Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 99 91
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,003 1,472 2,498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.32% 2.46% 2.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.74% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 1,054 1,741
10th Percentile £365 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £736 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 14
10th Percentile £28.54 - £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £35.56
Median hourly rate £49.50 £43.57 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.62% +0.73% +13.82%
75th Percentile £53.25 £65.00 £51.91
90th Percentile £63.70 £76.25 £64.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.37 £36.13 £39.73
% change year-on-year -15.93% -9.07% +58.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +5 864 £525 -2.33% 366
London +21 539 £525 -4.55% 193
Work from Home +4 388 £500 -4.76% 206
UK excluding London -25 316 £500 - 178
North of England +29 102 £510 -2.86% 55
North West +24 72 £525 +12.00% 34
Midlands -10 66 £475 -12.04% 41
South East -18 55 £500 - 27
West Midlands -7 47 £438 -18.98% 27
South West 0 40 £525 +5.00% 23
Scotland -25 30 £486 -0.87% 9
Yorkshire +2 25 £488 -18.75% 18
East of England -2 20 £475 +24.59% 15
East Midlands +20 18 £513 +12.64% 14
North East +20 5 £392 -34.67% 5
Wales +10 4 £400 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +3 2 £400 -5.88% 3

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 38 (3.79%) Apache
3 30 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.10%) Site Server
5 10 (1.00%) Confluence
6 8 (0.80%) SAS
7 5 (0.50%) CMS
8 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.20%) CICS
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
10 1 (0.100%) JBoss
10 1 (0.100%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.100%) Luigi
10 1 (0.100%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.100%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.100%) WildFly
Applications
1 33 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.69%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.100%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.10%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 363 (36.19%) Azure
2 263 (26.22%) AWS
3 243 (24.23%) Power Platform
4 119 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 107 (10.67%) GCP
6 97 (9.67%) Serverless
7 87 (8.67%) Amazon S3
8 76 (7.58%) Snowflake
9 74 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
10 63 (6.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 46 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (3.39%) dbt
13 31 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
14 28 (2.79%) Amazon EMR
15 27 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (2.29%) GitHub
17 21 (2.09%) Collibra
18 20 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
19 19 (1.89%) Amazon MSK
20 18 (1.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) FTP
2 7 (0.70%) Internet
3 4 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (35.69%) Data Warehouse
2 231 (23.03%) Power BI
3 165 (16.45%) SQL Server
4 117 (11.67%) Data Lake
5 110 (10.97%) Big Data
6 109 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 87 (8.67%) Tableau
8 85 (8.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 67 (6.68%) Relational Database
10 58 (5.78%) NoSQL
11 56 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
12 54 (5.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 50 (4.99%) Metadata
14 44 (4.39%) BigQuery
15 41 (4.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 38 (3.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 33 (3.29%) Hadoop
18 31 (3.09%) MySQL
18 31 (3.09%) Parquet
19 28 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 51 (5.08%) Git
2 38 (3.79%) JIRA
3 25 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.60%) GitLab
4 16 (1.60%) Selenium
5 14 (1.40%) ERwin
6 12 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.80%) webpack
8 6 (0.60%) Appium
8 6 (0.60%) JUnit
8 6 (0.60%) Postman
8 6 (0.60%) SoapUI
8 6 (0.60%) TestNG
9 5 (0.50%) eggPlant
9 5 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.50%) SOAtest
9 5 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 239 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 172 (17.15%) Finance
3 140 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.28%) Public Sector
5 53 (5.28%) Banking
6 27 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
7 26 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.29%) Retail
9 21 (2.09%) Marketing
10 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.20%) Publishing
13 9 (0.90%) Legal
14 8 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.80%) Law
15 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (0.60%) Electronics
16 6 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.50%) Back Office
18 4 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 332 (33.10%) Data Engineer
2 178 (17.75%) Developer
3 130 (12.96%) Architect
4 99 (9.87%) Senior
5 81 (8.08%) Data Architect
6 69 (6.88%) Analyst
6 69 (6.88%) Azure Engineer
7 65 (6.48%) Lead
8 61 (6.08%) Azure Data Engineer
