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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 83 73
Rank change year-on-year +32 -10 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 750 419 546
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 3.29% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.96% 3.60% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 280 425
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £43.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £59.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +24.14%

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 15,132 11,625 15,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.60% 91.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,139 7,889 11,403
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 170 336
10th Percentile £18.14 £18.91 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.25 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +10.77% -1.52% -12.00%

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 March 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 29 March 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 +22 98 £513 -9.49% 74
West London +3 28 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -2 16 £463 -3.90% 2
East London -1 7 £450 +12.50% 3
North London - 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 83 (11.07%) Apache Spark
2 72 (9.60%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (7.33%) Apache
4 12 (1.60%) SAS
5 9 (1.20%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.07%) Appian
7 6 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.80%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.67%) Confluence
8 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.67%) nginx
9 4 (0.53%) Camunda
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 32 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.40%) Trello
5 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.40%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.40%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.27%) Actimize
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.13%) Maximo
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 343 (45.73%) Azure
2 247 (32.93%) AWS
3 205 (27.33%) Power Platform
4 112 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (14.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 99 (13.20%) Amazon S3
6 99 (13.20%) Snowflake
7 88 (11.73%) GCP
8 69 (9.20%) Serverless
9 65 (8.67%) GitHub
10 64 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (7.73%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (6.53%) dbt
13 41 (5.47%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (5.33%) Collibra
15 26 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (2.93%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 19 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) 4G
1 4 (0.53%) 5G
1 4 (0.53%) Firewall
2 3 (0.40%) 2G
2 3 (0.40%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) DSL
4 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (30.27%) Data Warehouse
2 191 (25.47%) Power BI
3 145 (19.33%) Data Lake
4 107 (14.27%) SQL Server
5 92 (12.27%) Metadata
6 60 (8.00%) Tableau
7 56 (7.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (6.53%) Amazon Athena
9 49 (6.53%) Relational Database
10 47 (6.27%) Big Data
10 47 (6.27%) Delta Lake
11 46 (6.13%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (5.87%) Snowflake Schema
13 39 (5.20%) BigQuery
14 31 (4.13%) Star Schema
15 30 (4.00%) NoSQL
16 27 (3.60%) Oracle Database
16 27 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (3.47%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 65 (8.67%) Git
2 35 (4.67%) JIRA
3 27 (3.60%) GitLab
4 18 (2.40%) MLflow
5 12 (1.60%) ERwin
5 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) Selenium
7 5 (0.67%) Postman
8 4 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.53%) Toad
9 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.27%) LSMW
10 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Ant
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
General
1 284 (37.87%) Finance
2 214 (28.53%) Social Skills
3 135 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.60%) Banking
5 58 (7.73%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.47%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (2.27%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.73%) Marketing
9 13 (1.73%) Retail
10 9 (1.20%) Legal
11 6 (0.80%) Front Office
11 6 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.67%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 311 (41.47%) Data Engineer
2 92 (12.27%) Senior
3 91 (12.13%) Lead
4 88 (11.73%) Developer
5 72 (9.60%) Analyst
6 68 (9.07%) Architect
7 63 (8.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 48 (6.40%) Data Analyst
9 36 (4.80%) Data Architect
10 35 (4.67%) Snowflake Engineer
11 31 (4.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 23 (3.07%) Lead Data Engineer
13 21 (2.80%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 21 (2.80%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (2.40%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (2.40%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (12.80%) PySpark
2 79 (10.53%) Kafka
3 34 (4.53%) Pandas
4 32 (4.27%) REST
5 26 (3.47%) XML
6 20 (2.67%) Great Expectations
6 20 (2.67%) NumPy
7 16 (2.13%) PyTorch
8 15 (2.00%) JSON
9 14 (1.87%) Middleware
9 14 (1.87%) OAuth
9 14 (1.87%) RESTful
9 14 (1.87%) scikit-learn
9 14 (1.87%) TensorFlow
10 13 (1.73%) .NET
10 13 (1.73%) Web Services
11 12 (1.60%) pytest
11 12 (1.60%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.60%) Data Structures
3 45 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
4 25 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
5 17 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 17 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 11 (1.47%) Reinsurance
8 10 (1.33%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.20%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.07%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.07%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.93%) IoT
12 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.00%) Linux
2 10 (1.33%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.67%) Solaris
5 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.40%) VMS
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (49.87%) Data Modelling
2 334 (44.53%) Analytics
3 297 (39.60%) Data Engineering
4 284 (37.87%) Data Pipeline
5 229 (30.53%) Business Intelligence
6 222 (29.60%) CI/CD
7 190 (25.33%) Data Governance
8 170 (22.67%) DevOps
9 158 (21.07%) Migration
10 151 (20.13%) Agile
11 138 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
12 136 (18.13%) Data Architecture
12 136 (18.13%) Validation
13 134 (17.87%) AI
14 109 (14.53%) Decision-Making
15 108 (14.40%) Data Migration
16 106 (14.13%) Data Science
17 96 (12.80%) Data Integration
18 94 (12.53%) Machine Learning
19 93 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 536 (71.47%) SQL
2 376 (50.13%) Python
3 63 (8.40%) Java
4 48 (6.40%) C#
5 42 (5.60%) Scala
6 36 (4.80%) PL/SQL
7 32 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 26 (3.47%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.27%) R
10 14 (1.87%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.33%) Bicep
12 7 (0.93%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
12 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.93%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.53%) Bash
13 4 (0.53%) Perl
13 4 (0.53%) PHP
14 3 (0.40%) C
14 3 (0.40%) Korn
Qualifications
1 134 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.27%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.20%) Degree
4 37 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.67%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.40%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.67%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.53%) PMP
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (37.33%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.60%) GDPR
3 63 (8.40%) QA
4 16 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.60%) IFRS
6 9 (1.20%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.20%) PMO
7 8 (1.07%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.67%) GAAP
8 5 (0.67%) MiFID
9 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.53%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.40%) Basel III
10 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.40%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.40%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) GRC
System Software
1 54 (7.20%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (14.13%) Terraform
2 56 (7.47%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.53%) Ansible
3 4 (0.53%) Control-M
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) logstash
Vendors
1 168 (22.40%) Databricks
2 144 (19.20%) Microsoft
3 80 (10.67%) Oracle
4 57 (7.60%) Informatica
5 35 (4.67%) Google
6 34 (4.53%) SAP
7 17 (2.27%) IBM
8 15 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 15 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.00%) Talend
8 15 (2.00%) Workday
9 12 (1.60%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.47%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.20%) UiPath
12 8 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.93%) Palantir
14 6 (0.80%) Alteryx
14 6 (0.80%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.80%) Foundry
14 6 (0.80%) Red Hat