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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 72 67
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 756 489 560
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.75% 3.66% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.95% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 347 385
10th Percentile £365 £400 £363
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 4
10th Percentile - £32.50 £36.88
25th Percentile - £35.25 £39.69
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -26.19%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £60.75 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

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 17,877 12,367 14,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.76% 92.52% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,722 8,164 9,655
10th Percentile £359 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 250 178
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.49 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.15% -10.03% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.44 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.27%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 +3 85 £506 +1.25% 93
West London -6 23 £520 +4.00% 27
East London +8 7 £450 -33.33% 6
South London -3 7 £463 +1.09% 4
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 99 (13.10%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (12.17%) Apache Spark
3 69 (9.13%) Apache
4 41 (5.42%) SAS
5 17 (2.25%) Confluence
6 14 (1.85%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.93%) nginx
7 7 (0.93%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.66%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.66%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) Appian
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Actimize
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 2 (0.26%) Maximo
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.13%) HFM
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 314 (41.53%) Azure
2 229 (30.29%) AWS
3 159 (21.03%) Power Platform
4 139 (18.39%) Snowflake
5 114 (15.08%) GCP
6 96 (12.70%) dbt
7 94 (12.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 88 (11.64%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (8.99%) Amazon S3
10 67 (8.86%) GitHub
11 64 (8.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 59 (7.80%) Serverless
13 50 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (3.57%) Collibra
16 24 (3.17%) Azure Databricks
17 21 (2.78%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (1.98%) SaaS
19 14 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
20 12 (1.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.93%) HTTP
2 4 (0.53%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 247 (32.67%) Data Warehouse
2 154 (20.37%) Power BI
3 115 (15.21%) Data Lake
4 74 (9.79%) Metadata
4 74 (9.79%) SQL Server
5 69 (9.13%) Delta Lake
6 51 (6.75%) BigQuery
7 50 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 48 (6.35%) Relational Database
9 46 (6.08%) Big Data
10 42 (5.56%) Tableau
11 37 (4.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
13 31 (4.10%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (4.10%) NoSQL
14 30 (3.97%) Snowflake Schema
15 28 (3.70%) Power Query
16 25 (3.31%) Star Schema
17 23 (3.04%) Oracle Database
18 22 (2.91%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 77 (10.19%) Git
2 40 (5.29%) JIRA
3 37 (4.89%) GitLab
4 22 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.19%) MLflow
6 8 (1.06%) Selenium
7 7 (0.93%) Terragrunt
8 5 (0.66%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.40%) ERwin
9 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.26%) JUnit
10 2 (0.26%) LSMW
10 2 (0.26%) Postman
10 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 253 (33.47%) Finance
2 185 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (14.68%) Banking
5 57 (7.54%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.78%) Marketing
7 20 (2.65%) Retail
8 16 (2.12%) Front Office
9 12 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 11 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.06%) Billing
12 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.93%) Back Office
13 7 (0.93%) Legal
13 7 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.66%) Games
14 5 (0.66%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 307 (40.61%) Data Engineer
2 126 (16.67%) Senior
3 103 (13.62%) Architect
4 86 (11.38%) Developer
5 85 (11.24%) Senior Data Engineer
6 79 (10.45%) Lead
7 69 (9.13%) Analyst
8 43 (5.69%) Databricks Engineer
9 41 (5.42%) Data Architect
10 39 (5.16%) Data Analyst
11 38 (5.03%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (5.03%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 29 (3.84%) Azure Data Engineer
13 26 (3.44%) Snowflake Engineer
14 24 (3.17%) Consultant
15 22 (2.91%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 22 (2.91%) Technical Leader
16 21 (2.78%) AWS Engineer
17 20 (2.65%) Python Engineer
18 18 (2.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (12.96%) PySpark
2 79 (10.45%) Terraform
3 69 (9.13%) Kafka
4 34 (4.50%) .NET
5 33 (4.37%) REST
6 27 (3.57%) JSON
7 21 (2.78%) Middleware
8 17 (2.25%) Pandas
8 17 (2.25%) React
9 13 (1.72%) Spring
10 12 (1.59%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.59%) YAML
11 10 (1.32%) XML
12 9 (1.19%) HTML
12 9 (1.19%) LangChain
12 9 (1.19%) Web Services
13 8 (1.06%) NumPy
14 7 (0.93%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.93%) GraphQL
15 6 (0.79%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 79 (10.45%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 45 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 38 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
5 36 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 28 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (2.65%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.85%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.72%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (1.72%) Replication
10 12 (1.59%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 8 (1.06%) Clustering
13 8 (1.06%) NHS
13 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
14 7 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.70%) Linux
2 13 (1.72%) Unix
2 13 (1.72%) Windows
3 4 (0.53%) Solaris
3 4 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (45.90%) Data Modelling
2 325 (42.99%) Data Pipeline
3 300 (39.68%) Data Engineering
4 291 (38.49%) Analytics
5 261 (34.52%) CI/CD
6 237 (31.35%) Agile
7 197 (26.06%) DevOps
8 187 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
9 183 (24.21%) Data Governance
10 158 (20.90%) Migration
11 157 (20.77%) Data Integration
12 154 (20.37%) Validation
13 153 (20.24%) AI
14 149 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
15 133 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
16 129 (17.06%) Data Transformation
17 120 (15.87%) Data Architecture
18 96 (12.70%) Decision-Making
19 85 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
19 85 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 500 (66.14%) SQL
2 353 (46.69%) Python
3 77 (10.19%) Java
4 41 (5.42%) Scala
5 37 (4.89%) C#
6 35 (4.63%) PL/SQL
7 34 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 30 (3.97%) T-SQL
9 25 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.72%) Shell Script
11 12 (1.59%) R
11 12 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 11 (1.46%) Bash
13 8 (1.06%) Cypher
14 5 (0.66%) Bicep
15 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.40%) Korn
16 3 (0.40%) Perl
16 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 134 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 117 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 37 (4.89%) Degree
4 20 (2.65%) Azure Certification
5 14 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 14 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (0.53%) DBS Check
9 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.40%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) CISA
11 2 (0.26%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.26%) PMP
11 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CISM
12 1 (0.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (36.77%) Data Quality
2 52 (6.88%) QA
3 34 (4.50%) GDPR
4 29 (3.84%) GRC
5 11 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.06%) IFRS
7 8 (1.06%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.66%) PMO
9 4 (0.53%) GAAP
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.13%) COREP
12 1 (0.13%) FINREP
12 1 (0.13%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (7.94%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
Systems Management
1 59 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.46%) Control-M
3 8 (1.06%) Ansible
4 7 (0.93%) Grafana
5 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 193 (25.53%) Databricks
2 133 (17.59%) Microsoft
3 121 (16.01%) Oracle
4 49 (6.48%) Informatica
5 35 (4.63%) Google
6 23 (3.04%) Talend
7 19 (2.51%) SAP
8 18 (2.38%) IBM
9 15 (1.98%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.72%) Foundry
11 12 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 11 (1.46%) Palantir
13 10 (1.32%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.19%) OpenAI
15 8 (1.06%) SnapLogic
16 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
16 6 (0.79%) Denodo
16 6 (0.79%) Hyperion
16 6 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
16 6 (0.79%) ServiceNow