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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 85 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,730 942 979
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.23% 2.85% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.14% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 631 703
10th Percentile £359 £356 £360
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £475 £485
% change year-on-year -1.17% -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% -40.56%
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% -59.77%

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 45,350 29,954 33,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.75% 90.50% 85.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,857 18,668 21,203
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £424 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.31%
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 2,845 1,726 1,796
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.31 £18.23
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.97
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -38.61% -1.28%
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% +13.33%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +11 1,541 £500 - 365
UK excluding London +20 778 £469 -1.17% 233
London +1 758 £525 - 187
Work from Home +22 533 £500 - 171
Midlands +25 289 £459 -0.76% 53
West Midlands +31 253 £459 -8.20% 44
North of England -13 180 £475 - 54
South East +19 149 £459 +2.00% 73
Yorkshire +2 81 £475 +11.76% 11
North West -19 75 £475 -5.00% 29
South West -25 67 £523 +11.76% 25
East of England +8 55 £475 -13.64% 9
Scotland -8 39 £440 +2.33% 3
East Midlands -14 35 £486 +12.06% 9
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 14
Wales -10 7 £313 -33.86% 8
Northern Ireland 0 3 £334 -34.83% 8

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
1 136 (7.86%) Apache Spark
2 131 (7.57%) Apache Airflow
3 115 (6.65%) SAS
4 98 (5.66%) Apache
5 67 (3.87%) Confluence
6 29 (1.68%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.64%) nginx
9 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.58%) Tomcat
10 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.35%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.29%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.23%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 35 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.40%) 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 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.40%) 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%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 678 (39.19%) Azure
2 521 (30.12%) AWS
3 414 (23.93%) Power Platform
4 238 (13.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 222 (12.83%) GCP
6 214 (12.37%) Snowflake
7 149 (8.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 144 (8.32%) Azure DevOps
9 136 (7.86%) Amazon S3
10 135 (7.80%) Serverless
11 124 (7.17%) dbt
12 116 (6.71%) GitHub
13 108 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
14 61 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
15 47 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
16 40 (2.31%) Collibra
17 33 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 31 (1.79%) Power Automate
19 27 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
19 27 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 10 (0.58%) HTTP
3 8 (0.46%) VPN
4 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
4 7 (0.40%) 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
1 597 (34.51%) Data Warehouse
2 398 (23.01%) Power BI
3 261 (15.09%) Data Lake
4 163 (9.42%) SQL Server
5 159 (9.19%) Metadata
6 106 (6.13%) Relational Database
7 104 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 98 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 96 (5.55%) BigQuery
10 94 (5.43%) Tableau
11 91 (5.26%) Delta Lake
12 87 (5.03%) Pentaho
13 86 (4.97%) Big Data
14 80 (4.62%) Oracle Reports
15 78 (4.51%) NoSQL
15 78 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
17 61 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
18 58 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
19 52 (3.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 201 (11.62%) Git
2 156 (9.02%) JIRA
3 104 (6.01%) GitLab
4 75 (4.34%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.89%) Zephyr
6 46 (2.66%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 11 (0.64%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) 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
1 414 (23.93%) Social Skills
2 369 (21.33%) Finance
3 318 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.46%) Banking
6 37 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (2.02%) Retail
8 30 (1.73%) Marketing
9 29 (1.68%) Manufacturing
10 28 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.39%) Legal
12 19 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.04%) Law
14 16 (0.92%) Telecoms
15 14 (0.81%) Front Office
16 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.64%) Police
18 10 (0.58%) Billing
18 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 683 (39.48%) Data Engineer
2 253 (14.62%) Developer
3 235 (13.58%) Architect
4 225 (13.01%) Senior
5 177 (10.23%) Lead
6 146 (8.44%) Senior Data Engineer
7 129 (7.46%) Data Architect
8 118 (6.82%) Analyst
9 64 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
10 57 (3.29%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.12%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (3.01%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.89%) Tester
14 47 (2.72%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 44 (2.54%) Snowflake Engineer
16 43 (2.49%) AWS Data Engineer
17 40 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
17 40 (2.31%) SQL Developer
18 39 (2.25%) Data Migration Lead
18 39 (2.25%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (10.00%) PySpark
2 138 (7.98%) Kafka
3 78 (4.51%) REST
4 56 (3.24%) JSON
5 45 (2.60%) .NET
6 34 (1.97%) Pandas
7 28 (1.62%) React
8 26 (1.50%) Middleware
8 26 (1.50%) XML
9 23 (1.33%) Spring
10 22 (1.27%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.10%) YAML
12 15 (0.87%) pytest
12 15 (0.87%) RESTful
13 14 (0.81%) OAuth
13 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.81%) SOAP
14 12 (0.69%) HTML
15 11 (0.64%) GraphQL
15 11 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.36%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 80 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (1.45%) NHS
8 23 (1.33%) AI Agents
9 22 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.21%) Clustering
10 21 (1.21%) Reference Data
11 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
12 18 (1.04%) Replication
13 15 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.75%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.64%) Data Fabric
15 11 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
16 10 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 61 (3.53%) Linux
2 55 (3.18%) Unix
3 16 (0.92%) Windows
4 7 (0.40%) Solaris
5 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 814 (47.05%) Data Modelling
2 716 (41.39%) Data Pipeline
3 670 (38.73%) Analytics
4 534 (30.87%) Data Engineering
5 527 (30.46%) CI/CD
6 502 (29.02%) Agile
7 500 (28.90%) Business Intelligence
8 471 (27.23%) Migration
9 394 (22.77%) DevOps
10 387 (22.37%) Data Integration
11 360 (20.81%) Data Governance
12 325 (18.79%) Validation
13 314 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
14 287 (16.59%) Data Migration
15 278 (16.07%) AI
16 250 (14.45%) Test Automation
17 246 (14.22%) Data Architecture
18 244 (14.10%) Stakeholder Management
19 231 (13.35%) Data Transformation
20 216 (12.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1,151 (66.53%) SQL
2 655 (37.86%) Python
3 152 (8.79%) Java
4 88 (5.09%) PL/SQL
4 88 (5.09%) T-SQL
5 71 (4.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 53 (3.06%) C#
7 50 (2.89%) Scala
8 49 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 44 (2.54%) PowerShell
10 36 (2.08%) Bash
11 34 (1.97%) Shell Script
12 21 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 20 (1.16%) R
14 17 (0.98%) Bicep
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
15 9 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
16 7 (0.40%) VBA
17 6 (0.35%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 495 (28.61%) Security Cleared
2 420 (24.28%) SC Cleared
3 78 (4.51%) Degree
4 45 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (2.37%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.97%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.56%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.92%) Master's Degree
11 12 (0.69%) 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%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (35.26%) Data Quality
2 148 (8.55%) QA
3 95 (5.49%) GDPR
4 39 (2.25%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 13 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.58%) HL7
9 9 (0.52%) IFRS
9 9 (0.52%) PMO
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
10 8 (0.46%) WCAG
11 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.29%) FATCA
12 5 (0.29%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) GAAP
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 129 (7.46%) Docker
2 16 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
5 4 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.058%) RACF
7 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 152 (8.79%) Terraform
2 129 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 42 (2.43%) Grafana
4 22 (1.27%) Ansible
5 15 (0.87%) Control-M
6 12 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.12%) Puppet
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.058%) Istio
11 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 353 (20.40%) Databricks
2 350 (20.23%) Oracle
3 306 (17.69%) Microsoft
4 159 (9.19%) Informatica
5 138 (7.98%) Talend
6 80 (4.62%) SAP
7 76 (4.39%) Google
8 69 (3.99%) Denodo
9 47 (2.72%) IBM
10 37 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 36 (2.08%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.68%) Alteryx
13 21 (1.21%) Palantir
13 21 (1.21%) Sage
14 16 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.87%) Foundry
16 14 (0.81%) Teradata
17 13 (0.75%) Cloudera
17 13 (0.75%) OpenAI
18 12 (0.69%) Workday