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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 76 99
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,156 933 985
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.10% 2.93% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.30% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 613 735
10th Percentile £362 £350 £381
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £633
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £525
% change year-on-year +1.42% -6.10% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 18
10th Percentile £32.50 - £45.28
25th Percentile £35.44 £26.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £47.36 £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.30% -42.15% +70.42%
75th Percentile £73.37 £78.70 £71.00
90th Percentile £79.25 £102.00 £72.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.80 £27.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +157.46% -45.00% +42.86%

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 32,749 28,251 37,925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.79% 88.81% 87.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,723 17,176 25,071
10th Percentile £304 £306 £304
25th Percentile £406 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £739 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,987 905 1,714
10th Percentile £14.52 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.75 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -18.75% +16.65%
75th Percentile £56.38 £62.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.25 £74.82 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.00 £30.78 £41.00
% change year-on-year -22.03% -24.93% +41.38%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -3 996 £500 -4.76% 475
London +17 616 £525 - 163
UK excluding London -19 396 £500 +1.42% 409
Work from Home -8 365 £513 +2.50% 237
Midlands -1 119 £519 +8.70% 55
North of England -47 108 £450 -2.70% 69
West Midlands -3 95 £525 +6.49% 29
North West -7 70 £429 -7.30% 34
South West -7 53 £550 -10.20% 45
South East -37 53 £431 -19.77% 170
Scotland +2 39 £500 +11.11% 16
Yorkshire -60 28 £475 +21.02% 26
East Midlands -18 24 £447 +18.02% 26
East of England -18 17 £575 +6.98% 40
Northern Ireland +11 15 £400 +3.23% 5
North East -11 9 £450 -9.09% 9
Wales -6 8 £495 -3.88% 16

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
1 105 (9.08%) Apache Spark
2 88 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
3 75 (6.49%) Apache
4 53 (4.58%) SAS
5 15 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 13 (1.12%) Confluence
7 7 (0.61%) Oracle Application Server
7 7 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.35%) Appian
9 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.26%) IIS
10 3 (0.26%) Luigi
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.17%) CMS
11 2 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) Moodle
Applications
1 48 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.61%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.35%) Trello
5 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.087%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 11 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
5 8 (0.69%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.43%) Maximo
8 5 (0.43%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.35%) SAP HR
10 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.26%) SAP PM
10 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 493 (42.65%) Azure
2 370 (32.01%) AWS
3 260 (22.49%) Power Platform
4 190 (16.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 158 (13.67%) GCP
6 152 (13.15%) Snowflake
7 131 (11.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 115 (9.95%) Amazon S3
9 107 (9.26%) Serverless
10 90 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
11 76 (6.57%) GitHub
12 70 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (4.76%) dbt
14 36 (3.11%) SaaS
15 35 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (2.16%) Azure Functions
16 25 (2.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 25 (2.16%) Power Automate
17 24 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.52%) 2G
1 6 (0.52%) 5G
1 6 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (0.43%) 4G
3 2 (0.17%) BGP
3 2 (0.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.17%) DSL
3 2 (0.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.17%) Firewall
3 2 (0.17%) HTTP
3 2 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.17%) OSPF
3 2 (0.17%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.087%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.087%) Internet
4 1 (0.087%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.087%) Multicast
4 1 (0.087%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (29.67%) Data Warehouse
2 245 (21.19%) Power BI
3 195 (16.87%) Data Lake
4 137 (11.85%) SQL Server
5 107 (9.26%) Metadata
6 84 (7.27%) Relational Database
7 83 (7.18%) PostgreSQL
8 82 (7.09%) Big Data
9 75 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 73 (6.31%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (5.80%) Tableau
12 64 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
13 56 (4.84%) BigQuery
14 55 (4.76%) NoSQL
15 54 (4.67%) Pentaho
16 50 (4.33%) Delta Lake
17 45 (3.89%) Snowflake Schema
18 44 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
18 44 (3.81%) Oracle Database
19 35 (3.03%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 136 (11.76%) Git
2 91 (7.87%) JIRA
3 73 (6.31%) Jenkins
4 44 (3.81%) GitLab
5 26 (2.25%) Postman
6 18 (1.56%) ERwin
7 14 (1.21%) MLflow
7 14 (1.21%) Selenium
8 11 (0.95%) JMeter
9 8 (0.69%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.61%) REST Assured
10 7 (0.61%) TestRail
11 6 (0.52%) DBeaver
11 6 (0.52%) ER Studio
12 5 (0.43%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.35%) Gatling
13 4 (0.35%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.35%) NeoLoad
13 4 (0.35%) Toad
14 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 351 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 300 (25.95%) Finance
3 193 (16.70%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 83 (7.18%) Banking
