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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 79 72
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 756 408 548
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.47% 3.23% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.00% 3.54% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 274 427
10th Percentile £363 £385 £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 £636 £647 £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 15,126 11,538 15,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.53% 91.39% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,169 7,836 11,414
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £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 £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 169 337
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.83 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.11 £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 £57.23 £51.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £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 1 April 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 1 April 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 +25 99 £513 -9.69% 74
West London +2 29 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -3 16 £463 -3.90% 2
East London +4 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 84 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 73 (9.66%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (7.41%) Apache
4 12 (1.59%) SAS
5 10 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.06%) Appian
7 7 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.79%) Confluence
8 6 (0.79%) nginx
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 6 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
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 (0.26%) CMS
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 32 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.79%) 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 (0.26%) Actimize
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.26%) 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
1 345 (45.63%) Azure
2 248 (32.80%) AWS
3 209 (27.65%) Power Platform
4 114 (15.08%) Azure Data Factory
5 111 (14.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 100 (13.23%) Amazon S3
7 97 (12.83%) Snowflake
8 89 (11.77%) GCP
9 70 (9.26%) Serverless
10 64 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
10 64 (8.47%) GitHub
11 59 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (6.48%) dbt
13 41 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (5.42%) Collibra
14 26 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
16 19 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (2.51%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (2.25%) 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
2 3 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.13%) DSL
3 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (30.69%) Data Warehouse
2 194 (25.66%) Power BI
3 146 (19.31%) Data Lake
4 106 (14.02%) SQL Server
5 93 (12.30%) Metadata
6 60 (7.94%) Tableau
7 55 (7.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (6.61%) Amazon Athena
10 49 (6.48%) Delta Lake
11 48 (6.35%) Relational Database
12 46 (6.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (6.08%) Big Data
13 44 (5.82%) Snowflake Schema
14 39 (5.16%) BigQuery
15 31 (4.10%) Star Schema
16 30 (3.97%) NoSQL
17 28 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
18 27 (3.57%) Oracle Database
19 26 (3.44%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 66 (8.73%) Git
2 35 (4.63%) JIRA
3 27 (3.57%) GitLab
4 18 (2.38%) MLflow
5 12 (1.59%) ERwin
6 11 (1.46%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.79%) Selenium
8 5 (0.66%) Postman
9 4 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.53%) Toad
10 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.40%) JMeter
10 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) LSMW
11 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.13%) Ant
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 281 (37.17%) Finance
2 215 (28.44%) Social Skills
3 137 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.51%) Banking
5 60 (7.94%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.31%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.72%) Retail
10 12 (1.59%) Marketing
11 9 (1.19%) Legal
12 6 (0.79%) Front Office
12 6 (0.79%) 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
1 314 (41.53%) Data Engineer
2 92 (12.17%) Senior
3 91 (12.04%) Lead
4 90 (11.90%) Developer
5 73 (9.66%) Analyst
6 70 (9.26%) Architect
7 63 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 49 (6.48%) Data Analyst
9 36 (4.76%) Data Architect
10 35 (4.63%) Snowflake Engineer
11 31 (4.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 23 (3.04%) Lead Data Engineer
13 22 (2.91%) Python Engineer
14 21 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (2.78%) Business Analyst
14 21 (2.78%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 19 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 19 (2.51%) Azure Data Engineer
16 18 (2.38%) Senior Developer
17 17 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (12.70%) PySpark
2 79 (10.45%) Kafka
3 34 (4.50%) Pandas
4 31 (4.10%) REST
5 25 (3.31%) XML
6 21 (2.78%) NumPy
7 20 (2.65%) Great Expectations
8 16 (2.12%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.85%) JSON
9 14 (1.85%) Middleware
9 14 (1.85%) OAuth
9 14 (1.85%) RESTful
9 14 (1.85%) scikit-learn
9 14 (1.85%) TensorFlow
10 13 (1.72%) .NET
10 13 (1.72%) Web Services
11 12 (1.59%) pytest
11 12 (1.59%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.52%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
4 26 (3.44%) Distributed Computing
5 18 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 18 (2.38%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.46%) Reinsurance
8 9 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.19%) Low-Code
9 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
10 7 (0.93%) Data Fabric
10 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (0.93%) IoT
11 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.85%) Linux
2 12 (1.59%) Windows
3 8 (1.06%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Solaris
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.79%) 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
1 376 (49.74%) Data Modelling
2 335 (44.31%) Analytics
3 297 (39.29%) Data Engineering
4 288 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
5 232 (30.69%) Business Intelligence
6 224 (29.63%) CI/CD
7 192 (25.40%) Data Governance
8 171 (22.62%) DevOps
9 158 (20.90%) Migration
10 154 (20.37%) Agile
11 138 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
12 137 (18.12%) Data Architecture
13 136 (17.99%) Validation
14 134 (17.72%) AI
15 110 (14.55%) Decision-Making
16 107 (14.15%) Data Migration
17 106 (14.02%) Data Science
18 96 (12.70%) Data Integration
19 93 (12.30%) Infrastructure as Code
19 93 (12.30%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 539 (71.30%) SQL
2 378 (50.00%) Python
3 65 (8.60%) Java
4 48 (6.35%) C#
5 42 (5.56%) Scala
6 37 (4.89%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 26 (3.44%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.25%) R
10 14 (1.85%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.32%) Bicep
12 8 (1.06%) PowerShell
12 8 (1.06%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
13 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.53%) Bash
14 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.53%) Perl
14 4 (0.53%) PHP
15 3 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 138 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.14%) Degree
4 37 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.91%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.51%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.79%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.66%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.53%) PMP
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
15 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (37.04%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.52%) GDPR
3 63 (8.33%) QA
4 16 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.59%) IFRS
6 9 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.19%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.19%) 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 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.26%) EMIR
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 55 (7.28%) 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%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (14.15%) Terraform
2 55 (7.28%) 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 (0.26%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 168 (22.22%) Databricks
2 146 (19.31%) Microsoft
3 81 (10.71%) Oracle
4 56 (7.41%) Informatica
5 36 (4.76%) Google
6 34 (4.50%) SAP
7 18 (2.38%) IBM
8 15 (1.98%) MuleSoft
8 15 (1.98%) Workday
9 14 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.85%) Talend
10 13 (1.72%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.19%) UiPath
13 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
14 7 (0.93%) Palantir
14 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.79%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.79%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.79%) Foundry