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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 86 82
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,672 940 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.06% 2.85% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 3.15% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,196 638 723
10th Percentile £360 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -1.11% -2.56% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 18 4
10th Percentile £21.25 £34.43 £30.75
25th Percentile £29.96 £36.36 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.98 £38.90 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -16.34% -35.42%
75th Percentile £56.19 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £70.11 £81.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.98 £58.83 £27.50
% change year-on-year -42.25% +113.93% -62.33%

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 46,152 29,871 33,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.59% 90.49% 85.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,085 18,553 20,430
10th Percentile £325 £300 £311
25th Percentile £425 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
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 3,056 1,793 1,507
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.23 £14.70
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.78 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.03 £22.58 £43.00
% change year-on-year +77.32% -47.50% +7.50%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +1 1,471 £500 - 813
London +1 777 £521 -0.71% 485
UK excluding London +7 692 £470 -1.11% 435
Work from Home +6 514 £500 - 598
Midlands +18 235 £469 -1.26% 67
West Midlands +25 202 £469 -8.04% 47
North of England -14 171 £466 -1.84% 89
South East +30 136 £450 - 122
Yorkshire -3 80 £463 +3.93% 28
North West -21 73 £470 -3.59% 51
South West -25 66 £523 +10.00% 66
East of England -6 44 £475 -9.52% 34
Scotland -22 41 £428 -10.00% 38
East Midlands -15 32 £490 +13.10% 19
North East -32 19 £500 +14.29% 11
Wales -16 7 £313 -43.18% 8
Northern Ireland -2 3 £334 -34.02% 14

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
1 142 (8.49%) Apache Airflow
2 136 (8.13%) Apache Spark
3 105 (6.28%) Apache
4 93 (5.56%) SAS
5 62 (3.71%) Confluence
6 26 (1.56%) Oracle Application Server
7 25 (1.50%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.78%) nginx
9 11 (0.66%) ArcGIS
10 10 (0.60%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
11 7 (0.42%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.30%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.24%) PowerExchange
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
15 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
15 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 37 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 7 (0.42%) Notepad++
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 21 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.48%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.30%) Sage X3
7 4 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.18%) Actimize
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.12%) Cerner Millennium
9 2 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
9 2 (0.12%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 664 (39.71%) Azure
2 501 (29.96%) AWS
3 374 (22.37%) Power Platform
4 234 (14.00%) Snowflake
5 230 (13.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 225 (13.46%) GCP
7 152 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (8.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 140 (8.37%) Serverless
10 138 (8.25%) dbt
11 132 (7.89%) Amazon S3
12 121 (7.24%) GitHub
13 111 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
14 60 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (2.75%) Azure Databricks
16 45 (2.69%) Amazon EMR
17 36 (2.15%) Collibra
18 35 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 31 (1.85%) Power Automate
20 30 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.66%) HTTP
2 10 (0.60%) Firewall
3 7 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.42%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.18%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.18%) DHCP
4 3 (0.18%) DNS
4 3 (0.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (0.18%) VPN
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.060%) DMZ
6 1 (0.060%) Internet
6 1 (0.060%) LTE
6 1 (0.060%) OpenFlow
6 1 (0.060%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 579 (34.63%) Data Warehouse
2 362 (21.65%) Power BI
3 260 (15.55%) Data Lake
4 175 (10.47%) Metadata
5 160 (9.57%) SQL Server
6 112 (6.70%) Relational Database
7 100 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 97 (5.80%) BigQuery
8 97 (5.80%) Delta Lake
9 90 (5.38%) Big Data
10 84 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 83 (4.96%) Tableau
12 75 (4.49%) Oracle Reports
13 73 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
14 68 (4.07%) NoSQL
15 62 (3.71%) Pentaho
16 60 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
16 60 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
16 60 (3.59%) Oracle Database
17 51 (3.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 182 (10.89%) Git
2 147 (8.79%) JIRA
3 105 (6.28%) GitLab
4 56 (3.35%) Jenkins
5 40 (2.39%) Zephyr
6 35 (2.09%) Postman
7 16 (0.96%) Selenium
8 15 (0.90%) MLflow
9 7 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 7 (0.42%) Terragrunt
10 6 (0.36%) Claude Code
11 5 (0.30%) Gatling
11 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.24%) ER Studio
12 4 (0.24%) ERwin
12 4 (0.24%) JUnit
12 4 (0.24%) Newman
13 3 (0.18%) JMeter
General
1 410 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 375 (22.43%) Finance
3 316 (18.90%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (11.06%) Public Sector
5 144 (8.61%) Banking
6 37 (2.21%) Retail
7 36 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 27 (1.61%) Marketing
9 25 (1.50%) Manufacturing
