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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 74 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 750 478 565
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.53% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.83% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 335 410
10th Percentile £358 £401 £380
25th Percentile £437 £455 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £658 £660
90th Percentile £712 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £39.25 -
25th Percentile - £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -30.00%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.86 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -31.70% +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 17,589 12,488 14,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.92% 92.12% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,618 8,349 10,661
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
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 276 238 247
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.66 £21.05
Median hourly rate £36.00 £30.40 £33.55
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% -9.38% -19.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

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 21 July 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 July 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 +6 80 £525 -6.25% 40
West London +6 26 £524 +2.29% 7
South London -3 11 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +3 4 £450 -33.33% 3
North London -1 1 £495 -
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 85 (11.33%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (11.07%) Apache Spark
3 59 (7.87%) Apache
4 36 (4.80%) SAS
5 14 (1.87%) Confluence
6 12 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 9 (1.20%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.53%) Appian
9 4 (0.53%) Camunda
9 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.07%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.40%) Actimize
4 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.13%) iTrent
6 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 325 (43.33%) Azure
2 236 (31.47%) AWS
3 190 (25.33%) Power Platform
4 110 (14.67%) Snowflake
5 104 (13.87%) GCP
6 96 (12.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 86 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
7 86 (11.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 82 (10.93%) Amazon S3
9 76 (10.13%) dbt
10 65 (8.67%) Serverless
11 58 (7.73%) GitHub
12 54 (7.20%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (5.07%) Collibra
14 26 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
16 19 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (2.13%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) 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
1 237 (31.60%) Data Warehouse
2 176 (23.47%) Power BI
3 139 (18.53%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.87%) Metadata
5 71 (9.47%) SQL Server
6 61 (8.13%) Tableau
7 59 (7.87%) Delta Lake
8 51 (6.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 50 (6.67%) BigQuery
10 47 (6.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 45 (6.00%) Big Data
12 43 (5.73%) Relational Database
12 43 (5.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
13 36 (4.80%) NoSQL
14 33 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (4.27%) Star Schema
16 30 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
17 21 (2.80%) Oracle Database
17 21 (2.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 67 (8.93%) Git
2 38 (5.07%) JIRA
3 18 (2.40%) GitLab
4 13 (1.73%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.20%) MLflow
6 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.53%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) LSMW
7 3 (0.40%) Postman
7 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.27%) ERwin
8 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.27%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) Maven
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
General
1 274 (36.53%) Finance
2 176 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 149 (19.87%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.67%) Banking
5 74 (9.87%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.93%) Marketing
7 16 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (1.73%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.33%) Front Office
9 10 (1.33%) Legal
10 8 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.07%) Retail
11 5 (0.67%) Games
11 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.53%) Billing
12 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 299 (39.87%) Data Engineer
2 107 (14.27%) Architect
3 103 (13.73%) Senior
4 92 (12.27%) Lead
5 87 (11.60%) Developer
6 69 (9.20%) Analyst
6 69 (9.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 45 (6.00%) Data Architect
8 40 (5.33%) Data Analyst
9 27 (3.60%) Snowflake Engineer
10 26 (3.47%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 25 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.33%) Lead Data Engineer
12 22 (2.93%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (2.93%) Python Engineer
13 21 (2.80%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.40%) Consultant
15 18 (2.40%) Python Data Engineer
16 17 (2.27%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (12.80%) PySpark
2 70 (9.33%) Kafka
3 38 (5.07%) REST
4 28 (3.73%) JSON
5 22 (2.93%) .NET
5 22 (2.93%) Pandas
6 21 (2.80%) Middleware
7 14 (1.87%) Spring
7 14 (1.87%) XML
8 13 (1.73%) Great Expectations
8 13 (1.73%) Web Services
9 11 (1.47%) OAuth
9 11 (1.47%) PyTorch
9 11 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 10 (1.33%) HTML
10 10 (1.33%) React
10 10 (1.33%) TensorFlow
10 10 (1.33%) YAML
11 9 (1.20%) NumPy
12 8 (1.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 84 (11.20%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.33%) Data Structures
3 48 (6.40%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.87%) AI Agents
8 13 (1.73%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.60%) Clustering
9 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.20%) NHS
10 9 (1.20%) Replication
10 9 (1.20%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.93%) IoT
11 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
12 6 (0.80%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.67%) Linux
2 12 (1.60%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Solaris
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (47.60%) Data Modelling
2 313 (41.73%) Data Pipeline
3 297 (39.60%) Analytics
4 276 (36.80%) Data Engineering
5 236 (31.47%) CI/CD
6 204 (27.20%) Business Intelligence
7 193 (25.73%) DevOps
8 191 (25.47%) Agile
9 182 (24.27%) Data Governance
10 170 (22.67%) Migration
11 150 (20.00%) Validation
12 144 (19.20%) AI
13 129 (17.20%) Data Architecture
14 128 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
15 123 (16.40%) Data Integration
16 113 (15.07%) Decision-Making
17 100 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 95 (12.67%) Data Transformation
19 91 (12.13%) Data Migration
20 86 (11.47%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 503 (67.07%) SQL
2 362 (48.27%) Python
3 82 (10.93%) Java
4 41 (5.47%) Scala
5 39 (5.20%) C#
6 37 (4.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.53%) T-SQL
8 31 (4.13%) PL/SQL
9 23 (3.07%) JavaScript
10 16 (2.13%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.87%) R
12 13 (1.73%) TypeScript
13 9 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.93%) Bash
14 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
15 6 (0.80%) Bicep
16 5 (0.67%) Cypher
16 5 (0.67%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 152 (20.27%) Security Cleared
2 130 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.87%) Degree
4 27 (3.60%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.33%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
9 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) CISA
12 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (34.93%) Data Quality
2 67 (8.93%) QA
3 54 (7.20%) GDPR
4 17 (2.27%) GRC
5 12 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.47%) PMO
7 10 (1.33%) IFRS
8 8 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.93%) Solvency II
10 5 (0.67%) IFRS 17
11 4 (0.53%) GAAP
12 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.40%) GMP
13 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
14 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.13%) HL7
14 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
14 1 (0.13%) SEPA
14 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 52 (6.93%) Docker
2 5 (0.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (11.73%) Terraform
2 60 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.93%) Grafana
4 5 (0.67%) Control-M
5 4 (0.53%) Ansible
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 154 (20.53%) Databricks
2 139 (18.53%) Microsoft
3 96 (12.80%) Oracle
4 49 (6.53%) Informatica
5 36 (4.80%) Google
6 24 (3.20%) SAP
7 21 (2.80%) IBM
8 14 (1.87%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.87%) Talend
9 12 (1.60%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.33%) Palantir
11 9 (1.20%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.20%) Workday
12 8 (1.07%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.93%) Refinitiv
14 6 (0.80%) Denodo
14 6 (0.80%) Foundry
14 6 (0.80%) ServiceNow