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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 66 75
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 46 26 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.07% 2.04% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.28% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 13
10th Percentile £406 £451 -
25th Percentile £411 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £550
90th Percentile £592 £746 £593
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%

All Process & 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 1,745 1,139 1,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.36% 89.19% 82.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 498 476
10th Percentile £190 £200 £191
25th Percentile £385 £367 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £677 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 296 407
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.82 £14.73
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.25 £30.16 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.66% -24.60% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.50 £77.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

ETL job vacancy trend 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 2 September 2026.

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 2 September 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
Cambridgeshire +13 13 £565 -8.69% 4
Hertfordshire -6 13 £420 -21.86% 7
Norfolk -11 7 £450 -18.18% 7
Suffolk - 6 £581 - 6
Essex -17 5 £478 +12.35% 5
Bedfordshire +4 2 £438 -20.45%
ETL
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
3 1 (2.17%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Power Platform
4 7 (15.22%) GitHub
5 6 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (10.87%) dbt
6 5 (10.87%) GCP
6 5 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.87%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.52%) Serverless
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (2.17%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (23.91%) Relational Database
2 8 (17.39%) Metadata
3 7 (15.22%) Power BI
3 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
4 5 (10.87%) MySQL
4 5 (10.87%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.52%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.52%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.35%) Tableau
7 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.17%) GIS
7 1 (2.17%) Power Query
7 1 (2.17%) QlikView
7 1 (2.17%) Redis
7 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) Newman
2 4 (8.70%) Postman
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Law
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Banking
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Marketing
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.17%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (36.96%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Lead
3 6 (13.04%) Architect
3 6 (13.04%) Data Migration Lead
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
5 4 (8.70%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.70%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Databricks Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Designer
7 2 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Tester
8 1 (2.17%) Automation Tester
8 1 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 1 (2.17%) Integration Specialist
8 1 (2.17%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (2.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) Kafka
1 6 (13.04%) REST
2 5 (10.87%) Hibernate
2 5 (10.87%) Pandas
2 5 (10.87%) RESTful
2 5 (10.87%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (8.70%) JSON
3 4 (8.70%) pytest
3 4 (8.70%) XML
3 4 (8.70%) XML Schema
4 3 (6.52%) Great Expectations
4 3 (6.52%) PySpark
5 2 (4.35%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.35%) Flask
5 2 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.35%) XSD
6 1 (2.17%) ADO
6 1 (2.17%) Middleware
6 1 (2.17%) SOAP
6 1 (2.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Life Science
1 6 (13.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.52%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.52%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (6.52%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.17%) LIMS
4 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (54.35%) Data Modelling
3 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 19 (41.30%) Validation
5 17 (36.96%) Migration
6 16 (34.78%) Data Migration
7 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.74%) Data Engineering
8 10 (21.74%) Data Governance
8 10 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (19.57%) Analytics
10 8 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (17.39%) CRM
11 7 (15.22%) Data Integration
11 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven
11 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
12 6 (13.04%) DevOps
12 6 (13.04%) Informatics
12 6 (13.04%) Logical Data Model
12 6 (13.04%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (63.04%) Python
2 28 (60.87%) SQL
3 7 (15.22%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.35%) Degree
5 1 (2.17%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (60.87%) Data Quality
2 10 (21.74%) QA
3 2 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.35%) GDPR
4 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Grafana
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.17%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (26.09%) Databricks
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Informatica
3 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.52%) Talend
4 2 (4.35%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
4 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.17%) Confluent
5 1 (2.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.17%) ESRI
5 1 (2.17%) Fiserv
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) Ingenico
5 1 (2.17%) mParticle
5 1 (2.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Pega
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Tealium