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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 76 95
Rank change year-on-year +6 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,509 917 1,011
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 3.16% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.49% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 627 764
10th Percentile £362 £349 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.38%
75th Percentile £588 £622 £625
90th Percentile £681 £689 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £29.05 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £56.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.27% +11.88% +39.31%
75th Percentile £70.08 £92.16 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £100.97 £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 38,117 26,296 38,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.75% 90.49% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,146 17,083 24,839
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 956 2,346
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.12 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.47 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.35 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.64 £31.80
% change year-on-year -1.23% -0.50% -11.67%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +9 1,346 £500 -4.76% 532
London +31 750 £513 -6.82% 193
UK excluding London -2 607 £470 -1.05% 413
Work from Home -1 452 £500 - 210
Midlands +14 206 £492 +3.58% 75
West Midlands +18 175 £498 +0.91% 48
North of England -23 162 £460 +0.82% 101
North West -9 89 £434 -7.32% 55
South East -43 81 £475 -5.47% 110
South West -7 69 £525 -8.70% 53
Yorkshire -39 57 £500 +42.86% 31
Scotland +2 49 £425 - 14
East of England -10 38 £535 +1.95% 52
East Midlands -22 31 £465 +16.61% 27
North East -4 15 £538 +13.16% 16
Northern Ireland +2 9 £400 -21.95% 2
Wales -21 6 £325 -35.64% 12

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
1 141 (9.34%) Apache Spark
2 120 (7.95%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (5.96%) Apache
4 71 (4.71%) SAS
5 35 (2.32%) Confluence
6 17 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 9 (0.60%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.53%) Appian
8 8 (0.53%) nginx
8 8 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
9 7 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
9 7 (0.46%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 6 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.27%) Camunda
12 3 (0.20%) CMS
12 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.20%) Trello
6 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.066%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.066%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 13 (0.86%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 5 (0.33%) Maximo
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
9 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
10 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 644 (42.68%) Azure
2 479 (31.74%) AWS
3 376 (24.92%) Power Platform
4 241 (15.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 183 (12.13%) GCP
6 175 (11.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 162 (10.74%) Amazon S3
8 161 (10.67%) Snowflake
9 133 (8.81%) Serverless
10 124 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
11 117 (7.75%) GitHub
12 95 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
13 85 (5.63%) dbt
14 52 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 49 (3.25%) Collibra
15 49 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
16 38 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.45%) SaaS
18 31 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.53%) Firewall
1 8 (0.53%) HTTP
2 7 (0.46%) 5G
3 6 (0.40%) 2G
3 6 (0.40%) 4G
3 6 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (0.33%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) DSL
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.066%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.066%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (29.16%) Data Warehouse
2 356 (23.59%) Power BI
3 239 (15.84%) Data Lake
4 188 (12.46%) SQL Server
5 160 (10.60%) Metadata
6 103 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 93 (6.16%) Tableau
8 91 (6.03%) Big Data
9 89 (5.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
11 80 (5.30%) Delta Lake
12 76 (5.04%) Relational Database
13 74 (4.90%) Pentaho
14 72 (4.77%) NoSQL
15 68 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
16 61 (4.04%) BigQuery
17 60 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
18 50 (3.31%) Star Schema
19 48 (3.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 179 (11.86%) Git
2 118 (7.82%) JIRA
3 83 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 68 (4.51%) GitLab
5 33 (2.19%) Postman
6 24 (1.59%) MLflow
7 14 (0.93%) ERwin
7 14 (0.93%) Zephyr
8 12 (0.80%) Selenium
9 7 (0.46%) JMeter
9 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.33%) NUnit
10 5 (0.33%) TestRail
10 5 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.27%) MSTest
11 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 427 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 392 (25.98%) Finance
3 268 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 113 (7.49%) Banking
6 41 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 24 (1.59%) Marketing
9 22 (1.46%) Legal
9 22 (1.46%) Retail
10 21 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 14 (0.93%) Law
14 12 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.53%) General Ledger
