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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,627 876 1,002
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.33% 3.05% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.93% 3.35% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,187 596 739
10th Percentile £358 £352 £375
25th Percentile £413 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £616
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £469 £500
% change year-on-year - -6.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 12
10th Percentile £36.07 - £30.83
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% -23.85%
75th Percentile £69.00 £58.75 £52.25
90th Percentile £74.03 £78.70 £63.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -15.72% +171.02% -52.64%

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 41,377 26,173 36,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 91.02% 85.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,864 16,755 23,656
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £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 2,474 1,096 2,500
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.87 £17.87 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £27.59 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.34% -24.42% +1.04%
75th Percentile £67.65 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £74.38 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £38.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -33.82% +8.57%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +12 1,455 £500 -2.91% 290
London +19 761 £511 -7.11% 136
UK excluding London +13 709 £469 - 186
Work from Home +23 507 £500 - 136
Midlands +27 246 £468 +3.83% 37
West Midlands +43 217 £459 -7.27% 27
North of England -18 177 £460 -3.16% 54
South East +9 126 £459 -8.20% 56
North West -12 90 £450 -10.00% 26
Yorkshire -18 70 £500 +19.05% 22
South West -26 60 £525 +10.53% 23
Scotland -4 54 £450 +5.88% 4
East of England -5 45 £500 +1.27% 6
East Midlands -24 28 £525 +22.38% 10
North East -18 17 £538 +23.56% 7
Wales -10 8 £313 -17.76% 6
Northern Ireland +3 4 £415 -17.00% 2

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 (9.22%) Apache Spark
2 126 (7.74%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (5.65%) Apache
4 71 (4.36%) SAS
5 55 (3.38%) Confluence
6 17 (1.04%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.92%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.61%) nginx
9 10 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.55%) Appian
11 8 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.43%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.25%) Camunda
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 41 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.43%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Trello
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.061%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.86%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
4 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 684 (42.04%) Azure
2 499 (30.67%) AWS
3 419 (25.75%) Power Platform
4 243 (14.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 192 (11.80%) GCP
6 171 (10.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 165 (10.14%) Snowflake
8 155 (9.53%) Azure DevOps
9 146 (8.97%) Amazon S3
10 137 (8.42%) Serverless
11 111 (6.82%) GitHub
12 102 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
13 92 (5.65%) dbt
14 55 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
15 54 (3.32%) Collibra
16 36 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
16 36 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
17 34 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.97%) Power Automate
18 32 (1.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.43%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.43%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.061%) 4G
4 1 (0.061%) 5G
4 1 (0.061%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.061%) DHCP
4 1 (0.061%) DNS
4 1 (0.061%) DSL
4 1 (0.061%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.061%) SMS
4 1 (0.061%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (29.56%) Data Warehouse
2 395 (24.28%) Power BI
3 277 (17.03%) Data Lake
4 195 (11.99%) SQL Server
5 156 (9.59%) Metadata
6 108 (6.64%) Big Data
7 101 (6.21%) Tableau
8 99 (6.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 93 (5.72%) Delta Lake
10 91 (5.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 85 (5.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 84 (5.16%) NoSQL
13 79 (4.86%) Relational Database
14 76 (4.67%) Pentaho
15 73 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
16 72 (4.43%) BigQuery
17 71 (4.36%) Snowflake Schema
18 59 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
19 58 (3.56%) Oracle Reports
20 45 (2.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 185 (11.37%) Git
2 146 (8.97%) JIRA
3 95 (5.84%) GitLab
4 72 (4.43%) Jenkins
5 47 (2.89%) Postman
6 35 (2.15%) Zephyr
7 23 (1.41%) MLflow
8 20 (1.23%) Selenium
9 10 (0.61%) ERwin
10 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 7 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.25%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.25%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.25%) Flyway
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Robot Framework
General
1 416 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 412 (25.32%) Finance
3 272 (16.72%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.04%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.62%) Banking
6 45 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.97%) Marketing
8 25 (1.54%) Retail
9 24 (1.48%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.29%) Legal
11 16 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.86%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.68%) Law
