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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 74 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 723 457 536
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.45% 3.41% 2.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 3.75% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 301 425
10th Percentile £363 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £735
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 13
10th Percentile - £36.25 £35.00
25th Percentile - £38.13 £43.03
Median hourly rate - £42.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.84% -22.31%
75th Percentile - £52.25 £61.75
90th Percentile - £57.35 £67.31
England median hourly rate £67.35 £42.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +58.46% -15.84% +39.79%

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 14,655 12,200 16,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.11% 90.98% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,838 8,002 11,621
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £650 £679 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 162 351
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.02 £24.66 £19.49
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% +17.50% -16.08%
75th Percentile £56.13 £53.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.42 £77.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.61 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -15.40% +6.06% -6.46%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 95 £513 -9.49% 53
West London 0 26 £603 +9.55% 4
South London -8 12 £475 -2.56% 5
East London +4 7 £450 +12.50% 2
North London - 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 81 (11.20%) Apache Spark
2 62 (8.58%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (7.05%) Apache
4 10 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 9 (1.24%) SAS
6 8 (1.11%) Appian
7 6 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.69%) Confluence
8 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.55%) nginx
10 3 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.28%) Camunda
11 2 (0.28%) CMS
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (3.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.41%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.41%) Trello
5 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) Aladdin
1 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 3 (0.41%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.28%) Actimize
6 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.14%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.14%) SAP Business ByDesign
7 1 (0.14%) SAP FI-GL
Cloud Services
1 324 (44.81%) Azure
2 234 (32.37%) AWS
3 190 (26.28%) Power Platform
4 115 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 102 (14.11%) Snowflake
6 96 (13.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 87 (12.03%) Amazon S3
8 85 (11.76%) GCP
9 62 (8.58%) Serverless
10 54 (7.47%) GitHub
11 53 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
11 53 (7.33%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.95%) dbt
13 38 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (4.70%) Collibra
15 26 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
17 15 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 15 (2.07%) Amazon EMR
17 15 (2.07%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) 4G
1 4 (0.55%) 5G
2 3 (0.41%) 2G
2 3 (0.41%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.28%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) HTTP
3 2 (0.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.14%) DSL
4 1 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 223 (30.84%) Data Warehouse
2 179 (24.76%) Power BI
3 137 (18.95%) Data Lake
4 105 (14.52%) SQL Server
5 83 (11.48%) Metadata
6 58 (8.02%) Tableau
7 55 (7.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 53 (7.33%) Relational Database
9 51 (7.05%) Amazon Redshift
10 50 (6.92%) Big Data
11 45 (6.22%) Amazon Athena
12 44 (6.09%) Delta Lake
13 42 (5.81%) Snowflake Schema
14 41 (5.67%) BigQuery
15 39 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
16 31 (4.29%) NoSQL
17 28 (3.87%) Oracle Database
17 28 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
18 22 (3.04%) OLAP
19 21 (2.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (9.68%) Git
2 28 (3.87%) JIRA
3 24 (3.32%) GitLab
4 17 (2.35%) MLflow
5 15 (2.07%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.94%) ERwin
7 9 (1.24%) Selenium
8 5 (0.69%) Postman
9 4 (0.55%) PowerDesigner
9 4 (0.55%) Toad
10 3 (0.41%) JMeter
10 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.28%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.28%) LSMW
11 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.28%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.14%) Maven
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 259 (35.82%) Finance
2 213 (29.46%) Social Skills
3 114 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (11.48%) Banking
5 55 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.32%) Financial Institution
7 17 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (2.35%) Retail
8 14 (1.94%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.66%) Marketing
10 9 (1.24%) Legal
11 7 (0.97%) Front Office
12 6 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Law
13 5 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Publishing
