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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 70 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing ETL 36 27 20
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.49% 2.03% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.26% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 14
10th Percentile £402 £451 £319
25th Percentile £410 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £581 £550
90th Percentile £675 £746 £618
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -

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 1,197 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.59% 90.14% 81.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 813 524 454
10th Percentile £190 £202 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +14.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £552
90th Percentile £694 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 322 332
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.86
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.06 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.48% -43.58% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -8 16 £435 -19.07% 17
Cambridgeshire +6 10 £565 -8.69% 10
Bedfordshire -1 4 £563 +2.27% 3
Essex -23 4 £478 +12.35% 8
Norfolk -14 1 £425 -22.73% 9
Suffolk - 1 £575 - 5
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 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.56%) Apache
2 2 (5.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) AWS
1 11 (30.56%) Power Platform
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) GitHub
3 5 (13.89%) GCP
3 5 (13.89%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.33%) dbt
6 2 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
6 2 (5.56%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.78%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (30.56%) Relational Database
2 10 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (27.78%) Power BI
3 5 (13.89%) BigQuery
3 5 (13.89%) MySQL
3 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (8.33%) Looker
4 3 (8.33%) Metadata
4 3 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (5.56%) GIS
5 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.78%) Power Query
6 1 (2.78%) QlikView
6 1 (2.78%) Redis
6 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
1 4 (11.11%) Newman
1 4 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
General
1 14 (38.89%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Law
3 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
4 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 4 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Marketing
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (2.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Data Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Applications Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Databricks Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Databricks Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Report Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Report Specialist
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Automation Test Lead
6 1 (2.78%) Data Migration Lead
6 1 (2.78%) ETL Tester
6 1 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) Hibernate
1 5 (13.89%) RESTful
1 5 (13.89%) SQLAlchemy
2 4 (11.11%) Pandas
2 4 (11.11%) pytest
2 4 (11.11%) REST
2 4 (11.11%) XML
2 4 (11.11%) XML Schema
3 3 (8.33%) Great Expectations
4 2 (5.56%) PySpark
4 2 (5.56%) XSD
5 1 (2.78%) Django
5 1 (2.78%) FastAPI
5 1 (2.78%) JPA
5 1 (2.78%) Kafka
5 1 (2.78%) Middleware
5 1 (2.78%) OAuth
5 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.78%) SOAP
5 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Life Science
2 3 (8.33%) CMDB
2 3 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) LIMS
4 1 (2.78%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (55.56%) Data Modelling
3 15 (41.67%) Validation
4 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
4 13 (36.11%) Data Engineering
5 10 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.00%) Analytics
6 9 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 9 (25.00%) Migration
7 8 (22.22%) Data Migration
8 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 6 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 6 (16.67%) Model Validation
8 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 5 (13.89%) Informatics
9 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
10 4 (11.11%) Biotechnology
10 4 (11.11%) Data Mapping
10 4 (11.11%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (75.00%) Python
2 21 (58.33%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) Java
4 4 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.33%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 12 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.78%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (30.56%) QA
3 3 (8.33%) SLA
4 2 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Databricks
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.33%) Remedy
4 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.56%) ESRI
5 2 (5.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.78%) Braze
6 1 (2.78%) mParticle
6 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Pega
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Tealium