ETL Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing ETL 24 14 18
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.73% 2.35% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 2.70% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 9 12
10th Percentile £358 £307 -
25th Percentile £402 £340 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £375 £471
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -20.42% -5.75%
75th Percentile £521 £440 £519
90th Percentile £590 £613 £547
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £46.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -6.45% -23.14% +70.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 740 519 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.09% 87.08% 83.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 319 431
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £358 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +2.15%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £640 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 22 47
10th Percentile £16.13 £15.29 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.05 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +2.46% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.14 £25.02 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.09 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ETL

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
Northamptonshire -6 20 £433 +27.21% 3
Leicestershire -8 2 £588 -12.96% 11
Nottinghamshire - 2 £425 - 15
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 6 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
5 3 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Metadata
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (8.33%) Aerospike
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Hive
4 2 (8.33%) Big Data
4 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Power BI
5 1 (4.17%) Power Query
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JMeter
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
2 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) General Ledger
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Data Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Ab Initio Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) ETL Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Lead
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Payments Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Payments Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 3 (12.50%) PySpark
2 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.33%) Node.js
3 2 (8.33%) pytest
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 8 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
4 7 (29.17%) Data Transformation
4 7 (29.17%) Microservices
5 6 (25.00%) Analytics
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (25.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.83%) Waterfall
7 4 (16.67%) Business Analysis
7 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (16.67%) Kanban
7 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 3 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) C#
4 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.17%) PHP
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.50%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Ab Initio
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Informatica
3 3 (12.50%) Databricks
3 3 (12.50%) Talend
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Teradata