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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 98 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,005 1,373 2,431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.33% 2.45% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.73% 2.73% 3.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 981 1,679
10th Percentile £375 £386 £378
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 14
10th Percentile £30.37 £35.00 £25.32
25th Percentile £35.00 £39.69 £40.50
Median hourly rate £48.50 £67.50 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +44.29% +70.95%
75th Percentile £51.75 £78.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £87.00 £64.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.05 £64.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -59.30% +60.00% +61.62%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +2 868 £525 -2.33% 425
London +18 523 £525 -4.55% 216
Work from Home +1 382 £504 -4.00% 259
UK excluding London -18 341 £500 - 222
North of England +26 126 £507 +1.40% 69
North West +32 85 £525 +13.51% 45
Midlands +16 67 £445 -17.59% 42
South East -33 56 £475 -9.52% 42
West Midlands +5 48 £413 -23.96% 35
South West -13 43 £525 +5.00% 29
Yorkshire +13 36 £493 -16.17% 15
Scotland -13 32 £500 +0.67% 16
East Midlands +11 18 £453 -0.55% 7
East of England -22 15 £525 +31.25% 16
North East +10 5 £345 -42.50% 9
Wales +14 3 £500 - 5
Northern Ireland -4 2 £400 -5.88% 6

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
1 102 (10.15%) Apache Spark
2 50 (4.98%) Apache
3 41 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 21 (2.09%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.90%) Confluence
6 8 (0.80%) SAS
6 8 (0.80%) Site Server
7 3 (0.30%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) CICS
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
8 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.100%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.100%) JBoss
9 1 (0.100%) nginx
9 1 (0.100%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.100%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.100%) WildFly
Applications
1 29 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.100%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.29%) Elite 3E
3 12 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.50%) MIS ActiveH
6 5 (0.50%) NEC Housing
7 4 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
8 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.30%) OPENHousing
9 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
9 2 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
10 1 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.100%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.100%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 367 (36.52%) Azure
2 258 (25.67%) AWS
3 232 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 114 (11.34%) GCP
5 109 (10.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 102 (10.15%) Serverless
7 98 (9.75%) Amazon S3
8 79 (7.86%) Snowflake
9 75 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
10 57 (5.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 44 (4.38%) dbt
12 35 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
13 33 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (2.79%) Amazon EMR
16 26 (2.59%) GitHub
17 21 (2.09%) Amazon MSK
17 21 (2.09%) Collibra
18 19 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
19 16 (1.59%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.90%) FTP
2 6 (0.60%) Internet
3 4 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (35.22%) Data Warehouse
2 222 (22.09%) Power BI
3 166 (16.52%) SQL Server
4 123 (12.24%) Data Lake
5 118 (11.74%) Big Data
6 110 (10.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 98 (9.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 79 (7.86%) Tableau
9 65 (6.47%) Relational Database
10 62 (6.17%) NoSQL
11 61 (6.07%) PostgreSQL
12 56 (5.57%) BigQuery
13 53 (5.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (4.98%) Metadata
15 40 (3.98%) Hadoop
16 39 (3.88%) MySQL
16 39 (3.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 36 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
18 35 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 33 (3.28%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (6.87%) Git
2 35 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 30 (2.99%) JIRA
4 14 (1.39%) ERwin
4 14 (1.39%) Selenium
5 13 (1.29%) GitLab
6 9 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.80%) webpack
8 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.60%) Appium
9 6 (0.60%) JUnit
9 6 (0.60%) Postman
9 6 (0.60%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.50%) eggPlant
10 5 (0.50%) ER Studio
10 5 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.50%) SOAtest
10 5 (0.50%) TestNG
10 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 227 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 178 (17.71%) Finance
3 132 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 63 (6.27%) Banking
6 30 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 25 (2.49%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.29%) Marketing
9 22 (2.19%) Retail
10 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.00%) Legal
11 10 (1.00%) Publishing
12 9 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.80%) Law
14 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.60%) Electronics
15 6 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.50%) Local Government
17 4 (0.40%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 304 (30.25%) Data Engineer
2 181 (18.01%) Developer
