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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 68 84
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 521 535 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.70% 3.42% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 3.84% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 343 425
10th Percentile £378 £363 £382
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £642 £631 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £49.52
25th Percentile £34.56 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -32.54% +7.23%
75th Percentile £47.00 £51.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £57.15 £66.80
England median hourly rate £41.23 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -2.99% -32.54% +40.00%

All Process and 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 12,998 13,947 17,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.41% 89.16% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,554 8,992 12,876
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.54%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 245
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £46.88 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.50 £80.38 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.08 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.30% -18.92% +27.14%

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 13 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 13 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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 13 November 2025. 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 -10 68 £525 -0.47% 177
West London -7 7 £575 +4.55% 3
South London -3 6 £466 -13.26% 3
East London -3 2 £418 +1.21% 10
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 57 (10.94%) Apache Spark
2 56 (10.75%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (8.64%) Apache
4 5 (0.96%) Confluence
4 5 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.77%) Luigi
6 3 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.58%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) Apache Superset
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.34%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.58%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
6 2 (0.38%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
7 1 (0.19%) Maximo
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 223 (42.80%) Azure
2 189 (36.28%) AWS
3 117 (22.46%) Power Platform
4 96 (18.43%) Snowflake
5 86 (16.51%) GCP
6 76 (14.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 56 (10.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 47 (9.02%) Amazon S3
9 39 (7.49%) dbt
10 38 (7.29%) Serverless
11 31 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (5.37%) GitHub
13 26 (4.99%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.07%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
17 12 (2.30%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.30%) PaaS
17 12 (2.30%) SaaS
18 11 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.58%) 2G
1 3 (0.58%) 4G
1 3 (0.58%) 5G
1 3 (0.58%) Internet
1 3 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.38%) BGP
2 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.38%) DNS
2 2 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.38%) OSPF
2 2 (0.38%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.19%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) TETRA
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (33.59%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (20.73%) Power BI
3 81 (15.55%) Data Lake
4 70 (13.44%) SQL Server
5 55 (10.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 54 (10.36%) Metadata
7 53 (10.17%) Big Data
8 50 (9.60%) BigQuery
9 40 (7.68%) Relational Database
10 39 (7.49%) Tableau
11 38 (7.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 31 (5.95%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (4.61%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (4.22%) Delta Lake
15 21 (4.03%) Hadoop
15 21 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (3.07%) Power Query
18 15 (2.88%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 33 (6.33%) Git
2 19 (3.65%) JIRA
3 18 (3.45%) ERwin
4 12 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.34%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.34%) GitLab
6 5 (0.96%) Postman
6 5 (0.96%) Selenium
7 3 (0.58%) MLflow
7 3 (0.58%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.38%) LSMW
8 2 (0.38%) PROIV
8 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.38%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.38%) TestRail
9 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.19%) JMeter
9 1 (0.19%) Maven
9 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 167 (32.05%) Finance
2 158 (30.33%) Social Skills
3 89 (17.08%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.40%) Banking
5 35 (6.72%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.45%) Retail
7 12 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.11%) Marketing
9 9 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.34%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.34%) Front Office
11 6 (1.15%) Local Government
11 6 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.96%) Publishing
12 5 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 162 (31.09%) Data Engineer
2 74 (14.20%) Architect
3 69 (13.24%) Developer
4 60 (11.52%) Senior
5 57 (10.94%) Analyst
6 54 (10.36%) Lead
7 47 (9.02%) Data Architect
8 39 (7.49%) Data Analyst
9 28 (5.37%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (4.99%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (4.41%) Azure Data Engineer
12 16 (3.07%) Azure Architect
12 16 (3.07%) Business Analyst
12 16 (3.07%) Consultant
12 16 (3.07%) Data Modeller
12 16 (3.07%) Python Engineer
13 15 (2.88%) Senior Developer
14 13 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.50%) Snowflake Engineer
15 12 (2.30%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.36%) PySpark
2 48 (9.21%) Kafka
3 33 (6.33%) XML
4 21 (4.03%) JSON
5 14 (2.69%) REST
6 12 (2.30%) Pandas
6 12 (2.30%) RESTful
7 10 (1.92%) NumPy
8 9 (1.73%) .NET
8 9 (1.73%) OAuth
9 8 (1.54%) GraphQL
9 8 (1.54%) Middleware
10 7 (1.34%) Great Expectations
11 6 (1.15%) Node.js
11 6 (1.15%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.15%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.96%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (0.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 5 (0.96%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.96%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.14%) Cloud Native
2 30 (5.76%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.88%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (2.30%) Virtual Team
6 11 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 9 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.73%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
10 7 (1.34%) IoT
10 7 (1.34%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.15%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.15%) Fixed Income
12 5 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.69%) Linux
2 3 (0.58%) Windows
3 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (44.15%) Data Modelling
2 199 (38.20%) Analytics
3 190 (36.47%) Data Pipeline
4 155 (29.75%) Data Engineering
5 143 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
6 142 (27.26%) Data Governance
7 122 (23.42%) CI/CD
8 115 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (21.11%) Migration
10 107 (20.54%) Agile
11 99 (19.00%) Data Integration
12 97 (18.62%) DevOps
13 85 (16.31%) Data Architecture
14 82 (15.74%) Data Science
15 74 (14.20%) Data Migration
16 69 (13.24%) Data Transformation
16 69 (13.24%) Validation
17 68 (13.05%) Machine Learning
18 67 (12.86%) Visualisation
19 60 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 349 (66.99%) SQL
2 272 (52.21%) Python
3 57 (10.94%) Java
4 28 (5.37%) Scala
5 24 (4.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.41%) C#
6 23 (4.41%) T-SQL
7 20 (3.84%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.50%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.11%) Bash
9 11 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.92%) R
11 9 (1.73%) VBA
12 7 (1.34%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.96%) Bicep
13 5 (0.96%) C++
13 5 (0.96%) Go
13 5 (0.96%) Perl
14 4 (0.77%) C
14 4 (0.77%) Korn
Qualifications
1 65 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.49%) Degree
4 26 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.41%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.45%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 6 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.77%) PMP
11 4 (0.77%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.38%) MCP
13 1 (0.19%) CCIE
13 1 (0.19%) CCNP
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (29.37%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.68%) GDPR
3 35 (6.72%) QA
4 17 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.73%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.96%) SLA
7 3 (0.58%) EMIR
7 3 (0.58%) GAAP
7 3 (0.58%) HL7
7 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.58%) PMO
7 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.38%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.19%) DICOM
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (6.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.96%) zsh
3 4 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.38%) KVM
4 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (9.79%) Terraform
2 31 (5.95%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.15%) Ansible
3 6 (1.15%) Control-M
4 5 (0.96%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.77%) Kibana
5 4 (0.77%) logstash
6 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
7 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 107 (20.54%) Databricks
2 76 (14.59%) Microsoft
3 42 (8.06%) Oracle
4 39 (7.49%) Google
5 26 (4.99%) Informatica
6 19 (3.65%) SAP
7 11 (2.11%) Talend
8 9 (1.73%) Workday
9 8 (1.54%) Palantir
9 8 (1.54%) VMware
10 7 (1.34%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.34%) Foundry
10 7 (1.34%) IBM
10 7 (1.34%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.96%) EMC
11 5 (0.96%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.96%) Teradata
12 4 (0.77%) Splunk
12 4 (0.77%) TIBCO