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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +26
Contract jobs citing ETL 620 443 531
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.25% 3.19% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.66% 3.53% 3.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 282 417
10th Percentile £359 £360 £384
25th Percentile £420 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £615
90th Percentile £725 £725 £707
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
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% +56.94%

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 13,291 12,555 16,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.17% 90.44% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,813 8,005 11,559
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -7.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 154 294
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.23 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.93
Median hourly rate £32.98 £35.00 £31.13
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +12.45% -12.32%
75th Percentile £55.25 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.53 £73.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £38.16
% change year-on-year -28.14% -8.27% +9.67%

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 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 21 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 -6 81 £475 -13.64% 39
West London -4 18 £603 +19.90% 5
East London 0 7 £450 +12.50% 5
South London -5 7 £500 +1.27% 3
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 69 (11.13%) Apache Spark
2 50 (8.06%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.10%) Apache
4 8 (1.29%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.81%) Appian
7 4 (0.65%) Confluence
7 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.48%) Luigi
8 3 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.48%) SAS
8 3 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.32%) CMS
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.48%) Trello
6 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.13%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.97%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.32%) Actimize
6 2 (0.32%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.16%) Maximo
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 274 (44.19%) Azure
2 197 (31.77%) AWS
3 153 (24.68%) Power Platform
4 96 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
5 89 (14.35%) Snowflake
6 77 (12.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 68 (10.97%) GCP
8 67 (10.81%) Amazon S3
9 51 (8.23%) Serverless
10 45 (7.26%) GitHub
11 43 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (5.00%) dbt
14 26 (4.19%) AWS CloudFormation
15 22 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (3.06%) Collibra
17 18 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
18 14 (2.26%) Amazon Kinesis
19 13 (2.10%) SaaS
20 12 (1.94%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.48%) 2G
1 3 (0.48%) 4G
1 3 (0.48%) 5G
1 3 (0.48%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (0.32%) BGP
2 2 (0.32%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (0.32%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (0.32%) OSPF
2 2 (0.32%) 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
1 190 (30.65%) Data Warehouse
2 144 (23.23%) Power BI
3 115 (18.55%) Data Lake
4 93 (15.00%) SQL Server
5 73 (11.77%) Metadata
6 51 (8.23%) Big Data
7 50 (8.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 48 (7.74%) Relational Database
9 46 (7.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (6.77%) Tableau
11 36 (5.81%) Delta Lake
12 34 (5.48%) Amazon Athena
13 31 (5.00%) BigQuery
14 30 (4.84%) Azure SQL Database
15 29 (4.68%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (4.35%) Oracle Database
17 26 (4.19%) NoSQL
18 24 (3.87%) Snowflake Schema
19 20 (3.23%) RDBMS
20 19 (3.06%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 50 (8.06%) Git
2 30 (4.84%) JIRA
3 24 (3.87%) GitLab
4 17 (2.74%) ERwin
4 17 (2.74%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.77%) MLflow
6 7 (1.13%) Postman
6 7 (1.13%) Selenium
7 4 (0.65%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.65%) Toad
8 3 (0.48%) JMeter
8 3 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
9 2 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.32%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.32%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.32%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.32%) TestRail
9 2 (0.32%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.16%) DBeaver
General
1 212 (34.19%) Finance
2 186 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 92 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.81%) Banking
5 37 (5.97%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.90%) Retail
8 11 (1.77%) Marketing
9 10 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.13%) Front Office
12 6 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 6 (0.97%) Legal
12 6 (0.97%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.81%) Publishing
