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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 78 94
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,609 887 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.32% 3.08% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.94% 3.38% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 602 739
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £617 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.22% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 13
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.27
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -25.38%
75th Percentile £69.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £78.70 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £30.37
% change year-on-year -15.72% +132.47% -44.78%

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 40,852 26,213 36,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.38% 91.03% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,586 16,831 23,574
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,418 1,066 2,483
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.85 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.72% -33.82% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +12 1,436 £500 -4.76% 327
London +23 756 £512 -6.95% 174
UK excluding London +5 698 £469 -1.22% 184
Work from Home +17 492 £500 - 155
Midlands +25 240 £468 +2.97% 34
West Midlands +35 211 £459 -8.88% 24
North of England -20 177 £463 -1.91% 53
South East -4 121 £459 -8.20% 48
North West -21 92 £450 -10.00% 23
Yorkshire -25 68 £500 +21.95% 21
South West -21 61 £525 +7.69% 28
Scotland +2 54 £450 +5.88% 6
East of England -13 44 £494 -1.25% 7
East Midlands -22 28 £525 +23.67% 10
North East -17 17 £538 +23.56% 10
Wales -8 8 £313 -17.76% 8
Northern Ireland +2 4 £415 -17.00% 2

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
1 146 (9.07%) Apache Spark
2 122 (7.58%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (5.59%) Apache
4 70 (4.35%) SAS
5 54 (3.36%) Confluence
6 17 (1.06%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.62%) nginx
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.44%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.25%) Camunda
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 40 (2.49%) 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 3 (0.19%) Trello
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.062%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 12 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Actimize
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 672 (41.77%) Azure
2 486 (30.21%) AWS
3 410 (25.48%) Power Platform
4 239 (14.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 189 (11.75%) GCP
6 172 (10.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 155 (9.63%) Snowflake
8 149 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
9 145 (9.01%) Amazon S3
10 134 (8.33%) Serverless
11 110 (6.84%) GitHub
12 99 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.53%) dbt
14 54 (3.36%) Collibra
15 53 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
18 34 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.93%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.062%) DHCP
4 1 (0.062%) DNS
4 1 (0.062%) DSL
4 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.062%) SMS
4 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 474 (29.46%) Data Warehouse
2 386 (23.99%) Power BI
3 267 (16.59%) Data Lake
4 197 (12.24%) SQL Server
5 161 (10.01%) Metadata
6 105 (6.53%) Big Data
7 100 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 99 (6.15%) Tableau
9 94 (5.84%) Delta Lake
10 90 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 81 (5.03%) NoSQL
12 80 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 78 (4.85%) Relational Database
14 75 (4.66%) Pentaho
14 75 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
15 71 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
16 70 (4.35%) BigQuery
17 60 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
18 57 (3.54%) Oracle Reports
19 46 (2.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (11.31%) Git
2 143 (8.89%) JIRA
3 92 (5.72%) GitLab
4 71 (4.41%) Jenkins
5 46 (2.86%) Postman
6 33 (2.05%) Zephyr
7 26 (1.62%) MLflow
8 20 (1.24%) Selenium
9 11 (0.68%) ERwin
10 7 (0.44%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.25%) Flyway
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 409 (25.42%) Social Skills
2 406 (25.23%) Finance
3 270 (16.78%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.58%) Banking
6 44 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.93%) Marketing
8 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 23 (1.43%) Retail
10 21 (1.31%) Legal
11 14 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (0.87%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.68%) Law
13 10 (0.62%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.44%) Front Office
16 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 666 (41.39%) Data Engineer
2 200 (12.43%) Developer
3 181 (11.25%) Architect
3 181 (11.25%) Senior
