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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 79 74
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +30
Contract jobs citing ETL 576 470 559
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.99% 3.16% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 3.51% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 294 445
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 £734 £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 13,190 13,384 16,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.13% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 8,584 11,883
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 £756 £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 £31.49 £36.65 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% +12.11% -14.80%
75th Percentile £53.44 £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% +25.64%

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 27 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 27 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 -5 81 £475 -13.64% 167
West London -6 14 £600 +9.09% 7
South London -1 6 £466 -5.57% 11
East London 0 5 £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 65 (11.28%) Apache Spark
2 53 (9.20%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (7.99%) Apache
4 8 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 5 (0.87%) Confluence
6 4 (0.69%) SAS
7 3 (0.52%) Luigi
7 3 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) 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
9 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 31 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.87%) 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 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.39%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
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 FAH
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.17%) Maximo
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.17%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 252 (43.75%) Azure
2 183 (31.77%) AWS
3 140 (24.31%) Power Platform
4 94 (16.32%) Snowflake
5 82 (14.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 75 (13.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 69 (11.98%) GCP
8 60 (10.42%) Amazon S3
9 47 (8.16%) Serverless
10 36 (6.25%) GitHub
11 35 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (5.90%) dbt
13 23 (3.99%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
15 16 (2.78%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (2.43%) Amazon EMR
16 14 (2.43%) Collibra
17 12 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
17 12 (2.08%) Azure Functions
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 (32.64%) Data Warehouse
2 131 (22.74%) Power BI
3 98 (17.01%) Data Lake
4 76 (13.19%) SQL Server
5 64 (11.11%) Metadata
6 52 (9.03%) Big Data
7 50 (8.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (8.33%) Relational Database
9 47 (8.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 40 (6.94%) Tableau
11 38 (6.60%) BigQuery
12 29 (5.03%) Amazon Athena
12 29 (5.03%) Delta Lake
13 27 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (4.34%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (4.17%) NoSQL
15 24 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.99%) Oracle Database
17 19 (3.30%) DataStage
18 18 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 46 (7.99%) Git
2 20 (3.47%) JIRA
3 18 (3.13%) GitLab
4 16 (2.78%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.08%) ERwin
6 8 (1.39%) MLflow
7 6 (1.04%) Postman
7 6 (1.04%) Selenium
8 4 (0.69%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.69%) Toad
9 3 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.52%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.35%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.35%) JMeter
10 2 (0.35%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.35%) TestRail
10 2 (0.35%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.17%) Charles Proxy
11 1 (0.17%) Poetry
General
1 186 (32.29%) Finance
2 177 (30.73%) Social Skills
3 92 (15.97%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.07%) Banking
5 38 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 14 (2.43%) Financial Institution
6 14 (2.43%) Retail
7 11 (1.91%) Marketing
8 9 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.22%) Front Office
10 7 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.87%) Publishing
12 4 (0.69%) Law
12 4 (0.69%) Local Government
12 4 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 197 (34.20%) Data Engineer
2 81 (14.06%) Developer
3 67 (11.63%) Lead
4 63 (10.94%) Analyst
5 56 (9.72%) Architect
6 55 (9.55%) Senior
7 42 (7.29%) Data Analyst
8 34 (5.90%) Data Architect
9 28 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
9 28 (4.86%) Senior Data Engineer
10 26 (4.51%) Azure Data Engineer
11 20 (3.47%) Consultant
12 19 (3.30%) Business Analyst
13 18 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 18 (3.13%) Snowflake Engineer
14 17 (2.95%) Senior Developer
15 16 (2.78%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.26%) AWS Engineer
16 13 (2.26%) Lead Data Engineer
16 13 (2.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (13.19%) PySpark
2 54 (9.38%) Kafka
3 29 (5.03%) XML
4 20 (3.47%) Pandas
5 19 (3.30%) REST
6 18 (3.13%) JSON
7 14 (2.43%) NumPy
8 13 (2.26%) RESTful
9 11 (1.91%) OAuth
10 10 (1.74%) .NET
10 10 (1.74%) Great Expectations
10 10 (1.74%) PyTorch
11 9 (1.56%) Spark Streaming
11 9 (1.56%) TensorFlow
12 8 (1.39%) scikit-learn
13 6 (1.04%) HTML
13 6 (1.04%) Middleware
13 6 (1.04%) Node.js
13 6 (1.04%) pytest
14 5 (0.87%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.94%) Cloud Native
2 37 (6.42%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (2.60%) Algorithms
4 15 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.39%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.22%) IoT
10 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.04%) Replication
10 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.60%) Linux
2 7 (1.22%) Unix
3 3 (0.52%) Windows
4 2 (0.35%) 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
1 255 (44.27%) Data Modelling
2 236 (40.97%) Analytics
3 212 (36.81%) Data Pipeline
4 188 (32.64%) Data Engineering
5 178 (30.90%) Business Intelligence
6 149 (25.87%) CI/CD
7 148 (25.69%) Data Governance
8 128 (22.22%) Migration
9 122 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
10 117 (20.31%) Agile
11 109 (18.92%) DevOps
12 99 (17.19%) Data Architecture
13 92 (15.97%) Data Migration
13 92 (15.97%) Validation
14 90 (15.63%) Data Integration
15 88 (15.28%) Data Science
16 77 (13.37%) Machine Learning
17 74 (12.85%) AI
18 72 (12.50%) Data Transformation
19 66 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 397 (68.92%) SQL
2 286 (49.65%) Python
3 53 (9.20%) Java
4 30 (5.21%) C#
5 28 (4.86%) PL/SQL
5 28 (4.86%) Scala
6 21 (3.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 21 (3.65%) T-SQL
7 16 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.26%) R
9 11 (1.91%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.74%) Bash
11 8 (1.39%) Bicep
12 6 (1.04%) TypeScript
12 6 (1.04%) VBA
13 5 (0.87%) Korn
13 5 (0.87%) Perl
14 4 (0.69%) Go
14 4 (0.69%) PHP
14 4 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 83 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 61 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 41 (7.12%) Degree
4 29 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.43%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.56%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.04%) PMP
11 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.69%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.69%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.35%) CISSP
13 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.35%) MCP
14 1 (0.17%) CCIE
14 1 (0.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (31.94%) Data Quality
2 54 (9.38%) GDPR
3 37 (6.42%) QA
4 12 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.74%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 5 (0.87%) IFRS
8 4 (0.69%) MiFID
8 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.52%) IFRS 17
9 3 (0.52%) PMO
9 3 (0.52%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.35%) Basel III
10 2 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
10 2 (0.35%) EMIR
10 2 (0.35%) GAAP
10 2 (0.35%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.35%) NIST
11 1 (0.17%) HL7
System Software
1 41 (7.12%) Docker
2 5 (0.87%) zsh
3 2 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.35%) KVM
3 2 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) HDFS
4 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (10.42%) Terraform
2 37 (6.42%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.04%) Ansible
4 4 (0.69%) Control-M
4 4 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.69%) Kibana
4 4 (0.69%) logstash
5 3 (0.52%) vCenter Server
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 (24.48%) Databricks
2 99 (17.19%) Microsoft
3 54 (9.38%) Oracle
4 28 (4.86%) Google
5 27 (4.69%) Informatica
6 24 (4.17%) SAP
7 15 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.74%) MuleSoft
8 10 (1.74%) Talend
9 8 (1.39%) IBM
9 8 (1.39%) Palantir
9 8 (1.39%) Workday
10 7 (1.22%) Foundry
10 7 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.04%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.87%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.87%) Teradata
12 5 (0.87%) VMware
13 4 (0.69%) Denodo
13 4 (0.69%) Solace