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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 84 85
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,735 948 987
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.25% 2.88% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.83% 3.18% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 638 706
10th Percentile £358 £354 £360
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.98%
75th Percentile £590 £603 £620
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £473 £480
% change year-on-year -0.74% -1.56% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 8
10th Percentile £22.12 £36.15 £27.78
25th Percentile £30.21 £36.69 £33.84
Median hourly rate £34.49 £43.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +12.26% -40.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.35 £82.72 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.49 £62.50 £26.05
% change year-on-year -44.82% +139.92% -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 45,312 29,789 33,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.84% 90.47% 85.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,886 18,626 21,285
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,829 1,693 1,837
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £18.35
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.74 £42.50
% change year-on-year +93.36% -46.51% +17.24%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +9 1,557 £500 -0.79% 483
UK excluding London +24 784 £469 -0.74% 277
London +1 769 £525 - 265
Work from Home +17 536 £500 - 226
Midlands +21 294 £459 -0.38% 54
West Midlands +37 259 £459 -8.20% 41
North of England -11 185 £475 - 63
South East +10 148 £459 - 80
Yorkshire -4 84 £463 +6.32% 16
North West -16 77 £463 -7.50% 37
South West -22 65 £523 +13.59% 33
East of England +6 52 £469 -14.77% 14
Scotland -10 41 £428 -0.35% 19
East Midlands -13 34 £490 +14.22% 13
North East -21 25 £520 +15.56% 11
Wales -7 7 £313 -33.86% 9
Northern Ireland +1 3 £334 -34.83% 5

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
1 133 (7.67%) Apache Spark
2 129 (7.44%) Apache Airflow
3 119 (6.86%) SAS
4 96 (5.53%) Apache
5 67 (3.86%) Confluence
6 27 (1.56%) SharePoint
7 26 (1.50%) Oracle Application Server
8 13 (0.75%) nginx
9 12 (0.69%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.58%) ArcGIS
11 9 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
12 7 (0.40%) WebLogic
13 5 (0.29%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.23%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
15 3 (0.17%) Camunda
15 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
16 2 (0.12%) Apache Pig
16 2 (0.12%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (2.31%) 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
3 10 (0.58%) Sage X3
4 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.29%) BambooHR
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle 11i
5 5 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.17%) Actimize
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 675 (38.90%) Azure
2 522 (30.09%) AWS
3 414 (23.86%) Power Platform
4 237 (13.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 217 (12.51%) GCP
6 214 (12.33%) Snowflake
7 151 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 145 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
9 141 (8.13%) Amazon S3
9 141 (8.13%) Serverless
10 120 (6.92%) dbt
11 113 (6.51%) AWS Lambda
12 108 (6.22%) GitHub
13 57 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
14 47 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
15 41 (2.36%) Collibra
16 39 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 31 (1.79%) Power Automate
18 28 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (0.69%) Firewall
2 11 (0.63%) HTTP
3 7 (0.40%) PuTTY
3 7 (0.40%) VPN
3 7 (0.40%) WinSCP
4 3 (0.17%) BIG-IP
4 3 (0.17%) DHCP
4 3 (0.17%) DNS
4 3 (0.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (0.12%) Network Security
6 1 (0.058%) 4G
6 1 (0.058%) 5G
6 1 (0.058%) LTE
6 1 (0.058%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 591 (34.06%) Data Warehouse
2 397 (22.88%) Power BI
3 261 (15.04%) Data Lake
4 166 (9.57%) SQL Server
5 161 (9.28%) Metadata
6 103 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 103 (5.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
8 97 (5.59%) Tableau
9 94 (5.42%) Delta Lake
10 93 (5.36%) BigQuery
11 88 (5.07%) Pentaho
12 86 (4.96%) Big Data
13 80 (4.61%) Oracle Reports
14 78 (4.50%) NoSQL
15 74 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
16 66 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
17 64 (3.69%) Snowflake Schema
18 57 (3.29%) Amazon Athena
19 51 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 202 (11.64%) Git
2 157 (9.05%) JIRA
3 100 (5.76%) GitLab
4 74 (4.27%) Jenkins
5 50 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 47 (2.71%) Postman
7 14 (0.81%) Selenium
8 11 (0.63%) MLflow
9 7 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.29%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.29%) Gatling
10 5 (0.29%) Terragrunt
11 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.23%) Flyway
11 4 (0.23%) LSMW
11 4 (0.23%) Newman
11 4 (0.23%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.17%) ERwin
12 3 (0.17%) JMeter
General
1 419 (24.15%) Social Skills
2 384 (22.13%) Finance
3 321 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 129 (7.44%) Banking
6 39 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (1.90%) Retail
8 30 (1.73%) Marketing
9 28 (1.61%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 22 (1.27%) Legal
12 21 (1.21%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 13 (0.75%) Front Office
