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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +9
Contract jobs citing ETL 766 478 515
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.54% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.25% 3.83% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 332 364
10th Percentile £369 £400 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £711 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 6
10th Percentile - £35.13 £35.00
25th Percentile - £40.75 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £48.00 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -31.11%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £64.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -35.29% +23.53% -40.56%

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 18,004 12,485 14,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.37% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,831 8,318 10,069
10th Percentile £363 £325 £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 £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 253 197
10th Percentile £17.10 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57.13 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.61%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 87 £520 -0.95% 32
West London -1 24 £520 +2.77% 5
South London +2 9 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +2 5 £450 -33.33% 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 96 (12.53%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (11.62%) Apache Spark
3 66 (8.62%) Apache
4 46 (6.01%) SAS
5 16 (2.09%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.83%) Confluence
7 7 (0.91%) nginx
7 7 (0.91%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
9 4 (0.52%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.39%) Camunda
11 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Appian
12 1 (0.13%) CMS
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 26 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.17%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.65%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.39%) Actimize
5 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.26%) Maximo
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 323 (42.17%) Azure
2 235 (30.68%) AWS
3 190 (24.80%) Power Platform
4 121 (15.80%) Snowflake
5 112 (14.62%) GCP
6 100 (13.05%) Azure Data Factory
7 90 (11.75%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (11.23%) dbt
9 83 (10.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 77 (10.05%) Amazon S3
11 69 (9.01%) GitHub
12 62 (8.09%) Serverless
13 51 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (4.31%) Collibra
15 32 (4.18%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (1.96%) Dagster
18 14 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
19 13 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 13 (1.70%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.78%) HTTP
2 5 (0.65%) Firewall
3 3 (0.39%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
4 2 (0.26%) DHCP
4 2 (0.26%) DNS
4 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (33.55%) Data Warehouse
2 178 (23.24%) Power BI
3 132 (17.23%) Data Lake
4 80 (10.44%) SQL Server
5 71 (9.27%) Metadata
6 63 (8.22%) Delta Lake
7 54 (7.05%) BigQuery
7 54 (7.05%) Tableau
8 53 (6.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (6.14%) Relational Database
10 45 (5.87%) Big Data
11 42 (5.48%) Snowflake Schema
11 42 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
13 35 (4.57%) Star Schema
14 33 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
14 33 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
15 31 (4.05%) NoSQL
16 25 (3.26%) Power Query
17 22 (2.87%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 66 (8.62%) Git
2 37 (4.83%) JIRA
3 29 (3.79%) GitLab
4 20 (2.61%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.78%) Terragrunt
6 5 (0.65%) MLflow
7 4 (0.52%) Claude Code
7 4 (0.52%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.52%) ERwin
7 4 (0.52%) Selenium
8 3 (0.39%) LSMW
8 3 (0.39%) Postman
8 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 269 (35.12%) Finance
2 178 (23.24%) Social Skills
3 143 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (12.53%) Banking
5 61 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 23 (3.00%) Marketing
7 16 (2.09%) Financial Institution
8 15 (1.96%) Retail
9 13 (1.70%) Front Office
9 13 (1.70%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.44%) Legal
11 8 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.65%) Games
12 5 (0.65%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.52%) Billing
13 4 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.52%) Publishing
14 3 (0.39%) Law
Job Titles
1 307 (40.08%) Data Engineer
2 116 (15.14%) Senior
3 109 (14.23%) Architect
4 90 (11.75%) Developer
5 89 (11.62%) Lead
6 78 (10.18%) Senior Data Engineer
7 67 (8.75%) Analyst
8 41 (5.35%) Data Architect
9 37 (4.83%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (3.39%) Azure Data Engineer
11 26 (3.39%) Snowflake Engineer
12 24 (3.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 23 (3.00%) AWS Engineer
14 22 (2.87%) Lead Data Engineer
15 20 (2.61%) Python Engineer
16 19 (2.48%) AWS Data Engineer
17 18 (2.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
17 18 (2.35%) Consultant
17 18 (2.35%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (13.19%) PySpark
2 74 (9.66%) Kafka
3 37 (4.83%) REST
4 29 (3.79%) JSON
5 28 (3.66%) .NET
6 19 (2.48%) Middleware
7 17 (2.22%) Pandas
8 14 (1.83%) React
9 13 (1.70%) Spring
10 12 (1.57%) YAML
11 11 (1.44%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.44%) XML
12 10 (1.31%) HTML
12 10 (1.31%) Web Services
13 9 (1.17%) Great Expectations
14 8 (1.04%) OAuth
15 7 (0.91%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.91%) NumPy
16 6 (0.78%) Apache Avro
16 6 (0.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.31%) Data Structures
3 46 (6.01%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (5.09%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.05%) Onboarding
6 24 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 15 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 14 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.70%) Clustering
9 13 (1.70%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.17%) NHS
11 9 (1.17%) Replication
12 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.91%) Algorithms
13 7 (0.91%) Legacy Code
14 6 (0.78%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 27 (3.52%) Linux
2 12 (1.57%) Windows
3 10 (1.31%) Unix
4 5 (0.65%) Solaris
4 5 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (47.13%) Data Modelling
2 325 (42.43%) Data Pipeline
3 306 (39.95%) Analytics
4 294 (38.38%) Data Engineering
5 254 (33.16%) CI/CD
6 220 (28.72%) Agile
7 209 (27.28%) DevOps
8 204 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
9 183 (23.89%) Data Governance
10 174 (22.72%) Migration
11 152 (19.84%) Validation
12 146 (19.06%) Data Integration
13 145 (18.93%) AI
14 136 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (16.71%) Data Architecture
16 125 (16.32%) Data Transformation
17 123 (16.06%) Stakeholder Management
18 112 (14.62%) Decision-Making
19 94 (12.27%) Data Migration
20 79 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 507 (66.19%) SQL
2 356 (46.48%) Python
3 81 (10.57%) Java
4 38 (4.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 38 (4.96%) Scala
5 37 (4.83%) C#
6 33 (4.31%) T-SQL
7 32 (4.18%) JavaScript
7 32 (4.18%) PL/SQL
8 23 (3.00%) PowerShell
9 13 (1.70%) R
10 11 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 11 (1.44%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.04%) Bash
12 7 (0.91%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.65%) Bicep
13 5 (0.65%) Cypher
13 5 (0.65%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.39%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 145 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.35%) Degree
4 23 (3.00%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.52%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.39%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.26%) CISA
12 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.13%) CISM
13 1 (0.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (36.55%) Data Quality
2 62 (8.09%) QA
3 46 (6.01%) GDPR
4 28 (3.66%) GRC
5 11 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.17%) IFRS
8 8 (1.04%) PMO
8 8 (1.04%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.52%) GAAP
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) GMP
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.13%) COPPA
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) HL7
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 57 (7.44%) Docker
2 6 (0.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (11.49%) Terraform
2 63 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.44%) Control-M
4 8 (1.04%) Ansible
5 7 (0.91%) Grafana
6 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 168 (21.93%) Databricks
2 139 (18.15%) Microsoft
3 116 (15.14%) Oracle
4 55 (7.18%) Informatica
5 38 (4.96%) Google
6 24 (3.13%) SAP
7 18 (2.35%) IBM
7 18 (2.35%) Talend
8 14 (1.83%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.70%) Palantir
9 13 (1.70%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.31%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.31%) Foundry
11 9 (1.17%) Workday
12 8 (1.04%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.91%) Refinitiv
14 6 (0.78%) Denodo
15 5 (0.65%) MicroStrategy
15 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.65%) SnapLogic