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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 56 93
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -22
Contract jobs citing ETL 44 25 14
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.98% 2.62% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.89% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 10
10th Percentile £363 £319 £401
25th Percentile £416 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -4.76% +31.25%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £550
90th Percentile £590 £645 £565
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%

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 1,752 864 1,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.67% 90.38% 84.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 879 462 667
10th Percentile £200 £226 £200
25th Percentile £375 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 436 170 617
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.10 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £24.55 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -0.85% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £84.10 £75.10
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

ETL
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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -18 10 £463 -26.00% 1
Cambridgeshire +12 9 £558 +25.69% 2
Essex -12 9 £375 +17.76% 3
Norfolk -18 8 £450 -18.18%
Suffolk - 7 £588 - 1
Bedfordshire -7 1 - - 3
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 6 (13.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Sage X3
2 5 (11.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Power Platform
2 11 (25.00%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) AWS
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.36%) GCP
4 5 (11.36%) GitHub
5 4 (9.09%) dbt
5 4 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.82%) Serverless
6 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.55%) Boomi
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.27%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (2.27%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (29.55%) 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%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (2.27%) Big Data
10 1 (2.27%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
10 1 (2.27%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (2.27%) Redis
10 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Git
2 3 (6.82%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) Newman
2 3 (6.82%) Postman
3 2 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.27%) MLflow
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Finance
3 6 (13.64%) Manufacturing
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Lead
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%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Qlik Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) Kafka
1 6 (13.64%) REST
2 4 (9.09%) JSON
2 4 (9.09%) Pandas
3 3 (6.82%) pytest
3 3 (6.82%) XML
3 3 (6.82%) XML Schema
4 2 (4.55%) ADO
4 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 2 (4.55%) Flask
4 2 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.55%) Great Expectations
4 2 (4.55%) PySpark
4 2 (4.55%) XSD
5 1 (2.27%) JWT
5 1 (2.27%) Middleware
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) PyArrow
5 1 (2.27%) SOAP
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%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.55%) Life Science
3 2 (4.55%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.27%) LIMS
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) SystemC
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Validation
2 19 (43.18%) Analytics
3 18 (40.91%) Data Modelling
4 17 (38.64%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (34.09%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (34.09%) CI/CD
6 13 (29.55%) Data Governance
7 12 (27.27%) Data Migration
7 12 (27.27%) Migration
8 11 (25.00%) Data Validation
9 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (20.45%) CRM
10 9 (20.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (18.18%) Data Lineage
12 7 (15.91%) Agile
12 7 (15.91%) Logical Data Model
12 7 (15.91%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (15.91%) Visualisation
13 6 (13.64%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 30 (68.18%) SQL
2 19 (43.18%) Python
3 6 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (13.64%) VBA
4 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.55%) Java
6 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (6.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (61.36%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.36%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
4 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
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 12 (27.27%) Databricks
2 11 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.64%) Sage
4 5 (11.36%) Informatica
4 5 (11.36%) Oracle
4 5 (11.36%) Talend
5 3 (6.82%) MuleSoft
5 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.55%) Google
6 2 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.55%) SAP
7 1 (2.27%) Cerner
7 1 (2.27%) Confluent
7 1 (2.27%) Fiserv
7 1 (2.27%) HP
7 1 (2.27%) Ingenico
7 1 (2.27%) Pega
7 1 (2.27%) StreamSets