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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 87 81
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +21
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,679 954 1,028
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.89% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.20% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 653 715
10th Percentile £358 £360 £360
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £488 £491
% change year-on-year -3.59% -0.61% -6.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 5
10th Percentile £21.25 £33.60 £29.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.85 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -8.60% -37.96%
75th Percentile £52.50 £44.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.82 £53.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -9.35% +36.29% -62.07%

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 46,342 29,835 32,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.41% 90.50% 85.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,074 18,533 19,873
10th Percentile £325 £300 £309
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,192 1,836 1,405
10th Percentile £13.74 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.32 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.25 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +79.25% -48.10% +1.18%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +4 1,475 £500 -2.44% 1,288
London 0 769 £525 - 756
UK excluding London +13 704 £470 -3.59% 679
Work from Home -7 499 £500 -2.34% 547
Midlands +22 235 £469 -5.25% 120
West Midlands +24 202 £469 -8.04% 87
North of England -7 169 £463 -2.63% 170
South East +21 134 £450 - 157
South West -4 80 £523 +10.00% 79
Yorkshire +8 79 £461 +0.27% 50
North West -34 69 £475 -5.00% 102
East of England -12 47 £488 -7.14% 43
Scotland -21 42 £428 -10.00% 58
East Midlands -11 32 £490 +12.00% 33
North East -27 22 £481 +10.00% 20
Wales -13 8 £313 -37.19% 15
Northern Ireland -1 3 £334 -34.02% 42

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 (8.52%) Apache Airflow
2 140 (8.34%) Apache Spark
3 111 (6.61%) Apache
4 94 (5.60%) SAS
5 64 (3.81%) Confluence
6 26 (1.55%) Oracle Application Server
6 26 (1.55%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.77%) nginx
8 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) CMS
Applications
1 35 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) Actimize
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 644 (38.36%) Azure
2 504 (30.02%) AWS
3 364 (21.68%) Power Platform
4 240 (14.29%) GCP
5 234 (13.94%) Snowflake
6 223 (13.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.64%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (8.58%) dbt
9 137 (8.16%) Amazon S3
10 135 (8.04%) Serverless
11 127 (7.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 112 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 109 (6.49%) GitHub
14 61 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
16 44 (2.62%) Azure Databricks
17 37 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 33 (1.97%) Collibra
19 31 (1.85%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 9 (0.54%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 574 (34.19%) Data Warehouse
2 353 (21.02%) Power BI
3 252 (15.01%) Data Lake
4 173 (10.30%) Metadata
5 147 (8.76%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 108 (6.43%) BigQuery
8 101 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.54%) Delta Lake
10 88 (5.24%) Big Data
11 80 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 80 (4.76%) Tableau
12 77 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
13 74 (4.41%) Oracle Reports
14 70 (4.17%) NoSQL
15 63 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
15 63 (3.75%) Pentaho
16 58 (3.45%) Oracle Database
17 49 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
18 48 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (11.49%) Git
2 147 (8.76%) JIRA
3 104 (6.19%) GitLab
4 60 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.38%) Zephyr
6 37 (2.20%) Postman
7 18 (1.07%) Selenium
8 15 (0.89%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 417 (24.84%) Social Skills
2 358 (21.32%) Finance
3 309 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (11.14%) Public Sector
5 161 (9.59%) Banking
6 39 (2.32%) Retail
7 35 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 24 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 24 (1.43%) Marketing
9 23 (1.37%) Law
10 21 (1.25%) Legal
11 18 (1.07%) Front Office
11 18 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.01%) Investment Banking
13 15 (0.89%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.83%) Billing
14 14 (0.83%) Police
15 11 (0.66%) Military
15 11 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 668 (39.79%) Data Engineer
2 249 (14.83%) Developer
3 243 (14.47%) Senior
4 232 (13.82%) Architect
