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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 60 80
Rank change year-on-year -16 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing ETL 45 29 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.94% 2.25% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.52% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 13
10th Percentile £405 £451 -
25th Percentile £411 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £581 £550
90th Percentile £589 £746 £593
England median daily rate £500 £500 £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 1,823 1,151 1,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.48% 89.22% 81.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 499 453
10th Percentile £190 £200 £213
25th Percentile £388 £377 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £442
Median % change year-on-year - +13.12% -11.60%
75th Percentile £594 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 303 400
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.80 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.43 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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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 11 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 11 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 -7 13 £420 -21.86% 9
Cambridgeshire +5 12 £520 -15.96% 4
Norfolk -12 7 £450 -18.18% 5
Suffolk - 6 £581 - 5
Essex -22 5 £478 +12.35% 5
Bedfordshire +6 2 £438 -20.45% 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 5 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (26.67%) Azure
3 8 (17.78%) Power Platform
4 7 (15.56%) GitHub
5 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (11.11%) dbt
6 5 (11.11%) GCP
6 5 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.89%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.67%) Serverless
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (2.22%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (24.44%) Relational Database
2 8 (17.78%) Metadata
3 7 (15.56%) Power BI
3 7 (15.56%) SQL Server
4 5 (11.11%) MySQL
4 5 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 3 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.44%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (4.44%) GIS
6 2 (4.44%) Tableau
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.22%) Power Query
7 1 (2.22%) QlikView
7 1 (2.22%) Redis
7 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) Newman
2 4 (8.89%) Postman
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Law
3 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 4 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.78%) Lead
3 6 (13.33%) Data Migration Lead
4 5 (11.11%) Architect
4 5 (11.11%) Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Python Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Data Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Databricks Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Data Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Designer
7 2 (4.44%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Tester
8 1 (2.22%) Automation Test Lead
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Specialist
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Specialist
8 1 (2.22%) ETL Tester
8 1 (2.22%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) Kafka
1 6 (13.33%) REST
2 5 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 5 (11.11%) Pandas
2 5 (11.11%) RESTful
2 5 (11.11%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (8.89%) JSON
3 4 (8.89%) pytest
3 4 (8.89%) XML
3 4 (8.89%) XML Schema
4 3 (6.67%) Great Expectations
4 3 (6.67%) PySpark
5 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.44%) Flask
5 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.44%) XSD
6 1 (2.22%) ADO
6 1 (2.22%) Middleware
6 1 (2.22%) SOAP
6 1 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Life Science
1 6 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (6.67%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) LIMS
4 1 (2.22%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 19 (42.22%) Validation
4 18 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (37.78%) Migration
6 16 (35.56%) Data Migration
7 14 (31.11%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (24.44%) Data Engineering
9 10 (22.22%) Data Governance
9 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (20.00%) Analytics
11 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
11 8 (17.78%) CRM
12 7 (15.56%) Data Integration
12 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven
12 7 (15.56%) Test Automation
13 6 (13.33%) Informatics
13 6 (13.33%) Logical Data Model
13 6 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) Python
1 28 (62.22%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) Java
3 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.22%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (62.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (22.22%) QA
3 2 (4.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.44%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (17.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Grafana
1 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Databricks
2 7 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.67%) Informatica
3 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.67%) Talend
4 2 (4.44%) ESRI
4 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.44%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.22%) Confluent
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Fiserv
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) Ingenico
5 1 (2.22%) mParticle
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Pega
5 1 (2.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Tealium