Complex ETL Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Complex Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Complex ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 121 -
Rank change year-on-year -42 - -
Contract jobs citing Complex ETL 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.095% 0.046% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.053% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £500 £409 £675
% change year-on-year +22.28% -39.42% +25.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Complex 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,708 1,887 2,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 85.59% 87.12% 84.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,687 1,167 1,449
10th Percentile £236 £229 £255
25th Percentile £381 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 69 105
10th Percentile £14.39 £14.70 £14.05
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.59 £24.60
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% -12.24% +46.17%
75th Percentile £25.15 £31.76 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Complex ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Complex ETL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Complex ETL
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Complex ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Complex ETL

Complex ETL
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Complex ETL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
East Midlands - 2 £428 - 1
West Midlands -34 1 £500 -9.09%
Complex ETL
England

Complex ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Hive
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Ab Initio Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) MACH
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Ab Initio