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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 74 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing ETL 764 481 544
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.79% 3.60% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.27% 3.89% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 335 375
10th Percentile £375 £400 £363
25th Percentile £432 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £650 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - £32.50 £42.85
25th Percentile - £35.50 £45.25
Median hourly rate - £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -13.86% -19.84%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £57.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £41.23 £46.50
% change year-on-year -17.60% -11.33% -32.12%

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 17,900 12,362 14,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.61% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,695 8,173 9,697
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 255 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.09 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.71%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 +3 87 £516 +3.25% 76
West London -2 23 £520 +2.77% 26
South London -5 8 £463 +1.09% 4
East London +5 6 £460 -31.85% 6
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
1 100 (13.09%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (11.78%) Apache Spark
3 69 (9.03%) Apache
4 42 (5.50%) SAS
5 15 (1.96%) Confluence
6 14 (1.83%) SharePoint
7 7 (0.92%) nginx
7 7 (0.92%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.65%) Apache Solr
8 5 (0.65%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.65%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.26%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.13%) CMS
11 1 (0.13%) Luigi
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 22 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.92%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.79%) Aladdin
1 6 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.39%) Actimize
3 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.26%) Maximo
4 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.26%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.26%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.13%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.13%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 321 (42.02%) Azure
2 230 (30.10%) AWS
3 172 (22.51%) Power Platform
4 141 (18.46%) Snowflake
5 113 (14.79%) GCP
6 100 (13.09%) dbt
7 97 (12.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 95 (12.43%) Azure DevOps
9 75 (9.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 73 (9.55%) GitHub
11 71 (9.29%) Amazon S3
12 61 (7.98%) Serverless
13 50 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (4.06%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (3.80%) Collibra
16 22 (2.88%) Azure Databricks
17 21 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
18 15 (1.96%) SaaS
19 14 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
20 13 (1.70%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.92%) HTTP
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
3 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
3 2 (0.26%) DHCP
3 2 (0.26%) DNS
3 2 (0.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (0.13%) Internet
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 252 (32.98%) Data Warehouse
2 166 (21.73%) Power BI
3 121 (15.84%) Data Lake
4 82 (10.73%) SQL Server
5 74 (9.69%) Metadata
6 69 (9.03%) Delta Lake
7 51 (6.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 50 (6.54%) BigQuery
9 48 (6.28%) Relational Database
10 45 (5.89%) Big Data
10 45 (5.89%) Tableau
11 38 (4.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 36 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
13 33 (4.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 31 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
14 31 (4.06%) Star Schema
15 30 (3.93%) NoSQL
16 29 (3.80%) Power Query
17 28 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
18 23 (3.01%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 74 (9.69%) Git
2 41 (5.37%) JIRA
3 36 (4.71%) GitLab
4 21 (2.75%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.05%) MLflow
6 7 (0.92%) Terragrunt
7 6 (0.79%) Selenium
8 5 (0.65%) Claude Code
9 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.26%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.26%) ERwin
10 2 (0.26%) JUnit
10 2 (0.26%) LSMW
10 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) HP UFT
11 1 (0.13%) Postman
11 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 263 (34.42%) Finance
2 186 (24.35%) Social Skills
3 143 (18.72%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (13.61%) Banking
5 57 (7.46%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.75%) Marketing
7 19 (2.49%) Retail
8 14 (1.83%) Front Office
9 13 (1.70%) Financial Institution
10 9 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.05%) Billing
11 8 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.05%) Legal
11 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.05%) Telecoms
12 7 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.65%) Back Office
13 5 (0.65%) Games
13 5 (0.65%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 309 (40.45%) Data Engineer
2 129 (16.88%) Senior
3 104 (13.61%) Architect
4 89 (11.65%) Developer
5 85 (11.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 79 (10.34%) Lead
7 71 (9.29%) Analyst
8 40 (5.24%) Data Analyst
8 40 (5.24%) Data Architect
8 40 (5.24%) Databricks Engineer
9 35 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
9 35 (4.58%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 27 (3.53%) Azure Data Engineer
10 27 (3.53%) Snowflake Engineer
11 23 (3.01%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 21 (2.75%) AWS Engineer
12 21 (2.75%) Consultant
12 21 (2.75%) Technical Leader
13 19 (2.49%) Python Engineer
14 18 (2.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (13.35%) PySpark
2 80 (10.47%) Terraform
3 71 (9.29%) Kafka
4 35 (4.58%) .NET
5 34 (4.45%) REST
6 28 (3.66%) JSON
7 19 (2.49%) Middleware
8 17 (2.23%) Pandas
8 17 (2.23%) React
9 13 (1.70%) Spring
10 12 (1.57%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.57%) YAML
11 11 (1.44%) XML
12 9 (1.18%) HTML
12 9 (1.18%) Web Services
13 8 (1.05%) LangChain
13 8 (1.05%) WPF
14 7 (0.92%) Apache Avro
14 7 (0.92%) NumPy
14 7 (0.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.21%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.33%) Data Structures
3 46 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
5 34 (4.45%) Onboarding
6 27 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.49%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.83%) Management Information System
9 13 (1.70%) Distributed Computing
10 12 (1.57%) Reference Data
10 12 (1.57%) Replication
11 11 (1.44%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.44%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.31%) Clustering
12 10 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.18%) Taxonomies
14 8 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.05%) NHS
15 7 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
15 7 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (3.66%) Linux
2 13 (1.70%) Unix
2 13 (1.70%) Windows
3 4 (0.52%) Solaris
3 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 352 (46.07%) Data Modelling
2 332 (43.46%) Data Pipeline
3 309 (40.45%) Data Engineering
4 302 (39.53%) Analytics
5 265 (34.69%) CI/CD
6 235 (30.76%) Agile
7 210 (27.49%) DevOps
8 198 (25.92%) Business Intelligence
9 186 (24.35%) Data Governance
10 162 (21.20%) AI
11 156 (20.42%) Data Integration
12 155 (20.29%) Validation
13 153 (20.03%) Migration
14 145 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
15 135 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
16 131 (17.15%) Data Transformation
17 124 (16.23%) Data Architecture
18 98 (12.83%) Decision-Making
19 87 (11.39%) Data Ingestion
20 86 (11.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 508 (66.49%) SQL
2 355 (46.47%) Python
3 80 (10.47%) Java
4 42 (5.50%) C#
5 39 (5.10%) Scala
6 37 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 34 (4.45%) JavaScript
7 34 (4.45%) PL/SQL
8 32 (4.19%) T-SQL
9 26 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.83%) TypeScript
11 13 (1.70%) R
11 13 (1.70%) Shell Script
12 10 (1.31%) Bash
13 8 (1.05%) Cypher
14 5 (0.65%) Bicep
15 4 (0.52%) SPARQL
16 3 (0.39%) Korn
16 3 (0.39%) Perl
16 3 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 124 (16.23%) SC Cleared
3 38 (4.97%) Degree
4 20 (2.62%) Azure Certification
5 16 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 15 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 15 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.44%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.65%) SnowPro
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.26%) CISA
11 2 (0.26%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.13%) CBAP
12 1 (0.13%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.13%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (36.39%) Data Quality
2 57 (7.46%) QA
3 36 (4.71%) GDPR
4 29 (3.80%) GRC
5 12 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (1.05%) IFRS
7 8 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.79%) PMO
9 4 (0.52%) GAAP
10 3 (0.39%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 9
11 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) HL7
12 1 (0.13%) MiFID
12 1 (0.13%) NCSC
12 1 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (7.85%) Docker
2 6 (0.79%) 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
Systems Management
1 62 (8.12%) Kubernetes
2 12 (1.57%) Control-M
3 8 (1.05%) Grafana
4 7 (0.92%) Ansible
5 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.39%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.26%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.13%) Kibana
8 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 187 (24.48%) Databricks
2 142 (18.59%) Microsoft
3 119 (15.58%) Oracle
4 56 (7.33%) Informatica
5 35 (4.58%) Google
6 23 (3.01%) Talend
7 19 (2.49%) SAP
8 17 (2.23%) IBM
9 15 (1.96%) Alteryx
10 12 (1.57%) Foundry
11 11 (1.44%) Palantir
11 11 (1.44%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.05%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.05%) SnapLogic
13 6 (0.79%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.79%) Denodo
13 6 (0.79%) Hyperion
13 6 (0.79%) MicroStrategy
13 6 (0.79%) ServiceNow