ETL Contract Job Trends in London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 81 77
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 595 444 522
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.20% 3.20% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 3.55% 3.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 278 405
10th Percentile £363 £360 £396
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £625
90th Percentile £725 £729 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £36.25 £48.01
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +17.48%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.53
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.90
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +59.15%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,937 12,504 16,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.26% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,531 7,979 11,519
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 152 259
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ETL job vacancy trend in London

ETL
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ETL

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in London

ETL
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ETL

ETL
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Central London -5 80 £475 -13.64% 41
West London -1 17 £601 +9.32% 6
South London -2 7 £475 -3.80% 5
East London -2 6 £450 +12.50% 5
ETL
England

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 62 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 47 (7.90%) Apache Airflow
3 39 (6.55%) Apache
4 8 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.67%) Appian
6 4 (0.67%) Confluence
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Luigi
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.50%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.34%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.01%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.34%) Actimize
6 2 (0.34%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 257 (43.19%) Azure
2 184 (30.92%) AWS
3 148 (24.87%) Power Platform
4 90 (15.13%) Azure Data Factory
4 90 (15.13%) Snowflake
5 73 (12.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 65 (10.92%) Amazon S3
7 62 (10.42%) GCP
8 48 (8.07%) Serverless
9 39 (6.55%) GitHub
10 36 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
12 29 (4.87%) dbt
13 24 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.69%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (2.69%) Collibra
16 13 (2.18%) SaaS
17 12 (2.02%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.02%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) 2G
1 3 (0.50%) 4G
1 3 (0.50%) 5G
1 3 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.34%) BGP
2 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.34%) OSPF
2 2 (0.34%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (31.26%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (23.36%) Power BI
3 110 (18.49%) Data Lake
4 84 (14.12%) SQL Server
5 68 (11.43%) Metadata
6 51 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 50 (8.40%) Big Data
7 50 (8.40%) Relational Database
8 47 (7.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 41 (6.89%) Tableau
10 31 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
10 31 (5.21%) BigQuery
11 29 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (4.87%) Delta Lake
12 26 (4.37%) Oracle Database
13 24 (4.03%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
14 23 (3.87%) Snowflake Schema
15 21 (3.53%) DataStage
16 19 (3.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (8.07%) Git
2 24 (4.03%) JIRA
3 22 (3.70%) GitLab
4 17 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.35%) ERwin
6 9 (1.51%) MLflow
7 7 (1.18%) Postman
7 7 (1.18%) Selenium
8 4 (0.67%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.67%) Toad
9 3 (0.50%) JMeter
9 3 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.34%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.34%) TestRail
10 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.17%) DBeaver
General
1 201 (33.78%) Finance
2 175 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 87 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.43%) Banking
5 40 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.35%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Marketing
9 9 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.34%) Front Office
10 8 (1.34%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.18%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.01%) Legal
13 5 (0.84%) Publishing
14 4 (0.67%) Law
14 4 (0.67%) Local Government
14 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 215 (36.13%) Data Engineer
2 82 (13.78%) Developer
3 75 (12.61%) Lead
4 59 (9.92%) Analyst
4 59 (9.92%) Senior
5 55 (9.24%) Architect
6 42 (7.06%) Data Analyst
7 36 (6.05%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.05%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (4.54%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (4.20%) Azure Data Engineer
10 21 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 20 (3.36%) Consultant
12 18 (3.03%) Senior Developer
12 18 (3.03%) Snowflake Engineer
13 17 (2.86%) Business Analyst
13 17 (2.86%) Python Engineer
14 14 (2.35%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (2.18%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (2.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (12.77%) PySpark
2 53 (8.91%) Kafka
3 34 (5.71%) XML
4 23 (3.87%) Pandas
4 23 (3.87%) REST
5 16 (2.69%) JSON
5 16 (2.69%) NumPy
6 13 (2.18%) RESTful
7 12 (2.02%) OAuth
7 12 (2.02%) PyTorch
8 11 (1.85%) .NET
8 11 (1.85%) Spark Streaming
8 11 (1.85%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.68%) Middleware
9 10 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (1.68%) scikit-learn
10 9 (1.51%) Great Expectations
11 8 (1.34%) HTML
11 8 (1.34%) pytest
12 7 (1.18%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 41 (6.89%) Cloud Native
2 40 (6.72%) Data Structures
3 30 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.69%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.35%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.18%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.68%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.51%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.18%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.01%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.01%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.01%) Replication
13 5 (0.84%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.69%) Linux
2 7 (1.18%) Unix
3 4 (0.67%) Windows
4 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (44.87%) Data Modelling
2 250 (42.02%) Analytics
3 220 (36.97%) Data Pipeline
4 203 (34.12%) Data Engineering
5 189 (31.76%) Business Intelligence
6 156 (26.22%) CI/CD
7 140 (23.53%) Data Governance
8 123 (20.67%) Agile
8 123 (20.67%) Migration
9 116 (19.50%) DevOps
9 116 (19.50%) Problem-Solving
10 109 (18.32%) Data Architecture
11 94 (15.80%) Validation
12 91 (15.29%) Data Migration
13 89 (14.96%) Data Integration
14 86 (14.45%) Data Science
15 84 (14.12%) AI
16 77 (12.94%) Machine Learning
17 70 (11.76%) Data Transformation
18 67 (11.26%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 408 (68.57%) SQL
2 292 (49.08%) Python
3 55 (9.24%) Java
4 32 (5.38%) PL/SQL
5 31 (5.21%) C#
6 28 (4.71%) Scala
7 18 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (3.03%) JavaScript
7 18 (3.03%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.18%) R
9 11 (1.85%) Bicep
9 11 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.68%) Bash
11 6 (1.01%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.84%) Perl
13 4 (0.67%) Go
13 4 (0.67%) Korn
13 4 (0.67%) PHP
13 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 88 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.89%) Degree
4 29 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.53%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.03%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.52%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.51%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.18%) PMP
11 6 (1.01%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.01%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.50%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.34%) MCP
14 1 (0.17%) CCIE
14 1 (0.17%) CCNP
14 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (33.28%) Data Quality
2 59 (9.92%) GDPR
3 33 (5.55%) QA
4 16 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.68%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.18%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.01%) IFRS
8 5 (0.84%) GAAP
9 4 (0.67%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.67%) MiFID
9 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.50%) Basel III
10 3 (0.50%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.50%) NIST
10 3 (0.50%) PMO
11 2 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.34%) EMIR
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 45 (7.56%) Docker
2 5 (0.84%) zsh
3 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.34%) KVM
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 64 (10.76%) Terraform
2 42 (7.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.84%) Ansible
4 4 (0.67%) Control-M
4 4 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.67%) Kibana
4 4 (0.67%) logstash
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.17%) Puppet
5 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 141 (23.70%) Databricks
2 108 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 62 (10.42%) Oracle
4 30 (5.04%) SAP
5 28 (4.71%) Informatica
6 22 (3.70%) Google
7 15 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.18%) Workday
9 11 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.68%) IBM
10 10 (1.68%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.34%) Palantir
11 8 (1.34%) Talend
12 7 (1.18%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.18%) Foundry
13 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.84%) Avaloq
14 5 (0.84%) UiPath
15 4 (0.67%) Automation Anywhere
15 4 (0.67%) TIBCO