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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 80 64
Rank change year-on-year +23 -16 +32
Contract jobs citing ETL 662 431 576
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.41% 3.20% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 3.54% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 282 452
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £725 £736 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £32.78 £36.25 £42.22
25th Percentile £33.19 £38.13 £47.38
Median hourly rate £34.75 £42.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -24.78% +2.73%
75th Percentile £35.69 £52.25 £63.84
90th Percentile £35.73 £57.35 £68.45
England median hourly rate £68.39 £42.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +60.92% -17.92% +30.26%

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 13,620 12,187 16,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.80% 90.56% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,063 7,736 11,780
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.23 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.48 £19.38
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +24.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.62 £55.63 £50.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.08 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +6 82 £506 -7.95% 38
West London +3 24 £603 +19.90% 3
South London -5 8 £500 +2.56% 5
East London 0 6 £463 +15.63% 4
North London - 1 £495 -
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 75 (11.33%) Apache Spark
2 55 (8.31%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (7.40%) Apache
4 8 (1.21%) Appian
5 7 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.06%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) Confluence
8 3 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.45%) SAS
8 3 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.30%) CMS
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Camunda
10 1 (0.15%) Luigi
10 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.45%) Trello
5 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.45%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.30%) Actimize
5 2 (0.30%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.15%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 300 (45.32%) Azure
2 209 (31.57%) AWS
3 162 (24.47%) Power Platform
4 109 (16.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (14.50%) Snowflake
6 85 (12.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 74 (11.18%) GCP
8 73 (11.03%) Amazon S3
9 53 (8.01%) Serverless
10 50 (7.55%) GitHub
11 48 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (5.44%) dbt
14 32 (4.83%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.78%) Collibra
16 24 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
17 18 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.11%) Amazon Kinesis
18 14 (2.11%) Power Automate
19 13 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.45%) 2G
1 3 (0.45%) 4G
1 3 (0.45%) 5G
1 3 (0.45%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.30%) BGP
2 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.30%) OSPF
2 2 (0.30%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.15%) DSL
3 1 (0.15%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (28.70%) Data Warehouse
2 155 (23.41%) Power BI
3 125 (18.88%) Data Lake
4 92 (13.90%) SQL Server
5 77 (11.63%) Metadata
6 49 (7.40%) Big Data
6 49 (7.40%) Relational Database
6 49 (7.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 46 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (6.95%) Tableau
8 40 (6.04%) Delta Lake
9 37 (5.59%) Amazon Athena
10 35 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (4.98%) BigQuery
12 31 (4.68%) Snowflake Schema
13 29 (4.38%) NoSQL
14 28 (4.23%) Oracle Database
14 28 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
15 19 (2.87%) OLAP
15 19 (2.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (8.76%) Git
2 30 (4.53%) JIRA
3 23 (3.47%) GitLab
4 16 (2.42%) MLflow
5 15 (2.27%) ERwin
5 15 (2.27%) Jenkins
6 7 (1.06%) Selenium
7 5 (0.76%) Postman
8 4 (0.60%) Toad
9 3 (0.45%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.45%) JMeter
9 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.30%) TestRail
10 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.15%) Ant
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 232 (35.05%) Finance
2 193 (29.15%) Social Skills
3 92 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.88%) Banking
5 40 (6.04%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.87%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.72%) Retail
8 14 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.51%) Marketing
10 8 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.91%) Front Office
11 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.91%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Law
12 5 (0.76%) Publishing
13 4 (0.60%) Local Government
13 4 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 261 (39.43%) Data Engineer
2 91 (13.75%) Lead
3 85 (12.84%) Developer
4 72 (10.88%) Senior
5 61 (9.21%) Architect
6 60 (9.06%) Analyst
7 47 (7.10%) Senior Data Engineer
