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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 67 80
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing ETL 528 543 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.73% 3.45% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.05% 3.87% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 353 431
10th Percentile £380 £361 £382
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £650
90th Percentile £736 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £513 £526
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.47% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £32.50 £37.50 £51.14
25th Percentile £34.56 £41.25 £59.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -31.17% +19.90%
75th Percentile £47.00 £51.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £64.25 £57.15 £66.50
England median hourly rate £43.50 £42.50 £61.75
% change year-on-year +2.35% -31.17% +73.94%

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 13,053 14,033 17,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.33% 89.24% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,585 9,054 12,730
10th Percentile £335 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -3.21% -3.69%
75th Percentile £653 £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 261 166 246
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.38 £18.68
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.98 £21.56
Median hourly rate £28.13 £37.50 £36.33
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.21% -6.54%
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.56 £61.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £80.38 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +26.90%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -16 68 £550 +4.76% 158
West London -9 7 £575 +4.55% 8
South London -5 6 £466 -13.26% 2
East London 0 2 £418 +1.21% 10
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 58 (10.98%) Apache Airflow
2 57 (10.80%) Apache Spark
3 46 (8.71%) Apache
4 7 (1.33%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.76%) Confluence
5 4 (0.76%) Luigi
6 3 (0.57%) SAS
7 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.38%) CMS
7 2 (0.38%) IIS
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 30 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.33%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.57%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.38%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.19%) Actimize
6 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.19%) Maximo
6 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 221 (41.86%) Azure
2 186 (35.23%) AWS
3 115 (21.78%) Power Platform
4 100 (18.94%) Snowflake
5 85 (16.10%) GCP
6 76 (14.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 61 (11.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 49 (9.28%) Amazon S3
9 42 (7.95%) dbt
10 39 (7.39%) Serverless
11 30 (5.68%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (5.30%) GitHub
13 19 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (3.22%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
16 12 (2.27%) Azure Functions
17 11 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.57%) 2G
1 3 (0.57%) 4G
1 3 (0.57%) 5G
1 3 (0.57%) Internet
1 3 (0.57%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.38%) BGP
2 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.38%) DNS
2 2 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.38%) OSPF
2 2 (0.38%) 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
1 176 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 106 (20.08%) Power BI
3 81 (15.34%) Data Lake
4 69 (13.07%) SQL Server
5 54 (10.23%) Metadata
6 52 (9.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (9.66%) Big Data
8 48 (9.09%) BigQuery
9 42 (7.95%) Relational Database
10 38 (7.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 34 (6.44%) Tableau
12 30 (5.68%) NoSQL
13 26 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
14 24 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
15 22 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.98%) Hadoop
17 20 (3.79%) Delta Lake
18 19 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
19 16 (3.03%) Power Query
20 15 (2.84%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 34 (6.44%) Git
2 18 (3.41%) ERwin
3 17 (3.22%) JIRA
4 11 (2.08%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.33%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.33%) GitLab
6 5 (0.95%) Postman
6 5 (0.95%) Selenium
7 4 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.57%) MLflow
9 2 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.38%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.38%) TestRail
9 2 (0.38%) Toad
10 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
10 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.19%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 170 (32.20%) Finance
2 159 (30.11%) Social Skills
3 90 (17.05%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (9.09%) Banking
5 34 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.41%) Retail
7 12 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.89%) Marketing
9 8 (1.52%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.33%) Front Office