5 158 (9.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 154 (9.17%) Lead
7 124 (7.39%) Data Architect
8 119 (7.09%) Analyst
9 71 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
10 62 (3.69%) Databricks Engineer
11 58 (3.45%) Data Analyst
12 55 (3.28%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 53 (3.16%) Azure Data Engineer
14 45 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (2.62%) Snowflake Engineer
16 43 (2.56%) Tester
17 41 (2.44%) Python Engineer
18 40 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 40 (2.38%) SQL Developer
19 39 (2.32%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (9.35%) PySpark
2 155 (9.23%) Terraform
3 133 (7.92%) Kafka
4 79 (4.71%) REST
5 58 (3.45%) JSON
6 49 (2.92%) .NET
7 29 (1.73%) React
7 29 (1.73%) XML
8 28 (1.67%) Middleware
8 28 (1.67%) Pandas
9 25 (1.49%) Spring
9 25 (1.49%) Spring Boot
10 18 (1.07%) SOAP
10 18 (1.07%) YAML
11 17 (1.01%) pytest
12 15 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (0.77%) LangChain
14 12 (0.71%) HTML
14 12 (0.71%) Web Services
15 11 (0.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.59%) Cloud Native
2 119 (7.09%) Data Structures
3 66 (3.93%) Legacy Systems
4 63 (3.75%) Onboarding
5 59 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 41 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 28 (1.67%) Reference Data
9 25 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.43%) NHS
11 22 (1.31%) Replication
12 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.01%) Clustering
16 16 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
17 15 (0.89%) Algorithms
17 15 (0.89%) Data Fabric
18 12 (0.71%) IoT
18 12 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 67 (3.99%) Linux
2 61 (3.63%) Unix
3 21 (1.25%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) 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
1 791 (47.11%) Data Modelling
2 714 (42.53%) Data Pipeline
3 630 (37.52%) Analytics
4 555 (33.06%) Data Engineering
5 532 (31.69%) CI/CD
6 480 (28.59%) Agile
7 462 (27.52%) Migration
8 442 (26.33%) Business Intelligence
9 401 (23.88%) Data Integration
10 385 (22.93%) DevOps
11 355 (21.14%) Validation
12 349 (20.79%) Data Governance
13 314 (18.70%) AI
14 303 (18.05%) Stakeholder Management
15 295 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
16 260 (15.49%) Data Migration
17 252 (15.01%) Data Architecture
18 234 (13.94%) Data Transformation
19 219 (13.04%) Test Automation
20 197 (11.73%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,118 (66.59%) SQL
2 669 (39.85%) Python
3 143 (8.52%) Java
4 91 (5.42%) PL/SQL
5 81 (4.82%) T-SQL
6 56 (3.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 53 (3.16%) JavaScript
8 52 (3.10%) Scala
9 50 (2.98%) C#
10 45 (2.68%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.32%) Shell Script
12 35 (2.08%) Bash
13 22 (1.31%) R
14 21 (1.25%) TypeScript
15 17 (1.01%) Bicep
16 13 (0.77%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Go
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 466 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 402 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 63 (3.75%) Degree
4 55 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (2.26%) Azure Certification
6 30 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 28 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.55%) ISTQB
9 24 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 9 (0.54%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) CISM
15 4 (0.24%) CISSP
15 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 607 (36.15%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.58%) QA
3 72 (4.29%) GDPR
4 40 (2.38%) GRC
5 25 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 11 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (0.54%) SLA
9 8 (0.48%) IFRS
9 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
10 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 7 (0.42%) WCAG
11 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.36%) NIST
12 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 5 (0.30%) PMO
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) NCSC
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 120 (7.15%) Docker
2 16 (0.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.18%) HDFS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 116 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.32%) Grafana
3 20 (1.19%) Ansible
4 15 (0.89%) Control-M
5 14 (0.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 372 (22.16%) Databricks
2 324 (19.30%) Oracle
3 287 (17.09%) Microsoft
4 124 (7.39%) Informatica
5 114 (6.79%) Talend
6 89 (5.30%) Google
7 68 (4.05%) SAP
8 54 (3.22%) Denodo
9 50 (2.98%) IBM
10 38 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 35 (2.08%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.13%) Teradata
14 18 (1.07%) Foundry
14 18 (1.07%) OpenAI
14 18 (1.07%) Palantir
15 11 (0.66%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage