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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 76 76
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 765 478 515
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.81% 3.57% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.86% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 333 356
10th Percentile £377 £380 £363
25th Percentile £435 £449 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - £32.50 £37.50
25th Percentile - £35.50 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.86% -25.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £57.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -34.51%

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 17,897 12,384 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 92.53% 88.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,242 9,970
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £787 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 255 193
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -10.03% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 £520 +4.00% 28
West London +1 26 £520 +2.77% 19
South London -4 9 £463 +1.09% 3
East London +4 4 £450 -33.33% 4
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 99 (12.94%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (11.63%) Apache Spark
3 65 (8.50%) Apache
4 43 (5.62%) SAS
5 15 (1.96%) Confluence
5 15 (1.96%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.92%) nginx
6 7 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.92%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.39%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.18%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.39%) Actimize
5 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 326 (42.61%) Azure
2 235 (30.72%) AWS
3 183 (23.92%) Power Platform
4 132 (17.25%) Snowflake
5 114 (14.90%) GCP
6 100 (13.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 94 (12.29%) dbt
8 90 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
9 82 (10.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 75 (9.80%) Amazon S3
11 72 (9.41%) GitHub
12 63 (8.24%) Serverless
13 52 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (4.31%) Collibra
15 32 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
17 13 (1.70%) SaaS
18 12 (1.57%) Amazon SQS
18 12 (1.57%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (1.57%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 3 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) DNS
4 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (34.25%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (23.01%) Power BI
3 130 (16.99%) Data Lake
4 82 (10.72%) SQL Server
5 73 (9.54%) Metadata
6 66 (8.63%) Delta Lake
7 59 (7.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (6.93%) BigQuery
9 51 (6.67%) Tableau
10 50 (6.54%) Relational Database
11 45 (5.88%) Big Data
12 38 (4.97%) Snowflake Schema
12 38 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (4.71%) Star Schema
14 33 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
15 32 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
16 31 (4.05%) Amazon Athena
17 30 (3.92%) NoSQL
18 24 (3.14%) Power Query
19 23 (3.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 60 (7.84%) Git
2 40 (5.23%) JIRA
3 34 (4.44%) GitLab
4 19 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.78%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.65%) MLflow
6 5 (0.65%) Selenium
7 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 260 (33.99%) Finance
2 182 (23.79%) Social Skills
3 144 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (12.29%) Banking
5 58 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.75%) Marketing
7 16 (2.09%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.09%) Retail
8 12 (1.57%) Legal
8 12 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.44%) Front Office
10 8 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 7 (0.92%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.65%) Billing
12 5 (0.65%) Games
13 4 (0.52%) Law
13 4 (0.52%) Publishing
14 3 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 310 (40.52%) Data Engineer
2 123 (16.08%) Senior
3 106 (13.86%) Architect
4 90 (11.76%) Developer
5 83 (10.85%) Lead
6 82 (10.72%) Senior Data Engineer
7 68 (8.89%) Analyst
8 41 (5.36%) Data Architect
9 38 (4.97%) Data Analyst
10 32 (4.18%) Azure Engineer
11 29 (3.79%) Snowflake Engineer
12 26 (3.40%) Azure Data Engineer
13 25 (3.27%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (2.88%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (2.75%) Lead Data Engineer
16 20 (2.61%) Python Engineer
17 19 (2.48%) Consultant
17 19 (2.48%) Technical Leader
18 18 (2.35%) Integration Engineer
18 18 (2.35%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.94%) PySpark
2 82 (10.72%) Terraform
3 75 (9.80%) Kafka
4 38 (4.97%) REST
5 33 (4.31%) .NET
6 31 (4.05%) JSON
7 20 (2.61%) Middleware
8 17 (2.22%) Pandas
9 16 (2.09%) React
10 13 (1.70%) Spring
10 13 (1.70%) XML
11 12 (1.57%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.57%) YAML
12 10 (1.31%) Web Services
13 9 (1.18%) HTML
14 8 (1.05%) OAuth
15 7 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.92%) Great Expectations
15 7 (0.92%) NumPy
15 7 (0.92%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 81 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 43 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
3 43 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.18%) Onboarding
5 25 (3.27%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
8 13 (1.70%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.57%) Clustering
10 10 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.31%) Replication
11 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.18%) NHS
12 8 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.05%) Reinsurance
13 7 (0.92%) Taxonomies
14 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.53%) Linux
2 13 (1.70%) Windows
3 12 (1.57%) Unix
4 4 (0.52%) Solaris
4 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (46.27%) Data Modelling
2 330 (43.14%) Data Pipeline
3 305 (39.87%) Analytics
3 305 (39.87%) Data Engineering
4 257 (33.59%) CI/CD
5 229 (29.93%) Agile
6 215 (28.10%) DevOps
7 207 (27.06%) Business Intelligence
8 183 (23.92%) Data Governance
9 160 (20.92%) Migration
10 156 (20.39%) Data Integration
11 150 (19.61%) AI
12 146 (19.08%) Validation
13 135 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (17.39%) Data Transformation
15 131 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 124 (16.21%) Data Architecture
17 110 (14.38%) Decision-Making
18 87 (11.37%) Data Migration
19 80 (10.46%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 517 (67.58%) SQL
2 359 (46.93%) Python
3 82 (10.72%) Java
4 39 (5.10%) C#
5 38 (4.97%) Scala
6 35 (4.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 32 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.18%) PL/SQL
8 31 (4.05%) T-SQL
9 25 (3.27%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.70%) R
10 13 (1.70%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.57%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.18%) Bash
13 5 (0.65%) Bicep
13 5 (0.65%) Cypher
13 5 (0.65%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 145 (18.95%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.60%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.62%) Degree
4 23 (3.01%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.09%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
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
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (36.60%) Data Quality
2 60 (7.84%) QA
3 41 (5.36%) GDPR
4 28 (3.66%) GRC
5 11 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.05%) IFRS
7 8 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.92%) PMO
9 4 (0.52%) GAAP
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (7.58%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.57%) Control-M
3 8 (1.05%) Ansible
4 6 (0.78%) Grafana
5 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 174 (22.75%) Databricks
2 140 (18.30%) Microsoft
3 119 (15.56%) Oracle
4 56 (7.32%) Informatica
5 38 (4.97%) Google
6 20 (2.61%) Talend
7 18 (2.35%) IBM
7 18 (2.35%) SAP
8 14 (1.83%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.70%) Palantir
10 11 (1.44%) Foundry
11 9 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.05%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.05%) Workday
13 7 (0.92%) SnapLogic
14 6 (0.78%) Denodo
15 5 (0.65%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.65%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.65%) Refinitiv
15 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow