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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 +16
Contract jobs citing ETL 746 477 576
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.53% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 3.83% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 552 332 428
10th Percentile £358 £400 £381
25th Percentile £430 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +1.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £725 £747 £754
England median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £39.25 -
25th Percentile - £44.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +8.25% -25.38%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 £55.90
England median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.56% +23.53% -37.04%

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 17,532 12,440 15,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.14% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,309 11,135
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £440 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £769 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 234 293
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.96
25th Percentile £22.87 £24.66 £20.02
Median hourly rate £36.75 £32.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.84% +6.67% -27.31%
75th Percentile £58.98 £50.38 £48.75
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% -6.07%

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 9 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 9 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 +15 80 £525 -7.08% 40
West London 0 27 £603 +19.07% 28
South London +3 12 £463 -2.63%
East London +3 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 (11.93%) Apache Spark
2 85 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (7.91%) Apache
4 19 (2.55%) SAS
5 12 (1.61%) Confluence
6 10 (1.34%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.21%) nginx
7 9 (1.21%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.67%) Appian
8 5 (0.67%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.54%) Camunda
9 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.54%) 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 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.07%) 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 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.67%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.54%) 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%) Eloqua
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 340 (45.58%) Azure
2 248 (33.24%) AWS
3 188 (25.20%) Power Platform
4 107 (14.34%) GCP
5 102 (13.67%) Snowflake
6 99 (13.27%) Azure Data Factory
7 92 (12.33%) Azure DevOps
8 90 (12.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 85 (11.39%) Amazon S3
10 70 (9.38%) dbt
11 65 (8.71%) Serverless
12 62 (8.31%) GitHub
13 55 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (5.50%) Collibra
15 27 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (3.35%) Amazon EMR
17 22 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
18 17 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (2.14%) Dagster
20 15 (2.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) HTTP
2 5 (0.67%) 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 (31.10%) Data Warehouse
2 173 (23.19%) Power BI
3 143 (19.17%) Data Lake
4 81 (10.86%) SQL Server
5 76 (10.19%) Metadata
6 65 (8.71%) Delta Lake
7 62 (8.31%) Tableau
8 53 (7.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 47 (6.30%) Big Data
9 47 (6.30%) BigQuery
9 47 (6.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 43 (5.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 42 (5.63%) Relational Database
12 41 (5.50%) NoSQL
13 39 (5.23%) Amazon Athena
14 35 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
15 34 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
16 29 (3.89%) Star Schema
17 22 (2.95%) Data Vault
18 21 (2.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 69 (9.25%) Git
2 40 (5.36%) JIRA
3 22 (2.95%) GitLab
4 12 (1.61%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.47%) MLflow
6 5 (0.67%) ERwin
6 5 (0.67%) Selenium
7 4 (0.54%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.54%) 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%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
10 1 (0.13%) Maven
10 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
10 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 282 (37.80%) Finance
2 183 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 146 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.72%) Banking
5 76 (10.19%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.82%) Marketing
7 16 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.14%) Financial Institution
7 16 (2.14%) Telecoms
8 12 (1.61%) Retail
9 9 (1.21%) Legal
10 8 (1.07%) Front Office
10 8 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.67%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.54%) Billing
