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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 69 83
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 16 20 26
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.95% 1.81% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 2.12% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 14
10th Percentile £503 £319 £333
25th Percentile £553 £321 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +13.51% +50.16%
75th Percentile £691 £550 £538
90th Percentile £781 £635 £546
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%

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 1,381 945 1,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 82.30% 85.60% 86.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 416 780
10th Percentile £195 £241 £250
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £681 £691 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.29% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 173 417
10th Percentile £13.92 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +33.33% +34.83%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £84.45 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £37.18
% change year-on-year -26.15% -8.41% +9.93%

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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 25 January 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 January 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 -3 4 - - 8
Cambridgeshire -4 4 £725 +31.82% 10
Hertfordshire -15 4 £575 -8.00% 18
Bedfordshire -14 2 £550 - 12
Norfolk - 1 - - 9
Suffolk - 1 - - 11
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 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
4 4 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) dbt
5 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (18.75%) SaaS
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
6 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 2 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle Database
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 2 (12.50%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.25%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (6.25%) DataStage
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.25%) SAP BW
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Hudson
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Law
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Cognos Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.25%) IFS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
1 3 (18.75%) SOAP
2 2 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
3 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Life Science
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) SystemC
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Data Modelling
2 7 (43.75%) Data Architecture
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Migration
3 6 (37.50%) Analytics
3 6 (37.50%) Data Migration
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Data Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) Validation
6 3 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Event-Driven
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
1 1 (6.25%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
1 3 (18.75%) StreamSets
2 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
2 2 (12.50%) Pega
2 2 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Cerner
3 1 (6.25%) Cognos
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) IFS
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase
3 1 (6.25%) Talend
3 1 (6.25%) Virgin Media