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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 68 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing ETL 493 559 621
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.67% 3.43% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 3.84% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 387 461
10th Percentile £400 £363 £382
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £648 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +1.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £32.50 £42.85 £59.70
25th Percentile £35.50 £45.25 £60.38
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.86% -19.84% +7.23%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.75 £64.75
90th Percentile £57.25 - £64.90
England median hourly rate £41.23 £46.50 £68.50
% change year-on-year -11.33% -32.12% +52.22%

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 12,450 14,539 19,681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.59% 89.26% 90.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,698 14,258
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 180 225
10th Percentile £17.01 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £35.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.29% -11.21% +8.00%
75th Percentile £48.94 £55.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.19 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

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

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -20 61 £500 -4.76% 60
West London -9 6 £500 +6.38% 9
East London +9 3 £675 +51.69% 2
South London -11 2 £458 +1.67% 5
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 56 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
2 45 (9.13%) Apache Spark
3 34 (6.90%) Apache
4 10 (2.03%) Confluence
5 8 (1.62%) SAS
6 5 (1.01%) Luigi
7 4 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.41%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.41%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.41%) IIS
9 1 (0.20%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.20%) nginx
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (5.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (2.23%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.41%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.20%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.20%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 219 (44.42%) Azure
2 162 (32.86%) AWS
3 101 (20.49%) Power Platform
4 95 (19.27%) GCP
5 81 (16.43%) Snowflake
6 71 (14.40%) Azure Data Factory
7 57 (11.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 45 (9.13%) dbt
9 39 (7.91%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (6.90%) Serverless
11 30 (6.09%) Amazon S3
12 29 (5.88%) GitHub
13 16 (3.25%) PaaS
14 15 (3.04%) AWS Lambda
14 15 (3.04%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (3.04%) PowerApps
14 15 (3.04%) SaaS
15 14 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (2.84%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (2.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.42%) Firewall
1 7 (1.42%) VPN
2 3 (0.61%) Internet
3 2 (0.41%) BGP
3 2 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.41%) DNS
3 2 (0.41%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.41%) OSPF
3 2 (0.41%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.20%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.20%) FTP
4 1 (0.20%) Multicast
4 1 (0.20%) SSL
4 1 (0.20%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (30.83%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (16.84%) Power BI
3 80 (16.23%) Data Lake
4 66 (13.39%) SQL Server
5 52 (10.55%) BigQuery
5 52 (10.55%) Metadata
6 46 (9.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 41 (8.32%) Big Data
8 31 (6.29%) NoSQL
9 30 (6.09%) Tableau
10 28 (5.68%) Snowflake Schema
10 28 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (4.67%) Azure SQL Database
11 23 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (4.67%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.46%) Delta Lake
13 17 (3.45%) Hadoop
14 16 (3.25%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (3.25%) Star Schema
15 14 (2.84%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 29 (5.88%) Git
2 21 (4.26%) JIRA
3 14 (2.84%) ERwin
4 11 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.62%) GitLab
5 8 (1.62%) Selenium
6 7 (1.42%) ER Studio
7 5 (1.01%) Postman
8 4 (0.81%) Liquibase
8 4 (0.81%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.61%) LSMW
10 2 (0.41%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.41%) MLflow
10 2 (0.41%) PROIV
10 2 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.41%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.41%) TestRail
11 1 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
11 1 (0.20%) GoCD
11 1 (0.20%) REST Assured
General
1 150 (30.43%) Finance
2 146 (29.61%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.40%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (9.33%) Banking
5 34 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.85%) Marketing
7 18 (3.65%) Retail
8 9 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 8 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.01%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.01%) Front Office
