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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 81 83
Rank change year-on-year +10 +2 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,729 943 1,066
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.27% 2.90% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.21% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 640 777
10th Percentile £351 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.12%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £463 £482
% change year-on-year - -4.05% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 10
10th Percentile £29.96 - £29.51
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +23.87% -40.38%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £51.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 £51.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.78 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -40.83% +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 45,026 29,407 35,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.11% 90.34% 85.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,974 18,494 23,016
10th Percentile £325 £300 £301
25th Percentile £419 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,654 1,554 2,302
10th Percentile £14.87 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.37 £16.71
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -5.88%
75th Percentile £68.50 £51.55 £62.00
90th Percentile £82.46 £70.00 £73.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.33 £38.20
% change year-on-year +84.96% -36.30% -4.51%

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 18 July 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 18 July 2026.

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 18 July 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 1,533 £500 -0.99% 256
UK excluding London +21 792 £463 - 177
London +9 753 £525 -2.05% 118
Work from Home +19 546 £500 - 130
Midlands +24 278 £459 +2.00% 35
West Midlands +36 243 £453 -5.73% 21
North of England -15 188 £463 -2.63% 51
South East +20 145 £461 -5.49% 53
North West -25 86 £460 -8.00% 23
Yorkshire -11 79 £478 +9.77% 14
South West -18 72 £523 +10.00% 23
Scotland +5 57 £425 +1.19% 6
East of England +5 51 £500 +2.56% 9
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +10.96% 14
North East -15 24 £537 +23.45% 15
Wales -9 9 £313 -32.07% 3
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -36.38%

