ETL Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ETL skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 76 76
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 +37
Contract jobs citing ETL 29 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.24% 1.31% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 1.60% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 33
10th Percentile £451 £363 £321
25th Percentile £456 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £581 £559 £725
90th Percentile £746 £618 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +1.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,160 1,247 1,620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.44% 81.50% 87.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 457 879
10th Percentile £200 £200 £225
25th Percentile £377 £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £628
90th Percentile £687 £638 £727
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 383 360
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.41 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +101.92% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.90 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Essex +8 10 £425 -22.73% 2
Norfolk - 7 £550 - 2
Cambridgeshire -2 6 £619 +17.86% 7
Hertfordshire +5 4 £538 +19.44% 8
Bedfordshire -10 2 £550 +46.67% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (20.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) AWS
2 10 (34.48%) Amazon S3
3 8 (27.59%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (27.59%) dbt
3 8 (27.59%) Serverless
3 8 (27.59%) Snowflake
4 7 (24.14%) Azure
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon EMR
5 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.34%) IaaS
6 3 (10.34%) PaaS
6 3 (10.34%) SaaS
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (34.48%) Relational Database
3 9 (31.03%) RDBMS
4 7 (24.14%) Data Lake
4 7 (24.14%) Oracle Database
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (17.24%) Power BI
5 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
6 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
7 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
7 3 (10.34%) Metadata
7 3 (10.34%) NoSQL
7 3 (10.34%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (10.34%) Sqoop
8 2 (6.90%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (6.90%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (6.90%) Power Query
8 2 (6.90%) PowerCenter
8 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Hudson
2 1 (3.45%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.45%) ERwin
General
1 11 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 3 (10.34%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Architect
2 8 (27.59%) Snowflake Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 3 (10.34%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
4 3 (10.34%) Informatica Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Data Modeller
5 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Analytics Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Qlik Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) REST
1 3 (10.34%) SOAP
2 2 (6.90%) Web Services
2 2 (6.90%) XML
3 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.45%) Kafka
3 1 (3.45%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (6.90%) Life Science
2 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
2 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.45%) Mashup
2 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) Data Modelling
2 13 (44.83%) Migration
3 12 (41.38%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (34.48%) Data Migration
5 9 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (27.59%) Data Architecture
6 8 (27.59%) Data Engineering
6 8 (27.59%) Data Integration
7 7 (24.14%) Analytics
8 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (17.24%) Visualisation
10 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
10 4 (13.79%) Data Analysis
10 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
10 4 (13.79%) Data Visualisation
10 4 (13.79%) ERP
10 4 (13.79%) High Availability
10 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (13.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (6.90%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.45%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (13.79%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Oracle
2 7 (24.14%) Informatica
3 6 (20.69%) StreamSets
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
5 2 (6.90%) IFS
5 2 (6.90%) Sybase
6 1 (3.45%) Cognos
6 1 (3.45%) IBM
6 1 (3.45%) SAP
6 1 (3.45%) Workday