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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 69 70
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing ETL 761 497 556
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.76% 3.74% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 4.04% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 364 374
10th Percentile £372 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - -0.19%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
England median daily rate £494 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.30% -2.44% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.25
25th Percentile - £35.25 £38.13
Median hourly rate £57.00 £43.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% +2.35% -32.54%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £47.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 £50.15
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.80% +11.31% -45.31%

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 17,983 12,296 14,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.49% 89.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,766 8,122 9,357
10th Percentile £360 £332 £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 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 243 180
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.03 £17.25
25th Percentile £18.94 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.38%
75th Percentile £59.25 £47.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £80.13 £64.95 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%

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 12 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 12 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 -5 83 £488 -2.50% 81
West London 0 22 £520 +4.00% 13
South London -10 8 £438 -4.37% 1
East London +11 7 £463 +28.47% 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
1 104 (13.67%) Apache Airflow
2 99 (13.01%) Apache Spark
3 75 (9.86%) Apache
4 41 (5.39%) SAS
5 20 (2.63%) Confluence
6 13 (1.71%) SharePoint
7 6 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.66%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.66%) nginx
8 5 (0.66%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.53%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) CMS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 19 (2.50%) 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 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Actimize
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.39%) Cloudability
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 321 (42.18%) Azure
2 229 (30.09%) AWS
3 144 (18.92%) Snowflake
4 139 (18.27%) Power Platform
5 120 (15.77%) GCP
6 97 (12.75%) dbt
7 91 (11.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 84 (11.04%) Azure DevOps
9 67 (8.80%) Amazon S3
10 60 (7.88%) GitHub
11 56 (7.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 54 (7.10%) Serverless
13 46 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (4.07%) Azure Databricks
16 23 (3.02%) Collibra
17 21 (2.76%) SaaS
18 19 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
19 15 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 12 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) 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
1 246 (32.33%) Data Warehouse
2 135 (17.74%) Power BI
3 108 (14.19%) Data Lake
4 75 (9.86%) SQL Server
5 68 (8.94%) Metadata
6 64 (8.41%) Delta Lake
7 57 (7.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (7.10%) BigQuery
9 52 (6.83%) Relational Database
10 51 (6.70%) Big Data
11 41 (5.39%) Tableau
12 37 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (4.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 32 (4.20%) NoSQL
15 30 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
16 29 (3.81%) Power Query
17 26 (3.42%) Oracle Database
18 23 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
19 20 (2.63%) Star Schema
20 19 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 82 (10.78%) Git
2 41 (5.39%) JIRA
3 37 (4.86%) GitLab
4 22 (2.89%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.05%) MLflow
5 8 (1.05%) Selenium
6 7 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.79%) Claude Code
8 3 (0.39%) ERwin
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) CircleCI
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
General
1 265 (34.82%) Finance
2 190 (24.97%) Social Skills
3 140 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (15.77%) Banking
5 56 (7.36%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.02%) Retail
7 20 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 20 (2.63%) Marketing
8 18 (2.37%) Front Office
9 15 (1.97%) Financial Institution
10 11 (1.45%) Billing
10 11 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.92%) Back Office
13 7 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.79%) Publishing
15 5 (0.66%) Games
15 5 (0.66%) Legal
15 5 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 303 (39.82%) Data Engineer
2 127 (16.69%) Senior
3 99 (13.01%) Architect
4 89 (11.70%) Developer
5 83 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 76 (9.99%) Analyst
7 75 (9.86%) Lead
8 44 (5.78%) Databricks Engineer
9 42 (5.52%) Data Analyst
10 38 (4.99%) Databricks Data Engineer
11 36 (4.73%) Data Architect
12 34 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.94%) Consultant
14 25 (3.29%) Azure Data Engineer
15 22 (2.89%) Snowflake Engineer
16 21 (2.76%) Technical Leader
17 20 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.63%) Business Analyst
18 19 (2.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
18 19 (2.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (13.93%) PySpark
2 73 (9.59%) Kafka
2 73 (9.59%) Terraform
3 40 (5.26%) REST
4 38 (4.99%) .NET
5 27 (3.55%) JSON
6 21 (2.76%) Middleware
7 20 (2.63%) Pandas
8 13 (1.71%) React
9 12 (1.58%) YAML
10 11 (1.45%) Spring
11 10 (1.31%) Spring Boot
11 10 (1.31%) Web Services
11 10 (1.31%) XML
12 9 (1.18%) HTML
12 9 (1.18%) NumPy
13 8 (1.05%) LangChain
13 8 (1.05%) PyTorch
14 7 (0.92%) GraphQL
14 7 (0.92%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 75 (9.86%) Cloud Native
2 60 (7.88%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.78%) Product Ownership
4 41 (5.39%) Legacy Systems
5 33 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 20 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 18 (2.37%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.84%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.71%) Replication
11 12 (1.58%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
13 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.05%) IoT
14 8 (1.05%) NHS
14 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.92%) Derivative
16 6 (0.79%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.07%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Unix
3 11 (1.45%) 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
1 336 (44.15%) Data Modelling
2 330 (43.36%) Data Pipeline
3 300 (39.42%) Data Engineering
4 287 (37.71%) Analytics
5 271 (35.61%) CI/CD
6 237 (31.14%) Agile
7 191 (25.10%) DevOps
8 179 (23.52%) Data Governance
9 175 (23.00%) Business Intelligence
10 173 (22.73%) Migration
11 162 (21.29%) AI
12 160 (21.02%) Data Integration
13 159 (20.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 157 (20.63%) Validation
15 146 (19.19%) Data Transformation
16 136 (17.87%) Problem-Solving
17 106 (13.93%) Data Architecture
18 98 (12.88%) Decision-Making
19 93 (12.22%) Data Migration
20 89 (11.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 506 (66.49%) SQL
2 359 (47.17%) Python
3 63 (8.28%) Java
4 38 (4.99%) C#
4 38 (4.99%) PL/SQL
5 36 (4.73%) Scala
6 33 (4.34%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (3.55%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.76%) PowerShell
10 15 (1.97%) Shell Script
11 13 (1.71%) R
12 10 (1.31%) Bash
12 10 (1.31%) TypeScript
13 8 (1.05%) Cypher
14 5 (0.66%) Bicep
15 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.39%) Go
16 3 (0.39%) Korn
16 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 134 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 114 (14.98%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.65%) Degree
4 17 (2.23%) AWS Certification
4 17 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.97%) Azure Certification
5 15 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.66%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.53%) CBAP
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
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%) CFA
12 1 (0.13%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 281 (36.93%) Data Quality
2 47 (6.18%) QA
3 31 (4.07%) GDPR
4 29 (3.81%) 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 (0.53%) GAAP
8 4 (0.53%) PMO
9 3 (0.39%) COREP
9 3 (0.39%) FINREP
9 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (7.36%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 64 (8.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.58%) Control-M
3 9 (1.18%) Ansible
4 6 (0.79%) Grafana
5 5 (0.66%) 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
1 202 (26.54%) Databricks
2 130 (17.08%) Microsoft
3 122 (16.03%) Oracle
4 48 (6.31%) Informatica
5 32 (4.20%) Google
6 25 (3.29%) Talend
7 19 (2.50%) SAP
8 15 (1.97%) IBM
9 14 (1.84%) Foundry
10 13 (1.71%) Alteryx
11 12 (1.58%) Palantir
11 12 (1.58%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.31%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.18%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.18%) SnapLogic
14 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
15 5 (0.66%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.66%) Tagetik
15 5 (0.66%) Teradata