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 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,456 948 997
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.21% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 3.56% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 646 754
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £620
90th Percentile £675 £689 £710
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -3.39% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 17
10th Percentile £35.53 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.22 £26.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £60.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% +19.80% +40.28%
75th Percentile £70.39 £96.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.58 £101.31 £69.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £64.00 £78.70 £30.44
% change year-on-year -18.68% +158.58% -13.04%

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 37,150 26,655 38,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.07% 90.32% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,527 17,023 25,087
10th Percentile £313 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,218 906 2,334
10th Percentile £14.88 £15.39 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £31.65
% change year-on-year -15.38% +2.69% -9.57%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 +10 1,292 £500 -4.76% 436
London +18 732 £518 -5.91% 190
UK excluding London -3 577 £464 -3.39% 313
Work from Home -1 445 £500 - 210
Midlands +14 199 £481 +1.26% 58
West Midlands +15 172 £495 +0.35% 45
North of England -34 151 £458 -1.08% 78
North West -14 86 £442 -4.94% 44
South East -44 79 £475 -5.94% 99
South West -5 67 £525 -10.64% 42
Scotland +13 49 £425 - 11
Yorkshire -47 49 £490 +38.03% 26
East of England -18 27 £500 -4.76% 26
East Midlands -22 27 £460 +18.71% 13
North East -6 15 £538 +7.50% 9
Northern Ireland +5 10 £400 -23.81%
Wales -17 8 £400 -22.33% 7

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
1 143 (9.82%) Apache Spark
2 112 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (5.98%) Apache
4 65 (4.46%) SAS
5 31 (2.13%) Confluence
6 18 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.55%) Appian
8 8 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.55%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.48%) nginx
10 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
12 3 (0.21%) Camunda
12 3 (0.21%) CMS
12 3 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 1 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.069%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.96%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.96%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 12 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
3 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.41%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.41%) Sage X3
6 5 (0.34%) Maximo
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle 11i
6 5 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 5 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.21%) BambooHR
8 3 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 620 (42.58%) Azure
2 470 (32.28%) AWS
3 352 (24.18%) Power Platform
4 234 (16.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 187 (12.84%) GCP
6 162 (11.13%) Snowflake
7 160 (10.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 156 (10.71%) Amazon S3
9 126 (8.65%) Serverless
10 118 (8.10%) Azure DevOps
11 105 (7.21%) GitHub
12 89 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
13 77 (5.29%) dbt
14 50 (3.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 50 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
15 43 (2.95%) Collibra
16 38 (2.61%) SaaS
17 34 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
18 30 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
19 28 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.48%) 5G
1 7 (0.48%) HTTP
2 6 (0.41%) 2G
2 6 (0.41%) 4G
2 6 (0.41%) Firewall
2 6 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 5 (0.34%) VPN
4 2 (0.14%) DSL
4 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.069%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.069%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 428 (29.40%) Data Warehouse
2 332 (22.80%) Power BI
3 230 (15.80%) Data Lake
4 180 (12.36%) SQL Server
5 145 (9.96%) Metadata
6 102 (7.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 97 (6.66%) Big Data
7 97 (6.66%) PostgreSQL
8 91 (6.25%) Tableau
9 90 (6.18%) Relational Database
10 87 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
11 82 (5.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 76 (5.22%) Delta Lake
13 73 (5.01%) NoSQL
14 71 (4.88%) Pentaho
15 63 (4.33%) BigQuery
16 62 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
17 56 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.43%) Hadoop
19 48 (3.30%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 182 (12.50%) Git
2 106 (7.28%) JIRA
3 83 (5.70%) Jenkins
4 66 (4.53%) GitLab
5 34 (2.34%) Postman
6 23 (1.58%) MLflow
7 17 (1.17%) ERwin
8 16 (1.10%) Zephyr
9 13 (0.89%) Selenium
10 9 (0.62%) JMeter
11 7 (0.48%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.48%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.34%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.34%) NUnit
12 5 (0.34%) TestRail
12 5 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.27%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
13 4 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 426 (29.26%) Social Skills
2 359 (24.66%) Finance
3 253 (17.38%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (9.27%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.21%) Banking
6 40 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.72%) Marketing
8 24 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.65%) Retail
9 23 (1.58%) Legal
10 18 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 18 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (0.96%) Law
