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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 85 70
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 756 407 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.35% 3.20% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 3.49% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 271 428
10th Percentile £362 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £452 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.15% +2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 13
10th Percentile - £43.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £43.03
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £61.75
90th Percentile - £59.35 £67.31
England median hourly rate £64.92 £78.70 £49.50
% change year-on-year -17.51% +58.99% +13.62%

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 15,459 11,674 15,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.02% 91.93% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,346 7,928 11,348
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £799
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 166 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.98
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.99 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.65 £63.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
% change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%

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 April 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 April 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 +23 99 £516 -11.75% 54
West London +3 34 £603 -3.60% 4
South London -5 15 £463 -3.90% 2
East London 0 8 £450 -23.08% 1
North London +2 1 £495 - 2
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 87 (11.51%) Apache Spark
2 79 (10.45%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (7.28%) Apache
4 12 (1.59%) SAS
5 10 (1.32%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.19%) Appian
7 7 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.79%) Confluence
8 6 (0.79%) nginx
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 30 (3.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.40%) Trello
7 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.26%) Actimize
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 344 (45.50%) Azure
2 248 (32.80%) AWS
3 207 (27.38%) Power Platform
4 115 (15.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 114 (15.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 104 (13.76%) Amazon S3
7 93 (12.30%) Snowflake
8 88 (11.64%) GCP
9 73 (9.66%) Serverless
10 70 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
11 65 (8.60%) GitHub
12 62 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
13 57 (7.54%) dbt
14 44 (5.82%) Collibra
15 41 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
18 20 (2.65%) Dagster
19 18 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Firewall
1 4 (0.53%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
3 1 (0.13%) DSL
3 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (30.56%) Data Warehouse
2 191 (25.26%) Power BI
3 149 (19.71%) Data Lake
4 102 (13.49%) SQL Server
5 93 (12.30%) Metadata
6 61 (8.07%) Tableau
7 60 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 52 (6.88%) Delta Lake
10 51 (6.75%) Amazon Athena
11 47 (6.22%) Relational Database
11 47 (6.22%) Snowflake Schema
12 46 (6.08%) Big Data
13 45 (5.95%) Azure SQL Database
14 42 (5.56%) BigQuery
15 33 (4.37%) Star Schema
16 32 (4.23%) NoSQL
17 28 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
18 27 (3.57%) Oracle Database
19 26 (3.44%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 68 (8.99%) Git
2 36 (4.76%) JIRA
3 25 (3.31%) GitLab
4 18 (2.38%) MLflow
5 11 (1.46%) ERwin
6 10 (1.32%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.93%) Selenium
8 5 (0.66%) Postman
9 4 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.53%) Toad
10 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.40%) JMeter
10 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) LSMW
11 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.13%) Ant
12 1 (0.13%) JUnit
General
1 283 (37.43%) Finance
2 209 (27.65%) Social Skills
3 132 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.45%) Banking
5 59 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.17%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.12%) Marketing
9 15 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.46%) Legal
11 10 (1.32%) Retail
12 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.93%) Front Office
14 5 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Law
15 4 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 325 (42.99%) Data Engineer
2 98 (12.96%) Senior
3 93 (12.30%) Lead
4 92 (12.17%) Developer
5 69 (9.13%) Analyst
5 69 (9.13%) Architect
5 69 (9.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (5.82%) Data Analyst
7 36 (4.76%) Snowflake Engineer
8 35 (4.63%) Data Architect
9 32 (4.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 24 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
11 23 (3.04%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (2.65%) Azure Data Engineer
14 19 (2.51%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (2.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 19 (2.51%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.38%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.25%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.83%) PySpark
2 78 (10.32%) Kafka
3 34 (4.50%) Pandas
4 32 (4.23%) REST
5 23 (3.04%) XML
6 20 (2.65%) Great Expectations
6 20 (2.65%) NumPy
7 17 (2.25%) OAuth
8 16 (2.12%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.98%) .NET
9 15 (1.98%) Middleware
10 14 (1.85%) JSON
10 14 (1.85%) RESTful
10 14 (1.85%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.85%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.85%) Web Services
11 12 (1.59%) pytest
11 12 (1.59%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.19%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.57%) Distributed Computing
5 21 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.46%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.19%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.06%) Clustering
11 8 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.06%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.93%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.79%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.85%) Linux
2 12 (1.59%) Windows
3 8 (1.06%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Solaris
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (50.13%) Data Modelling
2 325 (42.99%) Analytics
3 299 (39.55%) Data Engineering
4 297 (39.29%) Data Pipeline
5 229 (30.29%) Business Intelligence
6 222 (29.37%) CI/CD
7 185 (24.47%) Data Governance
8 178 (23.54%) DevOps
9 161 (21.30%) Agile
10 154 (20.37%) Migration
11 141 (18.65%) Data Architecture
11 141 (18.65%) Validation
12 140 (18.52%) AI
13 130 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
14 113 (14.95%) Decision-Making
15 104 (13.76%) Data Science
16 102 (13.49%) Data Migration
17 99 (13.10%) Data Integration
18 92 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
19 90 (11.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 539 (71.30%) SQL
2 383 (50.66%) Python
3 72 (9.52%) Java
4 49 (6.48%) C#
5 45 (5.95%) Scala
6 38 (5.03%) PL/SQL
7 36 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 29 (3.84%) T-SQL
9 18 (2.38%) R
10 14 (1.85%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.32%) Bicep
11 10 (1.32%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.19%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.53%) Perl
15 4 (0.53%) PHP
16 3 (0.40%) Bash
16 3 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 136 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.61%) Degree
4 34 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.31%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.38%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.25%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.79%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.53%) PMP
12 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) CISA
15 1 (0.13%) CISSP
15 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (36.24%) Data Quality
2 73 (9.66%) GDPR
3 59 (7.80%) QA
4 16 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.59%) IFRS
6 9 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.19%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.19%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) GAAP
8 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.53%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.53%) MiFID
9 3 (0.40%) Basel III
9 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
10 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (7.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (14.15%) Terraform
2 50 (6.61%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Control-M
3 4 (0.53%) Grafana
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 172 (22.75%) Databricks
2 152 (20.11%) Microsoft
3 79 (10.45%) Oracle
4 53 (7.01%) Informatica
5 37 (4.89%) Google
6 33 (4.37%) SAP
7 20 (2.65%) IBM
8 18 (2.38%) Workday
9 15 (1.98%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.85%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.85%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.32%) Talend
13 9 (1.19%) Denodo
13 9 (1.19%) UiPath
14 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
15 7 (0.93%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.79%) Bloomberg
16 6 (0.79%) Palantir