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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 76 96
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,509 912 1,014
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.39% 3.14% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.47% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 623 767
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £638
90th Percentile £684 £690 £727
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -0.53% -6.13% +1.20%
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 38,122 26,294 38,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.61% 90.44% 86.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,155 17,082 24,859
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 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 966 2,351
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -10.48%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.72 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £31.50 £31.50
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +13 1,347 £500 -4.76% 532
London +31 752 £513 -6.82% 193
UK excluding London -2 605 £473 -0.53% 413
Work from Home +2 453 £500 - 210
Midlands +14 205 £492 +3.58% 75
West Midlands +18 175 £498 +0.91% 48
North of England -23 162 £460 +0.82% 101
North West -6 90 £434 -7.32% 55
South East -41 81 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -10 68 £525 -8.70% 53
Yorkshire -38 56 £500 +42.86% 31
Scotland +5 49 £450 +5.88% 14
East of England -14 38 £535 -0.42% 52
East Midlands -27 30 £460 +15.36% 27
North East -6 15 £538 +13.16% 16
Northern Ireland +3 8 £400 -21.95% 2
Wales -18 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
1 140 (9.28%) Apache Spark
2 119 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (5.83%) Apache
4 73 (4.84%) SAS
5 36 (2.39%) Confluence
6 17 (1.13%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.60%) nginx
9 8 (0.53%) Appian
9 8 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 7 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.27%) Camunda
13 3 (0.20%) CMS
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
Applications
1 47 (3.11%) 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
2 13 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 12 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
5 7 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.40%) Sage X3
7 5 (0.33%) Maximo
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
8 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
9 3 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 639 (42.35%) Azure
2 478 (31.68%) AWS
3 376 (24.92%) Power Platform
4 239 (15.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (12.06%) GCP
6 174 (11.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 161 (10.67%) Amazon S3
8 159 (10.54%) Snowflake
9 134 (8.88%) Serverless
10 124 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
11 115 (7.62%) GitHub
12 96 (6.36%) AWS Lambda
13 85 (5.63%) dbt
14 52 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
14 52 (3.45%) Collibra
15 49 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (2.45%) SaaS
17 31 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (2.05%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.60%) HTTP
2 8 (0.53%) Firewall
3 7 (0.46%) 5G
4 6 (0.40%) 2G
4 6 (0.40%) 4G
4 6 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (0.33%) VPN
6 2 (0.13%) DSL
6 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
7 1 (0.066%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.066%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 442 (29.29%) Data Warehouse
2 356 (23.59%) Power BI
3 239 (15.84%) Data Lake
4 189 (12.52%) SQL Server
5 163 (10.80%) Metadata
6 103 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (6.23%) Tableau
8 90 (5.96%) Big Data
9 89 (5.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 88 (5.83%) Amazon Redshift
11 87 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
12 81 (5.37%) Delta Lake
13 76 (5.04%) Pentaho
13 76 (5.04%) Relational Database
14 73 (4.84%) NoSQL
15 68 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
16 61 (4.04%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (4.04%) BigQuery
17 50 (3.31%) Star Schema
18 48 (3.18%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 180 (11.93%) Git
2 121 (8.02%) JIRA
3 84 (5.57%) Jenkins
4 67 (4.44%) 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%) Gatling
11 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 426 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 389 (25.78%) Finance
3 271 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.36%) Banking
6 41 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 23 (1.52%) 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 7 (0.46%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.46%) Publishing
17 6 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 605 (40.09%) Data Engineer
2 189 (12.52%) Developer
3 163 (10.80%) Architect
3 163 (10.80%) Senior
4 154 (10.21%) Lead
5 139 (9.21%) Analyst
6 102 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
7 99 (6.56%) Data Architect
8 91 (6.03%) Data Analyst
9 49 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
10 47 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
12 41 (2.72%) AWS Data Engineer
13 40 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (2.32%) Azure Data Engineer
15 34 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
15 34 (2.25%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 32 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (2.05%) Consultant
18 30 (1.99%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (12.13%) PySpark
2 146 (9.68%) Kafka
3 98 (6.49%) REST
4 50 (3.31%) 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 22 (1.46%) OAuth
10 22 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
11 21 (1.39%) pytest
11 21 (1.39%) PyTorch
12 20 (1.33%) Great Expectations
12 20 (1.33%) Middleware
13 19 (1.26%) YAML
14 17 (1.13%) scikit-learn
14 17 (1.13%) SOAP
15 16 (1.06%) Apache Avro
15 16 (1.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 128 (8.48%) Cloud Native
2 108 (7.16%) Data Structures
3 79 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.85%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
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%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.06%) IoT
12 15 (0.99%) Replication
12 15 (0.99%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.93%) Clustering
14 13 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 30 (1.99%) Linux
2 25 (1.66%) Unix
3 17 (1.13%) Windows
4 12 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.60%) Solaris
6 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.066%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 736 (48.77%) Data Modelling
2 653 (43.27%) Analytics
3 575 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
4 497 (32.94%) Data Engineering
5 490 (32.47%) Business Intelligence
6 449 (29.75%) CI/CD
7 376 (24.92%) Data Governance
8 373 (24.72%) Agile
9 352 (23.33%) DevOps
10 325 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
11 317 (21.01%) Migration
12 274 (18.16%) Validation
13 247 (16.37%) Data Integration
14 244 (16.17%) Data Architecture
15 207 (13.72%) Data Migration
16 203 (13.45%) AI
17 201 (13.32%) Decision-Making
18 172 (11.40%) Data Science
19 165 (10.93%) Test Automation
20 163 (10.80%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (67.20%) SQL
2 680 (45.06%) Python
3 124 (8.22%) Java
4 69 (4.57%) C#
5 66 (4.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 58 (3.84%) T-SQL
7 56 (3.71%) PL/SQL
8 51 (3.38%) 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
11 18 (1.19%) TypeScript
12 17 (1.13%) Bicep
13 11 (0.73%) Go
14 9 (0.60%) PHP
15 8 (0.53%) SAS Macro
15 8 (0.53%) VBA
16 7 (0.46%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 358 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 284 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 109 (7.22%) Degree
4 57 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.65%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.12%) AWS Certification
8 30 (1.99%) 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
1 535 (35.45%) Data Quality
2 137 (9.08%) QA
3 122 (8.08%) GDPR
4 22 (1.46%) IFRS
5 21 (1.39%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.13%) IFRS 17
7 11 (0.73%) PMO
8 8 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.53%) SLA
9 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.40%) GRC
11 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.33%) GAAP
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
1 136 (9.01%) Docker
2 7 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (0.46%) 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 24 (1.59%) Grafana
4 20 (1.33%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.06%) Ansible
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 4 (0.27%) Kibana
9 3 (0.20%) Foglight
9 3 (0.20%) logstash
10 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.13%) SCCM
11 1 (0.066%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.066%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.066%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.066%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 311 (20.61%) Databricks
2 275 (18.22%) Microsoft
3 223 (14.78%) Oracle
4 145 (9.61%) Informatica
5 127 (8.42%) Talend
6 67 (4.44%) SAP
7 62 (4.11%) Google
8 52 (3.45%) Denodo
9 46 (3.05%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.12%) IBM
11 29 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.72%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.26%) Splunk
14 16 (1.06%) Sage
14 16 (1.06%) Workday
15 13 (0.86%) Ab Initio
15 13 (0.86%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.86%) Palantir
16 11 (0.73%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.66%) Foundry