13 11 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.48%) Front Office
15 7 (0.48%) Publishing
16 6 (0.41%) General Ledger
16 6 (0.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 580 (39.84%) Data Engineer
2 178 (12.23%) Developer
3 159 (10.92%) Architect
4 155 (10.65%) Senior
5 148 (10.16%) Lead
6 134 (9.20%) Analyst
7 100 (6.87%) Senior Data Engineer
8 96 (6.59%) Data Architect
9 88 (6.04%) Data Analyst
10 48 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
11 44 (3.02%) AWS Engineer
11 44 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 37 (2.54%) Snowflake Engineer
13 36 (2.47%) AWS Data Engineer
14 35 (2.40%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.34%) Lead Data Engineer
16 32 (2.20%) Python Engineer
16 32 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.13%) Consultant
18 30 (2.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (12.36%) PySpark
2 134 (9.20%) Kafka
3 92 (6.32%) REST
4 50 (3.43%) Pandas
5 43 (2.95%) JSON
5 43 (2.95%) XML
6 37 (2.54%) .NET
7 30 (2.06%) RESTful
8 29 (1.99%) NumPy
9 23 (1.58%) PyTorch
10 22 (1.51%) Middleware
11 21 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.44%) pytest
12 20 (1.37%) OAuth
12 20 (1.37%) SOAP
13 19 (1.30%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.24%) Great Expectations
14 18 (1.24%) TensorFlow
14 18 (1.24%) YAML
15 15 (1.03%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 102 (7.01%) Data Structures
3 75 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
4 34 (2.34%) Product Ownership
5 32 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 26 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
8 25 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.37%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.24%) Replication
12 17 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
13 16 (1.10%) IoT
13 16 (1.10%) Reference Data
13 16 (1.10%) Reinsurance
14 15 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.03%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.96%) NHS
16 13 (0.89%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.13%) Linux
2 23 (1.58%) Unix
3 16 (1.10%) Windows
4 11 (0.76%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.48%) Solaris
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
7 7 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.069%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (46.98%) Data Modelling
2 625 (42.93%) Analytics
3 543 (37.29%) Data Pipeline
4 479 (32.90%) Data Engineering
5 459 (31.52%) Business Intelligence
6 430 (29.53%) CI/CD
7 365 (25.07%) Agile
8 354 (24.31%) Data Governance
9 330 (22.66%) DevOps
10 322 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
11 311 (21.36%) Migration
12 243 (16.69%) Validation
13 237 (16.28%) Data Architecture
14 236 (16.21%) Data Integration
15 202 (13.87%) Data Migration
16 189 (12.98%) Decision-Making
17 181 (12.43%) AI
18 179 (12.29%) Data Science
19 159 (10.92%) Test Automation
20 154 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 973 (66.83%) SQL
2 682 (46.84%) Python
3 120 (8.24%) Java
4 62 (4.26%) C#
5 58 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 55 (3.78%) Scala
6 55 (3.78%) T-SQL
7 52 (3.57%) PL/SQL
8 42 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 33 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 22 (1.51%) Bash
11 20 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.30%) Bicep
13 16 (1.10%) R
13 16 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 13 (0.89%) VBA
15 12 (0.82%) Go
16 10 (0.69%) PHP
17 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.41%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 329 (22.60%) Security Cleared
2 261 (17.93%) SC Cleared
3 113 (7.76%) Degree
4 58 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 43 (2.95%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.17%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.34%) PMP
13 5 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) SnowPro
15 3 (0.21%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 3 (0.21%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 1 (0.069%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 499 (34.27%) Data Quality
2 125 (8.59%) QA
3 118 (8.10%) GDPR
4 22 (1.51%) IFRS
5 21 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.17%) IFRS 17
8 9 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 9 (0.62%) PMO
9 8 (0.55%) SLA
10 7 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.34%) GAAP
11 5 (0.34%) MiFID
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
12 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.21%) Basel III
13 3 (0.21%) FATCA
13 3 (0.21%) NIST
13 3 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 128 (8.79%) Docker
2 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.27%) HDFS
4 2 (0.14%) zsh
5 1 (0.069%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.069%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 147 (10.10%) Terraform
2 137 (9.41%) Kubernetes
3 17 (1.17%) Grafana
3 17 (1.17%) Prometheus
4 16 (1.10%) Ansible
5 4 (0.27%) Control-M
5 4 (0.27%) Kibana
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.21%) Foglight
6 3 (0.21%) logstash
7 2 (0.14%) SCCM
8 1 (0.069%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.069%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.069%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.069%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.069%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 309 (21.22%) Databricks
2 251 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 213 (14.63%) Oracle
4 130 (8.93%) Informatica
5 116 (7.97%) Talend
6 64 (4.40%) Google
7 59 (4.05%) SAP
8 43 (2.95%) Denodo
9 40 (2.75%) ServiceNow
10 31 (2.13%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.99%) IBM
12 24 (1.65%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.30%) Splunk
14 18 (1.24%) Palantir
15 17 (1.17%) Workday
16 16 (1.10%) Sage
17 14 (0.96%) Foundry
18 13 (0.89%) Ab Initio
19 11 (0.76%) OpenAI
20 10 (0.69%) Alteryx