10 24 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.38%) Legal
12 21 (1.26%) Law
13 16 (0.96%) Financial Institution
14 15 (0.90%) Front Office
14 15 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.84%) Billing
15 14 (0.84%) Police
16 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.72%) Telecoms
18 11 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 658 (39.35%) Data Engineer
2 245 (14.65%) Developer
3 242 (14.47%) Senior
4 230 (13.76%) Architect
5 158 (9.45%) Lead
6 155 (9.27%) Senior Data Engineer
7 127 (7.60%) Data Architect
8 122 (7.30%) Analyst
9 69 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.59%) Data Analyst
11 56 (3.35%) Databricks Engineer
12 52 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
13 48 (2.87%) Databricks Data Engineer
14 47 (2.81%) AWS Engineer
15 44 (2.63%) Snowflake Engineer
15 44 (2.63%) Tester
16 40 (2.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 38 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
17 38 (2.27%) Consultant
17 38 (2.27%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (10.11%) PySpark
2 156 (9.33%) Terraform
3 135 (8.07%) Kafka
4 75 (4.49%) REST
5 59 (3.53%) JSON
6 50 (2.99%) .NET
7 30 (1.79%) XML
8 28 (1.67%) Pandas
8 28 (1.67%) React
9 26 (1.56%) Middleware
10 23 (1.38%) Spring
10 23 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 18 (1.08%) YAML
12 15 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (0.90%) SOAP
13 14 (0.84%) pytest
14 12 (0.72%) LangChain
14 12 (0.72%) OAuth
15 11 (0.66%) Playwright
15 11 (0.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.69%) Cloud Native
2 121 (7.24%) Data Structures
3 71 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
4 62 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (1.73%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.56%) NHS
9 24 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.44%) Reference Data
10 21 (1.26%) Replication
11 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 19 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 15 (0.90%) Algorithms
14 15 (0.90%) Clustering
14 15 (0.90%) Data Fabric
15 13 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
16 12 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 64 (3.83%) Linux
2 59 (3.53%) Unix
3 21 (1.26%) Windows
4 6 (0.36%) Solaris
5 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.12%) HPUX
8 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (47.25%) Data Modelling
2 710 (42.46%) Data Pipeline
3 635 (37.98%) Analytics
4 551 (32.95%) Data Engineering
5 528 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 480 (28.71%) Agile
7 449 (26.85%) Business Intelligence
8 448 (26.79%) Migration
9 397 (23.74%) Data Integration
10 392 (23.44%) DevOps
11 353 (21.11%) Data Governance
12 342 (20.45%) Validation
13 313 (18.72%) AI
14 297 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
15 284 (16.99%) Stakeholder Management
16 258 (15.43%) Data Migration
17 252 (15.07%) Data Architecture
18 237 (14.17%) Data Transformation
19 219 (13.10%) Test Automation
20 192 (11.48%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 1,104 (66.03%) SQL
2 650 (38.88%) Python
3 145 (8.67%) Java
4 90 (5.38%) PL/SQL
5 83 (4.96%) T-SQL
6 60 (3.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.29%) C#
8 52 (3.11%) Scala
9 48 (2.87%) JavaScript
10 46 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.33%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.97%) Bash
13 22 (1.32%) TypeScript
14 21 (1.26%) R
15 18 (1.08%) Bicep
16 13 (0.78%) Cypher
17 7 (0.42%) Perl
17 7 (0.42%) SPARQL
18 6 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 470 (28.11%) Security Cleared
2 405 (24.22%) SC Cleared
3 69 (4.13%) Degree
4 52 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 38 (2.27%) Azure Certification
6 31 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.61%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.56%) ISTQB
9 17 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 11 (0.66%) SnowPro
11 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.30%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.24%) CISM
14 4 (0.24%) CISSP
14 4 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.18%) CCSP
15 3 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 609 (36.42%) Data Quality
2 141 (8.43%) QA
3 79 (4.72%) GDPR
4 40 (2.39%) GRC
5 27 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.60%) HL7
9 8 (0.48%) IFRS
9 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.48%) WCAG
10 7 (0.42%) PMO
11 6 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.36%) NIST
12 5 (0.30%) FATCA
12 5 (0.30%) SLA
13 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
13 4 (0.24%) GAAP
13 4 (0.24%) NCSC
13 4 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 120 (7.18%) Docker
2 16 (0.96%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
5 2 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.060%) RACF
Systems Management
1 119 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.33%) Grafana
3 21 (1.26%) Ansible
4 16 (0.96%) Control-M
5 14 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.12%) Puppet
9 1 (0.060%) Argo
9 1 (0.060%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.060%) Foglight
9 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.060%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.060%) Istio
9 1 (0.060%) Kibana
9 1 (0.060%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.060%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 370 (22.13%) Databricks
2 324 (19.38%) Oracle
3 298 (17.82%) Microsoft
4 137 (8.19%) Informatica
5 116 (6.94%) Talend
6 76 (4.55%) Google
7 75 (4.49%) SAP
8 54 (3.23%) Denodo
9 49 (2.93%) IBM
10 36 (2.15%) Salesforce
11 34 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.73%) Alteryx
13 17 (1.02%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.02%) Palantir
13 17 (1.02%) Teradata
14 16 (0.96%) Foundry
15 11 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 10 (0.60%) Cloudera
16 10 (0.60%) ESRI
16 10 (0.60%) Sage