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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 77 76
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 762 419 533
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.29% 3.36% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.85% 3.65% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 284 407
10th Percentile £359 £401 £400
25th Percentile £425 £455 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +2.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - £43.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £40.88
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £57.75
90th Percentile - - £64.53
England median hourly rate £57.25 £78.70 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.26% +58.99% -1.00%

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 15,718 11,485 15,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.39% 92.19% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,513 7,782 11,264
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £755 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 172 317
10th Percentile £18.66 £16.50 £15.98
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £58.92 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £65.85
England median hourly rate £46.47 £29.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.40% -20.14% -2.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +16 90 £513 -9.29% 47
West London -1 34 £603 +5.98% 1
South London -9 12 £463 -2.63% 3
East London +1 9 £450 -33.33% 3
North London +2 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 88 (11.55%) Apache Spark
2 72 (9.45%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (6.69%) Apache
4 13 (1.71%) SAS
5 11 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 9 (1.18%) Appian
7 8 (1.05%) Confluence
7 8 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.92%) nginx
9 6 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.52%) Camunda
11 4 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.39%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 30 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.39%) Trello
5 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 4 (0.52%) Actimize
3 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle FAH
4 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.13%) iTrent
5 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 353 (46.33%) Azure
2 241 (31.63%) AWS
3 199 (26.12%) Power Platform
4 113 (14.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 111 (14.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 93 (12.20%) GCP
7 92 (12.07%) Amazon S3
8 83 (10.89%) Snowflake
9 80 (10.50%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (8.79%) GitHub
10 67 (8.79%) Serverless
11 56 (7.35%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (6.96%) dbt
13 45 (5.91%) Collibra
14 34 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.49%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (2.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 17 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
19 16 (2.10%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) HTTP
3 3 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) DSL
4 1 (0.13%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (29.53%) Data Warehouse
2 182 (23.88%) Power BI
3 155 (20.34%) Data Lake
4 104 (13.65%) SQL Server
5 90 (11.81%) Metadata
6 59 (7.74%) Tableau
7 58 (7.61%) Delta Lake
8 55 (7.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 53 (6.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 48 (6.30%) Azure SQL Database
10 48 (6.30%) Big Data
11 46 (6.04%) BigQuery
12 45 (5.91%) Amazon Athena
12 45 (5.91%) Relational Database
13 43 (5.64%) Snowflake Schema
14 33 (4.33%) NoSQL
15 31 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
15 31 (4.07%) Star Schema
16 27 (3.54%) Oracle Database
17 22 (2.89%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 76 (9.97%) Git
2 40 (5.25%) JIRA
3 27 (3.54%) GitLab
4 19 (2.49%) MLflow
5 12 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.18%) ERwin
7 7 (0.92%) Selenium
8 5 (0.66%) Postman
9 4 (0.52%) Toad
10 3 (0.39%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.39%) JMeter
10 3 (0.39%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.26%) LSMW
11 2 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.26%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.13%) Ant
12 1 (0.13%) JUnit
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
General
1 291 (38.19%) Finance
2 199 (26.12%) Social Skills
3 130 (17.06%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.55%) Banking
5 58 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.15%) Financial Institution
7 19 (2.49%) Marketing
8 18 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.97%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.44%) Legal
11 10 (1.31%) Retail
12 7 (0.92%) Front Office
13 6 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.66%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.66%) General Ledger
14 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.52%) Military
16 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 332 (43.57%) Data Engineer
2 102 (13.39%) Senior
3 93 (12.20%) Developer
4 87 (11.42%) Lead
5 71 (9.32%) Senior Data Engineer
6 69 (9.06%) Architect
7 64 (8.40%) Analyst
8 43 (5.64%) Data Analyst
9 33 (4.33%) Data Architect
10 31 (4.07%) Snowflake Engineer
11 29 (3.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 25 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
13 22 (2.89%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (2.89%) Lead Data Engineer
14 20 (2.62%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (2.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 20 (2.62%) Integration Engineer
14 20 (2.62%) Python Engineer
15 18 (2.36%) AWS Data Engineer
15 18 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (13.52%) PySpark
2 71 (9.32%) Kafka
3 36 (4.72%) REST
4 33 (4.33%) Pandas
5 20 (2.62%) .NET
5 20 (2.62%) XML
6 19 (2.49%) Middleware
7 18 (2.36%) Great Expectations
7 18 (2.36%) NumPy
8 17 (2.23%) PyTorch
9 16 (2.10%) OAuth
10 15 (1.97%) TensorFlow
11 14 (1.84%) RESTful
11 14 (1.84%) scikit-learn
11 14 (1.84%) Web Services
12 13 (1.71%) HTML
12 13 (1.71%) JSON
12 13 (1.71%) Spring
13 11 (1.44%) pytest
14 10 (1.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 81 (10.63%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.22%) Data Structures
3 46 (6.04%) Legacy Systems
4 27 (3.54%) Distributed Computing
5 25 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 21 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 13 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 11 (1.44%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.31%) Clustering
10 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.18%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.18%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.18%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.05%) Reference Data
13 6 (0.79%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.79%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.23%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Windows
3 7 (0.92%) Solaris
3 7 (0.92%) Unix
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.39%) VMS
5 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (49.21%) Data Modelling
2 310 (40.68%) Analytics
3 302 (39.63%) Data Pipeline
4 297 (38.98%) Data Engineering
5 230 (30.18%) CI/CD
6 216 (28.35%) Business Intelligence
7 192 (25.20%) DevOps
8 176 (23.10%) Data Governance
9 169 (22.18%) Agile
10 155 (20.34%) Migration
11 151 (19.82%) AI
12 148 (19.42%) Validation
13 136 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
14 134 (17.59%) Data Architecture
15 114 (14.96%) Decision-Making
16 100 (13.12%) Data Integration
16 100 (13.12%) Data Science
17 98 (12.86%) Data Migration
18 92 (12.07%) Machine Learning
19 88 (11.55%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 546 (71.65%) SQL
2 380 (49.87%) Python
3 81 (10.63%) Java
4 50 (6.56%) C#
5 46 (6.04%) Scala
6 41 (5.38%) PL/SQL
7 35 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 30 (3.94%) T-SQL
9 20 (2.62%) JavaScript
10 19 (2.49%) R
11 10 (1.31%) PowerShell
12 9 (1.18%) Bicep
12 9 (1.18%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.92%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.52%) Bash
15 4 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.52%) Perl
15 4 (0.52%) PHP
16 3 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 135 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 112 (14.70%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.17%) Degree
4 31 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.81%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.36%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.57%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 5 (0.66%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.52%) PMP
10 4 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) DV Cleared
12 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (35.17%) Data Quality
2 68 (8.92%) QA
3 67 (8.79%) GDPR
4 18 (2.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 13 (1.71%) IFRS
6 10 (1.31%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.05%) PMO
8 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.66%) GAAP
8 5 (0.66%) IFRS 9
8 5 (0.66%) MiFID
9 4 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) Basel III
10 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.39%) NIST
11 2 (0.26%) GMP
11 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 56 (7.35%) Docker
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) RACF
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 104 (13.65%) Terraform
2 61 (8.01%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.66%) Grafana
4 4 (0.52%) Control-M
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.39%) Ansible
6 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.26%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 166 (21.78%) Databricks
2 161 (21.13%) Microsoft
3 83 (10.89%) Oracle
4 57 (7.48%) Informatica
5 37 (4.86%) Google
6 30 (3.94%) SAP
7 21 (2.76%) IBM
8 16 (2.10%) Workday
9 15 (1.97%) MuleSoft
9 15 (1.97%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.57%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.44%) Talend
13 9 (1.18%) Alteryx
13 9 (1.18%) UiPath
14 8 (1.05%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (1.05%) Bloomberg
14 8 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.92%) Refinitiv
16 6 (0.79%) Denodo