13 11 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.43%) Front Office
17 7 (0.43%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 671 (41.24%) Data Engineer
2 201 (12.35%) Developer
3 185 (11.37%) Senior
4 184 (11.31%) Architect
5 173 (10.63%) Lead
6 132 (8.11%) Analyst
7 122 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 112 (6.88%) Data Architect
9 79 (4.86%) Data Analyst
10 51 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 49 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
13 44 (2.70%) AWS Data Engineer
13 44 (2.70%) Python Engineer
14 38 (2.34%) Snowflake Engineer
15 37 (2.27%) Azure Data Engineer
16 35 (2.15%) Integration Engineer
17 34 (2.09%) Senior Developer
18 33 (2.03%) Data Migration Lead
19 32 (1.97%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.74%) PySpark
2 139 (8.54%) Kafka
3 96 (5.90%) REST
4 58 (3.56%) Pandas
5 45 (2.77%) .NET
6 38 (2.34%) JSON
7 35 (2.15%) XML
8 29 (1.78%) Middleware
9 27 (1.66%) PyTorch
10 24 (1.48%) NumPy
10 24 (1.48%) OAuth
10 24 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
10 24 (1.48%) RESTful
11 23 (1.41%) Spring
12 22 (1.35%) pytest
13 20 (1.23%) Great Expectations
13 20 (1.23%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.17%) TensorFlow
15 18 (1.11%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.04%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.10%) Cloud Native
2 109 (6.70%) Data Structures
3 87 (5.35%) Legacy Systems
4 48 (2.95%) Onboarding
5 47 (2.89%) Product Ownership
6 28 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.35%) Reference Data
10 20 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 16 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (0.98%) Clustering
11 16 (0.98%) Replication
12 15 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.86%) NHS
14 13 (0.80%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.80%) Reinsurance
14 13 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (2.09%) Unix
2 30 (1.84%) Linux
3 20 (1.23%) Windows
4 12 (0.74%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.61%) Solaris
5 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 767 (47.14%) Data Modelling
2 637 (39.15%) Analytics
3 623 (38.29%) Data Pipeline
4 502 (30.85%) Business Intelligence
5 501 (30.79%) Data Engineering
6 464 (28.52%) CI/CD
7 404 (24.83%) Agile
8 376 (23.11%) DevOps
9 374 (22.99%) Migration
10 340 (20.90%) Data Governance
11 310 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
12 301 (18.50%) Validation
13 265 (16.29%) AI
14 257 (15.80%) Data Integration
15 246 (15.12%) Data Architecture
16 233 (14.32%) Data Migration
17 214 (13.15%) Decision-Making
18 201 (12.35%) Test Automation
19 176 (10.82%) Stakeholder Management
20 175 (10.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,100 (67.61%) SQL
2 698 (42.90%) Python
3 149 (9.16%) Java
4 85 (5.22%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.61%) PL/SQL
6 72 (4.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 68 (4.18%) C#
8 51 (3.13%) Scala
9 40 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 30 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 24 (1.48%) Bash
12 21 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.23%) TypeScript
14 18 (1.11%) R
15 15 (0.92%) Bicep
16 8 (0.49%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.43%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.43%) VBA
18 6 (0.37%) Cypher
19 5 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 412 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 339 (20.84%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.21%) Degree
4 46 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 37 (2.27%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (1.66%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.29%) AWS Certification
10 12 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.25%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.25%) PMP
14 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.12%) CISA
15 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 535 (32.88%) Data Quality
2 153 (9.40%) QA
3 109 (6.70%) GDPR
4 23 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 19 (1.17%) IFRS
6 16 (0.98%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.74%) PMO
8 12 (0.74%) SLA
9 8 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.49%) FATCA
10 7 (0.43%) GRC
11 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.31%) GAAP
11 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
11 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.25%) HL7
12 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
13 3 (0.18%) GMP
System Software
1 113 (6.95%) Docker
2 8 (0.49%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 5 (0.31%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.061%) RACF
7 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (9.04%) Terraform
2 119 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.40%) Grafana
4 18 (1.11%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.04%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Control-M
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.061%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.061%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.061%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.061%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.061%) Kibana
9 1 (0.061%) logstash
Vendors
1 343 (21.08%) Databricks
2 306 (18.81%) Microsoft
3 281 (17.27%) Oracle
4 154 (9.47%) Informatica
5 134 (8.24%) Talend
6 65 (4.00%) SAP
7 60 (3.69%) Denodo
7 60 (3.69%) Google
8 49 (3.01%) ServiceNow
9 34 (2.09%) IBM
10 24 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 23 (1.41%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.23%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.11%) Splunk
14 17 (1.04%) Sage
14 17 (1.04%) Workday
15 16 (0.98%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.68%) Teradata
17 10 (0.61%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.61%) Red Hat