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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 61 85
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 24 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.29% 1.87% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 2.14% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 14
10th Percentile - £318 £333
25th Percentile £363 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +13.51% +46.36%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £538
90th Percentile £661 £645 £550
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 1,473 888 1,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.02% 87.23% 86.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 461 832
10th Percentile £198 £250 £235
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £477
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.93% -4.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £576
90th Percentile £675 £694 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 438 158 515
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.56 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.51 £20.07 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.80 £57.50 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -62.09% +50.84% +15.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -8.84%

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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 10 March 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 10 March 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 7 £375 +17.76% 2
Cambridgeshire 0 6 £565 +13.00% 6
Hertfordshire -22 6 £498 -21.96% 8
Bedfordshire -10 2 - - 2
Suffolk - 2 £700 -
Norfolk - 1 - - 1
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 3 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Sage X3
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) Power Platform
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) AWS
4 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (12.50%) SaaS
4 3 (12.50%) Serverless
5 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.17%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (45.83%) Power BI
3 6 (25.00%) Power Query
3 6 (25.00%) ZAP BI
4 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (12.50%) Tableau
5 2 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.33%) QlikView
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.17%) Big Data
6 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
6 1 (4.17%) MySQL
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) MLflow
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Power BI Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Report Developer
2 6 (25.00%) SQL BI Developer
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Sage Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Crystal Reports Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Tableau Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Leader
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Head of AI
6 1 (4.17%) Qlik Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) REST
1 3 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) ADO
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) React
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Low-Code
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) NHS
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) SystemC
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Analytics
2 12 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (50.00%) Validation
3 7 (29.17%) Data Lineage
3 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
3 7 (29.17%) Data Validation
3 7 (29.17%) Kalman Filter
3 7 (29.17%) Requirements Gathering
3 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
4 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 6 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 6 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) Technology Transformation
4 6 (25.00%) User Experience
4 6 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (25.00%) VBA
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
3 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kibana
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (25.00%) Sage
2 4 (16.67%) Databricks
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 3 (12.50%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) Talend
4 2 (8.33%) Informatica
4 2 (8.33%) Pega
4 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (4.17%) Cerner
5 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) StreamSets
5 1 (4.17%) Virgin Media