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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 86 79
Rank change year-on-year -3 -7 +30
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,685 978 1,033
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.05% 2.95% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 3.26% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 688 708
10th Percentile £361 £360 £358
25th Percentile £424 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £491
% change year-on-year -1.16% -3.26% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 12 5
10th Percentile £21.53 £32.78 -
25th Percentile £29.96 £35.81 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.25 £38.90 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.03% +11.15% -46.15%
75th Percentile £57.69 £47.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.55 £53.75 £48.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.74 £37.48 £27.50
% change year-on-year -4.65% +36.29% -61.81%

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 46,826 30,024 32,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.73% 90.50% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,144 18,679 19,408
10th Percentile £325 £294 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,407 1,886 1,245
10th Percentile £13.64 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.72 £65.07 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.27 £40.33
% change year-on-year +68.43% -44.79% -8.14%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -2 1,476 £490 -2.00% 1,079
London -2 767 £520 -0.95% 620
UK excluding London +14 716 £470 -1.16% 489
Work from Home -4 507 £490 -4.62% 515
Midlands +24 241 £469 -6.20% 89
West Midlands +24 213 £469 -8.49% 68
North of England -9 180 £473 -0.53% 145
South East +15 135 £461 +2.39% 95
South West -3 84 £505 +6.32% 43
North West -21 83 £475 -2.56% 93
Yorkshire +5 78 £475 +3.26% 33
Scotland -10 46 £425 -12.82% 46
East of England -20 35 £463 -11.90% 47
East Midlands -14 27 £481 +8.92% 21
North East -23 24 £500 +14.29% 20
Wales -17 7 £313 -36.87% 11
Northern Ireland 0 5 £398 -0.44% 18

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
1 151 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 144 (8.55%) Apache Airflow
3 121 (7.18%) Apache
4 106 (6.29%) SAS
5 70 (4.15%) Confluence
6 28 (1.66%) SharePoint
7 20 (1.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 11 (0.65%) nginx
9 10 (0.59%) ArcGIS
9 10 (0.59%) Palantir Foundry
10 8 (0.47%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.36%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
15 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) CMS
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
17 1 (0.059%) JBoss
Applications
1 34 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
6 4 (0.24%) Actimize
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Cloudability
7 3 (0.18%) Dynamics NAV
7 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 652 (38.69%) Azure
2 519 (30.80%) AWS
3 351 (20.83%) Power Platform
4 250 (14.84%) GCP
5 239 (14.18%) Snowflake
6 221 (13.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (8.61%) Azure DevOps
7 145 (8.61%) dbt
8 134 (7.95%) Amazon S3
9 130 (7.72%) Serverless
10 120 (7.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 107 (6.35%) GitHub
12 106 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
13 61 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
14 55 (3.26%) Azure Databricks
15 52 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
16 37 (2.20%) SaaS
17 36 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 28 (1.66%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (0.47%) Firewall
1 8 (0.47%) HTTP
2 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
2 3 (0.18%) DHCP
2 3 (0.18%) DNS
2 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (0.18%) Network Security
3 2 (0.12%) VPN
4 1 (0.059%) Broadband
4 1 (0.059%) DMZ
4 1 (0.059%) Internet
4 1 (0.059%) LTE
4 1 (0.059%) OpenFlow
4 1 (0.059%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 557 (33.06%) Data Warehouse
2 338 (20.06%) Power BI
3 259 (15.37%) Data Lake
4 158 (9.38%) Metadata
5 138 (8.19%) SQL Server
6 115 (6.82%) BigQuery
7 106 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
7 106 (6.29%) Relational Database
8 89 (5.28%) Delta Lake
9 88 (5.22%) Big Data
10 82 (4.87%) Tableau
11 78 (4.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 74 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
13 73 (4.33%) Pentaho
14 65 (3.86%) Oracle Reports
15 63 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
15 63 (3.74%) NoSQL
16 59 (3.50%) Oracle Database
17 50 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
18 45 (2.67%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 201 (11.93%) Git
2 147 (8.72%) JIRA
3 108 (6.41%) GitLab
4 64 (3.80%) Jenkins
5 38 (2.26%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.08%) Postman
7 16 (0.95%) Selenium
8 13 (0.77%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Claude Code
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.24%) ERwin
11 4 (0.24%) JUnit
11 4 (0.24%) Newman
11 4 (0.24%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 420 (24.93%) Social Skills
2 383 (22.73%) Finance
3 312 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 192 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 173 (10.27%) Banking
6 44 (2.61%) Retail
7 40 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (1.48%) Investment Banking
8 25 (1.48%) Manufacturing
9 24 (1.42%) Law
10 23 (1.36%) Marketing
11 21 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.19%) Front Office
12 20 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.19%) Legal
13 18 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.07%) Police
14 17 (1.01%) Billing
15 13 (0.77%) Military
