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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 70 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +18
Contract jobs citing ETL 537 537 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.81% 3.42% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.13% 3.82% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 351 432
10th Percentile £379 £363 £382
25th Percentile £426 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £644
90th Percentile £731 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £51.14
25th Percentile £33.88 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -31.17% +6.47%
75th Percentile £44.75 £51.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £62.35 £57.15 £66.50
England median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -4.71% -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 13,004 14,059 17,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 89.51% 89.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,538 9,063 12,765
10th Percentile £335 £350 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £569
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -3.34% -3.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 170 240
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.25 £18.56
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £37.50 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year -22.67% +4.30% -8.97%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.62 £80.75 £75.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +25.00%

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 25 November 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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 25 November 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 -10 71 £553 +4.74% 24
West London -5 7 £575 +4.55% 6
South London -2 6 £466 -13.26% 2
East London 0 2 £418 +1.21% 9
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 59 (10.99%) Apache Spark
2 57 (10.61%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (8.19%) Apache
4 9 (1.68%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.74%) Confluence
5 4 (0.74%) Luigi
6 3 (0.56%) SAS
7 2 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.37%) CMS
7 2 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.30%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.37%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
6 1 (0.19%) Maximo
6 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 225 (41.90%) Azure
2 186 (34.64%) AWS
3 117 (21.79%) Power Platform
4 100 (18.62%) Snowflake
5 85 (15.83%) GCP
6 78 (14.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 62 (11.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 51 (9.50%) Amazon S3
9 41 (7.64%) dbt
9 41 (7.64%) Serverless
10 32 (5.96%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (5.59%) GitHub
12 19 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (2.23%) Azure Functions
15 12 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (2.05%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.56%) 2G
1 3 (0.56%) 4G
1 3 (0.56%) 5G
1 3 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.37%) BGP
2 2 (0.37%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.37%) DNS
2 2 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.37%) Internet
2 2 (0.37%) OSPF
2 2 (0.37%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.19%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (33.15%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (20.11%) Power BI
3 83 (15.46%) Data Lake
4 69 (12.85%) SQL Server
5 55 (10.24%) Metadata
6 54 (10.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (9.87%) Big Data
8 47 (8.75%) BigQuery
9 43 (8.01%) Relational Database
10 39 (7.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (6.33%) Tableau
12 30 (5.59%) NoSQL
13 27 (5.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (4.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.91%) Amazon Athena
16 21 (3.91%) Delta Lake
16 21 (3.91%) Hadoop
17 17 (3.17%) Oracle Database
17 17 (3.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (6.52%) Git
2 18 (3.35%) ERwin
3 16 (2.98%) JIRA
4 13 (2.42%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.30%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.30%) GitLab
6 6 (1.12%) Selenium
7 5 (0.93%) Postman
8 4 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.74%) Toad
9 3 (0.56%) MLflow
9 3 (0.56%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.37%) TestRail
10 2 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.19%) JMeter
11 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.19%) LSMW
11 1 (0.19%) Maven
11 1 (0.19%) NUnit
General
1 172 (32.03%) Finance
2 162 (30.17%) Social Skills
3 95 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (8.75%) Banking
5 36 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.35%) Retail
7 12 (2.23%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.86%) Marketing
9 8 (1.49%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.30%) Front Office
11 6 (1.12%) Local Government
11 6 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.93%) Publishing
13 4 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.74%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 168 (31.28%) Data Engineer
2 78 (14.53%) Developer
3 72 (13.41%) Architect
4 60 (11.17%) Senior
5 58 (10.80%) Analyst
6 56 (10.43%) Lead
7 47 (8.75%) Data Architect
8 42 (7.82%) Data Analyst
9 28 (5.21%) Senior Data Engineer
10 27 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (4.47%) Azure Data Engineer
12 18 (3.35%) Consultant
13 17 (3.17%) Python Engineer
13 17 (3.17%) Snowflake Engineer
14 16 (2.98%) Business Analyst
14 16 (2.98%) Data Modeller
15 15 (2.79%) Azure Architect
15 15 (2.79%) Senior Developer
16 14 (2.61%) Lead Data Engineer
16 14 (2.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (10.43%) PySpark
2 49 (9.12%) Kafka
3 30 (5.59%) XML
4 20 (3.72%) JSON
5 14 (2.61%) REST
5 14 (2.61%) RESTful
6 12 (2.23%) Pandas
7 10 (1.86%) .NET
7 10 (1.86%) NumPy
8 9 (1.68%) OAuth
9 7 (1.30%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.12%) Great Expectations
10 6 (1.12%) Node.js
10 6 (1.12%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.12%) TensorFlow
11 5 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
11 5 (0.93%) Middleware
11 5 (0.93%) scikit-learn
11 5 (0.93%) Spark Streaming
11 5 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.33%) Cloud Native
1 34 (6.33%) Data Structures
2 18 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (2.98%) Algorithms
4 12 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.05%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 10 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (1.68%) Reinsurance
8 8 (1.49%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.30%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.30%) IoT
9 7 (1.30%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.30%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.12%) Data Centre
11 5 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (0.93%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.61%) Linux
2 6 (1.12%) Unix
3 2 (0.37%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.37%) Windows
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (44.88%) Data Modelling
2 209 (38.92%) Analytics
3 202 (37.62%) Data Pipeline
4 162 (30.17%) Data Engineering
5 146 (27.19%) Data Governance
6 143 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
7 134 (24.95%) CI/CD
8 121 (22.53%) Migration
8 121 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
9 110 (20.48%) Agile
10 95 (17.69%) DevOps
11 92 (17.13%) Data Integration
12 88 (16.39%) Data Architecture
13 85 (15.83%) Data Science
14 84 (15.64%) Data Migration
15 74 (13.78%) Validation
16 73 (13.59%) Data Transformation
17 70 (13.04%) Machine Learning
18 66 (12.29%) Visualisation
19 60 (11.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 371 (69.09%) SQL
2 281 (52.33%) Python
3 57 (10.61%) Java
4 27 (5.03%) Scala
5 25 (4.66%) T-SQL
6 24 (4.47%) C#
6 24 (4.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (4.47%) PL/SQL
7 15 (2.79%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.42%) PowerShell
9 12 (2.23%) Bash
10 11 (2.05%) R
11 9 (1.68%) Perl
11 9 (1.68%) VBA
12 7 (1.30%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.93%) Bicep
13 5 (0.93%) C++
13 5 (0.93%) Go
13 5 (0.93%) PHP
13 5 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 68 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.31%) SC Cleared
3 38 (7.08%) Degree
4 25 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.28%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.35%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.49%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.74%) PMP
11 4 (0.74%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.37%) CISSP
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.37%) MCP
13 1 (0.19%) CCIE
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.19%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (29.42%) Data Quality
2 42 (7.82%) GDPR
3 35 (6.52%) QA
4 17 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.86%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.74%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
7 3 (0.56%) HL7
7 3 (0.56%) PMO
7 3 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
8 2 (0.37%) EMIR
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.37%) MiFID
9 1 (0.19%) DICOM
9 1 (0.19%) GxP
9 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 34 (6.33%) Docker
2 5 (0.93%) zsh
3 4 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.37%) KVM
5 2 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 51 (9.50%) Terraform
2 31 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.12%) Ansible
4 5 (0.93%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.74%) Control-M
5 4 (0.74%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.74%) Kibana
5 4 (0.74%) logstash
6 2 (0.37%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 114 (21.23%) Databricks
2 86 (16.01%) Microsoft
3 45 (8.38%) Oracle
4 34 (6.33%) Google
5 22 (4.10%) Informatica
6 20 (3.72%) SAP
7 12 (2.23%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.86%) Palantir
9 9 (1.68%) Foundry
9 9 (1.68%) Talend
9 9 (1.68%) Workday
10 8 (1.49%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.49%) VMware
11 7 (1.30%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.93%) EMC
12 5 (0.93%) IBM
12 5 (0.93%) Teradata
13 4 (0.74%) Solace
13 4 (0.74%) Sparx
13 4 (0.74%) TIBCO