ETL Contracts in London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 69 89
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 471 574 717
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.54% 3.27% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 3.69% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 426 533
10th Percentile £400 £381 £400
25th Percentile £459 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £659 £664
90th Percentile £749 £756 £775
England median daily rate £513 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +0.49% -5.56% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile £39.25 £35.00 £47.00
25th Percentile £44.50 £36.56 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £49.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -23.85% +9.24%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £55.63 £76.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £45.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +15.38% -32.59% +40.02%

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 12,258 15,558 23,385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.17% 88.54% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 11,072 16,957
10th Percentile £331 £340 £370
25th Percentile £425 £445 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £583
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 295 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.97 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.92
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.50% +55.43%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in London.

Daily rate trend for ETL in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in London.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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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 7 July 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 -14 55 £570 +14.00% 164
West London +9 9 £506 +7.66% 3
East London +8 2 £675 +51.69% 6
South London -3 1 £475 +5.56% 4
North London - 1 - -
ETL
England

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (9.98%) Apache Airflow
1 47 (9.98%) Apache Spark
2 31 (6.58%) Apache
3 11 (2.34%) Confluence
4 9 (1.91%) SAS
5 5 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.42%) Luigi
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.49%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Magento
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.21%) Orchard Housing
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 204 (43.31%) Azure
2 159 (33.76%) AWS
3 97 (20.59%) GCP
4 92 (19.53%) Power Platform
5 75 (15.92%) Snowflake
6 60 (12.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 50 (10.62%) dbt
8 45 (9.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 38 (8.07%) Serverless
10 28 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
11 27 (5.73%) Amazon S3
12 24 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (4.67%) GitHub
14 19 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.40%) PaaS
15 16 (3.40%) SaaS
16 14 (2.97%) PowerApps
17 13 (2.76%) IaaS
18 9 (1.91%) Amazon EMR
18 9 (1.91%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.91%) Firewall
1 9 (1.91%) VPN
2 2 (0.42%) Internet
3 1 (0.21%) DNS
3 1 (0.21%) FTP
3 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.21%) Network Security
3 1 (0.21%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (30.57%) Data Warehouse
2 78 (16.56%) Power BI
3 73 (15.50%) Data Lake
4 57 (12.10%) SQL Server
5 46 (9.77%) BigQuery
6 39 (8.28%) Big Data
7 37 (7.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 35 (7.43%) Tableau
9 34 (7.22%) Metadata
10 27 (5.73%) NoSQL
11 22 (4.67%) Relational Database
11 22 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (3.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
12 18 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (3.61%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (3.61%) Hadoop
14 16 (3.40%) Delta Lake
15 15 (3.18%) Star Schema
16 13 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (4.88%) JIRA
2 20 (4.25%) Git
3 16 (3.40%) ERwin
4 8 (1.70%) GitLab
5 7 (1.49%) Selenium
6 5 (1.06%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.85%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.85%) LSMW
7 4 (0.85%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.64%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.64%) Postman
9 2 (0.42%) MLflow
9 2 (0.42%) PROIV
10 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.21%) JMeter
10 1 (0.21%) Mockito
10 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 136 (28.87%) Finance
2 132 (28.03%) Social Skills
3 67 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.40%) Banking
5 24 (5.10%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.82%) Retail
7 17 (3.61%) Marketing
8 12 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.49%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.06%) Local Government
13 4 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.85%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.85%) Legal
14 3 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.64%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 148 (31.42%) Data Engineer