16 11 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 670 (39.76%) Data Engineer
2 239 (14.18%) Senior
3 231 (13.71%) Developer
4 224 (13.29%) Architect
5 154 (9.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 146 (8.66%) Lead
7 135 (8.01%) Analyst
8 119 (7.06%) Data Architect
9 71 (4.21%) Data Analyst
10 70 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
11 68 (4.04%) Databricks Engineer
12 58 (3.44%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 49 (2.91%) Azure Data Engineer
14 47 (2.79%) Consultant
15 44 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
16 43 (2.55%) Snowflake Engineer
17 42 (2.49%) Tester
18 39 (2.31%) Python Engineer
19 36 (2.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
19 36 (2.14%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (9.91%) PySpark
2 151 (8.96%) Terraform
3 130 (7.72%) Kafka
4 83 (4.93%) REST
5 56 (3.32%) .NET
6 54 (3.20%) JSON
7 31 (1.84%) Middleware
8 30 (1.78%) XML
9 29 (1.72%) Pandas
10 28 (1.66%) React
11 19 (1.13%) pytest
11 19 (1.13%) Spring
11 19 (1.13%) Spring Boot
11 19 (1.13%) YAML
12 18 (1.07%) SOAP
13 14 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (0.83%) Web Services
14 13 (0.77%) HTML
14 13 (0.77%) LangChain
15 12 (0.71%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 167 (9.91%) Cloud Native
2 118 (7.00%) Data Structures
3 68 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
4 64 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.38%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
7 33 (1.96%) AI Agents
8 28 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 26 (1.54%) Reference Data
10 24 (1.42%) Replication
11 23 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.19%) NHS
13 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (0.95%) Algorithms
14 16 (0.95%) Clustering
15 14 (0.83%) Data Fabric
15 14 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
15 14 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
16 13 (0.77%) IoT
16 13 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.15%) Linux
2 51 (3.03%) Unix
3 18 (1.07%) Windows
4 4 (0.24%) Solaris
5 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.12%) HPUX
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (45.93%) Data Modelling
2 730 (43.32%) Data Pipeline
3 616 (36.56%) Analytics
4 580 (34.42%) Data Engineering
5 549 (32.58%) CI/CD
6 502 (29.79%) Agile
7 477 (28.31%) Migration
8 425 (25.22%) Business Intelligence
8 425 (25.22%) Data Integration
9 390 (23.15%) DevOps
10 372 (22.08%) Validation
11 363 (21.54%) Data Governance
12 330 (19.58%) AI
13 312 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 293 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
15 274 (16.26%) Data Migration
16 266 (15.79%) Data Transformation
17 242 (14.36%) Data Architecture
18 227 (13.47%) Test Automation
19 199 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1,125 (66.77%) SQL
2 700 (41.54%) Python
3 123 (7.30%) Java
4 83 (4.93%) PL/SQL
5 76 (4.51%) T-SQL
6 59 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 55 (3.26%) C#
8 52 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 47 (2.79%) Scala
10 41 (2.43%) PowerShell
11 36 (2.14%) Bash
12 34 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.36%) R
14 19 (1.13%) Bicep
14 19 (1.13%) TypeScript
15 13 (0.77%) Cypher
16 7 (0.42%) Go
16 7 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.42%) Perl
16 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 469 (27.83%) Security Cleared
2 411 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 64 (3.80%) Degree
4 57 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.49%) AWS Certification
6 34 (2.02%) ISTQB
7 33 (1.96%) Azure Certification
7 33 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 27 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (1.13%) Master's Degree
10 12 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 8 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.36%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 4 (0.24%) CBAP
15 4 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 3 (0.18%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 608 (36.08%) Data Quality
2 146 (8.66%) QA
3 78 (4.63%) GDPR
4 36 (2.14%) GRC
5 25 (1.48%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 10 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.53%) SLA
8 8 (0.47%) IFRS
8 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
9 7 (0.42%) HL7
10 6 (0.36%) NIST
10 6 (0.36%) WCAG
11 5 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
11 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 4 (0.24%) GAAP
12 4 (0.24%) NCSC
12 4 (0.24%) PMO
13 3 (0.18%) COREP
System Software
1 114 (6.77%) Docker
2 15 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.18%) HDFS
3 3 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 125 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 33 (1.96%) Grafana
3 24 (1.42%) Ansible
4 16 (0.95%) Control-M
5 15 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.24%) Kibana
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.12%) Istio
9 2 (0.12%) Puppet
10 1 (0.059%) Argo
10 1 (0.059%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.059%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.059%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.059%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 384 (22.79%) Databricks
2 298 (17.69%) Oracle
3 287 (17.03%) Microsoft
4 123 (7.30%) Informatica
5 114 (6.77%) Talend
6 95 (5.64%) Google
7 68 (4.04%) SAP
8 45 (2.67%) Denodo
8 45 (2.67%) IBM
9 39 (2.31%) Salesforce
10 31 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 25 (1.48%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 21 (1.25%) Foundry
14 19 (1.13%) Palantir
15 16 (0.95%) Teradata
16 10 (0.59%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.59%) Sage
17 9 (0.53%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.53%) ESRI