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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 74 76
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +26
Contract jobs citing ETL 533 532 571
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.77% 3.42% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.81% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 346 444
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £421 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £52.76
25th Percentile £33.88 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £62.36
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -31.84% +7.51%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £64.77
90th Percentile £62.35 £57.15 £66.20
England median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -4.71% -29.75% +68.06%

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 12,998 13,962 17,534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.90% 89.74% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,565 9,018 12,564
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 164 235
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.65
25th Percentile £24.53 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +2.67% -9.30%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.53 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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 2 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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 2 December 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 -19 68 £525 -0.94% 33
West London -5 10 £588 +6.82% 6
South London -2 6 £466 -13.26% 3
East London -3 2 £418 +1.21% 7
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 61 (11.44%) Apache Spark
2 55 (10.32%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (8.44%) Apache
4 10 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.94%) Confluence
5 5 (0.94%) SAS
6 4 (0.75%) Luigi
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.31%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.38%) Actimize
4 2 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.38%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 225 (42.21%) Azure
2 184 (34.52%) AWS
3 110 (20.64%) Power Platform
4 102 (19.14%) Snowflake
5 79 (14.82%) GCP
6 74 (13.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (12.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 54 (10.13%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.69%) dbt
10 39 (7.32%) Serverless
11 32 (6.00%) GitHub
12 30 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (4.13%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.25%) AWS Step Functions
18 11 (2.06%) Azure Functions
19 10 (1.88%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) 2G
1 3 (0.56%) 4G
1 3 (0.56%) 5G
1 3 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.38%) BGP
2 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.38%) DNS
2 2 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.38%) Internet
2 2 (0.38%) OSPF
2 2 (0.38%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.19%) DSL
3 1 (0.19%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (33.40%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (19.14%) Power BI
3 81 (15.20%) Data Lake
4 66 (12.38%) SQL Server
5 62 (11.63%) Metadata
6 53 (9.94%) Big Data
7 52 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (8.44%) BigQuery
9 44 (8.26%) Relational Database
10 39 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (6.75%) Tableau
12 30 (5.63%) NoSQL
13 25 (4.69%) Delta Lake
14 24 (4.50%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (4.13%) Amazon Athena
15 22 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
16 19 (3.56%) Hadoop
17 17 (3.19%) Oracle Database
17 17 (3.19%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (7.32%) Git
2 19 (3.56%) JIRA
3 15 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.63%) ERwin
5 9 (1.69%) GitLab
6 7 (1.31%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.31%) Selenium
7 6 (1.13%) Postman
8 5 (0.94%) MLflow
9 4 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.75%) Toad
10 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.38%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.38%) TestRail
11 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.19%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.19%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 170 (31.89%) Finance
2 165 (30.96%) Social Skills
3 93 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.63%) Banking
5 37 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.81%) Retail
7 10 (1.88%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.88%) Marketing
8 8 (1.50%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.31%) Front Office
9 7 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.94%) Local Government
10 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.94%) Publishing
11 4 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.56%) Law
12 3 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 174 (32.65%) Data Engineer
2 73 (13.70%) Developer
3 63 (11.82%) Architect
4 57 (10.69%) Analyst
5 56 (10.51%) Lead
5 56 (10.51%) Senior
6 42 (7.88%) Data Architect
7 40 (7.50%) Data Analyst
8 31 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (5.25%) Azure Data Engineer
10 27 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (3.38%) Consultant
11 18 (3.38%) Snowflake Engineer
12 17 (3.19%) Python Engineer
13 16 (3.00%) Data Modeller
14 15 (2.81%) Business Analyst
15 13 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (2.44%) Lead Data Engineer
15 13 (2.44%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.26%) PySpark
2 51 (9.57%) Kafka
3 30 (5.63%) XML
4 21 (3.94%) JSON
5 14 (2.63%) RESTful
6 13 (2.44%) Pandas
7 12 (2.25%) REST
8 10 (1.88%) NumPy
9 9 (1.69%) OAuth
10 8 (1.50%) .NET
10 8 (1.50%) Great Expectations
11 7 (1.31%) GraphQL
11 7 (1.31%) PyTorch
12 6 (1.13%) Node.js
12 6 (1.13%) Spark Streaming
12 6 (1.13%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
13 5 (0.94%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.94%) XSLT
14 4 (0.75%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.75%) Data Structures
2 35 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.00%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.69%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.31%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.31%) IoT
10 7 (1.31%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.13%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.94%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.63%) Linux
2 6 (1.13%) Unix
3 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.19%) VMS
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (43.53%) Data Modelling
2 208 (39.02%) Analytics
3 207 (38.84%) Data Pipeline
4 164 (30.77%) Data Engineering
5 154 (28.89%) Data Governance
6 139 (26.08%) Business Intelligence
7 137 (25.70%) CI/CD
8 123 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (22.70%) Migration
10 111 (20.83%) Agile
11 96 (18.01%) DevOps
12 91 (17.07%) Data Integration
13 87 (16.32%) Data Architecture
14 86 (16.14%) Data Migration
15 82 (15.38%) Data Science
16 81 (15.20%) Validation
17 73 (13.70%) Data Transformation
18 67 (12.57%) Machine Learning
19 61 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
19 61 (11.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 374 (70.17%) SQL
2 283 (53.10%) Python
3 56 (10.51%) Java
4 28 (5.25%) Scala
5 24 (4.50%) C#
5 24 (4.50%) PL/SQL
6 21 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (3.94%) T-SQL
7 14 (2.63%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.44%) R
9 10 (1.88%) Bash
10 9 (1.69%) Perl
10 9 (1.69%) VBA
11 6 (1.13%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.94%) Bicep
12 5 (0.94%) C
12 5 (0.94%) C++
12 5 (0.94%) Korn
12 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (12.57%) Security Cleared
2 47 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.94%) Degree
4 25 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.13%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.75%) PMP
10 4 (0.75%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.38%) CISSP
11 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.38%) MCP
12 1 (0.19%) CCIE
12 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.19%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (31.14%) Data Quality
2 44 (8.26%) GDPR
3 34 (6.38%) QA
4 12 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.69%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.75%) MiFID
6 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.75%) SLA
7 3 (0.56%) PMO
8 2 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.38%) EMIR
8 2 (0.38%) HL7
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.19%) DICOM
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) SEPA
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (6.38%) Docker
2 5 (0.94%) zsh
3 4 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.38%) KVM
4 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 52 (9.76%) Terraform
2 30 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.13%) Ansible
4 5 (0.94%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.75%) Control-M
5 4 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.75%) Kibana
5 4 (0.75%) logstash
6 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 123 (23.08%) Databricks
2 80 (15.01%) Microsoft
3 47 (8.82%) Oracle
4 32 (6.00%) Google
5 26 (4.88%) Informatica
6 21 (3.94%) SAP
7 14 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.06%) Talend
9 9 (1.69%) Palantir
10 8 (1.50%) Foundry
10 8 (1.50%) Teradata
10 8 (1.50%) VMware
11 7 (1.31%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.31%) Workday
12 5 (0.94%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.94%) EMC
12 5 (0.94%) IBM
13 4 (0.75%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.75%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.75%) TIBCO