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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,665 913 1,073
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.99% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.29% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 619 784
10th Percentile £356 £355 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.28% -5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £613
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £463 £485
% change year-on-year +1.41% -4.64% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 12
10th Percentile £32.39 - £30.83
25th Percentile £35.25 £36.69 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £48.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +5.49% -32.59%
75th Percentile £64.00 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £85.74 £53.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -22.10% +171.02% -59.30%

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 43,357 27,782 37,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.01% 90.94% 85.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,993 17,554 23,597
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% -4.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,350 2,559
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £17.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +2.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.95 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.45 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +78.00% -34.42% +8.91%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 28 June 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 1,488 £500 -1.96% 292
London +13 754 £520 -3.21% 141
UK excluding London +16 743 £469 +1.41% 226
Work from Home +18 533 £500 - 146
Midlands +29 263 £459 +2.00% 45
West Midlands +46 232 £459 -7.74% 29
North of England -10 179 £463 -1.91% 49
South East +9 134 £475 -5.00% 76
North West -16 93 £450 -10.00% 30
South West -23 67 £523 +10.00% 29
Yorkshire -20 66 £500 +19.05% 12
Scotland -5 55 £425 -0.47% 11
East of England -8 44 £488 +8.33% 8
East Midlands -13 30 £525 +23.67% 16
North East -23 20 £550 +30.95% 8
Wales -13 8 £313 -26.04% 4
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -36.38% 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
1 145 (8.71%) Apache Spark
2 131 (7.87%) Apache Airflow
3 88 (5.29%) Apache
4 76 (4.56%) SAS
5 65 (3.90%) Confluence
6 17 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 15 (0.90%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
8 13 (0.78%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.54%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.42%) Appian
12 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
14 4 (0.24%) Camunda
15 3 (0.18%) Palantir Foundry
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 41 (2.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 5 (0.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 16 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
3 13 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 11 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.66%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.60%) Sage X3
6 8 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
7 7 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.30%) BambooHR
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
9 5 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.18%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 671 (40.30%) Azure
2 513 (30.81%) AWS
3 415 (24.92%) Power Platform
4 225 (13.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 201 (12.07%) GCP
6 182 (10.93%) Snowflake
7 156 (9.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 153 (9.19%) Amazon S3
9 151 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
10 143 (8.59%) Serverless
11 113 (6.79%) GitHub
12 111 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
13 110 (6.61%) dbt
14 56 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
15 49 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
16 47 (2.82%) Collibra
17 38 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
18 31 (1.86%) Power Automate
19 28 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.84%) HTTP
2 11 (0.66%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.36%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) 4G
6 1 (0.060%) 5G
6 1 (0.060%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.060%) DHCP
6 1 (0.060%) DNS
6 1 (0.060%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 504 (30.27%) Data Warehouse
2 395 (23.72%) Power BI
3 262 (15.74%) Data Lake
4 178 (10.69%) SQL Server
5 152 (9.13%) Metadata
6 106 (6.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 99 (5.95%) Tableau
9 98 (5.89%) Big Data
10 96 (5.77%) Delta Lake
11 91 (5.47%) Relational Database
12 85 (5.11%) Pentaho
13 83 (4.98%) NoSQL
14 81 (4.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 78 (4.68%) BigQuery
16 71 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
17 69 (4.14%) Snowflake Schema
18 64 (3.84%) Oracle Reports
19 62 (3.72%) Amazon Athena
20 49 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 195 (11.71%) Git
2 152 (9.13%) JIRA
3 98 (5.89%) GitLab
4 71 (4.26%) Jenkins
5 42 (2.52%) Postman
6 38 (2.28%) Zephyr
7 21 (1.26%) MLflow
8 13 (0.78%) Selenium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 6 (0.36%) JMeter
11 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Flyway
12 4 (0.24%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.24%) LSMW
12 4 (0.24%) MSTest
12 4 (0.24%) NUnit
12 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 421 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 412 (24.74%) Finance
3 287 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (10.51%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.45%) Banking
6 46 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (1.86%) Marketing
8 29 (1.74%) Retail
9 22 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.32%) Legal
10 21 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 20 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.08%) Telecoms
13 10 (0.60%) Billing
14 9 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 9 (0.54%) Law
14 9 (0.54%) Publishing
15 8 (0.48%) Front Office
15 8 (0.48%) Military
15 8 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 678 (40.72%) Data Engineer
2 218 (13.09%) Developer
3 210 (12.61%) Architect
4 193 (11.59%) Senior
5 177 (10.63%) Lead
6 130 (7.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.75%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.33%) Analyst
9 70 (4.20%) Data Analyst
10 53 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
11 51 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
12 49 (2.94%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 46 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
14 41 (2.46%) Python Engineer
15 40 (2.40%) Snowflake Engineer
15 40 (2.40%) SQL Developer
16 37 (2.22%) Lead Data Engineer
17 36 (2.16%) Azure Data Engineer
17 36 (2.16%) Data Migration Lead
18 34 (2.04%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.53%) PySpark
2 141 (8.47%) Kafka
3 81 (4.86%) REST
4 48 (2.88%) Pandas
5 47 (2.82%) JSON
6 44 (2.64%) .NET
7 39 (2.34%) XML
8 31 (1.86%) Middleware
9 27 (1.62%) Spring
10 25 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
10 25 (1.50%) PyTorch
10 25 (1.50%) Spring Boot
11 22 (1.32%) OAuth
11 22 (1.32%) RESTful
12 19 (1.14%) NumPy
12 19 (1.14%) pytest
13 18 (1.08%) React
13 18 (1.08%) Web Services
14 17 (1.02%) TensorFlow
15 16 (0.96%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.31%) Cloud Native
2 116 (6.97%) Data Structures
3 88 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 45 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 31 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 23 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 22 (1.32%) NHS
11 21 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
11 21 (1.26%) Reference Data
12 19 (1.14%) Clustering
13 16 (0.96%) Replication
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
15 14 (0.84%) Reinsurance
15 14 (0.84%) Taxonomies
16 13 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (2.22%) Unix
2 34 (2.04%) Linux
3 21 (1.26%) Windows
4 11 (0.66%) Solaris
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server
4 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.18%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 782 (46.97%) Data Modelling
2 660 (39.64%) Data Pipeline
3 644 (38.68%) Analytics
4 522 (31.35%) Data Engineering
5 494 (29.67%) Business Intelligence
6 488 (29.31%) CI/CD
7 436 (26.19%) Agile
8 420 (25.23%) Migration
9 370 (22.22%) DevOps
10 337 (20.24%) Data Governance
11 322 (19.34%) Validation
12 321 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
13 297 (17.84%) Data Integration
14 283 (17.00%) AI
15 257 (15.44%) Data Migration
16 254 (15.26%) Data Architecture
17 223 (13.39%) Decision-Making
18 215 (12.91%) Test Automation
19 201 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
20 178 (10.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,113 (66.85%) SQL
2 695 (41.74%) Python
3 141 (8.47%) Java
4 94 (5.65%) T-SQL
5 75 (4.50%) PL/SQL
6 74 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 64 (3.84%) C#
8 54 (3.24%) Scala
9 41 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 34 (2.04%) PowerShell
11 28 (1.68%) Bash
12 25 (1.50%) TypeScript
13 24 (1.44%) Shell Script
14 17 (1.02%) R
15 15 (0.90%) Bicep
16 10 (0.60%) Cypher
17 8 (0.48%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.48%) VBA
18 7 (0.42%) SAS Macro
18 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 455 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 378 (22.70%) SC Cleared
3 101 (6.07%) Degree
4 47 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 42 (2.52%) Azure Certification
7 34 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 29 (1.74%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.56%) AWS Certification
10 16 (0.96%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.24%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.18%) IBM Certification
16 2 (0.12%) CISA
16 2 (0.12%) CTC Cleared
16 2 (0.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 553 (33.21%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.89%) QA
3 113 (6.79%) GDPR
4 18 (1.08%) IFRS
4 18 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 17 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.90%) IFRS 17
7 13 (0.78%) PMO
7 13 (0.78%) SLA
8 8 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.48%) FATCA
8 8 (0.48%) GRC
9 6 (0.36%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.30%) GAAP
10 5 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
11 4 (0.24%) GMP
11 4 (0.24%) HL7
11 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (7.21%) Docker
2 8 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.30%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.060%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
6 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 150 (9.01%) Terraform
2 126 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 39 (2.34%) Grafana
4 17 (1.02%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.96%) Ansible
6 7 (0.42%) Control-M
7 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.12%) SCCM
10 1 (0.060%) Argo
10 1 (0.060%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.060%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.060%) Istio
10 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 332 (19.94%) Databricks
2 300 (18.02%) Oracle
3 299 (17.96%) Microsoft
4 161 (9.67%) Informatica
5 143 (8.59%) Talend
6 74 (4.44%) SAP
7 63 (3.78%) Denodo
7 63 (3.78%) Google
8 43 (2.58%) ServiceNow
9 39 (2.34%) IBM
10 32 (1.92%) Salesforce
11 25 (1.50%) Alteryx
12 21 (1.26%) Sage
13 20 (1.20%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.08%) Splunk
15 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
16 16 (0.96%) Workday
17 13 (0.78%) Palantir
18 12 (0.72%) Red Hat
19 11 (0.66%) ESRI