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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 77 70
Rank change year-on-year +11 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 771 476 543
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 3.50% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 3.80% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 334 392
10th Percentile £375 £400 £380
25th Percentile £440 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% +0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £659 £650
90th Percentile £714 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £44.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.90% -28.46%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £34.49 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -34.31% +35.48% -40.38%

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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +14 89 £525 -5.41% 29
West London 0 25 £520 +1.56% 6
South London -8 11 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +4 4 £450 -33.33% 5
North London -1 1 £495 -
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 88 (11.41%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (11.28%) Apache Spark
3 61 (7.91%) Apache
4 46 (5.97%) SAS
5 16 (2.08%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.82%) Confluence
7 9 (1.17%) nginx
7 9 (1.17%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.39%) Apache Solr
10 3 (0.39%) Appian
10 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.39%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.65%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.39%) Actimize
5 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 334 (43.32%) Azure
2 239 (31.00%) AWS
3 193 (25.03%) Power Platform
4 113 (14.66%) GCP
5 110 (14.27%) Snowflake
6 102 (13.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 89 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 88 (11.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 82 (10.64%) dbt
10 80 (10.38%) Amazon S3
11 65 (8.43%) Serverless
12 56 (7.26%) GitHub
13 54 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (4.80%) Collibra
15 27 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (3.24%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (2.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.20%) Dagster
18 14 (1.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.91%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 3 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (32.43%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (23.22%) Power BI
3 140 (18.16%) Data Lake
4 79 (10.25%) SQL Server
5 74 (9.60%) Metadata
6 60 (7.78%) Delta Lake
7 59 (7.65%) Tableau
8 52 (6.74%) Amazon Redshift
9 51 (6.61%) BigQuery
10 47 (6.10%) Big Data
10 47 (6.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 45 (5.84%) Relational Database
11 45 (5.84%) Snowflake Schema
12 36 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
13 34 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
13 34 (4.41%) NoSQL
13 34 (4.41%) Star Schema
14 30 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (3.11%) Power Query
16 20 (2.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 65 (8.43%) Git
2 37 (4.80%) JIRA
3 21 (2.72%) GitLab
4 16 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.04%) MLflow
6 4 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.52%) Selenium
7 3 (0.39%) LSMW
7 3 (0.39%) Postman
7 3 (0.39%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) ERwin
8 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 280 (36.32%) Finance
2 183 (23.74%) Social Skills
3 148 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (11.54%) Banking
5 72 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.11%) Marketing
7 16 (2.08%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.08%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.82%) Retail
9 12 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.56%) Front Office
10 10 (1.30%) Legal
11 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.65%) Games
13 5 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.52%) Billing
14 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 305 (39.56%) Data Engineer
2 116 (15.05%) Architect
3 108 (14.01%) Senior
4 92 (11.93%) Developer
5 90 (11.67%) Lead
6 71 (9.21%) Senior Data Engineer
7 69 (8.95%) Analyst
8 45 (5.84%) Data Architect
9 38 (4.93%) Data Analyst
10 27 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (3.37%) Snowflake Engineer
12 25 (3.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 24 (3.11%) Azure Data Engineer
14 23 (2.98%) Lead Data Engineer
14 23 (2.98%) Python Engineer
15 22 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (2.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 19 (2.46%) Python Data Engineer
17 18 (2.33%) AWS Data Engineer
17 18 (2.33%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.58%) PySpark
2 71 (9.21%) Kafka
3 39 (5.06%) REST
4 31 (4.02%) JSON
5 23 (2.98%) .NET
5 23 (2.98%) Middleware
6 21 (2.72%) Pandas
7 14 (1.82%) Spring
7 14 (1.82%) Web Services
8 13 (1.69%) XML
9 12 (1.56%) React
10 11 (1.43%) Great Expectations
10 11 (1.43%) NumPy
10 11 (1.43%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.30%) HTML
11 10 (1.30%) OAuth
11 10 (1.30%) PyTorch
11 10 (1.30%) YAML
12 9 (1.17%) TensorFlow
13 8 (1.04%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.89%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.13%) Data Structures
3 49 (6.36%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (4.15%) Onboarding
5 30 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 23 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.82%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.82%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.56%) Clustering
10 12 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.17%) NHS
11 9 (1.17%) Replication
12 8 (1.04%) Reinsurance
12 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.91%) IoT
14 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (2.72%) Linux
2 14 (1.82%) Windows
3 7 (0.91%) Solaris
3 7 (0.91%) Unix
3 7 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (47.73%) Data Modelling
2 323 (41.89%) Data Pipeline
3 317 (41.12%) Analytics
4 296 (38.39%) Data Engineering
5 249 (32.30%) CI/CD
6 211 (27.37%) Business Intelligence
7 204 (26.46%) Agile
8 201 (26.07%) DevOps
9 186 (24.12%) Data Governance
10 170 (22.05%) Migration
11 149 (19.33%) Validation
12 141 (18.29%) AI
13 139 (18.03%) Data Integration
14 134 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
15 132 (17.12%) Data Architecture
16 121 (15.69%) Decision-Making
17 113 (14.66%) Data Transformation
18 108 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
19 92 (11.93%) Data Migration
20 85 (11.02%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 512 (66.41%) SQL
2 362 (46.95%) Python
3 82 (10.64%) Java
4 40 (5.19%) C#
4 40 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (5.06%) Scala
6 36 (4.67%) T-SQL
7 31 (4.02%) PL/SQL
8 28 (3.63%) JavaScript
9 20 (2.59%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.82%) R
11 13 (1.69%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.91%) Bash
13 7 (0.91%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.78%) Bicep
15 5 (0.65%) Cypher
15 5 (0.65%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 160 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 138 (17.90%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.45%) Degree
4 27 (3.50%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.95%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (35.67%) Data Quality
2 61 (7.91%) QA
3 51 (6.61%) GDPR
4 27 (3.50%) GRC
5 12 (1.56%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.43%) PMO
7 8 (1.04%) IFRS
7 8 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.04%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GAAP
9 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.39%) GMP
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 54 (7.00%) Docker
2 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (11.15%) Terraform
2 65 (8.43%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.91%) Grafana
4 6 (0.78%) Ansible
5 5 (0.65%) Control-M
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 165 (21.40%) Databricks
2 143 (18.55%) Microsoft
3 110 (14.27%) Oracle
4 48 (6.23%) Informatica
5 40 (5.19%) Google
6 25 (3.24%) SAP
7 20 (2.59%) IBM
8 15 (1.95%) Talend
9 14 (1.82%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.69%) Palantir
10 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.30%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.17%) Foundry
12 9 (1.17%) Workday
13 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.04%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.91%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.91%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.78%) Denodo
15 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow