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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 78 72
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +26
Contract jobs citing ETL 696 435 554
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.44% 3.28% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 3.62% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 284 440
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £746 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.13 £44.89
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £63.14
90th Percentile - £57.35 £68.00
England median hourly rate £69.44 £42.50 £50.78
% change year-on-year +63.39% -16.30% +43.04%

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 14,158 12,033 16,215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.35% 90.69% 88.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,486 7,785 11,599
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 155 348
10th Percentile £18.06 £20.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.13 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +25.00% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.98 £55.25 £50.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.61 £72.15
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - -

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 87 £513 -6.82% 32
West London -1 25 £603 +9.55% 3
South London -7 13 £475 -2.56% 4
East London +5 6 £463 +15.63% 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 76 (10.92%) Apache Spark
2 56 (8.05%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (6.61%) Apache
4 8 (1.15%) Appian
4 8 (1.15%) SAS
5 7 (1.01%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.57%) Confluence
8 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.57%) nginx
9 3 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.14%) Camunda
Applications
1 26 (3.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.43%) Trello
5 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.86%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.29%) Actimize
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.29%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 316 (45.40%) Azure
2 226 (32.47%) AWS
3 176 (25.29%) Power Platform
4 111 (15.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (13.65%) Snowflake
6 91 (13.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 83 (11.93%) GCP
8 80 (11.49%) Amazon S3
9 59 (8.48%) Serverless
10 51 (7.33%) GitHub
11 49 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
12 48 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (5.32%) dbt
14 35 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (4.02%) Collibra
16 24 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.87%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (2.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.16%) Power Automate
19 14 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.57%) 4G
1 4 (0.57%) 5G
2 3 (0.43%) 2G
2 3 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.29%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Firewall
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (29.45%) Data Warehouse
2 162 (23.28%) Power BI
3 134 (19.25%) Data Lake
4 96 (13.79%) SQL Server
5 84 (12.07%) Metadata
6 55 (7.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 52 (7.47%) Tableau
8 50 (7.18%) Big Data
9 49 (7.04%) Relational Database
10 42 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (6.03%) Delta Lake
11 41 (5.89%) Amazon Athena
12 39 (5.60%) BigQuery
13 38 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
14 37 (5.32%) Snowflake Schema
15 30 (4.31%) NoSQL
16 29 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
17 28 (4.02%) Oracle Database
18 20 (2.87%) OLAP
19 18 (2.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 71 (10.20%) Git
2 29 (4.17%) JIRA
3 24 (3.45%) GitLab
4 17 (2.44%) MLflow
5 15 (2.16%) ERwin
5 15 (2.16%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.29%) Selenium
7 7 (1.01%) Postman
8 4 (0.57%) Toad
9 3 (0.43%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.43%) JMeter
9 3 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.14%) Ant
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 249 (35.78%) Finance
2 209 (30.03%) Social Skills
3 108 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (11.35%) Banking
5 48 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.02%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.73%) Retail
8 16 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.44%) Marketing
9 10 (1.44%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.86%) Legal
11 5 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.72%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.72%) Law
11 5 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.72%) Publishing
12 4 (0.57%) Front Office
12 4 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 277 (39.80%) Data Engineer
2 92 (13.22%) Lead
3 87 (12.50%) Developer
4 76 (10.92%) Senior
5 67 (9.63%) Analyst
6 66 (9.48%) Architect
7 50 (7.18%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.61%) Data Analyst
9 40 (5.75%) Data Architect
10 31 (4.45%) Snowflake Engineer
11 26 (3.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 25 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (3.16%) Lead Data Engineer
13 22 (3.16%) Python Engineer
14 21 (3.02%) Azure Data Engineer
14 21 (3.02%) Business Analyst
14 21 (3.02%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 18 (2.59%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.16%) Data Modeller
17 14 (2.01%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (13.65%) PySpark
2 65 (9.34%) Kafka
3 32 (4.60%) Pandas
4 29 (4.17%) XML
5 26 (3.74%) REST
6 23 (3.30%) NumPy
7 21 (3.02%) PyTorch
8 19 (2.73%) TensorFlow
9 17 (2.44%) scikit-learn
10 16 (2.30%) Great Expectations
11 15 (2.16%) Middleware
12 14 (2.01%) JSON
12 14 (2.01%) RESTful
13 13 (1.87%) .NET
13 13 (1.87%) OAuth
14 12 (1.72%) pytest
15 11 (1.58%) Spark Streaming
16 10 (1.44%) Hugging Face
16 10 (1.44%) Web Services
16 10 (1.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.62%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.76%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.89%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.02%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.16%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.58%) Product Ownership
8 10 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.44%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.29%) Fixed Income
9 9 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.29%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 6 (0.86%) IoT
12 6 (0.86%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.59%) Linux
2 9 (1.29%) Windows
3 7 (1.01%) Unix
4 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.57%) Solaris
5 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.43%) VMS
7 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (47.56%) Data Modelling
2 301 (43.25%) Analytics
3 256 (36.78%) Data Engineering
4 253 (36.35%) Data Pipeline
5 204 (29.31%) Business Intelligence
6 199 (28.59%) CI/CD
7 176 (25.29%) Data Governance
8 149 (21.41%) Agile
9 148 (21.26%) Migration
10 135 (19.40%) DevOps
11 129 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
12 124 (17.82%) Data Architecture
13 120 (17.24%) AI
14 112 (16.09%) Data Science
15 111 (15.95%) Validation
16 110 (15.80%) Data Migration
17 95 (13.65%) Machine Learning
18 92 (13.22%) Decision-Making
19 86 (12.36%) Data Integration
19 86 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 488 (70.11%) SQL
2 346 (49.71%) Python
3 54 (7.76%) Java
4 41 (5.89%) C#
5 39 (5.60%) Scala
6 34 (4.89%) PL/SQL
7 23 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 23 (3.30%) T-SQL
8 20 (2.87%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.87%) Bicep
10 11 (1.58%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.58%) R
11 8 (1.15%) Bash
12 7 (1.01%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.86%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.57%) Korn
14 4 (0.57%) Perl
14 4 (0.57%) PHP
14 4 (0.57%) SAS Macro
15 3 (0.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 109 (15.66%) Security Cleared
2 84 (12.07%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.04%) Degree
4 32 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 21 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.01%) PMP
11 5 (0.72%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.72%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.57%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.43%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 1 (0.14%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (35.20%) Data Quality
2 66 (9.48%) GDPR
3 50 (7.18%) QA
4 17 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.58%) IFRS
6 9 (1.29%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.86%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.86%) PMO
9 5 (0.72%) GAAP
9 5 (0.72%) MiFID
10 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.43%) Basel III
11 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.43%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.43%) NIST
12 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.29%) EMIR
12 2 (0.29%) GMP
System Software
1 52 (7.47%) Docker
2 4 (0.57%) zsh
3 3 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 91 (13.07%) Terraform
2 54 (7.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.43%) Ansible
3 3 (0.43%) Control-M
4 2 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.29%) Kibana
4 2 (0.29%) logstash
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.29%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 172 (24.71%) Databricks
2 121 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 73 (10.49%) Oracle
4 42 (6.03%) Informatica
5 33 (4.74%) SAP
6 28 (4.02%) Google
7 15 (2.16%) IBM
7 15 (2.16%) Salesforce
7 15 (2.16%) Talend
8 14 (2.01%) MuleSoft
8 14 (2.01%) Workday
9 13 (1.87%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.72%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.29%) UiPath
12 8 (1.15%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (1.01%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.01%) Palantir
14 6 (0.86%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.86%) Foundry
15 5 (0.72%) Red Hat