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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 81 76
Rank change year-on-year +22 -5 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 639 445 536
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.32% 3.20% 2.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 3.54% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 284 417
10th Percentile £360 £363 £398
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £625
90th Percentile £727 £734 £727
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 11
10th Percentile - £36.25 £43.03
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £48.00
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +34.44%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.52
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.00
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -19.05% +47.89%

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 13,453 12,575 16,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.03% 90.47% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,910 7,994 11,570
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 156 322
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +16.36% -19.79%
75th Percentile £56.50 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £71.60 £79.38 £72.73
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 0 83 £488 -12.75% 40
West London +1 21 £601 +19.65% 8
South London -4 7 £500 +1.27% 7
East London +2 6 £463 +15.63% 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 72 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 52 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
3 47 (7.36%) Apache
4 7 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.94%) Appian
5 6 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.47%) Confluence
7 3 (0.47%) Luigi
7 3 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.47%) SAS
7 3 (0.47%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.31%) CMS
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) Camunda
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 27 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.47%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.10%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.94%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.31%) Actimize
6 2 (0.31%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.16%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 280 (43.82%) Azure
2 203 (31.77%) AWS
3 162 (25.35%) Power Platform
4 101 (15.81%) Azure Data Factory
5 95 (14.87%) Snowflake
6 77 (12.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 71 (11.11%) Amazon S3
8 68 (10.64%) GCP
9 52 (8.14%) Serverless
10 47 (7.36%) GitHub
11 46 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
12 40 (6.26%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (5.01%) dbt
14 28 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (3.13%) Collibra
17 18 (2.82%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
19 13 (2.03%) SaaS
20 12 (1.88%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.47%) 2G
1 3 (0.47%) 4G
1 3 (0.47%) 5G
1 3 (0.47%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.31%) BGP
2 2 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.31%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.31%) OSPF
2 2 (0.31%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.16%) DSL
3 1 (0.16%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.16%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (29.73%) Data Warehouse
2 153 (23.94%) Power BI
3 117 (18.31%) Data Lake
4 92 (14.40%) SQL Server
5 72 (11.27%) Metadata
6 52 (8.14%) Big Data
7 49 (7.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (7.51%) Relational Database
9 47 (7.36%) Amazon Redshift
10 46 (7.20%) Tableau
11 39 (6.10%) Delta Lake
12 36 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
13 32 (5.01%) BigQuery
14 31 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (4.54%) PostgreSQL
16 28 (4.38%) NoSQL
16 28 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
17 26 (4.07%) Oracle Database
18 21 (3.29%) Star Schema
19 20 (3.13%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 54 (8.45%) Git
2 30 (4.69%) JIRA
3 23 (3.60%) GitLab
4 17 (2.66%) ERwin
5 15 (2.35%) Jenkins
6 12 (1.88%) MLflow
7 7 (1.10%) Selenium
8 5 (0.78%) Postman
9 4 (0.63%) ER Studio
9 4 (0.63%) Toad
10 3 (0.47%) JMeter
10 3 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.31%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.31%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.31%) TestRail
11 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.16%) DBeaver
12 1 (0.16%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 224 (35.05%) Finance
2 186 (29.11%) Social Skills
3 95 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.49%) Banking
5 37 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.13%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.82%) Retail
8 11 (1.72%) Marketing
9 10 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.10%) Front Office
12 6 (0.94%) Legal
12 6 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.78%) Publishing
14 4 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.63%) Law
14 4 (0.63%) Local Government
14 4 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 249 (38.97%) Data Engineer
2 85 (13.30%) Lead
