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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 80 100
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,172 931 989
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.09% 2.95% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 3.32% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 605 742
10th Percentile £362 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 19
10th Percentile £32.50 - £45.61
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £49.63
Median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +68.06%
75th Percentile £73.37 £78.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.80 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.46% -45.00% +42.86%

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 33,102 28,081 38,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.38% 89.04% 87.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 17,044 25,480
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,015 884 1,942
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.95
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.99 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -10.55% +16.41%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.49
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.96 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.55 £30.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.38% -18.80% +44.23%

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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 -4 1,018 £500 -4.76% 631
London +18 624 £525 - 164
UK excluding London -24 408 £500 - 579
Work from Home -9 362 £513 +2.50% 315
Midlands +1 120 £519 +5.82% 86
North of England -47 111 £450 -2.70% 100
West Midlands -8 95 £525 +6.49% 40
North West -8 72 £438 -5.41% 50
South East -34 61 £438 -20.45% 206
South West -6 56 £525 -14.29% 71
Scotland +6 36 £500 +11.11% 24
Yorkshire -58 28 £488 +18.90% 38
East Midlands -11 25 £447 +18.02% 45
East of England -20 16 £575 +9.52% 68
Northern Ireland +9 15 £400 +3.23% 9
North East -13 10 £450 -7.22% 12
Wales -10 9 £453 -12.14% 26

