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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 80 74
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 +29
Contract jobs citing ETL 579 470 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.00% 3.15% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 3.50% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 294 442
10th Percentile £363 £360 £382
25th Percentile £420 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
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 4 3 8
10th Percentile - £36.25 £47.38
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £56.75
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £61.43
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -30.81% +19.28%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.65
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £65.90
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -29.75% +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 13,199 13,432 16,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.15% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,690 8,615 11,895
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 164 245
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.03 £17.85
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.02
Median hourly rate £31.50 £36.65 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +12.77% -15.72%
75th Percentile £53.75 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%

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 26 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 26 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 -1 81 £475 -14.99% 79
West London -7 14 £600 +9.09% 6
South London -2 6 £466 -5.57% 14
East London -1 3 £475 +18.75% 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 66 (11.40%) Apache Spark
2 54 (9.33%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (8.12%) Apache
4 9 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.86%) Confluence
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) Luigi
8 2 (0.35%) Appian
8 2 (0.35%) CMS
8 2 (0.35%) IIS
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.35%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.17%) nginx
Applications
1 33 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.35%) Trello
6 1 (0.17%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.38%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.52%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.35%) Actimize
4 2 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.35%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.17%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 250 (43.18%) Azure
2 184 (31.78%) AWS
3 139 (24.01%) Power Platform
4 95 (16.41%) Snowflake
5 81 (13.99%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (12.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 69 (11.92%) GCP
8 61 (10.54%) Amazon S3
9 48 (8.29%) Serverless
10 36 (6.22%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (6.22%) GitHub
11 35 (6.04%) dbt
12 34 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
13 24 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
17 14 (2.42%) Collibra
18 12 (2.07%) Azure Functions
18 12 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.52%) 2G
1 3 (0.52%) 4G
1 3 (0.52%) 5G
1 3 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.35%) BGP
2 2 (0.35%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.35%) DNS
2 2 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.35%) OSPF
2 2 (0.35%) VXLAN
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
3 1 (0.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (32.47%) Data Warehouse
2 130 (22.45%) Power BI
3 96 (16.58%) Data Lake
4 78 (13.47%) SQL Server
5 64 (11.05%) Metadata
6 52 (8.98%) Big Data
7 51 (8.81%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (8.29%) Relational Database
9 47 (8.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 41 (7.08%) Tableau
11 38 (6.56%) BigQuery
12 29 (5.01%) Amazon Athena
12 29 (5.01%) Delta Lake
13 27 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (4.15%) NoSQL
15 24 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.97%) Oracle Database
17 19 (3.28%) DataStage
18 17 (2.94%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (8.12%) Git
2 18 (3.11%) GitLab
2 18 (3.11%) JIRA
3 16 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 12 (2.07%) ERwin
5 8 (1.38%) MLflow
6 7 (1.21%) Postman
6 7 (1.21%) Selenium
7 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.69%) Toad
8 3 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.52%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.35%) TestRail
9 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.17%) Charles Proxy
10 1 (0.17%) DBeaver
10 1 (0.17%) GoCD
General
1 188 (32.47%) Finance
2 178 (30.74%) Social Skills
3 95 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (9.84%) Banking
5 39 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.42%) Financial Institution
6 14 (2.42%) Retail
7 11 (1.90%) Marketing
8 9 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.38%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.21%) Front Office
10 7 (1.21%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.86%) Publishing
12 4 (0.69%) Law
