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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 84 76
Rank change year-on-year +32 -8 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 738 410 543
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.43% 3.24% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 3.54% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 272 424
10th Percentile £363 £381 £396
25th Percentile £425 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £641
90th Percentile £739 £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 - £43.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.25 £41.02
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.96% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £57.25 £62.45
90th Percentile - £59.35 £67.65
England median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +24.14%

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 14,959 11,567 15,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.70% 91.45% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 7,825 11,442
10th Percentile £356 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £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 229 165 332
10th Percentile £18.07 £19.08 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.54
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +15.40% -22.23%
75th Percentile £57.00 £51.25 £50.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.50 £71.13
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -1.52% -12.00%

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 26 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 26 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 +21 96 £513 -9.29% 74
West London +6 28 £603 -5.49% 5
South London -5 16 £463 -3.90% 2
East London -1 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 81 (10.98%) Apache Spark
2 72 (9.76%) Apache Airflow
3 54 (7.32%) Apache
4 11 (1.49%) SAS
5 9 (1.22%) SharePoint
6 8 (1.08%) Appian
7 6 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.68%) Confluence
8 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.54%) Camunda
9 4 (0.54%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.27%) CMS
11 2 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 31 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
1 6 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 6 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 4 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 3 (0.41%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.27%) Actimize
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle FAH
5 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.14%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 337 (45.66%) Azure
2 244 (33.06%) AWS
3 201 (27.24%) Power Platform
4 109 (14.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 108 (14.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 99 (13.41%) Amazon S3
6 99 (13.41%) Snowflake
7 86 (11.65%) GCP
8 69 (9.35%) Serverless
9 63 (8.54%) GitHub
10 61 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
11 58 (7.86%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (6.64%) dbt
13 40 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 39 (5.28%) Collibra
15 25 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.85%) AWS Step Functions
17 19 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 18 (2.44%) Amazon SQS
19 16 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) 4G
1 4 (0.54%) 5G
1 4 (0.54%) Firewall
2 3 (0.41%) 2G
2 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.27%) HTTP
3 2 (0.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (30.49%) Data Warehouse
2 187 (25.34%) Power BI
3 143 (19.38%) Data Lake
4 107 (14.50%) SQL Server
5 90 (12.20%) Metadata
6 61 (8.27%) Tableau
7 56 (7.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (6.64%) Relational Database
10 48 (6.50%) Amazon Athena
11 46 (6.23%) Big Data
11 46 (6.23%) Delta Lake
12 45 (6.10%) Azure SQL Database
13 43 (5.83%) Snowflake Schema
14 39 (5.28%) BigQuery
15 30 (4.07%) NoSQL
15 30 (4.07%) Star Schema
16 27 (3.66%) Oracle Database
16 27 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
17 25 (3.39%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 64 (8.67%) Git
2 34 (4.61%) JIRA
3 27 (3.66%) GitLab
4 17 (2.30%) MLflow
5 12 (1.63%) ERwin
5 12 (1.63%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.81%) Selenium
7 5 (0.68%) Postman
8 4 (0.54%) PowerDesigner
8 4 (0.54%) Toad
9 3 (0.41%) ER Studio
9 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.27%) LSMW
10 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.14%) Ant
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
General
1 281 (38.08%) Finance
2 212 (28.73%) Social Skills
3 128 (17.34%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (11.38%) Banking
5 57 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.76%) Marketing
9 13 (1.76%) Retail
10 9 (1.22%) Legal
11 7 (0.95%) Front Office
12 6 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.68%) General Ledger
13 5 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 305 (41.33%) Data Engineer
