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

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 80 75
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 554 473 559
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 3.17% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.51% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 297 445
10th Percentile £363 £360 £382
25th Percentile £419 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
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 13,164 13,457 16,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.37% 90.13% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,669 8,640 11,879
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £761 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 165 233
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.04 £18.36
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £21.00
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +11.65% -15.64%
75th Percentile £52.66 £55.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +20.52%

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 23 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 23 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 -6 78 £500 -11.89% 80
West London -4 13 £600 +9.09% 7
South London -6 6 £466 -6.75% 13
East London 0 3 £475 +18.75% 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 64 (11.55%) Apache Spark
2 55 (9.93%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (8.66%) Apache
4 9 (1.62%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.90%) Confluence
6 4 (0.72%) SAS
7 3 (0.54%) Luigi
8 2 (0.36%) CMS
8 2 (0.36%) IIS
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.18%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.18%) Appian
9 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 33 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.36%) Trello
6 1 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.44%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.36%) Actimize
4 2 (0.36%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.36%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.36%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.36%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.18%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.18%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.18%) Maximo
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 236 (42.60%) Azure
2 179 (32.31%) AWS
3 128 (23.10%) Power Platform
4 95 (17.15%) Snowflake
5 74 (13.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (12.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 69 (12.45%) GCP
8 59 (10.65%) Amazon S3
9 46 (8.30%) Serverless
10 35 (6.32%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (6.32%) dbt
11 33 (5.96%) GitHub
12 32 (5.78%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (2.53%) Collibra
17 12 (2.17%) Azure Functions
17 12 (2.17%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.54%) 2G
1 3 (0.54%) 4G
1 3 (0.54%) 5G
1 3 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.36%) BGP
2 2 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.36%) DNS
2 2 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.36%) OSPF
2 2 (0.36%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.18%) DSL
3 1 (0.18%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.18%) Firewall
3 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.18%) Multicast
3 1 (0.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (32.31%) Data Warehouse
2 119 (21.48%) Power BI
3 87 (15.70%) Data Lake
4 67 (12.09%) SQL Server
5 61 (11.01%) Metadata
6 52 (9.39%) Big Data
7 50 (9.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 46 (8.30%) Relational Database
9 42 (7.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 39 (7.04%) Tableau
11 38 (6.86%) BigQuery
12 29 (5.23%) Delta Lake
13 27 (4.87%) Amazon Athena
14 24 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
14 24 (4.33%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (4.15%) NoSQL
16 22 (3.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (3.79%) Oracle Database
18 17 (3.07%) DataStage
18 17 (3.07%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 43 (7.76%) Git
2 17 (3.07%) JIRA
3 16 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 15 (2.71%) GitLab
5 11 (1.99%) ERwin
6 7 (1.26%) MLflow
6 7 (1.26%) Postman
6 7 (1.26%) Selenium
7 4 (0.72%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.72%) Toad
8 3 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.36%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.36%) TestRail
9 2 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.18%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.18%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 179 (32.31%) Finance
2 173 (31.23%) Social Skills
3 93 (16.79%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (9.21%) Banking
5 38 (6.86%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.53%) Retail
7 13 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 11 (1.99%) Marketing
9 9 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.44%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.26%) Front Office
11 7 (1.26%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.08%) Publishing
13 5 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.72%) Law
14 4 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 185 (33.39%) Data Engineer
2 82 (14.80%) Developer
3 62 (11.19%) Analyst
4 61 (11.01%) Lead
5 54 (9.75%) Architect
6 49 (8.84%) Senior
7 41 (7.40%) Data Analyst
8 33 (5.96%) Data Architect
9 28 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (4.69%) Azure Data Engineer
11 22 (3.97%) Senior Data Engineer
12 19 (3.43%) Business Analyst
12 19 (3.43%) Consultant
13 18 (3.25%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 16 (2.89%) Python Engineer
15 16 (2.89%) Senior Developer
16 13 (2.35%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.35%) Data Modeller
16 13 (2.35%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (13.00%) PySpark
2 52 (9.39%) Kafka
3 29 (5.23%) XML
4 20 (3.61%) JSON
5 18 (3.25%) Pandas
6 17 (3.07%) REST
7 15 (2.71%) RESTful
8 13 (2.35%) NumPy
9 10 (1.81%) .NET
9 10 (1.81%) Great Expectations
9 10 (1.81%) OAuth
10 8 (1.44%) PyTorch
11 7 (1.26%) Spark Streaming
11 7 (1.26%) TensorFlow
12 6 (1.08%) Node.js
12 6 (1.08%) scikit-learn
13 5 (0.90%) GraphQL
13 5 (0.90%) HTML
13 5 (0.90%) pytest
13 5 (0.90%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.04%) Cloud Native
2 35 (6.32%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.89%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.44%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.26%) IoT
9 7 (1.26%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.08%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.08%) Replication
10 6 (1.08%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.53%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.36%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.36%) Windows
4 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.18%) VMS
4 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (43.68%) Data Modelling
2 221 (39.89%) Analytics
3 207 (37.36%) Data Pipeline
4 178 (32.13%) Data Engineering
5 164 (29.60%) Business Intelligence
6 148 (26.71%) Data Governance
7 141 (25.45%) CI/CD
8 124 (22.38%) Migration
9 123 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (19.49%) Agile
11 102 (18.41%) DevOps
12 92 (16.61%) Data Architecture
13 88 (15.88%) Data Integration
14 87 (15.70%) Data Migration
14 87 (15.70%) Data Science
14 87 (15.70%) Validation
15 72 (13.00%) Machine Learning
16 70 (12.64%) Data Transformation
17 66 (11.91%) AI
17 66 (11.91%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 385 (69.49%) SQL
2 282 (50.90%) Python
3 52 (9.39%) Java
4 29 (5.23%) C#
4 29 (5.23%) Scala
5 24 (4.33%) PL/SQL
6 22 (3.97%) T-SQL
7 21 (3.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.71%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.17%) R
10 11 (1.99%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.81%) Bash
12 8 (1.44%) VBA
13 6 (1.08%) Bicep
13 6 (1.08%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.90%) Korn
14 5 (0.90%) Perl
15 4 (0.72%) Go
15 4 (0.72%) PHP
15 4 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 57 (10.29%) SC Cleared
3 38 (6.86%) Degree
4 27 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 14 (2.53%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.35%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.62%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.72%) PMP
10 4 (0.72%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.36%) CISSP
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) MCP
12 1 (0.18%) CCIE
12 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.18%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (31.41%) Data Quality
2 51 (9.21%) GDPR
3 35 (6.32%) QA
4 10 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.44%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (0.72%) MiFID
6 4 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.72%) SLA
7 3 (0.54%) IFRS
7 3 (0.54%) PMO
8 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.36%) EMIR
8 2 (0.36%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.18%) DICOM
9 1 (0.18%) HL7
9 1 (0.18%) PERC
9 1 (0.18%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (6.86%) Docker
2 5 (0.90%) zsh
3 4 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.36%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.36%) KVM
4 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.18%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 59 (10.65%) Terraform
2 34 (6.14%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.08%) Ansible
4 5 (0.90%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.72%) Control-M
5 4 (0.72%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.72%) Kibana
5 4 (0.72%) logstash
6 2 (0.36%) 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
1 138 (24.91%) Databricks
2 89 (16.06%) Microsoft
3 49 (8.84%) Oracle
4 28 (5.05%) Google
5 23 (4.15%) Informatica
6 22 (3.97%) SAP
7 15 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.81%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.81%) Talend
9 8 (1.44%) Palantir
9 8 (1.44%) VMware
10 7 (1.26%) Foundry
11 6 (1.08%) IBM
11 6 (1.08%) Workday
12 5 (0.90%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.90%) EMC
12 5 (0.90%) Teradata
13 4 (0.72%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.72%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.72%) TIBCO