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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 72 69
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing ETL 736 461 575
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.81% 3.52% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.28% 3.81% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 320 427
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £429 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +2.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £755
England median daily rate £500 £512 £510
% change year-on-year -2.34% +0.39% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £44.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -26.67%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 £55.63
England median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -26.56% +15.38% -35.00%

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 17,177 12,084 15,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.22% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,420 8,065 11,124
10th Percentile £360 £331 £341
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £523 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 227 298
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.25 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.25 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +8.33% -26.90%
75th Percentile £59.00 £50.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%

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 3 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 3 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 +11 78 £525 -7.49% 54
West London -4 26 £603 +19.07% 7
South London +4 11 £463 -2.63%
East London +3 6 £450 -33.33% 3
North London +1 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 86 (11.68%) Apache Spark
2 82 (11.14%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (7.61%) Apache
4 16 (2.17%) SAS
5 12 (1.63%) Confluence
6 10 (1.36%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.22%) nginx
7 9 (1.22%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.82%) Appian
9 5 (0.68%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.54%) Camunda
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.14%) Luigi
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.68%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.41%) Actimize
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.41%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.41%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.14%) iTrent
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 339 (46.06%) Azure
2 244 (33.15%) AWS
3 189 (25.68%) Power Platform
4 104 (14.13%) GCP
5 102 (13.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 100 (13.59%) Snowflake
7 91 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
8 89 (12.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 85 (11.55%) Amazon S3
10 67 (9.10%) dbt
11 64 (8.70%) Serverless
12 62 (8.42%) GitHub
13 54 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (5.16%) Collibra
15 28 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (3.40%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.17%) Dagster
20 15 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.82%) HTTP
2 5 (0.68%) Firewall
3 3 (0.41%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (31.39%) Data Warehouse
2 174 (23.64%) Power BI
3 144 (19.57%) Data Lake
4 83 (11.28%) SQL Server
5 74 (10.05%) Metadata
6 64 (8.70%) Delta Lake
7 61 (8.29%) Tableau
8 54 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (6.39%) BigQuery
9 47 (6.39%) Snowflake Schema
10 45 (6.11%) Big Data
11 43 (5.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (5.71%) Relational Database
13 41 (5.57%) NoSQL
14 40 (5.43%) Amazon Athena
15 35 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
16 34 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
17 30 (4.08%) Star Schema
18 22 (2.99%) Data Vault
19 21 (2.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 69 (9.38%) Git
2 40 (5.43%) JIRA
3 22 (2.99%) GitLab
4 12 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.63%) MLflow
5 6 (0.82%) ERwin
6 5 (0.68%) Selenium
7 4 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.54%) Postman
8 3 (0.41%) LSMW
8 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Ant
10 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.14%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.14%) JUnit
10 1 (0.14%) Maven
10 1 (0.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 282 (38.32%) Finance
2 184 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 143 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.28%) Banking
5 75 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.85%) Marketing
7 18 (2.45%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.63%) Retail
10 10 (1.36%) Legal
11 8 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.95%) Front Office
13 5 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.54%) Billing
14 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.54%) Publishing
15 3 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 314 (42.66%) Data Engineer
2 100 (13.59%) Senior
3 92 (12.50%) Lead
4 87 (11.82%) Architect
5 85 (11.55%) Developer
6 66 (8.97%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (8.42%) Analyst
8 44 (5.98%) Data Architect
9 38 (5.16%) Data Analyst
10 27 (3.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 27 (3.67%) Snowflake Engineer
11 25 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.40%) Lead Data Engineer
12 22 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
12 22 (2.99%) Python Engineer
13 21 (2.85%) Azure Data Engineer
14 19 (2.58%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (2.58%) SQL Developer
15 18 (2.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 18 (2.45%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (13.32%) PySpark
2 72 (9.78%) Kafka
3 36 (4.89%) REST
4 25 (3.40%) Pandas
5 21 (2.85%) JSON
5 21 (2.85%) Middleware
6 20 (2.72%) .NET
7 18 (2.45%) XML
8 17 (2.31%) Spring
9 14 (1.90%) PyTorch
9 14 (1.90%) Spring Boot
9 14 (1.90%) Web Services
10 13 (1.77%) Great Expectations
10 13 (1.77%) OAuth
10 13 (1.77%) TensorFlow
11 12 (1.63%) NumPy
12 11 (1.49%) YAML
13 10 (1.36%) HTML
13 10 (1.36%) scikit-learn
14 9 (1.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.68%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.47%) Data Structures
3 50 (6.79%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (3.94%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.85%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.45%) Distributed Computing
6 18 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.63%) Clustering
8 12 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.63%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.63%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.22%) NHS
10 8 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.09%) Replication
10 8 (1.09%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.95%) IoT
12 6 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.17%) Linux
2 11 (1.49%) Windows
3 7 (0.95%) Solaris
3 7 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.54%) Unix
6 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (48.91%) Data Modelling
2 318 (43.21%) Data Pipeline
3 293 (39.81%) Analytics
4 276 (37.50%) Data Engineering
5 240 (32.61%) CI/CD
6 201 (27.31%) DevOps
7 197 (26.77%) Business Intelligence
8 183 (24.86%) Agile
9 178 (24.18%) Data Governance
10 167 (22.69%) Migration
11 152 (20.65%) AI
12 143 (19.43%) Validation
13 133 (18.07%) Data Architecture
13 133 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
14 117 (15.90%) Decision-Making
15 109 (14.81%) Data Integration
16 98 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 95 (12.91%) Data Science
18 92 (12.50%) Data Migration
19 90 (12.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 504 (68.48%) SQL
2 373 (50.68%) Python
3 81 (11.01%) Java
4 42 (5.71%) Scala
5 40 (5.43%) C#
6 38 (5.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (4.89%) T-SQL
8 30 (4.08%) PL/SQL
9 21 (2.85%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.90%) R
11 13 (1.77%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.77%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.95%) SAS Macro
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.82%) Bash
13 6 (0.82%) Bicep
14 4 (0.54%) Cypher
14 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.54%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 138 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 116 (15.76%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.39%) Degree
4 29 (3.94%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.63%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.82%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.41%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.27%) CISA
12 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (35.87%) Data Quality
2 64 (8.70%) QA
3 60 (8.15%) GDPR
4 11 (1.49%) IFRS
5 10 (1.36%) PMO
6 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.09%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.95%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.41%) GAAP
9 3 (0.41%) GMP
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 57 (7.74%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.14%) HDFS
3 1 (0.14%) RACF
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (13.04%) Terraform
2 63 (8.56%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.82%) Grafana
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.41%) Ansible
5 3 (0.41%) Control-M
5 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 161 (21.88%) Databricks
2 143 (19.43%) Microsoft
3 80 (10.87%) Oracle
4 51 (6.93%) Informatica
5 36 (4.89%) Google
6 23 (3.13%) SAP
7 19 (2.58%) IBM
8 14 (1.90%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.77%) Talend
10 11 (1.49%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 10 (1.36%) Palantir
11 10 (1.36%) Workday
12 9 (1.22%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.09%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.95%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.82%) Denodo
15 6 (0.82%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.68%) Foundry