ETL Development Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring ETL Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 93 108
Rank change year-on-year -55 +15 +40
Contract jobs citing ETL Development 1 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.038% 0.55% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.62% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £486 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% -7.14% +41.89%
75th Percentile £509 £522 £556
90th Percentile - £561 £568
England median daily rate £430 £450 £478
% change year-on-year -4.56% -5.76% +0.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

ETL Development 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,242 1,287 1,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.47% 89.13% 83.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 807 1,036
10th Percentile £295 £210 £275
25th Percentile £403 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £491
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.33% -1.75%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 48 112
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.64 £12.10
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.22 £16.54
Median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.95 £49.06
90th Percentile £35.00 £45.13 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.89 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.04% - -

ETL Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

ETL Development job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

ETL Development
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

ETL Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ETL Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ETL Development

ETL Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
Brierley Hill - 1 £498 - 1
ETL Development
England

ETL Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft