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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 75 68
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 754 455 570
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.91% 3.55% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 3.84% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 314 425
10th Percentile £358 £400 £380
25th Percentile £431 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.21% +2.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £746 £758
England median daily rate £500 £510 £510
% change year-on-year -1.96% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 10
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £44.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year - +6.06% -26.67%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £51.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 £55.63
England median hourly rate £44.28 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -15.66% +15.38% -35.00%

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 17,127 11,843 15,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.91% 92.34% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,395 7,916 11,030
10th Percentile £360 £336 £343
25th Percentile £438 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £687
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 223 303
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £15.59
25th Percentile £25.18 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.02% +9.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.20 £68.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +7 81 £525 -7.08% 25
West London +1 26 £603 +19.07% 3
South London +5 11 £463 -2.63%
East London +4 6 £450 -33.33% 1
North London +1 1 £495 - 1
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 88 (11.67%) Apache Spark
2 81 (10.74%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (7.43%) Apache
4 15 (1.99%) SAS
5 12 (1.59%) Confluence
6 10 (1.33%) SharePoint
7 9 (1.19%) nginx
7 9 (1.19%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.93%) Appian
9 5 (0.66%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.53%) Camunda
10 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.13%) Luigi
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.80%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.66%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.66%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.40%) Actimize
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.13%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.13%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
Cloud Services
1 351 (46.55%) Azure
2 245 (32.49%) AWS
3 198 (26.26%) Power Platform
4 109 (14.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 104 (13.79%) GCP
6 97 (12.86%) Snowflake
7 96 (12.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 92 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
9 85 (11.27%) Amazon S3
10 66 (8.75%) dbt
11 64 (8.49%) GitHub
11 64 (8.49%) Serverless
12 54 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (4.91%) Collibra
14 28 (3.71%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (2.92%) AWS CloudFormation
17 17 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
18 16 (2.12%) Dagster
19 15 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.80%) HTTP
2 5 (0.66%) 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
1 240 (31.83%) Data Warehouse
2 183 (24.27%) Power BI
3 155 (20.56%) Data Lake
4 95 (12.60%) SQL Server
5 77 (10.21%) Metadata
6 63 (8.36%) Delta Lake
6 63 (8.36%) Tableau
7 55 (7.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 49 (6.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 47 (6.23%) BigQuery
10 46 (6.10%) Snowflake Schema
11 45 (5.97%) Big Data
11 45 (5.97%) Relational Database
12 42 (5.57%) Amazon Athena
13 41 (5.44%) NoSQL
14 40 (5.31%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
16 30 (3.98%) Star Schema
17 22 (2.92%) Data Vault
17 22 (2.92%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (9.68%) Git
2 41 (5.44%) JIRA
3 25 (3.32%) GitLab
4 13 (1.72%) MLflow
5 12 (1.59%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.93%) ERwin
7 5 (0.66%) Selenium
8 4 (0.53%) ER Studio
8 4 (0.53%) Postman
9 3 (0.40%) LSMW
9 3 (0.40%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) Terragrunt
10 2 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.13%) Ant
11 1 (0.13%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.13%) JUnit
11 1 (0.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.13%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 291 (38.59%) Finance
2 192 (25.46%) Social Skills
3 143 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (11.67%) Banking
5 74 (9.81%) Public Sector
6 21 (2.79%) Marketing
7 20 (2.65%) Financial Institution
8 16 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.59%) Retail
10 10 (1.33%) Legal
11 8 (1.06%) Front Office
11 8 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.66%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.53%) Billing
13 4 (0.53%) Investment Banking
13 4 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.53%) Publishing
14 3 (0.40%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 324 (42.97%) Data Engineer
2 107 (14.19%) Senior
3 95 (12.60%) Lead
4 88 (11.67%) Architect
5 86 (11.41%) Developer