2 85 (18.05%) Architect
3 70 (14.86%) Senior
4 58 (12.31%) Data Architect
5 54 (11.46%) Developer
6 49 (10.40%) Analyst
7 41 (8.70%) Senior Data Engineer
8 36 (7.64%) Data Analyst
9 29 (6.16%) Lead
10 28 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (4.67%) Azure Data Engineer
12 17 (3.61%) Data Manager
13 16 (3.40%) Consultant
14 15 (3.18%) Business Analyst
15 14 (2.97%) Data Modeller
16 13 (2.76%) AWS Data Engineer
16 13 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
17 12 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
18 11 (2.34%) Data Business Analyst
18 11 (2.34%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.77%) PySpark
2 33 (7.01%) Kafka
3 17 (3.61%) XML
4 13 (2.76%) JSON
5 9 (1.91%) Middleware
5 9 (1.91%) pytest
6 8 (1.70%) RESTful
7 7 (1.49%) Pandas
8 6 (1.27%) .NET
8 6 (1.27%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.27%) HTML
8 6 (1.27%) REST
9 5 (1.06%) Apache Avro
9 5 (1.06%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (1.06%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.06%) Django
10 4 (0.85%) FHIR
10 4 (0.85%) OAuth
10 4 (0.85%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.22%) Data Structures
2 24 (5.10%) Cloud Native
3 22 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.12%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 8 (1.70%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.27%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.06%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.06%) Clustering
8 5 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.06%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.06%) Product Ownership
9 4 (0.85%) Derivative
9 4 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.85%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.85%) NHS
10 3 (0.64%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (2.12%) Unix
2 7 (1.49%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (38.43%) Data Modelling
2 154 (32.70%) Data Pipeline
3 146 (31.00%) Analytics
4 125 (26.54%) Data Engineering
5 115 (24.42%) Data Governance
6 105 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (21.44%) Data Integration
8 97 (20.59%) Business Intelligence
9 93 (19.75%) Migration
10 85 (18.05%) Agile
10 85 (18.05%) DevOps
11 72 (15.29%) CI/CD
12 69 (14.65%) Data Architecture
13 63 (13.38%) Data Migration
14 62 (13.16%) Data Transformation
15 61 (12.95%) Visualisation
16 57 (12.10%) Decision-Making
17 54 (11.46%) Machine Learning
18 52 (11.04%) Data Science
18 52 (11.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 300 (63.69%) SQL
2 218 (46.28%) Python
3 44 (9.34%) Java
4 33 (7.01%) Scala
5 22 (4.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (4.46%) C#
6 21 (4.46%) T-SQL
7 15 (3.18%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.97%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.34%) R
10 9 (1.91%) Bash
10 9 (1.91%) Bicep
11 7 (1.49%) Go
11 7 (1.49%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.27%) ABAP
12 6 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.27%) VBA
13 5 (1.06%) C++
13 5 (1.06%) Perl
14 4 (0.85%) C
Qualifications
1 54 (11.46%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.49%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.73%) Degree
4 17 (3.61%) Azure Certification
5 13 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.70%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.21%) CISSP
11 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.21%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.21%) ISEB
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.21%) PMP
11 1 (0.21%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (24.42%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.31%) GDPR
3 20 (4.25%) QA
4 17 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.06%) SLA
6 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.85%) IFRS
7 3 (0.64%) GAAP
7 3 (0.64%) HL7
7 3 (0.64%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.64%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.42%) EMIR
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) MiFID
8 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) Basel III
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (5.73%) Docker
2 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) NFS
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 47 (9.98%) Terraform
2 33 (7.01%) Kubernetes
3 9 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.85%) Ansible
4 4 (0.85%) Control-M
5 3 (0.64%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.42%) Grafana
6 2 (0.42%) Kibana
6 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.21%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 70 (14.86%) Databricks
2 60 (12.74%) Microsoft
3 53 (11.25%) Google
4 41 (8.70%) Informatica
5 38 (8.07%) Oracle
6 28 (5.94%) SAP
7 17 (3.61%) Talend
8 9 (1.91%) IBM
8 9 (1.91%) Teradata
9 7 (1.49%) Palantir
9 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.27%) Workday
11 5 (1.06%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.06%) MicroStrategy
12 4 (0.85%) Sparx
12 4 (0.85%) Splunk
12 4 (0.85%) VMware
13 3 (0.64%) Foundry
13 3 (0.64%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.64%) ServiceNow