8 43 (6.50%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.89%) Data Architect
10 30 (4.53%) Snowflake Engineer
11 27 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (3.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 23 (3.47%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (3.47%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 21 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
15 20 (3.02%) Business Analyst
15 20 (3.02%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.87%) Senior Developer
17 15 (2.27%) Data Modeller
18 14 (2.11%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (13.29%) PySpark
2 66 (9.97%) Kafka
3 30 (4.53%) Pandas
3 30 (4.53%) XML
4 28 (4.23%) REST
5 21 (3.17%) NumPy
6 20 (3.02%) PyTorch
7 17 (2.57%) TensorFlow
8 16 (2.42%) OAuth
9 15 (2.27%) JSON
9 15 (2.27%) RESTful
9 15 (2.27%) scikit-learn
10 14 (2.11%) .NET
10 14 (2.11%) Great Expectations
11 12 (1.81%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.66%) Hugging Face
12 11 (1.66%) pytest
13 10 (1.51%) JWT
13 10 (1.51%) Middleware
13 10 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 59 (8.91%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.10%) Data Structures
3 39 (5.89%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.27%) Reinsurance
6 14 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.51%) Low-Code
8 10 (1.51%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.36%) Product Ownership
10 7 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.06%) Fixed Income
11 6 (0.91%) Data Fabric
11 6 (0.91%) Reference Data
11 6 (0.91%) Replication
11 6 (0.91%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.42%) Linux
2 7 (1.06%) Unix
3 4 (0.60%) Windows
4 3 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (46.37%) Data Modelling
2 281 (42.45%) Analytics
3 240 (36.25%) Data Engineering
3 240 (36.25%) Data Pipeline
4 196 (29.61%) Business Intelligence
5 187 (28.25%) CI/CD
6 162 (24.47%) Data Governance
7 141 (21.30%) Agile
8 134 (20.24%) Migration
9 133 (20.09%) DevOps
10 122 (18.43%) Data Architecture
10 122 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (17.07%) AI
12 103 (15.56%) Validation
13 102 (15.41%) Data Migration
14 101 (15.26%) Data Science
15 94 (14.20%) Machine Learning
16 89 (13.44%) Data Integration
17 84 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 82 (12.39%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 457 (69.03%) SQL
2 333 (50.30%) Python
3 54 (8.16%) Java
4 39 (5.89%) Scala
5 37 (5.59%) C#
6 33 (4.98%) PL/SQL
7 19 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.72%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.57%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.66%) Bicep
10 11 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.66%) R
11 8 (1.21%) Bash
11 8 (1.21%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.06%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.60%) Korn
13 4 (0.60%) Perl
13 4 (0.60%) PHP
14 3 (0.45%) VBA
15 2 (0.30%) C++
Qualifications
1 98 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 74 (11.18%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.55%) Degree
4 33 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.32%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.17%) Azure Certification
7 19 (2.87%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.91%) PMP
11 5 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.76%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE
13 1 (0.15%) CCNP
13 1 (0.15%) HP APS
13 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (33.99%) Data Quality
2 69 (10.42%) GDPR
3 41 (6.19%) QA
4 16 (2.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.66%) IFRS
6 9 (1.36%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.21%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.06%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.76%) GAAP
9 5 (0.76%) MiFID
10 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.60%) PMO
11 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.45%) Basel III
11 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.45%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.45%) NIST
12 2 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.30%) EMIR
13 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 53 (8.01%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) zsh
3 2 (0.30%) HDFS
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 84 (12.69%) Terraform
2 56 (8.46%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.60%) Ansible
3 4 (0.60%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.60%) Kibana
3 4 (0.60%) logstash
4 3 (0.45%) Control-M
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 169 (25.53%) Databricks
2 114 (17.22%) Microsoft
3 67 (10.12%) Oracle
4 38 (5.74%) Informatica
5 30 (4.53%) SAP
6 25 (3.78%) Google
7 14 (2.11%) Workday
8 13 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.81%) OpenAI
9 12 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.81%) Talend
10 11 (1.66%) IBM
10 11 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.36%) UiPath
12 8 (1.21%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.21%) Palantir
13 7 (1.06%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.06%) Foundry
14 6 (0.91%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.60%) Solace