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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 88 85
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,694 946 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.16% 2.87% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.17% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,215 637 703
10th Percentile £363 £358 £358
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £470 £485
% change year-on-year - -3.09% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 6
10th Percentile £22.12 £34.70 £32.69
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.47 £36.56
Median hourly rate £34.49 £38.96 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.48% -16.22% -35.42%
75th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.22 £80.71 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -44.82% +105.80% -58.11%

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 45,360 29,849 33,165
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.57% 90.48% 85.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,797 18,603 21,010
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
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 2,875 1,763 1,706
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £18.27 £17.30 £18.13
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%
75th Percentile £67.89 £47.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £67.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +7.39%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 +9 1,497 £500 - 311
London +2 762 £525 - 146
UK excluding London +16 731 £470 - 219
Work from Home +11 533 £500 - 151
Midlands +21 255 £467 +0.97% 47
West Midlands +32 220 £459 -8.20% 38
North of England -2 177 £475 +5.56% 60
South East +20 146 £459 - 75
Yorkshire 0 77 £463 +9.47% 12
North West -15 77 £475 - 34
South West -31 62 £523 +11.76% 23
East of England +3 53 £475 -13.64% 7
Scotland -13 38 £450 +2.16% 3
East Midlands -11 34 £490 +13.10% 9
North East -21 24 £520 +18.86% 14
Wales -12 8 £313 -37.50% 6
Northern Ireland -3 3 £334 -34.83%

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
1 130 (7.67%) Apache Airflow
1 130 (7.67%) Apache Spark
2 101 (5.96%) SAS
3 96 (5.67%) Apache
4 65 (3.84%) Confluence
5 29 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 26 (1.53%) Oracle Application Server
7 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
7 10 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 9 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.35%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
11 4 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
12 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
13 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 32 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 19 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.47%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.41%) Sage X3
6 7 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.24%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Assets
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
10 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 676 (39.91%) Azure
2 508 (29.99%) AWS
3 404 (23.85%) Power Platform
4 237 (13.99%) Azure Data Factory
5 225 (13.28%) Snowflake
6 223 (13.16%) GCP
7 150 (8.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 149 (8.80%) Azure DevOps
9 136 (8.03%) Amazon S3
10 135 (7.97%) Serverless
11 129 (7.62%) dbt
12 114 (6.73%) GitHub
13 109 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
16 43 (2.54%) Collibra
17 33 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.83%) Power Automate
19 28 (1.65%) SaaS
20 27 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.77%) Firewall
2 10 (0.59%) HTTP
3 8 (0.47%) VPN
4 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.18%) DHCP
5 3 (0.18%) DNS
5 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.059%) LTE
7 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 597 (35.24%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (23.26%) Power BI
3 264 (15.58%) Data Lake
4 164 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 162 (9.56%) Metadata
6 111 (6.55%) Relational Database
7 110 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 96 (5.67%) BigQuery
9 93 (5.49%) Tableau
10 92 (5.43%) Delta Lake
10 92 (5.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 88 (5.19%) Big Data
12 76 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
13 74 (4.37%) NoSQL
14 73 (4.31%) Oracle Reports
15 68 (4.01%) Pentaho
16 64 (3.78%) Azure SQL Database
17 59 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
18 58 (3.42%) Snowflake Schema
19 56 (3.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 183 (10.80%) Git
2 146 (8.62%) JIRA
3 101 (5.96%) GitLab
4 60 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.48%) Zephyr
6 36 (2.13%) Postman
7 14 (0.83%) Selenium
8 11 (0.65%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.30%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.30%) ERwin
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) NeoLoad
General
1 407 (24.03%) Social Skills
2 368 (21.72%) Finance
3 317 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 131 (7.73%) Banking
6 37 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.07%) Retail
8 29 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 28 (1.65%) Marketing
10 27 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.48%) Legal
