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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 79 73
Rank change year-on-year +22 -6 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 657 443 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.40% 3.23% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.84% 3.57% 3.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 287 432
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £620
90th Percentile £725 £738 £724
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £36.25 £43.03
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £48.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +10.00%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.52
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.00
England median hourly rate £51.21 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +20.49% -19.05% +45.83%

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 13,562 12,418 16,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.85% 90.52% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,022 7,884 11,754
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 154 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £25.48 £19.10
Median hourly rate £34.00 £36.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.23% +22.17% -14.29%
75th Percentile £55.75 £53.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.25 £79.63 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%

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 6 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 6 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 +6 84 £488 -11.36% 53
West London -1 23 £603 +19.90% 5
South London -7 8 £500 +1.27% 4
East London +2 6 £463 +15.63% 4
North London - 1 £495 -
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 71 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 52 (7.91%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (7.15%) Apache
4 7 (1.07%) Appian
4 7 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.07%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.46%) Confluence
7 3 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.46%) SAS
7 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.30%) CMS
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.15%) Camunda
9 1 (0.15%) Luigi
9 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 26 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.46%) Trello
5 2 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
2 6 (0.91%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 4 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.46%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.46%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.30%) Actimize
5 2 (0.30%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 291 (44.29%) Azure
2 207 (31.51%) AWS
3 165 (25.11%) Power Platform
4 106 (16.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 96 (14.61%) Snowflake
6 82 (12.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 72 (10.96%) Amazon S3
8 71 (10.81%) GCP
9 53 (8.07%) Serverless
10 50 (7.61%) GitHub
11 46 (7.00%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (5.18%) dbt
14 31 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.65%) Collibra
17 18 (2.74%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
19 13 (1.98%) Amazon EMR
19 13 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.46%) 2G
1 3 (0.46%) 4G
1 3 (0.46%) 5G
1 3 (0.46%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.30%) BGP
2 2 (0.30%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.30%) OSPF
2 2 (0.30%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.15%) DSL
3 1 (0.15%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.15%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.15%) Internet
3 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
2 157 (23.90%) Power BI
3 122 (18.57%) Data Lake
4 92 (14.00%) SQL Server
5 77 (11.72%) Metadata
6 50 (7.61%) Big Data
6 50 (7.61%) Relational Database
7 49 (7.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (7.15%) Tableau
10 39 (5.94%) Delta Lake
11 37 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
12 34 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 32 (4.87%) BigQuery
14 31 (4.72%) Snowflake Schema
15 29 (4.41%) NoSQL
16 28 (4.26%) Oracle Database
16 28 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
17 19 (2.89%) Data Vault
17 19 (2.89%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (8.52%) Git
2 30 (4.57%) JIRA
3 23 (3.50%) GitLab
4 16 (2.44%) ERwin
5 15 (2.28%) Jenkins
6 14 (2.13%) MLflow
7 7 (1.07%) Selenium
8 5 (0.76%) Postman
9 4 (0.61%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.61%) Toad
10 3 (0.46%) JMeter
10 3 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.30%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.30%) TestRail
11 2 (0.30%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.15%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 228 (34.70%) Finance
2 192 (29.22%) Social Skills
3 94 (14.31%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (10.96%) Banking
5 39 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 19 (2.89%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.74%) Retail
8 14 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.67%) Marketing
10 7 (1.07%) Front Office
10 7 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.91%) Legal
12 5 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.76%) Law
12 5 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.76%) Publishing
13 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (38.96%) Data Engineer