14 4 (0.55%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 283 (39.14%) Data Engineer
2 94 (13.00%) Lead
3 89 (12.31%) Developer
4 80 (11.07%) Senior
5 72 (9.96%) Architect
6 66 (9.13%) Analyst
7 56 (7.75%) Senior Data Engineer
8 45 (6.22%) Data Analyst
9 39 (5.39%) Data Architect
10 33 (4.56%) Snowflake Engineer
11 28 (3.87%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 24 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
12 24 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 22 (3.04%) Lead Data Engineer
13 22 (3.04%) Python Engineer
14 21 (2.90%) Business Analyst
15 20 (2.77%) Azure Data Engineer
16 16 (2.21%) Integration Engineer
16 16 (2.21%) Senior Developer
16 16 (2.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (13.00%) PySpark
2 71 (9.82%) Kafka
3 32 (4.43%) Pandas
4 27 (3.73%) REST
5 26 (3.60%) XML
6 21 (2.90%) NumPy
7 18 (2.49%) PyTorch
8 17 (2.35%) Great Expectations
8 17 (2.35%) RESTful
9 16 (2.21%) Middleware
9 16 (2.21%) scikit-learn
9 16 (2.21%) TensorFlow
10 15 (2.07%) .NET
11 12 (1.66%) JSON
11 12 (1.66%) OAuth
11 12 (1.66%) pytest
12 11 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (1.38%) Hugging Face
13 10 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
13 10 (1.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.27%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.61%) Data Structures
3 41 (5.67%) Legacy Systems
4 23 (3.18%) Distributed Computing
5 15 (2.07%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 12 (1.66%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (1.38%) Fixed Income
10 9 (1.24%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.11%) Reference Data
12 7 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
12 7 (0.97%) Taxonomies
13 6 (0.83%) IoT
13 6 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.21%) Linux
2 9 (1.24%) Windows
3 7 (0.97%) Unix
4 5 (0.69%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.55%) Solaris
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.41%) VMS
7 2 (0.28%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 345 (47.72%) Data Modelling
2 311 (43.02%) Analytics
3 269 (37.21%) Data Engineering
4 265 (36.65%) Data Pipeline
5 221 (30.57%) Business Intelligence
6 211 (29.18%) CI/CD
7 180 (24.90%) Data Governance
8 157 (21.72%) Migration
9 156 (21.58%) Agile
10 149 (20.61%) DevOps
11 133 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
12 128 (17.70%) Data Architecture
13 122 (16.87%) AI
14 118 (16.32%) Validation
15 114 (15.77%) Data Migration
16 108 (14.94%) Data Science
17 103 (14.25%) Decision-Making
18 93 (12.86%) Machine Learning
19 91 (12.59%) Data Integration
20 88 (12.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 506 (69.99%) SQL
2 358 (49.52%) Python
3 56 (7.75%) Java
4 40 (5.53%) C#
4 40 (5.53%) Scala
5 37 (5.12%) PL/SQL
6 29 (4.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 26 (3.60%) T-SQL
8 21 (2.90%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.80%) Bicep
9 13 (1.80%) R
10 8 (1.11%) PowerShell
11 7 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.83%) Bash
12 6 (0.83%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.69%) SAS Macro
14 4 (0.55%) Perl
14 4 (0.55%) PHP
15 3 (0.41%) C
15 3 (0.41%) Korn
Qualifications
1 117 (16.18%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 52 (7.19%) Degree
4 35 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.18%) Azure Certification
6 21 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 19 (2.63%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.83%) PMP
11 4 (0.55%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.55%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 3 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.14%) HP APS
14 1 (0.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (34.72%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.96%) GDPR
3 53 (7.33%) QA
4 17 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 12 (1.66%) IFRS
6 9 (1.24%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.24%) IFRS 17
7 6 (0.83%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.83%) PMO
8 5 (0.69%) GAAP
8 5 (0.69%) MiFID
9 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.55%) IFRS 9
10 3 (0.41%) Basel III
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) NIST
10 3 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
11 2 (0.28%) EMIR
11 2 (0.28%) GMP
System Software
1 56 (7.75%) Docker
2 3 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.28%) zsh
4 1 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.14%) HDFS
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (13.42%) Terraform
2 59 (8.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.41%) Ansible
3 3 (0.41%) Control-M
4 2 (0.28%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (0.28%) Kibana
4 2 (0.28%) logstash
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle RMAN
4 2 (0.28%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 177 (24.48%) Databricks
2 128 (17.70%) Microsoft
3 79 (10.93%) Oracle
4 44 (6.09%) Informatica
5 35 (4.84%) SAP
6 31 (4.29%) Google
7 18 (2.49%) Workday
8 16 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 15 (2.07%) IBM
10 14 (1.94%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.94%) Talend
11 13 (1.80%) ServiceNow
12 12 (1.66%) OpenAI
13 9 (1.24%) UiPath
14 8 (1.11%) Automation Anywhere
15 6 (0.83%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.83%) Avaloq
15 6 (0.83%) Palantir
16 5 (0.69%) Foundry
16 5 (0.69%) Red Hat