12 20 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 19 (1.12%) Law
14 16 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.83%) Front Office
16 12 (0.71%) Billing
16 12 (0.71%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.71%) Police
17 11 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 656 (38.72%) Data Engineer
2 250 (14.76%) Developer
3 236 (13.93%) Architect
4 230 (13.58%) Senior
5 173 (10.21%) Lead
6 150 (8.85%) Senior Data Engineer
7 128 (7.56%) Data Architect
8 119 (7.02%) Analyst
9 66 (3.90%) Azure Engineer
10 59 (3.48%) Data Analyst
11 52 (3.07%) AWS Engineer
12 51 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
13 45 (2.66%) Tester
14 44 (2.60%) Snowflake Engineer
15 42 (2.48%) AWS Data Engineer
16 41 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 39 (2.30%) Data Migration Lead
17 39 (2.30%) SQL Developer
18 38 (2.24%) Oracle Developer
18 38 (2.24%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (10.21%) PySpark
2 151 (8.91%) Terraform
3 139 (8.21%) Kafka
4 77 (4.55%) REST
5 58 (3.42%) JSON
6 46 (2.72%) .NET
7 33 (1.95%) Pandas
8 27 (1.59%) XML
9 26 (1.53%) Middleware
9 26 (1.53%) React
10 22 (1.30%) Spring
10 22 (1.30%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.00%) YAML
12 14 (0.83%) OAuth
12 14 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (0.83%) pytest
12 14 (0.83%) RESTful
12 14 (0.83%) SOAP
13 11 (0.65%) HTML
13 11 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 110 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 76 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
4 60 (3.54%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 36 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.53%) NHS
8 24 (1.42%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.30%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.12%) Clustering
12 18 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
12 18 (1.06%) Replication
13 17 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (0.83%) Data Fabric
15 13 (0.77%) Algorithms
16 11 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
17 10 (0.59%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.54%) Linux
2 58 (3.42%) Unix
3 17 (1.00%) Windows
4 6 (0.35%) 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
1 797 (47.05%) Data Modelling
2 702 (41.44%) Data Pipeline
3 646 (38.13%) Analytics
4 527 (31.11%) Data Engineering
5 516 (30.46%) CI/CD
6 483 (28.51%) Business Intelligence
7 481 (28.39%) Agile
8 455 (26.86%) Migration
9 391 (23.08%) Data Integration
10 388 (22.90%) DevOps
11 354 (20.90%) Data Governance
12 325 (19.19%) Validation
13 299 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
14 278 (16.41%) AI
15 275 (16.23%) Data Migration
16 255 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
17 243 (14.34%) Data Architecture
18 237 (13.99%) Data Transformation
19 225 (13.28%) Test Automation
20 204 (12.04%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,123 (66.29%) SQL
2 648 (38.25%) Python
3 151 (8.91%) Java
4 89 (5.25%) PL/SQL
5 85 (5.02%) T-SQL
6 63 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 52 (3.07%) C#
8 49 (2.89%) Scala
9 47 (2.77%) JavaScript
10 45 (2.66%) PowerShell
11 38 (2.24%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.95%) Bash
13 21 (1.24%) R
14 20 (1.18%) TypeScript
15 18 (1.06%) Bicep
16 9 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.47%) Cypher
18 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
19 6 (0.35%) Perl
20 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 467 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 394 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 78 (4.60%) Degree
4 47 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.48%) Azure Certification
6 38 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.65%) ISTQB
9 22 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.59%) SnowPro
13 7 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 603 (35.60%) Data Quality
2 137 (8.09%) QA
3 90 (5.31%) GDPR
4 39 (2.30%) GRC
5 26 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.59%) HL7
8 9 (0.53%) IFRS
9 8 (0.47%) PMO
9 8 (0.47%) SLA
9 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.47%) WCAG
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
11 5 (0.30%) NIST
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 119 (7.02%) Docker
2 16 (0.94%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) HDFS
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.059%) RACF
6 1 (0.059%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (7.08%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.36%) Grafana
3 20 (1.18%) Ansible
4 16 (0.94%) Control-M
5 11 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.059%) Argo
9 1 (0.059%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.059%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.059%) Istio
9 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 356 (21.02%) Databricks
2 331 (19.54%) Oracle
3 298 (17.59%) Microsoft
4 149 (8.80%) Informatica
5 117 (6.91%) Talend
6 77 (4.55%) Google
7 75 (4.43%) SAP
8 60 (3.54%) Denodo
9 48 (2.83%) IBM
10 35 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 34 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.71%) Alteryx
13 20 (1.18%) Palantir
14 15 (0.89%) Foundry
14 15 (0.89%) Teradata
15 13 (0.77%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.77%) Sage
16 12 (0.71%) Workday
17 11 (0.65%) Cloudera
17 11 (0.65%) MuleSoft