2 89 (13.55%) Lead
3 84 (12.79%) Developer
4 70 (10.65%) Senior
5 63 (9.59%) Analyst
6 58 (8.83%) Architect
7 46 (7.00%) Data Analyst
8 45 (6.85%) Senior Data Engineer
9 38 (5.78%) Data Architect
10 29 (4.41%) Snowflake Engineer
11 27 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (3.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 23 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (3.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 20 (3.04%) Business Analyst
15 19 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
16 18 (2.74%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.74%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.44%) Data Modeller
18 15 (2.28%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (13.09%) PySpark
2 63 (9.59%) Kafka
3 30 (4.57%) Pandas
3 30 (4.57%) XML
4 26 (3.96%) REST
5 20 (3.04%) NumPy
6 18 (2.74%) PyTorch
7 16 (2.44%) TensorFlow
8 15 (2.28%) JSON
8 15 (2.28%) OAuth
9 14 (2.13%) .NET
9 14 (2.13%) RESTful
9 14 (2.13%) scikit-learn
10 13 (1.98%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.67%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.52%) Hugging Face
12 10 (1.52%) Middleware
12 10 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
12 10 (1.52%) pytest
13 9 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.15%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.63%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (3.04%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.13%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.13%) Reinsurance
6 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 9 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.37%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.37%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.22%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.91%) IoT
11 6 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 6 (0.91%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.44%) Linux
2 7 (1.07%) Unix
3 4 (0.61%) Windows
4 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) VMS
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (45.97%) Data Modelling
2 277 (42.16%) Analytics
3 238 (36.23%) Data Pipeline
4 233 (35.46%) Data Engineering
5 198 (30.14%) Business Intelligence
6 181 (27.55%) CI/CD
7 161 (24.51%) Data Governance
8 139 (21.16%) Agile
9 134 (20.40%) Migration
10 131 (19.94%) DevOps
11 123 (18.72%) Problem-Solving
12 121 (18.42%) Data Architecture
13 110 (16.74%) AI
14 104 (15.83%) Validation
15 101 (15.37%) Data Migration
16 98 (14.92%) Data Science
17 91 (13.85%) Machine Learning
18 88 (13.39%) Data Integration
19 82 (12.48%) Decision-Making
19 82 (12.48%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 457 (69.56%) SQL
2 329 (50.08%) Python
3 54 (8.22%) Java
4 37 (5.63%) Scala
5 36 (5.48%) C#
6 34 (5.18%) PL/SQL
7 20 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 17 (2.59%) JavaScript
10 11 (1.67%) Bicep
10 11 (1.67%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.67%) R
11 8 (1.22%) Bash
12 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.76%) Perl
15 4 (0.61%) Korn
15 4 (0.61%) PHP
16 3 (0.46%) VBA
17 2 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (14.76%) Security Cleared
2 74 (11.26%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.46%) Degree
4 32 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 20 (3.04%) Azure Certification
7 18 (2.74%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.91%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.91%) PMP
11 5 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.76%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.46%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE Data Center
13 1 (0.15%) CCNP
13 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (34.55%) Data Quality
2 68 (10.35%) GDPR
3 41 (6.24%) QA
4 16 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.67%) IFRS
6 9 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.37%) IFRS 17
7 7 (1.07%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.76%) GAAP
8 5 (0.76%) MiFID
9 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.61%) PMO
10 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.46%) Basel III
10 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.46%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.46%) NIST
11 2 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.30%) EMIR
12 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 51 (7.76%) Docker
2 5 (0.76%) zsh
3 2 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.30%) KVM
3 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) HDFS
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 81 (12.33%) Terraform
2 52 (7.91%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.61%) Ansible
3 4 (0.61%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.61%) Kibana
3 4 (0.61%) logstash
4 3 (0.46%) Control-M
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
5 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 162 (24.66%) Databricks
2 113 (17.20%) Microsoft
3 68 (10.35%) Oracle
4 38 (5.78%) Informatica
5 30 (4.57%) SAP
6 24 (3.65%) Google
7 14 (2.13%) Workday
8 13 (1.98%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.98%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.83%) Talend
10 11 (1.67%) IBM
10 11 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.67%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.22%) Palantir
11 8 (1.22%) UiPath
12 7 (1.07%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.07%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (1.07%) Foundry
13 6 (0.91%) Avaloq
14 4 (0.61%) TIBCO