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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 77 71
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 773 478 525
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.83% 3.52% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 3.81% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 335 376
10th Percentile £374 £400 £378
25th Percentile £436 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £512 £513
% change year-on-year -2.34% -0.10% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £44.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.90% -31.11%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%

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 17,950 12,547 14,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.04% 92.29% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,820 8,389 10,191
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 247 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.58 £22.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.03% -15.71% -15.19%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £62.70 £71.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +75.86% -40.82% -

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +12 88 £525 -2.78% 37
West London +2 25 £520 +1.56% 5
South London -6 10 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 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 92 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 87 (11.25%) Apache Spark
3 63 (8.15%) Apache
4 46 (5.95%) SAS
5 16 (2.07%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.81%) Confluence
7 9 (1.16%) nginx
7 9 (1.16%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.52%) Apache Solr
11 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.39%) Camunda
12 2 (0.26%) Appian
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.13%) Luigi
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 29 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.39%) Actimize
5 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 330 (42.69%) Azure
2 238 (30.79%) AWS
3 195 (25.23%) Power Platform
4 116 (15.01%) GCP
5 115 (14.88%) Snowflake
6 98 (12.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 91 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
8 85 (11.00%) dbt
9 84 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 77 (9.96%) Amazon S3
11 62 (8.02%) Serverless
12 60 (7.76%) GitHub
13 51 (6.60%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (4.53%) Collibra
15 27 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.10%) Amazon EMR
17 16 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (2.07%) Dagster
18 15 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
19 13 (1.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.91%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 3 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) DNS
4 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (32.73%) Data Warehouse
2 181 (23.42%) Power BI
3 137 (17.72%) Data Lake
4 82 (10.61%) SQL Server
5 72 (9.31%) Metadata
6 63 (8.15%) Delta Lake
7 58 (7.50%) Tableau
8 53 (6.86%) BigQuery
9 50 (6.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (5.95%) Big Data
11 45 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 44 (5.69%) Relational Database
13 43 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
14 35 (4.53%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (4.40%) Star Schema
16 32 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 32 (4.14%) NoSQL
17 29 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
18 25 (3.23%) Power Query
19 20 (2.59%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 65 (8.41%) Git
2 37 (4.79%) JIRA
3 25 (3.23%) GitLab
4 18 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.91%) MLflow
6 4 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.52%) Selenium
6 4 (0.52%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.39%) LSMW
7 3 (0.39%) Postman
7 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) ERwin
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 278 (35.96%) Finance
2 183 (23.67%) Social Skills
3 150 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (11.77%) Banking
5 68 (8.80%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.98%) Marketing
7 18 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 15 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 14 (1.81%) Retail
10 12 (1.55%) Front Office
11 10 (1.29%) Legal
12 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.65%) Games
16 4 (0.52%) Billing
16 4 (0.52%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.52%) Publishing
17 3 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 307 (39.72%) Data Engineer
2 114 (14.75%) Architect
3 112 (14.49%) Senior
4 91 (11.77%) Developer
5 87 (11.25%) Lead
6 75 (9.70%) Senior Data Engineer
7 70 (9.06%) Analyst
8 42 (5.43%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.05%) Data Analyst
10 28 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
11 25 (3.23%) Snowflake Engineer
12 23 (2.98%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 22 (2.85%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (2.85%) Lead Data Engineer
14 21 (2.72%) Python Engineer
15 19 (2.46%) Integration Engineer
16 18 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
16 18 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (12.42%) PySpark
2 68 (8.80%) Kafka
3 38 (4.92%) REST
4 30 (3.88%) JSON
5 25 (3.23%) .NET
6 22 (2.85%) Middleware
7 20 (2.59%) Pandas
8 14 (1.81%) Spring
9 13 (1.68%) XML
10 12 (1.55%) React
10 12 (1.55%) YAML
11 11 (1.42%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.42%) Web Services
12 10 (1.29%) Great Expectations
12 10 (1.29%) HTML
12 10 (1.29%) NumPy
13 9 (1.16%) OAuth
14 8 (1.03%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.91%) PyTorch
15 7 (0.91%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.12%) Data Structures
3 49 (6.34%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (4.66%) Product Ownership
5 32 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 16 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.81%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.68%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.68%) Clustering
9 13 (1.68%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.16%) NHS
12 9 (1.16%) Replication
13 8 (1.03%) Reinsurance
14 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.91%) Taxonomies
15 6 (0.78%) Legacy Code
16 5 (0.65%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 24 (3.10%) Linux
2 14 (1.81%) Windows
3 9 (1.16%) Unix
4 7 (0.91%) Solaris
4 7 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (47.22%) Data Modelling
2 326 (42.17%) Data Pipeline
3 313 (40.49%) Analytics
4 295 (38.16%) Data Engineering
5 247 (31.95%) CI/CD
6 211 (27.30%) Business Intelligence
7 210 (27.17%) Agile
8 202 (26.13%) DevOps
9 184 (23.80%) Data Governance
10 171 (22.12%) Migration
11 149 (19.28%) Validation
12 143 (18.50%) Data Integration
13 141 (18.24%) AI
14 136 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
15 129 (16.69%) Data Architecture
16 122 (15.78%) Decision-Making
17 117 (15.14%) Data Transformation
18 113 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
19 91 (11.77%) Data Migration
20 84 (10.87%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 510 (65.98%) SQL
2 359 (46.44%) Python
3 81 (10.48%) Java
4 41 (5.30%) C#
4 41 (5.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (4.92%) Scala
6 35 (4.53%) T-SQL
7 31 (4.01%) JavaScript
7 31 (4.01%) PL/SQL
8 21 (2.72%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.68%) R
10 12 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 10 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 8 (1.03%) Bash
13 7 (0.91%) Bicep
13 7 (0.91%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.78%) Cypher
15 5 (0.65%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 158 (20.44%) Security Cleared
2 135 (17.46%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.05%) Degree
4 25 (3.23%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.94%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (35.45%) Data Quality
2 64 (8.28%) QA
3 47 (6.08%) GDPR
4 27 (3.49%) GRC
5 11 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.29%) PMO
6 10 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.03%) IFRS
7 8 (1.03%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GAAP
9 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.39%) GMP
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) COPPA
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (7.24%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (10.87%) Terraform
2 64 (8.28%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.91%) Ansible
3 7 (0.91%) Control-M
3 7 (0.91%) Grafana
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 162 (20.96%) Databricks
2 142 (18.37%) Microsoft
3 111 (14.36%) Oracle
4 48 (6.21%) Informatica
5 40 (5.17%) Google
6 25 (3.23%) SAP
7 19 (2.46%) IBM
8 16 (2.07%) Talend
9 14 (1.81%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.68%) Palantir
10 13 (1.68%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.29%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.29%) Foundry
12 9 (1.16%) Workday
13 8 (1.03%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.91%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.91%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.78%) Denodo
15 6 (0.78%) OpenAI
16 5 (0.65%) Hyperion