ETL Contracts

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 85 98
Rank change year-on-year +3 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing ETL 929 1,074 1,360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.97% 2.47% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.90% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 787 977
10th Percentile £355 £363 £388
25th Percentile £417 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -5.86% +2.38%
75th Percentile £605 £606 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -4.64% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 14
10th Percentile - £30.83 £35.00
25th Percentile £36.69 £35.00 £39.69
Median hourly rate £48.00 £45.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% -32.59% +40.02%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.75 £78.00
90th Percentile £85.74 £53.55 £87.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.60 £26.05 £64.00
% change year-on-year +171.02% -59.30% +42.22%

All Process and 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 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

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Top 17 Contract 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 3 July 2025. 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 +5 809 £512 +0.39% 1,065
London -3 461 £537 +2.33% 694
UK excluding London +31 372 £463 -4.64% 459
Work from Home -9 316 £500 - 533
North of England -4 107 £475 -5.00% 124
Midlands +8 72 £451 +12.63% 79
North West -12 59 £500 -1.96% 68
South West +41 55 £475 -9.52% 55
Scotland +29 55 £427 -13.56% 40
South East +30 52 £500 +2.04% 114
Yorkshire +7 42 £423 -12.89% 30
West Midlands -13 35 £498 +32.67% 48
East Midlands +19 34 £442 -0.76% 30
East of England +30 26 £450 - 27
North East +2 7 £420 +17.48% 26
Northern Ireland -6 4 £525 +31.25% 16
Wales +6 3 £445 -11.00% 11

