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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 76 66
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 752 480 579
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.53% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.83% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 335 429
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £430 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £725 £749 £753
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £39.25 -
25th Percentile - £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -30.00%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
England median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -26.56% +35.48% -42.59%

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 17,691 12,549 15,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.03% 92.21% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,395 11,020
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £768 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 234 284
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.25 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +6.93% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.84 £50.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.60 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%

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 12 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 12 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 +7 81 £525 -7.08% 39
West London +2 26 £603 +19.07% 29
South London +1 12 £463 -2.63%
East London +5 5 £450 -33.33% 3
North London -2 1 £495 - 2
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 89 (11.84%) Apache Spark
2 86 (11.44%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (7.85%) Apache
4 22 (2.93%) SAS
5 12 (1.60%) Confluence
6 10 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.20%) nginx
7 9 (1.20%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.66%) Appian
8 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.53%) Camunda
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 27 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.40%) Actimize
4 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.27%) Maximo
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.27%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.13%) iTrent
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
6 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 342 (45.48%) Azure
2 249 (33.11%) AWS
3 188 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 108 (14.36%) GCP
5 103 (13.70%) Snowflake
6 100 (13.30%) Azure Data Factory
7 92 (12.23%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (11.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 86 (11.44%) Amazon S3
10 71 (9.44%) dbt
11 66 (8.78%) Serverless
12 62 (8.24%) GitHub
13 56 (7.45%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (5.45%) Collibra
15 27 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 16 (2.13%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) 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
1 232 (30.85%) Data Warehouse
2 173 (23.01%) Power BI
3 143 (19.02%) Data Lake
4 81 (10.77%) SQL Server
5 76 (10.11%) Metadata
6 65 (8.64%) Delta Lake
7 62 (8.24%) Tableau
8 53 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 48 (6.38%) BigQuery
10 47 (6.25%) Big Data
10 47 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 44 (5.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 42 (5.59%) Relational Database
13 41 (5.45%) NoSQL
14 40 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
15 35 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
16 34 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
17 29 (3.86%) Star Schema
18 22 (2.93%) Data Vault
19 21 (2.79%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (9.18%) Git
2 40 (5.32%) JIRA
3 22 (2.93%) GitLab
4 12 (1.60%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.46%) MLflow
6 5 (0.66%) ERwin
6 5 (0.66%) Selenium
7 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.53%) Postman
8 3 (0.40%) LSMW
8 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Ant
10 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.13%) JUnit
10 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 282 (37.50%) Finance
2 183 (24.34%) Social Skills
3 147 (19.55%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.64%) Banking
5 76 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.79%) Marketing
7 16 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.60%) Retail
9 9 (1.20%) Front Office
9 9 (1.20%) Legal
10 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.53%) Billing
12 4 (0.53%) Games
12 4 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.53%) Publishing
13 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 320 (42.55%) Data Engineer
2 103 (13.70%) Senior
3 92 (12.23%) Architect
4 91 (12.10%) Lead
5 87 (11.57%) Developer
6 70 (9.31%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (8.24%) Analyst
8 43 (5.72%) Data Architect
9 38 (5.05%) Data Analyst
10 29 (3.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 29 (3.86%) Snowflake Engineer
11 25 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.32%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (3.06%) AWS Engineer
12 23 (3.06%) Python Engineer
13 21 (2.79%) Azure Data Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) Python Data Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) SQL Developer
15 18 (2.39%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.16%) PySpark
2 74 (9.84%) Kafka
3 36 (4.79%) REST
4 25 (3.32%) JSON
5 24 (3.19%) Pandas
6 20 (2.66%) .NET
6 20 (2.66%) Middleware
7 17 (2.26%) Spring
8 15 (1.99%) XML
9 14 (1.86%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.73%) Great Expectations
10 13 (1.73%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.73%) Web Services
11 12 (1.60%) OAuth
11 12 (1.60%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.46%) HTML
12 11 (1.46%) NumPy
13 10 (1.33%) YAML
14 9 (1.20%) React
14 9 (1.20%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 91 (12.10%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.18%) Data Structures
3 51 (6.78%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (3.99%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.53%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.86%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.60%) Clustering
8 12 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.60%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.20%) NHS
9 9 (1.20%) Replication
10 8 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.93%) IoT
12 6 (0.80%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.13%) Linux
2 11 (1.46%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Solaris
3 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (0.53%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (48.54%) Data Modelling
2 324 (43.09%) Data Pipeline
3 301 (40.03%) Analytics
4 283 (37.63%) Data Engineering
5 246 (32.71%) CI/CD
6 203 (26.99%) DevOps
7 198 (26.33%) Business Intelligence
8 185 (24.60%) Data Governance
9 184 (24.47%) Agile
10 168 (22.34%) Migration
11 150 (19.95%) AI
12 148 (19.68%) Validation
13 135 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
14 133 (17.69%) Data Architecture
15 119 (15.82%) Decision-Making
16 116 (15.43%) Data Integration
17 96 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
18 94 (12.50%) Data Science
19 92 (12.23%) Data Migration
19 92 (12.23%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 513 (68.22%) SQL
2 380 (50.53%) Python
3 83 (11.04%) Java
4 43 (5.72%) Scala
5 41 (5.45%) C#
6 38 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (4.79%) T-SQL
8 30 (3.99%) PL/SQL
9 21 (2.79%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.86%) R
11 13 (1.73%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.73%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
12 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.80%) Bash
13 6 (0.80%) Bicep
14 4 (0.53%) Cypher
14 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 146 (19.41%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.49%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.25%) Degree
4 28 (3.72%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.60%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.27%) CISA
12 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.27%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (35.51%) Data Quality
2 66 (8.78%) QA
3 59 (7.85%) GDPR
4 12 (1.60%) IFRS
5 11 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.46%) PMO
6 9 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.06%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.93%) GRC
8 7 (0.93%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.40%) GAAP
9 3 (0.40%) GMP
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) COPPA
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (7.45%) 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 97 (12.90%) Terraform
2 63 (8.38%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.80%) Grafana
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.40%) Ansible
5 3 (0.40%) Control-M
5 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 161 (21.41%) Databricks
2 144 (19.15%) Microsoft
3 87 (11.57%) Oracle
4 52 (6.91%) Informatica
5 38 (5.05%) Google
6 21 (2.79%) SAP
7 19 (2.53%) IBM
8 15 (1.99%) Talend
9 14 (1.86%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.60%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.33%) Palantir
12 9 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.20%) OpenAI
13 8 (1.06%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.06%) Workday
14 7 (0.93%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.80%) Denodo
15 6 (0.80%) ServiceNow
16 5 (0.66%) Foundry