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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 83 74
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 739 409 532
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.48% 3.21% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 3.51% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 272 420
10th Percentile £363 £376 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £43.15 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.00 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £51.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +1.98% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £56.50 £62.45
90th Percentile - £59.05 £67.65
England median hourly rate £64.92 £70.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year -8.04% +42.63% +37.02%

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 14,808 11,647 16,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.77% 91.28% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,938 7,820 11,448
10th Percentile £351 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 164 341
10th Percentile £18.09 £20.14 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.87 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £56.97 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £76.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.32% -12.87%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +13 95 £513 -9.49% 71
West London +7 28 £603 -5.49% 5
South London -5 14 £463 -3.90% 2
East London -2 7 £450 +12.50% 4
North London - 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 83 (11.23%) Apache Spark
2 67 (9.07%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (7.04%) Apache
4 10 (1.35%) SAS
4 10 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.08%) Appian
6 6 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.68%) Confluence
7 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.68%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.54%) Camunda
8 4 (0.54%) nginx
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.27%) CMS
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (3.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.41%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 340 (46.01%) Azure
2 244 (33.02%) AWS
3 203 (27.47%) Power Platform
4 115 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 106 (14.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 104 (14.07%) Snowflake
7 96 (12.99%) Amazon S3
8 86 (11.64%) GCP
9 68 (9.20%) Serverless
10 61 (8.25%) GitHub
11 59 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
12 57 (7.71%) AWS Lambda
13 47 (6.36%) dbt
14 40 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
15 38 (5.14%) Collibra
16 25 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.98%) AWS Step Functions
18 18 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 18 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
19 16 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) 4G
1 4 (0.54%) 5G
2 3 (0.41%) 2G
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (30.85%) Data Warehouse
2 189 (25.58%) Power BI
3 143 (19.35%) Data Lake
4 110 (14.88%) SQL Server
5 89 (12.04%) Metadata
6 61 (8.25%) Tableau
7 55 (7.44%) Relational Database
8 54 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (7.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (7.17%) Big Data
10 47 (6.36%) Amazon Athena
11 45 (6.09%) Azure SQL Database
11 45 (6.09%) Delta Lake
12 42 (5.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 39 (5.28%) BigQuery
14 30 (4.06%) NoSQL
15 28 (3.79%) Star Schema
16 27 (3.65%) Oracle Database
16 27 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (3.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 68 (9.20%) Git
2 32 (4.33%) JIRA
3 25 (3.38%) GitLab
4 17 (2.30%) MLflow
5 15 (2.03%) ERwin
6 12 (1.62%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.81%) Selenium
8 5 (0.68%) Postman
9 4 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.54%) Toad
10 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.27%) LSMW
11 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Ant
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 272 (36.81%) Finance
2 213 (28.82%) Social Skills
3 125 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.96%) Banking
5 58 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.38%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.76%) Marketing
9 13 (1.76%) Retail
10 9 (1.22%) Legal
11 7 (0.95%) Front Office
12 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Publishing
14 4 (0.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 303 (41.00%) Data Engineer
2 92 (12.45%) Lead
3 88 (11.91%) Developer
3 88 (11.91%) Senior
4 70 (9.47%) Architect
5 69 (9.34%) Analyst
6 61 (8.25%) Senior Data Engineer
7 47 (6.36%) Data Analyst
8 39 (5.28%) Data Architect
9 34 (4.60%) Snowflake Engineer
10 30 (4.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 23 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 23 (3.11%) Lead Data Engineer
12 21 (2.84%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.84%) Business Analyst
13 20 (2.71%) Python Engineer
14 19 (2.57%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (12.58%) PySpark
2 78 (10.55%) Kafka
3 34 (4.60%) Pandas
4 32 (4.33%) REST
5 25 (3.38%) XML
6 21 (2.84%) NumPy
7 19 (2.57%) Great Expectations
8 17 (2.30%) PyTorch
9 15 (2.03%) scikit-learn
9 15 (2.03%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.89%) JSON
10 14 (1.89%) Middleware
11 13 (1.76%) .NET
11 13 (1.76%) RESTful
12 12 (1.62%) OAuth
12 12 (1.62%) pytest
12 12 (1.62%) Web Services
13 11 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.49%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (1.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.34%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.58%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.95%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 14 (1.89%) Reinsurance
7 13 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.49%) Fixed Income
8 11 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.22%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.08%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.08%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.95%) IoT
12 6 (0.81%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.89%) Linux
2 9 (1.22%) Windows
3 7 (0.95%) Unix
4 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.54%) Solaris
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (49.39%) Data Modelling
2 326 (44.11%) Analytics
3 286 (38.70%) Data Engineering
4 272 (36.81%) Data Pipeline
5 227 (30.72%) Business Intelligence
6 218 (29.50%) CI/CD
7 187 (25.30%) Data Governance
8 167 (22.60%) DevOps
9 158 (21.38%) Migration
10 155 (20.97%) Agile
11 135 (18.27%) Data Architecture
12 132 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
13 130 (17.59%) AI
14 124 (16.78%) Validation
15 114 (15.43%) Data Migration
16 109 (14.75%) Data Science
17 107 (14.48%) Decision-Making
18 94 (12.72%) Data Integration
19 93 (12.58%) Machine Learning
20 91 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 529 (71.58%) SQL
2 371 (50.20%) Python
3 59 (7.98%) Java
4 45 (6.09%) C#
5 43 (5.82%) Scala
6 36 (4.87%) PL/SQL
7 29 (3.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (3.38%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.03%) R
10 14 (1.89%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.35%) Bicep
12 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.68%) Bash
13 5 (0.68%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.68%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.54%) Perl
14 4 (0.54%) PHP
15 3 (0.41%) C
15 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 126 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.53%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.17%) Degree
4 36 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.98%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.57%) AWS Certification
6 19 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.81%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.54%) PMP
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.14%) HP APS
14 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 73 (9.88%) GDPR
3 58 (7.85%) QA
4 16 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.62%) IFRS
6 9 (1.22%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.22%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.08%) PMO
8 5 (0.68%) GAAP
8 5 (0.68%) MiFID
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.54%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.41%) Basel III
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 53 (7.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) zsh
Systems Management
1 101 (13.67%) Terraform
2 59 (7.98%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Grafana
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 171 (23.14%) Databricks
2 141 (19.08%) Microsoft
3 79 (10.69%) Oracle
4 54 (7.31%) Informatica
5 35 (4.74%) Google
6 33 (4.47%) SAP
7 16 (2.17%) IBM
7 16 (2.17%) Workday
8 15 (2.03%) MuleSoft
8 15 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.03%) Talend
9 12 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.22%) UiPath
12 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.95%) Palantir
14 6 (0.81%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.81%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) Denodo
15 5 (0.68%) Red Hat