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 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 73 77
Rank change year-on-year +15 +4 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 757 442 530
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.07% 3.62% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 3.92% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 300 400
10th Percentile £358 £406 £381
25th Percentile £425 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +2.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -2.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 10
10th Percentile - £42.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £51.25 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -26.67%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £74.75 £55.63
England median hourly rate £57.25 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year +9.05% +15.38% -35.00%

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 16,491 11,277 15,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.67% 92.29% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,532 11,159
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £682 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 198 318
10th Percentile £18.48 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.22 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.70 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% +15.73% -27.95%
75th Percentile £58.96 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £63.75 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.08% -23.73% +3.81%

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 7 June 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 7 June 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 87 £506 -10.79% 47
West London 0 31 £603 +19.07% 4
South London -1 12 £463 -2.63%
East London +2 9 £450 -33.33% 1
North London +1 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 92 (12.15%) Apache Spark
2 76 (10.04%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.13%) Apache
4 15 (1.98%) SAS
5 9 (1.19%) Appian
5 9 (1.19%) Confluence
5 9 (1.19%) Tomcat
6 8 (1.06%) nginx
7 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.53%) Camunda
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.53%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 25 (3.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.40%) Actimize
5 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 357 (47.16%) Azure
2 243 (32.10%) AWS
3 209 (27.61%) Power Platform
4 111 (14.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 102 (13.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 96 (12.68%) GCP
7 91 (12.02%) Snowflake
8 90 (11.89%) Azure DevOps
9 87 (11.49%) Amazon S3
10 67 (8.85%) GitHub
10 67 (8.85%) Serverless
11 58 (7.66%) dbt
12 57 (7.53%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (5.68%) Collibra
14 29 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.38%) Amazon EMR
17 17 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
18 16 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) Firewall
1 5 (0.66%) HTTP
2 3 (0.40%) VPN
3 1 (0.13%) 4G
3 1 (0.13%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (30.52%) Data Warehouse
2 192 (25.36%) Power BI
3 156 (20.61%) Data Lake
4 107 (14.13%) SQL Server
5 80 (10.57%) Metadata
6 65 (8.59%) Tableau
7 60 (7.93%) Delta Lake
8 54 (7.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (6.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 49 (6.47%) Big Data
11 46 (6.08%) Amazon Athena
12 45 (5.94%) BigQuery
13 43 (5.68%) Snowflake Schema
14 42 (5.55%) Azure SQL Database
14 42 (5.55%) Relational Database
15 38 (5.02%) NoSQL
16 31 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
16 31 (4.10%) Star Schema
17 26 (3.43%) Oracle Database
18 20 (2.64%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 74 (9.78%) Git
2 41 (5.42%) JIRA
3 28 (3.70%) GitLab
4 16 (2.11%) MLflow
5 12 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.19%) ERwin
7 5 (0.66%) Postman
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.40%) JMeter
9 3 (0.40%) LSMW
10 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
11 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 287 (37.91%) Finance
2 192 (25.36%) Social Skills
3 133 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (12.02%) Banking
5 63 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.43%) Financial Institution
7 21 (2.77%) Marketing
8 18 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.32%) Legal
10 10 (1.32%) Retail
11 7 (0.92%) Front Office
12 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.53%) Publishing
15 3 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 336 (44.39%) Data Engineer
2 108 (14.27%) Senior
3 92 (12.15%) Lead
4 86 (11.36%) Developer
5 76 (10.04%) Senior Data Engineer
6 74 (9.78%) Architect
7 63 (8.32%) Analyst
8 42 (5.55%) Data Analyst
9 34 (4.49%) Data Architect
10 25 (3.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 25 (3.30%) Snowflake Engineer
11 22 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
11 22 (2.91%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 22 (2.91%) Python Engineer
12 21 (2.77%) Integration Engineer
12 21 (2.77%) Lead Data Engineer
13 20 (2.64%) Senior Developer
14 19 (2.51%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (2.38%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (2.38%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.08%) PySpark
2 66 (8.72%) Kafka
3 42 (5.55%) REST
4 34 (4.49%) Pandas
5 26 (3.43%) Middleware
6 23 (3.04%) XML
7 20 (2.64%) .NET
8 18 (2.38%) PyTorch
9 17 (2.25%) NumPy
9 17 (2.25%) TensorFlow
10 16 (2.11%) Great Expectations
10 16 (2.11%) OAuth
11 15 (1.98%) scikit-learn
11 15 (1.98%) Web Services
12 14 (1.85%) HTML
12 14 (1.85%) Spring
13 13 (1.72%) JSON
14 12 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
14 12 (1.59%) pytest
14 12 (1.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.23%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.00%) Data Structures
3 51 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
4 29 (3.83%) Onboarding
5 22 (2.91%) Distributed Computing
6 20 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 17 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.59%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.59%) Reinsurance
10 11 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.32%) Clustering
12 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.19%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.92%) IoT
13 7 (0.92%) Replication
14 6 (0.79%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.79%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.38%) Linux
2 12 (1.59%) Windows
3 7 (0.92%) Solaris
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (0.66%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (50.20%) Data Modelling
2 312 (41.22%) Data Pipeline
3 303 (40.03%) Analytics
4 286 (37.78%) Data Engineering
5 235 (31.04%) CI/CD
6 224 (29.59%) Business Intelligence
7 204 (26.95%) DevOps
8 179 (23.65%) Agile
9 166 (21.93%) Data Governance
10 155 (20.48%) AI
11 153 (20.21%) Migration
12 142 (18.76%) Validation
13 138 (18.23%) Data Architecture
14 127 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
15 115 (15.19%) Decision-Making
16 104 (13.74%) Data Integration
17 94 (12.42%) Data Science
18 93 (12.29%) Machine Learning
19 89 (11.76%) Data Migration
20 85 (11.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 530 (70.01%) SQL
2 380 (50.20%) Python
3 84 (11.10%) Java
4 45 (5.94%) C#
5 41 (5.42%) Scala
6 39 (5.15%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 32 (4.23%) T-SQL
9 19 (2.51%) JavaScript
10 18 (2.38%) R
11 11 (1.45%) PowerShell
11 11 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.06%) Bicep
13 7 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.53%) Bash
15 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.26%) C
17 2 (0.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 143 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 122 (16.12%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.21%) Degree
4 30 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 15 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.66%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.53%) PMP
10 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (35.67%) Data Quality
2 65 (8.59%) QA
3 57 (7.53%) GDPR
4 16 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.32%) IFRS
5 10 (1.32%) PMO
6 8 (1.06%) IFRS 17
7 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.66%) GAAP
7 5 (0.66%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.40%) Basel III
9 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.40%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
10 2 (0.26%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (7.66%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (13.08%) Terraform
2 60 (7.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.79%) Control-M
4 5 (0.66%) Grafana
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.40%) Ansible
7 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 163 (21.53%) Databricks
2 158 (20.87%) Microsoft
3 87 (11.49%) Oracle
4 53 (7.00%) Informatica
5 34 (4.49%) Google
6 27 (3.57%) SAP
7 22 (2.91%) IBM
8 16 (2.11%) Workday
9 13 (1.72%) MuleSoft
9 13 (1.72%) Talend
10 12 (1.59%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.59%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.45%) Alteryx
12 9 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.06%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.06%) UiPath
14 7 (0.92%) Bloomberg
14 7 (0.92%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.79%) Denodo