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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 71 67
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 765 502 554
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.73% 3.75% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.19% 4.06% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 371 373
10th Percentile £375 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -0.57%
75th Percentile £630 £647 £626
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.25
25th Percentile - £35.25 £38.13
Median hourly rate £57.00 £43.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% +2.35% -32.54%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £47.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 £50.15
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.80% +11.31% -45.31%

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 18,257 12,368 14,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.44% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,959 8,171 9,325
10th Percentile £360 £333 £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 £668 £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 346 241 180
10th Percentile £15.89 £18.25 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.56 £25.04 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +6.56% -17.90% -7.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £78.75
England median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%

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 15 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 15 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 -4 87 £475 -3.80% 28
West London -3 22 £520 +4.00% 7
East London +11 8 £463 +28.47% 2
South London -6 8 £438 -4.37% 4
North London - 1 £650 - 2
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
1 103 (13.46%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (12.94%) Apache Spark
3 74 (9.67%) Apache
4 43 (5.62%) SAS
5 20 (2.61%) Confluence
6 13 (1.70%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.65%) nginx
8 5 (0.65%) 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%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 19 (2.48%) 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 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Actimize
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.13%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 323 (42.22%) Azure
2 230 (30.07%) AWS
3 146 (19.08%) Snowflake
4 139 (18.17%) Power Platform
5 120 (15.69%) GCP
6 96 (12.55%) dbt
7 94 (12.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (8.89%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.84%) GitHub
11 58 (7.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 54 (7.06%) Serverless
13 45 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.18%) Azure Databricks
14 32 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (3.01%) Collibra
16 20 (2.61%) SaaS
17 19 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 12 (1.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) 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
1 247 (32.29%) Data Warehouse
2 134 (17.52%) Power BI
3 109 (14.25%) Data Lake
4 75 (9.80%) SQL Server
5 68 (8.89%) Metadata
6 63 (8.24%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (6.93%) BigQuery
9 52 (6.80%) Big Data
10 51 (6.67%) Relational Database
11 41 (5.36%) Tableau
12 38 (4.97%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (4.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (4.05%) NoSQL
15 29 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (3.66%) Power Query
17 25 (3.27%) Oracle Database
18 23 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
19 20 (2.61%) Star Schema
20 19 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 83 (10.85%) Git
2 42 (5.49%) JIRA
3 37 (4.84%) GitLab
4 23 (3.01%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.05%) MLflow
5 8 (1.05%) Selenium
6 7 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.78%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) CircleCI
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%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 266 (34.77%) Finance
2 192 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (15.69%) Banking
5 57 (7.45%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.01%) Retail
7 20 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.48%) Marketing
9 18 (2.35%) Front Office
10 15 (1.96%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (1.44%) Billing
13 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.92%) Back Office
15 7 (0.92%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.78%) Publishing
17 5 (0.65%) Games
17 5 (0.65%) Legal
17 5 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 305 (39.87%) Data Engineer
2 126 (16.47%) Senior
3 99 (12.94%) Architect
4 90 (11.76%) Developer
5 83 (10.85%) Senior Data Engineer
6 76 (9.93%) Analyst
7 73 (9.54%) Lead
8 45 (5.88%) Databricks Engineer
9 41 (5.36%) Data Analyst
10 38 (4.97%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 36 (4.71%) Data Architect
12 34 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.92%) Consultant
14 25 (3.27%) Azure Data Engineer
15 23 (3.01%) Snowflake Engineer
16 21 (2.75%) Business Analyst
17 20 (2.61%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 20 (2.61%) Technical Leader
18 19 (2.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (13.86%) PySpark
2 74 (9.67%) Terraform
3 73 (9.54%) Kafka
4 42 (5.49%) REST
5 38 (4.97%) .NET
6 28 (3.66%) JSON
7 21 (2.75%) Middleware
8 20 (2.61%) Pandas
9 13 (1.70%) React
10 12 (1.57%) YAML
11 11 (1.44%) Spring
11 11 (1.44%) XML
12 10 (1.31%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.31%) Web Services
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 76 (9.93%) Cloud Native
2 61 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.61%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.35%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.83%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.70%) Reinsurance
10 13 (1.70%) Replication
11 11 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
12 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.05%) IoT
13 8 (1.05%) NHS
13 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.92%) Derivative
15 6 (0.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 32 (4.18%) Linux
2 14 (1.83%) 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
1 334 (43.66%) Data Modelling
2 333 (43.53%) Data Pipeline
3 303 (39.61%) Data Engineering
4 288 (37.65%) Analytics
5 276 (36.08%) CI/CD
6 237 (30.98%) Agile
7 191 (24.97%) DevOps
8 180 (23.53%) Data Governance
9 175 (22.88%) Migration
10 174 (22.75%) Business Intelligence
11 162 (21.18%) AI
12 161 (21.05%) Data Integration
12 161 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 161 (21.05%) Validation
13 147 (19.22%) Data Transformation
14 137 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (13.86%) Data Architecture
16 98 (12.81%) Decision-Making
17 94 (12.29%) Data Migration
18 90 (11.76%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 510 (66.67%) SQL
2 363 (47.45%) Python
3 62 (8.10%) Java
4 38 (4.97%) C#
4 38 (4.97%) PL/SQL
5 35 (4.58%) Scala
6 33 (4.31%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (3.53%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.75%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.70%) R
12 10 (1.31%) Bash
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.05%) Cypher
14 5 (0.65%) Bicep
15 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.39%) Go
16 3 (0.39%) Korn
16 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 137 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 117 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.62%) Degree
4 18 (2.35%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.65%) 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
1 285 (37.25%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.14%) QA
3 32 (4.18%) GDPR
4 29 (3.79%) GRC
5 11 (1.44%) 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (7.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.57%) Control-M
3 10 (1.31%) Ansible
4 7 (0.92%) Grafana
5 6 (0.78%) 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
1 204 (26.67%) Databricks
2 131 (17.12%) Microsoft
3 122 (15.95%) Oracle
4 49 (6.41%) Informatica
5 32 (4.18%) Google
6 26 (3.40%) Talend
7 19 (2.48%) SAP
8 15 (1.96%) IBM
9 14 (1.83%) Foundry
10 12 (1.57%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.57%) Palantir
10 12 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.31%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.05%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.05%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.78%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
14 5 (0.65%) Hitachi
14 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.65%) Tagetik