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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 69 70
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +22
Contract jobs citing ETL 757 450 569
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 3.59% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 3.89% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 310 421
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 9
10th Percentile - £42.25 -
25th Percentile - £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -28.15%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £74.75 £57.50
England median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -39.29%

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 16,924 11,578 15,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.38% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,273 7,758 11,151
10th Percentile £360 £338 £340
25th Percentile £437 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 212 313
10th Percentile £17.96 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +19.30% -28.75%
75th Percentile £59.85 £50.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.80
England median hourly rate £47.50 £27.38 £38.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -27.96% +7.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +11 85 £513 -9.29% 21
West London -6 28 £603 +19.07% 6
South London +5 12 £463 -3.90%
East London +5 8 £450 -33.33% 4
North London +1 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 90 (11.89%) Apache Spark
2 77 (10.17%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.13%) Apache
4 15 (1.98%) SAS
5 10 (1.32%) Confluence
6 9 (1.19%) nginx
6 9 (1.19%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.19%) Tomcat
7 8 (1.06%) Appian
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.26%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 27 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.40%) Actimize
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 355 (46.90%) Azure
2 241 (31.84%) AWS
3 210 (27.74%) Power Platform
4 113 (14.93%) Azure Data Factory
5 99 (13.08%) GCP
6 98 (12.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 97 (12.81%) Snowflake
8 89 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
9 88 (11.62%) Amazon S3
10 69 (9.11%) Serverless
11 66 (8.72%) GitHub
12 60 (7.93%) dbt
13 58 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (5.02%) Collibra
15 28 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
17 22 (2.91%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
19 16 (2.11%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.79%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 231 (30.52%) Data Warehouse
2 195 (25.76%) Power BI
3 159 (21.00%) Data Lake
4 106 (14.00%) SQL Server
5 80 (10.57%) Metadata
6 66 (8.72%) Tableau
7 63 (8.32%) Delta Lake
8 54 (7.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (6.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 46 (6.08%) BigQuery
10 46 (6.08%) Relational Database
10 46 (6.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 44 (5.81%) Big Data
12 43 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
12 43 (5.68%) Azure SQL Database
13 40 (5.28%) NoSQL
14 31 (4.10%) Star Schema
15 30 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
16 23 (3.04%) Oracle Database
17 20 (2.64%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 76 (10.04%) Git
2 42 (5.55%) JIRA
3 25 (3.30%) GitLab
4 14 (1.85%) MLflow
5 12 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 8 (1.06%) ERwin
7 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.53%) Postman
7 4 (0.53%) Selenium
8 3 (0.40%) JMeter
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 289 (38.18%) Finance
2 190 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 138 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (12.02%) Banking
5 66 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.77%) Marketing
7 20 (2.64%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.98%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.32%) Legal
10 10 (1.32%) Retail
11 8 (1.06%) Front Office
11 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
12 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Billing
13 4 (0.53%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 329 (43.46%) Data Engineer
2 106 (14.00%) Senior
3 96 (12.68%) Lead
4 86 (11.36%) Developer
5 83 (10.96%) Architect
6 74 (9.78%) Senior Data Engineer
7 60 (7.93%) Analyst
8 43 (5.68%) Data Analyst
9 40 (5.28%) Data Architect
10 25 (3.30%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 25 (3.30%) Snowflake Engineer
11 23 (3.04%) Lead Data Engineer
12 21 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (2.77%) Integration Engineer
12 21 (2.77%) Python Engineer
13 20 (2.64%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (2.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 19 (2.51%) Consultant
15 18 (2.38%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (2.38%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (12.95%) PySpark
2 67 (8.85%) Kafka
3 40 (5.28%) REST
4 31 (4.10%) Pandas
5 25 (3.30%) Middleware
5 25 (3.30%) XML
6 19 (2.51%) .NET
7 17 (2.25%) JSON
7 17 (2.25%) PyTorch
8 16 (2.11%) NumPy
8 16 (2.11%) Spring
8 16 (2.11%) TensorFlow
9 15 (1.98%) OAuth
9 15 (1.98%) Web Services
10 14 (1.85%) Great Expectations
10 14 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.85%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.72%) Spring Boot
12 12 (1.59%) HTML
13 11 (1.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.10%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 52 (6.87%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 21 (2.77%) Distributed Computing
6 20 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.85%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.72%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.72%) Reinsurance
10 12 (1.59%) Clustering
10 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.59%) Reference Data
11 10 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.06%) Replication
13 7 (0.92%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.92%) IoT
13 7 (0.92%) Low-Code
13 7 (0.92%) Taxonomies
14 6 (0.79%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.38%) Linux
2 13 (1.72%) Windows
3 7 (0.92%) Solaris
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.53%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (49.41%) Data Modelling
2 316 (41.74%) Data Pipeline
3 312 (41.22%) Analytics
4 289 (38.18%) Data Engineering
5 233 (30.78%) CI/CD
6 222 (29.33%) Business Intelligence
7 203 (26.82%) DevOps
8 187 (24.70%) Agile
9 166 (21.93%) Data Governance
10 164 (21.66%) AI
11 162 (21.40%) Migration
12 142 (18.76%) Data Architecture
13 141 (18.63%) Validation
14 133 (17.57%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (15.72%) Decision-Making
16 111 (14.66%) Data Integration
17 98 (12.95%) Data Science
17 98 (12.95%) Machine Learning
18 94 (12.42%) Stakeholder Management
19 92 (12.15%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 522 (68.96%) SQL
2 379 (50.07%) Python
3 82 (10.83%) Java
4 42 (5.55%) C#
5 38 (5.02%) Scala
6 36 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (4.76%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.62%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.77%) JavaScript
9 18 (2.38%) R
10 13 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 12 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 9 (1.19%) Bicep
13 7 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.66%) Bash
16 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.40%) Cypher
17 3 (0.40%) SPARQL
17 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 119 (15.72%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.61%) Degree
4 32 (4.23%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.85%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.79%) SnowPro
10 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.53%) PMP
11 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.26%) CISA
13 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (36.46%) Data Quality
2 63 (8.32%) QA
3 60 (7.93%) GDPR
4 16 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.45%) IFRS
6 10 (1.32%) PMO
7 9 (1.19%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.66%) GAAP
9 5 (0.66%) IFRS 9
9 5 (0.66%) Solvency II
10 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.40%) Basel III
11 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.40%) NIST
12 2 (0.26%) GMP
12 2 (0.26%) MiFID
13 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
13 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (7.93%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (12.55%) Terraform
2 61 (8.06%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.79%) Control-M
4 5 (0.66%) Grafana
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.40%) Ansible
7 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 160 (21.14%) Databricks
1 160 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 87 (11.49%) Oracle
3 55 (7.27%) Informatica
4 32 (4.23%) Google
5 29 (3.83%) SAP
6 23 (3.04%) IBM
7 16 (2.11%) Workday
8 13 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 13 (1.72%) Talend
9 12 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.45%) MuleSoft
10 11 (1.45%) OpenAI
10 11 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.92%) Automation Anywhere
12 7 (0.92%) Refinitiv
12 7 (0.92%) UiPath
13 6 (0.79%) Palantir