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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 75 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 777 484 543
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.82% 3.58% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.29% 3.87% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 337 377
10th Percentile £375 £393 £370
25th Percentile £434 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - £32.50 £42.85
25th Percentile - £35.50 £45.25
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.86% -19.84%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £57.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -32.12%

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 18,096 12,500 14,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.98% 92.57% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,817 8,259 9,770
10th Percentile £358 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 257 182
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.29
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.84 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 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 11 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 -3 86 £520 +4.00% 41
West London 0 24 £520 +2.77% 22
South London +2 9 £463 +1.09% 2
East London +5 6 £460 -31.85% 4
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
1 103 (13.26%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (11.71%) Apache Spark
3 69 (8.88%) Apache
4 43 (5.53%) SAS
5 15 (1.93%) Confluence
6 14 (1.80%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.90%) nginx
7 7 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.64%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.64%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.64%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Camunda
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 24 (3.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.90%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.77%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.51%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.39%) Actimize
3 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.26%) Maximo
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.13%) HFM
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 329 (42.34%) Azure
2 236 (30.37%) AWS
3 175 (22.52%) Power Platform
4 142 (18.28%) Snowflake
5 114 (14.67%) GCP
6 100 (12.87%) dbt
7 99 (12.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 97 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
9 78 (10.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 75 (9.65%) GitHub
11 73 (9.40%) Amazon S3
12 63 (8.11%) Serverless
13 51 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.73%) Collibra
16 21 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
17 15 (1.93%) SaaS
18 14 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
19 13 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.90%) HTTP
2 5 (0.64%) 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%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (33.46%) Data Warehouse
2 168 (21.62%) Power BI
3 123 (15.83%) Data Lake
4 83 (10.68%) SQL Server
5 78 (10.04%) Metadata
6 70 (9.01%) Delta Lake
7 54 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (6.44%) BigQuery
9 49 (6.31%) Relational Database
10 47 (6.05%) Big Data
10 47 (6.05%) Tableau
11 39 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 37 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
13 35 (4.50%) Star Schema
14 33 (4.25%) Snowflake Schema
15 31 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
15 31 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
16 30 (3.86%) NoSQL
17 29 (3.73%) Power Query
18 25 (3.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (9.40%) Git
2 42 (5.41%) JIRA
3 36 (4.63%) GitLab
4 20 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.03%) MLflow
6 7 (0.90%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.64%) Selenium
8 4 (0.51%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.39%) ERwin
9 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.26%) LSMW
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 269 (34.62%) Finance
2 188 (24.20%) Social Skills
3 151 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (13.38%) Banking
5 57 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.96%) Marketing
7 19 (2.45%) Retail
8 14 (1.80%) Financial Institution
8 14 (1.80%) Front Office
9 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.03%) Billing
10 8 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.03%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.03%) Legal
10 8 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.03%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.64%) Back Office
11 5 (0.64%) Games
11 5 (0.64%) Publishing
12 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 321 (41.31%) Data Engineer
2 132 (16.99%) Senior
3 102 (13.13%) Architect
4 90 (11.58%) Developer
5 88 (11.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 81 (10.42%) Lead
7 73 (9.40%) Analyst
8 41 (5.28%) Data Analyst
8 41 (5.28%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.02%) Databricks Engineer
10 36 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
11 34 (4.38%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 28 (3.60%) Azure Data Engineer
13 27 (3.47%) Snowflake Engineer
14 23 (2.96%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 21 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (2.70%) Consultant
15 21 (2.70%) Technical Leader
16 19 (2.45%) Lead Data Engineer
16 19 (2.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (13.26%) PySpark
2 82 (10.55%) Terraform
3 74 (9.52%) Kafka
4 36 (4.63%) .NET
5 35 (4.50%) REST
6 28 (3.60%) JSON
7 19 (2.45%) Middleware
8 18 (2.32%) Pandas
9 17 (2.19%) React
10 13 (1.67%) Spring
11 12 (1.54%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.54%) XML
11 12 (1.54%) YAML
12 9 (1.16%) HTML
12 9 (1.16%) Web Services
13 8 (1.03%) LangChain
13 8 (1.03%) NumPy
13 8 (1.03%) WPF
14 7 (0.90%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (10.30%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.21%) Data Structures
3 47 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.15%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.25%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.22%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.80%) Replication
10 13 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.67%) Reference Data
11 11 (1.42%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.42%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.29%) Clustering
12 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.16%) NHS
13 9 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.90%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.60%) Linux
2 13 (1.67%) Unix
2 13 (1.67%) Windows
3 4 (0.51%) Solaris
3 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 363 (46.72%) Data Modelling
2 336 (43.24%) Data Pipeline
3 316 (40.67%) Data Engineering
4 312 (40.15%) Analytics
5 267 (34.36%) CI/CD
6 236 (30.37%) Agile
7 214 (27.54%) DevOps
8 199 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
9 191 (24.58%) Data Governance
10 164 (21.11%) AI
11 160 (20.59%) Data Integration
11 160 (20.59%) Migration
12 156 (20.08%) Validation
13 139 (17.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 138 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
15 134 (17.25%) Data Transformation
16 127 (16.34%) Data Architecture
17 100 (12.87%) Decision-Making
18 87 (11.20%) Data Ingestion
18 87 (11.20%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 521 (67.05%) SQL
2 362 (46.59%) Python
3 79 (10.17%) Java
4 41 (5.28%) C#
5 40 (5.15%) Scala
6 37 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.38%) PL/SQL
8 33 (4.25%) JavaScript
9 32 (4.12%) T-SQL
10 26 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.80%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.67%) R
12 13 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.29%) Bash
14 8 (1.03%) Cypher
15 5 (0.64%) Bicep
16 4 (0.51%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
17 3 (0.39%) Perl
17 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (18.15%) Security Cleared
2 123 (15.83%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.28%) Degree
4 22 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 17 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.77%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.64%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.51%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) CISA
11 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CBAP
12 1 (0.13%) CISM
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 291 (37.45%) Data Quality
2 60 (7.72%) QA
3 36 (4.63%) GDPR
4 29 (3.73%) GRC
5 12 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.03%) IFRS
7 8 (1.03%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.90%) PMO
9 4 (0.51%) GAAP
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 59 (7.59%) Docker
2 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 60 (7.72%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.54%) Control-M
3 8 (1.03%) Ansible
4 7 (0.90%) Grafana
5 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 188 (24.20%) Databricks
2 145 (18.66%) Microsoft
3 122 (15.70%) Oracle
4 58 (7.46%) Informatica
5 35 (4.50%) Google
6 24 (3.09%) Talend
7 20 (2.57%) SAP
8 18 (2.32%) IBM
9 15 (1.93%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.54%) Foundry
11 11 (1.42%) Palantir
11 11 (1.42%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.03%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.03%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.03%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.77%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.77%) Denodo
13 6 (0.77%) Hyperion
13 6 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.77%) ServiceNow