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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 81 70
Rank change year-on-year +27 -11 +28
Contract jobs citing ETL 688 437 558
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.47% 3.26% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 3.60% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 287 439
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £628
90th Percentile £733 £743 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £32.78 £36.25 £42.22
25th Percentile £33.19 £38.13 £47.38
Median hourly rate £34.75 £42.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -24.78% +25.56%
75th Percentile £35.69 £52.25 £63.84
90th Percentile £35.73 £57.35 £68.45
England median hourly rate £68.39 £42.50 £51.06
% change year-on-year +60.92% -16.76% +43.82%

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 13,941 12,133 16,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.57% 90.64% 88.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,301 7,761 11,691
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 151 345
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.88 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 87 £513 -6.82% 45
West London -1 24 £603 +9.55% 7
South London -5 12 £475 -2.56% 9
East London -1 6 £463 +15.63% 8
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 76 (11.05%) Apache Spark
2 54 (7.85%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (6.69%) Apache
4 8 (1.16%) Appian
5 7 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
5 7 (1.02%) SharePoint
6 6 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.73%) SAS
8 4 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.44%) Confluence
9 3 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.44%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.29%) CMS
10 2 (0.29%) nginx
10 2 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.15%) Camunda
11 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.44%) Trello
5 2 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 5 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.29%) Actimize
6 2 (0.29%) Oracle FAH
7 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.15%) Eagle PACE
7 1 (0.15%) FLEXCUBE
7 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.15%) Maximo
7 1 (0.15%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.15%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.15%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 316 (45.93%) Azure
2 225 (32.70%) AWS
3 173 (25.15%) Power Platform
4 112 (16.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 97 (14.10%) Snowflake
6 88 (12.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 81 (11.77%) GCP
8 78 (11.34%) Amazon S3
9 59 (8.58%) Serverless
10 51 (7.41%) GitHub
11 50 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
12 47 (6.83%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (5.38%) dbt
14 33 (4.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.92%) Collibra
16 25 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (2.91%) AWS Step Functions
18 15 (2.18%) Power Automate
19 14 (2.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 14 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.58%) 4G
1 4 (0.58%) 5G
2 3 (0.44%) 2G
2 3 (0.44%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.29%) BGP
3 2 (0.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.29%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (0.29%) OSPF
3 2 (0.29%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.15%) DSL
4 1 (0.15%) FabricPath
4 1 (0.15%) Firewall
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.15%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (29.07%) Data Warehouse
2 164 (23.84%) Power BI
3 131 (19.04%) Data Lake
4 96 (13.95%) SQL Server
5 83 (12.06%) Metadata
6 53 (7.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 51 (7.41%) Tableau
8 49 (7.12%) Big Data
8 49 (7.12%) Relational Database
9 46 (6.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 42 (6.10%) Delta Lake
11 40 (5.81%) Amazon Athena
12 36 (5.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 36 (5.23%) BigQuery
13 35 (5.09%) Snowflake Schema
14 30 (4.36%) NoSQL
15 29 (4.22%) PostgreSQL
16 27 (3.92%) Oracle Database
17 19 (2.76%) OLAP
17 19 (2.76%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 66 (9.59%) Git
2 29 (4.22%) JIRA
3 23 (3.34%) GitLab
4 17 (2.47%) MLflow
5 15 (2.18%) ERwin
6 13 (1.89%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.02%) Selenium
8 5 (0.73%) Postman
9 4 (0.58%) Toad
10 3 (0.44%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.44%) JMeter
10 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.29%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.29%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.15%) Ant
12 1 (0.15%) JUnit
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 243 (35.32%) Finance
2 206 (29.94%) Social Skills
3 105 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (10.90%) Banking
5 46 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.05%) Financial Institution
7 18 (2.62%) Retail
8 15 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.45%) Marketing
9 10 (1.45%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (0.87%) Legal
11 5 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Front Office
11 5 (0.73%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.73%) Law
11 5 (0.73%) Publishing
12 4 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.58%) Local Government
