ETL Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 37 61
Rank change year-on-year -20 +24 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 19 24 11
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.57% 3.97% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 4.56% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile - £269 £353
25th Percentile £385 £392 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% -6.34% +11.41%
75th Percentile £500 £706 £581
90th Percentile - £871 £611
West Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £475 £625
% change year-on-year -2.63% -24.00% +35.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £96.21 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £90.42 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 526 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 87.80% 86.94% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 331 539
10th Percentile £305 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £573 £574 £614
90th Percentile £649 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.00 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £26.95 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.30 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.46% +71.05% -11.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

ETL job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Leeds

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ETL

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (26.32%) Serverless
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon S3
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
3 4 (21.05%) Azure
4 3 (15.79%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.26%) dbt
6 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (26.32%) Data Lake
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (15.79%) DataStage
4 3 (15.79%) Delta Lake
4 3 (15.79%) DocumentDB
4 3 (15.79%) Power BI
4 3 (15.79%) Redis
5 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
5 2 (10.53%) Star Schema
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Git
2 3 (15.79%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.79%) Local Government
5 2 (10.53%) Health Technology
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) AWS Software Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Lead
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
2 3 (15.79%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Implementation Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (5.26%) QA Leader
4 1 (5.26%) Systems Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) Kafka
1 4 (21.05%) Node.js
1 4 (21.05%) React
2 3 (15.79%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) FHIR
4 1 (5.26%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
2 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (15.79%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
3 6 (31.58%) Data Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Data Architecture
4 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
5 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
5 4 (21.05%) DevOps
5 4 (21.05%) Microservices
5 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) Story Points
5 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
5 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Software Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) Scala
4 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.26%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) QA
2 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 4 (21.05%) WCAG
3 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Databricks
2 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Informatica
3 3 (15.79%) Talend
4 2 (10.53%) Brio
5 1 (5.26%) Google