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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 64 78
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 44 29 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.82% 2.21% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.47% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 13
10th Percentile £408 £451 -
25th Percentile £413 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £589 £581 £563
90th Percentile £619 £746 £620
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -

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 1,901 1,174 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.46% 89.55% 81.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 839 506 448
10th Percentile £190 £200 £199
25th Percentile £363 £385 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £596 £550
90th Percentile £700 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 318 356
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.26 £15.62
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.82 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.15% -42.96% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £41.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.23% -41.51% -1.94%

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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 26 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 26 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
Hertfordshire -10 16 £435 -19.07% 15
Cambridgeshire +8 12 £520 -15.96% 9
Suffolk - 6 £581 - 4
Bedfordshire +1 4 £563 +2.27% 3
Essex -20 4 £478 +12.35% 6
Norfolk -14 2 £425 -22.73% 9
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 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (6.82%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) AWS
1 12 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 11 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (13.64%) GCP
3 6 (13.64%) GitHub
4 5 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.82%) dbt
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.55%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.55%) Serverless
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.27%) Boomi
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) Power BI
1 11 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 10 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.36%) BigQuery
4 5 (11.36%) MySQL
4 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (9.09%) Metadata
6 3 (6.82%) Looker
6 3 (6.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
7 2 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (4.55%) GIS
8 1 (2.27%) Power Query
8 1 (2.27%) QlikView
8 1 (2.27%) Redis
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Git
2 4 (9.09%) Newman
2 4 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 15 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Law
3 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 4 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.55%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.27%) Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Marketing
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Data Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Developer
3 7 (15.91%) Lead
4 6 (13.64%) Data Migration Lead
5 4 (9.09%) Architect
5 4 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Applications Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (6.82%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Databricks Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Report Developer
6 3 (6.82%) Report Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
8 1 (2.27%) Administrator
8 1 (2.27%) Data Migration Specialist
8 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Hibernate
1 5 (11.36%) Pandas
1 5 (11.36%) REST
1 5 (11.36%) RESTful
1 5 (11.36%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (9.09%) pytest
2 4 (9.09%) XML
2 4 (9.09%) XML Schema
3 3 (6.82%) Great Expectations
4 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.55%) Flask
4 2 (4.55%) Kafka
4 2 (4.55%) PySpark
4 2 (4.55%) XSD
5 1 (2.27%) ADO
5 1 (2.27%) JSON
5 1 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) OAuth
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
5 1 (2.27%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) Life Science
2 3 (6.82%) CMDB
2 3 (6.82%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) LIMS
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) Data Modelling
2 25 (56.82%) Data Pipeline
3 18 (40.91%) Validation
4 16 (36.36%) Migration
5 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
5 15 (34.09%) Data Migration
6 13 (29.55%) Data Engineering
7 12 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (25.00%) Analytics
8 11 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (22.73%) Data Integration
10 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (18.18%) Data Governance
12 7 (15.91%) CRM
13 6 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 6 (13.64%) Informatics
13 6 (13.64%) Logical Data Model
13 6 (13.64%) Model Validation
13 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
14 5 (11.36%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) Python
2 28 (63.64%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 10 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
3 2 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (56.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (25.00%) QA
3 3 (6.82%) SLA
4 2 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (4.55%) GDPR
5 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (13.64%) Docker
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Databricks
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
4 4 (9.09%) Google
5 3 (6.82%) Remedy
5 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.55%) ESRI
6 2 (4.55%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.55%) SAP
7 1 (2.27%) Braze
7 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 1 (2.27%) Informatica
7 1 (2.27%) mParticle
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle
7 1 (2.27%) Pega
7 1 (2.27%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Talend
7 1 (2.27%) Tealium