6 72 (9.55%) Senior Data Engineer
7 61 (8.09%) Analyst
8 45 (5.97%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.17%) Data Analyst
10 25 (3.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 25 (3.32%) Snowflake Engineer
11 24 (3.18%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (3.18%) Lead Data Engineer
12 22 (2.92%) AWS Engineer
13 21 (2.79%) Python Engineer
14 20 (2.65%) Azure Data Engineer
15 19 (2.52%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (2.52%) Integration Engineer
15 19 (2.52%) SQL Developer
16 18 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (13.53%) PySpark
2 72 (9.55%) Kafka
3 38 (5.04%) REST
4 27 (3.58%) Pandas
5 24 (3.18%) Middleware
6 22 (2.92%) XML
7 20 (2.65%) .NET
7 20 (2.65%) JSON
8 17 (2.25%) Spring
9 16 (2.12%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.99%) TensorFlow
10 15 (1.99%) Web Services
11 14 (1.86%) OAuth
11 14 (1.86%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.72%) Great Expectations
12 13 (1.72%) NumPy
13 12 (1.59%) scikit-learn
14 11 (1.46%) HTML
14 11 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
15 10 (1.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 85 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.56%) Data Structures
3 53 (7.03%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.71%) Onboarding
5 20 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
6 19 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (1.86%) AI Agents
7 14 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 13 (1.72%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.59%) Clustering
9 12 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 12 (1.59%) Reference Data
10 9 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (1.06%) NHS
11 8 (1.06%) Replication
11 8 (1.06%) Taxonomies
12 7 (0.93%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.93%) IoT
13 6 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.25%) Linux
2 12 (1.59%) Windows
3 7 (0.93%) Solaris
3 7 (0.93%) 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 (0.53%) Unix
6 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.27%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (49.34%) Data Modelling
2 320 (42.44%) Data Pipeline
3 307 (40.72%) Analytics
4 285 (37.80%) Data Engineering
5 239 (31.70%) CI/CD
6 210 (27.85%) Business Intelligence
7 203 (26.92%) DevOps
8 187 (24.80%) Agile
9 176 (23.34%) Data Governance
10 171 (22.68%) Migration
11 158 (20.95%) AI
12 141 (18.70%) Validation
13 140 (18.57%) Data Architecture
14 134 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (15.92%) Decision-Making
16 113 (14.99%) Data Integration
17 99 (13.13%) Data Science
17 99 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
18 96 (12.73%) Data Migration
19 94 (12.47%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 513 (68.04%) SQL
2 380 (50.40%) Python
3 83 (11.01%) Java
4 42 (5.57%) Scala
5 41 (5.44%) C#
6 37 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 37 (4.91%) T-SQL
7 32 (4.24%) PL/SQL
8 22 (2.92%) JavaScript
9 15 (1.99%) R
10 13 (1.72%) PowerShell
10 13 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.93%) Bicep
11 7 (0.93%) SAS Macro
11 7 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.80%) Bash
13 4 (0.53%) Cypher
13 4 (0.53%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.53%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 142 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 121 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.50%) Degree
4 31 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.99%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.80%) SnowPro
11 4 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.40%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.27%) CISA
13 2 (0.27%) CTC Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
13 2 (0.27%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (36.07%) Data Quality
2 63 (8.36%) QA
3 62 (8.22%) GDPR
4 12 (1.59%) IFRS
4 12 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 10 (1.33%) PMO
6 9 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.19%) IFRS 17
7 6 (0.80%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.66%) GAAP
9 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.40%) GMP
9 3 (0.40%) IFRS 9
10 2 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) Basel III
11 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (7.96%) Docker
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.13%) HDFS
4 1 (0.13%) RACF
4 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 96 (12.73%) Terraform
2 64 (8.49%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.66%) Grafana
4 4 (0.53%) Control-M
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (0.40%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.13%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 164 (21.75%) Databricks
2 153 (20.29%) Microsoft
3 85 (11.27%) Oracle
4 54 (7.16%) Informatica
5 35 (4.64%) Google
6 26 (3.45%) SAP
7 20 (2.65%) IBM
8 14 (1.86%) Alteryx
9 13 (1.72%) Talend
9 13 (1.72%) Workday
10 11 (1.46%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.33%) OpenAI
12 9 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.19%) Palantir
13 8 (1.06%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.06%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.93%) Refinitiv
15 6 (0.80%) Automation Anywhere
15 6 (0.80%) Denodo