15 12 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.69%) Law
15 12 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (0.63%) Billing
17 10 (0.58%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 687 (39.60%) Data Engineer
2 247 (14.24%) Developer
3 230 (13.26%) Architect
4 218 (12.56%) Senior
5 175 (10.09%) Lead
6 142 (8.18%) Senior Data Engineer
7 127 (7.32%) Data Architect
8 124 (7.15%) Analyst
9 63 (3.63%) Azure Engineer
10 60 (3.46%) Data Analyst
11 54 (3.11%) AWS Engineer
12 52 (3.00%) Azure Data Engineer
13 50 (2.88%) Tester
14 48 (2.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 44 (2.54%) AWS Data Engineer
16 43 (2.48%) Snowflake Engineer
17 41 (2.36%) SQL Developer
18 40 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
19 38 (2.19%) Python Engineer
20 37 (2.13%) Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (10.26%) PySpark
2 135 (7.78%) Kafka
3 74 (4.27%) REST
4 53 (3.05%) JSON
5 44 (2.54%) .NET
6 37 (2.13%) Pandas
7 27 (1.56%) Middleware
8 26 (1.50%) React
9 25 (1.44%) Spring
10 24 (1.38%) XML
11 23 (1.33%) Spring Boot
12 20 (1.15%) YAML
13 16 (0.92%) OAuth
14 15 (0.86%) RESTful
15 14 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
15 14 (0.81%) SOAP
16 13 (0.75%) pytest
17 12 (0.69%) Great Expectations
17 12 (0.69%) HTML
17 12 (0.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 114 (6.57%) Data Structures
3 81 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
4 55 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 53 (3.05%) Onboarding
6 37 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (1.50%) NHS
8 22 (1.27%) AI Agents
8 22 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.21%) Clustering
10 20 (1.15%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
11 18 (1.04%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.04%) Replication
12 14 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.63%) Algorithms
13 11 (0.63%) IoT
13 11 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 61 (3.52%) Linux
2 54 (3.11%) Unix
3 17 (0.98%) Windows
4 9 (0.52%) Solaris
5 8 (0.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.12%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 821 (47.32%) Data Modelling
2 723 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 680 (39.19%) Analytics
4 537 (30.95%) Data Engineering
5 524 (30.20%) CI/CD
6 501 (28.88%) Business Intelligence
7 495 (28.53%) Agile
8 469 (27.03%) Migration
9 395 (22.77%) DevOps
10 377 (21.73%) Data Integration
11 359 (20.69%) Data Governance
12 334 (19.25%) Validation
13 314 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
14 283 (16.31%) Data Migration
15 270 (15.56%) AI
16 249 (14.35%) Test Automation
17 243 (14.01%) Data Architecture
18 236 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
19 223 (12.85%) Decision-Making
20 221 (12.74%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1,160 (66.86%) SQL
2 663 (38.21%) Python
3 146 (8.41%) Java
4 91 (5.24%) T-SQL
5 84 (4.84%) PL/SQL
6 75 (4.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 55 (3.17%) C#
8 48 (2.77%) Scala
9 47 (2.71%) JavaScript
10 44 (2.54%) PowerShell
11 39 (2.25%) Bash
12 32 (1.84%) Shell Script
13 20 (1.15%) R
13 20 (1.15%) TypeScript
14 19 (1.10%) Bicep
15 9 (0.52%) Cypher
16 8 (0.46%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.46%) VBA
17 7 (0.40%) SAS Macro
17 7 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 499 (28.76%) Security Cleared
2 425 (24.50%) SC Cleared
3 76 (4.38%) Degree
4 47 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.42%) Azure Certification
6 39 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.96%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.50%) AWS Certification
9 22 (1.27%) DV Cleared
10 15 (0.86%) 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
14 4 (0.23%) TOGAF Certification
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 610 (35.16%) Data Quality
2 152 (8.76%) QA
3 99 (5.71%) GDPR
4 39 (2.25%) GRC
5 25 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.69%) PMO
8 9 (0.52%) HL7
8 9 (0.52%) IFRS
8 9 (0.52%) SLA
9 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
9 8 (0.46%) WCAG
10 6 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.29%) FATCA
11 5 (0.29%) NIST
12 4 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
12 4 (0.23%) GAAP
12 4 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 130 (7.49%) Docker
2 16 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (0.29%) HDFS
4 5 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.12%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.058%) RACF
6 1 (0.058%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 149 (8.59%) Terraform
2 132 (7.61%) Kubernetes
3 44 (2.54%) Grafana
4 21 (1.21%) Ansible
5 17 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.63%) Control-M
7 6 (0.35%) HP ALM
7 6 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 3 (0.17%) Foglight
9 2 (0.12%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.058%) Argo
10 1 (0.058%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.058%) IBM Guardium
10 1 (0.058%) Istio
10 1 (0.058%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Puppet
10 1 (0.058%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 344 (19.83%) Databricks
1 344 (19.83%) Oracle
2 307 (17.69%) Microsoft
3 154 (8.88%) Informatica
4 138 (7.95%) Talend
5 82 (4.73%) SAP
6 73 (4.21%) Google
7 68 (3.92%) Denodo
8 47 (2.71%) IBM
9 37 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 36 (2.07%) Salesforce
11 29 (1.67%) Alteryx
12 22 (1.27%) Sage
13 21 (1.21%) Palantir
14 16 (0.92%) MuleSoft
15 15 (0.86%) Foundry
16 13 (0.75%) Cloudera
16 13 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 12 (0.69%) Teradata
17 12 (0.69%) Workday