JIRA
3 97 (5.62%) GitLab
4 73 (4.23%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.49%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.26%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) MLflow
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.23%) Flyway
10 4 (0.23%) LSMW
10 4 (0.23%) Newman
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.17%) ERwin
11 3 (0.17%) JMeter
11 3 (0.17%) JUnit
General
1 408 (23.65%) Social Skills
2 390 (22.61%) Finance
3 302 (17.51%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (11.01%) Public Sector
5 125 (7.25%) Banking
6 45 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.91%) Marketing
8 31 (1.80%) Retail
9 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.39%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.28%) Legal
12 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
13 19 (1.10%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.75%) Front Office
16 11 (0.64%) Billing
16 11 (0.64%) Law
17 10 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 686 (39.77%) Data Engineer
2 251 (14.55%) Developer
3 236 (13.68%) Architect
4 208 (12.06%) Senior
5 171 (9.91%) Lead
6 138 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 128 (7.42%) Data Architect
8 120 (6.96%) Analyst
9 59 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
9 59 (3.42%) Data Analyst
10 55 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 49 (2.84%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.61%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.61%) SQL Developer
14 45 (2.61%) Tester
15 41 (2.38%) Python Engineer
16 38 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (10.67%) PySpark
2 141 (8.17%) Kafka
3 77 (4.46%) REST
4 61 (3.54%) JSON
5 41 (2.38%) .NET
6 40 (2.32%) Pandas
7 30 (1.74%) Middleware
8 29 (1.68%) XML
9 25 (1.45%) React
9 25 (1.45%) Spring
10 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.04%) RESTful
11 18 (1.04%) YAML
12 17 (0.99%) OAuth
13 16 (0.93%) PyTorch
13 16 (0.93%) Web Services
14 15 (0.87%) NumPy
15 14 (0.81%) Apache Avro
15 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.81%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 84 (4.87%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 51 (2.96%) Product Ownership
6 37 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.51%) NHS
8 24 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.22%) Clustering
9 21 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 19 (1.10%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.04%) Replication
12 12 (0.70%) Algorithms
12 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.64%) IoT
13 11 (0.64%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 56 (3.25%) Unix
2 53 (3.07%) Linux
3 18 (1.04%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
10 1 (0.058%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (46.96%) Data Modelling
2 719 (41.68%) Data Pipeline
3 675 (39.13%) Analytics
4 537 (31.13%) Data Engineering
5 517 (29.97%) CI/CD
6 497 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
7 466 (27.01%) Agile
8 450 (26.09%) Migration
9 377 (21.86%) DevOps
10 369 (21.39%) Data Governance
11 357 (20.70%) Data Integration
12 339 (19.65%) Validation
13 309 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
14 277 (16.06%) Data Migration
15 271 (15.71%) AI
16 245 (14.20%) Data Architecture
17 235 (13.62%) Test Automation
18 227 (13.16%) Decision-Making
19 216 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
20 206 (11.94%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (66.61%) SQL
2 678 (39.30%) Python
3 145 (8.41%) Java
4 93 (5.39%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.75%) PL/SQL
6 77 (4.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 57 (3.30%) C#
8 49 (2.84%) Scala
9 45 (2.61%) JavaScript
10 41 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 35 (2.03%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.86%) Bash
13 24 (1.39%) TypeScript
14 21 (1.22%) R
15 18 (1.04%) Bicep
16 9 (0.52%) Cypher
16 9 (0.52%) VBA
17 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.46%) SPARQL
18 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 493 (28.58%) Security Cleared
2 419 (24.29%) SC Cleared
3 81 (4.70%) Degree
4 43 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (2.32%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.57%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.51%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.22%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.10%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.23%) CISM
13 4 (0.23%) CISSP
13 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.17%) CCSP
14 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 595 (34.49%) Data Quality
2 146 (8.46%) QA
3 104 (6.03%) GDPR
4 38 (2.20%) GRC
5 24 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.58%) IFRS
7 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.41%) FATCA
10 7 (0.41%) HL7
10 7 (0.41%) WCAG
11 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 122 (7.07%) Docker
2 12 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
5 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (8.52%) Terraform
2 132 (7.65%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.49%) Grafana
4 20 (1.16%) Ansible
5 19 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.64%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.058%) Argo
10 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 339 (19.65%) Oracle
2 333 (19.30%) Databricks
3 300 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 162 (9.39%) Informatica
5 141 (8.17%) Talend
6 82 (4.75%) SAP
7 72 (4.17%) Google
8 64 (3.71%) Denodo
9 46 (2.67%) IBM
10 40 (2.32%) Salesforce
11 37 (2.14%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.68%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.33%) Sage
14 21 (1.22%) Palantir
15 17 (0.99%) MuleSoft
16 16 (0.93%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.93%) Splunk
17 14 (0.81%) Foundry
18 13 (0.75%) Cloudera
19 12 (0.70%) Workday