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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 82 73
Rank change year-on-year +29 -9 +21
Contract jobs citing ETL 762 411 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.41% 3.24% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 3.54% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 273 427
10th Percentile £363 £379 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £43.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £59.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £64.92 £70.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year -8.04% +42.63% +24.14%

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 15,430 11,609 15,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.20% 91.65% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,356 7,870 11,343
10th Percentile £352 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £675
90th Percentile £760 £801 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 168 332
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.12 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £24.54 £19.83
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.06
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.43% -22.92%
75th Percentile £56.13 £50.86 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £66.98
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 +26 100 £513 -9.69% 74
West London +2 33 £603 -3.60% 5
South London -9 15 £463 -3.90% 2
East London 0 8 £450 +0.56% 3
North London - 1 £495 - 1
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 86 (11.29%) Apache Spark
2 75 (9.84%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (7.22%) Apache
4 12 (1.57%) SAS
5 10 (1.31%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.18%) Appian
7 7 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.79%) Confluence
8 6 (0.79%) nginx
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.52%) Camunda
11 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 31 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.39%) Trello
6 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.26%) Actimize
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.13%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.13%) Maximo
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 350 (45.93%) Azure
2 249 (32.68%) AWS
3 213 (27.95%) Power Platform
4 116 (15.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (15.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 100 (13.12%) Amazon S3
7 98 (12.86%) Snowflake
8 90 (11.81%) GCP
9 72 (9.45%) Serverless
10 67 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
11 66 (8.66%) GitHub
12 60 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
13 53 (6.96%) dbt
14 43 (5.64%) Collibra
15 41 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (2.89%) AWS Step Functions
18 20 (2.62%) Amazon SQS
19 19 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 19 (2.49%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) 4G
1 4 (0.52%) 5G
1 4 (0.52%) Firewall
1 4 (0.52%) HTTP
2 3 (0.39%) 2G
2 3 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (0.39%) VPN
3 1 (0.13%) DSL
3 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (31.23%) Data Warehouse
2 197 (25.85%) Power BI
3 151 (19.82%) Data Lake
4 101 (13.25%) SQL Server
5 93 (12.20%) Metadata
6 63 (8.27%) Tableau
7 56 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (6.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 51 (6.69%) Delta Lake
10 49 (6.43%) Amazon Athena
11 48 (6.30%) Snowflake Schema
12 46 (6.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 46 (6.04%) Relational Database
13 45 (5.91%) Big Data
14 41 (5.38%) BigQuery
15 33 (4.33%) NoSQL
16 32 (4.20%) Star Schema
17 28 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
18 26 (3.41%) OLAP
18 26 (3.41%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 67 (8.79%) Git
2 35 (4.59%) JIRA
3 26 (3.41%) GitLab
4 18 (2.36%) MLflow
5 12 (1.57%) ERwin
6 11 (1.44%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.79%) Selenium
8 5 (0.66%) Postman
9 4 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.52%) Toad
10 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.39%) JMeter
10 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) LSMW
11 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.13%) Ant
12 1 (0.13%) JUnit
General
1 282 (37.01%) Finance
2 218 (28.61%) Social Skills
3 137 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.02%) Banking
5 60 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.15%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.36%) Telecoms
8 14 (1.84%) Marketing
9 11 (1.44%) Legal
10 10 (1.31%) Retail
11 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.79%) Front Office
13 5 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 324 (42.52%) Data Engineer
2 97 (12.73%) Senior
3 92 (12.07%) Developer
4 90 (11.81%) Lead
5 71 (9.32%) Architect
6 69 (9.06%) Analyst
7 68 (8.92%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.04%) Data Analyst
9 37 (4.86%) Data Architect
9 37 (4.86%) Snowflake Engineer
10 33 (4.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 24 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (3.15%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (3.02%) Python Engineer
13 21 (2.76%) Azure Data Engineer
14 20 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 18 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (2.36%) Business Analyst
15 18 (2.36%) Senior Developer
16 17 (2.23%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.73%) PySpark
2 81 (10.63%) Kafka
3 35 (4.59%) Pandas
4 32 (4.20%) REST
5 23 (3.02%) XML
6 21 (2.76%) NumPy
7 20 (2.62%) Great Expectations
8 16 (2.10%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.97%) .NET
9 15 (1.97%) OAuth
10 14 (1.84%) Middleware
10 14 (1.84%) RESTful
10 14 (1.84%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.84%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.84%) Web Services
11 13 (1.71%) JSON
12 12 (1.57%) pytest
12 12 (1.57%) Spark Streaming
13 11 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
14 10 (1.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.84%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.48%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.77%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.54%) Distributed Computing
5 21 (2.76%) Onboarding
6 19 (2.49%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.44%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.18%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.18%) Low-Code
10 8 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.05%) Clustering
10 8 (1.05%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.92%) Data Fabric
11 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.84%) Linux
2 12 (1.57%) Windows
3 8 (1.05%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Solaris
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) VMS
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 334 (43.83%) Analytics
3 299 (39.24%) Data Engineering
3 299 (39.24%) Data Pipeline
4 234 (30.71%) Business Intelligence
5 228 (29.92%) CI/CD
6 191 (25.07%) Data Governance
7 176 (23.10%) DevOps
8 158 (20.73%) Agile
9 152 (19.95%) Migration
10 142 (18.64%) Data Architecture
11 139 (18.24%) Validation
12 137 (17.98%) AI
13 136 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
14 115 (15.09%) Decision-Making
15 106 (13.91%) Data Science
16 101 (13.25%) Data Migration
17 99 (12.99%) Data Integration
18 93 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
19 92 (12.07%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 545 (71.52%) SQL
2 387 (50.79%) Python
3 68 (8.92%) Java
4 48 (6.30%) C#
5 43 (5.64%) Scala
6 36 (4.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.72%) PL/SQL
7 27 (3.54%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.36%) R
9 13 (1.71%) JavaScript
10 10 (1.31%) Bicep
10 10 (1.31%) PowerShell
11 8 (1.05%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.92%) SAS Macro
13 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.66%) Bash
15 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.52%) Perl
15 4 (0.52%) PHP
16 3 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 137 (17.98%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.69%) Degree
4 36 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (3.15%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.36%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.79%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.52%) PMP
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.13%) CISSP
14 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (36.61%) Data Quality
2 73 (9.58%) GDPR
3 62 (8.14%) QA
4 16 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.57%) IFRS
6 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.18%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.18%) PMO
7 5 (0.66%) GAAP
8 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.52%) IFRS 9
8 4 (0.52%) MiFID
9 3 (0.39%) Basel III
9 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.39%) NIST
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) GRC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 54 (7.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 107 (14.04%) Terraform
2 53 (6.96%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.52%) Ansible
3 4 (0.52%) Control-M
3 4 (0.52%) Grafana
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 171 (22.44%) Databricks
2 151 (19.82%) Microsoft
3 78 (10.24%) Oracle
4 53 (6.96%) Informatica
5 36 (4.72%) Google
6 33 (4.33%) SAP
7 19 (2.49%) IBM
8 18 (2.36%) Workday
9 15 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.84%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.84%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.44%) OpenAI
11 11 (1.44%) Talend
12 9 (1.18%) UiPath
13 8 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
14 7 (0.92%) Denodo
14 7 (0.92%) Red Hat
15 6 (0.79%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.79%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.79%) Palantir