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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 84 83
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,720 949 1,049
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.26% 2.90% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.21% 3.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 649 763
10th Percentile £354 £359 £360
25th Percentile £414 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year - -1.38% -5.67%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £464 £475
% change year-on-year -0.27% -2.37% -8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 9
10th Percentile £29.96 - £28.64
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.69 -
Median hourly rate £41.78 £48.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +37.14% -46.15%
75th Percentile £60.75 £61.25 £51.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £85.74 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.78 £70.60 £26.05
% change year-on-year -40.83% +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 44,871 29,543 34,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.02% 90.39% 85.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,803 18,563 22,435
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.46%
75th Percentile £625 £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 2,660 1,589 2,131
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £13.46
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £17.25
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.13 £50.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.34 £40.00
% change year-on-year +82.83% -39.15% -1.95%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 1,525 £500 -0.89% 352
UK excluding London +18 781 £463 -0.27% 229
London +5 755 £525 -0.94% 163
Work from Home +19 541 £500 - 170
Midlands +23 279 £459 +1.94% 46
West Midlands +36 244 £450 -9.09% 30
North of England -4 185 £463 -2.63% 74
South East +14 138 £459 -2.34% 57
North West -15 83 £460 -8.00% 34
Yorkshire -14 78 £463 +9.47% 24
South West -26 68 £523 +10.00% 33
Scotland +3 57 £425 - 6
East of England +10 54 £481 -3.75% 8
East Midlands -12 34 £490 +10.96% 16
North East -15 25 £531 +11.79% 19
Wales -12 8 £313 -32.07% 5
Northern Ireland +3 3 £334 -36.38% 2

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
1 149 (8.66%) Apache Spark
2 137 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (6.10%) SAS
4 100 (5.81%) Apache
5 68 (3.95%) Confluence
6 21 (1.22%) Oracle Application Server
6 21 (1.22%) SharePoint
7 13 (0.76%) nginx
7 13 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.41%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.23%) Appian
12 4 (0.23%) Camunda
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
14 2 (0.12%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 40 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.41%) Notepad++
4 6 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 16 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
3 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.64%) Sage X3
5 10 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 9 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.41%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.17%) Actimize
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 666 (38.72%) Azure
2 521 (30.29%) AWS
3 405 (23.55%) Power Platform
4 218 (12.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 217 (12.62%) GCP
6 200 (11.63%) Snowflake
7 152 (8.84%) Amazon S3
7 152 (8.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 143 (8.31%) Serverless
9 142 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
10 125 (7.27%) dbt
11 116 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
12 104 (6.05%) GitHub
13 56 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.97%) Amazon EMR
15 49 (2.85%) Collibra
16 41 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
18 29 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 29 (1.69%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.81%) HTTP
2 12 (0.70%) Firewall
3 7 (0.41%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.41%) WinSCP
4 6 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.058%) DHCP
6 1 (0.058%) DNS
6 1 (0.058%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 552 (32.09%) Data Warehouse
2 387 (22.50%) Power BI
3 262 (15.23%) Data Lake
4 169 (9.83%) SQL Server
5 166 (9.65%) Metadata
6 107 (6.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 102 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 102 (5.93%) Big Data
7 102 (5.93%) Tableau
8 98 (5.70%) Relational Database
9 91 (5.29%) BigQuery
10 88 (5.12%) Delta Lake
11 82 (4.77%) Pentaho
12 80 (4.65%) NoSQL
13 78 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
14 73 (4.24%) Oracle Reports
15 65 (3.78%) Snowflake Schema
16 64 (3.72%) Azure SQL Database
17 60 (3.49%) Amazon Athena
18 53 (3.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (11.10%) Git
2 154 (8.95%) JIRA
3 91 (5.29%) GitLab
4 67 (3.90%) Jenkins
5 43 (2.50%) Zephyr
6 39 (2.27%) Postman
7 18 (1.05%) MLflow
8 13 (0.76%) Selenium
9 6 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.23%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.17%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) NUnit
12 3 (0.17%) SonarQube
General
1 410 (23.84%) Social Skills
2 388 (22.56%) Finance
3 308 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.16%) Public Sector
5 124 (7.21%) Banking
6 50 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.92%) Marketing
8 25 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 25 (1.45%) Legal
8 25 (1.45%) Retail
9 22 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 20 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 16 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 13 (0.76%) Law
