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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 80 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,111 928 972
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.03% 2.91% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 3.28% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 608 730
10th Percentile £360 £350 £382
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £703
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +0.76% -5.71% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 17
10th Percentile £32.50 - £44.96
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +70.42%
75th Percentile £73.37 £78.70 £68.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.00
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 32,180 28,256 37,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.89% 88.57% 87.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,310 17,164 24,974
10th Percentile £304 £306 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,978 898 1,563
10th Percentile £14.59 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.19
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -22.97% +23.04%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.64% -31.67% +62.56%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -7 961 £500 -4.76% 536
London +13 590 £525 - 162
UK excluding London -20 383 £499 +0.76% 462
Work from Home -10 347 £509 +1.75% 257
Midlands -7 117 £515 +7.97% 66
North of England -42 100 £450 -2.70% 93
West Midlands -1 95 £520 +5.48% 32
North West -19 63 £438 -5.41% 40
South West -8 53 £550 -4.35% 52
South East -52 49 £425 -22.73% 169
Scotland +15 38 £500 +11.11% 11
Yorkshire -59 28 £468 +6.97% 38
East Midlands -12 22 £433 +16.73% 34
East of England -16 19 £575 +4.55% 52
Northern Ireland +8 15 £400 +3.23% 8
North East -7 8 £450 -9.55% 15
Wales -8 8 £495 -3.88% 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
1 103 (9.27%) Apache Spark
2 89 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
3 72 (6.48%) Apache
4 50 (4.50%) SAS
5 14 (1.26%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.17%) Confluence
7 7 (0.63%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.36%) Appian
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
10 3 (0.27%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.27%) Luigi
10 3 (0.27%) nginx
10 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.090%) Moodle
Applications
1 50 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.36%) Trello
6 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.090%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.90%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 8 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.72%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.63%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.63%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.45%) Maximo
6 5 (0.45%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.36%) SAP HR
8 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.27%) SAP PM
8 3 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle Cash Management
9 2 (0.18%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 460 (41.40%) Azure
2 355 (31.95%) AWS
3 247 (22.23%) Power Platform
4 183 (16.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 150 (13.50%) GCP
6 148 (13.32%) Snowflake
7 122 (10.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 119 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 104 (9.36%) Serverless
10 81 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (6.30%) GitHub
12 69 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (4.77%) dbt
14 34 (3.06%) SaaS
15 33 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
17 26 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
18 25 (2.25%) Power Automate
19 24 (2.16%) Azure Functions
20 23 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.54%) 2G
1 6 (0.54%) 5G
1 6 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.45%) 4G
3 3 (0.27%) DNS
3 3 (0.27%) SSH
3 3 (0.27%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.18%) BGP
4 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.18%) DSL
4 2 (0.18%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.18%) Firewall
4 2 (0.18%) HTTP
4 2 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 2 (0.18%) OSPF
4 2 (0.18%) SSL
4 2 (0.18%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.090%) FabricPath
5 1 (0.090%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.090%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (30.42%) Data Warehouse
2 234 (21.06%) Power BI
3 188 (16.92%) Data Lake
4 127 (11.43%) SQL Server
5 100 (9.00%) Metadata
6 84 (7.56%) Relational Database
7 81 (7.29%) Big Data
8 80 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
9 76 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (6.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 66 (5.94%) Tableau
12 61 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
13 57 (5.13%) BigQuery
14 53 (4.77%) NoSQL
15 48 (4.32%) Pentaho
16 44 (3.96%) Delta Lake
16 44 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
17 43 (3.87%) Oracle Database
18 42 (3.78%) Amazon Athena
19 37 (3.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 135 (12.15%) Git
2 81 (7.29%) JIRA
3 68 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.33%) GitLab
5 21 (1.89%) Postman
6 16 (1.44%) ERwin
6 16 (1.44%) MLflow
7 13 (1.17%) Selenium
8 8 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.63%) JMeter
9 7 (0.63%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.63%) TestRail
10 6 (0.54%) DBeaver
10 6 (0.54%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.45%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.36%) Toad
12 4 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.27%) Bitbucket
General
1 331 (29.79%) Social Skills
2 284 (25.56%) Finance
3 186 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (9.00%) Public Sector
5 82 (7.38%) Banking
6 22 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.71%) Financial Institution
8 18 (1.62%) Retail
9 17 (1.53%) Marketing
10 15 (1.35%) Legal
11 14 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 13 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.99%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.81%) Law
