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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 67 88
Rank change year-on-year -19 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 21 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.16% 1.89% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.19% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 14
10th Percentile - £318 £333
25th Percentile £363 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +13.51% +46.36%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £538
90th Percentile £712 £645 £550
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%

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 1,456 915 1,644
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 80.22% 86.57% 86.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 452 819
10th Percentile £196 £247 £250
25th Percentile £350 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -1.00%
75th Percentile £592 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £695 £714
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 151 491
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.63 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £50.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.30% +36.99% +16.21%
75th Percentile £60.75 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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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 February 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 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
Essex +2 8 £375 +17.76%
Cambridgeshire -3 4 £551 +10.10% 2
Hertfordshire -21 4 £548 -14.12% 8
Bedfordshire -12 2 - - 2
Suffolk - 2 £700 - 1
Norfolk - 1 - - 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 4 (19.05%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.52%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Sage X3
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 6 (28.57%) Serverless
4 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (23.81%) Snowflake
5 4 (19.05%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) dbt
6 3 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (14.29%) SaaS
7 2 (9.52%) Power Automate
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (4.76%) Boomi
8 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (28.57%) Power BI
3 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
3 4 (19.05%) Power Query
3 4 (19.05%) ZAP BI
4 2 (9.52%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle Database
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.76%) Big Data
5 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Hudson
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) MLflow
General
1 14 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
4 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Law
6 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
1 6 (28.57%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Power BI Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Report Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Snowflake Architect
2 4 (19.05%) SQL BI Developer
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Developer
3 3 (14.29%) Sage Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) REST
1 3 (14.29%) SOAP
2 2 (9.52%) XML
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) JSON
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (4.76%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) SystemC
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Analytics
2 9 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 8 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
4 7 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 7 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 7 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 7 (33.33%) DevOps
4 7 (33.33%) Validation
5 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
5 5 (23.81%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (19.05%) Data Lineage
6 4 (19.05%) Data Validation
6 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
6 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 4 (19.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 9 (42.86%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (19.05%) VBA
4 2 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) C#
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kibana
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (19.05%) Oracle
1 4 (19.05%) Sage
2 3 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
2 3 (14.29%) StreamSets
2 3 (14.29%) Talend
3 2 (9.52%) Informatica
3 2 (9.52%) Pega
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.76%) Cerner
4 1 (4.76%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) IFS
4 1 (4.76%) Sybase
4 1 (4.76%) Virgin Media