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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 69 71
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 767 495 541
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.77% 3.70% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 4.00% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 566 357 365
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% - -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £744
England median daily rate £500 £508 £518
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.93% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.25 £39.69
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -26.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

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 18,062 12,379 14,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.57% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,844 8,171 9,350
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £511 £525
% change year-on-year +2.71% -2.64% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 241 178
10th Percentile £16.07 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.04 £25.01 £24.16
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -15.28% -4.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -3 87 £500 - 77
West London -4 25 £520 +4.00% 23
East London +7 7 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -3 6 £438 -4.37% 3
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 99 (12.91%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (12.13%) Apache Spark
3 68 (8.87%) Apache
4 40 (5.22%) SAS
5 20 (2.61%) Confluence
6 14 (1.83%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.78%) nginx
7 6 (0.78%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Actimize
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 323 (42.11%) Azure
2 230 (29.99%) AWS
3 156 (20.34%) Power Platform
4 143 (18.64%) Snowflake
5 116 (15.12%) GCP
6 98 (12.78%) dbt
7 94 (12.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 87 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (8.74%) Amazon S3
10 63 (8.21%) GitHub
11 62 (8.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 57 (7.43%) Serverless
13 48 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.65%) Azure Databricks
16 26 (3.39%) Collibra
17 19 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (2.35%) SaaS
19 14 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 13 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.78%) HTTP
2 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (32.86%) Data Warehouse
2 150 (19.56%) Power BI
3 111 (14.47%) Data Lake
4 77 (10.04%) SQL Server
5 69 (9.00%) Metadata
6 66 (8.60%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (6.91%) BigQuery
9 48 (6.26%) Big Data
9 48 (6.26%) Relational Database
10 45 (5.87%) Tableau
11 37 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
12 35 (4.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 33 (4.30%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
15 29 (3.78%) Power Query
16 28 (3.65%) Snowflake Schema
17 23 (3.00%) Oracle Database
18 22 (2.87%) Star Schema
19 20 (2.61%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 78 (10.17%) Git
2 41 (5.35%) JIRA
3 36 (4.69%) GitLab
4 22 (2.87%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.04%) MLflow
5 8 (1.04%) Selenium
6 7 (0.91%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 254 (33.12%) Finance
2 188 (24.51%) Social Skills
3 136 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (14.99%) Banking
5 58 (7.56%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.87%) Retail
7 21 (2.74%) Marketing
8 17 (2.22%) Front Office
9 15 (1.96%) Investment Banking
10 12 (1.56%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.17%) Billing
12 9 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.91%) Back Office
14 7 (0.91%) Legal
15 6 (0.78%) Publishing
15 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 308 (40.16%) Data Engineer
2 128 (16.69%) Senior
3 105 (13.69%) Architect
4 89 (11.60%) Developer
5 84 (10.95%) Senior Data Engineer
6 77 (10.04%) Lead
7 74 (9.65%) Analyst
8 43 (5.61%) Databricks Engineer
9 40 (5.22%) Data Analyst
9 40 (5.22%) Data Architect
10 38 (4.95%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 37 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (3.65%) Azure Data Engineer
13 26 (3.39%) Consultant
14 25 (3.26%) Snowflake Engineer
15 22 (2.87%) Technical Leader
16 21 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 19 (2.48%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 19 (2.48%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (12.52%) PySpark
2 75 (9.78%) Terraform
3 71 (9.26%) Kafka
4 38 (4.95%) .NET
4 38 (4.95%) REST
5 27 (3.52%) JSON
6 21 (2.74%) Middleware
7 18 (2.35%) Pandas
8 16 (2.09%) React
9 12 (1.56%) Spring
9 12 (1.56%) YAML
10 11 (1.43%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.30%) Web Services
11 10 (1.30%) XML
12 9 (1.17%) HTML
13 8 (1.04%) LangChain
13 8 (1.04%) NumPy
14 7 (0.91%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.91%) WinForms
14 7 (0.91%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.17%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.43%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.30%) Onboarding
6 32 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.35%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.69%) Replication
10 12 (1.56%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.43%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.04%) Clustering
12 8 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.04%) IoT
12 8 (1.04%) NHS
12 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.65%) Linux
2 13 (1.69%) Unix
3 12 (1.56%) Windows
4 3 (0.39%) Solaris
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (44.46%) Data Modelling
2 324 (42.24%) Data Pipeline
3 297 (38.72%) Data Engineering
4 290 (37.81%) Analytics
5 261 (34.03%) CI/CD
6 238 (31.03%) Agile
7 194 (25.29%) DevOps
8 189 (24.64%) Business Intelligence
9 179 (23.34%) Data Governance
10 166 (21.64%) Migration
11 161 (20.99%) AI
12 158 (20.60%) Data Integration
12 158 (20.60%) Validation
13 157 (20.47%) Stakeholder Management
14 142 (18.51%) Data Transformation
15 130 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
16 114 (14.86%) Data Architecture
17 101 (13.17%) Decision-Making
18 91 (11.86%) Data Migration
19 85 (11.08%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 506 (65.97%) SQL
2 359 (46.81%) Python
3 72 (9.39%) Java
4 40 (5.22%) Scala
5 39 (5.08%) C#
6 36 (4.69%) PL/SQL
7 34 (4.43%) JavaScript
8 33 (4.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 28 (3.65%) T-SQL
10 25 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.83%) R
12 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.43%) Bash
13 11 (1.43%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.04%) Cypher
15 5 (0.65%) Bicep
16 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.39%) Korn
17 3 (0.39%) Perl
17 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 132 (17.21%) Security Cleared
2 113 (14.73%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.22%) Degree
4 19 (2.48%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.83%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.91%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.39%) CBAP
11 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) PMP
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (35.59%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.26%) QA
3 33 (4.30%) GDPR
4 29 (3.78%) GRC
5 11 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.04%) IFRS
7 8 (1.04%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GAAP
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) COREP
10 2 (0.26%) FINREP
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (7.30%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 60 (7.82%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.43%) Control-M
3 8 (1.04%) Ansible
4 6 (0.78%) Grafana
5 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 198 (25.81%) Databricks
2 136 (17.73%) Microsoft
3 121 (15.78%) Oracle
4 46 (6.00%) Informatica
5 35 (4.56%) Google
6 23 (3.00%) Talend
7 18 (2.35%) IBM
7 18 (2.35%) SAP
8 13 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 13 (1.69%) Foundry
8 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 11 (1.43%) Palantir
10 10 (1.30%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.17%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.04%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.78%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.78%) Hyperion
13 6 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
14 5 (0.65%) Hitachi