ETL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 48 78
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 57 86 80
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.28% 4.06% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.42% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 59 70
10th Percentile £318 £412 £413
25th Percentile £405 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £690
90th Percentile £675 £740 £743
Central London median daily rate £500 £530 £595
% change year-on-year -5.66% -10.92% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.88 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £60.75 - -
75th Percentile £75.44 - -
90th Percentile £83.43 - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,642 1,946 2,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.37% 91.92% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 1,211 1,824
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £594
% change year-on-year -4.35% -3.20% +3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 17
10th Percentile £17.02 £15.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.54 £21.25 £16.61
Median hourly rate £27.83 £38.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.73% +40.00% -35.67%
75th Percentile £47.00 £102.25 £46.75
90th Percentile £66.25 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -36.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 3 October 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
London Bridge -2 1 - -
ETL
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.26%) Apache
4 2 (3.51%) Luigi
5 1 (1.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.75%) Exchequer
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (50.88%) Azure
2 18 (31.58%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
4 9 (15.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.04%) GCP
5 8 (14.04%) Snowflake
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.02%) Collibra
7 4 (7.02%) PaaS
8 3 (5.26%) GitHub
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.51%) dbt
9 2 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (3.51%) Serverless
10 1 (1.75%) Matillion
10 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (15.79%) Power BI
3 8 (14.04%) Data Lake
3 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
4 6 (10.53%) Delta Lake
4 6 (10.53%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (8.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (8.77%) Big Data
5 5 (8.77%) Metadata
5 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
6 4 (7.02%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (5.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (5.26%) DataStage
7 3 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 3 (5.26%) Tableau
8 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.77%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) JIRA
3 1 (1.75%) Terragrunt
General
1 23 (40.35%) Finance
2 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
3 14 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (22.81%) Banking
5 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.75%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.75%) International Banking
7 1 (1.75%) Marketing
7 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Developer
3 6 (10.53%) Analyst
4 5 (8.77%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
5 4 (7.02%) Data Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.26%) Django Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Python/Django Developer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) PySpark
1 6 (10.53%) XML
2 4 (7.02%) .NET
3 3 (5.26%) CSS
3 3 (5.26%) Django
3 3 (5.26%) HTML
3 3 (5.26%) Kafka
3 3 (5.26%) Leaflet
4 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
4 2 (3.51%) JSON
4 2 (3.51%) Node.js
4 2 (3.51%) NumPy
4 2 (3.51%) OAuth
4 2 (3.51%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.51%) Pandas
4 2 (3.51%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.51%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.51%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
2 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.75%) Derivative
3 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.75%) IoT
3 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.75%) PACS
3 1 (1.75%) Pricing Data
3 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (42.11%) Data Modelling
2 20 (35.09%) Analytics
3 18 (31.58%) Data Governance
3 18 (31.58%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (29.82%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (26.32%) DevOps
6 14 (24.56%) Agile
7 13 (22.81%) CI/CD
7 13 (22.81%) Data Engineering
7 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (19.30%) Migration
9 8 (14.04%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (14.04%) Data Migration
9 8 (14.04%) Data Transformation
10 7 (12.28%) Data Science
10 7 (12.28%) SDLC
10 7 (12.28%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (12.28%) Visualisation
11 6 (10.53%) Data Integration
11 6 (10.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 40 (70.18%) SQL
2 30 (52.63%) Python
3 9 (15.79%) Java
4 6 (10.53%) Scala
5 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.26%) C#
7 2 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.51%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.51%) R
7 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 2 (3.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.51%) CISSP
6 2 (3.51%) SnowPro
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (40.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.77%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.75%) GAAP
4 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.75%) IFRS
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.75%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Terraform
2 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Databricks
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.77%) Oracle
4 4 (7.02%) Informatica
5 3 (5.26%) Google
6 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.75%) SAP
6 1 (1.75%) Talend
6 1 (1.75%) Teradata
6 1 (1.75%) Workday