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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 72 69
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 769 496 550
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.68% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.98% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 353 376
10th Percentile £365 £400 £363
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £646
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.25 £39.69
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -26.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -34.62%

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 18,096 12,472 14,422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.86% 92.52% 89.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,865 8,232 9,521
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £673 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 252 179
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £31.00 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -15.77% -1.87%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -3 87 £500 - 87
West London -3 23 £520 +4.00% 29
East London +5 7 £450 -33.33% 5
South London -5 7 £450 -1.64% 3
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
1 102 (13.26%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (12.09%) Apache Spark
3 70 (9.10%) Apache
4 41 (5.33%) SAS
5 18 (2.34%) Confluence
6 14 (1.82%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.91%) nginx
7 7 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Actimize
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 318 (41.35%) Azure
2 234 (30.43%) AWS
3 160 (20.81%) Power Platform
4 143 (18.60%) Snowflake
5 115 (14.95%) GCP
6 98 (12.74%) dbt
7 96 (12.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 87 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (9.10%) Amazon S3
10 65 (8.45%) GitHub
11 63 (8.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 59 (7.67%) Serverless
13 50 (6.50%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.51%) Collibra
16 24 (3.12%) Azure Databricks
17 20 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
18 16 (2.08%) SaaS
19 14 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
19 14 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.91%) HTTP
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (32.25%) Data Warehouse
2 154 (20.03%) Power BI
3 113 (14.69%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.62%) SQL Server
5 72 (9.36%) Metadata
6 69 (8.97%) Delta Lake
7 53 (6.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 52 (6.76%) BigQuery
9 50 (6.50%) Relational Database
10 46 (5.98%) Big Data
11 42 (5.46%) Tableau
12 38 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
13 35 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 34 (4.42%) NoSQL
15 32 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
17 28 (3.64%) Power Query
18 25 (3.25%) Star Schema
19 23 (2.99%) Oracle Database
20 22 (2.86%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 78 (10.14%) Git
2 41 (5.33%) JIRA
3 36 (4.68%) GitLab
4 22 (2.86%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.17%) MLflow
6 8 (1.04%) Selenium
7 7 (0.91%) Terragrunt
8 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.26%) JUnit
10 2 (0.26%) LSMW
10 2 (0.26%) Postman
10 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 252 (32.77%) Finance
2 188 (24.45%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (14.56%) Banking
5 57 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.73%) Marketing
6 21 (2.73%) Retail
7 17 (2.21%) Front Office
8 12 (1.56%) Financial Institution
8 12 (1.56%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.04%) Billing
9 8 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
10 7 (0.91%) Back Office
10 7 (0.91%) Legal
10 7 (0.91%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.78%) Publishing
12 5 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 313 (40.70%) Data Engineer
2 130 (16.91%) Senior
3 103 (13.39%) Architect
4 88 (11.44%) Developer
5 86 (11.18%) Senior Data Engineer
6 80 (10.40%) Lead
7 71 (9.23%) Analyst
8 43 (5.59%) Databricks Engineer
9 41 (5.33%) Data Architect
10 40 (5.20%) Data Analyst
11 38 (4.94%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (4.94%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 29 (3.77%) Azure Data Engineer
13 27 (3.51%) Snowflake Engineer
14 24 (3.12%) Consultant
15 23 (2.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 22 (2.86%) Technical Leader
17 20 (2.60%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.60%) Python Engineer
18 19 (2.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (12.87%) PySpark
2 80 (10.40%) Terraform
3 72 (9.36%) Kafka
4 36 (4.68%) .NET
4 36 (4.68%) REST
5 27 (3.51%) JSON
6 21 (2.73%) Middleware
7 17 (2.21%) Pandas
7 17 (2.21%) React
8 13 (1.69%) Spring
9 12 (1.56%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.56%) YAML
10 10 (1.30%) Web Services
10 10 (1.30%) XML
11 9 (1.17%) HTML
11 9 (1.17%) LangChain
12 8 (1.04%) NumPy
13 7 (0.91%) Apache Avro
13 7 (0.91%) GraphQL
14 6 (0.78%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.40%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 45 (5.85%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 35 (4.55%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.60%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.21%) Reference Data
9 16 (2.08%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.69%) Replication
11 12 (1.56%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.43%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (1.04%) Clustering
15 8 (1.04%) IoT
15 8 (1.04%) NHS
15 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
16 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.77%) Linux
2 13 (1.69%) Unix
2 13 (1.69%) Windows
3 4 (0.52%) Solaris
3 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (45.64%) Data Modelling
2 330 (42.91%) Data Pipeline
3 305 (39.66%) Data Engineering
4 294 (38.23%) Analytics
5 263 (34.20%) CI/CD
6 237 (30.82%) Agile
7 196 (25.49%) DevOps
8 189 (24.58%) Business Intelligence
9 184 (23.93%) Data Governance
10 165 (21.46%) Migration
11 162 (21.07%) Validation
12 157 (20.42%) AI
12 157 (20.42%) Data Integration
13 154 (20.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 135 (17.56%) Data Transformation
15 132 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
16 119 (15.47%) Data Architecture
17 99 (12.87%) Decision-Making
18 88 (11.44%) Data Ingestion
18 88 (11.44%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 510 (66.32%) SQL
2 364 (47.33%) Python
3 77 (10.01%) Java
4 41 (5.33%) Scala
5 38 (4.94%) C#
6 36 (4.68%) PL/SQL
7 34 (4.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.42%) JavaScript
8 29 (3.77%) T-SQL
9 25 (3.25%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.69%) R
10 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.69%) TypeScript
11 11 (1.43%) Bash
12 8 (1.04%) Cypher
13 5 (0.65%) Bicep
14 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.39%) Korn
15 3 (0.39%) Perl
15 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 133 (17.30%) Security Cleared
2 115 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.81%) Degree
4 20 (2.60%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.82%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (0.91%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) PMP
13 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
14 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (36.41%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.50%) QA
3 34 (4.42%) GDPR
4 29 (3.77%) GRC
5 11 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.04%) IFRS
7 8 (1.04%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GAAP
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) COREP
11 1 (0.13%) FINREP
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (7.80%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 59 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.43%) Control-M
3 8 (1.04%) Ansible
4 7 (0.91%) Grafana
5 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 196 (25.49%) Databricks
2 137 (17.82%) Microsoft
3 121 (15.73%) Oracle
4 46 (5.98%) Informatica
5 34 (4.42%) Google
6 23 (2.99%) Talend
7 19 (2.47%) SAP
8 18 (2.34%) IBM
9 15 (1.95%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.69%) Foundry
10 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.43%) Palantir
12 10 (1.30%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.17%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.04%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.78%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.78%) Denodo
15 6 (0.78%) Hyperion
15 6 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
15 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow