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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 78 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +29 -8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,001 1,034 1,054
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.89% 2.83% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 3.29% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 706 691 782
10th Percentile £358 £358 £382
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £616 £644
90th Percentile £700 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £491 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% -6.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 9 15
10th Percentile £32.78 £26.02 £47.75
25th Percentile £35.81 £26.25 £50.26
Median hourly rate £41.23 £27.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.93% -57.69% +52.05%
75th Percentile £58.88 £43.75 £72.00
90th Percentile £80.78 £53.55 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.61 £27.00 £61.53
% change year-on-year +109.67% -56.12% +75.79%

All Process and 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 31,196 31,430 41,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.11% 86.05% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,528 18,901 27,760
10th Percentile £296 £310 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,021 1,108 1,576
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +26.43%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -35.50% -20.90% +50.00%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 6 November 2025. 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 -14 870 £500 -1.38% 1,199
London -5 514 £525 - 708
UK excluding London -16 369 £475 -3.26% 848
Work from Home -16 333 £525 +5.00% 545
Midlands -11 112 £510 +14.61% 91
North of England -35 94 £450 -5.26% 112
West Midlands -11 81 £519 +8.86% 67
South West +18 50 £500 -13.04% 47
North West -11 49 £413 -7.30% 61
South East -28 42 £438 -16.67% 484
Yorkshire -34 39 £475 -2.06% 32
Scotland +10 33 £488 +2.63% 27
East Midlands -10 29 £435 +5.45% 21
East of England -6 28 £550 +4.76% 44
Northern Ireland +4 11 £400 -23.81% 14
Wales -3 10 £498 -7.01% 25
North East -12 6 £450 +7.78% 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
1 104 (10.39%) Apache Airflow
2 94 (9.39%) Apache Spark
3 71 (7.09%) Apache
4 39 (3.90%) SAS
5 11 (1.10%) Confluence
6 9 (0.90%) SharePoint
7 8 (0.80%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.50%) IIS
9 4 (0.40%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.40%) Luigi
10 3 (0.30%) nginx
10 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Superset
11 2 (0.20%) CMS
11 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.100%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.100%) Apache Pig
12 1 (0.100%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.100%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 57 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.100%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.100%) Maple
6 1 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.100%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
2 9 (0.90%) SAP PM
3 7 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.70%) SAP HR
4 6 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.30%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
8 2 (0.20%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 394 (39.36%) Azure
2 349 (34.87%) AWS
3 208 (20.78%) Power Platform
4 162 (16.18%) GCP
5 149 (14.89%) Snowflake
6 141 (14.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 102 (10.19%) Amazon S3
8 93 (9.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 93 (9.29%) Serverless
9 69 (6.89%) dbt
10 66 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
11 64 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
12 48 (4.80%) GitHub
13 34 (3.40%) SaaS
14 33 (3.30%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (2.50%) PaaS
16 22 (2.20%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (2.20%) Azure Logic Apps
16 22 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.60%) 2G
1 6 (0.60%) 5G
1 6 (0.60%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.50%) 4G
2 5 (0.50%) Internet
3 4 (0.40%) DNS
4 3 (0.30%) Firewall
4 3 (0.30%) SSH
4 3 (0.30%) SSL
4 3 (0.30%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.20%) BGP
5 2 (0.20%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.20%) DMZ
5 2 (0.20%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.20%) HTTP
5 2 (0.20%) OSPF
5 2 (0.20%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.100%) DSL
6 1 (0.100%) FabricPath
6 1 (0.100%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (33.17%) Data Warehouse
2 196 (19.58%) Power BI
3 135 (13.49%) Data Lake
4 118 (11.79%) SQL Server
5 99 (9.89%) Relational Database
6 85 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 79 (7.89%) Big Data
7 79 (7.89%) BigQuery
8 73 (7.29%) Metadata
9 67 (6.69%) PostgreSQL
10 64 (6.39%) NoSQL
10 64 (6.39%) Tableau
11 56 (5.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 51 (5.09%) Azure SQL Database
13 44 (4.40%) Hadoop
14 40 (4.00%) Delta Lake
14 40 (4.00%) Pentaho
15 36 (3.60%) Oracle Database
16 35 (3.50%) Snowflake Schema
17 31 (3.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 111 (11.09%) Git
2 64 (6.39%) JIRA
3 57 (5.69%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.80%) ERwin
5 17 (1.70%) GitLab
6 11 (1.10%) Postman
7 9 (0.90%) MLflow
8 8 (0.80%) DBeaver
8 8 (0.80%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.60%) Selenium
10 6 (0.60%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.50%) JMeter
12 4 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.30%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.30%) Maven
14 2 (0.20%) PowerDesigner
14 2 (0.20%) PROIV
14 2 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 294 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 243 (24.28%) Finance
3 180 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (8.69%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.49%) Banking
6 25 (2.50%) Retail
7 18 (1.80%) Telecoms
8 16 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (1.50%) Marketing
10 14 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.20%) Local Government
11 12 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 11 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.90%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.70%) Front Office
14 7 (0.70%) Legal
14 7 (0.70%) Publishing
15 6 (0.60%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 328 (32.77%) Data Engineer
2 136 (13.59%) Developer
3 133 (13.29%) Architect
4 110 (10.99%) Senior
5 108 (10.79%) Analyst
6 95 (9.49%) Lead
7 74 (7.39%) Data Architect
8 64 (6.39%) Data Analyst
9 57 (5.69%) Senior Data Engineer
10 44 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (3.90%) Azure Data Engineer
12 34 (3.40%) Business Analyst
13 32 (3.20%) Consultant
14 30 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (3.00%) Python Engineer
15 26 (2.60%) Senior Developer
16 23 (2.30%) AWS Data Engineer
17 22 (2.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 21 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
19 20 (2.00%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (8.99%) PySpark
2 78 (7.79%) Kafka
3 46 (4.60%) REST
4 44 (4.40%) XML
5 36 (3.60%) JSON
6 29 (2.90%) Node.js
7 26 (2.60%) Pandas
8 22 (2.20%) RESTful
9 21 (2.10%) NumPy
10 18 (1.80%) SOAP
11 17 (1.70%) OAuth
12 16 (1.60%) .NET
12 16 (1.60%) Middleware
13 15 (1.50%) React
14 14 (1.40%) GraphQL
15 12 (1.20%) AngularJS
15 12 (1.20%) PyTorch
16 11 (1.10%) Oracle GoldenGate
17 10 (1.00%) AWS CDK
18 9 (0.90%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.49%) Cloud Native
2 61 (6.09%) Data Structures
3 40 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 25 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 16 (1.60%) Replication
9 15 (1.50%) IoT
9 15 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.40%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.40%) Virtual Team
11 13 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.00%) NHS
13 9 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
13 9 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (0.90%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.80%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 46 (4.60%) Linux
2 17 (1.70%) Windows
3 16 (1.60%) Unix
4 3 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.100%) Solaris
6 1 (0.100%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (44.46%) Data Modelling
2 366 (36.56%) Data Pipeline
3 359 (35.86%) Analytics
4 297 (29.67%) Business Intelligence
5 274 (27.37%) Data Engineering
6 242 (24.18%) CI/CD
7 240 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
8 235 (23.48%) Agile
9 226 (22.58%) Data Governance
10 215 (21.48%) Data Integration
11 214 (21.38%) Migration
12 213 (21.28%) DevOps
13 146 (14.59%) Data Architecture
14 144 (14.39%) Data Migration
15 137 (13.69%) Validation
16 132 (13.19%) Visualisation
17 131 (13.09%) Data Transformation
18 114 (11.39%) Data Science
19 106 (10.59%) Machine Learning
20 94 (9.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 635 (63.44%) SQL
2 494 (49.35%) Python
3 94 (9.39%) Java
4 52 (5.19%) Scala
5 46 (4.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 36 (3.60%) C#
8 28 (2.80%) PL/SQL
9 26 (2.60%) PowerShell
10 22 (2.20%) JavaScript
11 18 (1.80%) Bash
12 16 (1.60%) VBA
13 15 (1.50%) R
13 15 (1.50%) TypeScript
14 13 (1.30%) Shell Script
15 12 (1.20%) PHP
16 11 (1.10%) Go
17 7 (0.70%) Korn
18 6 (0.60%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 157 (15.68%) Security Cleared
2 120 (11.99%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.39%) Degree
4 41 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 35 (3.50%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.10%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (0.70%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.60%) PMP
14 5 (0.50%) SnowPro
15 3 (0.30%) CISSP
15 3 (0.30%) MCSE
16 2 (0.20%) DBS Check
16 2 (0.20%) ISTQB
16 2 (0.20%) MCP
17 1 (0.100%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 313 (31.27%) Data Quality
2 70 (6.99%) QA
3 69 (6.89%) GDPR
4 31 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 9 (0.90%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.50%) SLA
6 5 (0.50%) WCAG
7 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.30%) EMIR
8 3 (0.30%) GAAP
8 3 (0.30%) HL7
8 3 (0.30%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.30%) PMO
9 2 (0.20%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.20%) IFRS
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.20%) MiFID
9 2 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (10.59%) Docker
2 8 (0.80%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.50%) zsh
4 4 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) KVM
6 2 (0.20%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.100%) HDFS
7 1 (0.100%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 101 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 74 (7.39%) Terraform
3 16 (1.60%) Grafana
4 9 (0.90%) Ansible
4 9 (0.90%) Control-M
5 5 (0.50%) Kibana
5 5 (0.50%) logstash
5 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.40%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.30%) Argo
7 3 (0.30%) Istio
7 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.20%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.100%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.100%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.100%) Puppet
9 1 (0.100%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 166 (16.58%) Databricks
2 155 (15.48%) Microsoft
3 135 (13.49%) Oracle
4 63 (6.29%) Google
5 58 (5.79%) Talend
6 56 (5.59%) Informatica
7 44 (4.40%) SAP
8 33 (3.30%) Denodo
9 20 (2.00%) IBM
9 20 (2.00%) Salesforce
10 16 (1.60%) Palantir
11 12 (1.20%) Foundry
12 11 (1.10%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 10 (1.00%) AppDynamics
13 10 (1.00%) VMware
13 10 (1.00%) Workday
14 8 (0.80%) Cognos
15 7 (0.70%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.70%) Teradata