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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 87 85
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,725 932 980
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.22% 2.84% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.80% 3.13% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 626 704
10th Percentile £360 £358 £359
25th Percentile £422 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -1.26% -2.06% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 7
10th Percentile £22.12 £36.15 £33.15
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +2.35% -39.29%
75th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £82.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £30.37
% change year-on-year -44.82% +105.80% -58.40%

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 45,374 29,740 33,103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.72% 90.47% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,858 18,514 21,188
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% -3.58%
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 2,851 1,725 1,782
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £18.17
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% +0.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £23.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.13% -45.88% +19.72%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +10 1,536 £500 - 618
UK excluding London +23 773 £469 -1.26% 324
London +2 759 £525 - 376
Work from Home +23 533 £500 - 263
Midlands +25 286 £459 -0.76% 67
West Midlands +39 250 £459 -8.20% 54
North of England -16 179 £475 - 79
South East +11 149 £459 +2.00% 85
Yorkshire -7 81 £475 +12.43% 14
North West -25 75 £475 -5.00% 48
South West -29 66 £523 +11.76% 34
East of England +7 55 £475 -13.64% 17
Scotland -8 39 £440 +2.09% 17
East Midlands -16 35 £486 +12.06% 13
North East -19 24 £520 +15.56% 17
Wales -14 7 £313 -33.86% 11
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -34.83% 14

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
1 135 (7.83%) Apache Spark
2 130 (7.54%) Apache Airflow
3 113 (6.55%) SAS
4 97 (5.62%) Apache
5 67 (3.88%) Confluence
6 29 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.51%) Oracle Application Server
8 12 (0.70%) nginx
9 11 (0.64%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.23%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.17%) Camunda
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 35 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 18 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
3 10 (0.58%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.52%) Sage X3
5 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.17%) Actimize
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.12%) Maximo
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 674 (39.07%) Azure
2 519 (30.09%) AWS
3 410 (23.77%) Power Platform
4 237 (13.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 222 (12.87%) GCP
6 215 (12.46%) Snowflake
7 149 (8.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
9 137 (7.94%) Amazon S3
10 135 (7.83%) Serverless
11 124 (7.19%) dbt
12 116 (6.72%) GitHub
13 108 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
16 42 (2.43%) Collibra
17 33 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.80%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (1.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.70%) Firewall
2 11 (0.64%) HTTP
3 8 (0.46%) VPN
4 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
5 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
5 3 (0.17%) DHCP
5 3 (0.17%) DNS
5 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (0.12%) Network Security
7 1 (0.058%) LTE
7 1 (0.058%) OpenFlow
7 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 596 (34.55%) Data Warehouse
2 396 (22.96%) Power BI
3 261 (15.13%) Data Lake
4 163 (9.45%) SQL Server
5 160 (9.28%) Metadata
6 107 (6.20%) Relational Database
7 105 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 96 (5.57%) BigQuery
9 95 (5.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 94 (5.45%) Tableau
11 90 (5.22%) Delta Lake
12 85 (4.93%) Pentaho
13 84 (4.87%) Big Data
14 80 (4.64%) Oracle Reports
15 78 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
16 77 (4.46%) NoSQL
17 66 (3.83%) Azure SQL Database
18 61 (3.54%) Snowflake Schema
19 58 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
20 52 (3.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 200 (11.59%) Git
2 155 (8.99%) JIRA
3 103 (5.97%) GitLab
4 74 (4.29%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.90%) Zephyr
6 45 (2.61%) Postman
7 13 (0.75%) Selenium
8 11 (0.64%) MLflow
9 7 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.35%) Terragrunt
11 5 (0.29%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.29%) ERwin
11 5 (0.29%) Gatling
12 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.23%) Flyway
12 4 (0.23%) LSMW
12 4 (0.23%) Newman
12 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 413 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 371 (21.51%) Finance
3 319 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 197 (11.42%) Public Sector
5 130 (7.54%) Banking
