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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 78 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,530 897 1,017
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.42% 3.09% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 3.41% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 608 767
10th Percentile £360 £343 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.33% -0.94%
75th Percentile £585 £619 £638
90th Percentile £684 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -1.05% -6.13% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 17
10th Percentile £35.71 £26.25 £29.32
25th Percentile £51.23 £31.59 £35.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.90% +3.96% +39.31%
75th Percentile £70.08 £87.67 £61.75
90th Percentile £77.10 £100.62 £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 38,313 26,307 38,195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.58% 90.51% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,289 17,086 24,815
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 £635 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £485 £500
% change year-on-year - -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 967 2,341
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.00 £12.82
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.24 £16.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.85 £31.08 £31.65
% change year-on-year +12.13% -1.80% -12.39%

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 April 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 April 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 2 April 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 +17 1,369 £500 -4.76% 532
London +31 757 £513 -5.75% 193
UK excluding London +6 621 £470 -1.05% 413
Work from Home +6 458 £500 - 210
Midlands +19 213 £485 +2.11% 75
West Midlands +20 181 £492 -0.19% 48
North of England -24 166 £460 -0.54% 101
North West -3 92 £430 -8.12% 55
South East -37 82 £475 -5.00% 110
South West -11 68 £525 -2.33% 53
Yorkshire -39 58 £500 +40.85% 31
Scotland +8 50 £450 +5.88% 14
East of England -10 40 £510 -5.12% 52
East Midlands -22 32 £460 +15.36% 27
North East -7 15 £538 +13.16% 16
Northern Ireland +5 8 £400 -20.00% 2
Wales -17 6 £325 -32.29% 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
1 142 (9.28%) Apache Spark
2 120 (7.84%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (5.95%) Apache
4 74 (4.84%) SAS
5 37 (2.42%) Confluence
6 18 (1.18%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.59%) nginx
9 8 (0.52%) Appian
9 8 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Application Server
10 7 (0.46%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 6 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.26%) Camunda
13 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Alfresco
14 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 48 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.46%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.13%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.065%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.065%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 14 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
1 14 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) Oracle Payables
2 13 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 8 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.39%) Sage X3
5 5 (0.33%) Maximo
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.26%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
7 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 647 (42.29%) Azure
2 485 (31.70%) AWS
3 384 (25.10%) Power Platform
4 244 (15.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 182 (11.90%) GCP
6 178 (11.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 163 (10.65%) Amazon S3
8 156 (10.20%) Snowflake
9 136 (8.89%) Serverless
10 126 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
11 116 (7.58%) GitHub
12 98 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
13 88 (5.75%) dbt
14 53 (3.46%) Collibra
15 52 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
16 50 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
17 37 (2.42%) Amazon EMR
17 37 (2.42%) SaaS
18 33 (2.16%) Power Automate
19 32 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 10 (0.65%) HTTP
2 8 (0.52%) Firewall
3 7 (0.46%) 5G
4 6 (0.39%) 2G
4 6 (0.39%) 4G
4 6 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (0.39%) VPN
5 2 (0.13%) DSL
5 2 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
5 2 (0.13%) PuTTY
5 2 (0.13%) WinSCP
6 1 (0.065%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.065%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 451 (29.48%) Data Warehouse
2 362 (23.66%) Power BI
3 242 (15.82%) Data Lake
4 187 (12.22%) SQL Server
5 164 (10.72%) Metadata
6 100 (6.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 94 (6.14%) Tableau
8 90 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 89 (5.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 89 (5.82%) Big Data
10 87 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
11 84 (5.49%) Delta Lake
12 78 (5.10%) Pentaho
13 74 (4.84%) Relational Database
14 73 (4.77%) NoSQL
15 72 (4.71%) Snowflake Schema
16 61 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
16 61 (3.99%) BigQuery
17 50 (3.27%) Star Schema
18 48 (3.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 184 (12.03%) Git
2 124 (8.10%) JIRA
3 83 (5.42%) Jenkins
4 68 (4.44%) GitLab
5 36 (2.35%) Postman
6 25 (1.63%) MLflow
7 17 (1.11%) Zephyr
8 14 (0.92%) ERwin
9 12 (0.78%) Selenium
10 7 (0.46%) JMeter
10 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.33%) NUnit
11 5 (0.33%) TestRail
12 4 (0.26%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.26%) MSTest
12 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.26%) Toad
General
1 432 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 389 (25.42%) Finance
3 273 (17.84%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 111 (7.25%) Banking
6 40 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (1.63%) Financial Institution