9 46 (4.59%) Data Analyst
10 45 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 42 (4.19%) Consultant
12 37 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (3.19%) Senior Data Engineer
14 30 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
14 30 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (2.59%) ETL Developer
16 25 (2.49%) Power BI Developer
17 22 (2.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 21 (2.09%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.18%) PySpark
2 46 (4.59%) JSON
3 45 (4.49%) Kafka
4 31 (3.09%) Apache Avro
5 29 (2.89%) XML
6 21 (2.09%) REST
7 19 (1.89%) .NET
8 15 (1.50%) Node.js
9 13 (1.30%) Middleware
9 13 (1.30%) React
9 13 (1.30%) Web Services
10 12 (1.20%) JSON Schema
10 12 (1.20%) Spring
11 8 (0.80%) AWS CDK
11 8 (0.80%) Express.js
11 8 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
11 8 (0.80%) Redux
11 8 (0.80%) SAML
12 7 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
12 7 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.89%) Data Structures
2 29 (2.89%) Management Information System
3 25 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 21 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (1.99%) Data Centre
6 18 (1.79%) Replication
7 16 (1.60%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.30%) Algorithms
10 12 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
13 8 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
14 6 (0.60%) Hedge funds
14 6 (0.60%) Life Science
14 6 (0.60%) Smart Meter
14 6 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.49%) Unix
2 29 (2.89%) Windows
3 24 (2.39%) Linux
4 6 (0.60%) zOS
5 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 387 (38.58%) Data Modelling
2 338 (33.70%) Business Intelligence
3 289 (28.81%) Analytics
4 199 (19.84%) Data Pipeline
5 197 (19.64%) Agile
6 179 (17.85%) Migration
7 175 (17.45%) Data Integration
8 162 (16.15%) Data Engineering
9 142 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (13.36%) DevOps
10 134 (13.36%) Visualisation
11 123 (12.26%) Data Migration
12 120 (11.96%) Data Governance
13 118 (11.76%) CI/CD
14 101 (10.07%) Data Analysis
15 93 (9.27%) Data Science
16 89 (8.87%) Data Management
17 87 (8.67%) Data Analytics
18 83 (8.28%) Data Architecture
19 76 (7.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 545 (54.34%) SQL
2 350 (34.90%) Python
3 118 (11.76%) Java
4 75 (7.48%) T-SQL
5 51 (5.08%) Scala
6 42 (4.19%) C#
7 40 (3.99%) PL/SQL
8 31 (3.09%) PowerShell
9 28 (2.79%) Shell Script
10 23 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 20 (1.99%) JavaScript
12 19 (1.89%) R
13 11 (1.10%) Korn
14 9 (0.90%) TypeScript
15 7 (0.70%) Perl
15 7 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.60%) Bash
17 4 (0.40%) COBOL
17 4 (0.40%) REXX
17 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 158 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 141 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.68%) Degree
4 38 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.40%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.20%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.50%) CISSP
10 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
11 2 (0.20%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.100%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.100%) OCP
12 1 (0.100%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.100%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (18.15%) Data Quality
2 48 (4.79%) QA
3 29 (2.89%) GDPR
4 19 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.60%) SLA
6 6 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.30%) IFRS
7 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.20%) NIST
8 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.100%) EMIR
9 1 (0.100%) FATCA
9 1 (0.100%) GRC
9 1 (0.100%) MiFID
9 1 (0.100%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (3.49%) Docker
2 7 (0.70%) HDFS
3 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.100%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 43 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 37 (3.69%) Terraform
3 21 (2.09%) Grafana
4 8 (0.80%) Ansible
5 3 (0.30%) Control-M
5 3 (0.30%) Kibana
5 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
5 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.20%) Puppet
7 1 (0.100%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.100%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.100%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.100%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.100%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.100%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 156 (15.55%) Microsoft
2 148 (14.76%) Oracle
3 126 (12.56%) Databricks
4 71 (7.08%) Informatica
5 59 (5.88%) Google
6 55 (5.48%) SAP
7 45 (4.49%) Talend
8 21 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.40%) Ab Initio
10 13 (1.30%) ESRI
10 13 (1.30%) Splunk
11 12 (1.20%) Denodo
12 10 (1.00%) Foundry
12 10 (1.00%) Palantir
12 10 (1.00%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.80%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.80%) SEEBURGER
13 8 (0.80%) Sparx
14 7 (0.70%) IBM
15 6 (0.60%) Cadence