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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 75 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 -10 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 751 452 575
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.92% 3.55% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 3.84% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 311 427
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £430 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% +2.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £755
England median daily rate £500 £508 £510
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.49% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £44.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -26.67%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 £55.63
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +15.38% -35.00%

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 17,053 11,769 15,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.41% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,360 7,875 11,093
10th Percentile £360 £336 £340
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - -6.34%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 221 300
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.17 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +8.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £59.36 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +3 81 £525 -7.49% 22
West London -5 26 £603 +19.07% 4
South London +4 12 £463 -2.63%
East London +4 6 £450 -33.33% 1
North London +1 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 87 (11.58%) Apache Spark
2 78 (10.39%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.19%) Apache
4 15 (2.00%) SAS
5 12 (1.60%) Confluence
6 10 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 9 (1.20%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.93%) Appian
9 5 (0.67%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
10 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
12 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 27 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.40%) Actimize
4 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 346 (46.07%) Azure
2 244 (32.49%) AWS
3 199 (26.50%) Power Platform
4 107 (14.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 102 (13.58%) GCP
6 97 (12.92%) Snowflake
7 96 (12.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 90 (11.98%) Azure DevOps
9 86 (11.45%) Amazon S3
10 65 (8.66%) Serverless
11 64 (8.52%) GitHub
12 62 (8.26%) dbt
13 55 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (4.93%) Collibra
15 28 (3.73%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
17 23 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.13%) Dagster
20 15 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (31.16%) Data Warehouse
2 184 (24.50%) Power BI
3 152 (20.24%) Data Lake
4 95 (12.65%) SQL Server
5 76 (10.12%) Metadata
6 63 (8.39%) Delta Lake
6 63 (8.39%) Tableau
7 55 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (6.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 46 (6.13%) BigQuery
9 46 (6.13%) Snowflake Schema
10 45 (5.99%) Big Data
11 44 (5.86%) Relational Database
12 42 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
13 40 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 39 (5.19%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (3.99%) Star Schema
16 22 (2.93%) Data Vault
16 22 (2.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (9.72%) Git
2 42 (5.59%) JIRA
3 25 (3.33%) GitLab
4 13 (1.73%) MLflow
5 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.93%) ERwin
7 5 (0.67%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.53%) Postman
9 3 (0.40%) LSMW
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 290 (38.62%) Finance
2 192 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.72%) Banking
5 73 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.80%) Marketing
7 20 (2.66%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 12 (1.60%) Retail
11 9 (1.20%) Legal
12 8 (1.07%) Front Office
12 8 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.53%) Billing
14 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Publishing
15 3 (0.40%) General Ledger
15 3 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 321 (42.74%) Data Engineer
2 106 (14.11%) Senior
3 95 (12.65%) Lead
4 87 (11.58%) Architect
5 86 (11.45%) Developer
6 71 (9.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 63 (8.39%) Analyst
8 44 (5.86%) Data Architect
9 41 (5.46%) Data Analyst
10 25 (3.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 25 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
11 24 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (3.06%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (2.93%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (2.80%) Python Engineer
15 19 (2.53%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (2.53%) Azure Data Engineer
15 19 (2.53%) Integration Engineer
15 19 (2.53%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (13.32%) PySpark
2 70 (9.32%) Kafka
3 37 (4.93%) REST
4 27 (3.60%) Pandas
5 24 (3.20%) Middleware
6 23 (3.06%) XML
7 20 (2.66%) .NET
7 20 (2.66%) JSON
8 16 (2.13%) Spring
9 15 (2.00%) PyTorch
9 15 (2.00%) Web Services
10 14 (1.86%) OAuth
10 14 (1.86%) TensorFlow
11 13 (1.73%) Great Expectations
11 13 (1.73%) NumPy
11 13 (1.73%) Spring Boot
12 12 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (1.60%) scikit-learn
13 11 (1.46%) HTML
14 10 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.59%) Data Structures
3 53 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.73%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.73%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.60%) Clustering
9 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.60%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.07%) NHS
11 8 (1.07%) Replication
11 8 (1.07%) Taxonomies
12 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.93%) IoT
13 6 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.26%) Linux
2 12 (1.60%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Solaris
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.53%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 371 (49.40%) Data Modelling
2 317 (42.21%) Data Pipeline
3 307 (40.88%) Analytics
4 284 (37.82%) Data Engineering
5 237 (31.56%) CI/CD
6 211 (28.10%) Business Intelligence
7 201 (26.76%) DevOps
8 187 (24.90%) Agile
9 171 (22.77%) Data Governance
9 171 (22.77%) Migration
10 157 (20.91%) AI
11 141 (18.77%) Validation
12 139 (18.51%) Data Architecture
13 135 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
14 118 (15.71%) Decision-Making
15 112 (14.91%) Data Integration
16 99 (13.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 97 (12.92%) Data Science
18 96 (12.78%) Data Migration
19 93 (12.38%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 512 (68.18%) SQL
2 376 (50.07%) Python
3 81 (10.79%) Java
4 41 (5.46%) C#
5 40 (5.33%) Scala
6 37 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.93%) T-SQL
7 32 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 22 (2.93%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.13%) R
10 13 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.73%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.93%) Bicep
11 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
11 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.80%) Bash
13 4 (0.53%) Cypher
13 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 121 (16.11%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.39%) Degree
4 31 (4.13%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.73%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.27%) CISA
13 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (35.95%) Data Quality
2 63 (8.39%) QA
3 61 (8.12%) GDPR
4 12 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.46%) IFRS
6 10 (1.33%) PMO
7 9 (1.20%) IFRS 17
8 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.80%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.53%) GAAP
11 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.40%) GMP
11 3 (0.40%) IFRS 9
12 2 (0.27%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) Basel III
13 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.13%) SEPA
13 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 59 (7.86%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (12.92%) Terraform
2 62 (8.26%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.67%) Control-M
3 5 (0.67%) Grafana
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 163 (21.70%) Databricks
2 151 (20.11%) Microsoft
3 85 (11.32%) Oracle
4 54 (7.19%) Informatica
5 34 (4.53%) Google
6 27 (3.60%) SAP
7 21 (2.80%) IBM
8 14 (1.86%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.86%) Workday
9 13 (1.73%) Talend
10 11 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.33%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.20%) Palantir
12 9 (1.20%) ServiceNow
13 8 (1.07%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.93%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
15 6 (0.80%) Denodo