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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 78 70
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 756 481 547
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.80% 3.52% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.82% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 338 399
10th Percentile £375 £402 £379
25th Percentile £439 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £629 £659 £653
90th Percentile £720 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £504 £510
% change year-on-year -0.79% -1.18% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £44.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - +12.90% -28.46%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £35.86 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -31.70% +35.48% -40.38%

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 17,699 12,607 14,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.97% 92.22% 88.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,693 8,437 10,407
10th Percentile £363 £326 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 241 219
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.19
25th Percentile £20.69 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.71 £30.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.03% -12.41% -20.35%
75th Percentile £57.25 £49.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.38
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +10 83 £538 -3.15% 29
West London -1 25 £520 +1.56% 5
South London -3 11 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +5 4 £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 86 (11.38%) Apache Spark
2 85 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (7.94%) Apache
4 42 (5.56%) SAS
5 14 (1.85%) Confluence
6 12 (1.59%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.19%) nginx
7 9 (1.19%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
11 3 (0.40%) Appian
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
13 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.13%) Luigi
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 27 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.66%) SAP MDG
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.40%) Actimize
5 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Business ByDesign
Cloud Services
1 323 (42.72%) Azure
2 235 (31.08%) AWS
3 187 (24.74%) Power Platform
4 112 (14.81%) GCP
5 107 (14.15%) Snowflake
6 95 (12.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 84 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 84 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 78 (10.32%) Amazon S3
8 78 (10.32%) dbt
9 64 (8.47%) Serverless
10 55 (7.28%) GitHub
11 53 (7.01%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (4.89%) Collibra
13 25 (3.31%) Amazon EMR
13 25 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (2.25%) Dagster
15 14 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 241 (31.88%) Data Warehouse
2 173 (22.88%) Power BI
3 138 (18.25%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.79%) Metadata
4 74 (9.79%) SQL Server
5 59 (7.80%) Delta Lake
6 58 (7.67%) Tableau
7 51 (6.75%) BigQuery
8 50 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (6.22%) Big Data
10 45 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 44 (5.82%) Relational Database
11 44 (5.82%) Snowflake Schema
12 35 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
12 35 (4.63%) NoSQL
13 31 (4.10%) Azure SQL Database
14 30 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
14 30 (3.97%) Star Schema
15 21 (2.78%) Oracle Database
16 20 (2.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 64 (8.47%) Git
2 38 (5.03%) JIRA
3 18 (2.38%) GitLab
4 13 (1.72%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.06%) MLflow
6 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.53%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) LSMW
7 3 (0.40%) Postman
7 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.26%) ERwin
8 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Ant
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) JUnit
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
General
1 274 (36.24%) Finance
2 178 (23.54%) Social Skills
3 150 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.51%) Banking
5 73 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.04%) Marketing
7 16 (2.12%) Telecoms
8 15 (1.98%) Financial Institution
9 13 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.59%) Front Office
11 10 (1.32%) Legal
12 9 (1.19%) Retail
13 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.66%) Games
14 5 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.53%) Billing
15 4 (0.53%) Law
15 4 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 300 (39.68%) Data Engineer
2 113 (14.95%) Architect
3 104 (13.76%) Senior
4 89 (11.77%) Developer
5 87 (11.51%) Lead
6 71 (9.39%) Analyst
7 69 (9.13%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (5.95%) Data Architect
9 41 (5.42%) Data Analyst
10 26 (3.44%) Snowflake Engineer
11 25 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.31%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.17%) Lead Data Engineer
13 23 (3.04%) AWS Engineer
13 23 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (3.04%) Python Engineer
14 19 (2.51%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (2.51%) Python Data Engineer
14 19 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
15 18 (2.38%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (12.96%) PySpark
2 69 (9.13%) Kafka
3 39 (5.16%) REST
4 31 (4.10%) JSON
5 23 (3.04%) .NET
5 23 (3.04%) Middleware
6 22 (2.91%) Pandas
7 14 (1.85%) Spring
7 14 (1.85%) Web Services
7 14 (1.85%) XML
8 11 (1.46%) Great Expectations
8 11 (1.46%) NumPy
8 11 (1.46%) React
8 11 (1.46%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.46%) YAML
9 10 (1.32%) HTML
9 10 (1.32%) OAuth
9 10 (1.32%) PyTorch
10 9 (1.19%) TensorFlow
11 8 (1.06%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.85%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 48 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
4 32 (4.23%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.84%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.04%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.51%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (1.98%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.85%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.59%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.46%) Clustering
12 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.19%) NHS
12 9 (1.19%) Replication
13 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
14 7 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.93%) IoT
14 7 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (2.65%) Linux
2 13 (1.72%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Solaris
3 7 (0.93%) Unix
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.26%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 357 (47.22%) Data Modelling
2 315 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 307 (40.61%) Analytics
4 282 (37.30%) Data Engineering
5 236 (31.22%) CI/CD
6 204 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
7 197 (26.06%) Agile
8 191 (25.26%) DevOps
9 181 (23.94%) Data Governance
10 172 (22.75%) Migration
11 147 (19.44%) Validation
12 140 (18.52%) AI
13 135 (17.86%) Data Integration
14 130 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
15 129 (17.06%) Data Architecture
16 116 (15.34%) Decision-Making
17 111 (14.68%) Data Transformation
18 99 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
19 93 (12.30%) Data Migration
20 85 (11.24%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 506 (66.93%) SQL
2 361 (47.75%) Python
3 84 (11.11%) Java
4 39 (5.16%) C#
5 38 (5.03%) Scala
6 36 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.50%) T-SQL
8 32 (4.23%) PL/SQL
9 26 (3.44%) JavaScript
10 18 (2.38%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.72%) R
11 13 (1.72%) TypeScript
12 10 (1.32%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.93%) Bash
13 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.79%) Bicep
15 5 (0.66%) Cypher
15 5 (0.66%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 157 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 133 (17.59%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.69%) Degree
4 27 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (1.98%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.66%) SnowPro
9 5 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 62 (8.20%) QA
3 51 (6.75%) GDPR
4 23 (3.04%) GRC
5 12 (1.59%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.46%) PMO
7 8 (1.06%) IFRS
7 8 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.93%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.53%) GAAP
10 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.40%) GMP
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.13%) COPPA
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 53 (7.01%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (11.11%) Terraform
2 62 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.93%) Grafana
4 5 (0.66%) Ansible
4 5 (0.66%) Control-M
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 155 (20.50%) Databricks
2 139 (18.39%) Microsoft
3 105 (13.89%) Oracle
4 48 (6.35%) Informatica
5 41 (5.42%) Google
6 24 (3.17%) SAP
7 21 (2.78%) IBM
8 16 (2.12%) Talend
9 14 (1.85%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.72%) Palantir
10 13 (1.72%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.32%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.19%) Foundry
12 9 (1.19%) MuleSoft
13 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.06%) Workday
14 7 (0.93%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.93%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.79%) Denodo
15 6 (0.79%) ServiceNow