11 5 (1.01%) Retail Banking
12 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.81%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.81%) Legal
12 4 (0.81%) Local Government
12 4 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (29.82%) Data Engineer
2 79 (16.02%) Architect
3 68 (13.79%) Developer
4 65 (13.18%) Senior
5 51 (10.34%) Data Architect
6 50 (10.14%) Analyst
7 38 (7.71%) Data Analyst
8 36 (7.30%) Lead
9 34 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (6.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 29 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
12 17 (3.45%) Consultant
13 15 (3.04%) Azure Architect
13 15 (3.04%) Data Manager
14 14 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.64%) Business Analyst
16 12 (2.43%) Data Modeller
16 12 (2.43%) GCP Engineer
16 12 (2.43%) Python Engineer
16 12 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (9.33%) PySpark
2 36 (7.30%) Kafka
3 31 (6.29%) XML
4 22 (4.46%) JSON
5 15 (3.04%) RESTful
6 14 (2.84%) REST
7 10 (2.03%) GraphQL
7 10 (2.03%) OAuth
8 9 (1.83%) .NET
8 9 (1.83%) Middleware
9 8 (1.62%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
10 6 (1.22%) HTML
10 6 (1.22%) Pandas
11 5 (1.01%) JWT
11 5 (1.01%) Node.js
11 5 (1.01%) NumPy
11 5 (1.01%) pytest
11 5 (1.01%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.01%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.90%) Cloud Native
2 33 (6.69%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.84%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.03%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.03%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.62%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.22%) Clustering
9 6 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 5 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (1.01%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.01%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.01%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (3.45%) Linux
2 7 (1.42%) Unix
3 3 (0.61%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (42.39%) Data Modelling
2 185 (37.53%) Data Pipeline
3 181 (36.71%) Analytics
4 135 (27.38%) Data Engineering
5 133 (26.98%) Data Governance
6 112 (22.72%) Business Intelligence
6 112 (22.72%) Data Integration
7 106 (21.50%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (20.28%) CI/CD
9 97 (19.68%) DevOps
9 97 (19.68%) Migration
10 90 (18.26%) Agile
11 74 (15.01%) Data Architecture
12 71 (14.40%) Data Transformation
13 67 (13.59%) Data Science
14 65 (13.18%) Validation
15 63 (12.78%) Machine Learning
15 63 (12.78%) Visualisation
16 57 (11.56%) Decision-Making
17 54 (10.95%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 318 (64.50%) SQL
2 232 (47.06%) Python
3 51 (10.34%) Java
4 26 (5.27%) C#
5 25 (5.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 25 (5.07%) Scala
6 22 (4.46%) T-SQL
7 18 (3.65%) JavaScript
7 18 (3.65%) PL/SQL
8 12 (2.43%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.23%) R
10 10 (2.03%) Bicep
11 9 (1.83%) VBA
12 8 (1.62%) Bash
12 8 (1.62%) Go
13 7 (1.42%) TypeScript
14 6 (1.22%) Perl
15 5 (1.01%) ABAP
16 4 (0.81%) C
16 4 (0.81%) C++
Qualifications
1 60 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 43 (8.72%) SC Cleared
3 34 (6.90%) Degree
4 20 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.42%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.81%) PMP
10 4 (0.81%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.41%) CISSP
12 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.41%) MCP
13 1 (0.20%) CCIE
13 1 (0.20%) CCNP
13 1 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (25.15%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.30%) GDPR
3 22 (4.46%) QA
4 18 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.42%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.01%) SLA
7 4 (0.81%) IFRS
8 3 (0.61%) GAAP
8 3 (0.61%) HL7
8 3 (0.61%) IFRS 9
8 3 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.41%) EMIR
9 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.41%) MiFID
9 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.20%) PMO
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (5.68%) Docker
2 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.81%) zsh
4 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.41%) KVM
4 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
5 1 (0.20%) NFS
Systems Management
1 49 (9.94%) Terraform
2 30 (6.09%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.22%) Control-M
3 6 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (1.01%) Kibana
4 5 (1.01%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.81%) Ansible
6 3 (0.61%) Grafana
6 3 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.61%) logstash
6 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 87 (17.65%) Databricks
2 80 (16.23%) Microsoft
3 47 (9.53%) Google
4 37 (7.51%) Oracle
5 33 (6.69%) Informatica
6 24 (4.87%) SAP
7 15 (3.04%) Talend
8 10 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.03%) Teradata
9 9 (1.83%) Palantir
10 8 (1.62%) VMware
11 7 (1.42%) Alteryx
12 6 (1.22%) Workday
13 5 (1.01%) EMC
13 5 (1.01%) Foundry
13 5 (1.01%) IBM
13 5 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.61%) Splunk