ETL Contracts in the Midlands

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 64 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing ETL 53 70 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.77% 2.54% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 3.09% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 50 88
10th Percentile £367 £348 £399
25th Percentile £407 £358 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -14.35% +13.68%
75th Percentile £528 £638 £573
90th Percentile £585 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
England median hourly rate £78.70 £49.50 £46.82
% change year-on-year +58.99% +5.74% +4.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the Midlands

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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 ETL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands -4 33 £497 +16.82% 50
East Midlands +11 19 £415 -19.02% 21
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (18.87%) Apache Spark
2 5 (9.43%) Apache
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.77%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.77%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.42%) Azure
2 13 (24.53%) AWS
3 7 (13.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.43%) Amazon S3
5 5 (9.43%) Snowflake
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.55%) GCP
6 4 (7.55%) Serverless
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (5.66%) PaaS
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeCommit
8 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeDeploy
8 2 (3.77%) GitHub
8 2 (3.77%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.08%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (20.75%) Big Data
3 9 (16.98%) Hadoop
4 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
5 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
5 6 (11.32%) Impala
5 6 (11.32%) NoSQL
5 6 (11.32%) Power BI
5 6 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (9.43%) Apache Hive
6 5 (9.43%) HBase
7 4 (7.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (5.66%) Flink
8 3 (5.66%) Metadata
8 3 (5.66%) RDBMS
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
8 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (3.77%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) ERwin
3 1 (1.89%) Git
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Social Skills
3 11 (20.75%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.77%) Banking
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Automotive
7 1 (1.89%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Military
7 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (37.74%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.98%) Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
4 6 (11.32%) Analyst
5 5 (9.43%) Architect
5 5 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Big Data Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Data Migration Project Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Migration Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Migration Project Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Kafka
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Avro
2 2 (3.77%) Django
2 2 (3.77%) JSON
2 2 (3.77%) MACH
2 2 (3.77%) PySpark
2 2 (3.77%) REST
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.89%) FHIR
3 1 (1.89%) Keycloak
3 1 (1.89%) Middleware
3 1 (1.89%) NumPy
3 1 (1.89%) Pandas
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.77%) CMDB
3 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Life Science
4 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Data Modelling
2 20 (37.74%) Data Integration
3 17 (32.08%) Data Governance
3 17 (32.08%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (30.19%) Agile
4 16 (30.19%) CI/CD
5 13 (24.53%) Analytics
5 13 (24.53%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (22.64%) Data Migration
6 12 (22.64%) Migration
7 11 (20.75%) Data Engineering
8 10 (18.87%) Validation
9 9 (16.98%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (15.09%) Data Mapping
10 8 (15.09%) Data Security
10 8 (15.09%) Data Transformation
11 7 (13.21%) Data Architecture
11 7 (13.21%) Data Management
12 6 (11.32%) Data Analytics
12 6 (11.32%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 15 (28.30%) Python
3 11 (20.75%) Java
4 10 (18.87%) Scala
5 4 (7.55%) R
6 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.66%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.89%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.89%) C++
7 1 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) Degree
2 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) CITP
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (33.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 5 (9.43%) Terraform
3 1 (1.89%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.21%) Databricks
3 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 4 (7.55%) Talend
4 3 (5.66%) Google
4 3 (5.66%) Informatica
5 2 (3.77%) Epicor
5 2 (3.77%) SAP
6 1 (1.89%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.89%) IBM
6 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.89%) Splunk