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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 77 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,609 889 1,012
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.37% 3.04% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 3.34% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 607 754
10th Percentile £358 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £588 £619 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.17% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 14
10th Percentile £36.07 - £28.54
25th Percentile £51.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £59.50 £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +6.06% +5.74%
75th Percentile £69.00 £96.64 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.03 £101.31 £63.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.50 £91.05 £30.37
% change year-on-year -34.65% +199.81% -23.84%

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 40,275 26,638 37,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.44% 90.95% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,293 17,157 24,168
10th Percentile £320 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,413 1,083 2,449
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.63 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.75 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +43.29% -19.35% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.25 £61.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.40 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £27.94 £37.50
% change year-on-year +56.37% -25.49% +7.14%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +12 1,439 £500 -4.76% 475
London +23 764 £513 -4.61% 163
UK excluding London +8 692 £469 -1.17% 370
Work from Home +19 486 £500 - 227
Midlands +22 240 £469 -1.26% 64
West Midlands +34 209 £468 -8.78% 45
North of England -14 175 £460 -0.54% 91
South East -2 110 £475 -9.52% 104
North West -13 94 £447 -5.89% 43
South West -18 65 £525 +5.00% 41
Yorkshire -22 64 £500 +21.95% 31
Scotland +5 57 £450 +5.88% 13
East of England -8 43 £500 +1.27% 40
East Midlands -21 30 £485 +15.48% 19
North East -10 16 £525 +16.67% 17
Wales -13 7 £325 -14.47% 15
Northern Ireland +3 5 £400 -20.00% 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
1 147 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 120 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (5.66%) Apache
4 74 (4.60%) SAS
5 52 (3.23%) Confluence
6 20 (1.24%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.93%) Oracle Application Server
8 10 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 10 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.56%) Appian
9 9 (0.56%) nginx
10 8 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
12 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 4 (0.25%) Camunda
12 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.25%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
Applications
1 44 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.44%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.44%) Notepad++
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.19%) Trello
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.062%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
3 13 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.37%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.31%) BambooHR
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.25%) Actimize
8 4 (0.25%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.19%) Maximo
9 3 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 662 (41.14%) Azure
2 480 (29.83%) AWS
3 397 (24.67%) Power Platform
4 242 (15.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 189 (11.75%) GCP
6 178 (11.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 154 (9.57%) Snowflake
8 153 (9.51%) Amazon S3
9 144 (8.95%) Azure DevOps
10 134 (8.33%) Serverless
11 112 (6.96%) GitHub
12 99 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.53%) dbt
14 57 (3.54%) Collibra
15 50 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
16 44 (2.73%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 35 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
19 34 (2.11%) Power Automate
20 30 (1.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.68%) Firewall
1 11 (0.68%) HTTP
2 7 (0.44%) PuTTY
2 7 (0.44%) WinSCP
3 6 (0.37%) VPN
4 2 (0.12%) Hyperconnected
5 1 (0.062%) 4G
5 1 (0.062%) 5G
5 1 (0.062%) DSL
5 1 (0.062%) SMS
5 1 (0.062%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 481 (29.89%) Data Warehouse
2 374 (23.24%) Power BI
3 266 (16.53%) Data Lake
4 190 (11.81%) SQL Server
5 172 (10.69%) Metadata
6 105 (6.53%) Big Data
7 104 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 96 (5.97%) Tableau
9 92 (5.72%) Azure SQL Database
10 91 (5.66%) Delta Lake
11 86 (5.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 80 (4.97%) Relational Database
13 79 (4.91%) NoSQL
13 79 (4.91%) PostgreSQL
14 78 (4.85%) Pentaho
15 69 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
16 68 (4.23%) BigQuery
17 59 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
18 53 (3.29%) Oracle Reports
19 48 (2.98%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 188 (11.68%) Git
2 142 (8.83%) JIRA
3 86 (5.34%) GitLab
4 73 (4.54%) Jenkins
5 44 (2.73%) Postman
6 30 (1.86%) Zephyr
7 27 (1.68%) MLflow
8 21 (1.31%) Selenium
9 12 (0.75%) ERwin
10 7 (0.44%) JMeter
10 7 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.31%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.31%) NUnit
11 5 (0.31%) TestRail
12 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.25%) MSTest
12 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 426 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 414 (25.73%) Finance
3 276 (17.15%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (9.14%) Public Sector
5 116 (7.21%) Banking
6 41 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 30 (1.86%) Marketing
8 25 (1.55%) Legal
9 24 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 21 (1.31%) Retail
11 15 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 15 (0.93%) Telecoms
12 13 (0.81%) Law
