ETL Contracts in London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 71 90
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 408 544 748
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.25% 3.05% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 3.45% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 414 544
10th Percentile £400 £400 £406
25th Percentile £455 £449 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -3.93%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £659
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 6
10th Percentile £43.25 £35.00 £39.32
25th Percentile £46.25 £40.88 £48.97
Median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -22.31% +16.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £57.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - £64.53 £75.00
England median hourly rate £78.70 £49.50 £46.82
% change year-on-year +58.99% +5.74% +4.03%

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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in London

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in London.

Daily rate trend for ETL in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in London.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in London

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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 1 May 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 -17 53 £558 +6.19% 28
West London +1 5 £625 +21.95% 10
South London 0 4 £481 +1.32% 5
East London +8 2 £675 +68.75% 2
North London - 1 - -
ETL
England

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 33 (8.09%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (7.84%) Apache
4 12 (2.94%) Confluence
5 8 (1.96%) SAS
6 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.98%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.25%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.25%) CMS
9 1 (0.25%) Luigi
9 1 (0.25%) Mule
9 1 (0.25%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 11 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.72%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.49%) Actimize
4 2 (0.49%) Infor SunSystems
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.25%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.25%) Orchard Housing
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.25%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 163 (39.95%) Azure
2 132 (32.35%) AWS
3 82 (20.10%) Power Platform
4 70 (17.16%) GCP
5 59 (14.46%) Snowflake
6 46 (11.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 38 (9.31%) Serverless
8 36 (8.82%) dbt
9 30 (7.35%) Amazon S3
10 29 (7.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 26 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (6.13%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (6.13%) GitHub
13 17 (4.17%) PowerApps
14 13 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (2.45%) SaaS
16 9 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
16 9 (2.21%) PaaS
17 8 (1.96%) AWS Step Functions
17 8 (1.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.96%) Firewall
1 8 (1.96%) VPN
2 1 (0.25%) FTP
2 1 (0.25%) Internet
2 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (33.09%) Data Warehouse
2 70 (17.16%) Power BI
3 68 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 41 (10.05%) Big Data
4 41 (10.05%) Tableau
5 34 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 32 (7.84%) NoSQL
7 31 (7.60%) Amazon Redshift
8 26 (6.37%) BigQuery
9 25 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
10 24 (5.88%) Relational Database
11 23 (5.64%) Snowflake Schema
12 22 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
12 22 (5.39%) Hadoop
13 18 (4.41%) Star Schema
14 17 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (3.92%) Metadata
16 15 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
17 14 (3.43%) Amazon Athena
17 14 (3.43%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (4.17%) Git
2 16 (3.92%) JIRA
3 12 (2.94%) ERwin
4 8 (1.96%) GitLab
5 6 (1.47%) Selenium
6 4 (0.98%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.74%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.74%) Liquibase
7 3 (0.74%) Postman
8 2 (0.49%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.49%) LSMW
8 2 (0.49%) MLflow
8 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.25%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.25%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.25%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 120 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 107 (26.23%) Finance
3 63 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (10.05%) Banking
5 32 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.66%) Retail
7 17 (4.17%) Marketing
8 12 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.72%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.23%) Legal
14 4 (0.98%) Local Government
15 3 (0.74%) Front Office
16 2 (0.49%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.49%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 149 (36.52%) Data Engineer
2 64 (15.69%) Architect
3 49 (12.01%) Senior
4 45 (11.03%) Data Architect
5 39 (9.56%) Developer
6 34 (8.33%) Analyst
6 34 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 32 (7.84%) Lead
8 25 (6.13%) Data Analyst
9 21 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (4.90%) Consultant
11 16 (3.92%) Data Modeller
12 15 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.68%) Azure Data Engineer
12 15 (3.68%) Data Manager
13 14 (3.43%) AWS Data Engineer
14 13 (3.19%) Data Consultant
15 11 (2.70%) Business Analyst
16 10 (2.45%) Insight Manager
17 9 (2.21%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.56%) PySpark
2 32 (7.84%) Kafka
3 9 (2.21%) JSON
4 8 (1.96%) XML
5 7 (1.72%) Apache Avro
5 7 (1.72%) pytest
6 6 (1.47%) HTML
6 6 (1.47%) REST
6 6 (1.47%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.23%) Node.js
7 5 (1.23%) Pandas
7 5 (1.23%) Plotly
7 5 (1.23%) Web Services
8 4 (0.98%) .NET
8 4 (0.98%) ARM Templates
8 4 (0.98%) Middleware
8 4 (0.98%) React
9 3 (0.74%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.74%) HTML5
9 3 (0.74%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.60%) Data Structures
2 20 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 7 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 6 (1.47%) Clustering
5 6 (1.47%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
7 4 (0.98%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.74%) Derivative
8 3 (0.74%) FMCG
8 3 (0.74%) Replication
9 2 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.49%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.49%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.49%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.49%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.19%) Unix
2 8 (1.96%) Linux
3 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (38.48%) Data Modelling
2 128 (31.37%) Data Pipeline
3 124 (30.39%) Analytics
4 99 (24.26%) Data Engineering
5 97 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
6 94 (23.04%) Business Intelligence
7 88 (21.57%) Data Integration
8 83 (20.34%) Data Governance
9 80 (19.61%) Migration
10 63 (15.44%) DevOps
11 62 (15.20%) Data Architecture
11 62 (15.20%) Visualisation
12 59 (14.46%) CI/CD
13 57 (13.97%) Data Migration
14 54 (13.24%) Data Transformation
15 53 (12.99%) Agile
16 49 (12.01%) Data Science
17 48 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
18 43 (10.54%) Validation
19 40 (9.80%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 256 (62.75%) SQL
2 191 (46.81%) Python
3 36 (8.82%) Java
4 27 (6.62%) Scala
5 16 (3.92%) T-SQL
6 15 (3.68%) JavaScript
7 13 (3.19%) C#
8 12 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (2.45%) R
10 8 (1.96%) Bash
10 8 (1.96%) Bicep
10 8 (1.96%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.72%) PowerShell
12 6 (1.47%) ABAP
13 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.98%) Go
14 4 (0.98%) PHP
15 3 (0.74%) Perl
15 3 (0.74%) VBA
16 2 (0.49%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 52 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 39 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 26 (6.37%) Degree
4 13 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.94%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.47%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (0.98%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.25%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.25%) IBM Certification
10 1 (0.25%) ISEB
10 1 (0.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (25.25%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.68%) GDPR
3 14 (3.43%) QA
4 13 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.74%) IFRS
5 3 (0.74%) IFRS 9
5 3 (0.74%) SLA
6 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) Basel III
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) HL7
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.88%) Docker
2 5 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.74%) HDFS
3 3 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.25%) NFS
4 1 (0.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 39 (9.56%) Terraform
2 31 (7.60%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (1.72%) Ansible
5 2 (0.49%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.25%) Grafana
6 1 (0.25%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.25%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 56 (13.73%) Databricks
2 47 (11.52%) Microsoft
3 40 (9.80%) Informatica
4 38 (9.31%) Oracle
5 36 (8.82%) Google
6 27 (6.62%) SAP
7 18 (4.41%) Talend
8 9 (2.21%) IBM
9 8 (1.96%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.47%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.23%) Palantir
11 5 (1.23%) Teradata
12 4 (0.98%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.74%) Ab Initio
13 3 (0.74%) Pega
13 3 (0.74%) Sparx
14 2 (0.49%) Confluent
14 2 (0.49%) Okta
14 2 (0.49%) StreamSets
14 2 (0.49%) UiPath