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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 81 73
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 608 444 533
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.26% 3.20% 2.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 3.54% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 283 417
10th Percentile £359 £360 £385
25th Percentile £420 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £615
90th Percentile £725 £725 £707
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile - £36.25 £48.01
25th Percentile £32.50 £38.13 £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.06% -29.75% +17.48%
75th Percentile £39.31 £52.25 £64.53
90th Percentile £42.58 £57.35 £68.90
England median hourly rate £47.36 £42.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -24.78% +59.15%

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 13,030 12,548 16,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.21% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 7,991 11,538
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 154 286
10th Percentile £18.25 £19.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.54 £19.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.45% -14.98%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 19 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 19 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 +2 80 £488 -11.36% 41
West London -3 17 £601 +19.65% 5
South London -3 7 £500 +1.27% 3
East London -1 6 £450 +12.50% 7
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 66 (10.86%) Apache Spark
2 49 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
3 41 (6.74%) Apache
4 8 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.66%) Appian
6 4 (0.66%) Confluence
6 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.49%) Luigi
7 3 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.49%) SAS
7 3 (0.49%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.33%) CMS
8 2 (0.33%) Oracle Application Server
8 2 (0.33%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.49%) Trello
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.15%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.99%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.33%) Actimize
6 2 (0.33%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) Maximo
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 267 (43.91%) Azure
2 192 (31.58%) AWS
3 151 (24.84%) Power Platform
4 93 (15.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 89 (14.64%) Snowflake
6 75 (12.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 66 (10.86%) GCP
8 64 (10.53%) Amazon S3
9 49 (8.06%) Serverless
10 44 (7.24%) GitHub
11 41 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
12 38 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (5.10%) dbt
14 25 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
16 17 (2.80%) Collibra
17 13 (2.14%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (2.14%) SaaS
18 12 (1.97%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.49%) 2G
1 3 (0.49%) 4G
1 3 (0.49%) 5G
1 3 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.33%) BGP
2 2 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.33%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.33%) OSPF
2 2 (0.33%) 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
1 188 (30.92%) Data Warehouse
2 142 (23.36%) Power BI
3 112 (18.42%) Data Lake
4 91 (14.97%) SQL Server
5 71 (11.68%) Metadata
6 51 (8.39%) Big Data
7 50 (8.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (7.89%) Relational Database
9 46 (7.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (6.74%) Tableau
11 36 (5.92%) Delta Lake
12 32 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
13 30 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
13 30 (4.93%) BigQuery
14 28 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
15 26 (4.28%) NoSQL
15 26 (4.28%) Oracle Database
16 24 (3.95%) Snowflake Schema
17 20 (3.29%) RDBMS
18 19 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 48 (7.89%) Git
2 30 (4.93%) JIRA
3 23 (3.78%) GitLab
4 17 (2.80%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.63%) ERwin
6 10 (1.64%) MLflow
7 7 (1.15%) Postman
7 7 (1.15%) Selenium
8 4 (0.66%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.66%) Toad
9 3 (0.49%) JMeter
9 3 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.33%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.33%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.33%) TestRail
10 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.16%) Poetry
General
1 206 (33.88%) Finance
2 182 (29.93%) Social Skills
3 90 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.69%) Banking
5 37 (6.09%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.29%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.80%) Retail
8 11 (1.81%) Marketing
9 9 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.15%) Front Office
11 6 (0.99%) Investment Banking
11 6 (0.99%) Legal
11 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
12 5 (0.82%) Publishing
13 4 (0.66%) Law
13 4 (0.66%) Local Government
