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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 71 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing ETL 528 540 560
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 3.39% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.07% 3.79% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 352 434
10th Percentile £380 £363 £382
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £736 £747 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £51.14
25th Percentile £33.88 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -31.17% +6.47%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £62.35 £57.15 £66.50
England median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -4.71% -29.75% +68.06%

All Process and 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 12,972 14,232 17,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 89.44% 89.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,522 9,196 12,900
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -3.42% -3.47%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 174 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.61
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.31 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -24.50% +3.36% -6.68%
75th Percentile £47.13 £56.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.43 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.65% -19.66% +25.35%

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 23 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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 23 November 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
Central London -15 70 £555 +5.21% 23
West London -7 7 £575 +4.55% 7
South London -3 6 £466 -13.26% 2
East London 0 2 £418 +1.21% 11
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 57 (10.80%) Apache Airflow
1 57 (10.80%) Apache Spark
2 45 (8.52%) Apache
3 9 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.76%) Confluence
4 4 (0.76%) Luigi
5 3 (0.57%) SAS
6 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.38%) CMS
6 2 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.19%) nginx
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.33%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.38%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.19%) Maximo
6 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 222 (42.05%) Azure
2 186 (35.23%) AWS
3 116 (21.97%) Power Platform
4 101 (19.13%) Snowflake
5 84 (15.91%) GCP
6 76 (14.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 60 (11.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 49 (9.28%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.77%) dbt
10 39 (7.39%) Serverless
11 31 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (5.30%) GitHub
13 19 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.22%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (2.27%) Azure Functions
17 11 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) 2G
1 3 (0.57%) 4G
1 3 (0.57%) 5G
1 3 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.38%) BGP
2 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.38%) DNS
2 2 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.38%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) OSPF
2 2 (0.38%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.19%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (33.14%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (20.27%) Power BI
3 81 (15.34%) Data Lake
4 67 (12.69%) SQL Server
5 54 (10.23%) Metadata
6 52 (9.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 50 (9.47%) Big Data
8 47 (8.90%) BigQuery
9 44 (8.33%) Relational Database
10 38 (7.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (6.44%) Tableau
12 30 (5.68%) NoSQL
13 26 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.98%) Delta Lake
17 20 (3.79%) Hadoop
18 19 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
19 17 (3.22%) RDBMS
20 16 (3.03%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 33 (6.25%) Git
2 18 (3.41%) ERwin
3 16 (3.03%) JIRA
4 12 (2.27%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.33%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.33%) GitLab
6 5 (0.95%) Postman
6 5 (0.95%) Selenium
7 4 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
7 4 (0.76%) Toad
8 3 (0.57%) MLflow
9 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.38%) TestRail
10 1 (0.19%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.19%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.19%) GoCD
10 1 (0.19%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (32.20%) Finance
2 157 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 91 (17.23%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.90%) Banking
5 34 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.41%) Retail
7 12 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.89%) Marketing
9 8 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.33%) Front Office
11 6 (1.14%) Local Government
11 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.95%) Publishing
12 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 167 (31.63%) Data Engineer
2 76 (14.39%) Developer
3 72 (13.64%) Architect
4 59 (11.17%) Senior
5 56 (10.61%) Analyst
5 56 (10.61%) Lead
6 47 (8.90%) Data Architect
7 40 (7.58%) Data Analyst
8 28 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 26 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
10 23 (4.36%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (3.41%) Consultant
12 17 (3.22%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.22%) Snowflake Engineer
13 16 (3.03%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.03%) Data Modeller
14 15 (2.84%) Azure Architect
14 15 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.65%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (2.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.04%) PySpark
2 49 (9.28%) Kafka
3 30 (5.68%) XML
4 20 (3.79%) JSON
5 14 (2.65%) REST
5 14 (2.65%) RESTful
6 12 (2.27%) Pandas
7 10 (1.89%) .NET
7 10 (1.89%) NumPy
8 9 (1.70%) OAuth
9 8 (1.52%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.14%) Great Expectations
10 6 (1.14%) Node.js
10 6 (1.14%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.14%) TensorFlow
11 5 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (0.95%) Middleware
11 5 (0.95%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (0.95%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.44%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (1.70%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.33%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.33%) IoT
10 7 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.14%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.46%) Linux
2 6 (1.14%) Unix
3 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (44.51%) Data Modelling
2 205 (38.83%) Analytics
3 197 (37.31%) Data Pipeline
4 159 (30.11%) Data Engineering
5 140 (26.52%) Business Intelligence
5 140 (26.52%) Data Governance
6 128 (24.24%) CI/CD
7 119 (22.54%) Migration
8 116 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (20.08%) Agile
10 94 (17.80%) DevOps
11 91 (17.23%) Data Integration
12 88 (16.67%) Data Architecture
13 86 (16.29%) Data Science
14 83 (15.72%) Data Migration
15 70 (13.26%) Data Transformation
15 70 (13.26%) Machine Learning
16 69 (13.07%) Validation
17 65 (12.31%) Visualisation
18 60 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 364 (68.94%) SQL
2 278 (52.65%) Python
3 57 (10.80%) Java
4 27 (5.11%) Scala
5 24 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.36%) C#
6 23 (4.36%) T-SQL
7 22 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.65%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.08%) Bash
10 11 (2.08%) R
11 9 (1.70%) Perl
11 9 (1.70%) VBA
12 7 (1.33%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.95%) Bicep
13 5 (0.95%) Go
13 5 (0.95%) Korn
13 5 (0.95%) PHP
13 5 (0.95%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 66 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.01%) Degree
4 25 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.52%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.76%) PMP
10 4 (0.76%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.38%) MCP
12 1 (0.19%) CCIE
12 1 (0.19%) CCNP
12 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 155 (29.36%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.58%) GDPR
3 32 (6.06%) QA
4 17 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.70%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.76%) SLA
7 3 (0.57%) HL7
7 3 (0.57%) PMO
7 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.38%) EMIR
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.38%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) DICOM
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 33 (6.25%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) zsh
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.38%) KVM
5 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (9.85%) Terraform
2 30 (5.68%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.14%) Ansible
4 5 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.76%) Control-M
5 4 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.76%) Kibana
5 4 (0.76%) logstash
6 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 112 (21.21%) Databricks
2 81 (15.34%) Microsoft
3 44 (8.33%) Oracle
4 34 (6.44%) Google
5 22 (4.17%) Informatica
6 20 (3.79%) SAP
7 12 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.89%) Palantir
9 9 (1.70%) Foundry
9 9 (1.70%) Talend
9 9 (1.70%) Workday
10 8 (1.52%) VMware
11 7 (1.33%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.95%) EMC
12 5 (0.95%) IBM
12 5 (0.95%) Teradata
13 4 (0.76%) Solace
13 4 (0.76%) Sparx
13 4 (0.76%) TIBCO