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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 73 68
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 759 447 570
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.97% 3.55% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.46% 3.84% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 309 424
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £425 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +2.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £759
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £42.25 -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -28.15%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £74.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -39.29%

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 17,007 11,628 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.40% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,350 7,788 11,072
10th Percentile £360 £338 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 214 309
10th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% +17.35% -28.75%
75th Percentile £60.25 £49.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £68.15
England median hourly rate £47.00 £26.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +77.36% -30.26% +8.14%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +7 82 £520 -7.96% 23
West London -9 27 £603 +19.07% 6
South London 0 12 £463 -2.63%
East London +5 8 £450 -33.33% 3
North London 0 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 88 (11.59%) Apache Spark
2 77 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (6.98%) Apache
4 15 (1.98%) SAS
5 10 (1.32%) Confluence
6 9 (1.19%) nginx
6 9 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.19%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.05%) Appian
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 27 (3.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.40%) Actimize
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 355 (46.77%) Azure
2 240 (31.62%) AWS
3 205 (27.01%) Power Platform
4 113 (14.89%) Azure Data Factory
5 100 (13.18%) GCP
6 99 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 95 (12.52%) Snowflake
8 91 (11.99%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (11.20%) Amazon S3
10 66 (8.70%) GitHub
11 65 (8.56%) Serverless
12 61 (8.04%) dbt
13 54 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (4.87%) Collibra
15 29 (3.82%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.11%) Dagster
19 15 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.79%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
2 190 (25.03%) Power BI
3 157 (20.69%) Data Lake
4 102 (13.44%) SQL Server
5 77 (10.14%) Metadata
6 64 (8.43%) Delta Lake
6 64 (8.43%) Tableau
7 53 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (6.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 46 (6.06%) Relational Database
10 45 (5.93%) BigQuery
10 45 (5.93%) Snowflake Schema
11 43 (5.67%) Big Data
12 42 (5.53%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (5.53%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (5.14%) NoSQL
14 31 (4.08%) Star Schema
15 30 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.03%) Oracle Database
17 22 (2.90%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 75 (9.88%) Git
2 42 (5.53%) JIRA
3 25 (3.29%) GitLab
4 14 (1.84%) MLflow
5 12 (1.58%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.92%) ERwin
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.53%) Postman
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) LSMW
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.13%) Maven
11 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 290 (38.21%) Finance
2 192 (25.30%) Social Skills
3 140 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (11.86%) Banking
5 71 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.77%) Marketing
7 20 (2.64%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.32%) Legal
10 10 (1.32%) Retail
11 8 (1.05%) Front Office
11 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Billing
13 4 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 328 (43.21%) Data Engineer
2 108 (14.23%) Senior
3 98 (12.91%) Lead
4 86 (11.33%) Developer
5 84 (11.07%) Architect
6 74 (9.75%) Senior Data Engineer
7 59 (7.77%) Analyst
8 41 (5.40%) Data Architect
9 40 (5.27%) Data Analyst
10 25 (3.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 25 (3.29%) Snowflake Engineer
11 24 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
12 23 (3.03%) Lead Data Engineer
13 21 (2.77%) Integration Engineer
13 21 (2.77%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (2.64%) Azure Data Engineer
15 19 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 19 (2.50%) Consultant
16 18 (2.37%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (13.44%) PySpark
2 68 (8.96%) Kafka
3 38 (5.01%) REST
4 29 (3.82%) Pandas
5 26 (3.43%) Middleware
6 25 (3.29%) XML
7 19 (2.50%) .NET
8 18 (2.37%) JSON
9 17 (2.24%) PyTorch
10 16 (2.11%) Spring
10 16 (2.11%) TensorFlow
11 15 (1.98%) OAuth
11 15 (1.98%) Web Services
12 14 (1.84%) NumPy
12 14 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (1.84%) scikit-learn
13 13 (1.71%) Great Expectations
13 13 (1.71%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.58%) HTML
15 11 (1.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.51%) Data Structures
3 52 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (3.82%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.77%) Distributed Computing
6 20 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.71%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.71%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.58%) Clustering
9 12 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.58%) Reference Data
10 10 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.05%) NHS
11 8 (1.05%) Replication
12 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.92%) IoT
12 7 (0.92%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.37%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Windows
3 7 (0.92%) Solaris
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.53%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (49.28%) Data Modelling
2 321 (42.29%) Data Pipeline
3 311 (40.97%) Analytics
4 288 (37.94%) Data Engineering
5 237 (31.23%) CI/CD
6 217 (28.59%) Business Intelligence
7 204 (26.88%) DevOps
8 190 (25.03%) Agile
9 169 (22.27%) Data Governance
10 168 (22.13%) Migration
11 162 (21.34%) AI
12 145 (19.10%) Validation
13 139 (18.31%) Data Architecture
14 133 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
15 118 (15.55%) Decision-Making
16 109 (14.36%) Data Integration
17 99 (13.04%) Data Science
18 98 (12.91%) Stakeholder Management
19 96 (12.65%) Data Migration
19 96 (12.65%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 518 (68.25%) SQL
2 376 (49.54%) Python
3 83 (10.94%) Java
4 41 (5.40%) C#
5 39 (5.14%) Scala
6 36 (4.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.74%) PL/SQL
6 36 (4.74%) T-SQL
7 21 (2.77%) JavaScript
8 16 (2.11%) R
9 13 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.58%) TypeScript
11 9 (1.19%) Bicep
12 7 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.66%) Bash
15 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.40%) Cypher
16 3 (0.40%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 139 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 117 (15.42%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.59%) Degree
4 32 (4.22%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.84%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.79%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.53%) PMP
11 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (36.10%) Data Quality
2 64 (8.43%) QA
3 62 (8.17%) GDPR
4 16 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.71%) IFRS
6 10 (1.32%) IFRS 17
6 10 (1.32%) PMO
7 7 (0.92%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.79%) GAAP
8 6 (0.79%) Solvency II
9 5 (0.66%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.40%) Basel III
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.40%) GMP
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (7.91%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (12.65%) Terraform
2 62 (8.17%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.79%) Control-M
4 5 (0.66%) Grafana
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.40%) Ansible
7 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 162 (21.34%) Databricks
2 157 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 89 (11.73%) Oracle
4 55 (7.25%) Informatica
5 33 (4.35%) Google
6 29 (3.82%) SAP
7 23 (3.03%) IBM
8 16 (2.11%) Workday
9 14 (1.84%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.71%) Talend
11 11 (1.45%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.45%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.32%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.32%) ServiceNow
13 9 (1.19%) Palantir
14 8 (1.05%) Bloomberg
14 8 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
15 7 (0.92%) Refinitiv
15 7 (0.92%) UiPath