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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 70 74
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 715 454 549
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.50% 3.38% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 3.72% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 299 438
10th Percentile £363 £384 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £636
90th Percentile £725 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.13 £44.89
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% -3.34%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £63.14
90th Percentile - £57.35 £68.00
England median hourly rate £69.44 £42.50 £50.78
% change year-on-year +63.39% -16.30% +45.08%

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 14,350 12,188 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.29% 90.83% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,627 7,901 11,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 218 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.69 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.25 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £72.20
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +23 93 £513 -8.07% 29
West London -2 25 £603 +9.55% 3
South London -10 13 £475 -2.56% 5
East London +3 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 78 (10.91%) Apache Spark
2 59 (8.25%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (6.57%) Apache
4 9 (1.26%) SAS
5 8 (1.12%) Appian
5 8 (1.12%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.56%) Confluence
8 4 (0.56%) nginx
9 3 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.28%) Camunda
10 2 (0.28%) CMS
10 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.42%) Trello
5 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.70%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.70%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.28%) Actimize
6 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) Maximo
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 325 (45.45%) Azure
2 232 (32.45%) AWS
3 182 (25.45%) Power Platform
4 114 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 100 (13.99%) Snowflake
6 93 (13.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 85 (11.89%) GCP
8 83 (11.61%) Amazon S3
9 59 (8.25%) Serverless
10 51 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (7.13%) GitHub
11 48 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
12 39 (5.45%) dbt
13 36 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
14 32 (4.48%) Collibra
15 24 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (2.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (2.10%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) 4G
1 4 (0.56%) 5G
2 3 (0.42%) 2G
2 3 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (29.93%) Data Warehouse
2 168 (23.50%) Power BI
3 135 (18.88%) Data Lake
4 103 (14.41%) SQL Server
5 85 (11.89%) Metadata
6 56 (7.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 53 (7.41%) Tableau
8 50 (6.99%) Big Data
8 50 (6.99%) Relational Database
9 45 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (6.01%) Amazon Athena
11 42 (5.87%) Delta Lake
12 38 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 38 (5.31%) BigQuery
13 37 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
14 31 (4.34%) NoSQL
14 31 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
15 28 (3.92%) Oracle Database
16 21 (2.94%) OLAP
17 17 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (10.07%) Git
2 29 (4.06%) JIRA
3 24 (3.36%) GitLab
4 17 (2.38%) MLflow
5 15 (2.10%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.96%) ERwin
7 9 (1.26%) Selenium
8 7 (0.98%) Postman
9 4 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.56%) Toad
10 3 (0.42%) JMeter
10 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.28%) LSMW
11 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Ant
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 257 (35.94%) Finance
2 217 (30.35%) Social Skills
3 113 (15.80%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.75%) Banking
5 51 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.22%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.52%) Retail
8 17 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.68%) Marketing
10 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.84%) Front Office
11 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.84%) Legal
12 5 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.70%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.70%) Law
12 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.70%) Publishing
13 4 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (38.74%) Data Engineer
2 94 (13.15%) Lead
3 90 (12.59%) Developer
4 79 (11.05%) Senior
5 73 (10.21%) Architect
6 67 (9.37%) Analyst
7 53 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.43%) Data Analyst
9 40 (5.59%) Data Architect
10 31 (4.34%) Snowflake Engineer
11 26 (3.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 21 (2.94%) Business Analyst
14 21 (2.94%) Lead Data Engineer
14 21 (2.94%) Python Engineer
15 20 (2.80%) Azure Data Engineer
16 18 (2.52%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.24%) Solutions Architect
18 14 (1.96%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (13.01%) PySpark
2 68 (9.51%) Kafka
3 32 (4.48%) Pandas
4 30 (4.20%) XML
5 29 (4.06%) REST
6 23 (3.22%) NumPy
7 21 (2.94%) PyTorch
8 19 (2.66%) TensorFlow
9 17 (2.38%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.24%) Great Expectations
10 16 (2.24%) JSON
10 16 (2.24%) Middleware
10 16 (2.24%) RESTful
11 14 (1.96%) .NET
11 14 (1.96%) OAuth
12 12 (1.68%) pytest
13 11 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.40%) Web Services
14 10 (1.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.73%) Legacy Systems
4 22 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.10%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.82%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 10 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.40%) Low-Code
9 10 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.98%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.84%) IoT
13 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.52%) Linux
2 9 (1.26%) Windows
3 7 (0.98%) Unix
4 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.56%) Solaris
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.42%) VMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (47.83%) Data Modelling
2 307 (42.94%) Analytics
3 260 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 256 (35.80%) Data Pipeline
5 209 (29.23%) Business Intelligence
6 204 (28.53%) CI/CD
7 179 (25.03%) Data Governance
8 155 (21.68%) Migration
9 152 (21.26%) Agile
10 141 (19.72%) DevOps
11 132 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
12 127 (17.76%) Data Architecture
13 121 (16.92%) AI
14 116 (16.22%) Validation
15 114 (15.94%) Data Migration
16 112 (15.66%) Data Science
17 96 (13.43%) Decision-Making
18 95 (13.29%) Machine Learning
19 89 (12.45%) Data Integration
20 87 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 495 (69.23%) SQL
2 352 (49.23%) Python
3 56 (7.83%) Java
4 42 (5.87%) C#
5 39 (5.45%) Scala
6 37 (5.17%) PL/SQL
7 25 (3.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 25 (3.50%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.82%) Bicep
10 12 (1.68%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.68%) R
11 8 (1.12%) Bash
12 7 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.70%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.56%) Korn
15 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 4 (0.56%) PHP
16 3 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 115 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 88 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.99%) Degree
4 33 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 21 (2.94%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.38%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.12%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.84%) PMP
11 5 (0.70%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.14%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (34.97%) Data Quality
2 69 (9.65%) GDPR
3 52 (7.27%) QA
4 17 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.68%) IFRS
6 9 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.26%) IFRS 17
7 6 (0.84%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.84%) PMO
8 5 (0.70%) GAAP
8 5 (0.70%) MiFID
9 4 (0.56%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.42%) Basel III
10 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.42%) NIST
10 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.28%) EMIR
11 2 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 54 (7.55%) Docker
2 4 (0.56%) zsh
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 92 (12.87%) Terraform
2 57 (7.97%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.42%) Ansible
3 3 (0.42%) Control-M
4 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.28%) Kibana
4 2 (0.28%) logstash
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 174 (24.34%) Databricks
2 126 (17.62%) Microsoft
3 78 (10.91%) Oracle
4 44 (6.15%) Informatica
5 35 (4.90%) SAP
6 29 (4.06%) Google
7 16 (2.24%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.10%) IBM
8 15 (2.10%) Talend
8 15 (2.10%) Workday
9 14 (1.96%) MuleSoft
9 14 (1.96%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.68%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.26%) UiPath
12 8 (1.12%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.98%) Alteryx
13 7 (0.98%) Palantir
14 6 (0.84%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.84%) Foundry
15 5 (0.70%) Red Hat