3 80 (12.52%) Developer
4 65 (10.17%) Senior
5 64 (10.02%) Analyst
6 55 (8.61%) Architect
7 47 (7.36%) Data Analyst
8 42 (6.57%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (5.63%) Data Architect
10 28 (4.38%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (4.07%) Snowflake Engineer
12 24 (3.76%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (3.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 21 (3.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 20 (3.13%) Business Analyst
16 19 (2.97%) Consultant
17 18 (2.82%) Senior Developer
18 17 (2.66%) Lead Data Engineer
18 17 (2.66%) Python Engineer
19 16 (2.50%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (12.99%) PySpark
2 60 (9.39%) Kafka
3 31 (4.85%) XML
4 28 (4.38%) Pandas
5 24 (3.76%) REST
6 19 (2.97%) NumPy
7 15 (2.35%) JSON
7 15 (2.35%) PyTorch
8 14 (2.19%) OAuth
8 14 (2.19%) TensorFlow
9 13 (2.03%) RESTful
9 13 (2.03%) scikit-learn
10 12 (1.88%) .NET
10 12 (1.88%) Great Expectations
11 11 (1.72%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.41%) Hugging Face
13 9 (1.41%) Middleware
13 9 (1.41%) pytest
14 8 (1.25%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 44 (6.89%) Data Structures
3 34 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.66%) Distributed Computing
5 14 (2.19%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.03%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.88%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 10 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.56%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 8 (1.25%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.94%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.94%) Data Fabric
12 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.94%) Replication
13 5 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.66%) Linux
2 7 (1.10%) Unix
3 4 (0.63%) Windows
4 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.16%) VMS
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (46.32%) Data Modelling
2 268 (41.94%) Analytics
3 236 (36.93%) Data Pipeline
4 221 (34.59%) Data Engineering
5 196 (30.67%) Business Intelligence
6 171 (26.76%) CI/CD
7 159 (24.88%) Data Governance
8 136 (21.28%) Agile
9 129 (20.19%) Migration
10 128 (20.03%) DevOps
11 126 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
12 115 (18.00%) Data Architecture
13 101 (15.81%) Validation
14 100 (15.65%) AI
15 96 (15.02%) Data Science
16 95 (14.87%) Data Migration
17 91 (14.24%) Data Integration
18 86 (13.46%) Machine Learning
19 77 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
20 74 (11.58%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 443 (69.33%) SQL
2 318 (49.77%) Python
3 57 (8.92%) Java
4 37 (5.79%) Scala
5 34 (5.32%) C#
6 33 (5.16%) PL/SQL
7 20 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 17 (2.66%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.66%) T-SQL
9 12 (1.88%) R
10 11 (1.72%) Bicep
10 11 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.41%) Bash
12 6 (0.94%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.78%) Perl
14 4 (0.63%) Korn
14 4 (0.63%) PHP
15 3 (0.47%) VBA
16 2 (0.31%) IronPython
Qualifications
1 95 (14.87%) Security Cleared
2 72 (11.27%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.36%) Degree
4 30 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.82%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.41%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.94%) PMP
10 5 (0.78%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.78%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.31%) MCP
13 1 (0.16%) CCIE
13 1 (0.16%) CCNP
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (34.12%) Data Quality
2 62 (9.70%) GDPR
3 40 (6.26%) QA
4 16 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.72%) IFRS
6 9 (1.41%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.25%) Accessibility
8 6 (0.94%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.78%) GAAP
9 5 (0.78%) MiFID
10 4 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.47%) Basel III
11 3 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.47%) IFRS 9
11 3 (0.47%) NIST
11 3 (0.47%) PMO
12 2 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
12 2 (0.31%) EMIR
13 1 (0.16%) GRC
System Software
1 49 (7.67%) Docker
2 5 (0.78%) zsh
3 2 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.31%) KVM
3 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 76 (11.89%) Terraform
2 47 (7.36%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.63%) Ansible
3 4 (0.63%) ITRS Geneos
3 4 (0.63%) Kibana
3 4 (0.63%) logstash
4 3 (0.47%) Control-M
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
5 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 156 (24.41%) Databricks
2 107 (16.74%) Microsoft
3 69 (10.80%) Oracle
4 37 (5.79%) Informatica
5 31 (4.85%) SAP
6 24 (3.76%) Google
7 14 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 14 (2.19%) Workday
8 12 (1.88%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.88%) Talend
9 11 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 10 (1.56%) IBM
11 9 (1.41%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.25%) Palantir
13 7 (1.10%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.10%) Foundry
13 7 (1.10%) UiPath
14 6 (0.94%) Automation Anywhere
14 6 (0.94%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.63%) Solace