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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 81 96
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,207 931 984
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.14% 2.96% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 3.32% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 606 739
10th Percentile £360 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -0.25% -1.96% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile £33.33 - £41.42
25th Percentile £37.56 £26.25 £48.00
Median hourly rate £53.75 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -42.15% +70.42%
75th Percentile £70.28 £78.70 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.58 £102.00 £72.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.67 £27.50 £50.53
% change year-on-year +138.81% -45.57% +44.36%

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 33,625 28,045 38,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.37% 89.09% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,290 17,011 25,209
10th Percentile £305 £306 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £640
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £499 £500
% change year-on-year -3.86% -0.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,022 880 1,958
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.00 £16.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +10.65%
75th Percentile £58.00 £62.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £30.45 £37.18
% change year-on-year -18.85% -18.10% +39.38%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -3 1,043 £500 -4.76% 515
London +22 639 £525 - 174
UK excluding London -23 427 £499 -0.25% 450
Work from Home -4 375 £513 +2.50% 305
Midlands -5 125 £519 +5.82% 71
North of England -43 113 £450 -2.70% 77
West Midlands 0 102 £520 +5.48% 39
North West -5 73 £442 -4.38% 41
South East -45 60 £441 -19.77% 168
South West -1 59 £525 -14.29% 52
Scotland +7 46 £500 +11.11% 24
Yorkshire -60 29 £488 +26.62% 29
East Midlands -14 23 £449 +18.42% 31
East of England -15 16 £575 +12.20% 46
Northern Ireland +10 15 £400 +3.23% 5
North East -14 10 £450 -9.09% 7
Wales -10 9 £453 -12.14% 15

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
1 118 (9.78%) Apache Spark
2 97 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (6.71%) Apache
4 52 (4.31%) SAS
5 15 (1.24%) Confluence
6 14 (1.16%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.58%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.58%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.50%) Appian
8 6 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.41%) nginx
10 4 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.25%) CMS
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.25%) Luigi
11 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.083%) Moodle
Applications
1 47 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (0.66%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.33%) Trello
6 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.083%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.08%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.75%) Oracle Receivables
5 7 (0.58%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.41%) Maximo
7 5 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.17%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 514 (42.58%) Azure
2 389 (32.23%) AWS
3 282 (23.36%) Power Platform
4 202 (16.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 162 (13.42%) GCP
6 159 (13.17%) Snowflake
7 135 (11.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (10.52%) Amazon S3
9 115 (9.53%) Serverless
10 100 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
11 82 (6.79%) GitHub
12 76 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (5.22%) dbt
14 38 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 37 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
15 37 (3.07%) SaaS
16 27 (2.24%) Amazon EMR
17 26 (2.15%) Collibra
17 26 (2.15%) Power Automate
18 25 (2.07%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.50%) 2G
1 6 (0.50%) 5G
1 6 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.41%) 4G
3 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.083%) FabricPath
5 1 (0.083%) Internet
5 1 (0.083%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.083%) Multicast
5 1 (0.083%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 352 (29.16%) Data Warehouse
2 267 (22.12%) Power BI
3 207 (17.15%) Data Lake
4 142 (11.76%) SQL Server
5 114 (9.44%) Metadata
6 90 (7.46%) Big Data
7 86 (7.13%) PostgreSQL
8 83 (6.88%) Relational Database
9 80 (6.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 75 (6.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 73 (6.05%) Tableau
12 65 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 61 (5.05%) NoSQL
14 58 (4.81%) BigQuery
14 58 (4.81%) Delta Lake
15 54 (4.47%) Pentaho
16 49 (4.06%) Snowflake Schema
17 48 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
18 44 (3.65%) Oracle Database
19 38 (3.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 142 (11.76%) Git
2 93 (7.71%) JIRA
3 72 (5.97%) Jenkins
4 43 (3.56%) GitLab
5 23 (1.91%) Postman
6 19 (1.57%) ERwin
7 15 (1.24%) MLflow
8 13 (1.08%) Selenium
9 10 (0.83%) JMeter
10 7 (0.58%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.58%) TestRail
11 6 (0.50%) DBeaver
11 6 (0.50%) ER Studio
11 6 (0.50%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.41%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.33%) Gatling
13 4 (0.33%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.33%) Toad
14 3 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 354 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 309 (25.60%) Finance
3 202 (16.74%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 88 (7.29%) Banking
6 25 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.91%) Retail
8 21 (1.74%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.49%) Marketing
10 13 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (0.99%) Legal
11 12 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (0.91%) Law
12 11 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.91%) Telecoms
13 8 (0.66%) Publishing
