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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 53 72
Rank change year-on-year -9 +19 -32
Contract jobs citing ETL 45 60 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.81% 2.93% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.16% 3.63% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 44 39
10th Percentile £350 £350 £405
25th Percentile £400 £358 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -25.93% +4.45%
75th Percentile £519 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £718 £660
England median daily rate £512 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +0.44% -5.56% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £38.75 £67.50
% change year-on-year +35.48% -42.59% +40.02%

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 1,422 1,652 1,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.71% 80.66% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 1,103 1,355
10th Percentile £209 £264 £263
25th Percentile £364 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £584 £625 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 107 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.76 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £22.28 £19.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -24.75% +44.29%
75th Percentile £32.29 £36.25 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £51.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%

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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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +10 14 £431 -3.15% 12
Coventry +8 12 £460 -23.33% 4
Warwickshire -4 7 £500 -23.08% 9
Shropshire -19 3 £350 -2.23% 1
Worcestershire - 2 - - 2
Solihull +11 1 £320 -22.89%
Staffordshire -1 1 - - 11
Walsall - 1 - - 3
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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 4 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.67%) Apache
2 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (17.78%) SAP PM
2 3 (6.67%) SAP HR
3 1 (2.22%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (17.78%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) Serverless
4 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 5 (11.11%) Collibra
6 4 (8.89%) GCP
6 4 (8.89%) GitHub
6 4 (8.89%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Event Grid
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
1 2 (4.44%) SSH
1 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.22%) DNS
2 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.11%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (20.00%) Power BI
3 8 (17.78%) Relational Database
3 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
4 7 (15.56%) Delta Lake
4 7 (15.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (13.33%) Big Data
5 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
6 5 (11.11%) GIS
6 5 (11.11%) Oracle Database
7 4 (8.89%) Data Lake
7 4 (8.89%) DataStage
7 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (6.67%) DB2
8 3 (6.67%) Hadoop
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (4.44%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.44%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) MLflow
3 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.22%) ERwin
4 1 (2.22%) Poetry
4 1 (2.22%) PyCharm
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Legal
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Developer
4 6 (13.33%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 3 (6.67%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (6.67%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Senior
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Business Performance Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Data Migration Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Data Migration Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Kafka
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 3 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (6.67%) NumPy
2 3 (6.67%) Pandas
2 3 (6.67%) RESTful
2 3 (6.67%) SAP PI
2 3 (6.67%) Visualforce
2 3 (6.67%) Web Services
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Avro
3 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.44%) Flask
3 2 (4.44%) PySpark
4 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.22%) Django
4 1 (2.22%) FHIR
4 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.22%) MACH
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) IoT
2 5 (11.11%) SCADA
3 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.44%) CMDB
5 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Data Modelling
2 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (37.78%) Analytics
4 15 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 15 (33.33%) Data Integration
4 15 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 15 (33.33%) Migration
5 12 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (24.44%) CI/CD
6 11 (24.44%) Data Engineering
6 11 (24.44%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (22.22%) DevOps
8 9 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.78%) Agile
9 8 (17.78%) Data Architecture
9 8 (17.78%) Data Mapping
10 7 (15.56%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (15.56%) Validation
11 6 (13.33%) Use Case
12 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (64.44%) SQL
2 17 (37.78%) Python
3 5 (11.11%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (8.89%) Java
5 3 (6.67%) Apex Code
5 3 (6.67%) C#
6 2 (4.44%) Bash
6 2 (4.44%) Bicep
6 2 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (4.44%) Groovy
6 2 (4.44%) Scala
7 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.22%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.33%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.22%) CITP
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (15.56%) GDPR
3 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (8.89%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 4 (8.89%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Argo
2 2 (4.44%) Istio
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.22%) Databricks
2 10 (22.22%) SAP
3 9 (20.00%) Oracle
4 5 (11.11%) IBM
4 5 (11.11%) Informatica
5 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.44%) Cloudera
6 2 (4.44%) Cognos
6 2 (4.44%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) Splunk