2 91 (12.33%) Lead
2 91 (12.33%) Senior
3 87 (11.79%) Developer
4 71 (9.62%) Analyst
5 68 (9.21%) Architect
6 63 (8.54%) Senior Data Engineer
7 47 (6.37%) Data Analyst
8 36 (4.88%) Data Architect
9 35 (4.74%) Snowflake Engineer
10 31 (4.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 23 (3.12%) Lead Data Engineer
12 21 (2.85%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 20 (2.71%) Python Engineer
14 19 (2.57%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
16 17 (2.30%) Azure Data Engineer
16 17 (2.30%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.17%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (12.47%) PySpark
2 78 (10.57%) Kafka
3 33 (4.47%) Pandas
4 32 (4.34%) REST
5 26 (3.52%) XML
6 20 (2.71%) NumPy
7 19 (2.57%) Great Expectations
8 16 (2.17%) PyTorch
9 15 (2.03%) JSON
10 14 (1.90%) Middleware
10 14 (1.90%) OAuth
10 14 (1.90%) RESTful
10 14 (1.90%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.90%) TensorFlow
11 13 (1.76%) .NET
12 12 (1.63%) pytest
12 12 (1.63%) Web Services
13 11 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
13 11 (1.49%) Spark Streaming
14 10 (1.36%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (9.49%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.45%) Data Structures
3 45 (6.10%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.12%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 13 (1.76%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.49%) Fixed Income
9 11 (1.49%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.36%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.22%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.08%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.08%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
13 7 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
13 7 (0.95%) IoT
14 6 (0.81%) Data Fabric
14 6 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.90%) Linux
2 9 (1.22%) Windows
3 7 (0.95%) Unix
4 5 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.54%) Solaris
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (49.46%) Data Modelling
2 328 (44.44%) Analytics
3 293 (39.70%) Data Engineering
4 274 (37.13%) Data Pipeline
5 225 (30.49%) Business Intelligence
6 216 (29.27%) CI/CD
7 186 (25.20%) Data Governance
8 167 (22.63%) DevOps
9 158 (21.41%) Migration
10 150 (20.33%) Agile
11 134 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
12 133 (18.02%) AI
13 132 (17.89%) Data Architecture
14 131 (17.75%) Validation
15 110 (14.91%) Data Migration
16 108 (14.63%) Decision-Making
17 106 (14.36%) Data Science
18 94 (12.74%) Data Integration
19 92 (12.47%) Machine Learning
20 90 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 525 (71.14%) SQL
2 368 (49.86%) Python
3 60 (8.13%) Java
4 47 (6.37%) C#
5 42 (5.69%) Scala
6 35 (4.74%) PL/SQL
7 30 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 25 (3.39%) T-SQL
9 15 (2.03%) R
10 14 (1.90%) JavaScript
11 10 (1.36%) Bicep
12 7 (0.95%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.81%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.54%) Bash
14 4 (0.54%) Perl
14 4 (0.54%) PHP
15 3 (0.41%) C
15 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 131 (17.75%) Security Cleared
2 104 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.45%) Degree
4 38 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.57%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.44%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.81%) SnowPro
11 5 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.68%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.54%) PMP
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
14 2 (0.27%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.14%) HP APS
15 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (36.99%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.76%) GDPR
3 61 (8.27%) QA
4 16 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.63%) IFRS
6 9 (1.22%) IFRS 17
6 9 (1.22%) PMO
7 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.68%) GAAP
8 5 (0.68%) MiFID
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.54%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.41%) Basel III
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) GMP
12 1 (0.14%) GRC
System Software
1 53 (7.18%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 103 (13.96%) Terraform
2 57 (7.72%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) Ansible
3 4 (0.54%) Control-M
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.14%) Kibana
5 1 (0.14%) logstash
Vendors
1 166 (22.49%) Databricks
2 139 (18.83%) Microsoft
3 79 (10.70%) Oracle
4 58 (7.86%) Informatica
5 35 (4.74%) Google
6 33 (4.47%) SAP
7 16 (2.17%) IBM
7 16 (2.17%) Workday
8 15 (2.03%) MuleSoft
8 15 (2.03%) Salesforce
8 15 (2.03%) Talend
9 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.49%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.22%) UiPath
12 8 (1.08%) Automation Anywhere
13 7 (0.95%) Palantir
14 6 (0.81%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.81%) Denodo
14 6 (0.81%) Foundry
15 5 (0.68%) Red Hat