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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 75 77
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 718 438 531
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.45% 3.38% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 3.72% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 291 421
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £638
90th Percentile £736 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.13 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.84% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £57.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £67.35 £51.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% +4.04% +37.02%

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 14,510 11,786 16,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.86% 91.05% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,757 7,831 11,538
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 158 353
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.32 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.05 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.88% -16.22%
75th Percentile £56.85 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.77 £69.90
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +12 93 £513 -9.49% 22
West London +5 27 £603 +9.55% 5
South London -6 12 £475 -1.30% 2
East London +3 7 £450 +12.50% 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 84 (11.70%) Apache Spark
2 61 (8.50%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.52%) Apache
4 10 (1.39%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.25%) SAS
6 8 (1.11%) Appian
7 7 (0.97%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.70%) Confluence
9 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
9 5 (0.70%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.56%) nginx
11 3 (0.42%) Camunda
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.42%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.28%) CMS
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
12 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.42%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.42%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.84%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 4 (0.56%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.42%) BambooHR
3 3 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.28%) Actimize
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.14%) Maximo
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 320 (44.57%) Azure
2 235 (32.73%) AWS
3 188 (26.18%) Power Platform
4 113 (15.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 99 (13.79%) Snowflake
6 95 (13.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 90 (12.53%) Amazon S3
8 85 (11.84%) GCP
9 60 (8.36%) Serverless
10 55 (7.66%) GitHub
11 53 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (6.13%) dbt
13 39 (5.43%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (4.87%) Collibra
15 27 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.92%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (2.23%) Amazon SQS
18 15 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (2.09%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) 4G
1 4 (0.56%) 5G
2 3 (0.42%) 2G
2 3 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (30.50%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (24.65%) Power BI
3 138 (19.22%) Data Lake
4 106 (14.76%) SQL Server
5 83 (11.56%) Metadata
6 58 (8.08%) Tableau
7 54 (7.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 53 (7.38%) Relational Database
9 52 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 52 (7.24%) Big Data
10 46 (6.41%) Amazon Athena
11 44 (6.13%) Delta Lake
12 41 (5.71%) BigQuery
13 40 (5.57%) Snowflake Schema
14 39 (5.43%) Azure SQL Database
15 31 (4.32%) NoSQL
16 29 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
17 26 (3.62%) Oracle Database
18 23 (3.20%) OLAP
19 20 (2.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (9.75%) Git
2 28 (3.90%) JIRA
3 25 (3.48%) GitLab
4 17 (2.37%) MLflow
5 15 (2.09%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.95%) ERwin
7 8 (1.11%) Selenium
8 5 (0.70%) Postman
9 4 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.56%) Toad
10 3 (0.42%) JMeter
10 3 (0.42%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.28%) LSMW
11 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Ant
12 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 250 (34.82%) Finance
2 213 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.88%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (11.28%) Banking
5 55 (7.66%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.20%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.23%) Retail
9 14 (1.95%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.53%) Marketing
11 10 (1.39%) Legal
12 7 (0.97%) Front Office
13 6 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.84%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Law
14 5 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (0.70%) Publishing
15 4 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 283 (39.42%) Data Engineer
2 94 (13.09%) Lead
3 88 (12.26%) Developer
4 80 (11.14%) Senior
5 73 (10.17%) Architect
6 65 (9.05%) Analyst
7 56 (7.80%) Senior Data Engineer
8 44 (6.13%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.43%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.46%) Snowflake Engineer
11 27 (3.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.34%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 23 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
14 22 (3.06%) Lead Data Engineer
14 22 (3.06%) Python Engineer
15 21 (2.92%) Business Analyst
16 19 (2.65%) Azure Data Engineer
17 17 (2.37%) Solutions Architect
18 16 (2.23%) AWS Engineer
18 16 (2.23%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (12.95%) PySpark
2 73 (10.17%) Kafka
3 31 (4.32%) Pandas
4 29 (4.04%) REST
5 25 (3.48%) XML
6 21 (2.92%) NumPy
7 18 (2.51%) Great Expectations
7 18 (2.51%) PyTorch
8 17 (2.37%) RESTful
9 16 (2.23%) TensorFlow
10 15 (2.09%) .NET
10 15 (2.09%) Middleware
10 15 (2.09%) scikit-learn
11 12 (1.67%) JSON
11 12 (1.67%) OAuth
11 12 (1.67%) pytest
12 11 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
12 11 (1.53%) Spark Streaming
12 11 (1.53%) Web Services
13 10 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.66%) Data Structures
3 42 (5.85%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.09%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 12 (1.67%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.53%) Algorithms
9 10 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 10 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.25%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 7 (0.97%) IoT
12 7 (0.97%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.97%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.09%) Linux
2 9 (1.25%) Windows
3 7 (0.97%) Unix
4 5 (0.70%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.56%) Solaris
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.42%) VMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (48.05%) Data Modelling
2 310 (43.18%) Analytics
3 273 (38.02%) Data Engineering
4 261 (36.35%) Data Pipeline
5 218 (30.36%) Business Intelligence
6 212 (29.53%) CI/CD
7 179 (24.93%) Data Governance
8 157 (21.87%) Migration
9 156 (21.73%) Agile
10 153 (21.31%) DevOps
11 133 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
12 129 (17.97%) Data Architecture
13 122 (16.99%) AI
14 117 (16.30%) Validation
15 114 (15.88%) Data Migration
16 107 (14.90%) Data Science
17 101 (14.07%) Decision-Making
18 91 (12.67%) Machine Learning
19 90 (12.53%) Infrastructure as Code
20 88 (12.26%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 503 (70.06%) SQL
2 360 (50.14%) Python
3 58 (8.08%) Java
4 42 (5.85%) Scala
5 41 (5.71%) C#
6 36 (5.01%) PL/SQL
7 28 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 23 (3.20%) T-SQL
9 20 (2.79%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.95%) R
11 13 (1.81%) Bicep
12 7 (0.97%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.84%) Bash
13 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
14 5 (0.70%) SAS Macro
15 4 (0.56%) Perl
15 4 (0.56%) PHP
16 3 (0.42%) C
16 3 (0.42%) Korn
Qualifications
1 118 (16.43%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.53%) SC Cleared
3 53 (7.38%) Degree
4 36 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 23 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 19 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.84%) PMP
10 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.56%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.14%) HP APS
13 1 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (34.96%) Data Quality
2 71 (9.89%) GDPR
3 53 (7.38%) QA
4 16 (2.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.67%) IFRS
6 9 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.25%) IFRS 17
7 6 (0.84%) PMO
8 5 (0.70%) GAAP
8 5 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.70%) MiFID
9 4 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.56%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.42%) Basel III
10 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.42%) NIST
10 3 (0.42%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.28%) EMIR
11 2 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 56 (7.80%) Docker
2 3 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.28%) zsh
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 99 (13.79%) Terraform
2 60 (8.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.42%) Ansible
3 3 (0.42%) Control-M
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 174 (24.23%) Databricks
2 127 (17.69%) Microsoft
3 77 (10.72%) Oracle
4 45 (6.27%) Informatica
5 34 (4.74%) Google
6 33 (4.60%) SAP
7 16 (2.23%) Workday
8 15 (2.09%) IBM
8 15 (2.09%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.95%) MuleSoft
9 14 (1.95%) Talend
10 12 (1.67%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.53%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.25%) UiPath
13 8 (1.11%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (1.11%) Palantir
14 7 (0.97%) Foundry
15 6 (0.84%) Avaloq
16 5 (0.70%) Red Hat
17 4 (0.56%) Bloomberg