ETL Contracts

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 94 97
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing ETL 882 1,009 1,459
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.04% 2.35% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 2.72% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 755 1,038
10th Percentile £352 £375 £385
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £619 £625 £613
90th Percentile £700 £736 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 18
10th Percentile - £28.54 £35.00
25th Percentile £36.69 £35.00 £35.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +5.74% +3.46%
75th Percentile £88.63 £53.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £102.00 £63.70 £78.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £91.69 £30.37 £39.88
% change year-on-year +201.91% -23.84% -0.31%

All Process and 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 26,416 37,097 52,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.93% 86.26% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,973 23,888 36,212
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £627 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.40% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,082 2,438 1,719
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £16.00 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.48% +1.39% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.23 £38.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.72% +8.74% +75.00%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 2025. 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 +17 753 £525 - 1,125
London -3 418 £536 +2.10% 647
UK excluding London +47 357 £475 -5.00% 681
Work from Home +8 311 £500 -1.19% 597
North of England +19 109 £463 -9.31% 146
North West +6 66 £488 -7.14% 88
Midlands +11 63 £475 - 101
South East +50 59 £517 +3.40% 244
Scotland +29 54 £425 -15.00% 41
South West +50 49 £488 -7.14% 77
West Midlands +6 41 £506 +19.12% 66
Yorkshire +24 35 £410 -13.68% 40
East Midlands +11 20 £420 -18.05% 28
East of England +27 18 £494 -5.95% 61
North East -2 9 £435 +26.09% 22
Wales +7 6 £380 -15.56% 10
Northern Ireland -6 4 £500 +25.00% 21

