BI Contracts in London/South East and rates

[MarillionFan]

In my experience, of being an ETL developer, I need all those skills too.
Its very rare that I'm given a spec by a business analyst and can just code from that. Mostly we are expected to understand the business rules, work out how what is required and what is needed, explain to the customer what they need (as opposed to what they want!) Install the software, work out all the connectivity issues and build and load the data ware house/ targets

My current project is very big and I do actually have specs written by an analyst, and I'm struggling to think of the last time I had this! Its going OK, but it could possibly have been faster to write it my self....

The point I'm making is that to be a good ETL consultant you have to know a LOT more than just how to extract transform and load.

I'm working on a very big project at the moment and I actually wrote all of the specs as the analyst??? Where are you based????

[Spacecadet]

I would have thought to command the highest rates you need to be a mixture of business analyst / architect / technical implementation / data analyst. Good people with all those skills combined are quite hard to find.

Dunno about being any good though