ETL Contracts

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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 100 95
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,020 1,369 2,431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.35% 2.46% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.75% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 970 1,677
10th Percentile £363 £385 £381
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £602 £637 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 14
10th Percentile £30.83 £35.00 £26.59
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.69 £44.44
Median hourly rate £45.50 £67.50 £48.21
Median % change year-on-year -32.59% +40.02% +73.85%
75th Percentile £51.75 £78.00 £61.50
90th Percentile £53.55 £87.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.05 £64.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -59.30% +42.22% +81.82%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +2 878 £513 -4.65% 387
London +11 526 £525 -4.55% 200
Work from Home +4 390 £500 -4.76% 236
UK excluding London -17 346 £500 - 196
North of England +31 127 £507 +1.40% 67
North West +29 85 £525 +12.00% 43
Midlands +19 75 £425 -21.30% 38
West Midlands +12 55 £375 -30.88% 25
South East -30 55 £475 -9.52% 37
South West -13 41 £525 +5.00% 25
Yorkshire +6 37 £493 -16.17% 16
Scotland -8 30 £494 -0.37% 12
East Midlands +12 19 £453 -0.55% 11
East of England -27 16 £525 +23.53% 11
North East +11 5 £345 -42.50% 8
Wales +15 3 £500 - 2
Northern Ireland -4 2 £400 -5.88% 7

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
1 103 (10.10%) Apache Spark
2 53 (5.20%) Apache
3 41 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.06%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.88%) Confluence
6 8 (0.78%) SAS
6 8 (0.78%) Site Server
7 3 (0.29%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) CICS
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.098%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.098%) JBoss
9 1 (0.098%) nginx
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.098%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.098%) WildFly
Applications
1 27 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.16%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.27%) Elite 3E
3 11 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.59%) NEC Housing
5 6 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.49%) MIS ActiveH
6 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.29%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.29%) OPENHousing
8 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
8 2 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
9 1 (0.098%) Academy Housing
9 1 (0.098%) IBM Planning Analytics
9 1 (0.098%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 373 (36.57%) Azure
2 261 (25.59%) AWS
3 233 (22.84%) Power Platform
4 114 (11.18%) GCP
5 106 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 102 (10.00%) Serverless
7 100 (9.80%) Amazon S3
8 80 (7.84%) Snowflake
9 75 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
10 55 (5.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 45 (4.41%) dbt
12 36 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (3.24%) AWS Step Functions
14 31 (3.04%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (2.84%) GitHub
16 28 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
17 21 (2.06%) Amazon MSK
18 19 (1.86%) Collibra
19 18 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
20 17 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.88%) FTP
2 6 (0.59%) Internet
3 4 (0.39%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 355 (34.80%) Data Warehouse
2 223 (21.86%) Power BI
3 170 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 125 (12.25%) Data Lake
5 119 (11.67%) Big Data
6 114 (11.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 109 (10.69%) Amazon Redshift
8 78 (7.65%) Tableau
9 65 (6.37%) NoSQL
10 64 (6.27%) Relational Database
11 63 (6.18%) PostgreSQL
12 55 (5.39%) BigQuery
13 52 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (4.90%) MySQL
15 49 (4.80%) Metadata
16 42 (4.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 40 (3.92%) Hadoop
18 38 (3.73%) Amazon RDS
19 34 (3.33%) Parquet
19 34 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 80 (7.84%) Git
2 36 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.94%) JIRA
4 14 (1.37%) ERwin
4 14 (1.37%) GitLab
4 14 (1.37%) Selenium
5 9 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (0.78%) webpack
7 6 (0.59%) Appium
7 6 (0.59%) JUnit
7 6 (0.59%) Postman
7 6 (0.59%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.49%) eggPlant
8 5 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 5 (0.49%) REST Assured
8 5 (0.49%) SOAtest
8 5 (0.49%) TestNG
8 5 (0.49%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 224 (21.96%) Social Skills
2 181 (17.75%) Finance
3 134 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.96%) Public Sector
5 69 (6.76%) Banking
6 29 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
7 23 (2.25%) Manufacturing
7 23 (2.25%) Retail
8 22 (2.16%) Marketing
9 19 (1.86%) Telecoms
10 10 (0.98%) Financial Institution
10 10 (0.98%) Legal
10 10 (0.98%) Publishing
11 8 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (0.69%) Law
13 6 (0.59%) Electronics
13 6 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.49%) Local Government
15 3 (0.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 302 (29.61%) Data Engineer
