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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 78 92
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,606 888 1,007
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.34% 3.04% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.34% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 598 747
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% -1.66% -2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £616
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.27
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +8.25% -19.17%
75th Percentile £69.00 £83.66 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.66 £62.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £85.20 £30.37
% change year-on-year -30.16% +180.52% -39.26%

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 40,582 26,548 36,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.29% 91.02% 86.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,477 17,040 23,631
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,387 1,106 2,443
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.80 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.17 £36.05
Median % change year-on-year +50.90% -21.86% +0.13%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -32.93% +7.14%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 1,435 £500 -4.76% 295
London +25 759 £511 -4.77% 144
UK excluding London +13 691 £469 -1.26% 197
Work from Home +14 488 £500 - 122
Midlands +26 236 £468 -0.53% 35
West Midlands +39 208 £459 -10.44% 27
North of England -18 176 £460 -1.13% 57
South East -13 120 £475 -8.12% 59
North West -15 94 £450 -7.69% 24
Yorkshire -24 66 £500 +21.95% 23
South West -27 63 £525 +7.69% 20
Scotland -7 54 £475 +11.76% 10
East of England -13 41 £500 - 9
East Midlands -24 27 £525 +25.00% 8
North East -16 16 £525 +20.69% 12
Wales -10 7 £325 -14.47% 9
Northern Ireland -2 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
1 149 (9.28%) Apache Spark
2 115 (7.16%) Apache Airflow
3 85 (5.29%) Apache
4 71 (4.42%) SAS
5 53 (3.30%) Confluence
6 18 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.62%) nginx
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.56%) Appian
11 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.37%) ArcGIS
12 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
13 4 (0.25%) Camunda
13 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
13 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
Applications
1 42 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.44%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) Trello
5 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 14 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 13 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 12 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
9 4 (0.25%) Actimize
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.19%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 669 (41.66%) Azure
2 480 (29.89%) AWS
3 402 (25.03%) Power Platform
4 239 (14.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 190 (11.83%) GCP
6 174 (10.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 151 (9.40%) Snowflake
8 147 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
9 146 (9.09%) Amazon S3
10 133 (8.28%) Serverless
11 110 (6.85%) GitHub
12 98 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.54%) dbt
14 54 (3.36%) Collibra
15 51 (3.18%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
19 31 (1.93%) Power Automate
20 30 (1.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 1 (0.062%) 4G
4 1 (0.062%) 5G
4 1 (0.062%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.062%) DHCP
4 1 (0.062%) DNS
4 1 (0.062%) DSL
4 1 (0.062%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.062%) SMS
4 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 473 (29.45%) Data Warehouse
2 379 (23.60%) Power BI
3 264 (16.44%) Data Lake
4 193 (12.02%) SQL Server
5 163 (10.15%) Metadata
6 108 (6.72%) Big Data
7 101 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 99 (6.16%) Tableau
9 94 (5.85%) Delta Lake
10 89 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 83 (5.17%) NoSQL
12 81 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
13 78 (4.86%) Relational Database
14 76 (4.73%) Pentaho
15 75 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
16 71 (4.42%) Snowflake Schema
17 70 (4.36%) BigQuery
18 59 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
19 54 (3.36%) Oracle Reports
20 47 (2.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 184 (11.46%) Git
2 139 (8.66%) JIRA
3 89 (5.54%) GitLab
4 71 (4.42%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.68%) Postman
6 30 (1.87%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.68%) MLflow
8 21 (1.31%) Selenium
9 11 (0.68%) ERwin
10 7 (0.44%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) NUnit
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) Flyway
12 4 (0.25%) Gatling
12 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
General
1 410 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 407 (25.34%) Finance
3 275 (17.12%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 117 (7.29%) Banking
6 41 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (1.99%) Marketing
8 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 22 (1.37%) Legal
10 21 (1.31%) Retail
11 15 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 11 (0.68%) Law
13 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Investment Banking