12 4 (0.54%) Games
12 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.54%) Publishing
13 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 319 (42.76%) Data Engineer
2 103 (13.81%) Senior
3 90 (12.06%) Lead
4 89 (11.93%) Architect
5 87 (11.66%) Developer
6 70 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 62 (8.31%) Analyst
8 43 (5.76%) Data Architect
9 38 (5.09%) Data Analyst
10 28 (3.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 28 (3.75%) Snowflake Engineer
11 25 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
11 25 (3.35%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (3.08%) Python Engineer
13 22 (2.95%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (2.82%) Azure Data Engineer
15 19 (2.55%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (2.55%) Python Data Engineer
15 19 (2.55%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.41%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (13.27%) PySpark
2 74 (9.92%) Kafka
3 36 (4.83%) REST
4 25 (3.35%) JSON
5 24 (3.22%) Pandas
6 20 (2.68%) .NET
6 20 (2.68%) Middleware
7 17 (2.28%) Spring
8 15 (2.01%) XML
9 14 (1.88%) Spring Boot
10 13 (1.74%) Great Expectations
10 13 (1.74%) PyTorch
10 13 (1.74%) Web Services
11 12 (1.61%) OAuth
11 12 (1.61%) TensorFlow
12 11 (1.47%) HTML
12 11 (1.47%) NumPy
13 10 (1.34%) YAML
14 9 (1.21%) scikit-learn
15 8 (1.07%) React
Miscellaneous
1 88 (11.80%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.37%) Data Structures
3 51 (6.84%) Legacy Systems
4 30 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 23 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.55%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.88%) AI Agents
8 12 (1.61%) Clustering
8 12 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.61%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.61%) Reinsurance
9 9 (1.21%) NHS
9 9 (1.21%) Replication
10 8 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
10 8 (1.07%) Taxonomies
11 7 (0.94%) Algorithms
11 7 (0.94%) IoT
12 6 (0.80%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.14%) Linux
2 11 (1.47%) Windows
3 7 (0.94%) Solaris
3 7 (0.94%) 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 (0.54%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (48.93%) Data Modelling
2 323 (43.30%) Data Pipeline
3 297 (39.81%) Analytics
4 281 (37.67%) Data Engineering
5 242 (32.44%) CI/CD
6 202 (27.08%) DevOps
7 198 (26.54%) Business Intelligence
8 185 (24.80%) Agile
9 184 (24.66%) Data Governance
10 167 (22.39%) Migration
11 149 (19.97%) AI
12 147 (19.71%) Validation
13 135 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
14 134 (17.96%) Data Architecture
15 119 (15.95%) Decision-Making
16 112 (15.01%) Data Integration
17 97 (13.00%) Stakeholder Management
18 95 (12.73%) Data Science
19 92 (12.33%) Data Migration
20 90 (12.06%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 510 (68.36%) SQL
2 378 (50.67%) Python
3 82 (10.99%) Java
4 43 (5.76%) Scala
5 41 (5.50%) C#
6 38 (5.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 36 (4.83%) T-SQL
8 30 (4.02%) PL/SQL
9 21 (2.82%) JavaScript
10 14 (1.88%) R
11 13 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 13 (1.74%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.94%) SAS Macro
12 7 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.80%) Bash
13 6 (0.80%) Bicep
14 4 (0.54%) Cypher
14 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.54%) SPARQL
15 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 120 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 47 (6.30%) Degree
4 28 (3.75%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.40%) DV Cleared
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 (35.79%) Data Quality
2 65 (8.71%) QA
3 59 (7.91%) GDPR
4 12 (1.61%) IFRS
5 11 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.47%) PMO
6 9 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.07%) IFRS 17
8 7 (0.94%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.54%) GRC
10 3 (0.40%) GAAP
10 3 (0.40%) GMP
11 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) COPPA
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
System Software
1 56 (7.51%) Docker
2 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.13%) HDFS
3 1 (0.13%) RACF
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (12.87%) Terraform
2 63 (8.45%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.80%) Grafana
4 4 (0.54%) 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 (21.58%) Databricks
2 143 (19.17%) Microsoft
3 84 (11.26%) Oracle
4 52 (6.97%) Informatica
5 37 (4.96%) Google
6 21 (2.82%) SAP
7 19 (2.55%) IBM
8 14 (1.88%) Alteryx
8 14 (1.88%) Talend
9 12 (1.61%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.34%) Palantir
11 9 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.21%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.07%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.07%) Red Hat
12 8 (1.07%) Workday
13 7 (0.94%) Refinitiv
14 6 (0.80%) Denodo
14 6 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 5 (0.67%) Foundry