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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 74 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing ETL 777 478 524
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.85% 3.59% 3.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 3.88% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 335 364
10th Percentile £375 £381 £363
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
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% -21.09%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £57.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% -13.86% -29.86%

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 17,968 12,305 14,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.07% 92.45% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,753 8,146 9,703
10th Percentile £360 £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 £681
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £509 £525
% change year-on-year +3.05% -2.96% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 255 185
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -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 5 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 5 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 -2 86 £520 +4.00% 43
West London +3 25 £520 +2.77% 18
South London -1 9 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +4 5 £450 -33.33% 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
1 104 (13.38%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (11.84%) Apache Spark
3 71 (9.14%) 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%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.90%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.64%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.64%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
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 5 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.51%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Actimize
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 331 (42.60%) Azure
2 240 (30.89%) AWS
3 177 (22.78%) Power Platform
4 139 (17.89%) Snowflake
5 118 (15.19%) GCP
6 101 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 99 (12.74%) dbt
8 97 (12.48%) Azure DevOps
9 80 (10.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 75 (9.65%) GitHub
11 74 (9.52%) Amazon S3
12 62 (7.98%) Serverless
13 50 (6.44%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (3.86%) Collibra
16 21 (2.70%) Amazon EMR
16 21 (2.70%) Azure Databricks
17 15 (1.93%) SaaS
18 14 (1.80%) Fivetran
19 13 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
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
2 170 (21.88%) Power BI
3 128 (16.47%) Data Lake
4 85 (10.94%) SQL Server
5 78 (10.04%) Metadata
6 70 (9.01%) Delta Lake
7 55 (7.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 51 (6.56%) BigQuery
9 49 (6.31%) Relational Database
10 48 (6.18%) Big Data
11 46 (5.92%) Tableau
12 39 (5.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 37 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
14 36 (4.63%) Star Schema
15 35 (4.50%) Snowflake Schema
16 32 (4.12%) Azure SQL Database
17 31 (3.99%) Amazon Athena
17 31 (3.99%) NoSQL
18 29 (3.73%) Power Query
19 24 (3.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 74 (9.52%) Git
2 42 (5.41%) JIRA
3 36 (4.63%) GitLab
4 21 (2.70%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.90%) MLflow
5 7 (0.90%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.64%) Selenium
7 4 (0.51%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.13%) Robot Framework
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 266 (34.23%) Finance
2 191 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 151 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (13.26%) Banking
5 57 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.96%) Marketing
7 19 (2.45%) Retail
8 14 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.67%) Front Office
10 9 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.16%) Legal
11 8 (1.03%) Billing
11 8 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.03%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.64%) Games
12 5 (0.64%) Publishing
13 4 (0.51%) Back Office
13 4 (0.51%) Law
Job Titles
1 321 (41.31%) Data Engineer
2 130 (16.73%) Senior
3 103 (13.26%) Architect
4 92 (11.84%) Developer
5 86 (11.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 83 (10.68%) Lead
7 70 (9.01%) Analyst
8 42 (5.41%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.02%) Data Analyst
10 38 (4.89%) Databricks Engineer
11 36 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
12 33 (4.25%) Databricks Data Engineer
13 28 (3.60%) Azure Data Engineer
13 28 (3.60%) Snowflake Engineer
14 24 (3.09%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 22 (2.83%) AWS Engineer
16 21 (2.70%) Technical Leader
17 20 (2.57%) Consultant
17 20 (2.57%) Lead Data Engineer
17 20 (2.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (13.26%) PySpark
2 83 (10.68%) Terraform
3 77 (9.91%) Kafka
4 38 (4.89%) REST
5 36 (4.63%) .NET
6 29 (3.73%) JSON
7 19 (2.45%) Middleware
8 17 (2.19%) Pandas
8 17 (2.19%) React
9 13 (1.67%) Spring
10 12 (1.54%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.54%) XML
10 12 (1.54%) YAML
11 10 (1.29%) Web Services
12 9 (1.16%) HTML
13 8 (1.03%) LangChain
13 8 (1.03%) WPF
14 7 (0.90%) Great Expectations
14 7 (0.90%) NumPy
14 7 (0.90%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.55%) Cloud Native
2 53 (6.82%) Data Structures
3 46 (5.92%) Product Ownership
4 42 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.25%) Onboarding
6 26 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
7 18 (2.32%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.06%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (1.67%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.67%) Replication
10 11 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 11 (1.42%) Clustering
10 11 (1.42%) Reinsurance
11 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.16%) NHS
13 8 (1.03%) IoT
14 7 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.90%) Taxonomies
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
1 366 (47.10%) Data Modelling
2 337 (43.37%) Data Pipeline
3 316 (40.67%) Data Engineering
4 311 (40.03%) Analytics
5 268 (34.49%) CI/CD
6 234 (30.12%) Agile
7 218 (28.06%) DevOps
8 202 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
9 196 (25.23%) Data Governance
10 161 (20.72%) Migration
11 159 (20.46%) AI
11 159 (20.46%) Data Integration
12 155 (19.95%) Validation
13 139 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
14 138 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 134 (17.25%) Data Transformation
16 127 (16.34%) Data Architecture
17 100 (12.87%) Decision-Making
18 86 (11.07%) Performance Tuning
19 85 (10.94%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 523 (67.31%) SQL
2 365 (46.98%) Python
3 80 (10.30%) Java
4 42 (5.41%) C#
5 41 (5.28%) Scala
6 37 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.38%) PL/SQL
8 32 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 32 (4.12%) T-SQL
9 26 (3.35%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.67%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.54%) R
12 10 (1.29%) Bash
13 8 (1.03%) Cypher
14 5 (0.64%) Bicep
15 4 (0.51%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
16 3 (0.39%) Perl
16 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 143 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 125 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.41%) Degree
4 22 (2.83%) Azure Certification
5 19 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.06%) AWS Certification
6 16 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.67%) 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
1 290 (37.32%) Data Quality
2 60 (7.72%) QA
3 38 (4.89%) GDPR
4 29 (3.73%) GRC
5 11 (1.42%) 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 60 (7.72%) 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 6 (0.77%) Grafana
5 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 2 (0.26%) 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
1 185 (23.81%) Databricks
2 146 (18.79%) Microsoft
3 119 (15.32%) Oracle
4 59 (7.59%) Informatica
5 39 (5.02%) Google
6 24 (3.09%) Talend
7 18 (2.32%) IBM
7 18 (2.32%) SAP
8 14 (1.80%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.67%) Foundry
9 13 (1.67%) Palantir
10 11 (1.42%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.03%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.03%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.03%) SnapLogic
12 6 (0.77%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.77%) Denodo
12 6 (0.77%) MicroStrategy
13 5 (0.64%) Hitachi
13 5 (0.64%) Hyperion