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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 79 83
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,661 924 1,074
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.23% 2.98% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.28% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,206 627 785
10th Percentile £350 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year - -0.79% -6.23%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £606
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £485
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.64% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
10th Percentile £29.96 - £30.83
25th Percentile £34.51 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +5.49% -32.59%
75th Percentile £63.88 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.09 £85.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -25.64% +171.02% -59.30%

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 43,739 28,136 37,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.99% 90.86% 85.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,189 17,763 23,600
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,627 1,381 2,550
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +75.84% -34.42% +8.91%

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 2 July 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 2 July 2026.

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 2 July 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 1,482 £500 -0.89% 450
UK excluding London +9 754 £469 +1.41% 287
London +9 740 £520 -2.99% 233
Work from Home +13 525 £500 - 222
Midlands +29 267 £459 +1.89% 54
West Midlands +45 232 £457 -8.14% 32
North of England -17 182 £463 -2.63% 64
South East +10 137 £473 -5.50% 95
North West -19 92 £450 -10.00% 39
Yorkshire -18 69 £500 +18.34% 14
South West -21 66 £523 +10.00% 46
Scotland -6 56 £425 -0.47% 8
East of England -1 45 £488 +8.33% 9
East Midlands -18 34 £525 +18.89% 22
North East -16 21 £550 +30.95% 12
Wales -8 8 £313 -29.78% 8
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -36.38% 5

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
1 144 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 133 (8.01%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (5.36%) Apache
4 77 (4.64%) SAS
5 65 (3.91%) Confluence
6 17 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.42%) Appian
11 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) Camunda
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
3 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.66%) Sage X3
4 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.18%) Actimize
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 670 (40.34%) Azure
2 515 (31.01%) AWS
3 411 (24.74%) Power Platform
4 222 (13.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 202 (12.16%) GCP
6 186 (11.20%) Snowflake
7 153 (9.21%) Amazon S3
7 153 (9.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 152 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (8.49%) Serverless
10 113 (6.80%) dbt
11 111 (6.68%) AWS Lambda
11 111 (6.68%) GitHub
12 56 (3.37%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
14 48 (2.89%) Collibra
15 38 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 32 (1.93%) Power Automate
17 30 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
18 26 (1.57%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) 4G
6 1 (0.060%) 5G
6 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.060%) DHCP
6 1 (0.060%) DNS
6 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 505 (30.40%) Data Warehouse
2 391 (23.54%) Power BI
3 255 (15.35%) Data Lake
4 174 (10.48%) SQL Server
5 149 (8.97%) Metadata
6 102 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 101 (6.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 99 (5.96%) Big Data
9 98 (5.90%) Delta Lake
9 98 (5.90%) Tableau
10 90 (5.42%) Relational Database
11 84 (5.06%) Pentaho
12 82 (4.94%) BigQuery
12 82 (4.94%) NoSQL
13 75 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
14 74 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
15 69 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
16 64 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
17 62 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
18 49 (2.95%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 193 (11.62%) Git
2 150 (9.03%) JIRA
3 96 (5.78%) GitLab
4 70 (4.21%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.53%) Postman
6 38 (2.29%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.32%) MLflow
8 13 (0.78%) Selenium
9 7 (0.42%) ERwin
10 6 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 416 (25.05%) Social Skills
2 404 (24.32%) Finance
3 291 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 180 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 122 (7.34%) Banking
6 48 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.87%) Marketing
8 30 (1.81%) Retail
9 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (1.38%) Legal
11 22 (1.32%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 20 (1.20%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.66%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
14 9 (0.54%) Publishing
15 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 680 (40.94%) Data Engineer
2 221 (13.31%) Developer
3 214 (12.88%) Architect
4 190 (11.44%) Senior
5 176 (10.60%) Lead
6 130 (7.83%) Data Architect
7 128 (7.71%) Senior Data Engineer
8 121 (7.28%) Analyst
9 66 (3.97%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
11 52 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
12 50 (3.01%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.77%) AWS Data Engineer
14 42 (2.53%) SQL Developer
15 41 (2.47%) Python Engineer
15 41 (2.47%) Snowflake Engineer
16 40 (2.41%) Lead Data Engineer
17 37 (2.23%) Azure Data Engineer
18 35 (2.11%) Data Migration Lead
18 35 (2.11%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (11.62%) PySpark
2 144 (8.67%) Kafka
3 81 (4.88%) REST
4 49 (2.95%) JSON
5 48 (2.89%) Pandas
6 44 (2.65%) .NET
7 36 (2.17%) XML
8 30 (1.81%) Middleware
9 27 (1.63%) Spring
10 26 (1.57%) PyTorch
11 25 (1.51%) Spring Boot
12 22 (1.32%) OAuth
12 22 (1.32%) RESTful
13 19 (1.14%) NumPy
13 19 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
13 19 (1.14%) pytest
14 18 (1.08%) React
14 18 (1.08%) TensorFlow
14 18 (1.08%) Web Services
14 18 (1.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 116 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 82 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
4 52 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.77%) Product Ownership
6 32 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.57%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.32%) Management Information System
8 22 (1.32%) NHS
9 21 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.26%) Reference Data
10 19 (1.14%) Clustering
11 17 (1.02%) Replication
12 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.84%) Taxonomies
14 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.29%) Unix
2 34 (2.05%) Linux
3 20 (1.20%) Windows
4 11 (0.66%) Solaris
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (46.78%) Data Modelling
2 667 (40.16%) Data Pipeline
3 639 (38.47%) Analytics
4 522 (31.43%) Data Engineering
5 494 (29.74%) CI/CD
6 486 (29.26%) Business Intelligence
7 430 (25.89%) Agile
8 419 (25.23%) Migration
9 371 (22.34%) DevOps
10 344 (20.71%) Data Governance
11 326 (19.63%) Validation
12 319 (19.21%) Problem-Solving
13 304 (18.30%) Data Integration
14 283 (17.04%) AI
15 252 (15.17%) Data Migration
16 249 (14.99%) Data Architecture
17 226 (13.61%) Decision-Making
18 219 (13.18%) Test Automation
19 201 (12.10%) Stakeholder Management
20 176 (10.60%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,116 (67.19%) SQL
2 693 (41.72%) Python
3 143 (8.61%) Java
4 94 (5.66%) T-SQL
5 77 (4.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 75 (4.52%) PL/SQL
7 63 (3.79%) C#
8 55 (3.31%) Scala
9 40 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.69%) Bash
12 25 (1.51%) TypeScript
13 24 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.02%) R
15 16 (0.96%) Bicep
16 10 (0.60%) Cypher
17 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) VBA
18 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
18 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 450 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 371 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 102 (6.14%) Degree
4 47 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (2.47%) Azure Certification
7 32 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 27 (1.63%) AWS Certification
10 14 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 556 (33.47%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.91%) QA
3 115 (6.92%) GDPR
4 18 (1.08%) Accessibility
5 16 (0.96%) IFRS
5 16 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (0.78%) IFRS 17
6 13 (0.78%) PMO
7 10 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 10 (0.60%) SLA
8 9 (0.54%) GRC
9 8 (0.48%) FATCA
10 7 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) GMP
12 4 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.24%) HL7
12 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 118 (7.10%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 151 (9.09%) Terraform
2 128 (7.71%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.35%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Ansible
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.30%) Control-M
7 3 (0.18%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 331 (19.93%) Databricks
2 295 (17.76%) Oracle
3 294 (17.70%) Microsoft
4 158 (9.51%) Informatica
5 143 (8.61%) Talend
6 74 (4.46%) SAP
7 66 (3.97%) Google
8 62 (3.73%) Denodo
9 40 (2.41%) ServiceNow
10 39 (2.35%) IBM
11 34 (2.05%) Salesforce
12 29 (1.75%) Alteryx
13 22 (1.32%) Sage
14 19 (1.14%) MuleSoft
15 18 (1.08%) Splunk
16 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.78%) Palantir
17 13 (0.78%) Workday
18 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
19 11 (0.66%) ESRI