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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 73 76
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 766 480 511
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.80% 3.53% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.82% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 337 360
10th Percentile £368 £400 £380
25th Percentile £435 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £750 £751
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £35.13 £35.00
25th Percentile - £40.75 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -28.46%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%

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 17,953 12,554 14,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.35% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,388 10,113
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 250 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -16.44% -12.67%
75th Percentile £56.25 £48.44 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.30 £71.31
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 +1 85 £525 - 30
West London 0 24 £520 +2.77% 6
South London +1 12 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 6
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 95 (12.40%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (11.36%) Apache Spark
3 66 (8.62%) Apache
4 46 (6.01%) SAS
5 16 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.83%) Confluence
7 9 (1.17%) nginx
7 9 (1.17%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.52%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.39%) Camunda
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Appian
12 1 (0.13%) Luigi
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.39%) Actimize
5 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 323 (42.17%) Azure
2 235 (30.68%) AWS
3 192 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 120 (15.67%) Snowflake
5 111 (14.49%) GCP
6 99 (12.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 90 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
8 83 (10.84%) dbt
9 82 (10.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 77 (10.05%) Amazon S3
11 65 (8.49%) GitHub
12 64 (8.36%) Serverless
13 53 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (4.44%) Collibra
15 31 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (1.96%) Dagster
19 14 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
20 13 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.91%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 3 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) DNS
4 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (33.68%) Data Warehouse
2 178 (23.24%) Power BI
3 134 (17.49%) Data Lake
4 81 (10.57%) SQL Server
5 72 (9.40%) Metadata
6 64 (8.36%) Delta Lake
7 57 (7.44%) Tableau
8 53 (6.92%) BigQuery
9 51 (6.66%) Amazon Redshift
10 47 (6.14%) Relational Database
11 45 (5.87%) Big Data
11 45 (5.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 43 (5.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 34 (4.44%) Star Schema
14 33 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
15 32 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
15 32 (4.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (4.18%) NoSQL
16 25 (3.26%) Power Query
17 20 (2.61%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 63 (8.22%) Git
2 37 (4.83%) JIRA
3 28 (3.66%) GitLab
4 19 (2.48%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.65%) MLflow
5 5 (0.65%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.52%) Selenium
7 3 (0.39%) ERwin
7 3 (0.39%) LSMW
7 3 (0.39%) Postman
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 272 (35.51%) Finance
2 183 (23.89%) Social Skills
3 147 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (12.40%) Banking
5 67 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.00%) Marketing
7 16 (2.09%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.83%) Retail
9 13 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.57%) Front Office
11 10 (1.31%) Legal
12 9 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.65%) Games
15 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.52%) Billing
16 4 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.52%) Publishing
17 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 306 (39.95%) Data Engineer
2 113 (14.75%) Senior
3 108 (14.10%) Architect
4 89 (11.62%) Lead
5 87 (11.36%) Developer
6 76 (9.92%) Senior Data Engineer
7 70 (9.14%) Analyst
8 41 (5.35%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.09%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (3.39%) Azure Data Engineer
12 25 (3.26%) Snowflake Engineer
13 23 (3.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (2.87%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (2.74%) Lead Data Engineer
15 21 (2.74%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.48%) Integration Engineer
17 18 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 18 (2.35%) Consultant
17 18 (2.35%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.05%) PySpark
2 70 (9.14%) Kafka
3 36 (4.70%) REST
4 30 (3.92%) JSON
5 27 (3.52%) .NET
6 20 (2.61%) Middleware
7 17 (2.22%) Pandas
8 14 (1.83%) Spring
9 13 (1.70%) YAML
10 12 (1.57%) React
10 12 (1.57%) XML
11 11 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.31%) HTML
12 10 (1.31%) Web Services
13 9 (1.17%) Great Expectations
14 8 (1.04%) OAuth
15 7 (0.91%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.91%) NumPy
16 6 (0.78%) Apache Avro
16 6 (0.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 47 (6.14%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (4.96%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.70%) Clustering
10 12 (1.57%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.57%) Reference Data
11 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.17%) NHS
11 9 (1.17%) Replication
12 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.78%) Legacy Code
14 6 (0.78%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.65%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.66%) Linux
2 13 (1.70%) Windows
3 8 (1.04%) Unix
4 7 (0.91%) Solaris
4 7 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (47.26%) Data Modelling
2 325 (42.43%) Data Pipeline
3 309 (40.34%) Analytics
4 293 (38.25%) Data Engineering
5 249 (32.51%) CI/CD
6 220 (28.72%) Agile
7 207 (27.02%) DevOps
8 206 (26.89%) Business Intelligence
9 183 (23.89%) Data Governance
10 173 (22.58%) Migration
11 151 (19.71%) Validation
12 144 (18.80%) Data Integration
13 140 (18.28%) AI
14 138 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
15 129 (16.84%) Data Architecture
16 123 (16.06%) Data Transformation
17 121 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
18 117 (15.27%) Decision-Making
19 92 (12.01%) Data Migration
20 82 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 509 (66.45%) SQL
2 354 (46.21%) Python
3 80 (10.44%) Java
4 41 (5.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (4.96%) Scala
6 37 (4.83%) C#
7 34 (4.44%) T-SQL
8 32 (4.18%) JavaScript
9 31 (4.05%) PL/SQL
10 23 (3.00%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.70%) R
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.17%) Bash
13 9 (1.17%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.91%) SAS Macro
15 6 (0.78%) Bicep
16 5 (0.65%) Cypher
16 5 (0.65%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 154 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 131 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.35%) Degree
4 24 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (36.55%) Data Quality
2 65 (8.49%) QA
3 46 (6.01%) GDPR
4 28 (3.66%) GRC
5 11 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.31%) PMO
6 10 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.17%) IFRS
8 8 (1.04%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.52%) GAAP
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) GMP
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) COPPA
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (7.57%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 87 (11.36%) Terraform
2 62 (8.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.31%) Control-M
4 7 (0.91%) Ansible
4 7 (0.91%) Grafana
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 162 (21.15%) Databricks
2 140 (18.28%) Microsoft
3 113 (14.75%) Oracle
4 52 (6.79%) Informatica
5 39 (5.09%) Google
6 24 (3.13%) SAP
7 19 (2.48%) IBM
8 18 (2.35%) Talend
9 14 (1.83%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.70%) Palantir
10 13 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.31%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.31%) Foundry
12 9 (1.17%) Workday
13 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.91%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.78%) Denodo
16 5 (0.65%) Hyperion
16 5 (0.65%) MicroStrategy