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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 74 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing ETL 765 494 558
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.76% 3.66% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.95% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 359 376
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £429 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.25 £39.69
Median hourly rate £57.00 £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -6.45% -26.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

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 18,082 12,492 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.85% 92.60% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,829 8,233 9,474
10th Percentile £358 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 246 181
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.18
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -17.12% -2.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +2 86 £500 - 71
West London -5 26 £520 +4.00% 21
East London +8 7 £450 -33.33% 2
South London -4 6 £438 -4.37% 3
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
1 102 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
2 96 (12.55%) Apache Spark
3 71 (9.28%) Apache
4 41 (5.36%) SAS
5 19 (2.48%) Confluence
6 13 (1.70%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
7 5 (0.65%) nginx
7 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
7 5 (0.65%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Luigi
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.05%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.52%) Actimize
3 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.26%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 324 (42.35%) Azure
2 229 (29.93%) AWS
3 149 (19.48%) Power Platform
4 146 (19.08%) Snowflake
5 122 (15.95%) GCP
6 98 (12.81%) dbt
7 91 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 85 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
9 65 (8.50%) Amazon S3
10 62 (8.10%) GitHub
11 59 (7.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 54 (7.06%) Serverless
13 45 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (4.05%) GitHub Actions
15 28 (3.66%) Azure Databricks
16 24 (3.14%) Collibra
17 20 (2.61%) SaaS
18 18 (2.35%) Amazon EMR
19 14 (1.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) HTTP
2 3 (0.39%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (32.29%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (18.95%) Power BI
3 109 (14.25%) Data Lake
4 76 (9.93%) SQL Server
5 68 (8.89%) Metadata
6 65 (8.50%) Delta Lake
7 57 (7.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 57 (7.45%) BigQuery
8 50 (6.54%) Big Data
8 50 (6.54%) Relational Database
9 44 (5.75%) Tableau
10 37 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 33 (4.31%) NoSQL
13 29 (3.79%) Amazon Athena
13 29 (3.79%) Power Query
14 27 (3.53%) Snowflake Schema
15 24 (3.14%) Oracle Database
16 22 (2.88%) Star Schema
17 19 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 80 (10.46%) Git
2 41 (5.36%) JIRA
3 36 (4.71%) GitLab
4 22 (2.88%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.05%) MLflow
5 8 (1.05%) Selenium
6 7 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.26%) JUnit
9 2 (0.26%) LSMW
9 2 (0.26%) Postman
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 260 (33.99%) Finance
2 191 (24.97%) Social Skills
3 136 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (15.16%) Banking
5 55 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.01%) Retail
7 21 (2.75%) Marketing
8 18 (2.35%) Front Office
9 16 (2.09%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.70%) Financial Institution
11 10 (1.31%) Billing
11 10 (1.31%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.92%) Back Office
14 7 (0.92%) Legal
15 6 (0.78%) Publishing
16 5 (0.65%) Games
Job Titles
1 307 (40.13%) Data Engineer
2 130 (16.99%) Senior
3 103 (13.46%) Architect
4 89 (11.63%) Developer
5 86 (11.24%) Senior Data Engineer
6 76 (9.93%) Lead
7 73 (9.54%) Analyst
8 44 (5.75%) Databricks Engineer
9 39 (5.10%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.10%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.10%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 36 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
11 27 (3.53%) Azure Data Engineer
11 27 (3.53%) Consultant
12 24 (3.14%) Snowflake Engineer
13 22 (2.88%) Technical Leader
14 20 (2.61%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.61%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 19 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (2.35%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (12.81%) PySpark
2 73 (9.54%) Terraform
3 72 (9.41%) Kafka
4 39 (5.10%) REST
5 38 (4.97%) .NET
6 27 (3.53%) JSON
7 21 (2.75%) Middleware
8 19 (2.48%) Pandas
9 15 (1.96%) React
10 12 (1.57%) Spring
10 12 (1.57%) YAML
11 11 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.31%) Web Services
12 10 (1.31%) XML
13 9 (1.18%) HTML
13 9 (1.18%) NumPy
14 8 (1.05%) LangChain
14 8 (1.05%) PyTorch
15 7 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.20%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.71%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
6 32 (4.18%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.61%) AI Agents
8 18 (2.35%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.35%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.70%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.70%) Replication
10 12 (1.57%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
12 8 (1.05%) IoT
12 8 (1.05%) NHS
12 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.92%) Clustering
13 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (3.92%) Linux
2 13 (1.70%) Unix
3 11 (1.44%) Windows
4 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.26%) Solaris
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 341 (44.58%) Data Modelling
2 328 (42.88%) Data Pipeline
3 299 (39.08%) Data Engineering
4 291 (38.04%) Analytics
5 265 (34.64%) CI/CD
6 235 (30.72%) Agile
7 193 (25.23%) DevOps
8 186 (24.31%) Business Intelligence
9 175 (22.88%) Data Governance
10 167 (21.83%) Migration
11 163 (21.31%) AI
12 158 (20.65%) Data Integration
12 158 (20.65%) Validation
13 157 (20.52%) Stakeholder Management
14 144 (18.82%) Data Transformation
15 133 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
16 113 (14.77%) Data Architecture
17 103 (13.46%) Decision-Making
18 90 (11.76%) Data Migration
19 87 (11.37%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 506 (66.14%) SQL
2 359 (46.93%) Python
3 68 (8.89%) Java
4 40 (5.23%) Scala
5 39 (5.10%) C#
6 36 (4.71%) PL/SQL
7 34 (4.44%) JavaScript
8 33 (4.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (3.79%) T-SQL
10 22 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.83%) R
11 14 (1.83%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.31%) Bash
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.05%) Cypher
14 5 (0.65%) Bicep
15 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.39%) Korn
16 3 (0.39%) Perl
16 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 127 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 109 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.23%) Degree
4 16 (2.09%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.96%) AWS Certification
5 15 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.92%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.39%) CBAP
10 3 (0.39%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.26%) PMP
11 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.13%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.13%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (36.47%) Data Quality
2 48 (6.27%) QA
3 33 (4.31%) GDPR
4 29 (3.79%) GRC
5 10 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.05%) IFRS
7 8 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GAAP
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) COREP
10 2 (0.26%) FINREP
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (7.32%) Docker
2 5 (0.65%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 63 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.57%) Control-M
3 9 (1.18%) Ansible
4 6 (0.78%) Grafana
5 5 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 200 (26.14%) Databricks
2 133 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 120 (15.69%) Oracle
4 47 (6.14%) Informatica
5 34 (4.44%) Google
6 24 (3.14%) Talend
7 18 (2.35%) SAP
8 17 (2.22%) IBM
9 13 (1.70%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.70%) Foundry
9 13 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 11 (1.44%) Palantir
11 10 (1.31%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.18%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.05%) SnapLogic
14 6 (0.78%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.78%) Hyperion
14 6 (0.78%) MicroStrategy
15 5 (0.65%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.65%) Sybase