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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 76 76
Rank change year-on-year +20 0 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 732 435 528
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.47% 3.34% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 3.66% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 292 415
10th Percentile £363 £376 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £638
90th Percentile £738 £756 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.13 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.84% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £57.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £67.35 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +7.75% +26.26% +37.02%

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 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

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 March 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 March 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 +19 93 £513 -9.89% 70
West London +7 28 £603 +9.55% 5
South London -4 13 £469 -2.60% 1
East London +2 7 £450 +12.50% 4
North London - 1 £495 - 1
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 84 (11.48%) Apache Spark
2 64 (8.74%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (7.10%) Apache
4 10 (1.37%) SAS
4 10 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.09%) Appian
6 7 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.68%) Confluence
8 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.55%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) Camunda
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 27 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.55%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.41%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.27%) Actimize
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 329 (44.95%) Azure
2 241 (32.92%) AWS
3 192 (26.23%) Power Platform
4 116 (15.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 100 (13.66%) Snowflake
6 97 (13.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 92 (12.57%) Amazon S3
8 86 (11.75%) GCP
9 64 (8.74%) Serverless
10 58 (7.92%) GitHub
11 55 (7.51%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (6.15%) dbt
13 39 (5.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (4.78%) Collibra
15 28 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (2.19%) Amazon SQS
19 15 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) 4G
1 4 (0.55%) 5G
2 3 (0.41%) 2G
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (30.74%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (24.45%) Power BI
3 139 (18.99%) Data Lake
4 107 (14.62%) SQL Server
5 86 (11.75%) Metadata
6 60 (8.20%) Tableau
7 55 (7.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 55 (7.51%) Relational Database
7 55 (7.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (7.38%) Big Data
9 46 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
9 46 (6.28%) Delta Lake
10 42 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (5.60%) BigQuery
12 40 (5.46%) Snowflake Schema
13 30 (4.10%) NoSQL
14 28 (3.83%) Oracle Database
14 28 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
15 23 (3.14%) OLAP
15 23 (3.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (9.56%) Git
2 29 (3.96%) JIRA
3 26 (3.55%) GitLab
4 17 (2.32%) MLflow
5 15 (2.05%) ERwin
6 14 (1.91%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.96%) Selenium
8 5 (0.68%) Postman
9 4 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.55%) Toad
10 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.27%) LSMW
11 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Ant
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 256 (34.97%) Finance
2 215 (29.37%) Social Skills
3 123 (16.80%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (11.20%) Banking
5 55 (7.51%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.28%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.05%) Retail
9 14 (1.91%) Marketing
9 14 (1.91%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.37%) Legal
11 7 (0.96%) Front Office
12 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Law
13 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Publishing
14 4 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 294 (40.16%) Data Engineer
2 94 (12.84%) Lead
3 89 (12.16%) Developer
4 83 (11.34%) Senior
5 73 (9.97%) Architect
6 67 (9.15%) Analyst
7 59 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (6.15%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.33%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.37%) Snowflake Engineer
11 27 (3.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 23 (3.14%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (3.01%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (2.87%) Business Analyst
15 21 (2.87%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.60%) Azure Data Engineer
17 17 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.19%) AWS Engineer
18 16 (2.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.98%) PySpark
2 75 (10.25%) Kafka
3 33 (4.51%) Pandas
4 30 (4.10%) REST
5 26 (3.55%) XML
6 22 (3.01%) NumPy
7 18 (2.46%) Great Expectations
7 18 (2.46%) PyTorch
8 16 (2.19%) .NET
8 16 (2.19%) RESTful
8 16 (2.19%) scikit-learn
8 16 (2.19%) TensorFlow
9 15 (2.05%) Middleware
10 12 (1.64%) JSON
10 12 (1.64%) pytest
11 11 (1.50%) OAuth
11 11 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
11 11 (1.50%) Spark Streaming
11 11 (1.50%) Web Services
12 10 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.56%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.65%) Data Structures
3 45 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.05%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.78%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.50%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 7 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (0.96%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.96%) IoT
10 7 (0.96%) Taxonomies
11 6 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.82%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.05%) Linux
2 9 (1.23%) Windows
3 7 (0.96%) Unix
4 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.55%) Solaris
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (48.63%) Data Modelling
2 319 (43.58%) Analytics
3 282 (38.52%) Data Engineering
4 265 (36.20%) Data Pipeline
5 218 (29.78%) Business Intelligence
6 215 (29.37%) CI/CD
7 183 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 163 (22.27%) Migration
9 157 (21.45%) Agile
9 157 (21.45%) DevOps
10 136 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
11 132 (18.03%) Data Architecture
12 124 (16.94%) AI
13 120 (16.39%) Validation
14 116 (15.85%) Data Migration
15 111 (15.16%) Data Science
16 104 (14.21%) Decision-Making
17 92 (12.57%) Data Integration
17 92 (12.57%) Infrastructure as Code
18 91 (12.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 517 (70.63%) SQL
2 365 (49.86%) Python
3 57 (7.79%) Java
4 43 (5.87%) Scala
5 41 (5.60%) C#
6 36 (4.92%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (3.14%) T-SQL
9 18 (2.46%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.91%) R
11 13 (1.78%) Bicep
12 7 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.82%) Bash
13 6 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.68%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.55%) Perl
15 4 (0.55%) PHP
16 3 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 121 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 93 (12.70%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.51%) Degree
4 37 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 23 (3.14%) Master's Degree
7 20 (2.73%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.68%) PMP
11 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.14%) HP APS
13 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (36.20%) Data Quality
2 71 (9.70%) GDPR
3 56 (7.65%) QA
4 16 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.64%) IFRS
6 9 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.23%) IFRS 17
7 7 (0.96%) PMO
8 5 (0.68%) GAAP
8 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.68%) MiFID
9 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.55%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.41%) Basel III
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
11 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 56 (7.65%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) zsh
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (14.07%) Terraform
2 60 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.55%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Grafana
6 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 177 (24.18%) Databricks
2 130 (17.76%) Microsoft
3 80 (10.93%) Oracle
4 47 (6.42%) Informatica
5 34 (4.64%) Google
5 34 (4.64%) SAP
6 16 (2.19%) IBM
6 16 (2.19%) Workday
7 15 (2.05%) MuleSoft
7 15 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.05%) Talend
8 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 11 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 9 (1.23%) UiPath
11 8 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.09%) Palantir
12 7 (0.96%) Foundry
13 6 (0.82%) Avaloq
14 5 (0.68%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg