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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 63 90
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 44 16 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.05% 1.69% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.91% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 10
10th Percentile £363 £318 £361
25th Percentile £409 £321 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.41% +31.02%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £538
90th Percentile £591 £655 £565
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%

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 1,658 837 1,643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.26% 88.57% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 433 728
10th Percentile £200 £234 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £573
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 177 594
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.35 £15.31
Median hourly rate £22.63 £50.00 £39.78
Median % change year-on-year -54.74% +25.71% +59.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £30.62 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.82% -12.53% -6.67%

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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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +12 10 £558 +25.69% 2
Essex -5 9 £375 +17.76% 4
Hertfordshire -19 8 £481 -24.51% 4
Norfolk - 8 £450 - 6
Suffolk - 7 £588 -
Bedfordshire -9 2 - - 1
ETL
England

ETL
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 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.82%) Apache
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Sage X3
2 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 11 (25.00%) AWS
2 11 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (9.09%) dbt
4 4 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (9.09%) Serverless
4 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.82%) SaaS
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.55%) Boomi
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (31.82%) Power BI
3 9 (20.45%) Metadata
4 7 (15.91%) SQL Server
5 6 (13.64%) Power Query
5 6 (13.64%) ZAP BI
6 5 (11.36%) Tableau
7 4 (9.09%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.82%) QlikView
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.55%) BigQuery
9 2 (4.55%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (4.55%) MySQL
9 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) MLflow
General
1 18 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Law
7 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Lead
2 9 (20.45%) Data Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Architect
5 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Data Migration Lead
5 6 (13.64%) Power BI Developer
5 6 (13.64%) Report Developer
5 6 (13.64%) SQL BI Developer
5 6 (13.64%) SQL Developer
6 5 (11.36%) Data Architect
7 4 (9.09%) Sage Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Crystal Reports Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Data Scientist
8 2 (4.55%) Designer
8 2 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Architect
8 2 (4.55%) Tableau Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) REST
2 6 (13.64%) Kafka
3 4 (9.09%) JSON
4 2 (4.55%) ADO
4 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.55%) Flask
4 2 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.55%) Node.js
4 2 (4.55%) PySpark
4 2 (4.55%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) Celery
5 1 (2.27%) JWT
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) Pandas
5 1 (2.27%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.27%) PyArrow
5 1 (2.27%) React
5 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) LIMS
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) SystemC
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Analytics
2 19 (43.18%) Data Modelling
3 17 (38.64%) Validation
4 16 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (34.09%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 13 (29.55%) Data Governance
7 13 (29.55%) Migration
8 12 (27.27%) Data Migration
8 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (20.45%) CRM
10 9 (20.45%) Data Validation
10 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (18.18%) Agile
11 8 (18.18%) Data Lineage
11 8 (18.18%) DevOps
12 7 (15.91%) Logical Data Model
12 7 (15.91%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (15.91%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) SQL
2 18 (40.91%) Python
3 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (13.64%) VBA
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Java
5 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.36%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
3 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (2.27%) GMP
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) Databricks
3 6 (13.64%) Sage
3 6 (13.64%) Talend
4 5 (11.36%) Informatica
4 5 (11.36%) Oracle
5 4 (9.09%) MuleSoft
5 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (6.82%) SAP
7 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 2 (4.55%) Google
7 2 (4.55%) Pega
8 1 (2.27%) Cerner
8 1 (2.27%) Confluent
8 1 (2.27%) Fiserv
8 1 (2.27%) HP
8 1 (2.27%) Ingenico
8 1 (2.27%) StreamSets