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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 77 75
Rank change year-on-year +25 -2 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 734 425 529
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.48% 3.30% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.99% 3.62% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 283 418
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £638
90th Percentile £738 £755 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.13 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.84% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £57.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £67.35 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +7.75% +26.26% +37.02%

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 14,705 11,729 16,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.08% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,847 11,501
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% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 163 342
10th Percentile £18.11 £20.09 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.89 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% +19.00% -17.37%
75th Percentile £57.00 £53.75 £49.97
90th Percentile £72.00 £77.00 £69.43
England median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%

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 17 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 17 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 +20 95 £513 -9.89% 67
West London +6 29 £603 -5.49% 5
South London -6 13 £469 -2.60% 3
East London +2 7 £450 +12.50% 4
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 (11.31%) Apache Spark
2 65 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
3 52 (7.08%) Apache
4 10 (1.36%) SAS
4 10 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.09%) Appian
6 7 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.68%) Confluence
8 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.54%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) Camunda
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.41%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 336 (45.78%) Azure
2 240 (32.70%) AWS
3 195 (26.57%) Power Platform
4 115 (15.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 106 (14.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 100 (13.62%) Snowflake
7 93 (12.67%) Amazon S3
8 86 (11.72%) GCP
9 65 (8.86%) Serverless
10 59 (8.04%) GitHub
11 58 (7.90%) Azure DevOps
12 55 (7.49%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (5.99%) dbt
14 40 (5.45%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (4.90%) Collibra
16 26 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
17 21 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
18 17 (2.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.32%) Amazon SQS
19 15 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) 4G
1 4 (0.54%) 5G
2 3 (0.41%) 2G
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (30.93%) Data Warehouse
2 182 (24.80%) Power BI
3 144 (19.62%) Data Lake
4 109 (14.85%) SQL Server
5 85 (11.58%) Metadata
6 60 (8.17%) Tableau
7 56 (7.63%) Relational Database
8 55 (7.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 54 (7.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 53 (7.22%) Big Data
11 47 (6.40%) Amazon Athena
12 46 (6.27%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (6.27%) Delta Lake
13 40 (5.45%) BigQuery
13 40 (5.45%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (4.09%) NoSQL
15 28 (3.81%) Oracle Database
15 28 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
16 26 (3.54%) Star Schema
17 25 (3.41%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 69 (9.40%) Git
2 30 (4.09%) JIRA
3 25 (3.41%) GitLab
4 17 (2.32%) MLflow
5 15 (2.04%) ERwin
6 13 (1.77%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.95%) Selenium
8 5 (0.68%) Postman
9 4 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.54%) Toad
10 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.27%) LSMW
11 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Ant
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 263 (35.83%) Finance
2 212 (28.88%) Social Skills
3 124 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.31%) Banking
5 55 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.27%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.91%) Marketing
8 14 (1.91%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.77%) Retail
10 9 (1.23%) Legal
11 7 (0.95%) Front Office
12 6 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.82%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Law
13 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Publishing
14 4 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 297 (40.46%) Data Engineer
2 95 (12.94%) Lead
3 90 (12.26%) Developer
4 87 (11.85%) Senior
5 70 (9.54%) Architect
6 67 (9.13%) Analyst
7 60 (8.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (6.13%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.31%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.36%) Snowflake Engineer
11 28 (3.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 23 (3.13%) Lead Data Engineer
14 21 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (2.86%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.72%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.59%) Azure Data Engineer
17 18 (2.45%) Senior Developer
18 16 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
19 15 (2.04%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.53%) PySpark
2 77 (10.49%) Kafka
3 33 (4.50%) Pandas
4 30 (4.09%) REST
5 25 (3.41%) XML
6 21 (2.86%) NumPy
7 19 (2.59%) Great Expectations
8 17 (2.32%) PyTorch
9 15 (2.04%) Middleware
9 15 (2.04%) scikit-learn
9 15 (2.04%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.91%) .NET
10 14 (1.91%) RESTful
11 13 (1.77%) JSON
12 12 (1.63%) pytest
13 11 (1.50%) OAuth
13 11 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.50%) Spark Streaming
13 11 (1.50%) Web Services
14 10 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 69 (9.40%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.63%) Data Structures
3 45 (6.13%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 14 (1.91%) Reinsurance
7 13 (1.77%) Management Information System
7 13 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.50%) Fixed Income
8 11 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.23%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.09%) Reference Data
11 7 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.95%) IoT
11 7 (0.95%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.82%) AI Agents
12 6 (0.82%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.04%) Linux
2 9 (1.23%) Windows
3 7 (0.95%) Unix
4 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.54%) Solaris
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (48.64%) Data Modelling
2 321 (43.73%) Analytics
3 282 (38.42%) Data Engineering
4 267 (36.38%) Data Pipeline
5 221 (30.11%) Business Intelligence
6 215 (29.29%) CI/CD
7 181 (24.66%) Data Governance
8 163 (22.21%) DevOps
9 160 (21.80%) Migration
10 159 (21.66%) Agile
11 134 (18.26%) Data Architecture
11 134 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
12 126 (17.17%) AI
13 121 (16.49%) Validation
14 116 (15.80%) Data Migration
15 109 (14.85%) Data Science
16 104 (14.17%) Decision-Making
17 92 (12.53%) Data Integration
18 91 (12.40%) Machine Learning
19 90 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 525 (71.53%) SQL
2 367 (50.00%) Python
3 56 (7.63%) Java
4 44 (5.99%) C#
5 43 (5.86%) Scala
6 36 (4.90%) PL/SQL
7 30 (4.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (3.41%) T-SQL
9 16 (2.18%) JavaScript
10 15 (2.04%) R
11 11 (1.50%) Bicep
12 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.82%) Bash
13 6 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.68%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.54%) Perl
15 4 (0.54%) PHP
16 3 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 125 (17.03%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.22%) Degree
4 37 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 20 (2.72%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.68%) PMP
11 5 (0.68%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.14%) HP APS
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (36.38%) Data Quality
2 71 (9.67%) GDPR
3 59 (8.04%) QA
4 16 (2.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.63%) IFRS
6 9 (1.23%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.95%) PMO
9 5 (0.68%) GAAP
9 5 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.68%) MiFID
10 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.54%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.41%) Basel III
11 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.41%) NIST
12 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.27%) EMIR
12 2 (0.27%) GMP
12 2 (0.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (7.36%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.27%) zsh
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 100 (13.62%) Terraform
2 59 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
4 3 (0.41%) Control-M
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.14%) Grafana
6 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 175 (23.84%) Databricks
2 136 (18.53%) Microsoft
3 80 (10.90%) Oracle
4 52 (7.08%) Informatica
5 35 (4.77%) Google
6 34 (4.63%) SAP
7 16 (2.18%) IBM
7 16 (2.18%) Workday
8 15 (2.04%) MuleSoft
8 15 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.04%) Talend
9 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.50%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.23%) UiPath
12 8 (1.09%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.09%) Palantir
13 7 (0.95%) Foundry
14 6 (0.82%) Avaloq
15 5 (0.68%) Red Hat
16 4 (0.54%) Bloomberg