ETL Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 38 35 45
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 4 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.06% 2.41% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 2.70% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £475 £415 £433
25th Percentile £503 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.10% +5.26% +2.70%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £494
90th Percentile £690 £605 £498
East of England median daily rate £551 £513 £463
% change year-on-year +7.41% +10.81% +50.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 307 259 407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.22% 89.31% 85.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 126 161
10th Percentile £211 £319 £235
25th Percentile £335 £413 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £478
Median % change year-on-year - -0.63% +0.63%
75th Percentile £578 £555 £563
90th Percentile £675 £644 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -5.00% +0.50% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 48 178
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.31 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.66 £21.46 £20.00
90th Percentile £34.67 £26.23 £36.57
East of England median hourly rate £20.16 £40.00 £31.80
% change year-on-year -49.60% +25.79% +42.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Cambridgeshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing ETL

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 8 February 2026. 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
Cambridge -8 4 £551 +10.10% 3
ETL
East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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