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

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 77 76
Rank change year-on-year +18 -1 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 609 452 523
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.23% 3.22% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 3.57% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 287 406
10th Percentile £362 £354 £390
25th Percentile £420 £443 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £36.25 £48.01
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £51.25
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 £64.53
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.90
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +59.15%

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 13,144 12,678 15,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.30% 90.34% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,697 8,106 11,397
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 155 261
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.94 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.65 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.01%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £54.13
90th Percentile £68.93 £80.45 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +21.43%

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 16 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 16 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 -4 78 £475 -13.64% 37
West London -5 17 £601 +19.65% 5
South London -4 7 £500 +2.56% 4
East London -1 6 £450 +12.50% 6
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 (10.84%) Apache Spark
2 50 (8.21%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (6.73%) Apache
4 8 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.66%) Appian
6 4 (0.66%) Confluence
6 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.66%) SAS
7 3 (0.49%) Luigi
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 28 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.49%) Trello
5 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.31%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.33%) Actimize
6 2 (0.33%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.16%) Maximo
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 266 (43.68%) Azure
2 191 (31.36%) AWS
3 152 (24.96%) Power Platform
4 93 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 91 (14.94%) Snowflake
6 76 (12.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 64 (10.51%) Amazon S3
7 64 (10.51%) GCP
8 50 (8.21%) Serverless
9 45 (7.39%) GitHub
10 40 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (6.24%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (5.09%) dbt
13 25 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.79%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (2.79%) Collibra
16 13 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (2.13%) SaaS
17 12 (1.97%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) 2G
1 3 (0.49%) 4G
1 3 (0.49%) 5G
1 3 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.33%) BGP
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.33%) OSPF
2 2 (0.33%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.16%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 189 (31.03%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (23.32%) Power BI
3 112 (18.39%) Data Lake
4 89 (14.61%) SQL Server
5 72 (11.82%) Metadata
6 51 (8.37%) Big Data
7 50 (8.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 49 (8.05%) Relational Database
9 47 (7.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (6.73%) Tableau
11 34 (5.58%) Delta Lake
12 32 (5.25%) Amazon Athena
12 32 (5.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (4.93%) BigQuery
14 27 (4.43%) PostgreSQL
15 26 (4.27%) NoSQL
15 26 (4.27%) Oracle Database
16 24 (3.94%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (3.28%) RDBMS
18 19 (3.12%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 49 (8.05%) Git
2 27 (4.43%) JIRA
3 23 (3.78%) GitLab
4 17 (2.79%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.46%) ERwin
6 10 (1.64%) MLflow
7 7 (1.15%) Postman
7 7 (1.15%) Selenium
8 4 (0.66%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.66%) Toad
9 3 (0.49%) JMeter
9 3 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.33%) TestRail
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 209 (34.32%) Finance
2 183 (30.05%) Social Skills
3 87 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (11.17%) Banking
5 38 (6.24%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.12%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.79%) Retail
8 11 (1.81%) Marketing
9 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.31%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
11 7 (1.15%) Front Office
12 6 (0.99%) Legal
12 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.82%) Publishing
14 4 (0.66%) Law
14 4 (0.66%) Local Government
14 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (0.66%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (37.60%) Data Engineer
2 81 (13.30%) Developer
3 75 (12.32%) Lead
4 63 (10.34%) Senior
5 59 (9.69%) Analyst
6 54 (8.87%) Architect
7 42 (6.90%) Data Analyst
8 39 (6.40%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (5.91%) Data Architect
10 27 (4.43%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 21 (3.45%) Snowflake Engineer
14 20 (3.28%) Consultant
15 18 (2.96%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.96%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.79%) Business Analyst
17 16 (2.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 14 (2.30%) AWS Engineer
19 13 (2.13%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.14%) PySpark
2 57 (9.36%) Kafka
3 30 (4.93%) XML
4 23 (3.78%) Pandas
4 23 (3.78%) REST
5 17 (2.79%) JSON
6 16 (2.63%) NumPy
7 12 (1.97%) OAuth
7 12 (1.97%) PyTorch
7 12 (1.97%) RESTful
8 11 (1.81%) .NET
8 11 (1.81%) Spark Streaming
8 11 (1.81%) TensorFlow
9 10 (1.64%) Middleware
9 10 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
9 10 (1.64%) scikit-learn
10 9 (1.48%) Great Expectations
11 8 (1.31%) HTML
11 8 (1.31%) pytest
12 7 (1.15%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.39%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.06%) Data Structures
3 30 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.30%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 13 (2.13%) Reinsurance
7 11 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.31%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.15%) Fixed Income
12 6 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.99%) Replication
13 5 (0.82%) Data Fabric
13 5 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.63%) Linux
2 7 (1.15%) Unix
3 4 (0.66%) Windows
4 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (45.65%) Data Modelling
2 260 (42.69%) Analytics
3 229 (37.60%) Data Pipeline
4 213 (34.98%) Data Engineering
5 192 (31.53%) Business Intelligence
6 163 (26.77%) CI/CD
7 149 (24.47%) Data Governance
8 128 (21.02%) Agile
9 123 (20.20%) Migration
10 120 (19.70%) DevOps
10 120 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
11 111 (18.23%) Data Architecture
12 99 (16.26%) Validation
13 91 (14.94%) Data Integration
14 90 (14.78%) Data Migration
15 89 (14.61%) Data Science
16 87 (14.29%) AI
17 75 (12.32%) Machine Learning
18 73 (11.99%) Data Transformation
19 71 (11.66%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 419 (68.80%) SQL
2 302 (49.59%) Python
3 55 (9.03%) Java
4 32 (5.25%) PL/SQL
5 30 (4.93%) C#
5 30 (4.93%) Scala
6 19 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (2.96%) JavaScript
7 18 (2.96%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.13%) R
9 11 (1.81%) Bicep
9 11 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.64%) Bash
11 6 (0.99%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.99%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.82%) Perl
13 4 (0.66%) Go
13 4 (0.66%) Korn
13 4 (0.66%) PHP
13 4 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 42 (6.90%) Degree
4 29 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.12%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.79%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.15%) PMP
11 6 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.33%) MCP
15 1 (0.16%) CCIE
15 1 (0.16%) CCNP
15 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (33.99%) Data Quality
2 60 (9.85%) GDPR
3 35 (5.75%) QA
4 16 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.48%) IFRS
7 7 (1.15%) HIPAA
7 7 (1.15%) IFRS 17
8 5 (0.82%) GAAP
8 5 (0.82%) MiFID
9 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.49%) Basel III
10 3 (0.49%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.49%) NIST
10 3 (0.49%) PMO
11 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.33%) EMIR
12 1 (0.16%) GRC
12 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (7.72%) Docker
2 5 (0.82%) zsh
3 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.33%) KVM
3 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 70 (11.49%) Terraform
2 44 (7.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.82%) Ansible
4 4 (0.66%) Control-M
4 4 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.66%) Kibana
4 4 (0.66%) logstash
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.16%) Puppet
5 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 146 (23.97%) Databricks
2 109 (17.90%) Microsoft
3 67 (11.00%) Oracle
4 33 (5.42%) Informatica
5 30 (4.93%) SAP
6 21 (3.45%) Google
7 15 (2.46%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.13%) Workday
9 12 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.81%) Talend
11 10 (1.64%) IBM
11 10 (1.64%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.31%) Palantir
13 7 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.15%) Foundry
14 6 (0.99%) OpenAI
15 5 (0.82%) Avaloq
15 5 (0.82%) UiPath
16 4 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
16 4 (0.66%) Solace