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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +30
Contract jobs citing ETL 590 457 525
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.16% 3.24% 2.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 3.59% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 287 411
10th Percentile £363 £360 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £625
90th Percentile £725 £730 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £36.25 £47.38
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £50.75
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +17.48%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.51
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £65.57
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +47.89%

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 12,967 12,718 16,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.39% 90.24% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 8,128 11,528
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -5.46%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 155 254
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £16.78
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £54.50 £54.03
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £43.84
% change year-on-year -27.63% -20.73% +25.25%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -3 80 £475 -12.04% 44
West London -4 16 £600 +9.09% 5
South London -7 7 £475 -3.80% 7
East London +2 6 £450 +12.50% 5
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 60 (10.17%) Apache Spark
2 46 (7.80%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (6.44%) Apache
4 8 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.02%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.68%) Appian
6 4 (0.68%) Confluence
6 4 (0.68%) SAS
7 3 (0.51%) Luigi
7 3 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.51%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.34%) CMS
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 29 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.51%) Trello
5 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.36%) Aladdin
3 6 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (1.02%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.51%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.51%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.34%) Actimize
6 2 (0.34%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.17%) Maximo
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 253 (42.88%) Azure
2 181 (30.68%) AWS
3 147 (24.92%) Power Platform
4 90 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
5 88 (14.92%) Snowflake
6 72 (12.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 63 (10.68%) Amazon S3
8 60 (10.17%) GCP
9 48 (8.14%) Serverless
10 39 (6.61%) GitHub
11 35 (5.93%) AWS Lambda
11 35 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (4.75%) dbt
13 23 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.71%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (2.37%) Collibra
17 13 (2.20%) SaaS
18 12 (2.03%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.51%) 2G
1 3 (0.51%) 4G
1 3 (0.51%) 5G
1 3 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.34%) BGP
2 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.34%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.34%) OSPF
2 2 (0.34%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.17%) DNS
3 1 (0.17%) DSL
3 1 (0.17%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.17%) Firewall
3 1 (0.17%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.17%) Internet
3 1 (0.17%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (31.36%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (23.39%) Power BI
3 108 (18.31%) Data Lake
4 84 (14.24%) SQL Server
5 67 (11.36%) Metadata
6 50 (8.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 49 (8.31%) Big Data
7 49 (8.31%) Relational Database
8 47 (7.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 41 (6.95%) Tableau
10 30 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
10 30 (5.08%) BigQuery
11 29 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 29 (4.92%) Delta Lake
12 25 (4.24%) Oracle Database
13 23 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
13 23 (3.90%) Snowflake Schema
14 22 (3.73%) NoSQL
15 21 (3.56%) DataStage
16 19 (3.22%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 47 (7.97%) Git
2 24 (4.07%) JIRA
3 20 (3.39%) GitLab
4 16 (2.71%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.37%) ERwin
6 9 (1.53%) MLflow
7 6 (1.02%) Postman
7 6 (1.02%) Selenium
8 4 (0.68%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.68%) Toad
9 3 (0.51%) JMeter
9 3 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.34%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.34%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.34%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.34%) TestRail
10 2 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 199 (33.73%) Finance
2 174 (29.49%) Social Skills
3 87 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (11.19%) Banking
5 39 (6.61%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.05%) Financial Institution
7 14 (2.37%) Retail
8 11 (1.86%) Marketing
9 9 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.36%) Front Office
