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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 75 69
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 746 477 578
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.53% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.83% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 334 428
10th Percentile £357 £400 £379
25th Percentile £431 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £717 £749 £763
England median daily rate £500 £502 £510
% change year-on-year -0.40% -1.57% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £39.25 -
25th Percentile - £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -30.00%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -26.56% +35.48% -42.59%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +11 82 £525 -6.25% 21
West London +3 25 £564 +10.11% 8
South London -3 11 £463 -0.80%
East London +6 5 £450 -33.33% 2
North London -2 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 85 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (11.26%) Apache Spark
3 59 (7.91%) Apache
4 26 (3.49%) SAS
5 12 (1.61%) Confluence
6 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.21%) nginx
7 9 (1.21%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.67%) Appian
8 5 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.54%) Camunda
9 4 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.13%) Luigi
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
4 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.40%) Actimize
5 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.27%) Maximo
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.13%) iTrent
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 332 (44.50%) Azure
2 242 (32.44%) AWS
3 187 (25.07%) Power Platform
4 107 (14.34%) GCP
5 105 (14.08%) Snowflake
6 97 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 88 (11.80%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (11.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 84 (11.26%) Amazon S3
10 74 (9.92%) dbt
11 64 (8.58%) Serverless
12 58 (7.77%) GitHub
13 54 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (5.23%) Collibra
15 25 (3.35%) Amazon EMR
15 25 (3.35%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (2.14%) Dagster
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
1 232 (31.10%) Data Warehouse
2 173 (23.19%) Power BI
3 139 (18.63%) Data Lake
4 77 (10.32%) SQL Server
5 75 (10.05%) Metadata
6 61 (8.18%) Delta Lake
6 61 (8.18%) Tableau
7 51 (6.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (6.70%) BigQuery
9 47 (6.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 44 (5.90%) Big Data
11 43 (5.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 41 (5.50%) Relational Database
13 38 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
13 38 (5.09%) NoSQL
14 32 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
14 32 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
15 30 (4.02%) Star Schema
16 21 (2.82%) Oracle Database
16 21 (2.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 68 (9.12%) Git
2 38 (5.09%) JIRA
3 19 (2.55%) GitLab
4 12 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.34%) MLflow
6 4 (0.54%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.54%) ERwin
6 4 (0.54%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) LSMW
7 3 (0.40%) Postman
8 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 275 (36.86%) Finance
2 179 (23.99%) Social Skills
3 151 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (10.59%) Banking
5 74 (9.92%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.95%) Marketing
7 16 (2.14%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.61%) Retail
10 9 (1.21%) Front Office
10 9 (1.21%) Legal
11 8 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.54%) Billing
13 4 (0.54%) Games
13 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 309 (41.42%) Data Engineer
2 103 (13.81%) Senior
3 96 (12.87%) Architect
4 91 (12.20%) Lead
5 87 (11.66%) Developer
6 70 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 65 (8.71%) Analyst
8 44 (5.90%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 29 (3.89%) Snowflake Engineer
11 28 (3.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 25 (3.35%) Lead Data Engineer
13 24 (3.22%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.08%) Python Engineer
15 22 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
16 20 (2.68%) Azure Data Engineer
17 19 (2.55%) Python Data Engineer
18 18 (2.41%) AWS Data Engineer
18 18 (2.41%) Consultant
18 18 (2.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (12.73%) PySpark
2 70 (9.38%) Kafka
3 37 (4.96%) REST
4 26 (3.49%) JSON
5 24 (3.22%) Pandas
6 23 (3.08%) .NET
7 20 (2.68%) Middleware
8 15 (2.01%) Spring
8 15 (2.01%) XML
9 13 (1.74%) Great Expectations
9 13 (1.74%) PyTorch
9 13 (1.74%) Web Services
10 12 (1.61%) OAuth
10 12 (1.61%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.61%) TensorFlow
11 11 (1.47%) NumPy
11 11 (1.47%) YAML
12 10 (1.34%) HTML
12 10 (1.34%) React
13 9 (1.21%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 87 (11.66%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.37%) Data Structures
3 50 (6.70%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.95%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.74%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.61%) Clustering
10 12 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.61%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.34%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.21%) NHS
12 9 (1.21%) Replication
13 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
13 8 (1.07%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.94%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.94%) IoT
15 6 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.41%) Linux
2 12 (1.61%) Windows
3 7 (0.94%) Solaris
3 7 (0.94%) 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 5 (0.67%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (48.26%) Data Modelling
2 317 (42.49%) Data Pipeline
3 290 (38.87%) Analytics
4 276 (37.00%) Data Engineering
5 237 (31.77%) CI/CD
6 197 (26.41%) Business Intelligence
6 197 (26.41%) DevOps
7 184 (24.66%) Agile
8 180 (24.13%) Data Governance
9 171 (22.92%) Migration
10 148 (19.84%) AI
10 148 (19.84%) Validation
11 134 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 132 (17.69%) Data Architecture
13 120 (16.09%) Data Integration
14 115 (15.42%) Decision-Making
15 96 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
16 94 (12.60%) Data Transformation
17 92 (12.33%) Data Migration
18 90 (12.06%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 506 (67.83%) SQL
2 371 (49.73%) Python
3 82 (10.99%) Java
4 43 (5.76%) C#
5 41 (5.50%) Scala
6 37 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 35 (4.69%) T-SQL
8 30 (4.02%) PL/SQL
9 23 (3.08%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.14%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.88%) R
12 13 (1.74%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.94%) SAS Macro
15 6 (0.80%) Bash
15 6 (0.80%) Bicep
16 4 (0.54%) Cypher
16 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 144 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 123 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 46 (6.17%) Degree
4 28 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.47%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.54%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.27%) CISA
13 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CISM
14 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (34.99%) Data Quality
2 65 (8.71%) QA
3 56 (7.51%) GDPR
4 11 (1.47%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.47%) PMO
5 10 (1.34%) IFRS
6 9 (1.21%) GRC
7 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.94%) Solvency II
9 6 (0.80%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.40%) GAAP
10 3 (0.40%) GMP
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) COPPA
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 54 (7.24%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 89 (11.93%) Terraform
2 62 (8.31%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.80%) Grafana
4 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 4 (0.54%) Control-M
4 4 (0.54%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 157 (21.05%) Databricks
2 139 (18.63%) Microsoft
3 89 (11.93%) Oracle
4 51 (6.84%) Informatica
5 39 (5.23%) Google
6 23 (3.08%) SAP
7 19 (2.55%) IBM
8 16 (2.14%) Talend
9 14 (1.88%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.61%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.34%) Palantir
12 9 (1.21%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.21%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.07%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.07%) Workday
14 7 (0.94%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.80%) Denodo
16 5 (0.67%) Foundry
16 5 (0.67%) ServiceNow