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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 66 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -8
Contract jobs citing ETL 50 25 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.26% 1.97% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.21% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 13
10th Percentile £380 £450 -
25th Percentile £410 £466 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £550
90th Percentile £590 £763 £593
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%

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 1,726 1,131 1,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.10% 89.13% 82.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 832 497 484
10th Percentile £190 £200 £190
25th Percentile £382 £373 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £590 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £664 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 402 292 430
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £31.57 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.72% -23.48% +108.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £79.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -4 15 £435 -19.07% 7
Cambridgeshire +15 13 £565 -24.67% 3
Norfolk -12 7 £450 -18.18% 5
Essex -19 7 £378 -11.18% 5
Suffolk - 6 £581 - 3
Bedfordshire +5 2 £438 -20.45%
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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.00%) Sage X3
3 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) AWS
2 12 (24.00%) Azure
3 10 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (14.00%) GitHub
5 6 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (10.00%) dbt
6 5 (10.00%) GCP
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.00%) Serverless
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon EventBridge
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (2.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (18.00%) Power BI
4 8 (16.00%) Metadata
5 7 (14.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (10.00%) MySQL
6 5 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (6.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (6.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (6.00%) Power Query
7 3 (6.00%) QlikView
7 3 (6.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (6.00%) Tableau
8 2 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (4.00%) ZAP BI
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (2.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Git
2 4 (8.00%) Newman
2 4 (8.00%) Postman
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
4 1 (2.00%) GitLab
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.00%) Finance
4 7 (14.00%) Law
5 4 (8.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Lead
3 6 (12.00%) Architect
3 6 (12.00%) Data Migration Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Python Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Designer
5 2 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Qlik Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Report Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) SQL BI Developer
5 2 (4.00%) SQL Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Tester
6 1 (2.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Kafka
1 6 (12.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 5 (10.00%) Pandas
2 5 (10.00%) RESTful
2 5 (10.00%) SQLAlchemy
3 4 (8.00%) JSON
3 4 (8.00%) pytest
3 4 (8.00%) XML
3 4 (8.00%) XML Schema
4 3 (6.00%) Great Expectations
4 3 (6.00%) PySpark
5 2 (4.00%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.00%) Flask
5 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.00%) XSD
6 1 (2.00%) ADO
6 1 (2.00%) Middleware
6 1 (2.00%) SOAP
6 1 (2.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Life Science
1 6 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (6.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) LIMS
4 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 21 (42.00%) Validation
4 20 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (34.00%) Migration
6 16 (32.00%) Data Migration
6 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (22.00%) Analytics
7 11 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 10 (20.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (16.00%) CRM
10 7 (14.00%) Data Integration
10 7 (14.00%) Data Validation
10 7 (14.00%) Event-Driven
10 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (14.00%) Visualisation
11 6 (12.00%) Informatics
11 6 (12.00%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 32 (64.00%) SQL
2 29 (58.00%) Python
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.00%) VBA
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 10 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.00%) Grafana
1 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Databricks
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Informatica
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.00%) Talend
4 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.00%) Sage
4 2 (4.00%) SAP
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Confluent
5 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.00%) ESRI
5 1 (2.00%) Fiserv
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) HP
5 1 (2.00%) Ingenico
5 1 (2.00%) Pega
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Tealium