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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 87 81
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +18
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,661 938 1,023
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.85% 2.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.15% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 634 722
10th Percentile £360 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.20% -2.62%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £716
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 16 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.88 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.19 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -16.46% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £47.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -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 45,839 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.46% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,855 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £404 £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 £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,070 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.56 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +83.63% -47.37% +5.81%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,456 £500 - 1,490
London -6 761 £524 -0.24% 890
UK excluding London +12 696 £470 -1.05% 724
Work from Home +3 503 £500 -0.05% 614
Midlands +26 235 £469 -1.91% 111
West Midlands +21 201 £469 -8.04% 78
North of England -15 167 £470 -1.05% 187
South East +23 137 £458 -3.53% 167
Yorkshire -4 78 £463 +3.93% 57
North West -22 71 £470 -3.59% 114
South West -24 70 £523 +10.00% 96
East of England -5 46 £481 -8.33% 54
Scotland -18 42 £428 -10.00% 68
East Midlands -4 33 £490 +13.10% 33
North East -26 19 £500 +14.29% 17
Wales -11 8 £313 -37.50% 17
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.02% 31

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
1 139 (8.37%) Apache Airflow
2 134 (8.07%) Apache Spark
3 107 (6.44%) Apache
4 94 (5.66%) SAS
5 61 (3.67%) Confluence
6 26 (1.57%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.51%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
9 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
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%) IIS
Applications
1 35 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 637 (38.35%) Azure
2 500 (30.10%) AWS
3 369 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 234 (14.09%) Snowflake
5 228 (13.73%) GCP
6 221 (13.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 143 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (8.49%) dbt
9 140 (8.43%) Serverless
10 136 (8.19%) Amazon S3
11 130 (7.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 116 (6.98%) GitHub
13 115 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
16 45 (2.71%) Azure Databricks
17 37 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.11%) Collibra
19 31 (1.87%) SaaS
20 30 (1.81%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 8 (0.48%) Firewall
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 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 573 (34.50%) Data Warehouse
2 358 (21.55%) Power BI
3 254 (15.29%) Data Lake
4 173 (10.42%) Metadata
5 153 (9.21%) SQL Server
6 110 (6.62%) Relational Database
7 100 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 99 (5.96%) BigQuery
9 91 (5.48%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.30%) Big Data
11 83 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 81 (4.88%) Tableau
13 75 (4.52%) Oracle Reports
14 71 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
15 67 (4.03%) NoSQL
16 62 (3.73%) Pentaho
17 61 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (3.49%) Oracle Database
19 51 (3.07%) Azure SQL Database
20 49 (2.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (11.02%) Git
2 147 (8.85%) JIRA
3 107 (6.44%) GitLab
4 58 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.41%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.17%) Postman
7 16 (0.96%) Selenium
8 14 (0.84%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) ER Studio
13 3 (0.18%) ERwin
General
1 411 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 367 (22.10%) Finance
3 309 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 186 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 150 (9.03%) Banking
6 38 (2.29%) Retail
7 36 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.44%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.44%) Marketing
9 22 (1.32%) Legal
10 21 (1.26%) Law
11 18 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.02%) Front Office
13 16 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.84%) Billing
14 14 (0.84%) Investment Banking
14 14 (0.84%) Police
15 12 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 658 (39.61%) Data Engineer
2 243 (14.63%) Developer
3 235 (14.15%) Senior
4 229 (13.79%) Architect
5 154 (9.27%) Lead
6 153 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 122 (7.34%) Analyst
7 122 (7.34%) Data Architect
8 70 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
9 60 (3.61%) Data Analyst
10 56 (3.37%) Databricks Engineer
11 53 (3.19%) Azure Data Engineer
12 49 (2.95%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 47 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
14 44 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
15 43 (2.59%) Tester
16 40 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 38 (2.29%) AWS Data Engineer
17 38 (2.29%) Consultant
17 38 (2.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (9.81%) PySpark
2 150 (9.03%) Terraform
3 130 (7.83%) Kafka
4 76 (4.58%) REST
5 60 (3.61%) JSON
6 48 (2.89%) .NET
7 30 (1.81%) React
7 30 (1.81%) XML
8 28 (1.69%) Pandas
9 27 (1.63%) Middleware
10 26 (1.57%) Spring
10 26 (1.57%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.08%) SOAP
12 17 (1.02%) YAML
13 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.84%) pytest
15 12 (0.72%) HTML
15 12 (0.72%) LangChain
15 12 (0.72%) OAuth
16 10 (0.60%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.16%) Data Structures
3 70 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.49%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 38 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (1.69%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.44%) NHS
8 24 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 22 (1.32%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.26%) Replication
11 19 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
15 14 (0.84%) Clustering
16 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
17 12 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 65 (3.91%) Linux
2 59 (3.55%) Unix
3 21 (1.26%) 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
1 786 (47.32%) Data Modelling
2 711 (42.81%) Data Pipeline
3 630 (37.93%) Analytics
4 548 (32.99%) Data Engineering
5 520 (31.31%) CI/CD
6 478 (28.78%) Agile
7 450 (27.09%) Migration
8 445 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
9 392 (23.60%) Data Integration
10 379 (22.82%) DevOps
11 347 (20.89%) Data Governance
12 340 (20.47%) Validation
13 309 (18.60%) AI
14 296 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
15 288 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
16 255 (15.35%) Data Migration
17 248 (14.93%) Data Architecture
18 234 (14.09%) Data Transformation
19 216 (13.00%) Test Automation
20 191 (11.50%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,095 (65.92%) SQL
2 650 (39.13%) Python
3 147 (8.85%) Java
4 90 (5.42%) PL/SQL
5 81 (4.88%) T-SQL
6 57 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.13%) C#
8 50 (3.01%) Scala
9 49 (2.95%) JavaScript
10 44 (2.65%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.35%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.99%) Bash
13 21 (1.26%) R
14 20 (1.20%) TypeScript
15 17 (1.02%) Bicep
16 13 (0.78%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 463 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 399 (24.02%) SC Cleared
3 66 (3.97%) Degree
4 53 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.81%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 25 (1.51%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.60%) SnowPro
12 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.24%) CISM
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 602 (36.24%) Data Quality
2 141 (8.49%) QA
3 74 (4.46%) GDPR
4 39 (2.35%) GRC
5 26 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.48%) IFRS
7 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.42%) HL7
8 7 (0.42%) PMO
8 7 (0.42%) WCAG
9 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
9 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 5 (0.30%) FATCA
10 5 (0.30%) SLA
11 4 (0.24%) GAAP
11 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 123 (7.41%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) 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 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 120 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.35%) Grafana
3 21 (1.26%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 14 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 365 (21.97%) Databricks
2 322 (19.39%) Oracle
3 284 (17.10%) Microsoft
4 129 (7.77%) Informatica
5 116 (6.98%) Talend
6 80 (4.82%) Google
7 74 (4.46%) SAP
8 55 (3.31%) Denodo
9 48 (2.89%) IBM
10 37 (2.23%) Salesforce
11 31 (1.87%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.75%) Alteryx
13 18 (1.08%) Teradata
14 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
14 17 (1.02%) Palantir
15 16 (0.96%) Foundry
16 11 (0.66%) MuleSoft
17 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
17 10 (0.60%) ESRI
17 10 (0.60%) Sage