13 12 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.44%) Front Office
16 7 (0.44%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 658 (40.89%) Data Engineer
2 214 (13.30%) Developer
3 182 (11.31%) Senior
4 179 (11.12%) Architect
5 165 (10.25%) Lead
6 133 (8.27%) Analyst
7 120 (7.46%) Senior Data Engineer
8 108 (6.71%) Data Architect
9 81 (5.03%) Data Analyst
10 52 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
11 50 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 44 (2.73%) AWS Data Engineer
13 40 (2.49%) Azure Data Engineer
14 39 (2.42%) Snowflake Engineer
15 36 (2.24%) Python Engineer
16 33 (2.05%) Integration Engineer
16 33 (2.05%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 32 (1.99%) Lead Data Engineer
17 32 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (12.37%) PySpark
2 145 (9.01%) Kafka
3 95 (5.90%) REST
4 55 (3.42%) Pandas
5 43 (2.67%) .NET
6 42 (2.61%) JSON
7 31 (1.93%) XML
8 29 (1.80%) RESTful
9 26 (1.62%) NumPy
9 26 (1.62%) OAuth
10 25 (1.55%) Middleware
10 25 (1.55%) PyTorch
11 24 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
12 23 (1.43%) Spring
13 21 (1.31%) Spring Boot
14 20 (1.24%) pytest
15 18 (1.12%) Great Expectations
16 17 (1.06%) FastAPI
16 17 (1.06%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (8.89%) Cloud Native
2 113 (7.02%) Data Structures
3 83 (5.16%) Legacy Systems
4 47 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 46 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
7 25 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 24 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
9 21 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (1.12%) Clustering
10 18 (1.12%) Reference Data
11 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
13 15 (0.93%) Algorithms
13 15 (0.93%) Replication
14 14 (0.87%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.87%) NHS
14 14 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 13 (0.81%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (2.05%) Unix
2 26 (1.62%) Linux
3 19 (1.18%) Windows
4 11 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.56%) Solaris
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 1 (0.062%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 770 (47.86%) Data Modelling
2 656 (40.77%) Analytics
3 609 (37.85%) Data Pipeline
4 503 (31.26%) Data Engineering
5 490 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
6 456 (28.34%) CI/CD
7 409 (25.42%) Agile
8 370 (23.00%) DevOps
9 368 (22.87%) Migration
10 365 (22.68%) Data Governance
11 321 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
12 296 (18.40%) Validation
13 256 (15.91%) Data Integration
14 245 (15.23%) Data Architecture
15 243 (15.10%) AI
16 237 (14.73%) Data Migration
17 209 (12.99%) Decision-Making
18 188 (11.68%) Test Automation
19 178 (11.06%) Stakeholder Management
20 168 (10.44%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 1,075 (66.81%) SQL
2 693 (43.07%) Python
3 146 (9.07%) Java
4 73 (4.54%) PL/SQL
5 71 (4.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 70 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 68 (4.23%) C#
8 58 (3.60%) Scala
9 42 (2.61%) JavaScript
10 33 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.24%) Bash
12 20 (1.24%) R
13 18 (1.12%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.99%) Bicep
15 9 (0.56%) PHP
15 9 (0.56%) VBA
16 8 (0.50%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.50%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.37%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 406 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 331 (20.57%) SC Cleared
3 103 (6.40%) Degree
4 50 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.73%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 32 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 24 (1.49%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.37%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.50%) SnowPro
12 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.25%) PMP
15 3 (0.19%) IBM Certification
15 3 (0.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) PMI Certification
16 2 (0.12%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 532 (33.06%) Data Quality
2 149 (9.26%) QA
3 119 (7.40%) GDPR
4 24 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 23 (1.43%) IFRS
6 18 (1.12%) IFRS 17
7 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.68%) PMO
9 10 (0.62%) SLA
10 8 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 8 (0.50%) FATCA
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 6 (0.37%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) IFRS 9
13 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 5 (0.31%) MiFID
14 4 (0.25%) HL7
14 4 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 121 (7.52%) Docker
2 9 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (0.31%) HDFS
5 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.062%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.062%) RACF
6 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (9.32%) Terraform
2 127 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 38 (2.36%) Grafana
4 18 (1.12%) Ansible
4 18 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.37%) Oracle RMAN
6 5 (0.31%) Control-M
7 3 (0.19%) Foglight
8 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.12%) Kibana
8 2 (0.12%) SCCM
9 1 (0.062%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.062%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.062%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.062%) logstash
9 1 (0.062%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 330 (20.51%) Databricks
2 304 (18.89%) Microsoft
3 269 (16.72%) Oracle
4 162 (10.07%) Informatica
5 133 (8.27%) Talend
6 71 (4.41%) SAP
7 65 (4.04%) Google
8 59 (3.67%) Denodo
9 49 (3.05%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.24%) IBM
11 32 (1.99%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.62%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.18%) Splunk
14 17 (1.06%) Alteryx
14 17 (1.06%) Sage
14 17 (1.06%) Workday
15 13 (0.81%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.75%) Teradata
17 10 (0.62%) Ab Initio
17 10 (0.62%) Cognos