6 37 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.03%) Retail
8 29 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 29 (1.68%) Marketing
9 28 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (1.39%) Legal
11 20 (1.16%) Financial Institution
12 18 (1.04%) Law
13 16 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.81%) Front Office
15 12 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
16 11 (0.64%) Investment Banking
16 11 (0.64%) Police
17 10 (0.58%) Billing
Job Titles
1 678 (39.30%) Data Engineer
2 253 (14.67%) Developer
3 232 (13.45%) Architect
4 225 (13.04%) Senior
5 178 (10.32%) Lead
6 146 (8.46%) Senior Data Engineer
7 126 (7.30%) Data Architect
8 120 (6.96%) Analyst
9 64 (3.71%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (3.30%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.90%) Tester
14 46 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 44 (2.55%) Snowflake Engineer
16 43 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (2.32%) Lead Data Engineer
17 40 (2.32%) SQL Developer
18 39 (2.26%) Data Migration Lead
19 38 (2.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (9.97%) PySpark
2 137 (7.94%) Kafka
3 79 (4.58%) REST
4 57 (3.30%) JSON
5 45 (2.61%) .NET
6 34 (1.97%) Pandas
7 28 (1.62%) React
8 27 (1.57%) Middleware
9 26 (1.51%) XML
10 23 (1.33%) Spring
11 22 (1.28%) Spring Boot
12 19 (1.10%) YAML
13 15 (0.87%) RESTful
14 14 (0.81%) OAuth
14 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (0.81%) pytest
14 14 (0.81%) SOAP
15 11 (0.64%) GraphQL
15 11 (0.64%) HTML
15 11 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.39%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 79 (4.58%) Legacy Systems
4 54 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.45%) NHS
8 23 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 22 (1.28%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.22%) Clustering
10 21 (1.22%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 18 (1.04%) Replication
12 15 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.75%) Algorithms
14 11 (0.64%) Data Fabric
14 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.58%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 62 (3.59%) Linux
2 55 (3.19%) Unix
3 17 (0.99%) Windows
4 8 (0.46%) Solaris
5 7 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.29%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (46.96%) Data Modelling
2 712 (41.28%) Data Pipeline
3 669 (38.78%) Analytics
4 531 (30.78%) Data Engineering
5 526 (30.49%) CI/CD
6 498 (28.87%) Agile
7 497 (28.81%) Business Intelligence
8 470 (27.25%) Migration
9 396 (22.96%) DevOps
10 386 (22.38%) Data Integration
11 359 (20.81%) Data Governance
12 322 (18.67%) Validation
13 313 (18.14%) Problem-Solving
14 287 (16.64%) Data Migration
15 275 (15.94%) AI
16 249 (14.43%) Test Automation
17 244 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
18 243 (14.09%) Data Architecture
19 232 (13.45%) Data Transformation
20 215 (12.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,148 (66.55%) SQL
2 654 (37.91%) Python
3 153 (8.87%) Java
4 90 (5.22%) PL/SQL
5 87 (5.04%) T-SQL
6 69 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 54 (3.13%) C#
8 50 (2.90%) Scala
9 48 (2.78%) JavaScript
10 44 (2.55%) PowerShell
11 34 (1.97%) Bash
11 34 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.22%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.16%) R
14 17 (0.99%) Bicep
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
15 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.41%) SPARQL
16 7 (0.41%) VBA
17 6 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 491 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 417 (24.17%) SC Cleared
3 79 (4.58%) Degree
4 45 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.97%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.57%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.93%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.58%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.23%) CISM
14 4 (0.23%) CISSP
14 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.17%) CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 606 (35.13%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.29%) QA
3 94 (5.45%) GDPR
4 39 (2.26%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.58%) HL7
8 9 (0.52%) IFRS
8 9 (0.52%) PMO
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.46%) WCAG
10 7 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (7.54%) Docker
2 16 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (8.81%) Terraform
2 129 (7.48%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.43%) Grafana
4 22 (1.28%) Ansible
5 15 (0.87%) Control-M
6 12 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.058%) Argo
10 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 350 (20.29%) Databricks
1 350 (20.29%) Oracle
2 303 (17.57%) Microsoft
3 156 (9.04%) Informatica
4 135 (7.83%) Talend
5 79 (4.58%) SAP
6 77 (4.46%) Google
7 69 (4.00%) Denodo
8 48 (2.78%) IBM
9 37 (2.14%) Salesforce
10 35 (2.03%) ServiceNow
11 29 (1.68%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.22%) Palantir
13 20 (1.16%) Sage
14 15 (0.87%) Foundry
14 15 (0.87%) MuleSoft
15 14 (0.81%) Teradata
16 13 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.70%) Workday
18 11 (0.64%) Cloudera