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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 90 79
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,650 965 1,046
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.03% 2.91% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.58% 3.22% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 673 719
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £696
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £478 £490
% change year-on-year -1.70% -2.42% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 6
10th Percentile £21.41 £32.78 £26.25
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.81 £28.44
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.90 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% +0.39% -46.18%
75th Percentile £57.00 £47.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £71.60 £53.75 £51.75
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 46,102 30,004 32,672
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.46% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,718 18,629 19,703
10th Percentile £325 £294 £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 £738 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,326 1,885 1,303
10th Percentile £13.58 £14.33 £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% -8.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.52 £65.00 £73.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £41.25
% change year-on-year +68.43% -46.02% -2.94%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 1,445 £500 - 1,286
London -4 762 £525 - 759
UK excluding London +9 686 £470 -1.70% 592
Work from Home -9 494 £500 -1.91% 576
Midlands +22 226 £469 -6.20% 111
West Midlands +19 197 £469 -8.49% 88
North of England -14 172 £475 - 159
South East +16 130 £459 +2.00% 111
South West +7 86 £506 +6.53% 61
North West -27 77 £475 -2.56% 94
Yorkshire +2 76 £475 +6.74% 45
Scotland -17 43 £425 -12.82% 65
East of England -20 35 £463 -11.90% 47
East Midlands -14 28 £486 +9.94% 21
North East -22 24 £500 +14.29% 21
Wales -14 6 £313 -37.19% 16
Northern Ireland +1 5 £398 -0.44% 31

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
1 147 (8.91%) Apache Spark
2 144 (8.73%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (7.21%) Apache
4 86 (5.21%) SAS
5 64 (3.88%) 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 (0.48%) 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%) JBoss
Applications
1 33 (2.00%) 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
6 1 (0.061%) Notepad++
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 EBS
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%) iTrent
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 639 (38.73%) Azure
2 494 (29.94%) AWS
3 348 (21.09%) Power Platform
4 243 (14.73%) GCP
5 235 (14.24%) Snowflake
6 216 (13.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 146 (8.85%) dbt
8 145 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
9 134 (8.12%) Amazon S3
10 130 (7.88%) Serverless
11 118 (7.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 107 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 106 (6.42%) GitHub
14 60 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (3.27%) Azure Databricks
16 51 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (2.18%) SaaS
18 35 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 28 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.48%) Firewall
1 8 (0.48%) 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%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
4 1 (0.061%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (33.76%) Data Warehouse
2 336 (20.36%) Power BI
3 252 (15.27%) Data Lake
4 157 (9.52%) Metadata
5 135 (8.18%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.79%) BigQuery
7 106 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 106 (6.42%) Relational Database
8 88 (5.33%) Delta Lake
9 87 (5.27%) Big Data
10 82 (4.97%) Tableau
11 77 (4.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 70 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
13 66 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
14 63 (3.82%) Amazon Athena
14 63 (3.82%) Pentaho
15 62 (3.76%) NoSQL
16 58 (3.52%) Oracle Database
17 49 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
18 43 (2.61%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 189 (11.45%) Git
2 142 (8.61%) JIRA
3 108 (6.55%) GitLab
4 54 (3.27%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.42%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.24%) Postman
7 18 (1.09%) 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 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 378 (22.91%) Finance
3 300 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (11.58%) Public Sector
5 170 (10.30%) Banking
6 43 (2.61%) Retail
7 40 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.52%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 23 (1.39%) Marketing
11 22 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.33%) Law
12 21 (1.27%) Front Office
13 20 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.21%) Legal
14 17 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.03%) Police
15 16 (0.97%) Billing
16 13 (0.79%) Military
17 11 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 652 (39.52%) Data Engineer
2 237 (14.36%) Senior
3 230 (13.94%) Developer
4 228 (13.82%) Architect
5 152 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
6 147 (8.91%) Lead
7 127 (7.70%) Analyst
8 121 (7.33%) Data Architect
9 68 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
10 67 (4.06%) Databricks Engineer
11 61 (3.70%) Data Analyst
12 58 (3.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 49 (2.97%) Azure Data Engineer
14 46 (2.79%) Consultant
15 45 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
16 43 (2.61%) Snowflake Engineer
17 42 (2.55%) Tester
18 39 (2.36%) Python Engineer
19 36 (2.18%) SQL Developer
20 35 (2.12%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (9.82%) PySpark
2 150 (9.09%) Terraform
3 128 (7.76%) Kafka
4 81 (4.91%) REST
5 55 (3.33%) .NET
6 54 (3.27%) JSON
7 31 (1.88%) Middleware
8 30 (1.82%) XML
9 28 (1.70%) Pandas
9 28 (1.70%) React
10 19 (1.15%) pytest
10 19 (1.15%) Spring
10 19 (1.15%) Spring Boot
10 19 (1.15%) YAML
11 18 (1.09%) SOAP
12 15 (0.91%) 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
2 115 (6.97%) Data Structures
3 65 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (3.82%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 31 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.58%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
10 22 (1.33%) Replication
11 20 (1.21%) NHS
12 18 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 16 (0.97%) Clustering
14 15 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
15 14 (0.85%) Data Fabric
16 13 (0.79%) CMDB
16 13 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
16 13 (0.79%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.12%) Linux
2 51 (3.09%) Unix
3 19 (1.15%) 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 (46.00%) Data Modelling
2 700 (42.42%) Data Pipeline
3 608 (36.85%) Analytics
4 559 (33.88%) Data Engineering
5 526 (31.88%) CI/CD
6 486 (29.45%) Agile
7 453 (27.45%) Migration
8 420 (25.45%) Business Intelligence
9 403 (24.42%) Data Integration
10 382 (23.15%) DevOps
11 355 (21.52%) Validation
12 342 (20.73%) Data Governance
13 326 (19.76%) AI
14 306 (18.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 287 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
16 255 (15.45%) Data Migration
17 251 (15.21%) Data Transformation
18 241 (14.61%) Data Architecture
19 218 (13.21%) Test Automation
20 187 (11.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,091 (66.12%) SQL
2 669 (40.55%) Python
3 125 (7.58%) Java
4 84 (5.09%) PL/SQL
5 76 (4.61%) T-SQL
6 59 (3.58%) JavaScript
7 54 (3.27%) C#
8 50 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (3.03%) Scala
9 39 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 34 (2.06%) Bash
10 34 (2.06%) Shell Script
11 23 (1.39%) R
12 19 (1.15%) TypeScript
13 18 (1.09%) Bicep
14 13 (0.79%) Cypher
15 7 (0.42%) Go
15 7 (0.42%) Perl
15 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 452 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 396 (24.00%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.88%) Degree
4 57 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 33 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 33 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.88%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.58%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.15%) Master's Degree
10 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.48%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.24%) CBAP
14 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 590 (35.76%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.73%) QA
3 63 (3.82%) GDPR
4 36 (2.18%) GRC
5 24 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.55%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) 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
1 104 (6.30%) 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
1 111 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 31 (1.88%) Grafana
3 21 (1.27%) 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
1 373 (22.61%) Databricks
2 299 (18.12%) Oracle
3 281 (17.03%) Microsoft
4 121 (7.33%) Informatica
5 104 (6.30%) Talend
6 94 (5.70%) Google
7 67 (4.06%) SAP
8 46 (2.79%) 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