ETL Contracts in South Wales

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 43 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ETL 3 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.20% 0.60% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.75% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £451 £483 -
25th Percentile £459 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £486 £544 £509
90th Percentile £495 £548 £526
Wales median daily rate £473 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -10.00% +7.69% -11.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 267 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 89.64% 79.70% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 148 272
10th Percentile £190 £142 £190
25th Percentile £266 £200 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £396 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -20.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £483 £544 £600
90th Percentile £625 £606 £650
Wales median daily rate £400 £419 £475
% change year-on-year -4.42% -11.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 42 21
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £13.65 £19.20 £16.98
Median hourly rate £15.00 £25.18 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -40.43% +5.29% +20.12%
75th Percentile £20.75 £45.63 £38.75
90th Percentile - £53.75 £50.00
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £23.66 £23.21
% change year-on-year -13.36% +1.95% +28.93%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in South Wales

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Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing ETL

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff +5 2 £473 -14.09% 6
Newport +13 1 - - 1
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Wales

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
1 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Development
1 1 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lineage
1 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
1 1 (33.33%) Data Security
1 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft