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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 79 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 647 442 553
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.39% 3.20% 2.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.83% 3.54% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 473 284 430
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £734 £716
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
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 13,393 12,486 16,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.95% 90.46% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 7,905 11,829
10th Percentile £350 £350 £342
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 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 153 339
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.23
25th Percentile £25.08 £25.23 £19.53
Median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 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 1 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 +6 85 £475 -16.85% 44
West London -4 22 £601 +19.65% 6
South London -2 8 £500 +1.27% 2
East London 0 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 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 52 (8.04%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (7.26%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.08%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.93%) Appian
5 6 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.46%) Confluence
7 3 (0.46%) Luigi
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.46%) Trello
6 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.08%) 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 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.15%) Maximo
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 285 (44.05%) Azure
2 205 (31.68%) AWS
3 161 (24.88%) Power Platform
4 104 (16.07%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (14.84%) Snowflake
6 81 (12.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 69 (10.66%) Amazon S3
7 69 (10.66%) GCP
8 51 (7.88%) Serverless
9 46 (7.11%) GitHub
10 45 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
11 39 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.95%) dbt
13 28 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.40%) Collibra
14 22 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (2.01%) SaaS
18 12 (1.85%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) 2G
1 3 (0.46%) 4G
1 3 (0.46%) 5G
1 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) DSL
3 1 (0.15%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) Internet
3 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (29.68%) Data Warehouse
2 153 (23.65%) Power BI
3 118 (18.24%) Data Lake
4 91 (14.06%) SQL Server
5 76 (11.75%) Metadata
6 51 (7.88%) Big Data
7 50 (7.73%) Relational Database
8 48 (7.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (7.42%) Tableau
9 46 (7.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 39 (6.03%) Delta Lake
11 35 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
12 33 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (4.79%) BigQuery
14 29 (4.48%) NoSQL
14 29 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
16 27 (4.17%) Oracle Database
17 19 (2.94%) Data Vault
17 19 (2.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 55 (8.50%) Git
2 31 (4.79%) JIRA
3 23 (3.55%) GitLab
4 17 (2.63%) ERwin
5 15 (2.32%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.01%) MLflow
7 7 (1.08%) Selenium
8 5 (0.77%) Postman
9 4 (0.62%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.62%) Toad
10 3 (0.46%) JMeter
10 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.15%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 224 (34.62%) Finance
2 191 (29.52%) Social Skills
3 96 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.66%) Banking
5 40 (6.18%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.78%) Retail
8 12 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.70%) Marketing
10 8 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.08%) Front Office
12 6 (0.93%) Legal
12 6 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.77%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.77%) Law
13 5 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.77%) Publishing
14 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (38.64%) Data Engineer
2 86 (13.29%) Lead
3 81 (12.52%) Developer
4 68 (10.51%) Senior
5 64 (9.89%) Analyst
6 58 (8.96%) Architect
7 47 (7.26%) Data Analyst
8 43 (6.65%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (5.87%) Data Architect
10 28 (4.33%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (4.17%) Snowflake Engineer
12 24 (3.71%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 22 (3.40%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 20 (3.09%) Business Analyst
15 18 (2.78%) Consultant
15 18 (2.78%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.63%) Python Engineer
17 16 (2.47%) Data Modeller
17 16 (2.47%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (12.67%) PySpark
2 60 (9.27%) Kafka
3 31 (4.79%) XML
4 29 (4.48%) Pandas
5 24 (3.71%) REST
6 19 (2.94%) NumPy
7 16 (2.47%) PyTorch
8 15 (2.32%) JSON
9 14 (2.16%) OAuth
9 14 (2.16%) TensorFlow
10 13 (2.01%) .NET
10 13 (2.01%) RESTful
10 13 (2.01%) scikit-learn
11 12 (1.85%) Great Expectations
12 11 (1.70%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (1.39%) Hugging Face
14 9 (1.39%) Middleware
14 9 (1.39%) pytest
15 8 (1.24%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.04%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.11%) Data Structures
3 35 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.16%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.85%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.24%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.93%) IoT
13 6 (0.93%) Replication
13 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.63%) Linux
2 7 (1.08%) Unix
3 5 (0.77%) Windows
4 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.31%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (46.37%) Data Modelling
2 271 (41.89%) Analytics
3 235 (36.32%) Data Pipeline
4 225 (34.78%) Data Engineering
5 195 (30.14%) Business Intelligence
6 170 (26.28%) CI/CD
7 159 (24.57%) Data Governance
8 137 (21.17%) Agile
9 132 (20.40%) Migration
10 127 (19.63%) DevOps
11 126 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
12 117 (18.08%) Data Architecture
13 104 (16.07%) AI
14 102 (15.77%) Validation
15 97 (14.99%) Data Migration
15 97 (14.99%) Data Science
16 91 (14.06%) Data Integration
17 87 (13.45%) Machine Learning
18 77 (11.90%) Decision-Making
19 76 (11.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 450 (69.55%) SQL
2 321 (49.61%) Python
3 56 (8.66%) Java
4 37 (5.72%) Scala
5 34 (5.26%) C#
6 33 (5.10%) PL/SQL
7 20 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.63%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.85%) R
10 11 (1.70%) Bicep
10 11 (1.70%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.39%) Bash
12 6 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.77%) Perl
14 4 (0.62%) Korn
14 4 (0.62%) PHP
15 3 (0.46%) VBA
16 2 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 95 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.97%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.57%) Degree
4 32 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.25%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.93%) PMP
11 5 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.77%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (34.16%) Data Quality
2 65 (10.05%) GDPR
3 40 (6.18%) QA
4 16 (2.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.70%) IFRS
6 9 (1.39%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.77%) GAAP
9 5 (0.77%) MiFID
10 4 (0.62%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.46%) Basel III
11 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.46%) NIST
11 3 (0.46%) PMO
12 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.31%) EMIR
13 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 50 (7.73%) Docker
2 5 (0.77%) 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 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (11.75%) Terraform
2 48 (7.42%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.62%) Ansible
3 4 (0.62%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.62%) Kibana
3 4 (0.62%) logstash
4 3 (0.46%) Control-M
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (24.88%) Databricks
2 110 (17.00%) Microsoft
3 69 (10.66%) Oracle
4 39 (6.03%) Informatica
5 31 (4.79%) SAP
6 23 (3.55%) Google
7 14 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.16%) Workday
8 13 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.85%) Talend
10 11 (1.70%) IBM
10 11 (1.70%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.39%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.24%) Palantir
13 7 (1.08%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.08%) Foundry
13 7 (1.08%) UiPath
14 6 (0.93%) Automation Anywhere
14 6 (0.93%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.62%) Solace