2 184 (18.04%) Developer
3 138 (13.53%) Architect
4 104 (10.20%) Senior
5 76 (7.45%) Data Architect
6 71 (6.96%) Analyst
7 68 (6.67%) Lead
8 62 (6.08%) Azure Engineer
9 56 (5.49%) Azure Data Engineer
10 50 (4.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 47 (4.61%) Consultant
12 44 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (4.22%) Data Analyst
14 34 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
15 32 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) Data Modeller
17 25 (2.45%) AWS Data Engineer
18 24 (2.35%) ETL Developer
18 24 (2.35%) Power BI Developer
19 23 (2.25%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (8.53%) PySpark
2 59 (5.78%) Kafka
3 45 (4.41%) JSON
4 31 (3.04%) Apache Avro
5 29 (2.84%) XML
6 19 (1.86%) Node.js
7 17 (1.67%) .NET
8 16 (1.57%) Web Services
9 15 (1.47%) Middleware
9 15 (1.47%) REST
9 15 (1.47%) Spring
10 13 (1.27%) JSON Schema
10 13 (1.27%) React
11 12 (1.18%) RESTful
12 10 (0.98%) YAML
13 9 (0.88%) Apache NiFi
13 9 (0.88%) AWS CDK
14 8 (0.78%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.78%) Express.js
14 8 (0.78%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 36 (3.53%) Data Structures
2 32 (3.14%) Management Information System
3 30 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (2.84%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.25%) Replication
7 20 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.76%) Reference Data
9 16 (1.57%) Product Ownership
10 10 (0.98%) Algorithms
11 9 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (0.78%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.78%) Life Science
12 8 (0.78%) Virtual Team
13 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.69%) NHS
13 7 (0.69%) Public Cloud
13 7 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.82%) Unix
2 33 (3.24%) Windows
3 30 (2.94%) Linux
4 9 (0.88%) zOS
5 3 (0.29%) VMS
6 1 (0.098%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (36.76%) Data Modelling
2 307 (30.10%) Business Intelligence
3 303 (29.71%) Analytics
4 213 (20.88%) Data Pipeline
5 202 (19.80%) Agile
6 171 (16.76%) Migration
7 165 (16.18%) Data Engineering
8 158 (15.49%) Data Integration
9 144 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
10 142 (13.92%) DevOps
11 124 (12.16%) Visualisation
12 123 (12.06%) CI/CD
13 119 (11.67%) Data Governance
14 108 (10.59%) Data Migration
15 97 (9.51%) Data Analytics
16 94 (9.22%) Data Science
17 91 (8.92%) Data Management
18 86 (8.43%) Data Architecture
19 84 (8.24%) Data Extraction
20 80 (7.84%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 549 (53.82%) SQL
2 353 (34.61%) Python
3 122 (11.96%) Java
4 69 (6.76%) T-SQL
5 54 (5.29%) Scala
6 37 (3.63%) C#
7 35 (3.43%) Shell Script
8 32 (3.14%) PL/SQL
9 30 (2.94%) PowerShell
10 24 (2.35%) JavaScript
11 22 (2.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 14 (1.37%) Bash
13 11 (1.08%) Go
14 10 (0.98%) R
14 10 (0.98%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.78%) Korn
16 7 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
17 6 (0.59%) C++
17 6 (0.59%) Perl
18 4 (0.39%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 159 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 141 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.33%) Degree
4 43 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (1.86%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.08%) Azure Certification
8 9 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.49%) CISSP
10 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.20%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
12 1 (0.098%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.098%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.098%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (17.06%) Data Quality
2 41 (4.02%) QA
3 31 (3.04%) GDPR
4 16 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.37%) SLA
6 4 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.20%) NIST
8 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.098%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.098%) EMIR
9 1 (0.098%) FATCA
9 1 (0.098%) GRC
9 1 (0.098%) IFRS
9 1 (0.098%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.098%) MiFID
9 1 (0.098%) PMO
9 1 (0.098%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (3.43%) Docker
2 8 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.59%) HDFS
4 3 (0.29%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.098%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 58 (5.69%) Terraform
2 56 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 43 (4.22%) Grafana
4 11 (1.08%) Ansible
5 7 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.29%) Control-M
7 3 (0.29%) Kibana
7 3 (0.29%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.20%) Ganglia
8 2 (0.20%) Podman
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.098%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.098%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 158 (15.49%) Microsoft
2 137 (13.43%) Oracle
3 119 (11.67%) Databricks
4 69 (6.76%) Informatica
5 67 (6.57%) Google
6 56 (5.49%) Talend
7 49 (4.80%) SAP
8 29 (2.84%) Denodo
9 27 (2.65%) Salesforce
10 21 (2.06%) Ab Initio
11 20 (1.96%) Splunk
12 11 (1.08%) SEEBURGER
13 10 (0.98%) ESRI
13 10 (0.98%) Foundry
13 10 (0.98%) Palantir
13 10 (0.98%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.88%) IBM
15 8 (0.78%) Cloudera
15 8 (0.78%) Sparx
16 7 (0.69%) Nexthink