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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 73 77
Rank change year-on-year +3 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 541 536 563
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.77% 3.39% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.78% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 350 439
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £420 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £636 £643
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 7
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £52.76
25th Percentile £33.19 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £39.50 £42.50 £62.36
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -31.84% +7.51%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £64.77
90th Percentile £66.75 £57.15 £66.20
England median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +2.35% -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 13,188 14,190 17,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.79% 89.85% 89.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,704 9,175 12,401
10th Percentile £338 £350 £356
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 £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 166 233
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.81
25th Percentile £24.56 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.25 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.81% +4.55% -9.80%
75th Percentile £47.63 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -16 71 £500 -5.66% 31
West London -7 11 £600 +9.09% 6
South London -3 6 £466 -13.26% 5
East London -4 2 £418 +1.21% 6
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 58 (10.72%) Apache Spark
2 55 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (8.13%) Apache
4 10 (1.85%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.92%) Confluence
6 4 (0.74%) Luigi
6 4 (0.74%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.18%) nginx
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.29%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.37%) Actimize
4 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 225 (41.59%) Azure
2 186 (34.38%) AWS
3 118 (21.81%) Power Platform
4 102 (18.85%) Snowflake
5 78 (14.42%) GCP
6 73 (13.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (12.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 55 (10.17%) Amazon S3
9 42 (7.76%) dbt
10 40 (7.39%) Serverless
11 32 (5.91%) GitHub
12 30 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
14 23 (4.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.96%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.40%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (2.22%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
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%) DSL
3 1 (0.18%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.18%) Multicast
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (32.72%) Data Warehouse
2 110 (20.33%) Power BI
3 82 (15.16%) Data Lake
4 66 (12.20%) SQL Server
5 64 (11.83%) Metadata
6 53 (9.80%) Big Data
7 49 (9.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (8.32%) Relational Database
9 44 (8.13%) BigQuery
10 41 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (6.65%) Tableau
12 27 (4.99%) NoSQL
13 26 (4.81%) Delta Lake
14 25 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (4.25%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (4.07%) Azure SQL Database
18 18 (3.33%) Hadoop
19 17 (3.14%) Oracle Database
19 17 (3.14%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (7.58%) Git
2 19 (3.51%) JIRA
3 15 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.59%) ERwin
5 11 (2.03%) GitLab
6 7 (1.29%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.29%) Selenium
7 6 (1.11%) Postman
8 5 (0.92%) MLflow
9 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.74%) Toad
10 3 (0.55%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.37%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.37%) TestRail
11 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.18%) JMeter
12 1 (0.18%) LSMW
12 1 (0.18%) NUnit
General
1 174 (32.16%) Finance
2 164 (30.31%) Social Skills
3 92 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.69%) Banking
5 37 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 15 (2.77%) 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
9 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Publishing
11 4 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.74%) Local Government
11 4 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 178 (32.90%) Data Engineer
2 75 (13.86%) Developer
3 62 (11.46%) Architect
4 60 (11.09%) Analyst
5 58 (10.72%) Lead
6 55 (10.17%) Senior
7 42 (7.76%) Data Analyst
8 41 (7.58%) Data Architect
9 31 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
10 28 (5.18%) Azure Data Engineer
10 28 (5.18%) Senior Data Engineer
11 18 (3.33%) Consultant
11 18 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
12 17 (3.14%) Python Engineer
13 16 (2.96%) Business Analyst
13 16 (2.96%) Data Modeller
14 13 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
14 13 (2.40%) Lead Data Engineer
14 13 (2.40%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 12 (2.22%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (11.65%) PySpark
2 51 (9.43%) Kafka
3 30 (5.55%) XML
4 21 (3.88%) JSON
5 14 (2.59%) Pandas
5 14 (2.59%) RESTful
6 12 (2.22%) REST
7 11 (2.03%) NumPy
8 9 (1.66%) OAuth
9 7 (1.29%) .NET
9 7 (1.29%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.29%) Great Expectations
9 7 (1.29%) PyTorch
9 7 (1.29%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (1.11%) Node.js
10 6 (1.11%) TensorFlow
11 5 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (0.92%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.92%) XSLT
12 4 (0.74%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.65%) Data Structures
3 20 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.96%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 12 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.48%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.29%) IoT
10 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.92%) Management Information System
11 5 (0.92%) Replication
11 5 (0.92%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.59%) 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
1 234 (43.25%) Data Modelling
2 214 (39.56%) Analytics
3 208 (38.45%) Data Pipeline
4 172 (31.79%) Data Engineering
5 153 (28.28%) Data Governance
6 146 (26.99%) Business Intelligence
7 137 (25.32%) CI/CD
8 123 (22.74%) Migration
9 122 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (20.70%) Agile
11 100 (18.48%) DevOps
12 91 (16.82%) Data Integration
13 88 (16.27%) Data Architecture
14 87 (16.08%) Data Migration
15 82 (15.16%) Data Science
16 80 (14.79%) Validation
17 71 (13.12%) Data Transformation
18 69 (12.75%) Machine Learning
19 62 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
19 62 (11.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 378 (69.87%) SQL
2 289 (53.42%) Python
3 57 (10.54%) Java
4 28 (5.18%) Scala
5 25 (4.62%) C#
6 24 (4.44%) PL/SQL
7 22 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (4.07%) T-SQL
8 14 (2.59%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 12 (2.22%) R
11 10 (1.85%) Bash
12 9 (1.66%) Perl
13 8 (1.48%) VBA
14 6 (1.11%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.92%) Bicep
15 5 (0.92%) C
15 5 (0.92%) C++
15 5 (0.92%) Korn
15 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.06%) SC Cleared
3 37 (6.84%) Degree
4 25 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.66%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.66%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.74%) PMP
9 4 (0.74%) SnowPro
10 2 (0.37%) CISSP
10 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.37%) MCP
11 1 (0.18%) CCIE
11 1 (0.18%) CCNP
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (31.61%) Data Quality
2 46 (8.50%) GDPR
3 33 (6.10%) QA
4 13 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.66%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.74%) MiFID
7 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.55%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.37%) EMIR
9 2 (0.37%) HL7
9 2 (0.37%) IFRS
9 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 35 (6.47%) 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 55 (10.17%) Terraform
2 31 (5.73%) 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%) Puppet
Vendors
1 125 (23.11%) Databricks
2 81 (14.97%) Microsoft
3 46 (8.50%) Oracle
4 33 (6.10%) Google
5 26 (4.81%) Informatica
6 21 (3.88%) SAP
7 14 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.03%) Talend
9 9 (1.66%) Palantir
10 8 (1.48%) Foundry
10 8 (1.48%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.48%) Teradata
10 8 (1.48%) VMware
11 7 (1.29%) Workday
12 6 (1.11%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.92%) EMC
13 5 (0.92%) IBM
14 4 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.74%) TIBCO