6 24 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (1.90%) Retail
8 21 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 18 (1.56%) Marketing
10 15 (1.30%) Legal
11 14 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 11 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.87%) Law
15 9 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.61%) Front Office
16 7 (0.61%) General Ledger
16 7 (0.61%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 420 (36.33%) Data Engineer
2 155 (13.41%) Developer
3 128 (11.07%) Senior
4 118 (10.21%) Lead
5 117 (10.12%) Analyst
6 110 (9.52%) Architect
7 77 (6.66%) Data Analyst
8 73 (6.31%) Senior Data Engineer
9 68 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 49 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (3.46%) Azure Data Engineer
12 36 (3.11%) Consultant
13 34 (2.94%) Python Engineer
14 33 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 32 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
16 30 (2.60%) Business Analyst
17 28 (2.42%) Senior Developer
17 28 (2.42%) Snowflake Engineer
18 26 (2.25%) AWS Data Engineer
19 22 (1.90%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (12.02%) PySpark
2 93 (8.04%) Kafka
3 82 (7.09%) REST
4 45 (3.89%) XML
5 40 (3.46%) JSON
6 39 (3.37%) Pandas
7 26 (2.25%) NumPy
8 25 (2.16%) .NET
8 25 (2.16%) Node.js
8 25 (2.16%) RESTful
9 22 (1.90%) OAuth
10 19 (1.64%) PyTorch
11 18 (1.56%) Middleware
12 17 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
12 17 (1.47%) SOAP
13 16 (1.38%) pytest
14 15 (1.30%) React
15 13 (1.12%) Hugging Face
15 13 (1.12%) TensorFlow
16 12 (1.04%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.35%) Data Structures
2 83 (7.18%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (2.25%) Algorithms
4 26 (2.25%) Product Ownership
5 20 (1.73%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (1.64%) Management Information System
7 18 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.56%) Replication
8 15 (1.30%) Reinsurance
9 13 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (0.95%) Data Centre
10 11 (0.95%) IoT
11 10 (0.87%) Data Fabric
12 9 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 36 (3.11%) Linux
2 19 (1.64%) Unix
3 11 (0.95%) Windows
4 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.17%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.087%) Solaris
6 1 (0.087%) VMS
6 1 (0.087%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (46.02%) Data Modelling
2 474 (41.00%) Analytics
3 448 (38.75%) Data Pipeline
4 370 (32.01%) Business Intelligence
5 334 (28.89%) Data Engineering
6 326 (28.20%) CI/CD
7 295 (25.52%) Agile
8 272 (23.53%) DevOps
9 264 (22.84%) Problem-Solving
10 257 (22.23%) Data Governance
11 223 (19.29%) Migration
12 209 (18.08%) Data Integration
13 183 (15.83%) Data Architecture
14 170 (14.71%) Validation
15 151 (13.06%) Data Migration
16 137 (11.85%) Data Science
17 127 (10.99%) AI
17 127 (10.99%) Data Transformation
18 124 (10.73%) Machine Learning
19 117 (10.12%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 739 (63.93%) SQL
2 570 (49.31%) Python
3 99 (8.56%) Java
4 50 (4.33%) C#
5 48 (4.15%) Scala
6 42 (3.63%) JavaScript
6 42 (3.63%) PL/SQL
7 41 (3.55%) T-SQL
8 37 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 26 (2.25%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 17 (1.47%) R
12 16 (1.38%) Go
13 15 (1.30%) PHP
13 15 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 14 (1.21%) Bash
15 12 (1.04%) Bicep
16 11 (0.95%) VBA
17 6 (0.52%) Cypher
17 6 (0.52%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 217 (18.77%) Security Cleared
2 169 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.66%) Degree
4 47 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (3.98%) Azure Certification
6 30 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.99%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.78%) PMP
11 7 (0.61%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.35%) MCP
14 3 (0.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 3 (0.26%) SnowPro
15 2 (0.17%) DBS Check
16 1 (0.087%) CBAP
16 1 (0.087%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 381 (32.96%) Data Quality
2 87 (7.53%) GDPR
3 85 (7.35%) QA
4 26 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.47%) IFRS
5 17 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.12%) IFRS 17
7 8 (0.69%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.43%) GAAP
8 5 (0.43%) MiFID
8 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.43%) SLA
9 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.26%) Basel III
9 3 (0.26%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.26%) NIST
9 3 (0.26%) PMO
9 3 (0.26%) WCAG
10 2 (0.17%) EMIR
10 2 (0.17%) NCSC
System Software
1 124 (10.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 5 (0.43%) zsh
3 3 (0.26%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.17%) KVM
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.087%) HDFS
5 1 (0.087%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 123 (10.64%) Kubernetes
2 107 (9.26%) Terraform
3 14 (1.21%) Ansible
4 13 (1.12%) Grafana
5 7 (0.61%) Kibana
6 6 (0.52%) logstash
7 5 (0.43%) Control-M
8 4 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.26%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.17%) SCCM
11 1 (0.087%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.087%) Hadoop YARN
11 1 (0.087%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.087%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.087%) Puppet
11 1 (0.087%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.087%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.087%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 245 (21.19%) Databricks
2 200 (17.30%) Microsoft
3 161 (13.93%) Oracle
4 78 (6.75%) Informatica
4 78 (6.75%) Talend
5 50 (4.33%) SAP
6 48 (4.15%) Google
7 41 (3.55%) Denodo
8 33 (2.85%) Salesforce
9 31 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 21 (1.82%) IBM
11 17 (1.47%) MuleSoft
12 16 (1.38%) Palantir
13 14 (1.21%) Workday
14 13 (1.12%) Foundry
15 11 (0.95%) Ab Initio
16 8 (0.69%) Alteryx
16 8 (0.69%) Cognos
17 7 (0.61%) OpenAI
18 6 (0.52%) VMware