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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 90 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 -11 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,664 957 1,048
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.03% 2.89% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.19% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 665 719
10th Percentile £358 £360 £358
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 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £481 £488
% change year-on-year -2.34% -1.28% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 5
10th Percentile £21.37 £33.05 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -40.97%
75th Percentile £55.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.95 £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 46,356 30,019 32,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.58% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,940 18,640 19,751
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £632 £625 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,287 1,869 1,348
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.32 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.27
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.49% -0.55%
75th Percentile £65.60 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £74.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.02 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.86% -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 3 October 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 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 October 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 0 1,455 £500 -2.34% 1,402
London 0 765 £525 - 782
UK excluding London -2 692 £470 -2.34% 857
Work from Home -4 499 £500 -1.91% 757
Midlands +22 233 £469 -6.20% 133
West Midlands +25 204 £469 -8.04% 96
North of England -14 173 £473 -0.53% 206
South East +17 130 £459 -3.37% 182
South West 0 83 £514 +8.26% 87
Yorkshire +3 79 £463 +0.54% 57
North West -27 75 £475 -5.00% 122
Scotland -20 43 £425 -10.53% 118
East of England -15 36 £475 -9.52% 52
East Midlands -14 28 £486 +9.94% 37
North East -26 24 £500 +14.29% 31
Wales -14 8 £313 -37.19% 37
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -26.79% 51

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
1 145 (8.71%) Apache Spark
2 143 (8.59%) Apache Airflow
3 116 (6.97%) Apache
4 89 (5.35%) SAS
5 62 (3.73%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 22 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.66%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 8 (0.48%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
15 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
16 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
17 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
17 2 (0.12%) CMS
17 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 33 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.30%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 647 (38.88%) Azure
2 494 (29.69%) AWS
3 352 (21.15%) Power Platform
4 246 (14.78%) GCP
5 241 (14.48%) Snowflake
6 220 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.71%) Azure DevOps
8 143 (8.59%) dbt
9 131 (7.87%) Amazon S3
10 128 (7.69%) Serverless
11 124 (7.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 108 (6.49%) GitHub
13 105 (6.31%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.94%) Azure Databricks
16 48 (2.88%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (2.10%) SaaS
18 33 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 30 (1.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 29 (1.74%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.48%) Firewall
1 8 (0.48%) HTTP
2 5 (0.30%) PuTTY
2 5 (0.30%) WinSCP
3 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
3 3 (0.18%) DHCP
3 3 (0.18%) DNS
3 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.12%) Network Security
4 2 (0.12%) VPN
5 1 (0.060%) Broadband
5 1 (0.060%) DMZ
5 1 (0.060%) Internet
5 1 (0.060%) LTE
5 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
5 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 565 (33.95%) Data Warehouse
2 341 (20.49%) Power BI
3 254 (15.26%) Data Lake
4 163 (9.80%) Metadata
5 144 (8.65%) SQL Server
6 117 (7.03%) BigQuery
7 111 (6.67%) Relational Database
8 104 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 91 (5.47%) Big Data
10 89 (5.35%) Delta Lake
11 83 (4.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 82 (4.93%) Tableau
13 76 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (4.09%) Oracle Reports
15 66 (3.97%) NoSQL
16 61 (3.67%) Pentaho
17 60 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (3.49%) Oracle Database
19 49 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
20 44 (2.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 189 (11.36%) Git
2 138 (8.29%) JIRA
3 110 (6.61%) GitLab
4 55 (3.31%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.34%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.16%) Postman
7 18 (1.08%) Selenium
8 13 (0.78%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) 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%) JMeter
General
1 414 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 372 (22.36%) Finance
3 299 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 164 (9.86%) Banking
