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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 82 73
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 752 414 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.46% 3.28% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 3.59% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 277 427
10th Percentile £363 £383 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £43.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £59.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +24.14%

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 15,087 11,541 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.38% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 7,833 11,413
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £752 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 170 337
10th Percentile £18.11 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

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 31 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 31 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 +22 98 £513 -9.69% 74
West London +3 29 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -4 16 £463 -3.90% 2
East London +2 7 £450 +12.50% 3
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 83 (11.04%) Apache Spark
2 73 (9.71%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (7.31%) Apache
4 12 (1.60%) SAS
5 9 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.06%) Appian
7 7 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.80%) nginx
8 6 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.66%) Confluence
9 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.27%) CMS
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 31 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Trello
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.40%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.40%) Workday HCM
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 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.13%) Maximo
5 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 342 (45.48%) Azure
2 249 (33.11%) AWS
3 205 (27.26%) Power Platform
4 111 (14.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 109 (14.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 100 (13.30%) Amazon S3
7 98 (13.03%) Snowflake
8 88 (11.70%) GCP
9 70 (9.31%) Serverless
10 64 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (8.51%) GitHub
11 59 (7.85%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (6.52%) dbt
13 41 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (5.45%) Collibra
14 26 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.93%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.26%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) 4G
1 4 (0.53%) 5G
1 4 (0.53%) Firewall
1 4 (0.53%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) 2G
2 3 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) DSL
4 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (30.32%) Data Warehouse
2 191 (25.40%) Power BI
3 145 (19.28%) Data Lake
4 107 (14.23%) SQL Server
5 93 (12.37%) Metadata
6 60 (7.98%) Tableau
7 56 (7.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (6.65%) Amazon Athena
10 49 (6.52%) Relational Database
11 48 (6.38%) Delta Lake
12 47 (6.25%) Big Data
13 46 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 44 (5.85%) Snowflake Schema
15 39 (5.19%) BigQuery
16 31 (4.12%) Star Schema
17 30 (3.99%) NoSQL
18 27 (3.59%) Oracle Database
18 27 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
19 26 (3.46%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 65 (8.64%) Git
2 35 (4.65%) JIRA
3 27 (3.59%) GitLab
4 18 (2.39%) MLflow
5 12 (1.60%) ERwin
5 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) Selenium
7 5 (0.66%) Postman
8 4 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.53%) Toad
9 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.27%) LSMW
10 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.13%) Poetry
General
1 283 (37.63%) Finance
2 214 (28.46%) Social Skills
3 137 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.57%) Banking
5 58 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.46%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.73%) Retail
10 12 (1.60%) Marketing
11 9 (1.20%) Legal
12 6 (0.80%) Front Office
12 6 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 312 (41.49%) Data Engineer
2 92 (12.23%) Lead
2 92 (12.23%) Senior
3 89 (11.84%) Developer
4 72 (9.57%) Analyst
5 68 (9.04%) Architect
6 63 (8.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 48 (6.38%) Data Analyst
8 36 (4.79%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.65%) Snowflake Engineer
10 31 (4.12%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 23 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
12 21 (2.79%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.79%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 21 (2.79%) Python Engineer
13 20 (2.66%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (2.39%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (2.39%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.26%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.63%) PySpark
2 79 (10.51%) Kafka
3 33 (4.39%) Pandas
4 32 (4.26%) REST
5 26 (3.46%) XML
6 20 (2.66%) Great Expectations
6 20 (2.66%) NumPy
7 16 (2.13%) PyTorch
8 15 (1.99%) JSON
9 14 (1.86%) Middleware
9 14 (1.86%) OAuth
9 14 (1.86%) RESTful
9 14 (1.86%) scikit-learn
9 14 (1.86%) TensorFlow
10 13 (1.73%) .NET
10 13 (1.73%) Web Services
11 12 (1.60%) pytest
11 12 (1.60%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.57%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.46%) Distributed Computing
5 18 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.46%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.06%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.93%) IoT
12 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.99%) Linux
2 11 (1.46%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
4 6 (0.80%) Solaris
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (49.87%) Data Modelling
2 333 (44.28%) Analytics
3 297 (39.49%) Data Engineering
4 286 (38.03%) Data Pipeline
5 229 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
6 224 (29.79%) CI/CD
7 191 (25.40%) Data Governance
8 172 (22.87%) DevOps
9 157 (20.88%) Migration
10 152 (20.21%) Agile
11 138 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
12 136 (18.09%) Data Architecture
12 136 (18.09%) Validation
13 133 (17.69%) AI
14 111 (14.76%) Decision-Making
15 107 (14.23%) Data Migration
16 106 (14.10%) Data Science
17 96 (12.77%) Data Integration
18 94 (12.50%) Machine Learning
19 93 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 536 (71.28%) SQL
2 376 (50.00%) Python
3 63 (8.38%) Java
4 48 (6.38%) C#
5 42 (5.59%) Scala
6 37 (4.92%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 26 (3.46%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.26%) R
10 14 (1.86%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.33%) Bicep
12 8 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.93%) PowerShell
13 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
13 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.53%) Bash
14 4 (0.53%) Perl
14 4 (0.53%) PHP
15 3 (0.40%) C
15 3 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 135 (17.95%) Security Cleared
2 108 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.18%) Degree
4 37 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.39%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.53%) PMP
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) HP APS
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (37.23%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.57%) GDPR
3 63 (8.38%) QA
4 16 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.60%) IFRS
6 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.20%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.20%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) GAAP
7 5 (0.66%) MiFID
8 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.53%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.40%) Basel III
9 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 56 (7.45%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (14.10%) Terraform
2 56 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) Control-M
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 166 (22.07%) Databricks
2 144 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 81 (10.77%) Oracle
4 57 (7.58%) Informatica
5 35 (4.65%) Google
6 34 (4.52%) SAP
7 18 (2.39%) IBM
8 15 (1.99%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.99%) Talend
8 15 (1.99%) Workday
9 14 (1.86%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.60%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.20%) UiPath
13 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
14 7 (0.93%) Palantir
14 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.80%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.80%) Foundry