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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 90 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,670 911 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.11% 2.82% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.12% 3.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,195 615 697
10th Percentile £360 £358 £359
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £592 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.70 £33.63
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.47 £38.53
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -16.22% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -45.64% +105.80% -58.40%

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 45,398 29,222 32,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.63% 90.44% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,773 18,158 20,413
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,911 1,744 1,558
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.20 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.72 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%
75th Percentile £67.84 £46.01 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.18 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +87.80% -47.37% +12.13%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 1,469 £500 - 949
London -1 773 £525 - 629
UK excluding London +13 694 £470 -1.05% 444
Work from Home +11 519 £500 - 432
Midlands +23 235 £469 +1.41% 55
West Midlands +29 201 £469 -6.20% 37
North of England -6 175 £475 - 114
South East +16 136 £450 -4.05% 102
Yorkshire -3 79 £463 +9.47% 22
North West -16 76 £475 -5.00% 75
South West -31 62 £523 +10.00% 76
East of England +2 46 £488 -7.14% 27
Scotland -14 40 £440 -3.56% 37
East Midlands -19 33 £490 +13.10% 18
North East -22 21 £510 +16.57% 17
Wales -12 7 £313 -33.86% 14
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.02% 20

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
1 137 (8.20%) Apache Airflow
2 133 (7.96%) Apache Spark
3 105 (6.29%) Apache
4 95 (5.69%) SAS
5 62 (3.71%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.50%) SharePoint
8 12 (0.72%) nginx
9 10 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 663 (39.70%) Azure
2 508 (30.42%) AWS
3 379 (22.69%) Power Platform
4 230 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 230 (13.77%) Snowflake
5 225 (13.47%) GCP
6 154 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
7 146 (8.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 139 (8.32%) Serverless
9 137 (8.20%) Amazon S3
10 132 (7.90%) dbt
11 122 (7.31%) GitHub
12 111 (6.65%) AWS Lambda
13 62 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (2.81%) Azure Databricks
15 46 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (2.22%) Collibra
17 33 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 31 (1.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.72%) Firewall
2 11 (0.66%) HTTP
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 580 (34.73%) Data Warehouse
2 367 (21.98%) Power BI
3 262 (15.69%) Data Lake
4 170 (10.18%) Metadata
5 162 (9.70%) SQL Server
6 110 (6.59%) Relational Database
7 102 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 96 (5.75%) Delta Lake
9 95 (5.69%) BigQuery
10 89 (5.33%) Big Data
11 84 (5.03%) Tableau
12 83 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 73 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
14 71 (4.25%) Oracle Reports
15 70 (4.19%) NoSQL
16 63 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
16 63 (3.77%) Pentaho
17 60 (3.59%) Oracle Database
18 58 (3.47%) Amazon Athena
19 54 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (10.90%) Git
2 144 (8.62%) JIRA
3 102 (6.11%) GitLab
4 55 (3.29%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.40%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.10%) Postman
7 15 (0.90%) Selenium
8 14 (0.84%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.30%) Gatling
10 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.24%) ERwin
11 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 3 (0.18%) JMeter
12 3 (0.18%) JUnit
12 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 409 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 369 (22.10%) Finance
3 320 (19.16%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 141 (8.44%) Banking
6 37 (2.22%) Retail
7 36 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.56%) Marketing
9 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
10 22 (1.32%) Law
10 22 (1.32%) Legal
11 17 (1.02%) Financial Institution
12 14 (0.84%) Front Office
12 14 (0.84%) Police
13 13 (0.78%) Billing
13 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
14 12 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
14 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.60%) Military
Job Titles
1 655 (39.22%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.79%) Developer
3 239 (14.31%) Senior
4 229 (13.71%) Architect
5 164 (9.82%) Lead
6 152 (9.10%) Senior Data Engineer
7 127 (7.60%) Data Architect
8 121 (7.25%) Analyst
9 69 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.59%) Data Analyst
11 53 (3.17%) Databricks Engineer
12 51 (3.05%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
14 45 (2.69%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 45 (2.69%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (2.69%) Tester
15 40 (2.40%) AWS Data Engineer
15 40 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 38 (2.28%) Oracle Developer
16 38 (2.28%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (10.18%) PySpark
2 155 (9.28%) Terraform
3 138 (8.26%) Kafka
4 74 (4.43%) REST
5 60 (3.59%) JSON
6 49 (2.93%) .NET
7 30 (1.80%) XML
8 29 (1.74%) Pandas
9 28 (1.68%) React
10 25 (1.50%) Middleware
11 23 (1.38%) Spring
11 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
12 17 (1.02%) YAML
13 14 (0.84%) pytest
14 13 (0.78%) SOAP
15 12 (0.72%) LangChain
15 12 (0.72%) OAuth
15 12 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
16 11 (0.66%) Playwright
16 11 (0.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.70%) Cloud Native
2 115 (6.89%) Data Structures
3 73 (4.37%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.59%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.68%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.62%) NHS
9 25 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.26%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.20%) Replication
12 19 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.96%) Clustering
13 16 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
14 15 (0.90%) IoT
15 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.83%) Linux
2 59 (3.53%) Unix
3 18 (1.08%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 796 (47.66%) Data Modelling
2 705 (42.22%) Data Pipeline
3 632 (37.84%) Analytics
4 543 (32.51%) Data Engineering
5 523 (31.32%) CI/CD
6 477 (28.56%) Agile
7 451 (27.01%) Business Intelligence
8 443 (26.53%) Migration
9 396 (23.71%) Data Integration
10 386 (23.11%) DevOps
11 356 (21.32%) Data Governance
12 334 (20.00%) Validation
13 300 (17.96%) AI
14 297 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
15 273 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 259 (15.51%) Data Migration
17 246 (14.73%) Data Architecture
18 236 (14.13%) Data Transformation
19 217 (12.99%) Test Automation
20 190 (11.38%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,106 (66.23%) SQL
2 646 (38.68%) Python
3 143 (8.56%) Java
4 87 (5.21%) PL/SQL
5 84 (5.03%) T-SQL
6 61 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 54 (3.23%) C#
8 53 (3.17%) Scala
9 46 (2.75%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.34%) Shell Script
11 34 (2.04%) Bash
12 21 (1.26%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.20%) Bicep
13 20 (1.20%) R
14 12 (0.72%) Cypher
15 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.36%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 467 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 401 (24.01%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.25%) Degree
4 52 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 33 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.62%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 24 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.14%) Master's Degree
11 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.18%) CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (36.41%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.32%) QA
3 83 (4.97%) GDPR
4 40 (2.40%) GRC
5 24 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.60%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) PMO
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) NIST
10 5 (0.30%) SLA
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (7.13%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 116 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 36 (2.16%) Grafana
3 20 (1.20%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 11 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.060%) Foglight
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 363 (21.74%) Databricks
2 322 (19.28%) Oracle
3 301 (18.02%) Microsoft
4 142 (8.50%) Informatica
5 118 (7.07%) Talend
6 77 (4.61%) Google
7 74 (4.43%) SAP
8 54 (3.23%) Denodo
9 49 (2.93%) IBM
10 36 (2.16%) Salesforce
11 33 (1.98%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.68%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.14%) Palantir
14 17 (1.02%) Foundry
14 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.02%) Teradata
15 12 (0.72%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
16 11 (0.66%) Sage
17 9 (0.54%) ESRI