3 136 (13.53%) Architect
4 104 (10.35%) Senior
5 79 (7.86%) Data Architect
6 71 (7.06%) Analyst
7 66 (6.57%) Lead
8 65 (6.47%) Azure Engineer
9 58 (5.77%) Azure Data Engineer
10 49 (4.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 46 (4.58%) Consultant
11 46 (4.58%) Data Analyst
12 41 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (3.38%) Senior Data Engineer
14 33 (3.28%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (2.59%) AWS Data Engineer
16 25 (2.49%) Data Modeller
17 24 (2.39%) Power BI Developer
18 23 (2.29%) Snowflake Engineer
19 22 (2.19%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.56%) PySpark
2 59 (5.87%) Kafka
3 45 (4.48%) JSON
4 31 (3.08%) Apache Avro
5 29 (2.89%) XML
6 19 (1.89%) Node.js
7 18 (1.79%) .NET
8 15 (1.49%) REST
9 14 (1.39%) Spring
9 14 (1.39%) Web Services
10 13 (1.29%) JSON Schema
10 13 (1.29%) Middleware
10 13 (1.29%) React
11 12 (1.19%) RESTful
12 10 (1.00%) YAML
13 9 (0.90%) Apache NiFi
13 9 (0.90%) AWS CDK
14 8 (0.80%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.80%) Express.js
14 8 (0.80%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 36 (3.58%) Data Structures
2 33 (3.28%) Management Information System
3 30 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.29%) Replication
7 19 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.69%) Product Ownership
8 17 (1.69%) Reference Data
9 10 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (0.90%) Algorithms
10 9 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (0.80%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.80%) Hedge funds
11 8 (0.80%) Life Science
11 8 (0.80%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.70%) NHS
12 7 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (3.78%) Unix
2 33 (3.28%) Windows
3 30 (2.99%) Linux
4 9 (0.90%) zOS
5 3 (0.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.100%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (37.61%) Data Modelling
2 309 (30.75%) Business Intelligence
3 286 (28.46%) Analytics
4 211 (21.00%) Data Pipeline
5 192 (19.10%) Agile
6 171 (17.01%) Migration
7 164 (16.32%) Data Engineering
8 163 (16.22%) Data Integration
9 142 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
10 140 (13.93%) DevOps
11 122 (12.14%) Visualisation
12 119 (11.84%) CI/CD
13 118 (11.74%) Data Governance
14 110 (10.95%) Data Migration
15 91 (9.05%) Data Science
16 89 (8.86%) Data Management
17 86 (8.56%) Data Architecture
18 84 (8.36%) Data Analytics
19 81 (8.06%) Data Analysis
20 75 (7.46%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 549 (54.63%) SQL
2 348 (34.63%) Python
3 120 (11.94%) Java
4 69 (6.87%) T-SQL
5 54 (5.37%) Scala
6 39 (3.88%) C#
7 34 (3.38%) Shell Script
8 33 (3.28%) PL/SQL
9 29 (2.89%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.29%) JavaScript
11 22 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (1.19%) Bash
12 12 (1.19%) R
13 10 (1.00%) Go
13 10 (1.00%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.80%) Korn
15 7 (0.70%) Perl
15 7 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
16 6 (0.60%) C++
17 4 (0.40%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 149 (14.83%) Security Cleared
2 131 (13.03%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.16%) Degree
4 41 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.49%) Master's Degree
6 13 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (0.90%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.50%) AWS Certification
8 5 (0.50%) CISSP
9 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.20%) IBM Certification
10 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.100%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.100%) OCP
11 1 (0.100%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.100%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (17.61%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.18%) QA
3 31 (3.08%) GDPR
4 17 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.39%) SLA
6 5 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.20%) IFRS
8 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.20%) NIST
8 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.100%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.100%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.100%) EMIR
9 1 (0.100%) FATCA
9 1 (0.100%) GRC
9 1 (0.100%) MiFID
9 1 (0.100%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (3.38%) Docker
2 7 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.60%) HDFS
4 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.100%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 55 (5.47%) Kubernetes
1 55 (5.47%) Terraform
2 32 (3.18%) Grafana
3 11 (1.09%) Ansible
4 7 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.30%) Control-M
6 3 (0.30%) Kibana
6 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.20%) Puppet
8 1 (0.100%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.100%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.100%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.100%) Podman
8 1 (0.100%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 158 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 133 (13.23%) Oracle
3 119 (11.84%) Databricks
4 68 (6.77%) Informatica
5 67 (6.67%) Google
6 49 (4.88%) SAP
7 46 (4.58%) Talend
8 28 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 21 (2.09%) Ab Initio
10 19 (1.89%) Denodo
10 19 (1.89%) Splunk
11 10 (1.00%) ESRI
11 10 (1.00%) Foundry
11 10 (1.00%) Palantir
11 10 (1.00%) SEEBURGER
11 10 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.90%) IBM
13 8 (0.80%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.80%) Sparx
14 7 (0.70%) Nexthink