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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 73 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing ETL 772 475 525
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 3.58% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.87% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 333 364
10th Percentile £375 £380 £363
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.50 £39.69
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -27.34%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £57.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% +2.35% -40.97%

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 17,851 12,273 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.10% 92.44% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,673 8,157 9,874
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 254 194
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.83 £22.28
Median hourly rate £35.50 £31.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -11.81% -10.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.43 £63.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 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 2 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 +5 83 £520 +4.00% 38
West London +4 25 £520 +2.77% 17
South London -7 9 £463 +1.09% 2
East London +4 4 £450 -33.33% 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 98 (12.69%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (11.66%) Apache Spark
3 67 (8.68%) Apache
4 43 (5.57%) SAS
5 15 (1.94%) Confluence
5 15 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 7 (0.91%) nginx
6 7 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.91%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Chatbot
2 7 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.39%) Actimize
5 3 (0.39%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 328 (42.49%) Azure
2 234 (30.31%) AWS
3 179 (23.19%) Power Platform
4 136 (17.62%) Snowflake
5 115 (14.90%) GCP
6 100 (12.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 96 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
7 96 (12.44%) dbt
8 77 (9.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (9.59%) Amazon S3
10 73 (9.46%) GitHub
11 62 (8.03%) Serverless
12 50 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (4.02%) Collibra
13 31 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (2.72%) Amazon EMR
14 21 (2.72%) Azure Databricks
15 15 (1.94%) SaaS
16 14 (1.81%) Fivetran
17 13 (1.68%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.91%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) 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
3 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (33.55%) Data Warehouse
2 172 (22.28%) Power BI
3 127 (16.45%) Data Lake
4 83 (10.75%) SQL Server
5 75 (9.72%) Metadata
6 69 (8.94%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (6.61%) BigQuery
8 51 (6.61%) Relational Database
9 48 (6.22%) Big Data
10 47 (6.09%) Tableau
11 37 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
11 37 (4.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (4.66%) Star Schema
13 35 (4.53%) PostgreSQL
14 31 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 31 (4.02%) NoSQL
15 27 (3.50%) Power Query
16 23 (2.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 71 (9.20%) Git
2 41 (5.31%) JIRA
3 35 (4.53%) GitLab
4 20 (2.59%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.91%) MLflow
6 6 (0.78%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.65%) Selenium
8 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.39%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.26%) LSMW
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 265 (34.33%) Finance
2 185 (23.96%) Social Skills
3 152 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (12.95%) Banking
5 59 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.72%) Marketing
7 17 (2.20%) Retail
8 15 (1.94%) Financial Institution
9 14 (1.81%) Front Office
10 10 (1.30%) Legal
11 9 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.17%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.17%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.91%) Billing
14 5 (0.65%) Games
15 4 (0.52%) Back Office
15 4 (0.52%) Law
15 4 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 321 (41.58%) Data Engineer
2 131 (16.97%) Senior
3 101 (13.08%) Architect
4 93 (12.05%) Developer
5 86 (11.14%) Senior Data Engineer
6 82 (10.62%) Lead
7 70 (9.07%) Analyst
8 40 (5.18%) Data Analyst
8 40 (5.18%) Data Architect
9 38 (4.92%) Databricks Engineer
10 35 (4.53%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.40%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 29 (3.76%) Snowflake Engineer
13 28 (3.63%) Azure Data Engineer
14 25 (3.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 22 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (2.72%) Python Engineer
17 20 (2.59%) Lead Data Engineer
18 19 (2.46%) Consultant
18 19 (2.46%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (13.21%) PySpark
2 80 (10.36%) Terraform
3 74 (9.59%) Kafka
4 37 (4.79%) REST
5 36 (4.66%) .NET
6 29 (3.76%) JSON
7 19 (2.46%) Middleware
8 18 (2.33%) Pandas
9 17 (2.20%) React
10 13 (1.68%) Spring
11 12 (1.55%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.55%) XML
11 12 (1.55%) YAML
12 10 (1.30%) Web Services
13 9 (1.17%) HTML
14 8 (1.04%) WPF
15 7 (0.91%) Apache Avro
15 7 (0.91%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.91%) NumPy
15 7 (0.91%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 81 (10.49%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.87%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.70%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.57%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.20%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.81%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.55%) Clustering
10 12 (1.55%) Replication
11 11 (1.42%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
12 10 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.17%) NHS
13 9 (1.17%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.91%) IoT
14 7 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.50%) Linux
2 13 (1.68%) Windows
3 12 (1.55%) Unix
4 4 (0.52%) Solaris
4 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (47.15%) Data Modelling
2 333 (43.13%) Data Pipeline
3 312 (40.41%) Data Engineering
4 308 (39.90%) Analytics
5 263 (34.07%) CI/CD
6 232 (30.05%) Agile
7 217 (28.11%) DevOps
8 203 (26.30%) Business Intelligence
9 190 (24.61%) Data Governance
10 159 (20.60%) Data Integration
11 157 (20.34%) Migration
12 156 (20.21%) AI
13 153 (19.82%) Validation
14 138 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
15 135 (17.49%) Data Transformation
16 132 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
17 124 (16.06%) Data Architecture
18 103 (13.34%) Decision-Making
19 86 (11.14%) Data Migration
20 85 (11.01%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 522 (67.62%) SQL
2 366 (47.41%) Python
3 81 (10.49%) Java
4 42 (5.44%) C#
5 40 (5.18%) Scala
6 37 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.40%) PL/SQL
8 32 (4.15%) JavaScript
9 31 (4.02%) T-SQL
10 26 (3.37%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.68%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 12 (1.55%) R
13 9 (1.17%) Bash
14 8 (1.04%) Cypher
15 5 (0.65%) Bicep
16 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 141 (18.26%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.06%) SC Cleared
3 45 (5.83%) Degree
4 23 (2.98%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.94%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.65%) SnowPro
9 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) CISA
11 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CISM
12 1 (0.13%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (37.18%) Data Quality
2 59 (7.64%) QA
3 39 (5.05%) GDPR
4 29 (3.76%) GRC
5 11 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.04%) IFRS
7 8 (1.04%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.91%) PMO
9 4 (0.52%) GAAP
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (7.51%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 59 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.55%) Control-M
3 8 (1.04%) Ansible
4 6 (0.78%) Grafana
5 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 181 (23.45%) Databricks
2 144 (18.65%) Microsoft
3 119 (15.41%) Oracle
4 57 (7.38%) Informatica
5 39 (5.05%) Google
6 22 (2.85%) Talend
7 18 (2.33%) IBM
7 18 (2.33%) SAP
8 14 (1.81%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.68%) Foundry
9 13 (1.68%) Palantir
10 11 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.04%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.04%) SnapLogic
12 7 (0.91%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.78%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.78%) Denodo
13 6 (0.78%) Workday
14 5 (0.65%) Refinitiv
14 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow