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 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 69 71
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 758 500 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 3.72% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.22% 4.02% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 359 376
10th Percentile £364 £400 £363
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.64%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £639
90th Percentile £700 £738 £749
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -2.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.25 £39.69
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -26.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

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 17,955 12,445 14,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.75% 92.54% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,784 8,216 9,548
10th Percentile £358 £330 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 243 183
10th Percentile £16.18 £17.26 £17.30
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.81 £30.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +1 89 £500 - 78
West London -6 23 £520 +4.00% 23
East London +7 7 £450 -33.33% 3
South London -1 6 £438 -4.37% 3
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 97 (12.80%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (12.14%) Apache Spark
3 67 (8.84%) Apache
4 40 (5.28%) SAS
5 18 (2.37%) Confluence
6 14 (1.85%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.92%) nginx
7 7 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.66%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Actimize
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 315 (41.56%) Azure
2 227 (29.95%) AWS
3 155 (20.45%) Power Platform
4 142 (18.73%) Snowflake
5 116 (15.30%) GCP
6 96 (12.66%) dbt
7 94 (12.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 85 (11.21%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (8.71%) Amazon S3
10 63 (8.31%) GitHub
11 62 (8.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 57 (7.52%) Serverless
13 48 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.43%) Azure Databricks
15 26 (3.43%) Collibra
16 19 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (2.24%) SaaS
18 14 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 13 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 248 (32.72%) Data Warehouse
2 149 (19.66%) Power BI
3 112 (14.78%) Data Lake
4 73 (9.63%) SQL Server
5 69 (9.10%) Metadata
6 66 (8.71%) Delta Lake
7 53 (6.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 52 (6.86%) BigQuery
9 49 (6.46%) Big Data
10 48 (6.33%) Relational Database
11 43 (5.67%) Tableau
12 36 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
13 35 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (4.35%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.96%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (3.69%) Power Query
16 28 (3.69%) Snowflake Schema
17 23 (3.03%) Oracle Database
18 22 (2.90%) Star Schema
19 20 (2.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 77 (10.16%) Git
2 39 (5.15%) JIRA
3 36 (4.75%) GitLab
4 22 (2.90%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.06%) MLflow
5 8 (1.06%) Selenium
6 7 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.40%) ERwin
8 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 247 (32.59%) Finance
2 187 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 135 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (14.64%) Banking
5 57 (7.52%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.77%) Marketing
6 21 (2.77%) Retail
7 17 (2.24%) Front Office
8 13 (1.72%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.45%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.06%) Billing
11 8 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.92%) Back Office
12 7 (0.92%) Legal
13 6 (0.79%) Publishing
13 6 (0.79%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.66%) Games
Job Titles
1 307 (40.50%) Data Engineer
2 128 (16.89%) Senior
3 104 (13.72%) Architect
4 87 (11.48%) Developer
5 84 (11.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 77 (10.16%) Lead
7 70 (9.23%) Analyst
8 43 (5.67%) Databricks Engineer
9 40 (5.28%) Data Architect
10 38 (5.01%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (5.01%) Data Analyst
10 38 (5.01%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 29 (3.83%) Azure Data Engineer
12 26 (3.43%) Snowflake Engineer
13 25 (3.30%) Consultant
14 22 (2.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 22 (2.90%) Technical Leader
15 20 (2.64%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
16 19 (2.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (12.40%) PySpark
2 76 (10.03%) Terraform
3 70 (9.23%) Kafka
4 36 (4.75%) .NET
4 36 (4.75%) REST
5 27 (3.56%) JSON
6 21 (2.77%) Middleware
7 17 (2.24%) Pandas
8 16 (2.11%) React
9 13 (1.72%) Spring
10 12 (1.58%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.58%) YAML
11 10 (1.32%) Web Services
11 10 (1.32%) XML
12 9 (1.19%) HTML
13 8 (1.06%) LangChain
13 8 (1.06%) NumPy
14 7 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 6 (0.79%) Apache Avro
15 6 (0.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.42%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.39%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.80%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 32 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.64%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.37%) Reference Data
9 16 (2.11%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.72%) Replication
11 12 (1.58%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.45%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.06%) Clustering
14 8 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.06%) IoT
14 8 (1.06%) NHS
14 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 29 (3.83%) Linux
2 13 (1.72%) Unix
2 13 (1.72%) Windows
3 4 (0.53%) Solaris
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (45.25%) Data Modelling
2 322 (42.48%) Data Pipeline
3 293 (38.65%) Data Engineering
4 289 (38.13%) Analytics
5 260 (34.30%) CI/CD
6 236 (31.13%) Agile
7 191 (25.20%) DevOps
8 187 (24.67%) Business Intelligence
9 179 (23.61%) Data Governance
10 161 (21.24%) Migration
11 159 (20.98%) AI
12 157 (20.71%) Validation
13 154 (20.32%) Data Integration
14 153 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
15 135 (17.81%) Data Transformation
16 129 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
17 114 (15.04%) Data Architecture
18 98 (12.93%) Decision-Making
19 88 (11.61%) Data Migration
20 84 (11.08%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 503 (66.36%) SQL
2 354 (46.70%) Python
3 74 (9.76%) Java
4 40 (5.28%) Scala
5 38 (5.01%) C#
6 36 (4.75%) PL/SQL
7 34 (4.49%) JavaScript
8 33 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 28 (3.69%) T-SQL
10 25 (3.30%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.58%) R
13 11 (1.45%) Bash
13 11 (1.45%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.06%) Cypher
15 5 (0.66%) Bicep
16 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.40%) Korn
17 3 (0.40%) Perl
17 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 131 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 112 (14.78%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.01%) Degree
4 19 (2.51%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.85%) AWS Certification
6 14 (1.85%) Master's Degree
7 13 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.66%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) PMP
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (35.62%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.33%) QA
3 33 (4.35%) GDPR
4 29 (3.83%) GRC
5 11 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.06%) IFRS
7 8 (1.06%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.53%) GAAP
8 4 (0.53%) PMO
9 3 (0.40%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) COREP
10 2 (0.26%) FINREP
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (7.65%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 59 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.45%) Control-M
3 8 (1.06%) Ansible
4 6 (0.79%) Grafana
5 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 194 (25.59%) Databricks
2 134 (17.68%) Microsoft
3 121 (15.96%) Oracle
4 46 (6.07%) Informatica
5 35 (4.62%) Google
6 23 (3.03%) Talend
7 19 (2.51%) SAP
8 18 (2.37%) IBM
9 14 (1.85%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.72%) Foundry
10 13 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 11 (1.45%) Palantir
12 10 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.19%) OpenAI
14 8 (1.06%) SnapLogic
15 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.79%) Hyperion
15 6 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
15 6 (0.79%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.66%) Hitachi