10 8 (1.36%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.02%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.02%) Legal
13 5 (0.85%) Publishing
14 4 (0.68%) Law
14 4 (0.68%) Local Government
14 4 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 212 (35.93%) Data Engineer
2 81 (13.73%) Developer
3 75 (12.71%) Lead
4 59 (10.00%) Analyst
5 58 (9.83%) Senior
6 55 (9.32%) Architect
7 42 (7.12%) Data Analyst
8 36 (6.10%) Data Architect
9 35 (5.93%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (4.24%) Azure Data Engineer
12 20 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 20 (3.39%) Consultant
13 18 (3.05%) Senior Developer
13 18 (3.05%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (2.88%) Business Analyst
15 16 (2.71%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.20%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (2.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (12.88%) PySpark
2 51 (8.64%) Kafka
3 35 (5.93%) XML
4 23 (3.90%) Pandas
4 23 (3.90%) REST
5 17 (2.88%) JSON
6 16 (2.71%) NumPy
7 14 (2.37%) RESTful
8 12 (2.03%) OAuth
8 12 (2.03%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.86%) Spark Streaming
9 11 (1.86%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.69%) .NET
10 10 (1.69%) Middleware
10 10 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
10 10 (1.69%) scikit-learn
11 8 (1.36%) Great Expectations
12 7 (1.19%) HTML
12 7 (1.19%) JWT
12 7 (1.19%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.78%) Data Structures
2 39 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 29 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.71%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.37%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.03%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.69%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.36%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.02%) Replication
13 5 (0.85%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.85%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.71%) Linux
2 7 (1.19%) Unix
3 4 (0.68%) Windows
4 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) VMS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (44.92%) Data Modelling
2 246 (41.69%) Analytics
3 219 (37.12%) Data Pipeline
4 200 (33.90%) Data Engineering
5 187 (31.69%) Business Intelligence
6 152 (25.76%) CI/CD
7 138 (23.39%) Data Governance
8 122 (20.68%) Migration
9 121 (20.51%) Agile
10 116 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
11 113 (19.15%) DevOps
12 108 (18.31%) Data Architecture
13 93 (15.76%) Validation
14 90 (15.25%) Data Migration
15 89 (15.08%) Data Integration
16 86 (14.58%) Data Science
17 82 (13.90%) AI
18 76 (12.88%) Machine Learning
19 69 (11.69%) Data Transformation
20 65 (11.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 404 (68.47%) SQL
2 288 (48.81%) Python
3 54 (9.15%) Java
4 30 (5.08%) PL/SQL
5 29 (4.92%) C#
6 27 (4.58%) Scala
7 18 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (3.05%) T-SQL
8 17 (2.88%) JavaScript
9 13 (2.20%) R
10 11 (1.86%) Bicep
10 11 (1.86%) PowerShell
11 10 (1.69%) Bash
12 6 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.85%) Perl
13 5 (0.85%) VBA
14 4 (0.68%) Go
14 4 (0.68%) Korn
14 4 (0.68%) PHP
14 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 41 (6.95%) Degree
4 29 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (3.56%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.05%) Azure Certification
7 15 (2.54%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.19%) PMP
11 6 (1.02%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.85%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.51%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.34%) MCP
15 1 (0.17%) CCIE
15 1 (0.17%) CCNP
15 1 (0.17%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (33.05%) Data Quality
2 57 (9.66%) GDPR
3 32 (5.42%) QA
4 15 (2.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.19%) HIPAA
7 6 (1.02%) IFRS
8 5 (0.85%) GAAP
9 4 (0.68%) IFRS 17
9 4 (0.68%) MiFID
9 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.51%) Basel III
10 3 (0.51%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.51%) NIST
10 3 (0.51%) PMO
11 2 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.34%) EMIR
11 2 (0.34%) SLA
12 1 (0.17%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.46%) Docker
2 5 (0.85%) zsh
3 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.34%) KVM
3 2 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 62 (10.51%) Terraform
2 41 (6.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.85%) Ansible
3 5 (0.85%) Control-M
4 4 (0.68%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.68%) Kibana
4 4 (0.68%) logstash
5 2 (0.34%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.17%) Grafana
6 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 139 (23.56%) Databricks
2 107 (18.14%) Microsoft
3 61 (10.34%) Oracle
4 30 (5.08%) SAP
5 27 (4.58%) Informatica
6 21 (3.56%) Google
7 15 (2.54%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.20%) Workday
9 11 (1.86%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.69%) IBM
10 10 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.36%) Palantir
11 8 (1.36%) Talend
12 7 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.19%) Foundry
13 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.85%) Avaloq
14 5 (0.85%) UiPath
15 4 (0.68%) Automation Anywhere
15 4 (0.68%) Solace