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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 79 99
Rank change year-on-year -8 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing ETL 939 1,047 1,202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 2.72% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 3.17% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 638 735 879
10th Percentile £362 £360 £382
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £623 £650
90th Percentile £700 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £515
% change year-on-year -3.06% -4.76% +2.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 15
10th Percentile £33.88 £29.75 £50.00
25th Percentile £36.19 £35.00 £55.88
Median hourly rate £38.85 £42.50 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% -40.97% +60.00%
75th Percentile £47.00 £51.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £53.75 - £85.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.48 £27.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year +36.29% -62.33% +244.83%

All Process and 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 29,825 33,013 44,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.68% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,531 20,242 29,974
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 1,459 1,554
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.96 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.79
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.53%
75th Percentile £44.76 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +84.18%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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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 19 September 2025. 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 -8 820 £508 -3.33% 486
London -5 492 £525 - 260
UK excluding London +1 344 £475 -3.06% 348
Work from Home -16 317 £510 +2.00% 274
Midlands -5 94 £488 +10.94% 32
North of England -39 88 £475 -1.04% 67
West Midlands -1 66 £508 +16.00% 19
North West -25 49 £488 +2.63% 43
South West +13 46 £475 -11.63% 29
Scotland +2 38 £475 -1.04% 24
South East -10 38 £509 -3.14% 166
Yorkshire -24 34 £445 -11.00% 20
East of England +10 29 £525 +2.44% 24
East Midlands -1 25 £438 -0.57% 13
Wales +7 8 £500 - 6
Northern Ireland +2 8 £506 +26.56% 4
North East -5 6 £438 +21.53% 4

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 103 (10.97%) Apache Airflow
2 78 (8.31%) Apache Spark
3 63 (6.71%) Apache
4 30 (3.19%) SAS
5 20 (2.13%) Confluence
6 11 (1.17%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.64%) Oracle Application Server
8 5 (0.53%) IIS
8 5 (0.53%) Luigi
9 4 (0.43%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.43%) nginx
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) Apache Superset
10 2 (0.21%) CICS
10 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.11%) CMS
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (5.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.96%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (2.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.28%) SAP PM
3 11 (1.17%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.96%) Payment Gateway
5 8 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.75%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.53%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.21%) Eagle PACE
10 2 (0.21%) HFM
10 2 (0.21%) Markit EDM
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
10 2 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 376 (40.04%) Azure
2 296 (31.52%) AWS
3 195 (20.77%) Power Platform
4 159 (16.93%) GCP
5 128 (13.63%) Snowflake
6 120 (12.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 96 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 88 (9.37%) Serverless
9 77 (8.20%) dbt
10 74 (7.88%) Amazon S3
11 69 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
13 42 (4.47%) GitHub
14 31 (3.30%) PaaS
15 30 (3.19%) SaaS
16 26 (2.77%) Amazon EMR
17 25 (2.66%) IaaS
17 25 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
18 23 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
19 21 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.96%) Firewall
2 7 (0.75%) VPN
3 5 (0.53%) Internet
4 4 (0.43%) DNS
5 3 (0.32%) SSH
5 3 (0.32%) SSL
5 3 (0.32%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.21%) BGP
6 2 (0.21%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.21%) DMZ
6 2 (0.21%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.21%) HTTP
6 2 (0.21%) OSPF
6 2 (0.21%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.11%) FabricPath
7 1 (0.11%) FTP
7 1 (0.11%) Multicast
7 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (31.31%) Data Warehouse
2 175 (18.64%) Power BI
3 128 (13.63%) Data Lake
4 116 (12.35%) SQL Server
5 79 (8.41%) Relational Database
6 76 (8.09%) BigQuery
7 75 (7.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 72 (7.67%) Big Data
9 66 (7.03%) Metadata
10 61 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 59 (6.28%) NoSQL
12 56 (5.96%) PostgreSQL
12 56 (5.96%) Tableau
13 52 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
14 43 (4.58%) Delta Lake
15 41 (4.37%) Hadoop
16 38 (4.05%) Snowflake Schema
17 32 (3.41%) Power Query
18 30 (3.19%) Oracle Database
19 26 (2.77%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 85 (9.05%) Git
2 60 (6.39%) JIRA
3 45 (4.79%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.70%) ERwin
4 16 (1.70%) GitLab
5 12 (1.28%) Selenium
6 9 (0.96%) ER Studio
7 8 (0.85%) MLflow
8 7 (0.75%) Postman
9 6 (0.64%) Liquibase
9 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.53%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.43%) DBeaver
11 4 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.43%) Terragrunt
12 3 (0.32%) JMeter
12 3 (0.32%) LSMW
12 3 (0.32%) Maven
12 3 (0.32%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 282 (30.03%) Social Skills
2 240 (25.56%) Finance
3 141 (15.02%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 75 (7.99%) Banking
6 28 (2.98%) Retail
7 23 (2.45%) Marketing
8 16 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (1.49%) Legal