6 42 (2.52%) Retail
7 38 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.50%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.44%) Marketing
10 22 (1.32%) Legal
11 21 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 21 (1.26%) Law
12 20 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.14%) Front Office
14 16 (0.96%) Billing
14 16 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 16 (0.96%) Police
15 13 (0.78%) Military
16 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 661 (39.72%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.96%) Senior
3 239 (14.36%) Developer
4 227 (13.64%) Architect
5 162 (9.74%) Senior Data Engineer
6 147 (8.83%) Lead
7 123 (7.39%) Analyst
8 120 (7.21%) Data Architect
9 70 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
10 65 (3.91%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.49%) Data Analyst
11 58 (3.49%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 52 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
13 43 (2.58%) Consultant
13 43 (2.58%) Snowflake Engineer
14 42 (2.52%) AWS Engineer
14 42 (2.52%) Tester
15 40 (2.40%) Python Engineer
16 38 (2.28%) SQL Developer
17 36 (2.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (9.25%) PySpark
2 148 (8.89%) Terraform
3 131 (7.87%) Kafka
4 81 (4.87%) REST
5 54 (3.25%) JSON
6 53 (3.19%) .NET
7 32 (1.92%) Middleware
8 30 (1.80%) XML
9 29 (1.74%) Pandas
9 29 (1.74%) React
10 23 (1.38%) Spring
10 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.14%) pytest
12 18 (1.08%) SOAP
12 18 (1.08%) YAML
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.84%) Web Services
15 13 (0.78%) HTML
16 12 (0.72%) LangChain
16 12 (0.72%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.91%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.61%) Onboarding
4 60 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 46 (2.76%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.56%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.56%) Reference Data
8 23 (1.38%) NHS
9 22 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.32%) Replication
10 20 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (0.96%) Algorithms
11 16 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (0.90%) Clustering
13 14 (0.84%) Data Fabric
13 14 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (0.72%) CMDB
14 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.09%) Linux
2 58 (3.49%) Unix
3 19 (1.14%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 761 (45.73%) Data Modelling
2 706 (42.43%) Data Pipeline
3 614 (36.90%) Analytics
4 554 (33.29%) Data Engineering
5 528 (31.73%) CI/CD
6 479 (28.79%) Agile
7 457 (27.46%) Migration
8 430 (25.84%) Business Intelligence
9 402 (24.16%) Data Integration
10 382 (22.96%) DevOps
11 353 (21.21%) Validation
12 335 (20.13%) Data Governance
13 320 (19.23%) AI
14 301 (18.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 288 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
16 254 (15.26%) Data Migration
17 247 (14.84%) Data Architecture
17 247 (14.84%) Data Transformation
18 216 (12.98%) Test Automation
19 191 (11.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,102 (66.23%) SQL
2 671 (40.32%) Python
3 135 (8.11%) Java
4 87 (5.23%) PL/SQL
5 79 (4.75%) T-SQL
6 58 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 53 (3.19%) C#
8 52 (3.13%) Scala
9 51 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 40 (2.40%) PowerShell
11 38 (2.28%) Shell Script
12 34 (2.04%) Bash
13 24 (1.44%) R
14 19 (1.14%) TypeScript
15 18 (1.08%) Bicep
16 13 (0.78%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Go
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 454 (27.28%) Security Cleared
2 394 (23.68%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.79%) Degree
4 56 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 32 (1.92%) AWS Certification
7 29 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 25 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
10 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CBAP
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 590 (35.46%) Data Quality
2 145 (8.71%) QA
3 68 (4.09%) GDPR
4 36 (2.16%) GRC
5 24 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) IFRS
9 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.42%) HL7
11 6 (0.36%) NIST
11 6 (0.36%) WCAG
12 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
12 5 (0.30%) FATCA
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 4 (0.24%) PMO
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 109 (6.55%) Docker
2 15 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (0.18%) HDFS
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 114 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 32 (1.92%) Grafana
3 21 (1.26%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 13 (0.78%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 376 (22.60%) Databricks
2 311 (18.69%) Oracle
3 285 (17.13%) Microsoft
4 124 (7.45%) Informatica
5 105 (6.31%) Talend
6 92 (5.53%) Google
7 67 (4.03%) SAP
8 48 (2.88%) IBM
9 41 (2.46%) Denodo
10 39 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 30 (1.80%) ServiceNow
12 26 (1.56%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.14%) Foundry
13 19 (1.14%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.08%) Palantir
14 18 (1.08%) Teradata
15 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
15 10 (0.60%) Sage
15 10 (0.60%) Workday