ETL Contracts in the West Midlands

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 64 60 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 33 51 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.45% 2.62% 4.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 3.12% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 73
10th Percentile £424 £350 £413
25th Percentile £463 £358 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £425 £540
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -21.30% +9.09%
75th Percentile £547 £638 £573
90th Percentile £694 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 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
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for ETL in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the West Midlands

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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 within the West 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
Birmingham +20 19 £475 +11.76% 20
Coventry +7 3 £375 -40.00% 3
Staffordshire +4 3 £550 +57.14% 12
Warwickshire -2 3 £725 +3.57% 4
Shropshire -16 2 £493 +37.71%
Walsall - 1 - - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 2 (6.06%) Apache
1 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.09%) PaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (6.06%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (6.06%) GCP
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) OCI
5 2 (6.06%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 2 (6.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (9.09%) Big Data
4 3 (9.09%) Metadata
4 3 (9.09%) Power BI
4 3 (9.09%) RDBMS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle Database
5 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (3.03%) Data Mart
6 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) ERwin
2 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.06%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Law
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 5 (15.15%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 3 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Data Manager
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Consultant
5 2 (6.06%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Migration Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) Django
2 2 (6.06%) MACH
2 2 (6.06%) PySpark
2 2 (6.06%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.03%) FHIR
3 1 (3.03%) Keycloak
3 1 (3.03%) NumPy
3 1 (3.03%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) CMDB
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 14 (42.42%) Data Integration
3 13 (39.39%) Agile
4 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 10 (30.30%) Data Migration
6 10 (30.30%) Migration
7 9 (27.27%) Analytics
7 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
8 7 (21.21%) Data Engineering
8 7 (21.21%) Data Mapping
8 7 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (18.18%) Data Architecture
9 6 (18.18%) Data Management
9 6 (18.18%) Data Security
9 6 (18.18%) Validation
10 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (12.12%) Visualisation
11 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (9.09%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (54.55%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) Java
4 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) R
5 2 (6.06%) Scala
5 2 (6.06%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (3.03%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Degree
3 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) CITP
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Grafana
2 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Oracle
2 4 (12.12%) Talend
3 3 (9.09%) Informatica
4 2 (6.06%) Databricks
4 2 (6.06%) Epicor
4 2 (6.06%) Google
4 2 (6.06%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) IBM
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk