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

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 70 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 542 542 565
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 3.42% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.15% 3.82% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 353 441
10th Percentile £375 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £638
90th Percentile £725 £746 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £51.14
25th Percentile £33.88 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -31.17% +6.47%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £62.35 £57.15 £66.50
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 13,062 14,204 17,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.11% 89.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,608 9,158 12,720
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -3.08% -3.81%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £771 £800 £800
England median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 171 238
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% +5.81% -9.13%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.02 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.17% -21.31% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -13 71 £550 +4.27% 30
West London -8 9 £575 +4.55% 6
South London -2 6 £466 -13.26% 2
East London -2 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 61 (11.25%) Apache Spark
2 56 (10.33%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (8.12%) Apache
4 10 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.74%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) Luigi
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.29%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.37%) Actimize
5 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.18%) Maximo
6 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 232 (42.80%) Azure
2 187 (34.50%) AWS
3 116 (21.40%) Power Platform
4 100 (18.45%) Snowflake
5 85 (15.68%) GCP
6 78 (14.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (11.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 53 (9.78%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.56%) dbt
10 40 (7.38%) Serverless
11 33 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (5.90%) GitHub
13 29 (5.35%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (3.87%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.95%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
17 13 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.21%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (2.21%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.55%) 2G
1 3 (0.55%) 4G
1 3 (0.55%) 5G
1 3 (0.55%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.37%) BGP
2 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.37%) DNS
2 2 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.37%) Internet
2 2 (0.37%) OSPF
2 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.18%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.18%) Multicast
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
3 1 (0.18%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (32.84%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (19.56%) Power BI
3 84 (15.50%) Data Lake
4 69 (12.73%) SQL Server
5 61 (11.25%) Metadata
6 54 (9.96%) Big Data
7 53 (9.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 47 (8.67%) BigQuery
9 44 (8.12%) Relational Database
10 40 (7.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 37 (6.83%) Tableau
12 30 (5.54%) NoSQL
13 25 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 25 (4.61%) Delta Lake
14 24 (4.43%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.87%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (3.87%) Hadoop
17 17 (3.14%) Oracle Database
17 17 (3.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (7.01%) Git
2 18 (3.32%) JIRA
3 16 (2.95%) ERwin
4 14 (2.58%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.66%) GitLab
6 7 (1.29%) ER Studio
7 6 (1.11%) MLflow
7 6 (1.11%) Selenium
8 5 (0.92%) Postman
9 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.74%) Toad
10 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.37%) TestRail
11 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.18%) Charles Proxy
12 1 (0.18%) GoCD
12 1 (0.18%) Poetry
12 1 (0.18%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 172 (31.73%) Finance
2 165 (30.44%) Social Skills
3 95 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.67%) Banking
5 36 (6.64%) Public Sector
6 16 (2.95%) Retail
7 10 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 10 (1.85%) Marketing
8 8 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 8 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.29%) Front Office
10 6 (1.11%) Local Government
10 6 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.92%) Publishing
12 4 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 174 (32.10%) Data Engineer
2 80 (14.76%) Developer
3 68 (12.55%) Architect
4 62 (11.44%) Senior
5 57 (10.52%) Lead
6 56 (10.33%) Analyst
7 44 (8.12%) Data Architect
8 39 (7.20%) Data Analyst
9 30 (5.54%) Azure Engineer
9 30 (5.54%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (4.98%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (3.32%) Consultant
12 17 (3.14%) Python Engineer
12 17 (3.14%) Snowflake Engineer
13 16 (2.95%) Data Modeller
14 15 (2.77%) Business Analyst
14 15 (2.77%) Senior Developer
15 14 (2.58%) Lead Data Engineer
15 14 (2.58%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 13 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.25%) PySpark
2 53 (9.78%) Kafka
3 30 (5.54%) XML
4 22 (4.06%) JSON
5 14 (2.58%) REST
5 14 (2.58%) RESTful
6 13 (2.40%) Pandas
7 10 (1.85%) .NET
7 10 (1.85%) NumPy
8 9 (1.66%) OAuth
9 7 (1.29%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.29%) Great Expectations
9 7 (1.29%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.11%) Node.js
10 6 (1.11%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 5 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (0.92%) Middleware
11 5 (0.92%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.92%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (6.64%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.46%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.95%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (2.21%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.66%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.48%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.29%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.29%) IoT
9 7 (1.29%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.11%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.58%) Linux
2 6 (1.11%) Unix
3 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (43.73%) Data Modelling
2 211 (38.93%) Analytics
3 210 (38.75%) Data Pipeline
4 167 (30.81%) Data Engineering
5 154 (28.41%) Data Governance
6 143 (26.38%) Business Intelligence
7 141 (26.01%) CI/CD
8 123 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
9 121 (22.32%) Migration
10 117 (21.59%) Agile
11 102 (18.82%) DevOps
12 91 (16.79%) Data Integration
13 88 (16.24%) Data Architecture
14 86 (15.87%) Data Migration
14 86 (15.87%) Data Science
15 80 (14.76%) Validation
16 73 (13.47%) Data Transformation
17 72 (13.28%) Machine Learning
18 65 (11.99%) Visualisation
19 62 (11.44%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 378 (69.74%) SQL
2 288 (53.14%) Python
3 58 (10.70%) Java
4 30 (5.54%) Scala
5 25 (4.61%) C#
6 24 (4.43%) PL/SQL
7 23 (4.24%) T-SQL
8 22 (4.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 17 (3.14%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 13 (2.40%) R
11 11 (2.03%) Bash
12 10 (1.85%) VBA
13 9 (1.66%) Perl
14 7 (1.29%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.92%) Bicep
15 5 (0.92%) C
15 5 (0.92%) C++
15 5 (0.92%) PHP
15 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 48 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.20%) Degree
4 26 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.24%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.77%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.74%) PMP
10 4 (0.74%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.37%) CISSP
11 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.37%) MCP
12 1 (0.18%) CCIE
12 1 (0.18%) CCNP
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (30.63%) Data Quality
2 44 (8.12%) GDPR
3 35 (6.46%) QA
4 17 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.85%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.55%) HL7
7 3 (0.55%) MiFID
7 3 (0.55%) PMO
8 2 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.37%) EMIR
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.18%) PERC
9 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (6.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.92%) zsh
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.37%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.37%) KVM
4 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 53 (9.78%) Terraform
2 32 (5.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.11%) Ansible
4 5 (0.92%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.74%) Control-M
5 4 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.74%) Kibana
5 4 (0.74%) logstash
6 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.18%) Grafana
7 1 (0.18%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 122 (22.51%) Databricks
2 83 (15.31%) Microsoft
3 47 (8.67%) Oracle
4 35 (6.46%) Google
5 24 (4.43%) Informatica
6 21 (3.87%) SAP
7 13 (2.40%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.85%) Palantir
8 10 (1.85%) Talend
9 9 (1.66%) Foundry
10 8 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.48%) VMware
11 7 (1.29%) Workday
12 6 (1.11%) Teradata
13 5 (0.92%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.92%) EMC
13 5 (0.92%) IBM
14 4 (0.74%) Denodo
14 4 (0.74%) Solace
14 4 (0.74%) Sparx