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 88 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
2 81 (8.72%) Apache Spark
3 63 (6.78%) Apache
4 40 (4.31%) Confluence
5 19 (2.05%) SAS
6 12 (1.29%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.43%) Oracle Application Server
7 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.32%) Luigi
8 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.22%) CICS
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Mule
10 1 (0.11%) nginx
Applications
1 35 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
5 1 (0.11%) Maple
5 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 17 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.40%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (1.29%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.65%) SAP PM
6 4 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.43%) NetSuite
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
8 2 (0.22%) Maximo
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 2 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
9 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 349 (37.57%) Azure
2 308 (33.15%) AWS
3 188 (20.24%) Power Platform
4 163 (17.55%) GCP
5 118 (12.70%) Snowflake
6 96 (10.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 81 (8.72%) Serverless
8 74 (7.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 73 (7.86%) dbt
10 69 (7.43%) Amazon S3
11 62 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
12 51 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (3.55%) GitHub
14 28 (3.01%) SaaS
15 27 (2.91%) PaaS
16 24 (2.58%) AWS CloudFormation
17 23 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (2.26%) IaaS
19 19 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
20 17 (1.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.18%) Firewall
2 9 (0.97%) VPN
3 4 (0.43%) Internet
4 2 (0.22%) DMZ
5 1 (0.11%) FTP
5 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.11%) Network Security
5 1 (0.11%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (33.26%) Data Warehouse
2 173 (18.62%) Power BI
3 110 (11.84%) Data Lake
4 105 (11.30%) SQL Server
5 80 (8.61%) Big Data
6 77 (8.29%) Relational Database
7 68 (7.32%) BigQuery
8 66 (7.10%) Tableau
9 64 (6.89%) NoSQL
10 61 (6.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (6.24%) Metadata
12 49 (5.27%) PostgreSQL
13 48 (5.17%) Hadoop
14 43 (4.63%) Azure SQL Database
14 43 (4.63%) Oracle Database
15 41 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (3.77%) Delta Lake
17 32 (3.44%) Amazon RDS
18 26 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
19 25 (2.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 59 (6.35%) JIRA
2 52 (5.60%) Git
3 25 (2.69%) ERwin
4 21 (2.26%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.72%) GitLab
6 12 (1.29%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.18%) ER Studio
7 11 (1.18%) PVCS
7 11 (1.18%) Subversion
8 10 (1.08%) Selenium
9 7 (0.75%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.43%) LSMW
10 4 (0.43%) Terragrunt
10 4 (0.43%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.32%) MLflow
11 3 (0.32%) Postman
11 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.22%) Gradle
12 2 (0.22%) Maven
12 2 (0.22%) PROIV
General
1 300 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 225 (24.22%) Finance
3 145 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.47%) Banking
5 55 (5.92%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.01%) Retail
7 27 (2.91%) Marketing
8 22 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.40%) Telecoms
12 12 (1.29%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.29%) Legal
13 11 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 10 (1.08%) Retail Banking
15 9 (0.97%) General Ledger
15 9 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.97%) Local Government
15 9 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 287 (30.89%) Data Engineer
2 148 (15.93%) Architect
3 132 (14.21%) Developer
4 104 (11.19%) Senior
5 96 (10.33%) Analyst
6 91 (9.80%) Data Architect
7 66 (7.10%) Lead
8 64 (6.89%) Data Analyst
9 61 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
10 42 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 36 (3.88%) Azure Data Engineer
12 33 (3.55%) Business Analyst
13 31 (3.34%) Consultant
14 30 (3.23%) Data Manager
15 26 (2.80%) SQL Developer
16 24 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 24 (2.58%) Data Modeller
16 24 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
17 22 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
18 21 (2.26%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (8.61%) PySpark
2 71 (7.64%) Kafka
3 23 (2.48%) JSON
3 23 (2.48%) XML
4 15 (1.61%) .NET
4 15 (1.61%) Middleware
4 15 (1.61%) RESTful
5 12 (1.29%) Pandas
5 12 (1.29%) REST
6 11 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
6 11 (1.18%) Java EE
6 11 (1.18%) Node.js
6 11 (1.18%) Web Services
7 10 (1.08%) OAuth
8 9 (0.97%) pytest
9 8 (0.86%) SOAP
10 7 (0.75%) AngularJS
10 7 (0.75%) Apache Avro
10 7 (0.75%) Django
10 7 (0.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (6.46%) Legacy Systems
2 57 (6.14%) Data Structures
3 45 (4.84%) Cloud Native
4 17 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (1.61%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.08%) Virtual Team
8 9 (0.97%) Management Information System
8 9 (0.97%) NHS
8 9 (0.97%) Replication
9 8 (0.86%) Data Fabric
9 8 (0.86%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (0.75%) IoT
10 7 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (2.48%) Linux
2 18 (1.94%) Unix
3 10 (1.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (38.00%) Data Modelling
2 291 (31.32%) Data Pipeline
3 275 (29.60%) Analytics
4 230 (24.76%) Data Engineering
5 227 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
6 218 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
7 214 (23.04%) Data Governance
8 211 (22.71%) Migration
9 188 (20.24%) Data Integration
10 152 (16.36%) Agile
11 151 (16.25%) Data Migration
12 140 (15.07%) CI/CD
12 140 (15.07%) DevOps
13 132 (14.21%) Visualisation
14 115 (12.38%) Data Architecture
14 115 (12.38%) Data Transformation
15 114 (12.27%) Validation
16 99 (10.66%) Data Science
17 96 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 91 (9.80%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 604 (65.02%) SQL
2 392 (42.20%) Python
3 96 (10.33%) Java
4 61 (6.57%) Scala
5 42 (4.52%) PL/SQL
6 40 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 33 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 28 (3.01%) C#
8 28 (3.01%) R
9 23 (2.48%) JavaScript
10 15 (1.61%) C
10 15 (1.61%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.51%) Bash
12 11 (1.18%) Bicep
12 11 (1.18%) ProC
12 11 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 8 (0.86%) ABAP
13 8 (0.86%) Go
14 7 (0.75%) PHP
14 7 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (11.41%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.32%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.00%) Degree
4 30 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 30 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.05%) AWS Certification
6 17 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 13 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 9 (0.97%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.32%) MCSE
11 3 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.22%) PMP
12 2 (0.22%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.11%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.11%) SAFe Agilist
13 1 (0.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (25.83%) Data Quality
2 56 (6.03%) GDPR
3 45 (4.84%) QA
4 23 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.08%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.54%) IFRS
7 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.43%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.43%) SLA
9 3 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.32%) GAAP
9 3 (0.32%) HL7
9 3 (0.32%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.22%) Basel III
10 2 (0.22%) EMIR
10 2 (0.22%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (6.57%) Docker
2 8 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.32%) HDFS
5 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.11%) NFS
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 72 (7.75%) Terraform
2 66 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.51%) Grafana
4 13 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (0.75%) Ansible
6 5 (0.54%) Control-M
6 5 (0.54%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.32%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.11%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.11%) Istio
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) linkerd
9 1 (0.11%) logstash
9 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 132 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 128 (13.78%) Databricks
3 111 (11.95%) Oracle
4 81 (8.72%) Google
5 65 (7.00%) Informatica
6 55 (5.92%) SAP
7 25 (2.69%) Talend
8 19 (2.05%) Teradata
9 18 (1.94%) IBM
10 15 (1.61%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.40%) MuleSoft
12 11 (1.18%) Alteryx
13 10 (1.08%) Adobe
13 10 (1.08%) Palantir
14 8 (0.86%) Splunk
14 8 (0.86%) Workday
15 6 (0.65%) Foundry
15 6 (0.65%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.54%) AppDynamics
16 5 (0.54%) MicroStrategy