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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 87 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 -6 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,649 971 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.02% 2.93% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.57% 3.24% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 682 718
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £618
90th Percentile £675 £700 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £491
% change year-on-year -1.05% -3.26% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 5
10th Percentile £21.45 £32.78 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.81 £26.25
Median hourly rate £35.74 £38.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.14% +11.15% -48.91%
75th Percentile £57.00 £47.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.33 £53.75 £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -62.07%

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 46,170 29,963 32,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.61% 90.48% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,721 18,625 19,646
10th Percentile £325 £295 £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 £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,354 1,887 1,283
10th Percentile £13.53 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -9.60%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £65.06 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -7.99%

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 11 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 11 October 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 11 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 -1 1,445 £498 -0.50% 1,150
London -2 761 £520 -0.95% 665
UK excluding London +5 689 £470 -1.05% 540
Work from Home -3 494 £500 -2.68% 544
Midlands +18 229 £469 -6.20% 93
West Midlands +21 201 £469 -8.49% 70
North of England -18 171 £475 - 154
South East +16 131 £459 +2.00% 97
South West +3 85 £506 +6.42% 51
North West -25 77 £475 -2.56% 98
Yorkshire +6 75 £469 +1.90% 38
Scotland -13 44 £425 -12.82% 54
East of England -18 35 £463 -11.90% 51
East Midlands -6 27 £481 +8.92% 23
North East -21 24 £500 +14.29% 19
Wales -16 6 £313 -37.19% 12
Northern Ireland -3 5 £398 -0.44% 35

