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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 76 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 759 474 513
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.78% 3.52% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 3.81% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 332 360
10th Percentile £375 £400 £374
25th Percentile £435 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £709 £750 £751
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -5.09%
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% -39.29%

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 17,916 12,432 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.17% 92.34% 88.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 8,272 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £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 £663 £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 287 253 197
10th Percentile £16.99 £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% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £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% +5.94%

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 18 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 18 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 +13 86 £520 -0.95% 27
West London -1 26 £520 +2.77% 5
South London -2 8 £463 +1.09% 1
East London +1 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 94 (12.38%) Apache Airflow
2 88 (11.59%) Apache Spark
3 65 (8.56%) Apache
4 44 (5.80%) SAS
5 16 (2.11%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.84%) Confluence
7 8 (1.05%) nginx
7 8 (1.05%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.66%) Apache Solr
9 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.40%) 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 25 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.66%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (1.19%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.66%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.40%) Actimize
5 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.40%) 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
1 322 (42.42%) Azure
2 232 (30.57%) AWS
3 188 (24.77%) Power Platform
4 122 (16.07%) Snowflake
5 112 (14.76%) GCP
6 99 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 90 (11.86%) Azure DevOps
8 86 (11.33%) dbt
9 82 (10.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 74 (9.75%) Amazon S3
11 68 (8.96%) GitHub
12 59 (7.77%) Serverless
13 49 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (4.61%) Collibra
15 32 (4.22%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (3.03%) Amazon EMR
17 14 (1.84%) Dagster
18 13 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
18 13 (1.71%) SaaS
19 12 (1.58%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) Firewall
3 3 (0.40%) 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%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 254 (33.47%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (23.32%) Power BI
3 130 (17.13%) Data Lake
4 81 (10.67%) SQL Server
5 71 (9.35%) Metadata
6 62 (8.17%) Delta Lake
7 53 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (6.98%) Tableau
8 52 (6.85%) BigQuery
9 48 (6.32%) Relational Database
10 44 (5.80%) Big Data
11 40 (5.27%) Snowflake Schema
11 40 (5.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 35 (4.61%) Star Schema
13 33 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
13 33 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
14 32 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
15 31 (4.08%) NoSQL
16 25 (3.29%) Power Query
17 22 (2.90%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 61 (8.04%) Git
2 37 (4.87%) JIRA
3 28 (3.69%) GitLab
4 19 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.79%) Terragrunt
6 4 (0.53%) Claude Code
6 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
6 4 (0.53%) ERwin
6 4 (0.53%) MLflow
7 3 (0.40%) LSMW
7 3 (0.40%) Selenium
7 3 (0.40%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.26%) Postman
8 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.13%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.13%) Fiddler
9 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.13%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.13%) TeamCity
General
1 268 (35.31%) Finance
2 177 (23.32%) Social Skills
3 142 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (12.65%) Banking
5 59 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 22 (2.90%) Marketing
7 17 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 15 (1.98%) Retail
9 13 (1.71%) Front Office
10 12 (1.58%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.45%) Legal
12 8 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.66%) Games
15 4 (0.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.53%) Publishing
16 3 (0.40%) Back Office
16 3 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 300 (39.53%) Data Engineer
2 115 (15.15%) Senior
3 108 (14.23%) Architect
4 91 (11.99%) Lead
5 89 (11.73%) Developer
6 77 (10.14%) Senior Data Engineer
7 68 (8.96%) Analyst
8 40 (5.27%) Data Architect
9 37 (4.87%) Data Analyst
10 30 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
11 26 (3.43%) Azure Data Engineer
11 26 (3.43%) Snowflake Engineer
12 24 (3.16%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 22 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
13 22 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
14 20 (2.64%) Integration Engineer
15 19 (2.50%) Python Engineer
16 18 (2.37%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (2.37%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (2.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (12.78%) PySpark
2 73 (9.62%) Kafka
3 38 (5.01%) REST
4 30 (3.95%) JSON
5 28 (3.69%) .NET
6 20 (2.64%) Middleware
7 17 (2.24%) Pandas
8 14 (1.84%) React
9 13 (1.71%) Spring
10 12 (1.58%) YAML
11 11 (1.45%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.45%) XML
12 10 (1.32%) Web Services
13 9 (1.19%) HTML
14 8 (1.05%) Great Expectations
14 8 (1.05%) OAuth
15 7 (0.92%) GraphQL
15 7 (0.92%) NumPy
16 6 (0.79%) Apache Avro
16 6 (0.79%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.80%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.38%) Data Structures
3 45 (5.93%) Legacy Systems
4 38 (5.01%) Product Ownership
5 31 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 25 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.98%) Distributed Computing
9 13 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.71%) Clustering
9 13 (1.71%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.19%) NHS
11 9 (1.19%) Replication
12 8 (1.05%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.92%) Legacy Code
14 6 (0.79%) Reinsurance
15 5 (0.66%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.69%) Linux
2 13 (1.71%) Windows
3 10 (1.32%) Unix
4 6 (0.79%) Solaris
4 6 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (46.64%) Data Modelling
2 320 (42.16%) Data Pipeline
3 304 (40.05%) Analytics
4 291 (38.34%) Data Engineering
5 248 (32.67%) CI/CD
6 219 (28.85%) Agile
7 209 (27.54%) DevOps
8 203 (26.75%) Business Intelligence
9 182 (23.98%) Data Governance
10 172 (22.66%) Migration
11 148 (19.50%) Data Integration
12 147 (19.37%) Validation
13 143 (18.84%) AI
14 134 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
15 126 (16.60%) Data Transformation
16 125 (16.47%) Data Architecture
16 125 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 111 (14.62%) Decision-Making
18 94 (12.38%) Data Migration
19 78 (10.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 502 (66.14%) SQL
2 352 (46.38%) Python
3 83 (10.94%) Java
4 38 (5.01%) C#
5 37 (4.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 37 (4.87%) Scala
6 34 (4.48%) PL/SQL
7 33 (4.35%) T-SQL
8 32 (4.22%) JavaScript
9 23 (3.03%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.71%) R
11 11 (1.45%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.05%) Bash
13 5 (0.66%) Bicep
13 5 (0.66%) Cypher
13 5 (0.66%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.66%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.40%) Gremlin
14 3 (0.40%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 143 (18.84%) Security Cleared
2 123 (16.21%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.67%) Degree
4 23 (3.03%) Azure Certification
5 22 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.84%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (1.32%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.53%) DV Cleared
10 4 (0.53%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.40%) 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
1 273 (35.97%) Data Quality
2 57 (7.51%) QA
3 46 (6.06%) GDPR
4 28 (3.69%) GRC
5 11 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.19%) IFRS
6 9 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 7 (0.92%) PMO
9 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.53%) GAAP
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.40%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.26%) GMP
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 57 (7.51%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
3 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (11.07%) Terraform
2 62 (8.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (1.45%) Control-M
4 8 (1.05%) Ansible
5 7 (0.92%) Grafana
6 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
7 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.26%) Puppet
9 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 165 (21.74%) Databricks
2 138 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 118 (15.55%) Oracle
4 54 (7.11%) Informatica
5 39 (5.14%) Google
6 23 (3.03%) SAP
7 19 (2.50%) IBM
8 17 (2.24%) Talend
9 14 (1.84%) Alteryx
10 13 (1.71%) Palantir
11 12 (1.58%) Salesforce
12 10 (1.32%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.32%) Foundry
13 9 (1.19%) Workday
14 7 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.92%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.79%) Denodo
15 6 (0.79%) Red Hat
16 5 (0.66%) Hitachi
16 5 (0.66%) Hyperion