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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 96 95
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing ETL 1,007 1,438 2,409
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.37% 2.52% 2.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.74% 2.80% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 1,026 1,676
10th Percentile £375 £385 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £614 £625
90th Percentile £734 £721 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% +8.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 13
10th Percentile £28.27 - -
25th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £55.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +20.88% +66.27%
75th Percentile £51.75 £72.75 £52.75
90th Percentile £62.38 £79.20 £64.97
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.37 £43.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.58% +7.81% +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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +3 862 £525 -2.33% 364
London +15 527 £525 -4.55% 178
Work from Home +4 394 £506 -3.62% 222
UK excluding London -20 336 £500 - 205
North of England +31 120 £510 +2.00% 54
North West +33 82 £525 +13.51% 35
Midlands +9 71 £450 -16.67% 59
West Midlands 0 54 £425 -21.30% 43
South East -27 52 £478 -4.50% 23
South West -1 42 £525 +5.00% 25
Scotland -9 35 £497 +1.43% 8
Yorkshire +13 33 £500 -16.67% 15
East Midlands +14 16 £475 +4.40% 16
East of England -19 14 £525 +40.00% 14
North East +11 5 £345 -42.50% 4
Wales +17 3 £450 -10.00% 9
Northern Ireland -1 2 £400 -5.88% 13

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 93 (9.24%) Apache Spark
2 42 (4.17%) Apache
3 37 (3.67%) Apache Airflow
4 24 (2.38%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.79%) Confluence
5 8 (0.79%) Site Server
6 7 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.20%) CICS
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 31 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.58%) 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 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.19%) Elite 3E
4 8 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.30%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.30%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.30%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.30%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.20%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP IS-U
7 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 365 (36.25%) Azure
2 264 (26.22%) AWS
3 244 (24.23%) Power Platform
4 117 (11.62%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (11.42%) GCP
6 110 (10.92%) Serverless
7 94 (9.33%) Amazon S3
8 80 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 73 (7.25%) Snowflake
10 61 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (4.07%) dbt
13 34 (3.38%) AWS Step Functions
14 30 (2.98%) Amazon EMR
15 29 (2.88%) Collibra
16 24 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (2.38%) GitHub
17 22 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (2.09%) Amazon MSK
19 18 (1.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (0.89%) FTP
2 6 (0.60%) Internet
3 4 (0.40%) Firewall
4 1 (0.099%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 353 (35.05%) Data Warehouse
2 234 (23.24%) Power BI
3 170 (16.88%) SQL Server
4 125 (12.41%) Data Lake
5 117 (11.62%) Big Data
6 105 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 97 (9.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 85 (8.44%) Tableau
9 67 (6.65%) Relational Database
10 62 (6.16%) PostgreSQL
11 59 (5.86%) NoSQL
12 57 (5.66%) BigQuery
13 53 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 53 (5.26%) Metadata
14 39 (3.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 38 (3.77%) MySQL
16 36 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 35 (3.48%) Amazon RDS
18 34 (3.38%) Hadoop
19 33 (3.28%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 69 (6.85%) Git
2 33 (3.28%) JIRA
3 32 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.59%) Selenium
5 15 (1.49%) GitLab
6 14 (1.39%) ERwin
7 10 (0.99%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.79%) webpack
9 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 6 (0.60%) Appium
10 6 (0.60%) JUnit
10 6 (0.60%) Postman
10 6 (0.60%) SoapUI
10 6 (0.60%) TestNG
11 5 (0.50%) eggPlant
11 5 (0.50%) ER Studio
11 5 (0.50%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.50%) SOAtest
11 5 (0.50%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 230 (22.84%) Social Skills
2 172 (17.08%) Finance
3 131 (13.01%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (7.35%) Public Sector
5 57 (5.66%) Banking
6 29 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 26 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.28%) Marketing
9 20 (1.99%) Retail
10 19 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 14 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.09%) Publishing
13 9 (0.89%) Legal
14 8 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.79%) Law
15 7 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.60%) Electronics
17 5 (0.50%) Back Office
17 5 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 314 (31.18%) Data Engineer
2 172 (17.08%) Developer
3 137 (13.60%) Architect
4 101 (10.03%) Senior
5 82 (8.14%) Data Architect
6 71 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
7 68 (6.75%) Analyst
7 68 (6.75%) Lead
8 62 (6.16%) Azure Data Engineer
9 46 (4.57%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 44 (4.37%) Data Analyst
11 42 (4.17%) Consultant
12 36 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
13 35 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
14 33 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
15 28 (2.78%) AWS Data Engineer
16 24 (2.38%) Power BI Developer
17 23 (2.28%) ETL Developer
18 22 (2.18%) Data Modeller
18 22 (2.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (8.44%) PySpark
2 51 (5.06%) Kafka
3 46 (4.57%) JSON
4 31 (3.08%) Apache Avro
5 29 (2.88%) XML
6 18 (1.79%) .NET
6 18 (1.79%) Node.js
7 16 (1.59%) REST
8 15 (1.49%) Web Services
9 14 (1.39%) Middleware
9 14 (1.39%) Spring
10 13 (1.29%) JSON Schema
10 13 (1.29%) React
11 12 (1.19%) RESTful
12 11 (1.09%) 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 (3.67%) Data Structures
2 30 (2.98%) Management Information System
3 29 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.18%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.09%) Replication
7 18 (1.79%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.79%) Reference Data
8 17 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (0.99%) Algorithms
10 10 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (0.89%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
12 8 (0.79%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.79%) Hedge funds
13 7 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.70%) Social Media
14 6 (0.60%) Life Science
14 6 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (3.48%) Unix
2 32 (3.18%) Windows
3 25 (2.48%) Linux
4 8 (0.79%) zOS
5 2 (0.20%) VMS
6 1 (0.099%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (38.23%) Data Modelling
2 327 (32.47%) Business Intelligence
3 291 (28.90%) Analytics
4 207 (20.56%) Data Pipeline
5 202 (20.06%) Agile
6 179 (17.78%) Migration
7 173 (17.18%) Data Integration
8 165 (16.39%) Data Engineering
9 141 (14.00%) DevOps
10 135 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (13.11%) Visualisation
12 125 (12.41%) Data Governance
13 124 (12.31%) CI/CD
14 120 (11.92%) Data Migration
15 93 (9.24%) Data Management
16 92 (9.14%) Data Science
17 91 (9.04%) Data Analysis
18 88 (8.74%) Data Analytics
19 85 (8.44%) Data Architecture
20 76 (7.55%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 551 (54.72%) SQL
2 360 (35.75%) Python
3 129 (12.81%) Java
4 72 (7.15%) T-SQL
5 55 (5.46%) Scala
6 45 (4.47%) C#
7 39 (3.87%) PL/SQL
8 32 (3.18%) Shell Script
9 30 (2.98%) PowerShell
10 23 (2.28%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.59%) R
13 12 (1.19%) Bash
13 12 (1.19%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.79%) Korn
15 7 (0.70%) Go
15 7 (0.70%) Perl
15 7 (0.70%) Search Processing Language
16 5 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.40%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 155 (15.39%) Security Cleared
2 139 (13.80%) SC Cleared
3 79 (7.85%) Degree
4 40 (3.97%) 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 8 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.50%) CISSP
10 4 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
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 (0.099%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.099%) OCP
12 1 (0.099%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.099%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (17.28%) Data Quality
2 42 (4.17%) QA
3 31 (3.08%) GDPR
4 20 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.49%) SLA
6 6 (0.60%) 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 39 (3.87%) 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 (0.099%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (5.16%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.77%) Terraform
3 34 (3.38%) Grafana
4 9 (0.89%) Ansible
5 7 (0.70%) 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
1 159 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 140 (13.90%) Oracle
3 122 (12.12%) Databricks
4 67 (6.65%) Informatica
5 63 (6.26%) Google
6 50 (4.97%) SAP
7 46 (4.57%) Talend
8 24 (2.38%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.99%) Ab Initio
10 19 (1.89%) Denodo
11 17 (1.69%) Splunk
12 10 (0.99%) 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 (0.70%) Alteryx