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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 81 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,717 941 1,015
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.23% 2.84% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.14% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 636 735
10th Percentile £358 £353 £359
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £590 £610 £616
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £478
% change year-on-year - -3.14% -9.05%
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 £34.49 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -51.15% +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 45,145 29,940 33,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.95% 90.42% 85.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,873 18,766 21,491
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
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 £734 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,760 1,664 1,872
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.30 £18.14
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £74.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.63 £40.94
% change year-on-year +86.03% -42.28% +2.35%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 1,536 £500 -0.79% 444
London +7 767 £525 -0.94% 220
UK excluding London +18 766 £463 - 270
Work from Home +17 537 £500 - 209
Midlands +26 274 £459 +2.00% 59
West Midlands +40 238 £459 -4.38% 47
North of England -4 187 £463 -2.63% 70
South East +6 141 £459 -1.92% 68
Yorkshire -11 81 £469 +10.95% 16
North West -23 81 £460 -8.00% 40
South West -23 66 £523 +11.76% 35
East of England +15 55 £475 -5.00% 18
Scotland -5 43 £425 - 12
East Midlands -16 35 £490 +12.00% 12
North East -16 26 £525 +10.53% 16
Wales -11 8 £313 -32.07% 6
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.83% 3

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
1 138 (8.04%) Apache Spark
2 131 (7.63%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (6.76%) SAS
4 96 (5.59%) Apache
5 67 (3.90%) Confluence
6 26 (1.51%) SharePoint
7 23 (1.34%) 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%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) Appian
Applications
1 41 (2.39%) 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 (0.76%) 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 (39.02%) Azure
2 521 (30.34%) AWS
3 405 (23.59%) Power Platform
4 227 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 218 (12.70%) GCP
6 207 (12.06%) Snowflake
7 152 (8.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (8.44%) Amazon S3
9 141 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
10 140 (8.15%) Serverless
11 125 (7.28%) dbt
12 112 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
13 101 (5.88%) GitHub
14 55 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
16 43 (2.50%) Collibra
17 40 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (1.81%) Power Automate
19 29 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) VPN
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
5 1 (0.058%) 4G
5 1 (0.058%) 5G
5 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
5 1 (0.058%) DHCP
5 1 (0.058%) DNS
5 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 571 (33.26%) Data Warehouse
2 387 (22.54%) Power BI
3 258 (15.03%) Data Lake
4 163 (9.49%) SQL Server
5 157 (9.14%) Metadata
6 105 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 99 (5.77%) Relational Database
8 99 (5.77%) Tableau
9 92 (5.36%) BigQuery
10 90 (5.24%) Big Data
11 89 (5.18%) Delta Lake
12 83 (4.83%) Pentaho
13 74 (4.31%) NoSQL
13 74 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
13 74 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
14 67 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
15 63 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
16 61 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
17 50 (2.91%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (11.12%) Git
2 148 (8.62%) JIRA
3 95 (5.53%) GitLab
4 71 (4.14%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.45%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.27%) Postman
7 14 (0.82%) Selenium
8 12 (0.70%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
12 3 (0.17%) NeoLoad
General
1 409 (23.82%) Social Skills
2 389 (22.66%) Finance
3 304 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 127 (7.40%) Banking
6 45 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.92%) Marketing
8 31 (1.81%) Retail
9 26 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (1.46%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.28%) Legal
12 20 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.11%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (0.76%) 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
1 684 (39.84%) Data Engineer
2 250 (14.56%) Developer
3 235 (13.69%) Architect
4 209 (12.17%) Senior
5 173 (10.08%) Lead
6 139 (8.10%) Senior Data Engineer
7 128 (7.45%) Data Architect
8 120 (6.99%) Analyst
9 60 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
9 60 (3.49%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
11 50 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.68%) Snowflake Engineer
13 45 (2.62%) AWS Data Engineer
13 45 (2.62%) SQL Developer
14 44 (2.56%) Tester
15 42 (2.45%) Python Engineer
16 39 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
17 35 (2.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (10.72%) PySpark
2 140 (8.15%) Kafka
3 74 (4.31%) REST
4 57 (3.32%) JSON
5 40 (2.33%) .NET
6 39 (2.27%) Pandas
7 29 (1.69%) Middleware
8 27 (1.57%) XML
9 26 (1.51%) React
10 25 (1.46%) Spring
11 23 (1.34%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.05%) YAML
13 16 (0.93%) OAuth
13 16 (0.93%) RESTful
14 14 (0.82%) NumPy
14 14 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.82%) PyTorch
14 14 (0.82%) Web Services
15 13 (0.76%) Apache Avro
15 13 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.70%) Data Structures
3 82 (4.78%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.15%) Onboarding
5 52 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.46%) NHS
8 23 (1.34%) AI Agents
9 21 (1.22%) Clustering
9 21 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.22%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
10 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
12 18 (1.05%) Replication
13 12 (0.70%) Algorithms
13 12 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.64%) Data Fabric
14 11 (0.64%) IoT
15 10 (0.58%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (3.15%) Unix
2 52 (3.03%) Linux
3 18 (1.05%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.47%) 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 (47.18%) Data Modelling
2 717 (41.76%) Data Pipeline
3 670 (39.02%) Analytics
4 531 (30.93%) Data Engineering
5 513 (29.88%) CI/CD
6 496 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
7 469 (27.32%) Agile
8 450 (26.21%) Migration
9 375 (21.84%) DevOps
10 367 (21.37%) Data Governance
11 358 (20.85%) Data Integration
12 335 (19.51%) Validation
13 310 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
14 275 (16.02%) Data Migration
15 265 (15.43%) AI
16 244 (14.21%) Data Architecture
17 232 (13.51%) Test Automation
18 228 (13.28%) Decision-Making
19 220 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
20 209 (12.17%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (66.51%) SQL
2 669 (38.96%) Python
3 144 (8.39%) Java
4 93 (5.42%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.78%) PL/SQL
6 77 (4.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.20%) C#
8 47 (2.74%) Scala
9 45 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 40 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 33 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 32 (1.86%) Bash
13 24 (1.40%) TypeScript
14 21 (1.22%) R
15 18 (1.05%) Bicep
16 9 (0.52%) Cypher
16 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.52%) VBA
17 8 (0.47%) SPARQL
18 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 486 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 414 (24.11%) SC Cleared
3 81 (4.72%) Degree
4 44 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 28 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.17%) CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 594 (34.60%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.33%) QA
3 100 (5.82%) GDPR
4 38 (2.21%) GRC
5 26 (1.51%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.82%) PMO
6 14 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.58%) IFRS
7 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.47%) WCAG
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.35%) HL7
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) IFRS 17
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 123 (7.16%) Docker
2 12 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.47%) 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
1 144 (8.39%) Terraform
2 130 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 43 (2.50%) Grafana
4 20 (1.16%) Ansible
5 19 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 10 (0.58%) 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 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
1 335 (19.51%) Databricks
2 334 (19.45%) Oracle
3 300 (17.47%) Microsoft
4 158 (9.20%) Informatica
5 138 (8.04%) Talend
6 82 (4.78%) SAP
7 69 (4.02%) Google
8 64 (3.73%) Denodo
9 46 (2.68%) IBM
10 40 (2.33%) Salesforce
11 37 (2.15%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.69%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.28%) Sage
14 21 (1.22%) Palantir
15 17 (0.99%) MuleSoft
16 14 (0.82%) Foundry
16 14 (0.82%) OpenAI
16 14 (0.82%) Splunk
17 13 (0.76%) Cloudera
18 12 (0.70%) Workday