9 14 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (1.38%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.17%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.17%) Local Government
13 10 (1.06%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.96%) General Ledger
15 8 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
15 8 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
16 7 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 278 (29.61%) Data Engineer
2 142 (15.12%) Architect
3 138 (14.70%) Developer
4 97 (10.33%) Senior
5 93 (9.90%) Analyst
6 82 (8.73%) Data Architect
7 72 (7.67%) Lead
8 59 (6.28%) Data Analyst
9 54 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
10 49 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 48 (5.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 32 (3.41%) Consultant
13 31 (3.30%) Business Analyst
14 29 (3.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 26 (2.77%) Python Engineer
15 26 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
16 24 (2.56%) SQL Developer
17 22 (2.34%) AWS Engineer
17 22 (2.34%) Data Manager
17 22 (2.34%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (8.84%) PySpark
2 63 (6.71%) Kafka
3 40 (4.26%) XML
4 34 (3.62%) JSON
5 31 (3.30%) REST
6 28 (2.98%) Node.js
7 26 (2.77%) RESTful
8 21 (2.24%) Pandas
9 18 (1.92%) .NET
10 17 (1.81%) Middleware
11 16 (1.70%) GraphQL
11 16 (1.70%) NumPy
11 16 (1.70%) OAuth
12 13 (1.38%) React
13 12 (1.28%) PyTorch
14 10 (1.06%) AngularJS
14 10 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
14 10 (1.06%) JWT
15 9 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
15 9 (0.96%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 59 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 56 (5.96%) Data Structures
3 48 (5.11%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (2.45%) Product Ownership
5 18 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 16 (1.70%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.38%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (1.17%) IoT
8 11 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.17%) Replication
9 10 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 9 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (0.85%) Reference Data
11 8 (0.85%) SCADA
12 7 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.75%) Life Science
12 7 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 41 (4.37%) Linux
2 16 (1.70%) Windows
3 15 (1.60%) Unix
4 2 (0.21%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Solaris
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (41.85%) Data Modelling
2 327 (34.82%) Data Pipeline
3 313 (33.33%) Analytics
4 252 (26.84%) Business Intelligence
5 239 (25.45%) Data Engineering
6 215 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
7 213 (22.68%) Data Governance
8 207 (22.04%) Migration
9 202 (21.51%) Data Integration
10 197 (20.98%) Agile
10 197 (20.98%) CI/CD
11 187 (19.91%) DevOps
12 134 (14.27%) Data Migration
13 130 (13.84%) Data Transformation
14 127 (13.53%) Validation
15 124 (13.21%) Data Architecture
16 123 (13.10%) Visualisation
17 100 (10.65%) Data Science
18 99 (10.54%) Machine Learning
19 89 (9.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 580 (61.77%) SQL
2 412 (43.88%) Python
3 79 (8.41%) Java
4 48 (5.11%) Scala
5 47 (5.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 40 (4.26%) C#
7 36 (3.83%) T-SQL
8 26 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 26 (2.77%) PL/SQL
9 21 (2.24%) R
10 19 (2.02%) PowerShell
11 15 (1.60%) VBA
12 13 (1.38%) PHP
12 13 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 12 (1.28%) Bicep
14 11 (1.17%) Bash
15 9 (0.96%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.96%) Go
16 7 (0.75%) ABAP
17 6 (0.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 125 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 89 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 64 (6.82%) Degree
4 34 (3.62%) Azure Certification
5 30 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 12 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (0.64%) PMP
13 5 (0.53%) SnowPro
14 3 (0.32%) MCSE
15 2 (0.21%) CISSP
15 2 (0.21%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.21%) ISTQB
15 2 (0.21%) MCP
16 1 (0.11%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (26.20%) Data Quality
2 65 (6.92%) GDPR
3 59 (6.28%) QA
4 29 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 8 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.64%) IFRS
7 6 (0.64%) WCAG
8 5 (0.53%) SLA
9 4 (0.43%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.32%) GAAP
10 3 (0.32%) HL7
10 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.21%) Basel III
11 2 (0.21%) EMIR
11 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 83 (8.84%) Docker
2 9 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.43%) zsh
5 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.21%) KVM
5 2 (0.21%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.11%) HDFS
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
Systems Management
1 80 (8.52%) Kubernetes
2 66 (7.03%) Terraform
3 21 (2.24%) Grafana
4 9 (0.96%) Control-M
5 8 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.64%) Ansible
7 5 (0.53%) Kibana
7 5 (0.53%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.43%) Istio
8 4 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.32%) Argo
9 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.32%) logstash
9 3 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.11%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.11%) linkerd
11 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 158 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 155 (16.51%) Databricks
3 108 (11.50%) Oracle
4 71 (7.56%) Google
5 61 (6.50%) Informatica
6 56 (5.96%) SAP
7 41 (4.37%) Talend
8 24 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.92%) Denodo
9 18 (1.92%) IBM
10 14 (1.49%) Teradata
11 11 (1.17%) Palantir
12 10 (1.06%) AppDynamics
12 10 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.96%) VMware
14 8 (0.85%) Alteryx
14 8 (0.85%) Cognos
14 8 (0.85%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.85%) StreamSets
15 7 (0.75%) Workday