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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 65 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 515 554 557
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.77% 3.52% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.95% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 363 422
10th Percentile £380 £363 £382
25th Percentile £427 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% -2.95%
75th Percentile £650 £629 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £507 £538
% change year-on-year -1.38% -5.63% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £32.50 £36.25 £49.52
25th Percentile £34.56 £38.13 £59.25
Median hourly rate £40.50 £42.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% -32.54% +8.62%
75th Percentile £47.00 £47.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £50.15 £66.80
England median hourly rate £38.96 £31.25 £64.00
% change year-on-year +24.67% -51.17% +49.71%

All Process and 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 12,625 14,032 18,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.41% 89.25% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,294 9,046 13,184
10th Percentile £326 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £798 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 171 232
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.50 £18.35
25th Percentile £25.09 £24.34 £21.44
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.07 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -17.28% -4.62% +4.03%
75th Percentile £47.25 £58.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.75 £80.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +27.14%

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 30 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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 30 October 2025. 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 66 £513 -3.30% 111
West London -9 9 £544 +15.64%
South London +1 6 £466 -1.84% 4
East London -2 1 £360 -10.00% 6
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 56 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (10.10%) Apache Spark
3 43 (8.35%) Apache
4 6 (1.17%) Confluence
5 5 (0.97%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.78%) Luigi
7 3 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.58%) SAS
8 2 (0.39%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 2 (0.39%) IIS
9 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.19%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (1.36%) Aladdin
1 7 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.39%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.39%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Exchequer
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 228 (44.27%) Azure
2 184 (35.73%) AWS
3 110 (21.36%) Power Platform
4 92 (17.86%) Snowflake
5 87 (16.89%) GCP
6 79 (15.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 56 (10.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 43 (8.35%) Amazon S3
8 43 (8.35%) dbt
9 34 (6.60%) Serverless
10 33 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
11 28 (5.44%) GitHub
12 22 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (2.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
16 12 (2.33%) Azure Functions
16 12 (2.33%) PaaS
16 12 (2.33%) SaaS
17 11 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.58%) 2G
1 3 (0.58%) 4G
1 3 (0.58%) 5G
1 3 (0.58%) Internet
1 3 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.39%) BGP
2 2 (0.39%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.39%) DNS
2 2 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.39%) OSPF
2 2 (0.39%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.19%) FabricPath
3 1 (0.19%) Firewall
3 1 (0.19%) Multicast
3 1 (0.19%) SSL
3 1 (0.19%) TETRA
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (33.20%) Data Warehouse
2 101 (19.61%) Power BI
3 78 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 75 (14.56%) SQL Server
5 54 (10.49%) Metadata
6 52 (10.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 52 (10.10%) Big Data
7 51 (9.90%) BigQuery
8 38 (7.38%) Relational Database
9 34 (6.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 33 (6.41%) Tableau
11 31 (6.02%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (4.66%) Delta Lake
13 24 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
14 23 (4.47%) Snowflake Schema
15 20 (3.88%) Hadoop
16 18 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (3.11%) Power Query
18 14 (2.72%) Looker
Development Applications
1 36 (6.99%) Git
2 19 (3.69%) JIRA
3 17 (3.30%) ERwin
4 12 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.36%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.17%) GitLab
7 5 (0.97%) Postman
7 5 (0.97%) Selenium
8 3 (0.58%) MLflow
9 2 (0.39%) LSMW
9 2 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.39%) PROIV
9 2 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.39%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.39%) TestRail
10 1 (0.19%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.19%) JMeter
10 1 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.19%) Maven
10 1 (0.19%) SoapUI
General
1 161 (31.26%) Finance
2 151 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 87 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (9.51%) Banking
5 33 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.50%) Retail
7 12 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 12 (2.33%) Marketing