17 7 (0.46%) Publishing
18 6 (0.40%) Front Office
18 6 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 606 (40.16%) Data Engineer
2 187 (12.39%) Developer
3 165 (10.93%) Senior
4 161 (10.67%) Architect
5 154 (10.21%) Lead
6 140 (9.28%) Analyst
7 104 (6.89%) Senior Data Engineer
8 97 (6.43%) Data Architect
9 92 (6.10%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
11 46 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
11 46 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 41 (2.72%) AWS Data Engineer
12 41 (2.72%) Snowflake Engineer
13 35 (2.32%) Azure Data Engineer
13 35 (2.32%) Lead Data Engineer
13 35 (2.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 32 (2.12%) Consultant
14 32 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.05%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (12.26%) PySpark
2 147 (9.74%) Kafka
3 98 (6.49%) REST
4 51 (3.38%) Pandas
5 49 (3.25%) JSON
6 42 (2.78%) XML
7 35 (2.32%) .NET
8 30 (1.99%) RESTful
9 27 (1.79%) NumPy
10 23 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.46%) OAuth
12 21 (1.39%) pytest
12 21 (1.39%) PyTorch
13 20 (1.33%) Great Expectations
13 20 (1.33%) Middleware
14 19 (1.26%) YAML
15 17 (1.13%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.13%) SOAP
16 16 (1.06%) Apache Avro
16 16 (1.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 129 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 80 (5.30%) Legacy Systems
4 42 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 40 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 28 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
6 28 (1.86%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 19 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
9 19 (1.26%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.06%) IoT
12 15 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (0.99%) Replication
12 15 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.93%) Clustering
14 13 (0.86%) NHS
14 13 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.99%) Linux
2 24 (1.59%) Unix
3 16 (1.06%) Windows
4 12 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.53%) Solaris
7 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 735 (48.71%) Data Modelling
2 653 (43.27%) Analytics
3 572 (37.91%) Data Pipeline
4 500 (33.13%) Data Engineering
5 490 (32.47%) Business Intelligence
6 446 (29.56%) CI/CD
7 376 (24.92%) Data Governance
8 369 (24.45%) Agile
9 348 (23.06%) DevOps
10 324 (21.47%) Problem-Solving
11 319 (21.14%) Migration
12 275 (18.22%) Validation
13 245 (16.24%) Data Architecture
13 245 (16.24%) Data Integration
14 209 (13.85%) Data Migration
15 202 (13.39%) AI
16 198 (13.12%) Decision-Making
17 173 (11.46%) Data Science
18 163 (10.80%) Performance Tuning
18 163 (10.80%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (67.00%) SQL
2 682 (45.20%) Python
3 125 (8.28%) Java
4 70 (4.64%) C#
5 65 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 58 (3.84%) T-SQL
7 55 (3.64%) PL/SQL
8 52 (3.45%) Scala
9 35 (2.32%) JavaScript
9 35 (2.32%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.33%) Bash
11 18 (1.19%) R
11 18 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 17 (1.13%) Bicep
12 17 (1.13%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.80%) Go
14 9 (0.60%) PHP
14 9 (0.60%) VBA
15 8 (0.53%) SAS Macro
16 7 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 356 (23.59%) Security Cleared
2 283 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 109 (7.22%) Degree
4 57 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.19%) AWS Certification
8 29 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 15 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.27%) PMP
15 3 (0.20%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 533 (35.32%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.08%) QA
3 120 (7.95%) GDPR
4 22 (1.46%) IFRS
5 21 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 20 (1.33%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.13%) IFRS 17
8 11 (0.73%) PMO
9 8 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.53%) SLA
10 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.33%) GAAP
11 5 (0.33%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) MiFID
12 4 (0.27%) HL7
12 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
12 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 3 (0.20%) Basel III
13 3 (0.20%) FATCA
System Software
1 134 (8.88%) Docker
2 6 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (0.27%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.27%) HDFS
5 1 (0.066%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.066%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (10.01%) Terraform
2 141 (9.34%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.52%) Grafana
4 20 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.06%) Ansible
6 5 (0.33%) Control-M
6 5 (0.33%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.27%) Kibana
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) logstash
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.066%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 313 (20.74%) Databricks
2 275 (18.22%) Microsoft
3 219 (14.51%) Oracle
4 142 (9.41%) Informatica
5 123 (8.15%) Talend
6 67 (4.44%) SAP
7 63 (4.17%) Google
8 50 (3.31%) Denodo
9 45 (2.98%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.99%) IBM
10 30 (1.99%) Salesforce
11 26 (1.72%) MuleSoft
12 19 (1.26%) Splunk
13 16 (1.06%) Sage
13 16 (1.06%) Workday
14 14 (0.93%) Palantir
15 13 (0.86%) Ab Initio
16 12 (0.80%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
18 10 (0.66%) Foundry