12 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 273 (39.68%) Data Engineer
2 93 (13.52%) Lead
3 89 (12.94%) Developer
4 77 (11.19%) Senior
5 66 (9.59%) Analyst
6 65 (9.45%) Architect
7 51 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
8 46 (6.69%) Data Analyst
9 40 (5.81%) Data Architect
10 30 (4.36%) Snowflake Engineer
11 26 (3.78%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (3.63%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 22 (3.20%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
14 21 (3.05%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 21 (3.05%) Python Engineer
15 20 (2.91%) Business Analyst
16 19 (2.76%) Senior Developer
17 15 (2.18%) Data Modeller
18 14 (2.03%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (13.23%) PySpark
2 67 (9.74%) Kafka
3 32 (4.65%) Pandas
4 30 (4.36%) XML
5 25 (3.63%) REST
6 23 (3.34%) NumPy
7 21 (3.05%) PyTorch
8 19 (2.76%) TensorFlow
9 17 (2.47%) scikit-learn
10 15 (2.18%) Great Expectations
10 15 (2.18%) JSON
10 15 (2.18%) OAuth
10 15 (2.18%) RESTful
11 14 (2.03%) .NET
12 13 (1.89%) Middleware
13 12 (1.74%) Spark Streaming
14 11 (1.60%) Hugging Face
14 11 (1.60%) pytest
15 10 (1.45%) Web Services
15 10 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.28%) Cloud Native
2 48 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.81%) Legacy Systems
4 21 (3.05%) Distributed Computing
5 16 (2.33%) Reinsurance
6 13 (1.89%) Algorithms
7 10 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.45%) Low-Code
7 10 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.45%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (1.31%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
8 9 (1.31%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.87%) IoT
10 6 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.33%) Linux
2 7 (1.02%) Unix
2 7 (1.02%) Windows
3 3 (0.44%) VMS
3 3 (0.44%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.29%) Solaris
4 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (47.09%) Data Modelling
2 294 (42.73%) Analytics
3 253 (36.77%) Data Engineering
4 251 (36.48%) Data Pipeline
5 206 (29.94%) Business Intelligence
6 193 (28.05%) CI/CD
7 170 (24.71%) Data Governance
8 147 (21.37%) Agile
9 140 (20.35%) Migration
10 135 (19.62%) DevOps
11 131 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
12 125 (18.17%) Data Architecture
13 118 (17.15%) AI
14 107 (15.55%) Data Science
15 106 (15.41%) Validation
16 103 (14.97%) Data Migration
17 97 (14.10%) Machine Learning
18 90 (13.08%) Data Integration
18 90 (13.08%) Decision-Making
19 84 (12.21%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 477 (69.33%) SQL
2 349 (50.73%) Python
3 53 (7.70%) Java
4 40 (5.81%) C#
5 38 (5.52%) Scala
6 33 (4.80%) PL/SQL
7 22 (3.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 22 (3.20%) T-SQL
8 18 (2.62%) JavaScript
9 13 (1.89%) Bicep
10 11 (1.60%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.60%) R
11 9 (1.31%) Bash
12 8 (1.16%) TypeScript
13 7 (1.02%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.58%) Korn
14 4 (0.58%) Perl
14 4 (0.58%) PHP
15 3 (0.44%) VBA
16 2 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 106 (15.41%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.77%) SC Cleared
3 49 (7.12%) Degree
4 32 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.20%) Azure Certification
5 22 (3.20%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.31%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.87%) PMP
10 5 (0.73%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.73%) SnowPro
11 3 (0.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.15%) CCIE
13 1 (0.15%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (34.59%) Data Quality
2 66 (9.59%) GDPR
3 45 (6.54%) QA
4 16 (2.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 11 (1.60%) IFRS
6 9 (1.31%) IFRS 17
7 8 (1.16%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.02%) PMO
9 6 (0.87%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.73%) GAAP
10 5 (0.73%) MiFID
11 4 (0.58%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.44%) Basel III
12 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.44%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.44%) NIST
13 2 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
13 2 (0.29%) EMIR
14 1 (0.15%) GRC
System Software
1 51 (7.41%) Docker
2 5 (0.73%) zsh
3 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.29%) HDFS
4 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.29%) KVM
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.15%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 89 (12.94%) Terraform
2 55 (7.99%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.58%) Ansible
4 3 (0.44%) Control-M
5 2 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.29%) Kibana
5 2 (0.29%) logstash
6 1 (0.15%) Grafana
6 1 (0.15%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.15%) HP Fortify
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 173 (25.15%) Databricks
2 118 (17.15%) Microsoft
3 67 (9.74%) Oracle
4 39 (5.67%) Informatica
5 31 (4.51%) SAP
6 26 (3.78%) Google
7 14 (2.03%) Workday
8 13 (1.89%) IBM
8 13 (1.89%) OpenAI
8 13 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.74%) Talend
10 11 (1.60%) MuleSoft
11 9 (1.31%) UiPath
12 8 (1.16%) Automation Anywhere
12 8 (1.16%) Palantir
13 7 (1.02%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.02%) Foundry
14 6 (0.87%) Avaloq
15 4 (0.58%) Teradata