8 9 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.36%) Financial Institution
9 7 (1.36%) Front Office
9 7 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.17%) Local Government
10 6 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.78%) Publishing
12 4 (0.78%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 163 (31.65%) Data Engineer
2 73 (14.17%) Architect
3 69 (13.40%) Developer
4 61 (11.84%) Senior
5 53 (10.29%) Analyst
5 53 (10.29%) Lead
6 48 (9.32%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.99%) Data Analyst
8 30 (5.83%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (5.05%) Azure Data Engineer
11 16 (3.11%) Azure Architect
11 16 (3.11%) Data Modeller
11 16 (3.11%) Python Engineer
11 16 (3.11%) Senior Developer
12 15 (2.91%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.52%) Consultant
14 12 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
14 12 (2.33%) Snowflake Engineer
15 11 (2.14%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.29%) PySpark
2 44 (8.54%) Kafka
3 32 (6.21%) XML
4 21 (4.08%) JSON
5 14 (2.72%) REST
5 14 (2.72%) RESTful
6 12 (2.33%) Pandas
7 11 (2.14%) OAuth
8 10 (1.94%) .NET
8 10 (1.94%) GraphQL
8 10 (1.94%) NumPy
9 8 (1.55%) Middleware
10 7 (1.36%) Great Expectations
11 6 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
11 6 (1.17%) Node.js
11 6 (1.17%) PyTorch
11 6 (1.17%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.97%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.97%) JWT
12 5 (0.97%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.80%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.63%) Data Structures
3 16 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (2.72%) Algorithms
5 11 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (2.14%) Virtual Team
6 10 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.94%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (1.75%) Reinsurance
8 7 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (1.36%) IoT
8 7 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.17%) Data Centre
10 5 (0.97%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.91%) Linux
2 3 (0.58%) Unix
2 3 (0.58%) Windows
3 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (43.30%) Data Modelling
2 192 (37.28%) Analytics
2 192 (37.28%) Data Pipeline
3 156 (30.29%) Data Engineering
4 140 (27.18%) Data Governance
5 135 (26.21%) Business Intelligence
6 119 (23.11%) CI/CD
7 116 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
8 109 (21.17%) Agile
9 103 (20.00%) Data Integration
10 101 (19.61%) Migration
11 99 (19.22%) DevOps
12 80 (15.53%) Data Architecture
13 76 (14.76%) Data Science
14 69 (13.40%) Machine Learning
15 67 (13.01%) Validation
15 67 (13.01%) Visualisation
16 66 (12.82%) Data Migration
16 66 (12.82%) Data Transformation
17 60 (11.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 340 (66.02%) SQL
2 274 (53.20%) Python
3 57 (11.07%) Java
4 26 (5.05%) Scala
5 24 (4.66%) C#
5 24 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (4.27%) T-SQL
7 20 (3.88%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.72%) JavaScript
9 11 (2.14%) Bash
9 11 (2.14%) PowerShell
10 10 (1.94%) VBA
11 9 (1.75%) R
12 7 (1.36%) Go
12 7 (1.36%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.97%) C++
13 5 (0.97%) Perl
14 4 (0.78%) Bicep
14 4 (0.78%) C
15 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 47 (9.13%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.18%) Degree
4 25 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (3.50%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.36%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.97%) PMP
11 5 (0.97%) SnowPro
12 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.39%) CISSP
13 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.39%) MCP
14 1 (0.19%) CCIE
14 1 (0.19%) CCNP
14 1 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (29.90%) Data Quality
2 36 (6.99%) GDPR
3 33 (6.41%) QA
4 18 (3.50%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.75%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.97%) SLA
7 4 (0.78%) EMIR
8 3 (0.58%) GAAP
8 3 (0.58%) HL7
8 3 (0.58%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.58%) MiFID
8 3 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.39%) PMO
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) DICOM
10 1 (0.19%) IFRS
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.19%) SEPA
System Software
1 35 (6.80%) Docker
2 5 (0.97%) zsh
3 4 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.39%) KVM
4 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 46 (8.93%) Terraform
2 35 (6.80%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.17%) Ansible
3 6 (1.17%) Control-M
3 6 (1.17%) Kibana
4 5 (0.97%) vCenter Server
5 4 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.78%) logstash
6 3 (0.58%) Grafana
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.19%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.19%) Puppet
8 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 105 (20.39%) Databricks
2 75 (14.56%) Microsoft
3 41 (7.96%) Google
4 40 (7.77%) Oracle
5 22 (4.27%) Informatica
6 16 (3.11%) SAP
7 11 (2.14%) Talend
8 9 (1.75%) Palantir
8 9 (1.75%) Workday
9 8 (1.55%) VMware
10 7 (1.36%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.36%) Foundry
10 7 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.17%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.97%) EMC
12 5 (0.97%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.97%) Teradata
13 4 (0.78%) Denodo
13 4 (0.78%) Solace
13 4 (0.78%) TIBCO