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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 78 94
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,595 887 1,000
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.38% 3.06% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.36% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 605 746
10th Percentile £358 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £624
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 14
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +5.74%
75th Percentile £69.00 £83.66 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.66 £63.70
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 39,805 26,361 36,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.33% 90.96% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,996 16,941 23,723
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% -1.71% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £479 £500
% change year-on-year +2.71% -4.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,368 1,073 2,431
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.41 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.90 £18.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.60 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.60% -21.64% +1.39%
75th Percentile £67.31 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.78 £38.00
% change year-on-year +74.59% -32.17% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +13 1,430 £500 -4.76% 296
London +23 756 £513 -3.85% 149
UK excluding London +9 686 £469 -1.26% 178
Work from Home +14 486 £500 - 134
Midlands +25 235 £468 -1.53% 32
West Midlands +31 209 £460 -10.24% 21
North of England -17 174 £460 -0.54% 53
South East -3 117 £459 -11.22% 55
North West -8 94 £447 -8.31% 28
South West -19 64 £525 +7.69% 20
Yorkshire -22 64 £500 +20.48% 16
Scotland +3 52 £475 +11.76% 5
East of England -7 42 £500 +1.27% 8
East Midlands -24 25 £525 +25.00% 11
North East -12 16 £525 +20.69% 9
Wales -10 7 £325 -14.47% 7
Northern Ireland +3 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
1 143 (8.97%) Apache Spark
2 116 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (5.33%) Apache
4 77 (4.83%) SAS
5 52 (3.26%) Confluence
6 20 (1.25%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.94%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.63%) nginx
9 10 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
13 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.25%) Camunda
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
14 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
Applications
1 42 (2.63%) 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 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 1 (0.063%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.82%) 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 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 656 (41.13%) Azure
2 470 (29.47%) AWS
3 394 (24.70%) Power Platform
4 237 (14.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 186 (11.66%) GCP
6 177 (11.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 148 (9.28%) Snowflake
8 144 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
9 143 (8.97%) Amazon S3
10 130 (8.15%) Serverless
11 110 (6.90%) GitHub
12 95 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
13 90 (5.64%) dbt
14 55 (3.45%) Collibra
15 50 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
16 39 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (2.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
19 32 (2.01%) Power Automate
20 31 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.69%) Firewall
1 11 (0.69%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.38%) VPN
4 1 (0.063%) 4G
4 1 (0.063%) 5G
4 1 (0.063%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.063%) DHCP
4 1 (0.063%) DNS
4 1 (0.063%) DSL
4 1 (0.063%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.063%) SMS
4 1 (0.063%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (29.72%) Data Warehouse
2 371 (23.26%) Power BI
3 260 (16.30%) Data Lake
4 188 (11.79%) SQL Server
5 166 (10.41%) Metadata
6 106 (6.65%) Big Data
7 101 (6.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 95 (5.96%) Tableau
9 92 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 90 (5.64%) Delta Lake
11 82 (5.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 79 (4.95%) Pentaho
12 79 (4.95%) Relational Database
13 78 (4.89%) NoSQL
14 73 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
15 70 (4.39%) Snowflake Schema
16 69 (4.33%) BigQuery
17 57 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (3.39%) Oracle Reports
19 47 (2.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 186 (11.66%) Git
2 141 (8.84%) JIRA
3 87 (5.45%) GitLab
4 73 (4.58%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.63%) Postman
6 30 (1.88%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.69%) MLflow
8 21 (1.32%) Selenium
9 11 (0.69%) 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
1 408 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 405 (25.39%) Finance
3 272 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.27%) Banking
6 41 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.88%) Marketing
8 24 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 21 (1.32%) Legal
9 21 (1.32%) Retail
10 16 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.94%) Telecoms
12 12 (0.75%) Law