13 4 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 232 (38.16%) Data Engineer
2 78 (12.83%) Developer
3 75 (12.34%) Lead
4 64 (10.53%) Senior
5 60 (9.87%) Analyst
6 55 (9.05%) Architect
7 43 (7.07%) Data Analyst
8 40 (6.58%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (5.92%) Data Architect
10 27 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (4.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (3.62%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 22 (3.62%) Snowflake Engineer
13 20 (3.29%) Consultant
14 18 (2.96%) Business Analyst
14 18 (2.96%) Python Engineer
14 18 (2.96%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.80%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 14 (2.30%) AWS Engineer
16 14 (2.30%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.99%) PySpark
2 58 (9.54%) Kafka
3 30 (4.93%) XML
4 24 (3.95%) Pandas
5 23 (3.78%) REST
6 17 (2.80%) NumPy
7 16 (2.63%) JSON
8 13 (2.14%) PyTorch
9 12 (1.97%) OAuth
9 12 (1.97%) TensorFlow
10 11 (1.81%) .NET
10 11 (1.81%) RESTful
10 11 (1.81%) scikit-learn
10 11 (1.81%) Spark Streaming
11 10 (1.64%) Middleware
11 10 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
12 9 (1.48%) Great Expectations
13 8 (1.32%) HTML
13 8 (1.32%) pytest
14 7 (1.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (7.40%) Cloud Native
2 42 (6.91%) Data Structures
3 30 (4.93%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.80%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.47%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.14%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.48%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.32%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.99%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.99%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.99%) Replication
13 5 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.63%) Linux
2 7 (1.15%) Unix
3 4 (0.66%) Windows
4 2 (0.33%) 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
1 277 (45.56%) Data Modelling
2 258 (42.43%) Analytics
3 227 (37.34%) Data Pipeline
4 211 (34.70%) Data Engineering
5 189 (31.09%) Business Intelligence
6 161 (26.48%) CI/CD
7 147 (24.18%) Data Governance
8 131 (21.55%) Agile
9 124 (20.39%) Migration
10 123 (20.23%) Problem-Solving
11 121 (19.90%) DevOps
12 112 (18.42%) Data Architecture
13 95 (15.63%) Validation
14 92 (15.13%) Data Integration
14 92 (15.13%) Data Migration
15 91 (14.97%) Data Science
16 88 (14.47%) AI
17 77 (12.66%) Machine Learning
18 73 (12.01%) Data Transformation
19 72 (11.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 420 (69.08%) SQL
2 302 (49.67%) Python
3 55 (9.05%) Java
4 32 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 31 (5.10%) C#
6 30 (4.93%) Scala
7 19 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 18 (2.96%) JavaScript
9 16 (2.63%) T-SQL
10 11 (1.81%) Bicep
10 11 (1.81%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.81%) R
11 10 (1.64%) Bash
12 6 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.82%) Perl
14 4 (0.66%) Go
14 4 (0.66%) Korn
14 4 (0.66%) PHP
15 3 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 90 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.18%) SC Cleared
3 43 (7.07%) Degree
4 30 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.96%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (1.15%) PMP
11 6 (0.99%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.99%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.49%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.33%) MCP
15 1 (0.16%) CCIE
15 1 (0.16%) CCNP
15 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (34.21%) Data Quality
2 59 (9.70%) GDPR
3 34 (5.59%) QA
4 16 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.48%) IFRS
6 7 (1.15%) IFRS 17
7 6 (0.99%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.82%) GAAP
8 5 (0.82%) MiFID
9 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.49%) Basel III
10 3 (0.49%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.49%) NIST
10 3 (0.49%) PMO
11 2 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.33%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.33%) EMIR
12 1 (0.16%) PERC
System Software
1 46 (7.57%) Docker
2 5 (0.82%) zsh
3 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.33%) KVM
3 2 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 69 (11.35%) Terraform
2 45 (7.40%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.82%) Ansible
4 4 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.66%) Kibana
4 4 (0.66%) logstash
5 3 (0.49%) Control-M
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 149 (24.51%) Databricks
2 106 (17.43%) Microsoft
3 69 (11.35%) Oracle
4 35 (5.76%) Informatica
5 30 (4.93%) SAP
6 21 (3.45%) Google
7 15 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.14%) Workday
9 12 (1.97%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.81%) Talend
11 10 (1.64%) IBM
11 10 (1.64%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.32%) Palantir
13 7 (1.15%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.15%) Foundry
13 7 (1.15%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.82%) Avaloq
14 5 (0.82%) UiPath
15 4 (0.66%) Denodo
15 4 (0.66%) Solace