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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 77 72
Rank change year-on-year +18 -5 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 652 437 568
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.38% 3.20% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 3.54% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 285 442
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £733 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £32.78 £36.25 £43.03
25th Percentile £33.19 £38.13 £48.00
Median hourly rate £34.75 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -29.75% +10.00%
75th Percentile £35.69 £52.25 £64.52
90th Percentile £35.73 £57.35 £68.00
England median hourly rate £67.35 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +58.46% -19.05% +45.83%

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 13,506 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.78% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,992 7,845 11,870
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.25 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 +6 83 £500 -9.09% 51
West London +3 23 £603 +19.90% 5
South London -7 8 £500 +1.27% 4
East London +1 6 £463 +15.63% 4
North London - 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 71 (10.89%) Apache Spark
2 52 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (7.21%) Apache
4 7 (1.07%) Appian
4 7 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.46%) Confluence
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.46%) Trello
5 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.46%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.31%) Actimize
5 2 (0.31%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 292 (44.79%) Azure
2 206 (31.60%) AWS
3 161 (24.69%) Power Platform
4 106 (16.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (14.57%) Snowflake
6 82 (12.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 72 (11.04%) Amazon S3
8 71 (10.89%) GCP
9 53 (8.13%) Serverless
10 49 (7.52%) GitHub
11 45 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (5.21%) dbt
14 31 (4.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (3.68%) Collibra
15 24 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (2.15%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (1.99%) Amazon EMR
18 13 (1.99%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) 2G
1 3 (0.46%) 4G
1 3 (0.46%) 5G
1 3 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.31%) BGP
2 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.31%) OSPF
2 2 (0.31%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.15%) DSL
3 1 (0.15%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (28.99%) Data Warehouse
2 154 (23.62%) Power BI
3 121 (18.56%) Data Lake
4 91 (13.96%) SQL Server
5 76 (11.66%) Metadata
6 49 (7.52%) Big Data
6 49 (7.52%) Relational Database
7 48 (7.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 47 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 46 (7.06%) Tableau
10 39 (5.98%) Delta Lake
11 36 (5.52%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (4.91%) BigQuery
14 31 (4.75%) Snowflake Schema
15 28 (4.29%) NoSQL
15 28 (4.29%) Oracle Database
15 28 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (2.91%) Star Schema
17 18 (2.76%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 57 (8.74%) Git
2 30 (4.60%) JIRA
3 23 (3.53%) GitLab
4 15 (2.30%) ERwin
4 15 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.30%) MLflow
5 7 (1.07%) Selenium
6 5 (0.77%) Postman
7 4 (0.61%) Toad
8 3 (0.46%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.46%) JMeter
8 3 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) TestRail
9 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Ant
10 1 (0.15%) JUnit
General
1 227 (34.82%) Finance
2 192 (29.45%) Social Skills
3 92 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.04%) Banking
5 38 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.91%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.76%) Retail
8 14 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.53%) Marketing
10 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.92%) Front Office
11 6 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.92%) Legal
12 5 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.77%) Law
12 5 (0.77%) Publishing
13 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.61%) Local Government
13 4 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (39.26%) Data Engineer
2 89 (13.65%) Lead
3 83 (12.73%) Developer
4 70 (10.74%) Senior
5 60 (9.20%) Analyst
6 59 (9.05%) Architect
7 45 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
8 43 (6.60%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.98%) Data Architect
10 29 (4.45%) Snowflake Engineer
11 27 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (3.68%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 23 (3.53%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (3.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 20 (3.07%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.91%) Lead Data Engineer
16 18 (2.76%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.76%) Senior Developer
17 15 (2.30%) Data Modeller
18 14 (2.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (13.19%) PySpark
2 63 (9.66%) Kafka
3 30 (4.60%) XML
4 29 (4.45%) Pandas
5 26 (3.99%) REST
6 20 (3.07%) NumPy
7 19 (2.91%) PyTorch
8 16 (2.45%) TensorFlow
9 15 (2.30%) JSON
9 15 (2.30%) OAuth
10 14 (2.15%) .NET
10 14 (2.15%) RESTful
10 14 (2.15%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.99%) Great Expectations
12 11 (1.69%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (1.53%) Hugging Face
13 10 (1.53%) Middleware
13 10 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.53%) pytest
14 9 (1.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.59%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 38 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.22%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.15%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.15%) Reinsurance
6 11 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.38%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.38%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.07%) Fixed Income
10 6 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
10 6 (0.92%) Replication
10 6 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.45%) Linux
2 7 (1.07%) Unix
3 4 (0.61%) Windows
4 3 (0.46%) VMS
5 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (46.01%) Data Modelling
2 275 (42.18%) Analytics
3 235 (36.04%) Data Engineering
3 235 (36.04%) Data Pipeline
4 195 (29.91%) Business Intelligence
5 181 (27.76%) CI/CD
6 158 (24.23%) Data Governance
7 139 (21.32%) Agile
8 134 (20.55%) Migration
9 129 (19.79%) DevOps
10 122 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
11 121 (18.56%) Data Architecture
12 111 (17.02%) AI
13 102 (15.64%) Data Migration
13 102 (15.64%) Validation
14 99 (15.18%) Data Science
15 92 (14.11%) Machine Learning
16 88 (13.50%) Data Integration
17 81 (12.42%) Decision-Making
17 81 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 451 (69.17%) SQL
2 326 (50.00%) Python
3 53 (8.13%) Java
4 37 (5.67%) Scala
5 35 (5.37%) C#
6 34 (5.21%) PL/SQL
7 19 (2.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.76%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.61%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.69%) Bicep
10 11 (1.69%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.69%) R
11 8 (1.23%) Bash
12 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.77%) Perl
15 4 (0.61%) Korn
15 4 (0.61%) PHP
16 3 (0.46%) VBA
17 2 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 72 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.67%) Degree
4 33 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.07%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.76%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.92%) PMP
11 5 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.77%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (34.05%) Data Quality
2 68 (10.43%) GDPR
3 41 (6.29%) QA
4 16 (2.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.69%) IFRS
6 9 (1.38%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.07%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.77%) GAAP
9 5 (0.77%) MiFID
10 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.61%) PMO
11 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.46%) Basel III
11 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.46%) NIST
12 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.31%) EMIR
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 52 (7.98%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) zsh
3 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.31%) KVM
3 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (12.42%) Terraform
2 53 (8.13%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.61%) Ansible
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Kibana
3 4 (0.61%) logstash
4 3 (0.46%) Control-M
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 164 (25.15%) Databricks
2 112 (17.18%) Microsoft
3 68 (10.43%) Oracle
4 38 (5.83%) Informatica
5 30 (4.60%) SAP
6 24 (3.68%) Google
7 14 (2.15%) Workday
8 13 (1.99%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.84%) Talend
10 11 (1.69%) IBM
10 11 (1.69%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.69%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.23%) Palantir
11 8 (1.23%) UiPath
12 7 (1.07%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.07%) Foundry
13 6 (0.92%) Avaloq
14 4 (0.61%) TIBCO