15 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.72%) Front Office
16 8 (0.72%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.63%) Publishing
18 6 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 395 (35.55%) Data Engineer
2 156 (14.04%) Developer
3 121 (10.89%) Senior
4 115 (10.35%) Analyst
5 114 (10.26%) Lead
6 103 (9.27%) Architect
7 77 (6.93%) Data Analyst
8 67 (6.03%) Senior Data Engineer
9 65 (5.85%) Data Architect
10 49 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (3.78%) Azure Data Engineer
12 35 (3.15%) Consultant
13 33 (2.97%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (2.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 31 (2.79%) Python Engineer
16 30 (2.70%) Business Analyst
17 28 (2.52%) Senior Developer
18 26 (2.34%) AWS Data Engineer
19 24 (2.16%) Snowflake Engineer
20 20 (1.80%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (11.70%) PySpark
2 86 (7.74%) Kafka
3 75 (6.75%) REST
4 51 (4.59%) XML
5 41 (3.69%) Pandas
6 40 (3.60%) JSON
7 29 (2.61%) NumPy
8 27 (2.43%) Node.js
9 25 (2.25%) RESTful
10 22 (1.98%) .NET
10 22 (1.98%) OAuth
11 18 (1.62%) PyTorch
12 17 (1.53%) React
13 16 (1.44%) Middleware
13 16 (1.44%) SOAP
14 14 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (1.26%) pytest
15 13 (1.17%) JWT
16 12 (1.08%) Hugging Face
16 12 (1.08%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.02%) Data Structures
2 73 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 53 (4.77%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.34%) Algorithms
5 23 (2.07%) Product Ownership
6 19 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (1.62%) Replication
8 16 (1.44%) Onboarding
9 15 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (0.99%) IoT
12 10 (0.90%) Reinsurance
13 9 (0.81%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.81%) Data Fabric
13 9 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.51%) Linux
2 18 (1.62%) Unix
3 11 (0.99%) Windows
4 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.090%) Solaris
6 1 (0.090%) VMS
6 1 (0.090%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.090%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 501 (45.09%) Data Modelling
2 446 (40.14%) Analytics
3 430 (38.70%) Data Pipeline
4 354 (31.86%) Business Intelligence
5 319 (28.71%) Data Engineering
6 306 (27.54%) CI/CD
7 279 (25.11%) Agile
8 260 (23.40%) DevOps
9 249 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
10 239 (21.51%) Data Governance
11 220 (19.80%) Migration
12 197 (17.73%) Data Integration
13 176 (15.84%) Data Architecture
14 157 (14.13%) Validation
15 151 (13.59%) Data Migration
16 131 (11.79%) Data Science
17 123 (11.07%) Data Transformation
17 123 (11.07%) Machine Learning
18 120 (10.80%) AI
19 112 (10.08%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 707 (63.64%) SQL
2 545 (49.05%) Python
3 96 (8.64%) Java
4 47 (4.23%) C#
5 42 (3.78%) Scala
6 40 (3.60%) PL/SQL
7 39 (3.51%) JavaScript
8 38 (3.42%) T-SQL
9 36 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 26 (2.34%) PowerShell
11 17 (1.53%) Bash
11 17 (1.53%) R
12 16 (1.44%) Go
13 15 (1.35%) PHP
14 14 (1.26%) TypeScript
15 13 (1.17%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.08%) Bicep
16 12 (1.08%) VBA
17 6 (0.54%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.45%) Korn
Qualifications
1 206 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 157 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 71 (6.39%) Degree
4 46 (4.14%) Azure Certification
5 45 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.97%) AWS Certification
7 20 (1.80%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.17%) DV Cleared
11 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.81%) PMP
12 6 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.27%) MCP
14 3 (0.27%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.18%) CISSP
15 2 (0.18%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.090%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 357 (32.13%) Data Quality
2 84 (7.56%) GDPR
3 79 (7.11%) QA
4 26 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 14 (1.26%) IFRS
7 9 (0.81%) IFRS 17
8 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.45%) GAAP
9 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.45%) SLA
9 5 (0.45%) WCAG
10 4 (0.36%) MiFID
11 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.27%) Basel III
11 3 (0.27%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.27%) NIST
11 3 (0.27%) PMO
12 2 (0.18%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 123 (11.07%) Docker
2 5 (0.45%) zsh
3 3 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.18%) KVM
4 2 (0.18%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.090%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (0.090%) HDFS
5 1 (0.090%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.090%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 118 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 97 (8.73%) Terraform
3 14 (1.26%) Ansible
4 13 (1.17%) Grafana
5 7 (0.63%) Kibana
6 6 (0.54%) Control-M
6 6 (0.54%) logstash
7 4 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.27%) Argo
8 3 (0.27%) Istio
8 3 (0.27%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.18%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.090%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.090%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.090%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.090%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.090%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.090%) Puppet
10 1 (0.090%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.090%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 226 (20.34%) Databricks
2 193 (17.37%) Microsoft
3 146 (13.14%) Oracle
4 68 (6.12%) Talend
5 67 (6.03%) Informatica
6 50 (4.50%) SAP
7 45 (4.05%) Google
8 38 (3.42%) Denodo
9 32 (2.88%) Salesforce
10 24 (2.16%) ServiceNow
11 23 (2.07%) IBM
12 16 (1.44%) MuleSoft
12 16 (1.44%) Palantir
13 14 (1.26%) Workday
14 13 (1.17%) Foundry
15 10 (0.90%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.72%) Alteryx
16 8 (0.72%) Cognos
17 7 (0.63%) VMware
18 6 (0.54%) Avaloq