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 79 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 68 (7.71%) Apache Airflow
3 64 (7.26%) Apache
4 39 (4.42%) Confluence
5 18 (2.04%) SAS
6 14 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.23%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) Mule
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.11%) CMS
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
Applications
1 25 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Captivate
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.79%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.68%) SAP PM
5 3 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.23%) Actimize
6 2 (0.23%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.23%) Maximo
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.11%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.11%) Magento
7 1 (0.11%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.11%) Orchard Housing
7 1 (0.11%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.11%) Shopify
7 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 325 (36.85%) Azure
2 272 (30.84%) AWS
3 171 (19.39%) Power Platform
4 134 (15.19%) GCP
5 104 (11.79%) Snowflake
6 92 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 74 (8.39%) Serverless
8 69 (7.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 65 (7.37%) Amazon S3
10 59 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
10 59 (6.69%) dbt
11 48 (5.44%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (4.99%) GitHub
13 23 (2.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (2.27%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
15 17 (1.93%) PaaS
16 16 (1.81%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.81%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 10 (1.13%) Firewall
2 8 (0.91%) VPN
3 2 (0.23%) FTP
4 1 (0.11%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (34.47%) Data Warehouse
2 159 (18.03%) Power BI
3 108 (12.24%) Data Lake
4 87 (9.86%) Big Data
5 84 (9.52%) SQL Server
6 68 (7.71%) NoSQL
7 65 (7.37%) Tableau
8 61 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 61 (6.92%) Relational Database
9 60 (6.80%) PostgreSQL
10 54 (6.12%) Hadoop
11 47 (5.33%) BigQuery
12 43 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
12 43 (4.88%) Metadata
12 43 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (4.65%) Oracle Database
14 38 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (3.06%) Snowflake Schema
16 25 (2.83%) Delta Lake
17 24 (2.72%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 52 (5.90%) JIRA
2 46 (5.22%) Git
3 24 (2.72%) ERwin
4 17 (1.93%) GitLab
5 16 (1.81%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.36%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (1.25%) ER Studio
7 11 (1.25%) PVCS
7 11 (1.25%) Subversion
8 9 (1.02%) Selenium
9 6 (0.68%) Liquibase
9 6 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.45%) Terragrunt
11 3 (0.34%) MLflow
11 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.23%) LSMW
12 2 (0.23%) Postman
12 2 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 293 (33.22%) Social Skills
2 198 (22.45%) Finance
3 138 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (8.05%) Banking
5 62 (7.03%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.63%) Marketing
7 24 (2.72%) Retail
8 20 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 18 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (1.70%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.59%) Legal
12 11 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.02%) Retail Banking
15 6 (0.68%) General Ledger
15 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 297 (33.67%) Data Engineer
2 122 (13.83%) Architect
3 118 (13.38%) Developer
4 91 (10.32%) Senior
5 86 (9.75%) Analyst
6 81 (9.18%) Data Architect
7 62 (7.03%) Lead
8 59 (6.69%) Data Analyst
8 59 (6.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 41 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (3.85%) Consultant
11 32 (3.63%) Azure Data Engineer
11 32 (3.63%) Data Manager
12 29 (3.29%) Data Modeller
13 28 (3.17%) Business Analyst
14 26 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
15 24 (2.72%) AWS Data Engineer
16 22 (2.49%) SQL Developer
17 21 (2.38%) Data Consultant
17 21 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.50%) PySpark
2 69 (7.82%) Kafka
3 21 (2.38%) JSON
4 17 (1.93%) XML
5 15 (1.70%) OAuth
5 15 (1.70%) REST
6 13 (1.47%) .NET
6 13 (1.47%) RESTful
7 12 (1.36%) Web Services
8 11 (1.25%) Java EE
8 11 (1.25%) Pandas
9 9 (1.02%) Apache Avro
10 8 (0.91%) Apache NiFi
10 8 (0.91%) Middleware
10 8 (0.91%) Node.js
11 7 (0.79%) pytest
11 7 (0.79%) React
11 7 (0.79%) SAML
11 7 (0.79%) scikit-learn
12 6 (0.68%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.58%) Data Structures
2 56 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
3 29 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 16 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 14 (1.59%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.13%) Algorithms
6 10 (1.13%) NHS
7 9 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.02%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.02%) Reference Data
8 8 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (0.91%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (0.79%) Clustering
9 7 (0.79%) IoT
9 7 (0.79%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (0.68%) Replication
11 5 (0.57%) FMCG
11 5 (0.57%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 22 (2.49%) Unix
2 18 (2.04%) Linux
3 5 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (37.19%) Data Modelling
2 276 (31.29%) Data Pipeline
3 263 (29.82%) Analytics
4 230 (26.08%) Problem-Solving
5 205 (23.24%) Business Intelligence
6 203 (23.02%) Migration
7 192 (21.77%) Data Engineering
8 180 (20.41%) Data Governance
9 166 (18.82%) Data Integration
10 153 (17.35%) Data Migration
11 140 (15.87%) Agile
12 135 (15.31%) CI/CD
13 126 (14.29%) DevOps
14 123 (13.95%) Visualisation
15 106 (12.02%) Data Architecture
16 105 (11.90%) Data Transformation
17 103 (11.68%) Validation
18 92 (10.43%) Data Management
19 90 (10.20%) Data Science
20 81 (9.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 562 (63.72%) SQL
2 363 (41.16%) Python
3 78 (8.84%) Java
4 47 (5.33%) Scala
5 35 (3.97%) PL/SQL
6 31 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 31 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 28 (3.17%) JavaScript
7 28 (3.17%) R
8 23 (2.61%) C#
9 16 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.47%) Bash
11 11 (1.25%) C
11 11 (1.25%) ProC
12 10 (1.13%) Bicep
13 8 (0.91%) ABAP
13 8 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.79%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.79%) Go
15 6 (0.68%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 112 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 74 (8.39%) SC Cleared
3 56 (6.35%) Degree
4 27 (3.06%) Azure Certification
4 27 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.04%) DV Cleared
6 15 (1.70%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.57%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.45%) PMP
11 3 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
11 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.11%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.11%) CBAP
12 1 (0.11%) CITP
12 1 (0.11%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.11%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (24.83%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.76%) GDPR
3 40 (4.54%) QA
4 18 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.02%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS
7 4 (0.45%) IFRS 9
7 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.23%) Basel III
8 2 (0.23%) SLA
9 1 (0.11%) EMIR
9 1 (0.11%) HL7
9 1 (0.11%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.11%) MiFID
9 1 (0.11%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (6.12%) Docker
2 9 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.68%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.68%) HDFS
4 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.11%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.11%) NFS
5 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 80 (9.07%) Terraform
2 64 (7.26%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.36%) Grafana
3 12 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (1.25%) Ansible
5 8 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.34%) Kibana
7 2 (0.23%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.11%) Apache Ranger
8 1 (0.11%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.11%) Istio
8 1 (0.11%) linkerd
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Perfmon
8 1 (0.11%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) SCOM
8 1 (0.11%) VxRail
8 1 (0.11%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 127 (14.40%) Databricks
2 113 (12.81%) Microsoft
3 97 (11.00%) Oracle
4 71 (8.05%) Google
5 60 (6.80%) Informatica
6 56 (6.35%) SAP
7 24 (2.72%) Talend
8 23 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 16 (1.81%) IBM
10 14 (1.59%) Teradata
11 12 (1.36%) Alteryx
12 11 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.13%) Adobe
14 9 (1.02%) Palantir
15 8 (0.91%) Ab Initio
15 8 (0.91%) Splunk
16 5 (0.57%) Cloudera
16 5 (0.57%) StreamSets
16 5 (0.57%) UiPath
17 4 (0.45%) Sparx