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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 77 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 601 467 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.17% 3.22% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 3.57% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 294 435
10th Percentile £363 £360 £382
25th Percentile £420 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £634
90th Percentile £725 £725 £735
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £36.25 £47.38
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £56.75
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -30.81% +19.28%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £65.90
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -29.75% +70.42%

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 13,198 13,072 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.53% 90.20% 89.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,726 8,366 11,677
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £754 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 163 247
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.05 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.28 £54.50 £57.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

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 January 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 January 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 £475 -13.64% 43
West London -4 15 £600 +9.09% 4
South London -6 7 £475 -3.80% 5
East London 0 5 £450 +12.50% 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 65 (10.82%) Apache Spark
2 51 (8.49%) Apache Airflow
3 42 (6.99%) Apache
4 8 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.67%) Confluence
6 4 (0.67%) SAS
7 3 (0.50%) Appian
7 3 (0.50%) Luigi
7 3 (0.50%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) IIS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 30 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.33%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.33%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.50%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.33%) Actimize
6 2 (0.33%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 261 (43.43%) Azure
2 186 (30.95%) AWS
3 150 (24.96%) Power Platform
4 93 (15.47%) Snowflake
5 89 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
6 78 (12.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 66 (10.98%) GCP
8 63 (10.48%) Amazon S3
9 50 (8.32%) Serverless
10 38 (6.32%) GitHub
11 37 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (5.16%) dbt
13 24 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (2.33%) Collibra
17 13 (2.16%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (2.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.50%) 2G
1 3 (0.50%) 4G
1 3 (0.50%) 5G
1 3 (0.50%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.33%) BGP
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.33%) DNS
2 2 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.33%) OSPF
2 2 (0.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.17%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) Multicast
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (32.11%) Data Warehouse
2 141 (23.46%) Power BI
3 109 (18.14%) Data Lake
4 88 (14.64%) SQL Server
5 67 (11.15%) Metadata
6 54 (8.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 52 (8.65%) Big Data
8 51 (8.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (8.32%) Relational Database
10 42 (6.99%) Tableau
11 35 (5.82%) BigQuery
12 31 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
12 31 (5.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (4.99%) Delta Lake
14 25 (4.16%) Oracle Database
14 25 (4.16%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (3.99%) NoSQL
15 24 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.49%) DataStage
17 18 (3.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (8.15%) Git
2 22 (3.66%) JIRA
3 21 (3.49%) GitLab
4 16 (2.66%) Jenkins
5 13 (2.16%) ERwin
6 8 (1.33%) MLflow
7 6 (1.00%) Postman
7 6 (1.00%) Selenium
8 4 (0.67%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.67%) Toad
9 3 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) JMeter
10 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.33%) TestRail
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.17%) DBeaver
11 1 (0.17%) GoCD
General
1 199 (33.11%) Finance
2 181 (30.12%) Social Skills
3 91 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.82%) Banking
5 39 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.66%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.33%) Retail
8 11 (1.83%) Marketing
9 9 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.33%) Front Office
10 8 (1.33%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.00%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.83%) Legal
13 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.83%) Publishing
14 4 (0.67%) Law
14 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 211 (35.11%) Data Engineer
2 84 (13.98%) Developer
3 72 (11.98%) Lead
4 62 (10.32%) Analyst
5 60 (9.98%) Senior
6 56 (9.32%) Architect
7 42 (6.99%) Data Analyst
8 35 (5.82%) Data Architect
9 34 (5.66%) Senior Data Engineer
10 28 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.33%) Azure Data Engineer
12 21 (3.49%) Consultant
13 19 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 18 (3.00%) Business Analyst
14 18 (3.00%) Senior Developer
14 18 (3.00%) Snowflake Engineer
15 16 (2.66%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.16%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.16%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (2.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.98%) PySpark
2 54 (8.99%) Kafka
3 34 (5.66%) XML
4 22 (3.66%) Pandas
5 21 (3.49%) REST
6 18 (3.00%) JSON
7 15 (2.50%) NumPy
8 14 (2.33%) RESTful
9 12 (2.00%) OAuth
9 12 (2.00%) PyTorch
10 11 (1.83%) Spark Streaming
10 11 (1.83%) TensorFlow
11 10 (1.66%) .NET
11 10 (1.66%) Great Expectations
11 10 (1.66%) scikit-learn
12 9 (1.50%) Middleware
13 8 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
14 7 (1.16%) HTML
15 6 (1.00%) Node.js
15 6 (1.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.66%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.32%) Data Structures
3 27 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.83%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.50%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.50%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.16%) IoT
12 6 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.00%) Replication
12 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
12 6 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.66%) Linux
2 7 (1.16%) Unix
3 4 (0.67%) Windows
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (44.09%) Data Modelling
2 251 (41.76%) Analytics
3 221 (36.77%) Data Pipeline
4 201 (33.44%) Data Engineering
5 190 (31.61%) Business Intelligence
6 157 (26.12%) CI/CD
7 145 (24.13%) Data Governance
8 130 (21.63%) Migration
9 122 (20.30%) Agile
10 121 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
11 117 (19.47%) DevOps
12 107 (17.80%) Data Architecture
13 96 (15.97%) Validation
14 95 (15.81%) Data Migration
15 92 (15.31%) Data Integration
16 91 (15.14%) Data Science
17 80 (13.31%) AI
18 77 (12.81%) Machine Learning
19 71 (11.81%) Data Transformation
20 67 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 415 (69.05%) SQL
2 294 (48.92%) Python
3 55 (9.15%) Java
4 30 (4.99%) C#
4 30 (4.99%) PL/SQL
5 27 (4.49%) Scala
6 22 (3.66%) T-SQL
7 21 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.33%) R
10 11 (1.83%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.66%) Bash
11 10 (1.66%) Bicep
12 6 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.00%) VBA
13 5 (0.83%) Perl
14 4 (0.67%) Go
14 4 (0.67%) Korn
14 4 (0.67%) PHP
14 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 90 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.32%) Degree
4 31 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.66%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.50%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.16%) PMP
10 6 (1.00%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.67%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.33%) CISSP
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.33%) MCP
13 1 (0.17%) CCIE
13 1 (0.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (32.45%) Data Quality
2 57 (9.48%) GDPR
3 35 (5.82%) QA
4 15 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.33%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.00%) IFRS
8 4 (0.67%) GAAP
8 4 (0.67%) IFRS 17
8 4 (0.67%) MiFID
8 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.50%) Basel III
9 3 (0.50%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.50%) PMO
9 3 (0.50%) SLA
10 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.33%) EMIR
10 2 (0.33%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.83%) zsh
3 2 (0.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.33%) KVM
3 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 63 (10.48%) Terraform
2 40 (6.66%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.00%) Ansible
3 6 (1.00%) Control-M
4 4 (0.67%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.67%) Kibana
4 4 (0.67%) logstash
5 3 (0.50%) vCenter Server
6 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 142 (23.63%) Databricks
2 110 (18.30%) Microsoft
3 60 (9.98%) Oracle
4 29 (4.83%) Informatica
5 28 (4.66%) SAP
6 25 (4.16%) Google
7 15 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 11 (1.83%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.83%) Workday
9 10 (1.66%) IBM
10 9 (1.50%) Talend
11 8 (1.33%) Palantir
12 7 (1.16%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.16%) Foundry
13 6 (1.00%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.83%) VMware
15 4 (0.67%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.67%) Denodo
15 4 (0.67%) Teradata