4 171 (10.63%) Lead
5 131 (8.14%) Analyst
6 122 (7.58%) Senior Data Engineer
7 109 (6.77%) Data Architect
8 79 (4.91%) Data Analyst
9 54 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 48 (2.98%) AWS Engineer
12 43 (2.67%) AWS Data Engineer
12 43 (2.67%) Python Engineer
13 40 (2.49%) Azure Data Engineer
14 38 (2.36%) Snowflake Engineer
15 35 (2.18%) Integration Engineer
16 33 (2.05%) Senior Developer
17 32 (1.99%) Data Migration Lead
18 31 (1.93%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (12.18%) PySpark
2 142 (8.83%) Kafka
3 94 (5.84%) REST
4 57 (3.54%) Pandas
5 43 (2.67%) .NET
6 39 (2.42%) JSON
7 33 (2.05%) XML
8 27 (1.68%) Middleware
8 27 (1.68%) PyTorch
9 26 (1.62%) OAuth
10 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (1.49%) RESTful
10 24 (1.49%) Spring
11 23 (1.43%) NumPy
12 22 (1.37%) pytest
13 21 (1.31%) Great Expectations
13 21 (1.31%) Spring Boot
14 18 (1.12%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.06%) FastAPI
15 17 (1.06%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 145 (9.01%) Cloud Native
2 112 (6.96%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.92%) Onboarding
4 47 (2.92%) Product Ownership
5 30 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
6 24 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
6 24 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 23 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 22 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.31%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.24%) AI Agents
11 17 (1.06%) Clustering
12 16 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.99%) Replication
13 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 14 (0.87%) NHS
15 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 31 (1.93%) Unix
2 28 (1.74%) Linux
3 19 (1.18%) Windows
4 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Solaris
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.62%) 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 (0.062%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (46.80%) Data Modelling
2 632 (39.28%) Analytics
3 612 (38.04%) Data Pipeline
4 496 (30.83%) Data Engineering
5 493 (30.64%) Business Intelligence
6 453 (28.15%) CI/CD
7 395 (24.55%) Agile
8 372 (23.12%) DevOps
9 368 (22.87%) Migration
10 343 (21.32%) Data Governance
11 308 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
12 302 (18.77%) Validation
13 261 (16.22%) AI
14 254 (15.79%) Data Integration
15 239 (14.85%) Data Architecture
16 229 (14.23%) Data Migration
17 212 (13.18%) Decision-Making
18 194 (12.06%) Test Automation
19 171 (10.63%) Machine Learning
20 170 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1,082 (67.25%) SQL
2 698 (43.38%) Python
3 146 (9.07%) Java
4 79 (4.91%) T-SQL
5 73 (4.54%) PL/SQL
6 71 (4.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 67 (4.16%) C#
8 54 (3.36%) Scala
9 43 (2.67%) JavaScript
10 30 (1.86%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.43%) Bash
12 20 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.24%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.18%) R
14 15 (0.93%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.44%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.37%) Cypher
19 5 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 407 (25.30%) Security Cleared
2 333 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.34%) Degree
4 47 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 25 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.24%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.19%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
15 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 531 (33.00%) Data Quality
2 149 (9.26%) QA
3 108 (6.71%) GDPR
4 23 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.18%) IFRS
6 16 (0.99%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.75%) PMO
9 11 (0.68%) SLA
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) FATCA
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
12 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.25%) HL7
13 4 (0.25%) MiFID
13 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (7.21%) Docker
2 8 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 148 (9.20%) Terraform
2 123 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.49%) Grafana
4 18 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.06%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Control-M
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.062%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.062%) logstash
Vendors
1 342 (21.26%) Databricks
2 298 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 274 (17.03%) Oracle
4 155 (9.63%) Informatica
5 133 (8.27%) Talend
6 64 (3.98%) Google
7 62 (3.85%) SAP
8 58 (3.60%) Denodo
9 49 (3.05%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.11%) IBM
11 25 (1.55%) MuleSoft
12 24 (1.49%) Salesforce
13 20 (1.24%) Alteryx
14 18 (1.12%) Splunk
15 17 (1.06%) Sage
15 17 (1.06%) Workday
16 15 (0.93%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.75%) Teradata
18 10 (0.62%) Red Hat
19 9 (0.56%) ESRI