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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 79 94
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,536 897 1,021
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.42% 3.08% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.41% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 605 770
10th Percentile £360 £338 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -0.94%
75th Percentile £583 £619 £638
90th Percentile £681 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -0.53% -6.13% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £31.59 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +39.31%
75th Percentile £70.08 £87.67 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £100.62 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £78.70 £30.44
% change year-on-year -18.68% +158.58% -13.04%

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 38,381 26,317 38,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.55% 90.50% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,335 17,078 24,751
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 968 2,345
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.12 £15.89
Median hourly rate £35.77 £31.76 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.61% -2.28% -10.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.62 £31.50
% change year-on-year +14.32% -2.81% -12.50%

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 3 April 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 April 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 April 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 +15 1,377 £500 -4.76% 532
London +26 758 £513 -6.82% 193
UK excluding London +7 628 £473 -0.53% 413
Work from Home +2 458 £500 - 210
Midlands +18 216 £481 +1.16% 75
West Midlands +20 184 £492 -0.20% 48
North of England -20 167 £460 -0.54% 101
North West -13 92 £430 -8.12% 55
South East -33 84 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -12 68 £525 +5.00% 53
Yorkshire -41 60 £500 +40.85% 31
Scotland +7 50 £450 +5.88% 14
East of England -10 42 £510 +10.27% 52
East Midlands -18 32 £460 +12.20% 27
North East -8 14 £550 +15.79% 16
Northern Ireland +1 7 £400 -20.00% 2
Wales -16 6 £325 -32.29% 12