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
1 150 (9.10%) Apache Spark
2 145 (8.79%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (7.34%) Apache
4 89 (5.40%) SAS
5 65 (3.94%) Confluence
6 27 (1.64%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.67%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.49%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) CMS
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
17 1 (0.061%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Oracle EBS
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%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 641 (38.87%) Azure
2 497 (30.14%) AWS
3 347 (21.04%) Power Platform
4 245 (14.86%) GCP
5 236 (14.31%) Snowflake
6 218 (13.22%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.79%) dbt
8 144 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
9 133 (8.07%) Amazon S3
10 129 (7.82%) Serverless
11 119 (7.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 106 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
13 105 (6.37%) GitHub
14 60 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (3.27%) Azure Databricks
16 51 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.24%) SaaS
18 35 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 32 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 28 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.49%) Firewall
1 8 (0.49%) HTTP
2 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.18%) DHCP
2 3 (0.18%) DNS
2 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (0.12%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.061%) Broadband
4 1 (0.061%) DMZ
4 1 (0.061%) Internet
4 1 (0.061%) LTE
4 1 (0.061%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 554 (33.60%) Data Warehouse
2 335 (20.32%) Power BI
3 255 (15.46%) Data Lake
4 157 (9.52%) Metadata
5 138 (8.37%) SQL Server
6 113 (6.85%) BigQuery
7 107 (6.49%) Relational Database
8 106 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 88 (5.34%) Delta Lake
10 87 (5.28%) Big Data
11 82 (4.97%) Tableau
12 78 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 72 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
14 66 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
15 64 (3.88%) Pentaho
16 63 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
16 63 (3.82%) NoSQL
17 59 (3.58%) Oracle Database
18 49 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
19 45 (2.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 191 (11.58%) Git
2 142 (8.61%) JIRA
3 108 (6.55%) GitLab
4 55 (3.34%) Jenkins
5 39 (2.37%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.18%) Postman
7 17 (1.03%) Selenium
8 13 (0.79%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.24%) ERwin
11 4 (0.24%) JUnit
11 4 (0.24%) Newman
11 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 414 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 376 (22.80%) Finance
3 302 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (11.52%) Public Sector
5 171 (10.37%) Banking
6 43 (2.61%) Retail
7 40 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 25 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.39%) Marketing
10 22 (1.33%) Law
11 21 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.21%) Front Office
12 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.21%) Legal
13 18 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.09%) Police
14 17 (1.03%) Billing
15 13 (0.79%) Military
16 11 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 652 (39.54%) Data Engineer
2 237 (14.37%) Senior
3 230 (13.95%) Developer
4 224 (13.58%) Architect
5 153 (9.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 145 (8.79%) Lead
7 129 (7.82%) Analyst
8 119 (7.22%) Data Architect
9 68 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
10 66 (4.00%) Databricks Engineer
11 64 (3.88%) Data Analyst
12 58 (3.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 49 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
14 46 (2.79%) Consultant
15 44 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
16 42 (2.55%) Snowflake Engineer
16 42 (2.55%) Tester
17 39 (2.37%) Python Engineer
18 36 (2.18%) SQL Developer
19 35 (2.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 164 (9.95%) PySpark
2 149 (9.04%) Terraform
3 129 (7.82%) Kafka
4 81 (4.91%) REST
5 55 (3.34%) .NET
6 54 (3.27%) JSON
7 31 (1.88%) Middleware
8 30 (1.82%) XML
9 29 (1.76%) Pandas
10 28 (1.70%) React
11 19 (1.15%) pytest
11 19 (1.15%) Spring
11 19 (1.15%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.15%) YAML
12 18 (1.09%) SOAP
13 14 (0.85%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.85%) Web Services
14 13 (0.79%) HTML
15 12 (0.73%) LangChain
15 12 (0.73%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 117 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 67 (4.06%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 28 (1.70%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.58%) Reference Data
10 23 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.39%) Replication
11 20 (1.21%) NHS
12 18 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.97%) Clustering
14 14 (0.85%) Data Fabric
14 14 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
14 14 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 13 (0.79%) CMDB
15 13 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.12%) Linux
2 50 (3.03%) Unix
3 18 (1.09%) 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 (0.061%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 759 (46.03%) Data Modelling
2 706 (42.81%) Data Pipeline
3 610 (36.99%) Analytics
4 560 (33.96%) Data Engineering
5 530 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 488 (29.59%) Agile
7 457 (27.71%) Migration
8 420 (25.47%) Business Intelligence
9 407 (24.68%) Data Integration
10 380 (23.04%) DevOps
11 355 (21.53%) Validation
12 347 (21.04%) Data Governance
13 325 (19.71%) AI
14 306 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
15 288 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
16 259 (15.71%) Data Migration
17 252 (15.28%) Data Transformation
18 239 (14.49%) Data Architecture
19 219 (13.28%) Test Automation
20 189 (11.46%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,093 (66.28%) SQL
2 672 (40.75%) Python
3 123 (7.46%) Java
4 82 (4.97%) PL/SQL
5 76 (4.61%) T-SQL
6 58 (3.52%) JavaScript
7 54 (3.27%) C#
8 51 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 48 (2.91%) Scala
10 39 (2.37%) PowerShell
11 34 (2.06%) Bash
12 33 (2.00%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.39%) R
14 19 (1.15%) TypeScript
15 18 (1.09%) Bicep
16 13 (0.79%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Go
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 453 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 396 (24.01%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.88%) Degree
4 57 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 34 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 33 (2.00%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.70%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.49%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CBAP
14 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 592 (35.90%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.73%) QA
3 66 (4.00%) GDPR
4 36 (2.18%) GRC
5 24 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 8 (0.49%) IFRS
8 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) COREP
System Software
1 106 (6.43%) Docker
2 15 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) HDFS
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 113 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.88%) Grafana
3 22 (1.33%) Ansible
4 16 (0.97%) Control-M
5 13 (0.79%) 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 (0.061%) Argo
10 1 (0.061%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.061%) Istio
10 1 (0.061%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.061%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.061%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 376 (22.80%) Databricks
2 298 (18.07%) Oracle
3 283 (17.16%) Microsoft
4 121 (7.34%) Informatica
5 105 (6.37%) Talend
6 94 (5.70%) Google
7 67 (4.06%) SAP
8 45 (2.73%) IBM
9 38 (2.30%) Salesforce
10 37 (2.24%) Denodo
11 29 (1.76%) ServiceNow
12 25 (1.52%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.33%) OpenAI
14 21 (1.27%) Foundry
15 19 (1.15%) Palantir
16 16 (0.97%) Teradata
17 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.61%) Sage
18 9 (0.55%) Bloomberg
18 9 (0.55%) ESRI