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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 76 67
Rank change year-on-year +9 -9 +18
Contract jobs citing ETL 753 478 571
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.52% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.83% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 333 416
10th Percentile £358 £401 £383
25th Percentile £435 £455 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £656 £666
90th Percentile £713 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £505 £513
% change year-on-year -0.99% -1.46% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £39.25 -
25th Percentile - £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -30.00%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.86 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -31.70% +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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +7 80 £525 -6.25% 18
West London +5 25 £564 +10.11% 6
South London -3 11 £463 +1.09%
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 2
North London -1 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 86 (11.42%) Apache Airflow
2 85 (11.29%) Apache Spark
3 61 (8.10%) Apache
4 32 (4.25%) SAS
5 13 (1.73%) Confluence
6 11 (1.46%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 9 (1.20%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.66%) Appian
8 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.53%) Camunda
9 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.40%) Actimize
5 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.27%) Maximo
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
7 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 331 (43.96%) Azure
2 239 (31.74%) AWS
3 191 (25.37%) Power Platform
4 109 (14.48%) Snowflake
5 105 (13.94%) GCP
6 99 (13.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 88 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
7 88 (11.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 85 (11.29%) Amazon S3
9 76 (10.09%) dbt
10 67 (8.90%) Serverless
11 59 (7.84%) GitHub
12 55 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (5.18%) Collibra
14 27 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.66%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (2.12%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 237 (31.47%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (23.51%) Power BI
3 142 (18.86%) Data Lake
4 75 (9.96%) Metadata
5 73 (9.69%) SQL Server
6 61 (8.10%) Tableau
7 58 (7.70%) Delta Lake
8 51 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (6.77%) BigQuery
9 47 (6.24%) Snowflake Schema
10 44 (5.84%) Big Data
11 43 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (5.58%) Relational Database
13 38 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (4.78%) NoSQL
15 33 (4.38%) Azure SQL Database
16 32 (4.25%) Star Schema
17 31 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
18 22 (2.92%) Oracle Database
19 21 (2.79%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 69 (9.16%) Git
2 37 (4.91%) JIRA
3 19 (2.52%) GitLab
4 13 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.33%) MLflow
6 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.53%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) ERwin
7 3 (0.40%) LSMW
7 3 (0.40%) Postman
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.27%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 279 (37.05%) Finance
2 179 (23.77%) Social Skills
3 151 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.76%) Banking
5 74 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.92%) Marketing
7 16 (2.12%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.86%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.33%) Front Office
9 10 (1.33%) Legal
10 9 (1.20%) Retail
11 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.66%) Games
12 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.53%) Billing
13 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 302 (40.11%) Data Engineer
2 103 (13.68%) Architect
2 103 (13.68%) Senior
3 93 (12.35%) Lead
4 88 (11.69%) Developer
5 69 (9.16%) Senior Data Engineer
6 68 (9.03%) Analyst
7 45 (5.98%) Data Architect
8 40 (5.31%) Data Analyst
9 27 (3.59%) Snowflake Engineer
10 26 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (3.45%) Lead Data Engineer
10 26 (3.45%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 22 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
11 22 (2.92%) Azure Data Engineer
11 22 (2.92%) Python Engineer
12 19 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (2.52%) SQL Developer
13 18 (2.39%) AWS Data Engineer
13 18 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.62%) PySpark
2 71 (9.43%) Kafka
3 39 (5.18%) REST
4 28 (3.72%) JSON
5 23 (3.05%) .NET
5 23 (3.05%) Pandas
6 20 (2.66%) Middleware
7 14 (1.86%) Great Expectations
7 14 (1.86%) Spring
7 14 (1.86%) XML
8 13 (1.73%) Web Services
9 12 (1.59%) OAuth
9 12 (1.59%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.46%) Spring Boot
10 11 (1.46%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.33%) HTML
11 10 (1.33%) NumPy
11 10 (1.33%) React
11 10 (1.33%) YAML
12 8 (1.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.42%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.44%) Data Structures
3 50 (6.64%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (3.98%) Onboarding
5 25 (3.32%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.86%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.73%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.59%) Clustering
10 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.20%) NHS
11 9 (1.20%) Replication
11 9 (1.20%) Taxonomies
12 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.93%) IoT
12 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
13 6 (0.80%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.66%) Linux
2 12 (1.59%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Solaris
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (47.68%) Data Modelling
2 314 (41.70%) Data Pipeline
3 294 (39.04%) Analytics
4 278 (36.92%) Data Engineering
5 241 (32.01%) CI/CD
6 205 (27.22%) Business Intelligence
7 197 (26.16%) DevOps
8 189 (25.10%) Agile
9 184 (24.44%) Data Governance
10 172 (22.84%) Migration
11 150 (19.92%) Validation
12 147 (19.52%) AI
13 131 (17.40%) Data Architecture
14 130 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
15 121 (16.07%) Data Integration
16 116 (15.41%) Decision-Making
17 99 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
18 97 (12.88%) Data Transformation
19 91 (12.08%) Data Migration
20 87 (11.55%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 507 (67.33%) SQL
2 366 (48.61%) Python
3 81 (10.76%) Java
4 42 (5.58%) Scala
5 41 (5.44%) C#
6 37 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (4.65%) T-SQL
8 31 (4.12%) PL/SQL
9 23 (3.05%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.12%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.86%) R
12 13 (1.73%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.93%) Bash
14 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
15 6 (0.80%) Bicep
16 5 (0.66%) Cypher
16 5 (0.66%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 149 (19.79%) Security Cleared
2 127 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.98%) Degree
4 28 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.46%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.27%) CISA
13 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
14 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (34.79%) Data Quality
2 65 (8.63%) QA
3 55 (7.30%) GDPR
4 13 (1.73%) GRC
5 12 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.46%) PMO
7 10 (1.33%) IFRS
8 8 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.93%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.66%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.53%) GAAP
12 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.40%) GMP
13 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.13%) HL7
14 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 1 (0.13%) SEPA
14 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 54 (7.17%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (12.08%) Terraform
2 61 (8.10%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.93%) Grafana
4 5 (0.66%) Control-M
5 4 (0.53%) Ansible
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 156 (20.72%) Databricks
2 140 (18.59%) Microsoft
3 92 (12.22%) Oracle
4 50 (6.64%) Informatica
5 38 (5.05%) Google
6 24 (3.19%) SAP
7 20 (2.66%) IBM
8 14 (1.86%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.86%) Talend
9 12 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.33%) Palantir
11 9 (1.20%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.20%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.06%) Workday
13 7 (0.93%) Refinitiv
14 6 (0.80%) Denodo
14 6 (0.80%) Foundry
14 6 (0.80%) ServiceNow