ETL Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 86 77
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -1
Contract jobs citing ETL 389 677 1,423
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.55% 2.64% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 2.95% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 503 1,060
10th Percentile £363 £400 £375
25th Percentile £436 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £738 £700 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile - £26.55 £22.88
25th Percentile - £32.63 £32.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% +13.57% +35.92%
75th Percentile £50.25 £43.53 £50.19
90th Percentile £58.82 £43.59 £69.66
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £46.82 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.74% +12.81% +29.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,390 22,975 40,674
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.75% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,954 16,256 29,514
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 577 528 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.00 £30.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

ETL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ETL trend for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing ETL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing ETL.

ETL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing ETL over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

ETL hourly rate histogram 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 21 (5.40%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.54%) Apache
4 4 (1.03%) CMS
5 3 (0.77%) Confluence
5 3 (0.77%) SAS
5 3 (0.77%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) CICS
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) WebLogic
Applications
1 11 (2.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.31%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.08%) Elite 3E
2 5 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.77%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (0.77%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.51%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.51%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.26%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.26%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.26%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.26%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (35.48%) Azure
2 83 (21.34%) Power Platform
3 76 (19.54%) AWS
4 40 (10.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 37 (9.51%) GCP
6 34 (8.74%) Serverless
7 27 (6.94%) Snowflake
8 23 (5.91%) Amazon S3
8 23 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
9 22 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 17 (4.37%) dbt
11 11 (2.83%) Collibra
12 10 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (2.31%) Azure Functions
14 8 (2.06%) Amazon Kinesis
14 8 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (2.06%) OCI
14 8 (2.06%) PowerApps
15 7 (1.80%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.26%) Firewall
1 1 (0.26%) FTP
1 1 (0.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (35.99%) Data Warehouse
2 79 (20.31%) Power BI
3 77 (19.79%) SQL Server
4 40 (10.28%) Data Lake
5 32 (8.23%) Big Data
5 32 (8.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (6.68%) BigQuery
7 23 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (5.40%) Tableau
10 17 (4.37%) NoSQL
11 15 (3.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (3.60%) Metadata
12 14 (3.60%) Relational Database
13 13 (3.34%) Oracle Database
14 11 (2.83%) Power Query
15 10 (2.57%) Oracle ODI
15 10 (2.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 9 (2.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (3.60%) Git
2 11 (2.83%) JIRA
3 10 (2.57%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.57%) Selenium
4 8 (2.06%) Cucumber
5 6 (1.54%) GitLab
6 5 (1.29%) ERwin
7 4 (1.03%) Appium
7 4 (1.03%) JUnit
7 4 (1.03%) Postman
7 4 (1.03%) SoapUI
7 4 (1.03%) TestNG
8 3 (0.77%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.77%) eggPlant
8 3 (0.77%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.77%) SOAtest
8 3 (0.77%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.51%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 87 (22.37%) Social Skills
2 85 (21.85%) Finance
3 41 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.08%) Banking
6 7 (1.80%) Financial Institution
6 7 (1.80%) Law
7 6 (1.54%) Marketing
7 6 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (1.54%) Retail
8 5 (1.29%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.03%) Publishing
10 3 (0.77%) Legal
11 2 (0.51%) Automotive
11 2 (0.51%) Back Office
11 2 (0.51%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.26%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 125 (32.13%) Data Engineer
2 76 (19.54%) Developer
3 48 (12.34%) Architect
4 47 (12.08%) Senior
5 33 (8.48%) Analyst
5 33 (8.48%) Data Architect
6 28 (7.20%) Azure Data Engineer
6 28 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
6 28 (7.20%) Lead
7 21 (5.40%) Data Analyst
8 18 (4.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 16 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (3.34%) Applications Support
10 13 (3.34%) Consultant
10 13 (3.34%) Support Engineer
11 12 (3.08%) Applications Engineer
11 12 (3.08%) Applications Support Engineer
11 12 (3.08%) Senior Applications Engineer
11 12 (3.08%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (3.08%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.66%) PySpark
2 12 (3.08%) Middleware
3 10 (2.57%) JSON
3 10 (2.57%) Kafka
4 9 (2.31%) Web Services
5 8 (2.06%) .NET
5 8 (2.06%) Apache Avro
5 8 (2.06%) AWS CDK
6 7 (1.80%) JSON Schema
6 7 (1.80%) React
7 6 (1.54%) Node.js
8 5 (1.29%) RESTful
8 5 (1.29%) XML
9 4 (1.03%) HTML
10 3 (0.77%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.77%) Oracle Fusion
10 3 (0.77%) REST
11 2 (0.51%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.51%) Plotly
11 2 (0.51%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 19 (4.88%) Replication
2 18 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 16 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (3.34%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.29%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (0.77%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.77%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.51%) Cloud Native
10 2 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.51%) FMCG
10 2 (0.51%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.40%) Windows
2 5 (1.29%) Linux
3 4 (1.03%) Unix
4 3 (0.77%) zOS
5 2 (0.51%) VMS
6 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (36.76%) Data Modelling
2 130 (33.42%) Business Intelligence
3 114 (29.31%) Analytics
4 86 (22.11%) Migration
5 83 (21.34%) Agile
6 72 (18.51%) Data Engineering
7 67 (17.22%) Data Pipeline
8 56 (14.40%) Data Integration
9 53 (13.62%) Data Migration
10 52 (13.37%) CI/CD
10 52 (13.37%) Visualisation
11 50 (12.85%) Problem-Solving
12 45 (11.57%) Data Analysis
13 43 (11.05%) DevOps
14 41 (10.54%) Data Governance
15 37 (9.51%) Scrum
16 33 (8.48%) Data Transformation
17 32 (8.23%) Data Science
18 31 (7.97%) Data Management
19 30 (7.71%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 204 (52.44%) SQL
2 113 (29.05%) Python
3 52 (13.37%) Java
4 25 (6.43%) T-SQL
5 21 (5.40%) PL/SQL
6 20 (5.14%) C#
7 13 (3.34%) Scala
8 11 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.06%) R
9 8 (2.06%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.80%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.54%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.03%) Bash
13 3 (0.77%) COBOL
13 3 (0.77%) REXX
13 3 (0.77%) SELCOPY
14 2 (0.51%) ABAP
14 2 (0.51%) Groovy
14 2 (0.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 46 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 42 (10.80%) SC Cleared
3 20 (5.14%) Degree
4 12 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.03%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.26%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.26%) ISEB
7 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.26%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (17.74%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.08%) GDPR
3 11 (2.83%) QA
4 4 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.77%) IFRS
5 3 (0.77%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.77%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) EMIR
7 1 (0.26%) FATCA
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (5.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.51%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.26%) HDFS
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 22 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.08%) Grafana
2 12 (3.08%) Terraform
3 6 (1.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.51%) Kibana
5 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 54 (13.88%) Oracle
2 52 (13.37%) Microsoft
3 42 (10.80%) Databricks
4 19 (4.88%) Google
4 19 (4.88%) Informatica
5 11 (2.83%) SAP
6 9 (2.31%) Salesforce
7 8 (2.06%) Talend
8 5 (1.29%) Denodo
8 5 (1.29%) IBM
9 4 (1.03%) Intapp
10 3 (0.77%) Embarcadero
10 3 (0.77%) JD Edwards
10 3 (0.77%) NEC
10 3 (0.77%) Nexthink
10 3 (0.77%) Snow
10 3 (0.77%) Syncsort
10 3 (0.77%) Workday
11 2 (0.51%) F5
11 2 (0.51%) Foundry