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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 74 75
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 702 443 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.49% 3.27% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 3.61% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 287 438
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £629
90th Percentile £730 £743 £732
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 10
10th Percentile - £36.25 £42.22
25th Percentile £35.25 £38.13 £47.38
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% -24.78% +25.56%
75th Percentile £35.75 £52.25 £63.84
90th Percentile - £57.35 £68.45
England median hourly rate £68.39 £42.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +60.92% -16.76% +43.82%

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 14,143 12,286 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.44% 90.69% 88.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 7,897 11,628
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 219 156 343
10th Percentile £18.21 £20.23 £16.02
25th Percentile £24.81 £24.73 £19.53
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.73 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.58 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.61 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.99% - -

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 20 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 20 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 +12 88 £506 -7.95% 42
West London -2 25 £603 +9.55% 3
South London -6 13 £475 -2.56% 4
East London 0 6 £463 +15.63% 4
North London - 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 77 (10.97%) Apache Spark
2 55 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.70%) Apache
4 8 (1.14%) Appian
5 7 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.00%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.85%) SAS
7 4 (0.57%) Confluence
7 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.43%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.28%) CMS
9 2 (0.28%) nginx
9 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.14%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Camunda
10 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Trello
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.71%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.43%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Actimize
6 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 317 (45.16%) Azure
2 228 (32.48%) AWS
3 177 (25.21%) Power Platform
4 110 (15.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 94 (13.39%) Snowflake
6 89 (12.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 83 (11.82%) GCP
8 81 (11.54%) Amazon S3
9 59 (8.40%) Serverless
10 51 (7.26%) GitHub
11 49 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
12 48 (6.84%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (5.41%) dbt
14 34 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (3.99%) Collibra
16 25 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.14%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.57%) 4G
1 4 (0.57%) 5G
2 3 (0.43%) 2G
2 3 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.28%) BGP
3 2 (0.28%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.28%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.28%) OSPF
3 2 (0.28%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.14%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (29.20%) Data Warehouse
2 165 (23.50%) Power BI
3 133 (18.95%) Data Lake
4 97 (13.82%) SQL Server
5 83 (11.82%) Metadata
6 56 (7.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 52 (7.41%) Tableau
8 51 (7.26%) Big Data
9 49 (6.98%) Relational Database
10 46 (6.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (5.98%) Amazon Athena
11 42 (5.98%) Delta Lake
12 38 (5.41%) BigQuery
13 36 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 35 (4.99%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (4.27%) NoSQL
16 29 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
17 27 (3.85%) Oracle Database
18 20 (2.85%) OLAP
19 19 (2.71%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 67 (9.54%) Git
2 29 (4.13%) JIRA
3 24 (3.42%) GitLab
4 17 (2.42%) MLflow
5 15 (2.14%) ERwin
6 14 (1.99%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.14%) Selenium
8 6 (0.85%) Postman
9 4 (0.57%) Toad
10 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.43%) JMeter
10 3 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Ant
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 250 (35.61%) Finance
2 208 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 108 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (11.11%) Banking
5 48 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.56%) Retail
8 16 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.42%) Marketing
9 10 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.85%) Legal
11 5 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.71%) Law
11 5 (0.71%) Publishing
12 4 (0.57%) Front Office
12 4 (0.57%) Local Government
12 4 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 280 (39.89%) Data Engineer
2 94 (13.39%) Lead
3 88 (12.54%) Developer
4 77 (10.97%) Senior
5 67 (9.54%) Analyst
5 67 (9.54%) Architect
6 51 (7.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 46 (6.55%) Data Analyst
8 42 (5.98%) Data Architect
9 30 (4.27%) Snowflake Engineer
10 25 (3.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 24 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
12 22 (3.13%) Python Engineer
13 21 (2.99%) Business Analyst
14 20 (2.85%) Azure Data Engineer
14 20 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 19 (2.71%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.14%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (2.14%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (13.25%) PySpark
2 68 (9.69%) Kafka
3 32 (4.56%) Pandas
4 30 (4.27%) XML
5 25 (3.56%) REST
6 23 (3.28%) NumPy
7 21 (2.99%) PyTorch
8 19 (2.71%) TensorFlow
9 17 (2.42%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.28%) Great Expectations
11 15 (2.14%) JSON
11 15 (2.14%) RESTful
12 14 (1.99%) .NET
12 14 (1.99%) OAuth
13 13 (1.85%) Middleware
14 12 (1.71%) pytest
14 12 (1.71%) Spark Streaming
15 11 (1.57%) Hugging Face
16 10 (1.42%) Web Services
16 10 (1.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.26%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 42 (5.98%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (2.28%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.71%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.57%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.42%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.28%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.28%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (1.00%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.85%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.28%) Linux
2 7 (1.00%) Unix
2 7 (1.00%) Windows
3 3 (0.43%) VMS
3 3 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.28%) Solaris
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (47.15%) Data Modelling
2 298 (42.45%) Analytics
3 256 (36.47%) Data Engineering
3 256 (36.47%) Data Pipeline
4 207 (29.49%) Business Intelligence
5 194 (27.64%) CI/CD
6 174 (24.79%) Data Governance
7 151 (21.51%) Agile
8 148 (21.08%) Migration
9 135 (19.23%) DevOps
10 134 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (18.09%) Data Architecture
12 122 (17.38%) AI
13 111 (15.81%) Data Science
13 111 (15.81%) Validation
14 109 (15.53%) Data Migration
15 98 (13.96%) Machine Learning
16 91 (12.96%) Decision-Making
17 88 (12.54%) Data Integration
18 84 (11.97%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 485 (69.09%) SQL
2 353 (50.28%) Python
3 53 (7.55%) Java
4 41 (5.84%) C#
5 38 (5.41%) Scala
6 33 (4.70%) PL/SQL
7 23 (3.28%) T-SQL
8 22 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 19 (2.71%) JavaScript
10 13 (1.85%) Bicep
11 11 (1.57%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.57%) R
12 9 (1.28%) Bash
13 8 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 7 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.57%) Korn
15 4 (0.57%) Perl
15 4 (0.57%) PHP
16 3 (0.43%) SAS Macro
16 3 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 83 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.98%) Degree
4 32 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.56%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.28%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.85%) PMP
11 5 (0.71%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.71%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.14%) CCIE
15 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 69 (9.83%) GDPR
3 50 (7.12%) QA
4 17 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.57%) IFRS
6 9 (1.28%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.14%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.00%) PMO
9 6 (0.85%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.71%) GAAP
10 5 (0.71%) MiFID
11 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.43%) Basel III
12 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.43%) NIST
13 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
13 2 (0.28%) EMIR
13 2 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 51 (7.26%) Docker
2 5 (0.71%) zsh
3 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) HDFS
4 2 (0.28%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.28%) KVM
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (12.68%) Terraform
2 55 (7.83%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.57%) Ansible
4 3 (0.43%) Control-M
5 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.28%) Kibana
5 2 (0.28%) logstash
6 1 (0.14%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 173 (24.64%) Databricks
2 120 (17.09%) Microsoft
3 71 (10.11%) Oracle
4 42 (5.98%) Informatica
5 35 (4.99%) SAP
6 28 (3.99%) Google
7 15 (2.14%) MuleSoft
7 15 (2.14%) Talend
8 14 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.99%) Workday
9 13 (1.85%) IBM
9 13 (1.85%) OpenAI
9 13 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.28%) UiPath
11 8 (1.14%) Automation Anywhere
11 8 (1.14%) Palantir
12 7 (1.00%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.00%) Foundry
13 6 (0.85%) Avaloq
14 4 (0.57%) Teradata