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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 72 95
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,399 961 1,008
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.35% 3.22% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.88% 3.57% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 652 762
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 16
10th Percentile £39.66 - £31.38
25th Percentile £51.25 £26.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate £64.00 £35.00 £50.78
Median % change year-on-year +82.86% -31.07% +41.05%
75th Percentile £70.71 £78.70 £62.45
90th Percentile £78.05 £102.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £27.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +132.73% -9.84% -12.86%

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 36,085 26,903 38,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.50% 90.10% 86.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,893 16,856 25,223
10th Percentile £313 £305 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -2.28% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,151 877 2,259
10th Percentile £14.68 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.24 £16.24
Median hourly rate £27.72 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% -1.52% -5.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.10 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £31.88 £34.21
% change year-on-year -21.11% -6.81% -2.26%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +4 1,227 £500 -4.76% 505
London +20 707 £525 -4.55% 182
UK excluding London -9 546 £463 -6.19% 384
Work from Home -7 429 £500 - 281
Midlands +16 183 £483 +1.26% 67
West Midlands +18 158 £495 +0.35% 53
North of England -37 138 £450 -2.70% 86
North West -21 82 £438 -5.96% 41
South East -30 73 £475 -9.52% 131
South West +2 65 £525 -13.40% 53
Scotland +16 56 £463 +8.82% 13
Yorkshire -55 45 £500 +38.89% 32
East Midlands -19 25 £465 +20.00% 14
East of England -19 25 £520 -0.95% 29
Northern Ireland +6 10 £400 -23.81% 2
North East -10 10 £475 -5.00% 14
Wales -13 10 £410 -18.00% 8

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
1 136 (9.72%) Apache Spark
2 112 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
3 83 (5.93%) Apache
4 67 (4.79%) SAS
5 24 (1.72%) Confluence
6 15 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.57%) Appian
7 8 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.57%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.50%) nginx
9 6 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.21%) CMS
11 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.14%) Camunda
13 1 (0.071%) Moodle
Applications
1 47 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.071%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (1.00%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.43%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.36%) Maximo
8 4 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle 11i
9 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.21%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 598 (42.74%) Azure
2 451 (32.24%) AWS
3 329 (23.52%) Power Platform
4 227 (16.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 185 (13.22%) GCP
6 164 (11.72%) Snowflake
7 156 (11.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 148 (10.58%) Amazon S3
9 124 (8.86%) Serverless
10 114 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
11 97 (6.93%) GitHub
12 87 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
13 74 (5.29%) dbt
14 47 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 45 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
16 40 (2.86%) Collibra
17 37 (2.64%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.64%) SaaS
18 29 (2.07%) AWS Step Functions
19 27 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.57%) HTTP
2 7 (0.50%) 5G
3 6 (0.43%) 2G
3 6 (0.43%) 4G
3 6 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (0.21%) Firewall
5 2 (0.14%) DSL
5 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.071%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.071%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 416 (29.74%) Data Warehouse
2 311 (22.23%) Power BI
3 228 (16.30%) Data Lake
4 170 (12.15%) SQL Server
5 142 (10.15%) Metadata
6 98 (7.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (6.72%) Big Data
8 93 (6.65%) PostgreSQL
9 85 (6.08%) Relational Database
9 85 (6.08%) Tableau
10 78 (5.58%) Azure SQL Database
11 77 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 72 (5.15%) Pentaho
13 70 (5.00%) NoSQL
14 67 (4.79%) Delta Lake
15 61 (4.36%) BigQuery
16 59 (4.22%) Snowflake Schema
17 54 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (3.50%) Hadoop
19 48 (3.43%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 179 (12.79%) Git
2 107 (7.65%) JIRA
3 83 (5.93%) Jenkins
4 60 (4.29%) GitLab
5 34 (2.43%) Postman
6 23 (1.64%) MLflow
7 16 (1.14%) ERwin
7 16 (1.14%) Zephyr
8 15 (1.07%) Selenium
9 9 (0.64%) JMeter
10 7 (0.50%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.36%) NUnit
11 5 (0.36%) TestRail
11 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.29%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.29%) MSTest
12 4 (0.29%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.29%) Toad
General
1 430 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 348 (24.87%) Finance
3 231 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 108 (7.72%) Banking
6 40 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.00%) Retail
8 23 (1.64%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.57%) Marketing
10 16 (1.14%) Manufacturing
11 15 (1.07%) Legal
12 14 (1.00%) Telecoms
13 13 (0.93%) Law
14 12 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.57%) Publishing
17 6 (0.43%) Front Office
17 6 (0.43%) General Ledger
17 6 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 550 (39.31%) Data Engineer
2 170 (12.15%) Developer
3 148 (10.58%) Senior
4 147 (10.51%) Architect
5 144 (10.29%) Lead
6 127 (9.08%) Analyst
7 95 (6.79%) Senior Data Engineer
8 90 (6.43%) Data Architect
9 83 (5.93%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
11 43 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (2.64%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.50%) Azure Data Engineer
14 34 (2.43%) Python Engineer
15 31 (2.22%) AWS Data Engineer
15 31 (2.22%) Consultant
15 31 (2.22%) Lead Data Engineer
16 30 (2.14%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 28 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (12.08%) PySpark
2 121 (8.65%) Kafka
3 89 (6.36%) REST
4 50 (3.57%) Pandas
5 43 (3.07%) JSON
5 43 (3.07%) XML
6 34 (2.43%) .NET
6 34 (2.43%) NumPy
7 29 (2.07%) PyTorch
7 29 (2.07%) RESTful
8 24 (1.72%) OAuth
8 24 (1.72%) pytest
9 23 (1.64%) Middleware
10 20 (1.43%) TensorFlow
11 19 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
11 19 (1.36%) scikit-learn
11 19 (1.36%) YAML
12 18 (1.29%) SOAP
13 17 (1.22%) Hugging Face
13 17 (1.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 115 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 101 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 70 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 33 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 27 (1.93%) Onboarding
6 25 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 25 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
7 24 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 23 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
11 17 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.22%) Replication
12 16 (1.14%) Reference Data
12 16 (1.14%) Reinsurance
13 15 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 15 (1.07%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.93%) IoT
15 12 (0.86%) Clustering
15 12 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.29%) Linux
2 24 (1.72%) Unix
3 16 (1.14%) Windows
4 11 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.50%) Solaris
7 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.29%) VMS
9 2 (0.14%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.071%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (47.03%) Data Modelling
2 591 (42.24%) Analytics
3 528 (37.74%) Data Pipeline
4 443 (31.67%) Data Engineering
5 440 (31.45%) Business Intelligence
6 415 (29.66%) CI/CD
7 362 (25.88%) Agile
8 342 (24.45%) Data Governance
9 320 (22.87%) DevOps
10 318 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
11 290 (20.73%) Migration
12 231 (16.51%) Data Architecture
13 227 (16.23%) Data Integration
14 225 (16.08%) Validation
15 187 (13.37%) Data Migration
16 177 (12.65%) AI
16 177 (12.65%) Data Science
17 168 (12.01%) Decision-Making
18 160 (11.44%) Test Automation
19 154 (11.01%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 923 (65.98%) SQL
2 673 (48.11%) Python
3 114 (8.15%) Java
4 58 (4.15%) C#
5 57 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 57 (4.07%) T-SQL
6 51 (3.65%) Scala
7 50 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 44 (3.15%) JavaScript
9 30 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.43%) Shell Script
11 19 (1.36%) Bash
12 17 (1.22%) Bicep
13 16 (1.14%) R
14 15 (1.07%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.93%) Go
15 13 (0.93%) VBA
16 10 (0.71%) PHP
17 6 (0.43%) Cypher
17 6 (0.43%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 309 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 250 (17.87%) SC Cleared
3 107 (7.65%) Degree
4 55 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 43 (3.07%) Master's Degree
7 31 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 25 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (0.93%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.43%) PMP
12 4 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.29%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.21%) IBM Certification
13 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.071%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 470 (33.60%) Data Quality
2 118 (8.43%) QA
3 112 (8.01%) GDPR
4 23 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 22 (1.57%) IFRS
6 19 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.22%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.71%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.57%) PMO
10 7 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.50%) SLA
11 5 (0.36%) GAAP
11 5 (0.36%) MiFID
12 4 (0.29%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.21%) Basel III
13 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.21%) FATCA
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 130 (9.29%) Docker
2 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.29%) HDFS
4 3 (0.21%) zsh
5 1 (0.071%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 138 (9.86%) Kubernetes
2 135 (9.65%) Terraform
3 16 (1.14%) Grafana
3 16 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.07%) Ansible
5 5 (0.36%) Control-M
5 5 (0.36%) Kibana
6 4 (0.29%) logstash
6 4 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.071%) Foglight
8 1 (0.071%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.071%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.071%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 297 (21.23%) Databricks
2 236 (16.87%) Microsoft
3 207 (14.80%) Oracle
4 121 (8.65%) Informatica
5 113 (8.08%) Talend
6 58 (4.15%) Google
7 57 (4.07%) SAP
8 44 (3.15%) Denodo
9 36 (2.57%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.29%) Salesforce
11 28 (2.00%) IBM
12 23 (1.64%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.36%) Splunk
14 16 (1.14%) Workday
15 15 (1.07%) Palantir
15 15 (1.07%) Sage
16 13 (0.93%) Ab Initio
17 12 (0.86%) OpenAI
18 11 (0.79%) Alteryx
18 11 (0.79%) Foundry