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 199 (34.37%) Data Engineer
2 84 (14.51%) Developer
3 64 (11.05%) Lead
4 63 (10.88%) Analyst
5 56 (9.67%) Architect
6 55 (9.50%) Senior
7 42 (7.25%) Data Analyst
8 34 (5.87%) Data Architect
9 28 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (4.84%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (4.49%) Azure Data Engineer
11 20 (3.45%) Consultant
12 19 (3.28%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 18 (3.11%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (2.94%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.76%) Python Engineer
16 14 (2.42%) ETL Developer
17 13 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
17 13 (2.25%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.13%) PySpark
2 54 (9.33%) Kafka
3 30 (5.18%) XML
4 20 (3.45%) JSON
4 20 (3.45%) Pandas
5 19 (3.28%) REST
6 16 (2.76%) RESTful
7 14 (2.42%) NumPy
8 11 (1.90%) OAuth
9 10 (1.73%) .NET
9 10 (1.73%) Great Expectations
9 10 (1.73%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.55%) Spark Streaming
10 9 (1.55%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.38%) scikit-learn
12 6 (1.04%) HTML
12 6 (1.04%) Node.js
12 6 (1.04%) pytest
13 5 (0.86%) Middleware
13 5 (0.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.76%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.59%) Distributed Computing
6 13 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.55%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.38%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.21%) IoT
12 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
12 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
12 6 (1.04%) Replication
12 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.42%) Linux
2 7 (1.21%) Unix
3 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.35%) Windows
4 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.17%) VMS
4 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (44.04%) Data Modelling
2 234 (40.41%) Analytics
3 215 (37.13%) Data Pipeline
4 190 (32.82%) Data Engineering
5 178 (30.74%) Business Intelligence
6 149 (25.73%) Data Governance
7 148 (25.56%) CI/CD
8 128 (22.11%) Migration
9 125 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
10 116 (20.03%) Agile
11 108 (18.65%) DevOps
12 99 (17.10%) Data Architecture
13 92 (15.89%) Validation
14 91 (15.72%) Data Migration
15 90 (15.54%) Data Integration
16 89 (15.37%) Data Science
17 75 (12.95%) Machine Learning
18 72 (12.44%) Data Transformation
19 71 (12.26%) AI
20 67 (11.57%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 399 (68.91%) SQL
2 291 (50.26%) Python
3 54 (9.33%) Java
4 30 (5.18%) C#
5 29 (5.01%) Scala
6 27 (4.66%) PL/SQL
7 23 (3.97%) T-SQL
8 21 (3.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 16 (2.76%) JavaScript
10 13 (2.25%) R
11 11 (1.90%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.73%) Bash
13 8 (1.38%) Bicep
13 8 (1.38%) VBA
14 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.86%) Korn
15 5 (0.86%) Perl
16 4 (0.69%) Go
16 4 (0.69%) PHP
16 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 84 (14.51%) Security Cleared
2 62 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.91%) Degree
4 28 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.97%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.76%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.25%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.86%) PMP
11 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.69%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.69%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) MCP
13 1 (0.17%) CCIE
13 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.17%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (32.12%) Data Quality
2 54 (9.33%) GDPR
3 35 (6.04%) QA
4 11 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.38%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.69%) IFRS
7 4 (0.69%) MiFID
7 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) PMO
8 3 (0.52%) SLA
9 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.35%) EMIR
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.17%) DICOM
10 1 (0.17%) HL7
10 1 (0.17%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.17%) PERC
System Software
1 41 (7.08%) Docker
2 5 (0.86%) zsh
3 4 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.35%) KVM
4 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.17%) HDFS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 61 (10.54%) Terraform
2 37 (6.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.04%) Ansible
4 5 (0.86%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.69%) Control-M
5 4 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.69%) Kibana
5 4 (0.69%) logstash
6 2 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 141 (24.35%) Databricks
2 99 (17.10%) Microsoft
3 53 (9.15%) Oracle
4 28 (4.84%) Google
5 26 (4.49%) Informatica
6 23 (3.97%) SAP
7 15 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.73%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.73%) Talend
9 8 (1.38%) Palantir
9 8 (1.38%) VMware
10 7 (1.21%) Foundry
10 7 (1.21%) IBM
10 7 (1.21%) ServiceNow
10 7 (1.21%) Workday
11 6 (1.04%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.86%) EMC
12 5 (0.86%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.86%) Teradata
13 4 (0.69%) Denodo