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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 88 82
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,682 926 1,000
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.09% 2.83% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.13% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 623 703
10th Percentile £360 £358 £360
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £597 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.05% -2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.70 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.47 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.80% -16.22% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £62.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.64% +127.27% -62.33%

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 46,106 29,609 32,588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.64% 90.43% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,135 18,363 20,196
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,994 1,772 1,501
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.17% -41.51% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.84 £45.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.86 £22.60 £43.00
% change year-on-year +85.18% -47.44% +7.50%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +5 1,481 £500 - 860
London +3 781 £525 - 554
UK excluding London +18 698 £470 -1.05% 424
Work from Home +10 520 £500 - 380
Midlands +18 236 £469 +1.41% 62
West Midlands +32 202 £469 -6.20% 43
North of England -6 175 £475 +5.56% 104
South East +17 137 £450 -5.26% 99
Yorkshire +6 79 £463 +9.47% 24
North West -22 76 £475 - 66
South West -32 64 £523 +10.00% 70
East of England -4 46 £488 -7.14% 22
Scotland -19 40 £440 -3.56% 37
East Midlands -13 33 £490 +13.10% 19
North East -31 21 £510 +16.57% 14
Wales -14 7 £313 -33.86% 12
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 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
1 140 (8.32%) Apache Airflow
2 135 (8.03%) Apache Spark
3 106 (6.30%) Apache
4 95 (5.65%) SAS
5 63 (3.75%) Confluence
6 26 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.49%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.77%) nginx
9 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.59%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) Camunda
Applications
1 35 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 20 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 668 (39.71%) Azure
2 513 (30.50%) AWS
3 380 (22.59%) Power Platform
4 232 (13.79%) Snowflake
5 231 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 226 (13.44%) GCP
7 153 (9.10%) Azure DevOps
8 147 (8.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 140 (8.32%) Serverless
10 138 (8.20%) Amazon S3
11 135 (8.03%) dbt
12 122 (7.25%) GitHub
13 112 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
14 63 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.79%) Azure Databricks
16 46 (2.73%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.20%) Collibra
18 34 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 31 (1.84%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.71%) Firewall
2 11 (0.65%) HTTP
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.059%) LTE
6 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 582 (34.60%) Data Warehouse
2 368 (21.88%) Power BI
3 261 (15.52%) Data Lake
4 173 (10.29%) Metadata
5 165 (9.81%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.66%) Relational Database
7 103 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 95 (5.65%) BigQuery
8 95 (5.65%) Delta Lake
9 91 (5.41%) Big Data
10 85 (5.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 84 (4.99%) Tableau
12 75 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
13 72 (4.28%) Oracle Reports
14 70 (4.16%) NoSQL
15 63 (3.75%) Pentaho
16 62 (3.69%) Azure SQL Database
16 62 (3.69%) Oracle Database
17 59 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
18 54 (3.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 181 (10.76%) Git
2 145 (8.62%) JIRA
3 103 (6.12%) GitLab
4 56 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.08%) Postman
7 15 (0.89%) Selenium
8 14 (0.83%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
10 5 (0.30%) Gatling
10 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.24%) ERwin
11 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 3 (0.18%) JMeter
12 3 (0.18%) JUnit
12 3 (0.18%) LSMW
General
1 412 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 375 (22.29%) Finance
3 322 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.47%) Public Sector
5 144 (8.56%) Banking
6 37 (2.20%) Retail
7 36 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (1.55%) Marketing
9 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.37%) Legal
11 22 (1.31%) Law
12 17 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.89%) Front Office
14 14 (0.83%) Billing
14 14 (0.83%) Police