13 10 (0.63%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.44%) Front Office
15 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
15 7 (0.44%) Investment Banking
15 7 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 655 (41.07%) Data Engineer
2 208 (13.04%) Developer
3 179 (11.22%) Architect
4 177 (11.10%) Senior
5 164 (10.28%) Lead
6 131 (8.21%) Analyst
7 120 (7.52%) Senior Data Engineer
8 107 (6.71%) Data Architect
9 80 (5.02%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
11 48 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 46 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
13 41 (2.57%) AWS Data Engineer
14 40 (2.51%) Azure Data Engineer
15 39 (2.45%) Snowflake Engineer
16 38 (2.38%) Python Engineer
17 33 (2.07%) Integration Engineer
18 32 (2.01%) Data Migration Lead
18 32 (2.01%) Senior Developer
19 31 (1.94%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (12.16%) PySpark
2 139 (8.71%) Kafka
3 91 (5.71%) REST
4 53 (3.32%) Pandas
5 44 (2.76%) .NET
6 38 (2.38%) JSON
7 30 (1.88%) XML
8 27 (1.69%) RESTful
9 26 (1.63%) OAuth
9 26 (1.63%) PyTorch
10 25 (1.57%) Middleware
11 24 (1.50%) NumPy
11 24 (1.50%) Spring
12 23 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
13 21 (1.32%) Spring Boot
14 20 (1.25%) pytest
15 18 (1.13%) Great Expectations
15 18 (1.13%) YAML
16 17 (1.07%) FastAPI
16 17 (1.07%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 140 (8.78%) Cloud Native
2 115 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.20%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
7 24 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.19%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.13%) Clustering
12 17 (1.07%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (0.94%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.94%) Replication
14 13 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (0.82%) NHS
14 13 (0.82%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.13%) Unix
2 29 (1.82%) Linux
3 20 (1.25%) Windows
4 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.63%) Solaris
5 10 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.63%) 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 (0.063%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (47.52%) Data Modelling
2 643 (40.31%) Analytics
3 602 (37.74%) Data Pipeline
4 495 (31.03%) Data Engineering
5 485 (30.41%) Business Intelligence
6 448 (28.09%) CI/CD
7 396 (24.83%) Agile
8 365 (22.88%) DevOps
9 364 (22.82%) Migration
10 348 (21.82%) Data Governance
11 314 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
12 295 (18.50%) Validation
13 252 (15.80%) Data Integration
14 247 (15.49%) AI
15 239 (14.98%) Data Architecture
16 231 (14.48%) Data Migration
17 209 (13.10%) Decision-Making
18 189 (11.85%) Test Automation
19 172 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
20 167 (10.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,072 (67.21%) SQL
2 686 (43.01%) Python
3 144 (9.03%) Java
4 77 (4.83%) PL/SQL
4 77 (4.83%) T-SQL
5 70 (4.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 69 (4.33%) C#
7 55 (3.45%) Scala
8 43 (2.70%) JavaScript
9 30 (1.88%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.44%) Bash
11 22 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.32%) R
13 18 (1.13%) TypeScript
14 16 (1.00%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) PHP
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.38%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 405 (25.39%) Security Cleared
2 331 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.39%) Degree
4 50 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.51%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.38%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.13%) CISA
15 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 523 (32.79%) Data Quality
2 147 (9.22%) QA
3 111 (6.96%) GDPR
4 23 (1.44%) IFRS
5 22 (1.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 18 (1.13%) IFRS 17
7 14 (0.88%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.69%) PMO
9 10 (0.63%) SLA
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) FATCA
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.31%) MiFID
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 122 (7.65%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.063%) RACF
7 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (9.22%) Terraform
2 127 (7.96%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.45%) Grafana
4 18 (1.13%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.07%) Ansible
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.31%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.063%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.063%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.063%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.063%) logstash
10 1 (0.063%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 329 (20.63%) Databricks
2 302 (18.93%) Microsoft
3 272 (17.05%) Oracle
4 154 (9.66%) Informatica
5 133 (8.34%) Talend
6 67 (4.20%) SAP
7 65 (4.08%) Google
8 61 (3.82%) Denodo
9 49 (3.07%) ServiceNow
10 35 (2.19%) IBM
11 28 (1.76%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.63%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.13%) Splunk
14 17 (1.07%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.07%) Sage
14 17 (1.07%) Workday
15 14 (0.88%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.75%) Teradata
17 10 (0.63%) Cognos
17 10 (0.63%) Red Hat