ETL Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 56 57
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 13 15 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.98% 2.13% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 2.55% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 8
10th Percentile £350 - £286
25th Percentile £402 £363 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £429 £405
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +5.86% -19.00%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £528
90th Percentile £614 £673 £549
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £400 £538
% change year-on-year +28.75% -25.58% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

ETL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 601 588 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 91.62% 83.40% 83.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 382 439
10th Percentile £250 £200 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.20% -1.02%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £608
90th Percentile £641 £738 £725
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 10 24
10th Percentile £12.62 £19.65 £13.83
25th Percentile £13.25 £21.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £38.06 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.42% +26.88% +62.16%
75th Percentile £24.29 £54.56 £67.50
90th Percentile £28.60 £57.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.70 £23.60 £27.50
% change year-on-year +0.40% -14.18% +55.19%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

ETL job vacancy trend in Birmingham

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ETL

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Birmingham over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Birmingham

ETL
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ETL

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Spark
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
3 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 3 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.69%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) Pulumi
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSH
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Big Data
1 4 (30.77%) Hadoop
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
2 2 (15.38%) Parquet
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.69%) DataStage
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (7.69%) OLTP
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) MLflow
2 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
2 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.69%) Poetry
3 1 (7.69%) PyCharm
3 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Cleansing Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Lead
4 1 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) NumPy
1 3 (23.08%) Pandas
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Avro
2 2 (15.38%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (15.38%) Flask
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (7.69%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
1 1 (7.69%) IoT
1 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Analytics
1 6 (46.15%) Data Engineering
1 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
4 3 (23.08%) Data Science
5 2 (15.38%) AI
5 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 2 (15.38%) Data Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Security
5 2 (15.38%) DevOps
5 2 (15.38%) Secrets Management
5 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Data Collection
6 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 4 (30.77%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Scala
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) Groovy
5 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) Argo
2 2 (15.38%) Istio
2 2 (15.38%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk