Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 100 94
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,006 1,471 2,471
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.33% 2.49% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.70% 2.77% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 1,051 1,720
10th Percentile £375 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £625
90th Percentile £738 £719 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 18 14
10th Percentile £28.54 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.25 £35.56
Median hourly rate £49.50 £46.82 £43.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% +8.24% +46.61%
75th Percentile £53.25 £68.75 £51.91
90th Percentile £63.70 £78.60 £64.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.37 £39.88 £39.73
% change year-on-year -23.84% +0.36% +58.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,262 53,150 80,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.86% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,013 36,862 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,756 1,916
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
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 4 May 2024. 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 +1 868 £525 -2.33% 414
London +17 538 £525 -4.55% 205
Work from Home +6 388 £500 -4.76% 252
UK excluding London -29 322 £500 - 218
North of England +30 105 £510 +2.00% 59
North West +31 76 £525 +13.51% 39
Midlands +2 70 £463 -14.35% 59
South East -20 54 £500 - 32
West Midlands -12 51 £425 -21.30% 37
South West 0 40 £525 +5.00% 29
Scotland -22 30 £486 -0.87% 8
Yorkshire +3 24 £475 -20.83% 16
East of England -12 20 £475 +26.67% 18
East Midlands +25 18 £513 +12.64% 22
North East +19 5 £392 -34.67% 4
Wales +10 4 £400 -20.00% 7
Northern Ireland 0 2 £400 -5.88% 8

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 90 (8.95%) Apache Spark
2 39 (3.88%) Apache
3 29 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 10 (0.99%) Site Server
6 8 (0.80%) SAS
7 7 (0.70%) Confluence
8 5 (0.50%) CMS
9 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) IIS
11 1 (0.099%) JBoss
11 1 (0.099%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.099%) Luigi
11 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.099%) WildFly
Applications
1 31 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 15 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.099%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.19%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 4 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 4 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 364 (36.18%) Azure
2 258 (25.65%) AWS
3 249 (24.75%) Power Platform
4 120 (11.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 109 (10.83%) GCP
6 98 (9.74%) Serverless
7 82 (8.15%) Amazon S3
8 74 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
9 72 (7.16%) Snowflake
10 62 (6.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 44 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (3.38%) dbt
13 33 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
14 28 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
14 28 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
14 28 (2.78%) Collibra
15 23 (2.29%) GitHub
16 20 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.89%) Amazon MSK
17 19 (1.89%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) FTP
2 7 (0.70%) Internet
3 4 (0.40%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (35.59%) Data Warehouse
2 237 (23.56%) Power BI
3 172 (17.10%) SQL Server
4 117 (11.63%) Data Lake
5 113 (11.23%) Big Data
6 110 (10.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 87 (8.65%) Tableau
8 85 (8.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 68 (6.76%) Relational Database
10 59 (5.86%) NoSQL
11 58 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (5.47%) Metadata
13 53 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 46 (4.57%) BigQuery
15 41 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 40 (3.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 36 (3.58%) MySQL
18 34 (3.38%) Parquet
19 30 (2.98%) Hadoop
20 28 (2.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 57 (5.67%) Git
2 35 (3.48%) JIRA
3 25 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.59%) GitLab
4 16 (1.59%) Selenium
5 14 (1.39%) ERwin
6 12 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 8 (0.80%) webpack
8 6 (0.60%) Appium
8 6 (0.60%) JUnit
8 6 (0.60%) Postman
8 6 (0.60%) SoapUI
8 6 (0.60%) TestNG
9 5 (0.50%) eggPlant
9 5 (0.50%) ER Studio
9 5 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 5 (0.50%) SOAtest
9 5 (0.50%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 237 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 175 (17.40%) Finance
3 134 (13.32%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.26%) Public Sector
5 52 (5.17%) Banking
6 28 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 26 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 22 (2.19%) Marketing
8 22 (2.19%) Retail
9 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
10 14 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (1.19%) Publishing
12 9 (0.89%) Legal
13 8 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.80%) Law
14 7 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.60%) Electronics
15 6 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.50%) Back Office
17 4 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 332 (33.00%) Data Engineer
2 174 (17.30%) Developer
3 127 (12.62%) Architect
4 100 (9.94%) Senior
5 81 (8.05%) Data Architect
6 72 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (6.76%) Analyst
8 64 (6.36%) Azure Data Engineer
8 64 (6.36%) Lead
9 45 (4.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 45 (4.47%) Data Analyst
10 43 (4.27%) Consultant
11 35 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (3.18%) Senior Data Engineer
13 29 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
15 24 (2.39%) ETL Developer
15 24 (2.39%) Power BI Developer
16 21 (2.09%) Integration Engineer
16 21 (2.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (7.65%) PySpark
2 47 (4.67%) JSON
3 45 (4.47%) Kafka
4 32 (3.18%) Apache Avro
5 29 (2.88%) XML
6 19 (1.89%) REST
7 18 (1.79%) .NET
8 16 (1.59%) Node.js
9 15 (1.49%) Web Services
10 14 (1.39%) Middleware
11 13 (1.29%) JSON Schema
11 13 (1.29%) React
12 12 (1.19%) Spring
13 9 (0.89%) RESTful
14 8 (0.80%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.80%) AWS CDK
14 8 (0.80%) Express.js
14 8 (0.80%) Redux
14 8 (0.80%) SAML
15 7 (0.70%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 39 (3.88%) Data Structures
2 28 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 26 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.49%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 20 (1.99%) Replication
7 16 (1.59%) Product Ownership
7 16 (1.59%) Reference Data
8 15 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.19%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (0.99%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.80%) Hedge funds
14 8 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
15 6 (0.60%) Life Science
15 6 (0.60%) Smart Meter
15 6 (0.60%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.48%) Unix
2 31 (3.08%) Windows
3 26 (2.58%) Linux
4 7 (0.70%) zOS
5 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (37.57%) Data Modelling
2 337 (33.50%) Business Intelligence
3 287 (28.53%) Analytics
4 203 (20.18%) Data Pipeline
5 194 (19.28%) Agile
6 180 (17.89%) Migration
7 171 (17.00%) Data Integration
8 168 (16.70%) Data Engineering
9 137 (13.62%) Problem-Solving
10 134 (13.32%) DevOps
11 129 (12.82%) Visualisation
12 123 (12.23%) Data Governance
13 122 (12.13%) CI/CD
14 121 (12.03%) Data Migration
15 92 (9.15%) Data Analysis
16 89 (8.85%) Data Management
17 87 (8.65%) Data Analytics
17 87 (8.65%) Data Science
18 83 (8.25%) Data Architecture
19 80 (7.95%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 543 (53.98%) SQL
2 348 (34.59%) Python
3 124 (12.33%) Java
4 73 (7.26%) T-SQL
5 53 (5.27%) Scala
6 44 (4.37%) C#
7 41 (4.08%) PL/SQL
8 31 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 29 (2.88%) Shell Script
10 21 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.09%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.39%) R
12 10 (0.99%) Korn
13 9 (0.89%) Bash
13 9 (0.89%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.70%) Perl
14 7 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
15 4 (0.40%) C++
15 4 (0.40%) COBOL
15 4 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 158 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 142 (14.12%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.26%) Degree
4 36 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 10 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.80%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.50%) CISSP
9 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.40%) Tableau Certification
10 2 (0.20%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
11 1 (0.099%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.099%) OCP
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (17.50%) Data Quality
2 45 (4.47%) QA
3 29 (2.88%) GDPR
4 19 (1.89%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.59%) SLA
6 6 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.40%) IFRS
8 3 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 3 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.20%) NIST
10 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.099%) EMIR
10 1 (0.099%) FATCA
10 1 (0.099%) PMO
10 1 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (3.48%) Docker
2 7 (0.70%) HDFS
3 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 44 (4.37%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.88%) Terraform
3 27 (2.68%) Grafana
4 8 (0.80%) Ansible
5 6 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.30%) Control-M
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.099%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.099%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.099%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.099%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 157 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 144 (14.31%) Oracle
3 127 (12.62%) Databricks
4 72 (7.16%) Informatica
5 57 (5.67%) Google
6 53 (5.27%) SAP
7 51 (5.07%) Talend
8 22 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 18 (1.79%) Denodo
10 14 (1.39%) Ab Initio
11 13 (1.29%) Splunk
12 12 (1.19%) ESRI
13 10 (0.99%) Foundry
13 10 (0.99%) Palantir
13 10 (0.99%) ServiceNow
14 8 (0.80%) Cloudera
14 8 (0.80%) IBM
14 8 (0.80%) SEEBURGER
14 8 (0.80%) Sparx
15 6 (0.60%) Cadence