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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 82 72
Rank change year-on-year +28 -10 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 743 409 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.21% 3.23% 3.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 3.51% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 278 411
10th Percentile £358 £400 £385
25th Percentile £425 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +2.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 11
10th Percentile - £44.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £48.75 £40.88
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £55.50 £57.75
90th Percentile - £58.65 £64.53
England median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year -15.72% +42.63% +13.45%

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 15,626 11,665 15,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.63% 92.10% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,463 7,932 11,228
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £759 £813 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 173 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.90% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £46.86
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.65 £66.30
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +44.50% -13.00% -6.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +21 91 £513 -9.29% 39
West London +5 32 £603 -3.60% 3
South London -6 12 £463 -3.90% 1
East London +1 8 £450 -33.33% 4
North London +3 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 84 (11.31%) Apache Spark
2 72 (9.69%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (6.73%) Apache
4 12 (1.62%) SAS
5 10 (1.35%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.21%) Appian
7 7 (0.94%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.81%) Confluence
8 6 (0.81%) nginx
8 6 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.54%) Camunda
10 4 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
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 29 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 337 (45.36%) Azure
2 238 (32.03%) AWS
3 195 (26.24%) Power Platform
4 113 (15.21%) Azure Data Factory
4 113 (15.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 94 (12.65%) Amazon S3
6 88 (11.84%) Snowflake
7 87 (11.71%) GCP
8 74 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
9 70 (9.42%) Serverless
10 65 (8.75%) GitHub
11 59 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
12 52 (7.00%) dbt
13 44 (5.92%) Collibra
14 39 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
17 18 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 18 (2.42%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.29%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) Firewall
2 4 (0.54%) HTTP
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) DSL
4 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (30.28%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (24.09%) Power BI
3 148 (19.92%) Data Lake
4 102 (13.73%) SQL Server
5 91 (12.25%) Metadata
6 61 (8.21%) Tableau
7 58 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 56 (7.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (7.27%) Delta Lake
10 48 (6.46%) Big Data
11 47 (6.33%) Amazon Athena
12 46 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
13 44 (5.92%) Snowflake Schema
14 42 (5.65%) BigQuery
15 41 (5.52%) Relational Database
16 32 (4.31%) Star Schema
17 31 (4.17%) NoSQL
18 28 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
19 27 (3.63%) Oracle Database
20 22 (2.96%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 71 (9.56%) Git
2 38 (5.11%) JIRA
3 26 (3.50%) GitLab
4 19 (2.56%) MLflow
5 11 (1.48%) ERwin
5 11 (1.48%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.94%) Selenium
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
8 4 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.54%) Toad
9 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.27%) LSMW
10 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Ant
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
General
1 281 (37.82%) Finance
2 203 (27.32%) Social Skills
3 130 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.31%) Banking
5 57 (7.67%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.02%) Marketing
9 14 (1.88%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.48%) Legal
11 10 (1.35%) Retail
12 7 (0.94%) Front Office
12 7 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.67%) General Ledger
14 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.40%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 316 (42.53%) Data Engineer
2 98 (13.19%) Senior
3 92 (12.38%) Developer
4 87 (11.71%) Lead
5 70 (9.42%) Architect
6 67 (9.02%) Analyst
6 67 (9.02%) Senior Data Engineer
7 44 (5.92%) Data Analyst
8 33 (4.44%) Data Architect
9 32 (4.31%) Snowflake Engineer
10 30 (4.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 23 (3.10%) Azure Engineer
11 23 (3.10%) Lead Data Engineer
12 21 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
13 20 (2.69%) Azure Data Engineer
14 19 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 19 (2.56%) Python Engineer
14 19 (2.56%) Senior Developer
15 18 (2.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.32%) PySpark
2 72 (9.69%) Kafka
3 33 (4.44%) REST
4 32 (4.31%) Pandas
5 21 (2.83%) XML
6 19 (2.56%) .NET
7 18 (2.42%) Great Expectations
7 18 (2.42%) NumPy
8 16 (2.15%) PyTorch
9 15 (2.02%) Middleware
9 15 (2.02%) OAuth
10 14 (1.88%) JSON
10 14 (1.88%) RESTful
10 14 (1.88%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.88%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.88%) Web Services
11 12 (1.62%) pytest
11 12 (1.62%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.48%) HTML
12 11 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.36%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.40%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.92%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.36%) Distributed Computing
5 23 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 18 (2.42%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.35%) Clustering
9 10 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.35%) Reinsurance
10 9 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.21%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.08%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.94%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.81%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.88%) Linux
2 12 (1.62%) Windows
3 7 (0.94%) Unix
4 6 (0.81%) Solaris
4 6 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.81%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (49.93%) Data Modelling
2 314 (42.26%) Analytics
3 292 (39.30%) Data Pipeline
4 290 (39.03%) Data Engineering
5 222 (29.88%) CI/CD
6 215 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
7 182 (24.50%) DevOps
8 177 (23.82%) Data Governance
9 163 (21.94%) Agile
10 152 (20.46%) Migration
11 141 (18.98%) Validation
12 137 (18.44%) AI
12 137 (18.44%) Data Architecture
13 130 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
14 112 (15.07%) Decision-Making
15 98 (13.19%) Data Migration
16 96 (12.92%) Data Science
17 95 (12.79%) Data Integration
18 88 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
19 86 (11.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 528 (71.06%) SQL
2 370 (49.80%) Python
3 71 (9.56%) Java
4 47 (6.33%) C#
5 44 (5.92%) Scala
6 38 (5.11%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 29 (3.90%) T-SQL
9 18 (2.42%) R
10 17 (2.29%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.35%) Bicep
11 10 (1.35%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.94%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.81%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.54%) Perl
15 4 (0.54%) PHP
16 3 (0.40%) C
16 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 135 (18.17%) Security Cleared
2 111 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.33%) Degree
4 32 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 17 (2.29%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.67%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.54%) PMP
11 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.27%) CISA
13 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (35.80%) Data Quality
2 70 (9.42%) GDPR
3 64 (8.61%) QA
4 17 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.62%) IFRS
6 9 (1.21%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.08%) PMO
8 5 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.67%) GAAP
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) IFRS 9
9 4 (0.54%) MiFID
10 3 (0.40%) Basel III
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
11 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 55 (7.40%) Docker
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (14.00%) Terraform
2 55 (7.40%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Control-M
3 4 (0.54%) Grafana
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
4 3 (0.40%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 166 (22.34%) Databricks
2 153 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 79 (10.63%) Oracle
4 54 (7.27%) Informatica
5 36 (4.85%) Google
6 32 (4.31%) SAP
7 22 (2.96%) IBM
8 16 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 16 (2.15%) Workday
9 14 (1.88%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.75%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.62%) OpenAI
12 10 (1.35%) Talend
13 9 (1.21%) UiPath
14 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
15 7 (0.94%) Alteryx
15 7 (0.94%) Bloomberg
15 7 (0.94%) Red Hat
16 6 (0.81%) Denodo
16 6 (0.81%) Refinitiv