ETL Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 75 81 85
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing ETL 313 389 681
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.16% 2.54% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 2.89% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 295 501
10th Percentile £328 £363 £400
25th Percentile £413 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £625 £605 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £88.26 - £26.55
25th Percentile £93.41 - £32.63
Median hourly rate £102.00 £35.00 £39.75
Median % change year-on-year +191.43% -11.95% +13.57%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £43.53
90th Percentile - £58.82 £43.59
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year +6.06% +13.45% +5.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ETL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ETL
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.

ETL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

ETL daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
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.

ETL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
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 23 (7.35%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.75%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (5.11%) Apache
3 16 (5.11%) Confluence
4 11 (3.51%) SAS
5 9 (2.88%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.32%) GeoServer
Applications
1 11 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.24%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.64%) Actimize
3 2 (0.64%) Maximo
3 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.32%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 103 (32.91%) Azure
2 95 (30.35%) AWS
3 61 (19.49%) Power Platform
4 42 (13.42%) Snowflake
5 34 (10.86%) GCP
6 27 (8.63%) Amazon S3
7 24 (7.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (6.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (6.39%) Serverless
10 19 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (5.75%) dbt
12 12 (3.83%) GitHub
13 11 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.24%) Adobe Analytics
16 6 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
17 5 (1.60%) Power Automate
17 5 (1.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (39.30%) Data Warehouse
2 61 (19.49%) Power BI
3 45 (14.38%) Data Lake
4 29 (9.27%) Big Data
5 27 (8.63%) Tableau
6 24 (7.67%) Relational Database
7 23 (7.35%) NoSQL
8 21 (6.71%) SQL Server
9 19 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (5.11%) Metadata
10 16 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (4.47%) BigQuery
11 14 (4.47%) Oracle Database
12 13 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
12 13 (4.15%) Hadoop
12 13 (4.15%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
14 9 (2.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (6.07%) JIRA
2 10 (3.19%) Git
3 9 (2.88%) ERwin
4 8 (2.56%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.92%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.92%) GitLab
6 5 (1.60%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (1.28%) PVCS
7 4 (1.28%) Subversion
8 3 (0.96%) Liquibase
8 3 (0.96%) MLflow
8 3 (0.96%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.64%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.32%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.32%) Flyway
10 1 (0.32%) Hudson
10 1 (0.32%) LSMW
10 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 77 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 72 (23.00%) Finance
3 50 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 27 (8.63%) Banking
6 16 (5.11%) Retail
7 13 (4.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 12 (3.83%) Marketing
9 8 (2.56%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (1.28%) Legal
12 4 (1.28%) Military
12 4 (1.28%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.96%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.96%) Law
13 3 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (34.19%) Data Engineer
2 42 (13.42%) Analyst
3 38 (12.14%) Developer
4 33 (10.54%) Architect
5 31 (9.90%) Data Analyst
6 30 (9.58%) Senior
7 28 (8.95%) Lead
8 26 (8.31%) Data Architect
9 20 (6.39%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.79%) Data Modeller
11 14 (4.47%) Consultant
12 13 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (3.83%) AWS Data Engineer
14 11 (3.51%) Business Analyst
14 11 (3.51%) Data Manager
15 10 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
16 9 (2.88%) Azure Data Engineer
16 9 (2.88%) Data Consultant
16 9 (2.88%) Python Engineer
17 8 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (7.03%) PySpark
2 15 (4.79%) Kafka
3 8 (2.56%) JSON
4 7 (2.24%) XML
5 4 (1.28%) Java EE
5 4 (1.28%) Plotly
5 4 (1.28%) React
5 4 (1.28%) RESTful
5 4 (1.28%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.96%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.96%) Node.js
6 3 (0.96%) PostGIS
6 3 (0.96%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.96%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.96%) Web Services
7 2 (0.64%) hapi
7 2 (0.64%) Middleware
7 2 (0.64%) OAuth
7 2 (0.64%) REST
7 2 (0.64%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.07%) Data Structures
2 18 (5.75%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (2.88%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (1.60%) NHS
5 4 (1.28%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.28%) Clustering
5 4 (1.28%) Data Fabric
5 4 (1.28%) Reference Data
6 3 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (0.96%) FMCG
6 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.64%) IoT
7 2 (0.64%) Life Science
7 2 (0.64%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.56%) Linux
2 4 (1.28%) Unix
3 3 (0.96%) Windows
4 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (38.66%) Data Modelling
2 91 (29.07%) Data Pipeline
3 85 (27.16%) Analytics
4 79 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
5 76 (24.28%) Migration
6 74 (23.64%) Data Governance
7 65 (20.77%) Data Integration
8 64 (20.45%) Data Engineering
9 62 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (16.93%) Data Migration
11 47 (15.02%) Visualisation
12 43 (13.74%) DevOps
13 42 (13.42%) Agile
14 41 (13.10%) CI/CD
15 39 (12.46%) Validation
16 38 (12.14%) Data Architecture
17 37 (11.82%) Data Visualisation
18 36 (11.50%) Data Management
19 35 (11.18%) Data Transformation
20 34 (10.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 196 (62.62%) SQL
2 119 (38.02%) Python
3 24 (7.67%) Java
4 15 (4.79%) R
4 15 (4.79%) Scala
5 11 (3.51%) PL/SQL
6 10 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.24%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.92%) C#
8 6 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (1.28%) ABAP
9 4 (1.28%) Apex Code
9 4 (1.28%) C
9 4 (1.28%) Go
9 4 (1.28%) ProC
10 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.32%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.32%) Bash
12 1 (0.32%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 42 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.86%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.71%) Degree
4 9 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.28%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.64%) PMP
10 1 (0.32%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.32%) CITP
10 1 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (25.56%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.88%) GDPR
2 9 (2.88%) QA
3 5 (1.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.32%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (6.39%) Docker
2 4 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.64%) HDFS
4 1 (0.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (6.39%) Kubernetes
2 18 (5.75%) Terraform
3 4 (1.28%) Ansible
3 4 (1.28%) Grafana
4 2 (0.64%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.32%) Oozie
5 1 (0.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (13.42%) Databricks
2 36 (11.50%) Microsoft
3 33 (10.54%) Oracle
4 23 (7.35%) Google
5 15 (4.79%) Informatica
6 14 (4.47%) SAP
7 9 (2.88%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.88%) Teradata
8 8 (2.56%) Alteryx
9 7 (2.24%) Adobe
10 6 (1.92%) Talend
11 5 (1.60%) MuleSoft
12 4 (1.28%) Ab Initio
12 4 (1.28%) IBM
13 3 (0.96%) Palantir
14 2 (0.64%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.64%) ESRI
14 2 (0.64%) Foundry
14 2 (0.64%) MicroStrategy
14 2 (0.64%) Sage