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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 94 94
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 -14
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,010 1,440 2,439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 2.51% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.76% 2.80% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 1,025 1,692
10th Percentile £375 £385 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £724 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% +9.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 15
10th Percentile £28.27 £35.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.31 £37.13
Median hourly rate £48.50 £60.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +31.87% +64.08%
75th Percentile £51.75 £74.13 £56.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £79.40 £64.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.37 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.26% +11.11% +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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +2 870 £525 -2.33% 440
London +11 532 £525 -4.55% 241
Work from Home +4 389 £506 -3.62% 240
UK excluding London -23 337 £500 - 264
North of England +39 120 £510 +2.00% 65
North West +28 82 £525 +12.00% 40
Midlands 0 72 £435 -19.44% 51
West Midlands +2 53 £425 -21.30% 39
South East -25 53 £475 -5.00% 68
South West -10 43 £525 +5.00% 33
Yorkshire +11 33 £500 -16.67% 20
Scotland -12 33 £500 +1.21% 11
East Midlands +16 18 £455 - 12
East of England -21 14 £525 +35.48% 14
North East +12 5 £345 -42.50% 5
Wales +15 3 £500 - 8
Northern Ireland -3 2 £400 -5.88% 14

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 94 (9.31%) Apache Spark
2 43 (4.26%) Apache
3 38 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.28%) SharePoint
5 9 (0.89%) Confluence
5 9 (0.89%) Site Server
6 7 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.20%) CICS
8 2 (0.20%) CMS
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.099%) JBoss
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle Coherence
9 1 (0.099%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.099%) WildFly
Applications
1 30 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.57%) MS Visio
3 13 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.20%) Trello
6 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.19%) Elite 3E
2 12 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 6 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
5 3 (0.30%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
6 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.099%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 369 (36.53%) Azure
2 268 (26.53%) AWS
3 240 (23.76%) Power Platform
4 117 (11.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 117 (11.58%) GCP
5 109 (10.79%) Serverless
6 98 (9.70%) Amazon S3
7 79 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
8 74 (7.33%) Snowflake
9 61 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 43 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (3.96%) dbt
12 35 (3.47%) AWS Step Functions
13 30 (2.97%) Amazon EMR
14 29 (2.87%) Collibra
15 28 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (2.57%) GitHub
17 22 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
19 18 (1.78%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) FTP
2 6 (0.59%) Internet
3 4 (0.40%) Firewall
4 2 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (34.75%) Data Warehouse
2 230 (22.77%) Power BI
3 167 (16.53%) SQL Server
4 123 (12.18%) Data Lake
5 117 (11.58%) Big Data
6 104 (10.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 96 (9.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 83 (8.22%) Tableau
9 68 (6.73%) Relational Database
10 61 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
11 58 (5.74%) NoSQL
12 55 (5.45%) BigQuery
13 54 (5.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 53 (5.25%) Metadata
15 38 (3.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (3.66%) MySQL
17 35 (3.47%) Amazon RDS
17 35 (3.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 34 (3.37%) Hadoop
19 33 (3.27%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 71 (7.03%) Git
2 35 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 31 (3.07%) JIRA
4 15 (1.49%) Selenium
5 14 (1.39%) ERwin
5 14 (1.39%) GitLab
6 10 (0.99%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.79%) webpack
8 7 (0.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.59%) Appium
9 6 (0.59%) JUnit
9 6 (0.59%) Postman
9 6 (0.59%) SoapUI
9 6 (0.59%) TestNG
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%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 228 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 175 (17.33%) Finance
3 130 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (7.33%) Public Sector
5 61 (6.04%) Banking
6 29 (2.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 26 (2.57%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.28%) Marketing
9 20 (1.98%) Retail
10 19 (1.88%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.09%) Publishing
12 9 (0.89%) Legal
13 8 (0.79%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.79%) Law
14 7 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.59%) Electronics
16 5 (0.50%) Back Office
16 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 314 (31.09%) Data Engineer
2 172 (17.03%) Developer
3 139 (13.76%) Architect
4 103 (10.20%) Senior
5 82 (8.12%) Data Architect
6 72 (7.13%) Azure Engineer
7 69 (6.83%) Analyst
8 67 (6.63%) Lead
9 63 (6.24%) Azure Data Engineer
10 46 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 45 (4.46%) Data Analyst
12 43 (4.26%) Consultant
13 39 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (3.47%) AWS Engineer
15 33 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
16 26 (2.57%) AWS Data Engineer
17 25 (2.48%) Power BI Developer
18 22 (2.18%) Data Modeller
18 22 (2.18%) ETL Developer
18 22 (2.18%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (8.51%) PySpark
2 52 (5.15%) Kafka
3 45 (4.46%) JSON
4 31 (3.07%) Apache Avro
5 29 (2.87%) XML
6 19 (1.88%) Node.js
7 18 (1.78%) .NET
8 17 (1.68%) REST
9 15 (1.49%) Web Services
10 14 (1.39%) Middleware
10 14 (1.39%) Spring
11 13 (1.29%) JSON Schema
11 13 (1.29%) React
11 13 (1.29%) RESTful
12 10 (0.99%) AWS CDK
13 9 (0.89%) Apache NiFi
14 8 (0.79%) ARM Templates
14 8 (0.79%) Express.js
14 8 (0.79%) Redux
14 8 (0.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.66%) Data Structures
2 32 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
3 30 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.48%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.18%) Replication
6 18 (1.78%) Product Ownership
6 18 (1.78%) Reference Data
7 17 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 10 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
9 9 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
10 8 (0.79%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.69%) Hedge funds
11 7 (0.69%) Social Media
11 7 (0.69%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.47%) Unix
2 31 (3.07%) Windows
3 28 (2.77%) Linux
4 8 (0.79%) zOS
5 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (37.62%) Data Modelling
2 318 (31.49%) Business Intelligence
3 289 (28.61%) Analytics
4 211 (20.89%) Data Pipeline
5 203 (20.10%) Agile
6 173 (17.13%) Data Integration
6 173 (17.13%) Migration
7 165 (16.34%) Data Engineering
8 142 (14.06%) DevOps
9 137 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
10 129 (12.77%) Visualisation
11 128 (12.67%) CI/CD
12 122 (12.08%) Data Governance
13 115 (11.39%) Data Migration
14 93 (9.21%) Data Science
15 92 (9.11%) Data Management
16 88 (8.71%) Data Analysis
17 86 (8.51%) Data Analytics
18 84 (8.32%) Data Architecture
19 74 (7.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 555 (54.95%) SQL
2 362 (35.84%) Python
3 128 (12.67%) Java
4 71 (7.03%) T-SQL
5 52 (5.15%) Scala
6 45 (4.46%) C#
7 38 (3.76%) PL/SQL
8 33 (3.27%) Shell Script
9 30 (2.97%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.28%) JavaScript
11 21 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.58%) R
13 12 (1.19%) Bash
14 11 (1.09%) TypeScript
15 9 (0.89%) Korn
16 7 (0.69%) Go
16 7 (0.69%) Perl
16 7 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
17 5 (0.50%) C++
18 4 (0.40%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 156 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 139 (13.76%) SC Cleared
3 80 (7.92%) Degree
4 41 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 13 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 10 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 9 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 7 (0.69%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.50%) CISSP
10 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.20%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.20%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.20%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.099%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.099%) OCP
13 1 (0.099%) Oracle Certification
13 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (16.83%) Data Quality
2 43 (4.26%) QA
3 31 (3.07%) GDPR
4 19 (1.88%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.49%) SLA
6 6 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.20%) IFRS
7 2 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.20%) NIST
7 2 (0.20%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.099%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.099%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.099%) EMIR
8 1 (0.099%) FATCA
8 1 (0.099%) PMO
8 1 (0.099%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (3.66%) Docker
2 7 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (0.59%) HDFS
4 3 (0.30%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 50 (4.95%) Terraform
3 33 (3.27%) Grafana
4 11 (1.09%) Ansible
5 7 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.30%) Control-M
7 3 (0.30%) Kibana
7 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.20%) Puppet
9 1 (0.099%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.099%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.099%) Podman
9 1 (0.099%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 160 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 139 (13.76%) Oracle
3 124 (12.28%) Databricks
4 66 (6.53%) Informatica
5 64 (6.34%) Google
6 49 (4.85%) SAP
7 46 (4.55%) Talend
8 26 (2.57%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.98%) Ab Initio
10 19 (1.88%) Denodo
10 19 (1.88%) Splunk
11 11 (1.09%) ESRI
12 10 (0.99%) Foundry
12 10 (0.99%) Palantir
12 10 (0.99%) SEEBURGER
12 10 (0.99%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.79%) Cloudera
13 8 (0.79%) IBM
13 8 (0.79%) Sparx
14 7 (0.69%) Nexthink