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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 75 71
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +31
Contract jobs citing ETL 544 491 561
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.24% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.14% 3.60% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 312 445
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £729 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile - £36.88 £47.38
25th Percentile £32.50 £39.69 £56.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £46.50 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% -24.30% +19.28%
75th Percentile £44.75 £54.00 £64.65
90th Percentile - £58.05 £65.90
England median hourly rate £43.50 £46.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -6.45% -23.14% +70.42%

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 13,135 13,632 16,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.46% 90.03% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 8,766 12,134
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 164 235
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.65 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +4.71% -10.83%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.90 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

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 16 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
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 16 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 -9 75 £500 -10.51% 30
West London -8 10 £600 +9.09% 7
South London -2 6 £466 -13.26% 8
East London -1 2 £418 +4.38% 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 62 (11.40%) Apache Spark
2 55 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (8.27%) Apache
4 10 (1.84%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.74%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) Luigi
5 4 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.37%) IIS
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.18%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.18%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.37%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.47%) Aladdin
1 8 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.55%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.37%) Actimize
3 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
4 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.18%) Maximo
4 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 232 (42.65%) Azure
2 174 (31.99%) AWS
3 125 (22.98%) Power Platform
4 96 (17.65%) Snowflake
5 75 (13.79%) GCP
6 74 (13.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 68 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 55 (10.11%) Amazon S3
9 40 (7.35%) Serverless
10 37 (6.80%) dbt
11 32 (5.88%) GitHub
12 30 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
13 29 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (3.86%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (2.76%) Amazon EMR
16 13 (2.39%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (2.21%) Azure Functions
18 10 (1.84%) Collibra
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
1 179 (32.90%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (21.32%) Power BI
3 83 (15.26%) Data Lake
4 66 (12.13%) SQL Server
5 60 (11.03%) Metadata
6 55 (10.11%) Big Data
7 46 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (8.46%) Relational Database
8 44 (8.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 40 (7.35%) BigQuery
10 39 (7.17%) Tableau
11 28 (5.15%) Delta Lake
12 25 (4.60%) Amazon Athena
12 25 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.41%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.41%) Snowflake Schema
14 23 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (3.49%) Oracle Database
16 17 (3.13%) Hadoop
16 17 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (7.90%) Git
2 19 (3.49%) JIRA
3 16 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.57%) GitLab
5 11 (2.02%) ERwin
6 8 (1.47%) Selenium
7 7 (1.29%) Postman
8 6 (1.10%) MLflow
9 4 (0.74%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.74%) Toad
10 3 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
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%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 177 (32.54%) Finance
2 171 (31.43%) Social Skills
3 91 (16.73%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.01%) Banking
5 38 (6.99%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.57%) Retail
7 10 (1.84%) Financial Institution
7 10 (1.84%) Marketing
8 9 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.29%) Front Office
9 7 (1.29%) Telecoms
10 5 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.92%) Publishing
11 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.74%) Law
11 4 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 178 (32.72%) Data Engineer
2 80 (14.71%) Developer
3 60 (11.03%) Lead
4 59 (10.85%) Analyst
5 54 (9.93%) Architect
6 51 (9.38%) Senior
7 40 (7.35%) Data Analyst
8 34 (6.25%) Data Architect
9 30 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (4.96%) Azure Data Engineer
11 23 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
12 18 (3.31%) Consultant
12 18 (3.31%) Snowflake Engineer
13 17 (3.13%) Business Analyst
14 16 (2.94%) Python Engineer
15 15 (2.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 15 (2.76%) Senior Developer
16 13 (2.39%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.39%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (2.39%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (12.32%) PySpark
2 51 (9.38%) Kafka
3 29 (5.33%) XML
4 21 (3.86%) JSON
5 14 (2.57%) Pandas
5 14 (2.57%) RESTful
6 11 (2.02%) REST
7 10 (1.84%) NumPy
8 9 (1.65%) OAuth
9 8 (1.47%) .NET
9 8 (1.47%) Great Expectations
9 8 (1.47%) Spark Streaming
10 7 (1.29%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.10%) Node.js
11 6 (1.10%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.92%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.92%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.92%) XSLT
13 4 (0.74%) pytest
13 4 (0.74%) React
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.43%) Cloud Native
2 34 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 19 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.39%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (2.39%) Product Ownership
6 11 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 8 (1.47%) Reinsurance
10 7 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.29%) IoT
10 7 (1.29%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.10%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.92%) Replication
12 5 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.74%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.57%) Linux
2 6 (1.10%) 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 (43.01%) Data Modelling
2 217 (39.89%) Analytics
3 203 (37.32%) Data Pipeline
4 177 (32.54%) Data Engineering
5 159 (29.23%) Business Intelligence
6 149 (27.39%) Data Governance
7 139 (25.55%) CI/CD
8 123 (22.61%) Migration
8 123 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (20.22%) Agile
10 98 (18.01%) DevOps
11 90 (16.54%) Data Architecture
12 89 (16.36%) Data Integration
13 88 (16.18%) Data Migration
14 86 (15.81%) Data Science
15 82 (15.07%) Validation
16 70 (12.87%) Data Transformation
17 69 (12.68%) Machine Learning
18 64 (11.76%) Visualisation
19 61 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 383 (70.40%) SQL
2 280 (51.47%) Python
3 57 (10.48%) Java
4 27 (4.96%) C#
4 27 (4.96%) Scala
5 23 (4.23%) PL/SQL
5 23 (4.23%) T-SQL
6 21 (3.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (2.76%) JavaScript
8 12 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 12 (2.21%) R
9 10 (1.84%) Bash
10 8 (1.47%) VBA
11 6 (1.10%) Perl
11 6 (1.10%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.92%) Bicep
12 5 (0.92%) Korn
13 4 (0.74%) Go
13 4 (0.74%) PHP
13 4 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 52 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.17%) Degree
4 27 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 13 (2.39%) Azure Certification
7 12 (2.21%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.65%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.92%) 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%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 170 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 48 (8.82%) GDPR
3 33 (6.07%) QA
4 12 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.47%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.74%) MiFID
7 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.74%) SLA
8 3 (0.55%) IFRS
8 3 (0.55%) PMO
9 2 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.37%) EMIR
9 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) DICOM
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) PERC
10 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 37 (6.80%) 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 (10.11%) Terraform
2 33 (6.07%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.10%) 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
1 133 (24.45%) Databricks
2 88 (16.18%) Microsoft
3 48 (8.82%) Oracle
4 30 (5.51%) Google
5 23 (4.23%) Informatica
6 20 (3.68%) SAP
7 15 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.84%) Talend
9 9 (1.65%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.47%) Palantir
10 8 (1.47%) VMware
11 7 (1.29%) Foundry
12 6 (1.10%) Workday
13 5 (0.92%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.92%) EMC
13 5 (0.92%) IBM
13 5 (0.92%) Teradata
14 4 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.74%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.74%) TIBCO