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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 80 70
Rank change year-on-year +24 -10 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 643 441 553
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 3.23% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 3.56% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 284 429
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £36.25 £43.03
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £48.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +10.00%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.52
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.00
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -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 13,329 12,378 16,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.91% 90.52% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,842 7,830 11,851
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 204 153 348
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £25.23 £19.34
Median hourly rate £34.38 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +18.33% -19.70%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.94
90th Percentile £71.75 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 2 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 2 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 +10 85 £475 -16.85% 57
West London -4 22 £601 +19.65% 6
South London -2 8 £500 +1.27% 2
East London -1 6 £463 +15.63% 3
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 (11.04%) Apache Spark
2 52 (8.09%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (7.31%) Apache
4 7 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.09%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.93%) Appian
5 6 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) Confluence
7 3 (0.47%) Luigi
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.47%) SAS
7 3 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.47%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.09%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.93%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.62%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) Actimize
6 2 (0.31%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 285 (44.32%) Azure
2 202 (31.42%) AWS
3 161 (25.04%) Power Platform
4 104 (16.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (14.93%) Snowflake
6 81 (12.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 69 (10.73%) GCP
8 68 (10.58%) Amazon S3
9 50 (7.78%) Serverless
10 46 (7.15%) GitHub
11 45 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (4.98%) dbt
14 28 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (3.42%) Collibra
15 22 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (2.64%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (2.18%) Amazon Kinesis
18 13 (2.02%) SaaS
19 12 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.47%) 2G
1 3 (0.47%) 4G
1 3 (0.47%) 5G
1 3 (0.47%) 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 (0.16%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (29.70%) Data Warehouse
2 153 (23.79%) Power BI
3 118 (18.35%) Data Lake
4 92 (14.31%) SQL Server
5 74 (11.51%) Metadata
6 51 (7.93%) Big Data
7 50 (7.78%) Relational Database
8 49 (7.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 47 (7.31%) Tableau
10 45 (7.00%) Amazon Redshift
11 38 (5.91%) Delta Lake
12 35 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (4.82%) BigQuery
15 29 (4.51%) NoSQL
16 28 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
17 27 (4.20%) Oracle Database
18 19 (2.95%) DataStage
18 19 (2.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (8.55%) Git
2 31 (4.82%) JIRA
3 23 (3.58%) GitLab
4 17 (2.64%) ERwin
5 15 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.02%) MLflow
7 7 (1.09%) Selenium
8 5 (0.78%) Postman
9 4 (0.62%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.62%) Toad
10 3 (0.47%) JMeter
10 3 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.31%) TestRail
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.16%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
12 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 224 (34.84%) Finance
2 189 (29.39%) Social Skills
3 94 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.73%) Banking
5 38 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.95%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.80%) Retail
8 12 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.56%) Marketing
10 8 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.09%) Front Office
12 6 (0.93%) Legal
12 6 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.78%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.78%) Law
13 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.78%) Publishing
14 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 250 (38.88%) Data Engineer
2 84 (13.06%) Lead
3 81 (12.60%) Developer
4 68 (10.58%) Senior
5 64 (9.95%) Analyst
6 58 (9.02%) Architect
7 47 (7.31%) Data Analyst
8 43 (6.69%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (5.91%) Data Architect
10 28 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (4.20%) Snowflake Engineer
12 24 (3.73%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (3.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 22 (3.42%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 20 (3.11%) Business Analyst
15 18 (2.80%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.49%) Consultant
16 16 (2.49%) Data Modeller
16 16 (2.49%) Lead Data Engineer
16 16 (2.49%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (12.60%) PySpark
2 60 (9.33%) Kafka
3 31 (4.82%) XML
4 29 (4.51%) Pandas
5 24 (3.73%) REST
6 19 (2.95%) NumPy
7 16 (2.49%) PyTorch
8 15 (2.33%) JSON
9 14 (2.18%) OAuth
9 14 (2.18%) TensorFlow
10 13 (2.02%) .NET
10 13 (2.02%) RESTful
10 13 (2.02%) scikit-learn
11 12 (1.87%) Great Expectations
12 11 (1.71%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (1.40%) Hugging Face
14 9 (1.40%) Middleware
14 9 (1.40%) pytest
15 8 (1.24%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.09%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.15%) Data Structures
3 35 (5.44%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.18%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.02%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.56%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.56%) Product Ownership
9 9 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.24%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.93%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.93%) IoT
12 6 (0.93%) Replication
12 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.49%) Linux
2 7 (1.09%) Unix
3 4 (0.62%) Windows
4 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (46.19%) Data Modelling
2 268 (41.68%) Analytics
3 233 (36.24%) Data Pipeline
4 225 (34.99%) Data Engineering
5 194 (30.17%) Business Intelligence
6 169 (26.28%) CI/CD
7 156 (24.26%) Data Governance
8 135 (21.00%) Agile
9 130 (20.22%) Migration
10 126 (19.60%) DevOps
11 124 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
12 115 (17.88%) Data Architecture
13 104 (16.17%) AI
14 100 (15.55%) Validation
15 97 (15.09%) Data Migration
16 96 (14.93%) Data Science
17 89 (13.84%) Data Integration
18 87 (13.53%) Machine Learning
19 77 (11.98%) Decision-Making
20 76 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 447 (69.52%) SQL
2 318 (49.46%) Python
3 53 (8.24%) Java
4 37 (5.75%) Scala
5 34 (5.29%) C#
6 32 (4.98%) PL/SQL
7 20 (3.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.64%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.49%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.71%) Bicep
10 11 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.71%) R
11 9 (1.40%) Bash
12 6 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.78%) Perl
14 4 (0.62%) Korn
14 4 (0.62%) PHP
15 3 (0.47%) VBA
16 2 (0.31%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 92 (14.31%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.62%) Degree
4 32 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.11%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.93%) PMP
11 5 (0.78%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.78%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.16%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (0.16%) HP APS
13 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.16%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (34.37%) Data Quality
2 65 (10.11%) GDPR
3 40 (6.22%) QA
4 16 (2.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.71%) IFRS
6 9 (1.40%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.78%) GAAP
9 5 (0.78%) MiFID
10 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.47%) Basel III
11 3 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.47%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.47%) NIST
11 3 (0.47%) PMO
12 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.31%) EMIR
13 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 50 (7.78%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) 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 (0.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (11.82%) Terraform
2 48 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.62%) Ansible
3 4 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.62%) Kibana
3 4 (0.62%) logstash
4 3 (0.47%) Control-M
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 160 (24.88%) Databricks
2 109 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 68 (10.58%) Oracle
4 39 (6.07%) Informatica
5 29 (4.51%) SAP
6 23 (3.58%) Google
7 14 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.18%) Workday
8 13 (2.02%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.87%) Talend
10 11 (1.71%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.56%) IBM
12 9 (1.40%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.24%) Palantir
14 7 (1.09%) Alteryx
14 7 (1.09%) Foundry
14 7 (1.09%) UiPath
15 6 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
15 6 (0.93%) Avaloq
16 4 (0.62%) Solace