12 13 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
13 12 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.64%) Billing
14 11 (0.64%) Front Office
15 9 (0.52%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 676 (39.30%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.36%) Developer
3 237 (13.78%) Architect
4 204 (11.86%) Senior
5 171 (9.94%) Lead
6 136 (7.91%) Senior Data Engineer
7 134 (7.79%) Data Architect
8 128 (7.44%) Analyst
9 69 (4.01%) Data Analyst
10 55 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
11 54 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
12 47 (2.73%) Azure Data Engineer
13 46 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 45 (2.62%) AWS Data Engineer
14 45 (2.62%) SQL Developer
14 45 (2.62%) Tester
15 44 (2.56%) Snowflake Engineer
16 42 (2.44%) Python Engineer
17 39 (2.27%) Lead Data Engineer
18 35 (2.03%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (10.70%) PySpark
2 144 (8.37%) Kafka
3 79 (4.59%) REST
4 61 (3.55%) JSON
5 46 (2.67%) Pandas
6 43 (2.50%) .NET
7 31 (1.80%) XML
8 30 (1.74%) Middleware
9 25 (1.45%) Spring
10 24 (1.40%) React
11 23 (1.34%) Spring Boot
12 21 (1.22%) RESTful
13 20 (1.16%) OAuth
13 20 (1.16%) PyTorch
14 18 (1.05%) NumPy
14 18 (1.05%) Web Services
14 18 (1.05%) YAML
15 16 (0.93%) Great Expectations
15 16 (0.93%) pytest
16 15 (0.87%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.48%) Cloud Native
2 119 (6.92%) Data Structures
3 86 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 58 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 53 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.51%) NHS
8 24 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 24 (1.40%) Reference Data
9 23 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
11 21 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 20 (1.16%) Clustering
12 20 (1.16%) Management Information System
13 18 (1.05%) Replication
14 13 (0.76%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.76%) IoT
14 13 (0.76%) Taxonomies
15 12 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.20%) Unix
2 52 (3.02%) Linux
3 20 (1.16%) Windows
4 10 (0.58%) Solaris
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 804 (46.74%) Data Modelling
2 704 (40.93%) Data Pipeline
3 666 (38.72%) Analytics
4 532 (30.93%) Data Engineering
5 506 (29.42%) CI/CD
6 490 (28.49%) Business Intelligence
7 460 (26.74%) Migration
8 457 (26.57%) Agile
9 376 (21.86%) Data Governance
10 367 (21.34%) DevOps
11 346 (20.12%) Validation
12 341 (19.83%) Data Integration
13 316 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
14 278 (16.16%) AI
15 274 (15.93%) Data Migration
16 253 (14.71%) Data Architecture
17 233 (13.55%) Test Automation
18 221 (12.85%) Decision-Making
19 209 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
20 201 (11.69%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,149 (66.80%) SQL
2 685 (39.83%) Python
3 148 (8.60%) Java
4 91 (5.29%) T-SQL
5 82 (4.77%) PL/SQL
6 73 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 59 (3.43%) C#
8 49 (2.85%) Scala
9 41 (2.38%) JavaScript
10 40 (2.33%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.09%) Shell Script
12 31 (1.80%) Bash
13 24 (1.40%) TypeScript
14 20 (1.16%) R
15 19 (1.10%) Bicep
16 9 (0.52%) VBA
17 8 (0.47%) Cypher
17 8 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.47%) SPARQL
18 7 (0.41%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 489 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 410 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 97 (5.64%) Degree
4 44 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 41 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 26 (1.51%) AWS Certification
10 21 (1.22%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.70%) SnowPro
12 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
14 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.29%) IBM Certification
15 4 (0.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.23%) CISM
15 4 (0.23%) CISSP
15 4 (0.23%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 593 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 150 (8.72%) QA
3 117 (6.80%) GDPR
4 31 (1.80%) GRC
5 25 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.81%) PMO
6 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (0.64%) IFRS
8 10 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 9 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.52%) SLA
10 8 (0.47%) FATCA
11 7 (0.41%) HL7
11 7 (0.41%) Solvency II
12 6 (0.35%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.35%) WCAG
13 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.23%) NIST
13 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 116 (6.74%) Docker
2 12 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (0.35%) HDFS
4 6 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 146 (8.49%) Terraform
2 126 (7.33%) Kubernetes
3 45 (2.62%) Grafana
4 20 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 19 (1.10%) Ansible
6 9 (0.52%) Control-M
7 7 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
8 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.17%) Foglight
10 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.058%) Argo
11 1 (0.058%) HP Fortify
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
1 332 (19.30%) Oracle
2 324 (18.84%) Databricks
3 298 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 166 (9.65%) Informatica
5 140 (8.14%) Talend
6 84 (4.88%) SAP
7 74 (4.30%) Google
8 62 (3.60%) Denodo
9 49 (2.85%) IBM
10 38 (2.21%) Salesforce
10 38 (2.21%) ServiceNow
11 28 (1.63%) Alteryx
12 23 (1.34%) Sage
13 20 (1.16%) Palantir
14 18 (1.05%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.05%) Splunk
15 17 (0.99%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.76%) Foundry
17 12 (0.70%) Cloudera
17 12 (0.70%) Red Hat