15 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 660 (41.10%) Data Engineer
2 205 (12.76%) Developer
3 183 (11.39%) Architect
4 181 (11.27%) Senior
5 168 (10.46%) Lead
6 131 (8.16%) Analyst
7 123 (7.66%) Senior Data Engineer
8 110 (6.85%) Data Architect
9 80 (4.98%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
11 49 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 47 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
13 44 (2.74%) Azure Data Engineer
14 42 (2.62%) AWS Data Engineer
14 42 (2.62%) Python Engineer
15 38 (2.37%) Snowflake Engineer
16 34 (2.12%) Integration Engineer
17 33 (2.05%) Senior Developer
18 32 (1.99%) Data Migration Lead
19 31 (1.93%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (12.39%) PySpark
2 142 (8.84%) Kafka
3 93 (5.79%) REST
4 55 (3.42%) Pandas
5 43 (2.68%) .NET
6 38 (2.37%) JSON
7 30 (1.87%) XML
8 27 (1.68%) Middleware
8 27 (1.68%) PyTorch
9 26 (1.62%) OAuth
10 25 (1.56%) RESTful
11 24 (1.49%) NumPy
11 24 (1.49%) Spring
12 23 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
13 21 (1.31%) pytest
13 21 (1.31%) Spring Boot
14 19 (1.18%) Great Expectations
15 18 (1.12%) TensorFlow
16 17 (1.06%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 113 (7.04%) Data Structures
3 85 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.93%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 30 (1.87%) Distributed Computing
7 24 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 23 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
8 23 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.31%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.25%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.12%) Clustering
13 16 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.00%) Replication
14 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 13 (0.81%) NHS
15 13 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (1.99%) Unix
2 29 (1.81%) Linux
3 19 (1.18%) Windows
4 12 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Solaris
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.062%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (47.20%) Data Modelling
2 639 (39.79%) Analytics
3 611 (38.04%) Data Pipeline
4 494 (30.76%) Data Engineering
5 491 (30.57%) Business Intelligence
6 453 (28.21%) CI/CD
7 398 (24.78%) Agile
8 371 (23.10%) DevOps
9 366 (22.79%) Migration
10 350 (21.79%) Data Governance
11 312 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
12 298 (18.56%) Validation
13 256 (15.94%) AI
14 253 (15.75%) Data Integration
15 240 (14.94%) Data Architecture
16 228 (14.20%) Data Migration
17 211 (13.14%) Decision-Making
18 189 (11.77%) Test Automation
19 173 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
20 172 (10.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,074 (66.87%) SQL
2 694 (43.21%) Python
3 147 (9.15%) Java
4 81 (5.04%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.67%) PL/SQL
6 70 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 68 (4.23%) C#
8 55 (3.42%) Scala
9 44 (2.74%) JavaScript
10 29 (1.81%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.43%) Bash
12 22 (1.37%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.25%) R
13 20 (1.25%) TypeScript
14 15 (0.93%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
17 7 (0.44%) PHP
17 7 (0.44%) SAS Macro
18 6 (0.37%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 406 (25.28%) Security Cleared
2 331 (20.61%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.35%) Degree
4 47 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.68%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 34 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (1.37%) ISTQB
9 20 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 13 (0.81%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.56%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.25%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) DBS Check
16 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 527 (32.81%) Data Quality
2 145 (9.03%) QA
3 110 (6.85%) GDPR
4 23 (1.43%) IFRS
4 23 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 18 (1.12%) IFRS 17
6 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
7 11 (0.68%) PMO
8 10 (0.62%) SLA
9 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.50%) FATCA
10 7 (0.44%) GRC
11 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
12 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 4 (0.25%) HL7
13 4 (0.25%) MiFID
13 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (7.47%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) 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 (0.062%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (9.15%) Terraform
2 126 (7.85%) Kubernetes
3 40 (2.49%) Grafana
4 18 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.06%) Ansible
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.31%) Control-M
8 3 (0.19%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.062%) logstash
10 1 (0.062%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 338 (21.05%) Databricks
2 306 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 272 (16.94%) Oracle
4 155 (9.65%) Informatica
5 132 (8.22%) Talend
6 65 (4.05%) Google
7 63 (3.92%) SAP
8 57 (3.55%) Denodo
9 49 (3.05%) ServiceNow
10 34 (2.12%) IBM
11 25 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 25 (1.56%) Salesforce
12 18 (1.12%) Alteryx
12 18 (1.12%) Splunk
13 17 (1.06%) Sage
13 17 (1.06%) Workday
14 15 (0.93%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.75%) Teradata
16 10 (0.62%) Red Hat
17 9 (0.56%) Cloudera