14 4 (0.65%) Law
14 4 (0.65%) Local Government
14 4 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 236 (38.06%) Data Engineer
2 80 (12.90%) Developer
3 78 (12.58%) Lead
4 65 (10.48%) Senior
5 60 (9.68%) Analyst
6 55 (8.87%) Architect
7 43 (6.94%) Data Analyst
8 41 (6.61%) Senior Data Engineer
9 36 (5.81%) Data Architect
10 28 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (4.03%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 22 (3.55%) Snowflake Engineer
13 20 (3.23%) Consultant
14 18 (2.90%) Business Analyst
14 18 (2.90%) Python Engineer
14 18 (2.90%) Senior Developer
15 17 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 16 (2.58%) Data Modeller
17 15 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.74%) PySpark
2 59 (9.52%) Kafka
3 30 (4.84%) XML
4 25 (4.03%) Pandas
5 24 (3.87%) REST
6 18 (2.90%) NumPy
7 16 (2.58%) JSON
8 14 (2.26%) PyTorch
9 13 (2.10%) OAuth
9 13 (2.10%) TensorFlow
10 12 (1.94%) .NET
10 12 (1.94%) RESTful
10 12 (1.94%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.77%) Spark Streaming
12 10 (1.61%) Great Expectations
12 10 (1.61%) Middleware
12 10 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (1.45%) pytest
14 8 (1.29%) HTML
14 8 (1.29%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.58%) Cloud Native
2 43 (6.94%) Data Structures
3 33 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.42%) Reinsurance
6 13 (2.10%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.45%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.29%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.13%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.97%) Data Centre
12 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.97%) Replication
13 5 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.58%) Linux
2 7 (1.13%) Unix
3 4 (0.65%) Windows
4 2 (0.32%) 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
1 282 (45.48%) Data Modelling
2 261 (42.10%) Analytics
3 230 (37.10%) Data Pipeline
4 216 (34.84%) Data Engineering
5 191 (30.81%) Business Intelligence
6 167 (26.94%) CI/CD
7 151 (24.35%) Data Governance
8 133 (21.45%) Agile
9 128 (20.65%) Migration
10 126 (20.32%) DevOps
10 126 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
11 115 (18.55%) Data Architecture
12 97 (15.65%) Validation
13 94 (15.16%) Data Integration
13 94 (15.16%) Data Migration
14 92 (14.84%) Data Science
15 91 (14.68%) AI
16 82 (13.23%) Machine Learning
17 75 (12.10%) Data Transformation
17 75 (12.10%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 427 (68.87%) SQL
2 309 (49.84%) Python
3 55 (8.87%) Java
4 33 (5.32%) C#
4 33 (5.32%) PL/SQL
5 32 (5.16%) Scala
6 19 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 18 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 17 (2.74%) T-SQL
9 11 (1.77%) Bicep
9 11 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.77%) R
10 10 (1.61%) Bash
11 6 (0.97%) Shell Script
11 6 (0.97%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.81%) Perl
13 4 (0.65%) Go
13 4 (0.65%) Korn
13 4 (0.65%) PHP
14 3 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (14.68%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.26%) Degree
4 32 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 19 (3.06%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.74%) Master's Degree
7 9 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (1.13%) PMP
10 6 (0.97%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.97%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.32%) MCP
13 1 (0.16%) CCIE
13 1 (0.16%) CCNP
13 1 (0.16%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (34.19%) Data Quality
2 60 (9.68%) GDPR
3 34 (5.48%) QA
4 16 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.45%) IFRS
6 7 (1.13%) IFRS 17
7 6 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.81%) GAAP
8 5 (0.81%) MiFID
9 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.48%) Basel III
10 3 (0.48%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.48%) NIST
10 3 (0.48%) PMO
11 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.32%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.32%) EMIR
12 1 (0.16%) PERC
System Software
1 48 (7.74%) Docker
2 5 (0.81%) zsh
3 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.32%) KVM
3 2 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.32%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (11.61%) Terraform
2 46 (7.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.81%) Ansible
4 4 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (0.65%) Kibana
4 4 (0.65%) logstash
5 3 (0.48%) 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
1 151 (24.35%) Databricks
2 107 (17.26%) Microsoft
3 71 (11.45%) Oracle
4 36 (5.81%) Informatica
5 31 (5.00%) SAP
6 23 (3.71%) Google
7 15 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.10%) Workday
9 12 (1.94%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.77%) Talend
11 10 (1.61%) IBM
11 10 (1.61%) MuleSoft
12 8 (1.29%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.29%) Palantir
13 7 (1.13%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.13%) Foundry
14 6 (0.97%) Avaloq
14 6 (0.97%) UiPath
15 5 (0.81%) Automation Anywhere
16 4 (0.65%) Solace