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
1 106 (9.04%) Apache Spark
2 87 (7.42%) Apache Airflow
3 76 (6.48%) Apache
4 52 (4.44%) SAS
5 15 (1.28%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.02%) Confluence
7 7 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.43%) Appian
9 5 (0.43%) nginx
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.26%) CMS
11 3 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.26%) Luigi
11 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 45 (3.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.34%) Trello
6 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.085%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.94%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.77%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.43%) Maximo
7 5 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.17%) Actimize
10 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 499 (42.58%) Azure
2 374 (31.91%) AWS
3 273 (23.29%) Power Platform
4 195 (16.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 156 (13.31%) GCP
6 155 (13.23%) Snowflake
7 133 (11.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 121 (10.32%) Amazon S3
9 112 (9.56%) Serverless
10 95 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
11 78 (6.66%) GitHub
12 73 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (4.78%) dbt
14 37 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 37 (3.16%) SaaS
15 36 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
17 26 (2.22%) Power Automate
18 25 (2.13%) Azure Functions
18 25 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.51%) 2G
1 6 (0.51%) 5G
1 6 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.43%) 4G
3 3 (0.26%) HTTP
4 2 (0.17%) BGP
4 2 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.17%) DSL
4 2 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.17%) Firewall
4 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.17%) OSPF
4 2 (0.17%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.085%) FabricPath
5 1 (0.085%) Internet
5 1 (0.085%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.085%) Multicast
5 1 (0.085%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (29.35%) Data Warehouse
2 258 (22.01%) Power BI
3 200 (17.06%) Data Lake
4 135 (11.52%) SQL Server
5 106 (9.04%) Metadata
6 83 (7.08%) PostgreSQL
6 83 (7.08%) Relational Database
7 80 (6.83%) Big Data
8 75 (6.40%) Amazon Redshift
8 75 (6.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 68 (5.80%) Tableau
10 64 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 56 (4.78%) NoSQL
12 55 (4.69%) BigQuery
12 55 (4.69%) Delta Lake
13 54 (4.61%) Pentaho
14 48 (4.10%) Snowflake Schema
15 47 (4.01%) Amazon Athena
16 44 (3.75%) Oracle Database
17 37 (3.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (11.69%) Git
2 89 (7.59%) JIRA
3 71 (6.06%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.67%) GitLab
5 23 (1.96%) Postman
6 19 (1.62%) ERwin
7 14 (1.19%) MLflow
8 13 (1.11%) Selenium
9 10 (0.85%) JMeter
10 7 (0.60%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.60%) TestRail
11 6 (0.51%) DBeaver
11 6 (0.51%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.51%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.34%) Gatling
13 4 (0.34%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.34%) Toad
14 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 347 (29.61%) Social Skills
2 302 (25.77%) Finance
3 198 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 82 (7.00%) Banking
6 23 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.88%) Retail
8 21 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.54%) Marketing
10 13 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.11%) Legal
11 12 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.85%) Law
14 7 (0.60%) Front Office
14 7 (0.60%) General Ledger
14 7 (0.60%) Publishing
15 6 (0.51%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 438 (37.37%) Data Engineer
2 155 (13.23%) Developer
3 125 (10.67%) Senior
4 123 (10.49%) Lead
5 115 (9.81%) Analyst
6 110 (9.39%) Architect
7 76 (6.48%) Data Analyst
8 73 (6.23%) Senior Data Engineer
9 70 (5.97%) Data Architect
10 54 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
11 41 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (2.99%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 33 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
13 33 (2.82%) Consultant
14 31 (2.65%) Business Analyst
14 31 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
15 29 (2.47%) Python Engineer
16 28 (2.39%) AWS Data Engineer
17 27 (2.30%) Senior Developer
18 25 (2.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (12.12%) PySpark
2 93 (7.94%) Kafka
3 79 (6.74%) REST
4 45 (3.84%) XML
5 38 (3.24%) JSON
5 38 (3.24%) Pandas
6 26 (2.22%) .NET
6 26 (2.22%) NumPy
7 24 (2.05%) Node.js
8 23 (1.96%) RESTful
9 22 (1.88%) OAuth
10 19 (1.62%) PyTorch
11 17 (1.45%) Middleware
11 17 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (1.37%) pytest
12 16 (1.37%) SOAP
13 14 (1.19%) React
14 13 (1.11%) TensorFlow
15 12 (1.02%) scikit-learn
15 12 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.42%) Cloud Native
2 84 (7.17%) Data Structures
3 54 (4.61%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 23 (1.96%) Product Ownership
6 21 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 20 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
8 19 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
8 19 (1.62%) Replication
9 18 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 18 (1.54%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.19%) Reinsurance
11 13 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
11 13 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (0.85%) Data Fabric
13 10 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.77%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.07%) Linux
2 19 (1.62%) Unix
3 13 (1.11%) Windows
4 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.26%) Solaris
6 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.085%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (47.01%) Data Modelling
2 486 (41.47%) Analytics
3 453 (38.65%) Data Pipeline
4 381 (32.51%) Business Intelligence
5 346 (29.52%) Data Engineering
6 335 (28.58%) CI/CD
7 292 (24.91%) Agile
8 277 (23.63%) DevOps
9 267 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
10 261 (22.27%) Data Governance
11 217 (18.52%) Migration
12 206 (17.58%) Data Integration
13 187 (15.96%) Data Architecture
14 162 (13.82%) Validation
15 148 (12.63%) Data Migration
16 143 (12.20%) Data Science
17 132 (11.26%) Machine Learning
18 131 (11.18%) AI
19 124 (10.58%) Data Transformation
20 122 (10.41%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 748 (63.82%) SQL
2 576 (49.15%) Python
3 103 (8.79%) Java
4 51 (4.35%) C#
4 51 (4.35%) Scala
5 44 (3.75%) PL/SQL
6 42 (3.58%) JavaScript
7 40 (3.41%) T-SQL
8 38 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 27 (2.30%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.45%) TypeScript
11 15 (1.28%) R
12 14 (1.19%) Go
12 14 (1.19%) PHP
12 14 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 13 (1.11%) Bash
14 12 (1.02%) Bicep
15 10 (0.85%) VBA
16 6 (0.51%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.43%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 229 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 181 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 79 (6.74%) Degree
4 49 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.75%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 24 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.68%) PMP
11 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.34%) MCP
14 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.26%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.085%) CCIE Data Center
16 1 (0.085%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 385 (32.85%) Data Quality
2 86 (7.34%) GDPR
3 82 (7.00%) QA
4 23 (1.96%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.54%) IFRS
6 17 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.19%) IFRS 17
8 8 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.43%) GAAP
9 5 (0.43%) MiFID
9 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.43%) SLA
10 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.26%) Basel III
10 3 (0.26%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.26%) NIST
10 3 (0.26%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) EMIR
11 2 (0.17%) NCSC
11 2 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 126 (10.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.43%) zsh
3 4 (0.34%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.17%) KVM
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.085%) HDFS
6 1 (0.085%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 120 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 113 (9.64%) Terraform
3 13 (1.11%) Ansible
4 12 (1.02%) Grafana
5 7 (0.60%) Kibana
6 6 (0.51%) logstash
7 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.34%) Control-M
8 4 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.085%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.085%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.085%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.085%) Puppet
10 1 (0.085%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.085%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 256 (21.84%) Databricks
2 199 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 162 (13.82%) Oracle
4 78 (6.66%) Informatica
4 78 (6.66%) Talend
5 47 (4.01%) Google
5 47 (4.01%) SAP
6 41 (3.50%) Denodo
7 30 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 29 (2.47%) ServiceNow
9 22 (1.88%) IBM
10 17 (1.45%) MuleSoft
11 16 (1.37%) Palantir
12 14 (1.19%) Workday
13 13 (1.11%) Foundry
14 12 (1.02%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.94%) Ab Initio
16 10 (0.85%) Cognos
17 8 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 7 (0.60%) VMware