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
1 144 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 120 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (5.92%) Apache
4 74 (4.82%) SAS
5 37 (2.41%) Confluence
6 18 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.59%) Appian
8 9 (0.59%) nginx
9 8 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 7 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) Camunda
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.26%) Notepad++
7 3 (0.20%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.33%) Maximo
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 653 (42.51%) Azure
2 488 (31.77%) AWS
3 386 (25.13%) Power Platform
4 247 (16.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 185 (12.04%) GCP
6 180 (11.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 164 (10.68%) Amazon S3
8 156 (10.16%) Snowflake
9 138 (8.98%) Serverless
10 128 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
11 117 (7.62%) GitHub
12 100 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (5.73%) dbt
14 54 (3.52%) Collibra
15 52 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.41%) SaaS
18 32 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (2.08%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.65%) HTTP
2 7 (0.46%) 5G
2 7 (0.46%) Firewall
3 6 (0.39%) 2G
3 6 (0.39%) 4G
3 6 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
3 6 (0.39%) VPN
4 4 (0.26%) PuTTY
4 4 (0.26%) WinSCP
5 2 (0.13%) DSL
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.065%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 454 (29.56%) Data Warehouse
2 364 (23.70%) Power BI
3 245 (15.95%) Data Lake
4 188 (12.24%) SQL Server
5 166 (10.81%) Metadata
6 101 (6.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.05%) Tableau
8 90 (5.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 90 (5.86%) Big Data
9 88 (5.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 87 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (5.47%) Delta Lake
12 78 (5.08%) Pentaho
13 76 (4.95%) NoSQL
14 75 (4.88%) Relational Database
15 73 (4.75%) Snowflake Schema
16 61 (3.97%) BigQuery
17 60 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
18 51 (3.32%) Star Schema
19 46 (2.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 184 (11.98%) Git
2 123 (8.01%) JIRA
3 83 (5.40%) Jenkins
4 68 (4.43%) GitLab
5 35 (2.28%) Postman
6 25 (1.63%) MLflow
7 17 (1.11%) Zephyr
8 14 (0.91%) ERwin
9 12 (0.78%) Selenium
10 7 (0.46%) JMeter
10 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.33%) NUnit
11 5 (0.33%) TestRail
12 4 (0.26%) Gatling
12 4 (0.26%) MSTest
12 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 433 (28.19%) Social Skills
2 394 (25.65%) Finance
3 270 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.23%) Banking
6 40 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 23 (1.50%) Marketing
8 23 (1.50%) Retail
9 22 (1.43%) Legal
10 21 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.04%) Law
13 15 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.46%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.46%) Publishing
17 6 (0.39%) Front Office
17 6 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 619 (40.30%) Data Engineer
2 195 (12.70%) Developer
3 169 (11.00%) Senior
4 166 (10.81%) Architect
5 155 (10.09%) Lead
6 136 (8.85%) Analyst
7 107 (6.97%) Senior Data Engineer
8 100 (6.51%) Data Architect
9 91 (5.92%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (3.06%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 41 (2.67%) AWS Data Engineer
13 41 (2.67%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (2.28%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.28%) Lead Data Engineer
14 35 (2.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 33 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (2.08%) Consultant
16 32 (2.08%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (12.17%) PySpark
2 149 (9.70%) Kafka
3 100 (6.51%) REST
4 55 (3.58%) Pandas
5 48 (3.13%) JSON
6 41 (2.67%) XML
7 36 (2.34%) .NET
8 30 (1.95%) RESTful
9 29 (1.89%) NumPy
10 24 (1.56%) OAuth
11 22 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.43%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.37%) pytest
13 20 (1.30%) Great Expectations
13 20 (1.30%) Middleware
14 19 (1.24%) YAML
15 17 (1.11%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.11%) SOAP
15 17 (1.11%) Spring
16 16 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 80 (5.21%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 42 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 19 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (1.24%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.04%) IoT
13 15 (0.98%) Clustering
13 15 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.91%) Replication
15 13 (0.85%) NHS
15 13 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.15%) Unix
2 29 (1.89%) Linux
3 17 (1.11%) Windows
4 11 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.59%) Solaris
5 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 741 (48.24%) Data Modelling
2 658 (42.84%) Analytics
3 583 (37.96%) Data Pipeline
4 503 (32.75%) Data Engineering
5 492 (32.03%) Business Intelligence
6 457 (29.75%) CI/CD
7 380 (24.74%) Agile
7 380 (24.74%) Data Governance
8 354 (23.05%) DevOps
9 328 (21.35%) Migration
10 326 (21.22%) Problem-Solving
11 276 (17.97%) Validation
12 252 (16.41%) Data Integration
13 248 (16.15%) Data Architecture
14 209 (13.61%) Data Migration
15 207 (13.48%) AI
16 199 (12.96%) Decision-Making
17 170 (11.07%) Data Science
17 170 (11.07%) Test Automation
18 165 (10.74%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,034 (67.32%) SQL
2 688 (44.79%) Python
3 131 (8.53%) Java
4 70 (4.56%) C#
5 68 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 62 (4.04%) T-SQL
7 61 (3.97%) PL/SQL
8 51 (3.32%) Scala
9 36 (2.34%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.28%) JavaScript
11 22 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.37%) Bash
13 18 (1.17%) R
13 18 (1.17%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.11%) Bicep
15 11 (0.72%) Go
16 9 (0.59%) PHP
16 9 (0.59%) VBA
17 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 367 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 291 (18.95%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.16%) Degree
4 58 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.02%) AWS Certification
7 31 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.17%) ISTQB
9 14 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.26%) PMP
15 3 (0.20%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (35.03%) Data Quality
2 139 (9.05%) QA
3 122 (7.94%) GDPR
4 22 (1.43%) IFRS
5 21 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.11%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.78%) PMO
8 9 (0.59%) SLA
9 8 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.33%) GAAP
12 5 (0.33%) MiFID
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.20%) Basel III
14 3 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 138 (8.98%) Docker
2 7 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.26%) HDFS
5 1 (0.065%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.065%) RACF
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (9.90%) Terraform
2 142 (9.24%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.76%) Grafana
4 20 (1.30%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.98%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) logstash
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.065%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 317 (20.64%) Databricks
2 281 (18.29%) Microsoft
3 231 (15.04%) Oracle
4 151 (9.83%) Informatica
5 130 (8.46%) Talend
6 69 (4.49%) SAP
7 63 (4.10%) Google
8 59 (3.84%) Denodo
9 47 (3.06%) ServiceNow
10 33 (2.15%) IBM
11 29 (1.89%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.63%) MuleSoft
13 18 (1.17%) Splunk
14 17 (1.11%) Workday
15 16 (1.04%) Sage
16 15 (0.98%) Ab Initio
17 13 (0.85%) Alteryx
17 13 (0.85%) Palantir
18 11 (0.72%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.72%) Teradata