11 6 (1.14%) Local Government
11 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (0.95%) Publishing
12 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.76%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 167 (31.63%) Data Engineer
2 73 (13.83%) Architect
2 73 (13.83%) Developer
3 59 (11.17%) Senior
4 56 (10.61%) Analyst
5 55 (10.42%) Lead
6 48 (9.09%) Data Architect
7 40 (7.58%) Data Analyst
8 28 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 25 (4.73%) Azure Engineer
10 22 (4.17%) Azure Data Engineer
11 18 (3.41%) Consultant
12 17 (3.22%) Python Engineer
13 16 (3.03%) Business Analyst
13 16 (3.03%) Data Modeller
13 16 (3.03%) Snowflake Engineer
14 15 (2.84%) Azure Architect
14 15 (2.84%) Senior Developer
15 13 (2.46%) AWS Engineer
15 13 (2.46%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (9.85%) PySpark
2 49 (9.28%) Kafka
3 31 (5.87%) XML
4 20 (3.79%) JSON
5 14 (2.65%) REST
5 14 (2.65%) RESTful
6 12 (2.27%) Pandas
7 10 (1.89%) .NET
7 10 (1.89%) NumPy
8 9 (1.70%) OAuth
9 8 (1.52%) GraphQL
10 7 (1.33%) Great Expectations
11 6 (1.14%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.14%) Middleware
11 6 (1.14%) Node.js
11 6 (1.14%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.14%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.95%) scikit-learn
12 5 (0.95%) Spark Streaming
12 5 (0.95%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 33 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 32 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 18 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.08%) Product Ownership
7 10 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (1.70%) Reinsurance
9 8 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.33%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.33%) IoT
10 7 (1.33%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.14%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.46%) Linux
2 4 (0.76%) Unix
3 3 (0.57%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (44.51%) Data Modelling
2 205 (38.83%) Analytics
3 195 (36.93%) Data Pipeline
4 158 (29.92%) Data Engineering
5 141 (26.70%) Business Intelligence
5 141 (26.70%) Data Governance
6 128 (24.24%) CI/CD
7 116 (21.97%) Migration
8 114 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (20.08%) Agile
10 95 (17.99%) DevOps
11 92 (17.42%) Data Integration
12 88 (16.67%) Data Architecture
13 85 (16.10%) Data Science
14 81 (15.34%) Data Migration
15 71 (13.45%) Machine Learning
16 70 (13.26%) Validation
17 69 (13.07%) Data Transformation
18 64 (12.12%) Visualisation
19 60 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 363 (68.75%) SQL
2 279 (52.84%) Python
3 57 (10.80%) Java
4 26 (4.92%) Scala
5 24 (4.55%) C#
5 24 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (4.36%) T-SQL
7 21 (3.98%) PL/SQL
8 13 (2.46%) JavaScript
9 12 (2.27%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.08%) Bash
11 10 (1.89%) R
12 9 (1.70%) VBA
13 7 (1.33%) Perl
13 7 (1.33%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.95%) Bicep
14 5 (0.95%) C++
14 5 (0.95%) Go
14 5 (0.95%) Korn
15 4 (0.76%) C
Qualifications
1 65 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 50 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.01%) Degree
4 25 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.36%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.22%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.76%) PMP
11 4 (0.76%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.38%) CISSP
12 2 (0.38%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.38%) MCP
13 1 (0.19%) CCIE
13 1 (0.19%) CCNP
13 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (29.73%) Data Quality
2 40 (7.58%) GDPR
3 34 (6.44%) QA
4 17 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.70%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.95%) SLA
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) HL7
8 3 (0.57%) PMO
8 3 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.38%) EMIR
9 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.38%) MiFID
10 1 (0.19%) DICOM
10 1 (0.19%) GAAP
10 1 (0.19%) GxP
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 32 (6.06%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) zsh
3 4 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.38%) KVM
5 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (9.85%) Terraform
2 29 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.14%) Ansible
4 5 (0.95%) Control-M
4 5 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.76%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.76%) Kibana
5 4 (0.76%) logstash
6 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.19%) Grafana
7 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 112 (21.21%) Databricks
2 80 (15.15%) Microsoft
3 43 (8.14%) Oracle
4 35 (6.63%) Google
5 24 (4.55%) Informatica
6 20 (3.79%) SAP
7 12 (2.27%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.89%) Talend
9 9 (1.70%) Workday
10 8 (1.52%) Palantir
10 8 (1.52%) VMware
11 7 (1.33%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.33%) Foundry
11 7 (1.33%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.14%) IBM
13 5 (0.95%) EMC
13 5 (0.95%) Teradata
14 4 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 4 (0.76%) Solace
14 4 (0.76%) TIBCO