ETL Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring ETL Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 332 427
Rank change year-on-year +52 +95 +151
Contract jobs citing ETL Development 24 13 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.085% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.096% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 38
10th Percentile £135 £413 £388
25th Percentile £139 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £269 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -46.20% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £430 £575 £525
90th Percentile £490 £630 £588
UK median daily rate £300 £480 £435
% change year-on-year -37.50% +10.34% -17.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

ETL Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

ETL Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ETL Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ETL Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ETL Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ETL Development.

ETL Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ETL Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ETL Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

ETL Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ETL Development
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ETL Development.

ETL Development hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ETL Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) GCP
2 5 (20.83%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) dbt
5 1 (4.17%) Route 53
5 1 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Looker
2 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 3 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (8.33%) Big Data
5 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.33%) DataStage
5 2 (8.33%) Tableau
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Flink
6 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Power Query
6 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Git
2 4 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (12.50%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (12.50%) PVCS
3 3 (12.50%) Subversion
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.33%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Military
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Analyst
2 11 (45.83%) Data Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Junior
4 5 (20.83%) Junior Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Junior Data Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Consultant
5 3 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Oracle Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Implementation Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Solutions Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Lead
7 1 (4.17%) ETL Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Junior Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Java EE
2 2 (8.33%) hapi
2 2 (8.33%) Node.js
2 2 (8.33%) Nunjucks
2 2 (8.33%) Sequelize
2 2 (8.33%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) FMCG
1 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) ETL
2 10 (41.67%) Data Governance
3 9 (37.50%) Data Analysis
3 9 (37.50%) Data Strategy
3 9 (37.50%) Decision-Making
4 8 (33.33%) Technical Debt
5 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) Validation
6 5 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (20.83%) Data Modelling
6 5 (20.83%) Technical Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (16.67%) Data Mapping
7 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (16.67%) Data Transformation
8 3 (12.50%) Analytics
8 3 (12.50%) Data Validation
8 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) C
3 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (12.50%) ProC
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (4.17%) R
5 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (4.17%) BC Cleared
1 1 (4.17%) Degree
1 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Google
3 5 (20.83%) Informatica
4 2 (8.33%) Databricks
5 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
5 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) SAP