8 23 (1.50%) Marketing
8 23 (1.50%) Retail
9 22 (1.44%) Legal
10 21 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.05%) Law
13 15 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.46%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.46%) Publishing
17 6 (0.39%) Front Office
17 6 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 613 (40.07%) Data Engineer
2 193 (12.61%) Developer
3 167 (10.92%) Senior
4 166 (10.85%) Architect
5 153 (10.00%) Lead
6 140 (9.15%) Analyst
7 104 (6.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 100 (6.54%) Data Architect
9 92 (6.01%) Data Analyst
10 49 (3.20%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
12 47 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 41 (2.68%) AWS Data Engineer
13 41 (2.68%) Snowflake Engineer
14 35 (2.29%) Azure Data Engineer
14 35 (2.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 34 (2.22%) Lead Data Engineer
16 33 (2.16%) Python Engineer
17 32 (2.09%) Consultant
17 32 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (12.09%) PySpark
2 148 (9.67%) Kafka
3 99 (6.47%) REST
4 54 (3.53%) Pandas
5 49 (3.20%) JSON
6 41 (2.68%) XML
7 35 (2.29%) .NET
8 30 (1.96%) RESTful
9 29 (1.90%) NumPy
10 24 (1.57%) OAuth
11 22 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
11 22 (1.44%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.37%) pytest
13 20 (1.31%) Great Expectations
13 20 (1.31%) Middleware
14 19 (1.24%) YAML
15 17 (1.11%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.11%) SOAP
16 16 (1.05%) Apache Avro
16 16 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (8.30%) Cloud Native
2 109 (7.12%) Data Structures
3 80 (5.23%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 41 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 29 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
7 28 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 19 (1.24%) Algorithms
9 19 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.24%) Reference Data
10 18 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.05%) IoT
12 15 (0.98%) Clustering
12 15 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 14 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.92%) Replication
14 13 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 29 (1.90%) Linux
2 28 (1.83%) Unix
3 18 (1.18%) Windows
4 12 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.59%) Solaris
6 9 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
9 1 (0.065%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (48.56%) Data Modelling
2 659 (43.07%) Analytics
3 579 (37.84%) Data Pipeline
4 500 (32.68%) Data Engineering
5 493 (32.22%) Business Intelligence
6 453 (29.61%) CI/CD
7 381 (24.90%) Agile
8 380 (24.84%) Data Governance
9 352 (23.01%) DevOps
10 328 (21.44%) Problem-Solving
11 326 (21.31%) Migration
12 275 (17.97%) Validation
13 249 (16.27%) Data Integration
14 245 (16.01%) Data Architecture
15 211 (13.79%) Data Migration
16 204 (13.33%) AI
17 200 (13.07%) Decision-Making
18 170 (11.11%) Data Science
19 169 (11.05%) Test Automation
20 165 (10.78%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,031 (67.39%) SQL
2 686 (44.84%) Python
3 129 (8.43%) Java
4 69 (4.51%) C#
5 67 (4.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 61 (3.99%) T-SQL
7 58 (3.79%) PL/SQL
8 51 (3.33%) Scala
9 38 (2.48%) PowerShell
10 35 (2.29%) JavaScript
11 21 (1.37%) Bash
12 20 (1.31%) Shell Script
13 18 (1.18%) R
13 18 (1.18%) TypeScript
14 17 (1.11%) Bicep
15 11 (0.72%) Go
16 9 (0.59%) PHP
16 9 (0.59%) VBA
17 8 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.52%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 368 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 293 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 111 (7.25%) Degree
4 58 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.01%) Azure Certification
6 40 (2.61%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 31 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (1.18%) ISTQB
10 14 (0.92%) DV Cleared
11 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.46%) SnowPro
13 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 5 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
15 4 (0.26%) PMP
16 3 (0.20%) IBM Certification
16 3 (0.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 2 (0.13%) PMI Certification
17 2 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 538 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 140 (9.15%) QA
3 122 (7.97%) GDPR
4 22 (1.44%) IFRS
5 21 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 17 (1.11%) IFRS 17
7 12 (0.78%) PMO
8 9 (0.59%) SLA
9 8 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.39%) GRC
12 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.33%) GAAP
12 5 (0.33%) MiFID
13 4 (0.26%) HL7
13 4 (0.26%) IFRS 9
13 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 3 (0.20%) Basel III
14 3 (0.20%) GMP
System Software
1 136 (8.89%) 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
3 5 (0.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 4 (0.26%) HDFS
5 1 (0.065%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.065%) RACF
5 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (9.93%) Terraform
2 141 (9.22%) Kubernetes
3 27 (1.76%) Grafana
4 20 (1.31%) Prometheus
5 16 (1.05%) Ansible
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (0.33%) Control-M
8 3 (0.20%) Foglight
8 3 (0.20%) Kibana
9 2 (0.13%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.13%) logstash
9 2 (0.13%) SCCM
10 1 (0.065%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.065%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.065%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 315 (20.59%) Databricks
2 281 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 230 (15.03%) Oracle
4 147 (9.61%) Informatica
5 129 (8.43%) Talend
6 69 (4.51%) SAP
7 63 (4.12%) Google
8 58 (3.79%) Denodo
9 47 (3.07%) ServiceNow
10 32 (2.09%) IBM
11 29 (1.90%) Salesforce
12 25 (1.63%) MuleSoft
13 19 (1.24%) Splunk
14 16 (1.05%) Sage
14 16 (1.05%) Workday
15 13 (0.85%) Ab Initio
15 13 (0.85%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.85%) Palantir
16 11 (0.72%) OpenAI
17 10 (0.65%) Foundry