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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 70 77
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing ETL 532 540 568
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.42% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.81% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 353 441
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £643
90th Percentile £725 £746 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.10%
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 12,965 14,161 17,700
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.02% 89.69% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,536 9,145 12,688
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £769 £800 £800
England median daily rate £501 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.42% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 169 237
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.25 £37.00 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +3.85% -9.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £53.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £69.17 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 30 November 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 -17 68 £525 -0.47% 31
West London -4 9 £575 +4.55% 6
South London 0 6 £466 -13.26% 2
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 60 (11.28%) Apache Spark
2 56 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (8.27%) Apache
4 10 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.75%) Confluence
5 4 (0.75%) Luigi
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
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%) 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 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.32%) 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 (1.32%) 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 (42.29%) Azure
2 183 (34.40%) AWS
3 111 (20.86%) Power Platform
4 101 (18.98%) Snowflake
5 80 (15.04%) GCP
6 76 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (12.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 53 (9.96%) Amazon S3
9 42 (7.89%) dbt
10 39 (7.33%) Serverless
11 32 (6.02%) GitHub
12 31 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.45%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.01%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
18 11 (2.07%) Amazon Kinesis
18 11 (2.07%) Azure Functions
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%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (33.46%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (19.36%) Power BI
3 81 (15.23%) Data Lake
4 67 (12.59%) SQL Server
5 60 (11.28%) Metadata
6 53 (9.96%) Big Data
7 52 (9.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (8.46%) BigQuery
9 44 (8.27%) Relational Database
10 39 (7.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (6.95%) Tableau
12 30 (5.64%) NoSQL
13 25 (4.70%) Delta Lake
14 24 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (4.51%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (3.57%) Hadoop
18 17 (3.20%) Oracle Database
18 17 (3.20%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (7.14%) Git
2 18 (3.38%) JIRA
3 15 (2.82%) ERwin
4 14 (2.63%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.69%) GitLab
6 7 (1.32%) ER Studio
7 6 (1.13%) Selenium
8 5 (0.94%) MLflow
8 5 (0.94%) Postman
9 4 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.75%) Toad
10 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.38%) TestRail
11 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.19%) JMeter
12 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
12 1 (0.19%) LSMW
12 1 (0.19%) Maven
12 1 (0.19%) NUnit
General
1 169 (31.77%) Finance
2 164 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 92 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (8.65%) Banking
5 35 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.82%) Retail
7 10 (1.88%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.88%) Marketing
8 9 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.32%) Front Office
10 7 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.94%) Local Government
11 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.94%) Publishing
12 4 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.56%) Law
13 3 (0.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 173 (32.52%) Data Engineer
2 74 (13.91%) Developer
3 64 (12.03%) Architect
4 58 (10.90%) Senior
5 56 (10.53%) Analyst
5 56 (10.53%) Lead
6 42 (7.89%) Data Architect
7 39 (7.33%) Data Analyst
8 31 (5.83%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (5.26%) Azure Data Engineer
9 28 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
10 18 (3.38%) Consultant
11 17 (3.20%) Python Engineer
11 17 (3.20%) Snowflake Engineer
12 16 (3.01%) Data Modeller
13 15 (2.82%) Business Analyst
14 14 (2.63%) Lead Data Engineer
14 14 (2.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 13 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (2.44%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (11.28%) PySpark
2 51 (9.59%) Kafka
3 30 (5.64%) XML
4 21 (3.95%) JSON
5 14 (2.63%) RESTful
6 13 (2.44%) Pandas
6 13 (2.44%) REST
7 10 (1.88%) NumPy
8 9 (1.69%) OAuth
9 8 (1.50%) .NET
10 7 (1.32%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.32%) Great Expectations
10 7 (1.32%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.13%) Node.js
11 6 (1.13%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (1.13%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
12 5 (0.94%) Middleware
12 5 (0.94%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.94%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.58%) Data Structures
2 34 (6.39%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.01%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
6 11 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.88%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.69%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.32%) IoT
10 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.13%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.13%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
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
1 233 (43.80%) Data Modelling
2 206 (38.72%) Analytics
2 206 (38.72%) Data Pipeline
3 165 (31.02%) Data Engineering
4 152 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 140 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
6 138 (25.94%) CI/CD
7 123 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
8 120 (22.56%) Migration
9 112 (21.05%) Agile
10 97 (18.23%) DevOps
11 90 (16.92%) Data Integration
12 86 (16.17%) Data Architecture
13 85 (15.98%) Data Migration
14 82 (15.41%) Data Science
15 80 (15.04%) Validation
16 73 (13.72%) Data Transformation
17 68 (12.78%) Machine Learning
18 63 (11.84%) Visualisation
19 60 (11.28%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 372 (69.92%) SQL
2 283 (53.20%) Python
3 56 (10.53%) Java
4 29 (5.45%) Scala
5 24 (4.51%) PL/SQL
6 23 (4.32%) C#
7 22 (4.14%) T-SQL
8 21 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 15 (2.82%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.44%) R
11 10 (1.88%) Bash
12 9 (1.69%) Perl
12 9 (1.69%) VBA
13 6 (1.13%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.94%) Bicep
14 5 (0.94%) C
14 5 (0.94%) C++
14 5 (0.94%) Korn
14 5 (0.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 65 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 47 (8.83%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.95%) Degree
4 25 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.14%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.13%) 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
1 165 (31.02%) Data Quality
2 43 (8.08%) GDPR
3 35 (6.58%) QA
4 13 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.88%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.75%) SLA
7 3 (0.56%) HL7
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
7 3 (0.56%) PMO
8 2 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.38%) EMIR
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 (6.39%) 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 51 (9.59%) Terraform
2 30 (5.64%) 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 (23.12%) Databricks
2 81 (15.23%) Microsoft
3 46 (8.65%) Oracle
4 33 (6.20%) Google
5 24 (4.51%) Informatica
6 21 (3.95%) SAP
7 13 (2.44%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.88%) Talend
9 9 (1.69%) Palantir
10 8 (1.50%) Foundry
10 8 (1.50%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.50%) VMware
11 7 (1.32%) Workday
12 6 (1.13%) Teradata
13 5 (0.94%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.94%) EMC
13 5 (0.94%) IBM
14 4 (0.75%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.75%) Denodo
14 4 (0.75%) Solace