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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 73 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,468 919 1,015
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.35% 3.11% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 3.44% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,090 624 769
10th Percentile £358 £336 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £588 £620 £625
90th Percentile £678 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £26.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £60.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +19.80% +39.79%
75th Percentile £70.08 £96.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £101.31 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £78.70 £30.44
% change year-on-year -18.68% +158.58% -13.04%

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 37,591 26,736 38,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.89% 90.46% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,832 17,220 24,877
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.54% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,217 938 2,335
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.21 £12.85
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.51 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.28 £71.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.31 £31.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year -7.73% +2.04% -12.14%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +10 1,306 £500 -4.76% 509
London +29 738 £518 -5.91% 194
UK excluding London -8 581 £463 -2.63% 389
Work from Home +3 451 £500 - 222
Midlands +17 199 £480 +1.05% 64
West Midlands +15 171 £492 -0.20% 45
North of England -28 158 £455 -1.62% 97
North West -5 89 £430 -8.80% 56
South East -51 77 £475 -5.94% 115
South West -5 68 £525 -8.70% 45
Yorkshire -52 53 £493 +38.73% 30
Scotland +7 48 £425 - 16
East of England -16 28 £500 +8.11% 47
East Midlands -26 28 £455 +17.42% 19
North East -8 15 £538 +13.16% 12
Northern Ireland +5 10 £400 -23.81% 3
Wales -14 6 £325 -35.64% 9

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
1 140 (9.54%) Apache Spark
2 114 (7.77%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (5.93%) Apache
4 66 (4.50%) SAS
5 32 (2.18%) Confluence
6 18 (1.23%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.54%) Appian
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 8 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.54%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.48%) nginx
9 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.068%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 46 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.068%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.95%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.34%) Maximo
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 627 (42.71%) Azure
2 473 (32.22%) AWS
3 368 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 237 (16.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 180 (12.26%) GCP
6 170 (11.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 167 (11.38%) Snowflake
8 161 (10.97%) Amazon S3
9 130 (8.86%) Serverless
10 119 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
11 112 (7.63%) GitHub
12 92 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
13 79 (5.38%) dbt
14 50 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 47 (3.20%) Collibra
15 47 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.52%) SaaS
17 36 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
18 30 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
19 29 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) 5G
1 7 (0.48%) Firewall
1 7 (0.48%) HTTP
2 6 (0.41%) 2G
2 6 (0.41%) 4G
2 6 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) DSL
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.068%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.068%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 436 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
2 348 (23.71%) Power BI
3 235 (16.01%) Data Lake
4 190 (12.94%) SQL Server
5 150 (10.22%) Metadata
6 102 (6.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (6.40%) Tableau
8 93 (6.34%) Big Data
9 92 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
10 90 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 86 (5.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 85 (5.79%) Relational Database
13 76 (5.18%) Delta Lake
14 71 (4.84%) NoSQL
14 71 (4.84%) Pentaho
15 65 (4.43%) Snowflake Schema
16 59 (4.02%) BigQuery
17 58 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.41%) Hadoop
19 48 (3.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 177 (12.06%) Git
2 109 (7.43%) JIRA
3 79 (5.38%) Jenkins
4 66 (4.50%) GitLab
5 34 (2.32%) Postman
6 23 (1.57%) MLflow
7 17 (1.16%) ERwin
8 14 (0.95%) Zephyr
9 12 (0.82%) Selenium
10 7 (0.48%) JMeter
10 7 (0.48%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.34%) NUnit
11 5 (0.34%) TestRail
11 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
12 4 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 418 (28.47%) Social Skills
2 382 (26.02%) Finance
3 256 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 106 (7.22%) Banking
6 39 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.70%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.63%) Marketing
9 22 (1.50%) Legal
9 22 (1.50%) Retail
10 19 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 13 (0.89%) Law
13 11 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.48%) Front Office
15 7 (0.48%) Publishing
16 6 (0.41%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 590 (40.19%) Data Engineer
2 179 (12.19%) Developer
3 162 (11.04%) Senior
4 157 (10.69%) Architect
5 150 (10.22%) Lead
6 137 (9.33%) Analyst
7 103 (7.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 97 (6.61%) Data Architect
9 90 (6.13%) Data Analyst
10 47 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
10 47 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (3.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 39 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
12 39 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
13 36 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
15 33 (2.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 30 (2.04%) Consultant
16 30 (2.04%) Python Engineer
16 30 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (11.99%) PySpark
2 139 (9.47%) Kafka
3 93 (6.34%) REST
4 51 (3.47%) Pandas
5 46 (3.13%) JSON
6 44 (3.00%) XML
7 36 (2.45%) .NET
8 29 (1.98%) RESTful
9 28 (1.91%) NumPy
10 22 (1.50%) OAuth
10 22 (1.50%) PyTorch
11 21 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.43%) pytest
12 20 (1.36%) Middleware
13 19 (1.29%) Great Expectations
13 19 (1.29%) YAML
14 18 (1.23%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.23%) SOAP
15 17 (1.16%) TensorFlow
16 15 (1.02%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 123 (8.38%) Cloud Native
2 101 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 76 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 34 (2.32%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 20 (1.36%) Algorithms
10 17 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.16%) Replication
11 16 (1.09%) IoT
11 16 (1.09%) Reference Data
12 15 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
12 15 (1.02%) Reinsurance
12 15 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.95%) NHS
14 13 (0.89%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.04%) Linux
2 23 (1.57%) Unix
3 15 (1.02%) Windows
4 11 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.48%) Solaris
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.068%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (47.75%) Data Modelling
2 635 (43.26%) Analytics
3 548 (37.33%) Data Pipeline
4 485 (33.04%) Data Engineering
5 476 (32.43%) Business Intelligence
6 431 (29.36%) CI/CD
7 365 (24.86%) Agile
8 361 (24.59%) Data Governance
9 337 (22.96%) DevOps
10 313 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
11 311 (21.19%) Migration
12 255 (17.37%) Validation
13 241 (16.42%) Data Architecture
14 238 (16.21%) Data Integration
15 205 (13.96%) Data Migration
16 197 (13.42%) Decision-Making
17 191 (13.01%) AI
18 176 (11.99%) Data Science
19 161 (10.97%) Test Automation
20 152 (10.35%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 984 (67.03%) SQL
2 677 (46.12%) Python
3 121 (8.24%) Java
4 69 (4.70%) C#
5 61 (4.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 57 (3.88%) T-SQL
7 53 (3.61%) Scala
8 52 (3.54%) PL/SQL
9 35 (2.38%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 21 (1.43%) Bash
12 19 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 17 (1.16%) Bicep
13 17 (1.16%) R
14 16 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.82%) Go
16 10 (0.68%) VBA
17 9 (0.61%) PHP
18 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.48%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 339 (23.09%) Security Cleared
2 272 (18.53%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.56%) Degree
4 58 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.27%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.66%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.45%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.02%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.41%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.27%) PMP
14 3 (0.20%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.14%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 510 (34.74%) Data Quality
2 131 (8.92%) QA
3 121 (8.24%) GDPR
4 22 (1.50%) IFRS
5 21 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.16%) IFRS 17
8 10 (0.68%) PMO
9 8 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.54%) SLA
10 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.34%) GAAP
11 5 (0.34%) MiFID
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
12 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.20%) Basel III
13 3 (0.20%) FATCA
13 3 (0.20%) GMP
System Software
1 125 (8.51%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) HDFS
4 1 (0.068%) ISA Server
4 1 (0.068%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.068%) zsh
Systems Management
1 145 (9.88%) Terraform
2 136 (9.26%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.23%) Grafana
4 17 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.02%) Ansible
6 5 (0.34%) Control-M
7 4 (0.27%) Kibana
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.14%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.14%) SCCM
10 1 (0.068%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.068%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.068%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 305 (20.78%) Databricks
2 267 (18.19%) Microsoft
3 209 (14.24%) Oracle
4 140 (9.54%) Informatica
5 117 (7.97%) Talend
6 65 (4.43%) SAP
7 63 (4.29%) Google
8 45 (3.07%) Denodo
9 41 (2.79%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.11%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.98%) IBM
12 26 (1.77%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.29%) Splunk
14 17 (1.16%) Workday
15 16 (1.09%) Palantir
15 16 (1.09%) Sage
16 13 (0.89%) Ab Initio
17 12 (0.82%) Foundry
18 11 (0.75%) OpenAI
19 10 (0.68%) Alteryx