14 7 (0.58%) Front Office
14 7 (0.58%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.41%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 449 (37.20%) Data Engineer
2 159 (13.17%) Developer
3 129 (10.69%) Lead
4 126 (10.44%) Senior
5 120 (9.94%) Analyst
6 116 (9.61%) Architect
7 81 (6.71%) Data Analyst
8 74 (6.13%) Data Architect
8 74 (6.13%) Senior Data Engineer
9 54 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (3.40%) Azure Data Engineer
11 35 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 33 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (2.73%) Consultant
13 31 (2.57%) Business Analyst
13 31 (2.57%) Snowflake Engineer
14 29 (2.40%) Python Engineer
15 28 (2.32%) AWS Data Engineer
16 27 (2.24%) Senior Developer
17 25 (2.07%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (12.10%) PySpark
2 96 (7.95%) Kafka
3 81 (6.71%) REST
4 46 (3.81%) XML
5 41 (3.40%) Pandas
6 38 (3.15%) JSON
7 27 (2.24%) .NET
7 27 (2.24%) NumPy
8 26 (2.15%) RESTful
9 24 (1.99%) Node.js
10 23 (1.91%) OAuth
11 20 (1.66%) PyTorch
12 18 (1.49%) pytest
13 17 (1.41%) Middleware
13 17 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (1.33%) SOAP
15 14 (1.16%) React
15 14 (1.16%) TensorFlow
16 13 (1.08%) Hugging Face
16 13 (1.08%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 92 (7.62%) Cloud Native
2 87 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 56 (4.64%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.32%) Product Ownership
5 24 (1.99%) Algorithms
6 23 (1.91%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
9 20 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 19 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.57%) Replication
11 15 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.16%) Reinsurance
13 13 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
13 13 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
14 11 (0.91%) Data Centre
14 11 (0.91%) Data Fabric
14 11 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (0.91%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (3.07%) Linux
2 19 (1.57%) Unix
3 14 (1.16%) Windows
4 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.41%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (0.25%) Solaris
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.17%) VMS
8 1 (0.083%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 571 (47.31%) Data Modelling
2 505 (41.84%) Analytics
3 468 (38.77%) Data Pipeline
4 390 (32.31%) Business Intelligence
5 361 (29.91%) Data Engineering
6 346 (28.67%) CI/CD
7 298 (24.69%) Agile
8 284 (23.53%) DevOps
9 281 (23.28%) Problem-Solving
10 280 (23.20%) Data Governance
11 229 (18.97%) Migration
12 211 (17.48%) Data Integration
13 197 (16.32%) Data Architecture
14 174 (14.42%) Validation
15 155 (12.84%) Data Science
16 149 (12.34%) Data Migration
17 141 (11.68%) AI
18 138 (11.43%) Machine Learning
19 130 (10.77%) Stakeholder Management
20 128 (10.60%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 777 (64.37%) SQL
2 595 (49.30%) Python
3 109 (9.03%) Java
4 53 (4.39%) C#
4 53 (4.39%) Scala
5 44 (3.65%) PL/SQL
6 42 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 41 (3.40%) T-SQL
8 39 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 28 (2.32%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 16 (1.33%) R
12 15 (1.24%) Shell Script
13 14 (1.16%) Go
13 14 (1.16%) PHP
14 13 (1.08%) Bash
15 12 (0.99%) Bicep
16 10 (0.83%) VBA
17 6 (0.50%) SPARQL
18 5 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 237 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 185 (15.33%) SC Cleared
3 91 (7.54%) Degree
4 49 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.65%) Azure Certification
6 35 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.49%) AWS Certification
8 25 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.66%) PMI Certification
10 8 (0.66%) PMP
11 7 (0.58%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.41%) SnowPro
13 4 (0.33%) MCP
14 3 (0.25%) IBM Certification
14 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.083%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 403 (33.39%) Data Quality
2 93 (7.71%) GDPR
3 88 (7.29%) QA
4 22 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.57%) IFRS
6 17 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 15 (1.24%) IFRS 17
8 8 (0.66%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.41%) GAAP
9 5 (0.41%) MiFID
9 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.41%) SLA
10 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.25%) Basel III
10 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.25%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.25%) NIST
10 3 (0.25%) PMO
11 2 (0.17%) CRD IV
11 2 (0.17%) EMIR
System Software
1 129 (10.69%) Docker
2 5 (0.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.41%) zsh
3 4 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.25%) 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 (0.083%) HDFS
6 1 (0.083%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 122 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 117 (9.69%) Terraform
3 13 (1.08%) Ansible
4 12 (0.99%) Grafana
5 7 (0.58%) Kibana
6 6 (0.50%) logstash
7 5 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.33%) Control-M
8 4 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.083%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.083%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.083%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.083%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.083%) Puppet
10 1 (0.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.083%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 261 (21.62%) Databricks
2 202 (16.74%) Microsoft
3 165 (13.67%) Oracle
4 82 (6.79%) Informatica
4 82 (6.79%) Talend
5 51 (4.23%) Google
6 49 (4.06%) SAP
7 41 (3.40%) Denodo
8 30 (2.49%) ServiceNow
9 29 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 25 (2.07%) IBM
11 18 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 16 (1.33%) Palantir
13 15 (1.24%) Workday
14 13 (1.08%) Foundry
15 12 (0.99%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.99%) Cognos
16 11 (0.91%) Ab Initio
17 9 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 7 (0.58%) UiPath