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
1 149 (8.62%) Apache Spark
2 138 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (5.90%) Apache
4 95 (5.49%) SAS
5 66 (3.82%) Confluence
6 21 (1.21%) Oracle Application Server
7 19 (1.10%) SharePoint
8 15 (0.87%) nginx
8 15 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.52%) ArcGIS
10 8 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Appian
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 17 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.17%) Actimize
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
11 2 (0.12%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 679 (39.27%) Azure
2 521 (30.13%) AWS
3 413 (23.89%) Power Platform
4 223 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 209 (12.09%) GCP
6 201 (11.63%) Snowflake
7 158 (9.14%) Amazon S3
8 157 (9.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 146 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
9 146 (8.44%) Serverless
10 124 (7.17%) dbt
11 117 (6.77%) AWS Lambda
12 107 (6.19%) GitHub
13 57 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
14 54 (3.12%) Amazon EMR
15 50 (2.89%) Collibra
16 40 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 30 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.74%) Power Automate
17 30 (1.74%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.93%) HTTP
2 12 (0.69%) Firewall
3 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 550 (31.81%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (22.79%) Power BI
3 260 (15.04%) Data Lake
4 167 (9.66%) SQL Server
5 161 (9.31%) Metadata
6 107 (6.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 103 (5.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 100 (5.78%) Big Data
8 100 (5.78%) Tableau
9 95 (5.49%) Relational Database
10 92 (5.32%) Delta Lake
11 88 (5.09%) BigQuery
12 79 (4.57%) NoSQL
12 79 (4.57%) Pentaho
12 79 (4.57%) PostgreSQL
13 73 (4.22%) Oracle Reports
14 68 (3.93%) Snowflake Schema
15 67 (3.88%) Azure SQL Database
16 61 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
17 54 (3.12%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.28%) Git
2 152 (8.79%) JIRA
3 91 (5.26%) GitLab
4 67 (3.88%) Jenkins
5 41 (2.37%) Zephyr
6 38 (2.20%) Postman
7 20 (1.16%) MLflow
8 13 (0.75%) Selenium
9 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.23%) ERwin
10 4 (0.23%) Flyway
10 4 (0.23%) LSMW
10 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.17%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.17%) Gatling
11 3 (0.17%) MSTest
11 3 (0.17%) NUnit
General
1 410 (23.71%) Social Skills
2 395 (22.85%) Finance
3 310 (17.93%) Analytical Skills
4 191 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 120 (6.94%) Banking
6 51 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.79%) Marketing
8 25 (1.45%) Legal
8 25 (1.45%) Retail
9 24 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 22 (1.27%) Manufacturing
11 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 17 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.64%) Billing
14 11 (0.64%) Front Office
15 10 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.58%) Law
16 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 689 (39.85%) Data Engineer
2 248 (14.34%) Developer
3 232 (13.42%) Architect
4 204 (11.80%) Senior
5 175 (10.12%) Lead
6 137 (7.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 134 (7.75%) Data Architect
8 125 (7.23%) Analyst
9 68 (3.93%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
12 49 (2.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 47 (2.72%) Azure Data Engineer
14 46 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
14 46 (2.66%) Snowflake Engineer
14 46 (2.66%) SQL Developer
15 43 (2.49%) Tester
16 42 (2.43%) Python Engineer
17 41 (2.37%) Lead Data Engineer
18 36 (2.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (10.70%) PySpark
2 147 (8.50%) Kafka
3 78 (4.51%) REST
4 59 (3.41%) JSON
5 43 (2.49%) .NET
5 43 (2.49%) Pandas
6 30 (1.74%) XML
7 27 (1.56%) Middleware
8 25 (1.45%) Spring
9 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
10 22 (1.27%) PyTorch
10 22 (1.27%) React
10 22 (1.27%) RESTful
11 21 (1.21%) OAuth
12 18 (1.04%) YAML
13 16 (0.93%) Great Expectations
13 16 (0.93%) NumPy
13 16 (0.93%) pytest
13 16 (0.93%) Web Services
14 14 (0.81%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 166 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.09%) Legacy Systems
4 56 (3.24%) Onboarding
5 49 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 35 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.50%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 24 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 23 (1.33%) Reference Data
10 22 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
10 22 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 20 (1.16%) Clustering
11 20 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.10%) Replication
13 15 (0.87%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.75%) IoT
14 13 (0.75%) Taxonomies
15 12 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (3.07%) Unix
2 51 (2.95%) Linux
3 21 (1.21%) Windows
4 12 (0.69%) Solaris
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 11 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.17%) VMS
10 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 815 (47.14%) Data Modelling
2 701 (40.54%) Data Pipeline
3 662 (38.29%) Analytics
4 537 (31.06%) Data Engineering
5 513 (29.67%) CI/CD
6 496 (28.69%) Business Intelligence
7 455 (26.32%) Migration
8 445 (25.74%) Agile
9 375 (21.69%) Data Governance
10 370 (21.40%) DevOps
11 343 (19.84%) Validation
12 332 (19.20%) Data Integration
13 318 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
14 282 (16.31%) AI
15 267 (15.44%) Data Migration
16 255 (14.75%) Data Architecture
17 231 (13.36%) Test Automation
18 223 (12.90%) Decision-Making
19 211 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
20 193 (11.16%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,146 (66.28%) SQL
2 693 (40.08%) Python
3 149 (8.62%) Java
4 92 (5.32%) T-SQL
5 83 (4.80%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 60 (3.47%) C#
8 53 (3.07%) Scala
9 39 (2.26%) JavaScript
9 39 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 33 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 31 (1.79%) Bash
12 24 (1.39%) TypeScript
13 19 (1.10%) Bicep
13 19 (1.10%) R
14 9 (0.52%) VBA
15 8 (0.46%) Cypher
15 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.46%) SPARQL
16 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 485 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 406 (23.48%) SC Cleared
3 98 (5.67%) Degree
4 47 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 42 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.16%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.69%) SnowPro
11 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 581 (33.60%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.56%) QA
3 117 (6.77%) GDPR
4 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.39%) GRC
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) IFRS
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.46%) FATCA
11 7 (0.40%) HL7
11 7 (0.40%) IFRS 17
11 7 (0.40%) Solvency II
12 5 (0.29%) WCAG
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) GMP
13 4 (0.23%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 121 (7.00%) Docker
2 13 (0.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.35%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.058%) RACF
8 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (8.79%) Terraform
2 128 (7.40%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.54%) Grafana
4 21 (1.21%) Prometheus
5 18 (1.04%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 8 (0.46%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 334 (19.32%) Databricks
2 321 (18.57%) Oracle
3 300 (17.35%) Microsoft
4 165 (9.54%) Informatica
5 137 (7.92%) Talend
6 81 (4.68%) SAP
7 70 (4.05%) Google
8 60 (3.47%) Denodo
9 49 (2.83%) IBM
10 38 (2.20%) ServiceNow
11 36 (2.08%) Salesforce
12 31 (1.79%) Alteryx
13 23 (1.33%) Sage
14 18 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.04%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.04%) Splunk
15 16 (0.93%) Palantir
16 13 (0.75%) Red Hat
17 12 (0.69%) Cloudera
18 11 (0.64%) ESRI