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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 76 84
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,664 912 1,080
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 3.03% 2.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.85% 3.33% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,209 621 787
10th Percentile £358 £356 £363
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £689 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £488
% change year-on-year +1.41% -5.13% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 11
10th Percentile £32.39 - £30.37
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -37.04%
75th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £86.74 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +171.02% -59.30%

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 43,238 27,425 37,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.97% 91.06% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,959 17,371 23,647
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,600 1,291 2,584
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.65
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.70 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.88 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £71.25 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £38.12
% change year-on-year +79.73% -34.32% +17.29%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +14 1,487 £500 -0.99% 325
London +8 755 £520 -3.08% 153
UK excluding London +14 742 £469 +1.41% 244
Work from Home +18 530 £500 - 150
Midlands +26 260 £459 +2.00% 46
West Midlands +45 229 £459 -7.27% 32
North of England -24 181 £463 -2.63% 56
South East +3 133 £475 -5.00% 87
North West -14 96 £445 -11.00% 34
South West -31 67 £523 +10.00% 30
Yorkshire -28 65 £500 +19.05% 14
Scotland -5 56 £428 -0.12% 10
East of England -9 44 £488 +4.00% 11
East Midlands -18 30 £525 +23.67% 14
North East -22 20 £550 +30.95% 9
Wales -7 8 £313 -26.04% 4
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -36.38% 4

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
1 144 (8.65%) Apache Spark
2 128 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 86 (5.17%) Apache
4 75 (4.51%) SAS
5 66 (3.97%) Confluence
6 16 (0.96%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
11 8 (0.48%) Appian
12 7 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
14 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
15 4 (0.24%) Camunda
16 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
16 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
17 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
Applications
1 41 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.60%) Sage X3
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 677 (40.69%) Azure
2 511 (30.71%) AWS
3 418 (25.12%) Power Platform
4 230 (13.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 199 (11.96%) GCP
6 182 (10.94%) Snowflake
7 157 (9.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 155 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
9 151 (9.07%) Amazon S3
10 143 (8.59%) Serverless
11 115 (6.91%) GitHub
12 110 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
13 107 (6.43%) dbt
14 57 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
16 47 (2.82%) Collibra
17 38 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.92%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
20 28 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) 4G
6 1 (0.060%) 5G
6 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.060%) DHCP
6 1 (0.060%) DNS
6 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 500 (30.05%) Data Warehouse
2 398 (23.92%) Power BI
3 265 (15.93%) Data Lake
4 180 (10.82%) SQL Server
5 150 (9.01%) Metadata
6 105 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 100 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 97 (5.83%) Big Data
8 97 (5.83%) Tableau
9 96 (5.77%) Delta Lake
10 91 (5.47%) Relational Database
11 85 (5.11%) Pentaho
12 82 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 82 (4.93%) NoSQL
13 77 (4.63%) BigQuery
14 71 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 64 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
17 61 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.72%) Git
2 155 (9.31%) JIRA
3 98 (5.89%) GitLab
4 70 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.46%) Postman
6 37 (2.22%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.32%) MLflow
8 13 (0.78%) Selenium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
13 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 428 (25.72%) Social Skills
2 413 (24.82%) Finance
3 283 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 127 (7.63%) Banking
6 46 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.86%) Marketing
8 29 (1.74%) Retail
9 23 (1.38%) Legal
10 22 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.60%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
14 9 (0.54%) Publishing
15 8 (0.48%) Front Office
15 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 675 (40.56%) Data Engineer
2 215 (12.92%) Developer
3 209 (12.56%) Architect
4 193 (11.60%) Senior
5 179 (10.76%) Lead
6 130 (7.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 128 (7.69%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.33%) Analyst
9 70 (4.21%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
14 41 (2.46%) Python Engineer
15 40 (2.40%) Snowflake Engineer
16 39 (2.34%) SQL Developer
17 37 (2.22%) Lead Data Engineer
18 36 (2.16%) Data Migration Lead
18 36 (2.16%) Integration Engineer
19 34 (2.04%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (11.72%) PySpark
2 137 (8.23%) Kafka
3 82 (4.93%) REST
4 50 (3.00%) Pandas
5 45 (2.70%) JSON
6 43 (2.58%) .NET
7 41 (2.46%) XML
8 33 (1.98%) Middleware
9 27 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
9 27 (1.62%) PyTorch
10 26 (1.56%) Spring
11 24 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 23 (1.38%) OAuth
12 23 (1.38%) RESTful
13 20 (1.20%) NumPy
14 19 (1.14%) pytest
14 19 (1.14%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.08%) scikit-learn
15 18 (1.08%) Web Services
16 17 (1.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 117 (7.03%) Data Structures
3 89 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
4 50 (3.00%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.50%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
9 23 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.32%) NHS
11 21 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.14%) Clustering
13 17 (1.02%) Replication
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
16 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 13 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.22%) Unix
2 35 (2.10%) Linux
3 22 (1.32%) Windows
4 12 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.66%) Solaris
5 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.18%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (47.00%) Data Modelling
2 661 (39.72%) Data Pipeline
3 644 (38.70%) Analytics
4 520 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 497 (29.87%) Business Intelligence
6 490 (29.45%) CI/CD
7 437 (26.26%) Agile
8 415 (24.94%) Migration
9 375 (22.54%) DevOps
10 334 (20.07%) Data Governance
11 322 (19.35%) Validation
12 319 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
13 294 (17.67%) Data Integration
14 284 (17.07%) AI
15 253 (15.20%) Data Architecture
15 253 (15.20%) Data Migration
16 223 (13.40%) Decision-Making
17 215 (12.92%) Test Automation
18 205 (12.32%) Stakeholder Management
19 179 (10.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (67.07%) SQL
2 694 (41.71%) Python
3 140 (8.41%) Java
4 95 (5.71%) T-SQL
5 77 (4.63%) PL/SQL
6 76 (4.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 63 (3.79%) C#
8 52 (3.13%) Scala
9 39 (2.34%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.62%) Bash
12 23 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 17 (1.02%) R
14 16 (0.96%) Bicep
15 8 (0.48%) Cypher
15 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.48%) VBA
16 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.36%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 455 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 377 (22.66%) SC Cleared
3 100 (6.01%) Degree
4 47 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 35 (2.10%) Master's Degree
8 31 (1.86%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.50%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) PMP
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 554 (33.29%) Data Quality
2 150 (9.01%) QA
3 113 (6.79%) GDPR
4 21 (1.26%) IFRS
4 21 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.08%) IFRS 17
6 15 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 13 (0.78%) PMO
7 13 (0.78%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.48%) FATCA
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
9 6 (0.36%) GAAP
9 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 119 (7.15%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (9.01%) Terraform
2 124 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.28%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Ansible
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.48%) Control-M
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 338 (20.31%) Databricks
2 304 (18.27%) Microsoft
3 303 (18.21%) Oracle
4 161 (9.68%) Informatica
5 143 (8.59%) Talend
6 74 (4.45%) SAP
7 63 (3.79%) Denodo
8 62 (3.73%) Google
9 43 (2.58%) ServiceNow
10 41 (2.46%) IBM
11 30 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.56%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.26%) Sage
14 20 (1.20%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.08%) OpenAI
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
15 18 (1.08%) Workday
16 13 (0.78%) Palantir
17 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
18 11 (0.66%) ESRI