15 13 (0.77%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.71%) Telecoms
17 10 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 660 (39.24%) Data Engineer
2 248 (14.74%) Developer
3 240 (14.27%) Senior
4 232 (13.79%) Architect
5 164 (9.75%) Lead
6 153 (9.10%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.67%) Data Architect
8 123 (7.31%) Analyst
9 70 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
10 61 (3.63%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.21%) Databricks Engineer
12 52 (3.09%) Azure Data Engineer
13 51 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
14 46 (2.73%) Databricks Data Engineer
15 45 (2.68%) Snowflake Engineer
15 45 (2.68%) Tester
16 41 (2.44%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 38 (2.26%) Oracle Developer
18 38 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.05%) PySpark
2 156 (9.27%) Terraform
3 139 (8.26%) Kafka
4 74 (4.40%) REST
5 60 (3.57%) JSON
6 50 (2.97%) .NET
7 30 (1.78%) XML
8 29 (1.72%) Pandas
9 28 (1.66%) React
10 25 (1.49%) Middleware
11 23 (1.37%) Spring
11 23 (1.37%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.07%) YAML
13 14 (0.83%) pytest
14 13 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.77%) SOAP
15 12 (0.71%) LangChain
15 12 (0.71%) OAuth
16 11 (0.65%) Playwright
16 11 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 117 (6.96%) Data Structures
3 73 (4.34%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 27 (1.61%) NHS
9 25 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.25%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.19%) Replication
12 19 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 16 (0.95%) Clustering
13 16 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
14 15 (0.89%) IoT
15 13 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.86%) Linux
2 59 (3.51%) Unix
3 18 (1.07%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (47.98%) Data Modelling
2 709 (42.15%) Data Pipeline
3 635 (37.75%) Analytics
4 548 (32.58%) Data Engineering
5 527 (31.33%) CI/CD
6 480 (28.54%) Agile
7 452 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
8 448 (26.63%) Migration
9 400 (23.78%) Data Integration
10 389 (23.13%) DevOps
11 359 (21.34%) Data Governance
12 335 (19.92%) Validation
13 301 (17.90%) AI
14 297 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
15 275 (16.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 261 (15.52%) Data Migration
17 250 (14.86%) Data Architecture
18 240 (14.27%) Data Transformation
19 217 (12.90%) Test Automation
20 190 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,114 (66.23%) SQL
2 651 (38.70%) Python
3 143 (8.50%) Java
4 88 (5.23%) PL/SQL
5 84 (4.99%) T-SQL
6 61 (3.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.27%) C#
8 52 (3.09%) Scala
9 46 (2.73%) JavaScript
9 46 (2.73%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.32%) Shell Script
11 34 (2.02%) Bash
12 21 (1.25%) R
12 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.19%) Bicep
14 12 (0.71%) Cypher
15 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.36%) SPARQL
17 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 470 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 402 (23.90%) SC Cleared
3 71 (4.22%) Degree
4 52 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 37 (2.20%) Azure Certification
6 33 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (0.65%) SnowPro
11 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.24%) CISM
13 4 (0.24%) CISSP
13 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.18%) CCSP
14 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 614 (36.50%) Data Quality
2 140 (8.32%) QA
3 83 (4.93%) GDPR
4 40 (2.38%) GRC
5 24 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.59%) HL7
8 8 (0.48%) IFRS
8 8 (0.48%) PMO
8 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 8 (0.48%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) NIST
10 5 (0.30%) SLA
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
12 3 (0.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 120 (7.13%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.059%) RACF
Systems Management
1 118 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 37 (2.20%) Grafana
3 21 (1.25%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 12 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.059%) Foglight
9 1 (0.059%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) Kibana
9 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 367 (21.82%) Databricks
2 325 (19.32%) Oracle
3 302 (17.95%) Microsoft
4 144 (8.56%) Informatica
5 120 (7.13%) Talend
6 77 (4.58%) Google
7 74 (4.40%) SAP
8 54 (3.21%) Denodo
9 49 (2.91%) IBM
10 36 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 34 (2.02%) ServiceNow
12 28 (1.66%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.13%) Palantir
14 17 (1.01%) Foundry
14 17 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.01%) Teradata
15 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
16 11 (0.65%) Sage
17 9 (0.54%) ESRI