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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 74 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 762 489 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.76% 3.67% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 3.97% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 559 358 374
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £634 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £504 £515
% change year-on-year -0.79% -2.14% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.25 £39.69
Median hourly rate £57.00 £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -6.45% -26.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

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 17,988 12,322 14,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.57% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,124 9,349
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 241 182
10th Percentile £16.03 £17.98 £17.28
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -18.14% -5.32%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £78.72
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +8 84 £500 - 76
West London -3 24 £520 +4.00% 14
East London +6 7 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -5 6 £438 -4.37% 3
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
1 101 (13.25%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (12.60%) Apache Spark
3 71 (9.32%) Apache
4 41 (5.38%) SAS
5 20 (2.62%) Confluence
6 13 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.66%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.66%) nginx
8 5 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Actimize
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 321 (42.13%) Azure
2 227 (29.79%) AWS
3 144 (18.90%) Snowflake
4 143 (18.77%) Power Platform
5 119 (15.62%) GCP
6 97 (12.73%) dbt
7 91 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (11.02%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (8.53%) Amazon S3
10 61 (8.01%) GitHub
11 57 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 53 (6.96%) Serverless
13 45 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.94%) Azure Databricks
16 24 (3.15%) Collibra
17 20 (2.62%) SaaS
18 18 (2.36%) Amazon EMR
19 14 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) HTTP
2 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (32.02%) Data Warehouse
2 139 (18.24%) Power BI
3 108 (14.17%) Data Lake
4 75 (9.84%) SQL Server
5 68 (8.92%) Metadata
6 65 (8.53%) Delta Lake
7 56 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 55 (7.22%) BigQuery
9 50 (6.56%) Big Data
9 50 (6.56%) Relational Database
10 42 (5.51%) Tableau
11 37 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
12 35 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 32 (4.20%) NoSQL
14 29 (3.81%) Amazon Athena
15 28 (3.67%) Power Query
16 26 (3.41%) Oracle Database
17 25 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
18 21 (2.76%) Star Schema
19 19 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 80 (10.50%) Git
2 41 (5.38%) JIRA
3 36 (4.72%) GitLab
4 22 (2.89%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.05%) MLflow
5 8 (1.05%) Selenium
6 7 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
General
1 262 (34.38%) Finance
2 191 (25.07%) Social Skills
3 139 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (15.49%) Banking
5 56 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.02%) Retail
7 21 (2.76%) Marketing
8 19 (2.49%) Front Office
9 18 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.71%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.31%) Billing
13 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.92%) Back Office
15 7 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.79%) Legal
16 6 (0.79%) Publishing
17 5 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 302 (39.63%) Data Engineer
2 127 (16.67%) Senior
3 103 (13.52%) Architect
4 88 (11.55%) Developer
5 83 (10.89%) Senior Data Engineer
6 76 (9.97%) Lead
7 75 (9.84%) Analyst
8 46 (6.04%) Databricks Engineer
9 40 (5.25%) Data Analyst
10 39 (5.12%) Data Architect
10 39 (5.12%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 36 (4.72%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (3.67%) Consultant
13 27 (3.54%) Azure Data Engineer
14 23 (3.02%) Snowflake Engineer
15 22 (2.89%) Technical Leader
16 20 (2.62%) Python Engineer
17 19 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 19 (2.49%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 18 (2.36%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.99%) PySpark
2 74 (9.71%) Terraform
3 72 (9.45%) Kafka
4 38 (4.99%) REST
5 37 (4.86%) .NET
6 27 (3.54%) JSON
7 21 (2.76%) Middleware
8 19 (2.49%) Pandas
9 14 (1.84%) React
10 12 (1.57%) YAML
11 11 (1.44%) Spring
12 10 (1.31%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.31%) Web Services
12 10 (1.31%) XML
13 9 (1.18%) HTML
13 9 (1.18%) NumPy
14 8 (1.05%) LangChain
14 8 (1.05%) PyTorch
15 7 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.92%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.10%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 45 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.99%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.94%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.62%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.49%) Management Information System
9 18 (2.36%) Reference Data
10 14 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.71%) Replication
12 12 (1.57%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.05%) IoT
14 8 (1.05%) NHS
14 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.92%) Clustering
15 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.94%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Unix
3 11 (1.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.26%) Solaris
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 339 (44.49%) Data Modelling
2 325 (42.65%) Data Pipeline
3 300 (39.37%) Data Engineering
4 285 (37.40%) Analytics
5 265 (34.78%) CI/CD
6 238 (31.23%) Agile
7 192 (25.20%) DevOps
8 180 (23.62%) Business Intelligence
9 176 (23.10%) Data Governance
10 169 (22.18%) Migration
11 161 (21.13%) Data Integration
12 160 (21.00%) AI
12 160 (21.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 158 (20.73%) Validation
14 146 (19.16%) Data Transformation
15 138 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
16 111 (14.57%) Data Architecture
17 101 (13.25%) Decision-Making
18 92 (12.07%) Data Migration
19 86 (11.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 504 (66.14%) SQL
2 358 (46.98%) Python
3 67 (8.79%) Java
4 39 (5.12%) Scala
5 38 (4.99%) C#
5 38 (4.99%) PL/SQL
6 34 (4.46%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (3.67%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.84%) R
12 10 (1.31%) Bash
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.05%) Cypher
14 5 (0.66%) Bicep
15 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.39%) Go
16 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 129 (16.93%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.51%) Degree
4 17 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.10%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.97%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) CBAP
10 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) PMP
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CFA
13 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (36.35%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.30%) QA
3 32 (4.20%) GDPR
4 29 (3.81%) GRC
5 10 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.05%) IFRS
7 8 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GAAP
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
9 3 (0.39%) COREP
9 3 (0.39%) FINREP
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) COPPA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 55 (7.22%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (8.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.57%) Control-M
3 9 (1.18%) Ansible
4 6 (0.79%) Grafana
5 5 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 201 (26.38%) Databricks
2 130 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 122 (16.01%) Oracle
4 47 (6.17%) Informatica
5 34 (4.46%) Google
6 24 (3.15%) Talend
7 18 (2.36%) SAP
8 17 (2.23%) IBM
9 14 (1.84%) Foundry
10 13 (1.71%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.71%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.57%) Palantir
12 10 (1.31%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.18%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.05%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.79%) Hyperion
15 6 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
16 5 (0.66%) Hitachi
16 5 (0.66%) Teradata