ETL Contract Job Trends in Central London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 47 60
Rank change year-on-year -11 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing ETL 75 89 87
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.74% 3.81% 3.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 4.13% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 55 78
10th Percentile £320 £418 £413
25th Percentile £406 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £568 £545
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +4.13% +3.81%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £638
90th Percentile £695 £745 £707
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £46.50 £61.43
% change year-on-year -23.66% -24.30% +19.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,816 2,154 2,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.57% 92.09% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,350 1,739
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

ETL job vacancy trend in Central London

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ETL

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Central London

ETL
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ETL

ETL
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
City of London -12 69 £513 -10.87% 30
City of Westminster - 2 £500 -
West End of London +10 1 £525 -
ETL
London

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 8 (10.67%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (9.33%) Apache
3 5 (6.67%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.33%) Exchequer
2 1 (1.33%) Maximo
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.67%) Azure
2 24 (32.00%) AWS
3 21 (28.00%) Power Platform
4 11 (14.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (12.00%) GCP
6 9 (12.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (9.33%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (6.67%) dbt
9 4 (5.33%) Serverless
10 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.67%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (2.67%) Dagster
11 2 (2.67%) Fivetran
11 2 (2.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (2.67%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.33%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
1 20 (26.67%) Power BI
2 10 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 7 (9.33%) Relational Database
3 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
3 7 (9.33%) Tableau
4 6 (8.00%) Delta Lake
4 6 (8.00%) Metadata
4 6 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.67%) Big Data
6 4 (5.33%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (5.33%) DataStage
6 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (4.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (4.00%) MySQL
7 3 (4.00%) Power Query
7 3 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (2.67%) Toad
3 1 (1.33%) JIRA
3 1 (1.33%) MLflow
General
1 28 (37.33%) Finance
2 26 (34.67%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (12.00%) Banking
5 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Law
8 1 (1.33%) Front Office
8 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.33%) Marketing
8 1 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (38.67%) Data Engineer
2 11 (14.67%) Developer
3 8 (10.67%) Analyst
3 8 (10.67%) Lead
4 5 (6.67%) Architect
4 5 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.33%) Data Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Senior
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle Developer
6 3 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Technical Leader
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 2 (2.67%) Consultant
7 2 (2.67%) Data Migration Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Python Developer
7 2 (2.67%) Security Engineer
7 2 (2.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) PySpark
2 6 (8.00%) XML
3 3 (4.00%) JSON
3 3 (4.00%) Kafka
3 3 (4.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.67%) .NET
4 2 (2.67%) Node.js
4 2 (2.67%) NumPy
4 2 (2.67%) OAuth
4 2 (2.67%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.67%) Pandas
4 2 (2.67%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.67%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.33%) ADO
5 1 (1.33%) EDI
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.33%) RESTful
5 1 (1.33%) XML Schema
5 1 (1.33%) XSLT
5 1 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.67%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.33%) FMCG
3 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.33%) IoT
3 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.33%) Pricing Data
3 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.33%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) Analytics
2 29 (38.67%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (36.00%) Data Modelling
4 26 (34.67%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (30.67%) Migration
6 22 (29.33%) Data Governance
7 18 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
9 15 (20.00%) Data Migration
9 15 (20.00%) Data Transformation
10 14 (18.67%) Data Engineering
10 14 (18.67%) Validation
11 12 (16.00%) Data Integration
11 12 (16.00%) Data Science
12 11 (14.67%) DevOps
13 10 (13.33%) Agile
14 9 (12.00%) Data Mapping
15 8 (10.67%) Data Architecture
16 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 7 (9.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (66.67%) SQL
2 36 (48.00%) Python
3 6 (8.00%) Java
3 6 (8.00%) Scala
4 5 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (4.00%) Perl
6 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
7 2 (2.67%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) IronPython
7 2 (2.67%) PHP
7 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.33%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.00%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.67%) CISSP
6 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (37.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.00%) QA
3 5 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.33%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (1.33%) EMIR
4 1 (1.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.33%) IFRS
4 1 (1.33%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (25.33%) Databricks
2 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.00%) Oracle
4 4 (5.33%) Informatica
5 3 (4.00%) Google
5 3 (4.00%) SAP
5 3 (4.00%) Talend
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.33%) Palantir
7 1 (1.33%) Teradata
7 1 (1.33%) Vertica
7 1 (1.33%) Workday