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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 80 77
Rank change year-on-year +20 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 606 450 518
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.22% 3.20% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 3.55% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 282 401
10th Percentile £361 £360 £394
25th Percentile £421 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £36.25 £48.01
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +17.48%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.53
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.90
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +59.15%

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 13,119 12,681 15,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.32% 90.30% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,100 11,299
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 154 257
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.77 £16.48
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.90 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.59 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.65 £80.53 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%

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 January 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 January 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 -8 77 £475 -13.64% 35
West London -3 17 £601 +19.65% 5
South London -1 7 £500 +1.27% 4
East London -1 6 £450 +12.50% 5
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 65 (10.73%) Apache Spark
2 48 (7.92%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (6.60%) Apache
4 8 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.66%) Appian
6 4 (0.66%) Confluence
6 4 (0.66%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Luigi
7 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.50%) Trello
5 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.33%) Actimize
6 2 (0.33%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 264 (43.56%) Azure
2 187 (30.86%) AWS
3 152 (25.08%) Power Platform
4 94 (15.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 90 (14.85%) Snowflake
6 77 (12.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 64 (10.56%) Amazon S3
8 63 (10.40%) GCP
9 50 (8.25%) Serverless
10 44 (7.26%) GitHub
11 39 (6.44%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.27%) AWS Lambda
13 29 (4.79%) dbt
14 25 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (2.81%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (2.64%) Collibra
18 13 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (2.15%) SaaS
19 12 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) 2G
1 3 (0.50%) 4G
1 3 (0.50%) 5G
1 3 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.33%) BGP
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.33%) OSPF
2 2 (0.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.17%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (30.86%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (23.43%) Power BI
3 113 (18.65%) Data Lake
4 89 (14.69%) SQL Server
5 70 (11.55%) Metadata
6 51 (8.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 50 (8.25%) Big Data
8 48 (7.92%) Relational Database
9 47 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (6.77%) Tableau
11 33 (5.45%) Delta Lake
12 32 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
12 32 (5.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (4.95%) BigQuery
14 26 (4.29%) Oracle Database
14 26 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
15 25 (4.13%) NoSQL
16 23 (3.80%) Snowflake Schema
17 19 (3.14%) RDBMS
17 19 (3.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (8.09%) Git
2 26 (4.29%) JIRA
3 23 (3.80%) GitLab
4 17 (2.81%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.48%) ERwin
6 10 (1.65%) MLflow
7 7 (1.16%) Postman
7 7 (1.16%) Selenium
8 4 (0.66%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.66%) Toad
9 3 (0.50%) JMeter
9 3 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.33%) TestRail
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 207 (34.16%) Finance
2 180 (29.70%) Social Skills
3 87 (14.36%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.22%) Banking
5 38 (6.27%) Public Sector
6 18 (2.97%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.48%) Retail
8 11 (1.82%) Marketing
9 9 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.32%) Front Office
10 8 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (0.99%) Legal
11 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.83%) Publishing
13 4 (0.66%) Law
13 4 (0.66%) Local Government
13 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 224 (36.96%) Data Engineer
2 83 (13.70%) Developer
3 75 (12.38%) Lead
4 60 (9.90%) Senior
5 59 (9.74%) Analyst
6 54 (8.91%) Architect
7 42 (6.93%) Data Analyst
8 37 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (5.94%) Data Architect
10 28 (4.62%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.29%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (3.63%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 20 (3.30%) Consultant
14 19 (3.14%) Snowflake Engineer
15 18 (2.97%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.97%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.81%) Business Analyst
17 14 (2.31%) AWS Engineer
17 14 (2.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 13 (2.15%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.20%) PySpark
2 56 (9.24%) Kafka
3 31 (5.12%) XML
4 23 (3.80%) Pandas
4 23 (3.80%) REST
5 16 (2.64%) JSON
5 16 (2.64%) NumPy
6 12 (1.98%) OAuth
6 12 (1.98%) PyTorch
6 12 (1.98%) RESTful
7 11 (1.82%) .NET
7 11 (1.82%) Spark Streaming
7 11 (1.82%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.65%) Middleware
8 10 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
8 10 (1.65%) scikit-learn
9 9 (1.49%) Great Expectations
10 8 (1.32%) HTML
10 8 (1.32%) pytest
11 7 (1.16%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.10%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.93%) Data Structures
3 30 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.81%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.31%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.15%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.98%) Reinsurance
8 11 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.49%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.32%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.32%) Management Information System
12 6 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.99%) Replication
13 5 (0.83%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.64%) Linux
2 7 (1.16%) Unix
3 4 (0.66%) Windows
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (45.38%) Data Modelling
2 259 (42.74%) Analytics
3 227 (37.46%) Data Pipeline
4 212 (34.98%) Data Engineering
5 192 (31.68%) Business Intelligence
6 162 (26.73%) CI/CD
7 146 (24.09%) Data Governance
8 127 (20.96%) Agile
9 121 (19.97%) Migration
10 119 (19.64%) DevOps
10 119 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
11 110 (18.15%) Data Architecture
12 97 (16.01%) Validation
13 89 (14.69%) Data Integration
13 89 (14.69%) Data Migration
14 88 (14.52%) Data Science
15 87 (14.36%) AI
16 76 (12.54%) Machine Learning
17 71 (11.72%) Data Transformation
18 70 (11.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 417 (68.81%) SQL
2 301 (49.67%) Python
3 53 (8.75%) Java
4 32 (5.28%) PL/SQL
5 31 (5.12%) C#
6 30 (4.95%) Scala
7 19 (3.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.97%) JavaScript
8 18 (2.97%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.15%) R
10 11 (1.82%) Bicep
10 11 (1.82%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.65%) Bash
12 6 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.83%) Perl
14 4 (0.66%) Go
14 4 (0.66%) Korn
14 4 (0.66%) PHP
14 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.10%) Degree
4 30 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.14%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.81%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.16%) PMP
11 6 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.50%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.33%) MCP
15 1 (0.17%) CCIE
15 1 (0.17%) CCNP
15 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (33.66%) Data Quality
2 60 (9.90%) GDPR
3 34 (5.61%) QA
4 16 (2.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.32%) IFRS
7 7 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.99%) IFRS 17
9 5 (0.83%) GAAP
9 5 (0.83%) MiFID
10 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.50%) Basel III
11 3 (0.50%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.50%) NIST
11 3 (0.50%) PMO
12 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.33%) EMIR
12 2 (0.33%) SLA
13 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (7.59%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) zsh
3 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.33%) KVM
3 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 69 (11.39%) Terraform
2 43 (7.10%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.83%) Ansible
4 4 (0.66%) Control-M
4 4 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.66%) Kibana
4 4 (0.66%) logstash
5 1 (0.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.17%) Puppet
5 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (24.09%) Databricks
2 110 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 65 (10.73%) Oracle
4 31 (5.12%) Informatica
5 30 (4.95%) SAP
6 21 (3.47%) Google
7 15 (2.48%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.15%) Workday
9 12 (1.98%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.65%) IBM
10 10 (1.65%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.32%) Palantir
11 8 (1.32%) Talend
12 7 (1.16%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.16%) Foundry
13 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.83%) Avaloq
14 5 (0.83%) UiPath
15 4 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
15 4 (0.66%) Solace