ETL Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 4 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.02% 3.25% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 3.55% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £475 £415 -
25th Percentile £503 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% +11.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £475
90th Percentile £690 £605 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £551 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +10.10% +5.26% +2.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 173 141 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 87.37% 91.56% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 85 111
10th Percentile £265 £300 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £616 £575 £538
90th Percentile £675 £650 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £475 £478
% change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 24
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.64 £15.51
25th Percentile £23.00 £16.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £20.13 £26.34
Median % change year-on-year +18.39% -23.58% +28.46%
75th Percentile £39.38 £31.63 £72.19
90th Percentile £51.41 £47.15 £77.50
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
% change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Cambridge

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Cambridge over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Cambridge

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure API Management
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) IFS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (25.00%) Data Repair
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IFS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Sybase
1 1 (25.00%) Virgin Media