ETL Contracts in London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 71 84
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 474 513 666
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.52% 3.17% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 3.57% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 360 503
10th Percentile £400 £374 £388
25th Percentile £450 £451 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £751 £749
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £35.13 £35.00 £62.55
25th Percentile £40.75 £36.56 £64.13
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -31.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.75 £72.50
90th Percentile £64.25 - £77.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £42.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +23.53% -39.29% +45.65%

All Process and 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 12,427 14,366 21,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.30% 88.88% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,271 10,045 15,374
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 197 228
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.99 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £22.86
Median hourly rate £29.07 £35.00 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% -12.31% +10.88%
75th Percentile £48.75 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £71.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.55
% change year-on-year -41.17% +5.44% +50.28%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in London

ETL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in London.

Daily rate trend for ETL in London

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in London

ETL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in London.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in London

ETL
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in London

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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 2025. 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 -25 61 £525 -0.47% 66
West London -2 7 £506 +7.66% 6
East London +10 3 £675 +49.83% 4
South London -5 1 £458 +1.67% 6
North London - 1 - - 1
ETL
England

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (11.60%) Apache Airflow
2 47 (9.92%) Apache Spark
3 36 (7.59%) Apache
4 11 (2.32%) Confluence
5 9 (1.90%) SAS
6 5 (1.05%) Luigi
7 4 (0.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.42%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.42%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.21%) nginx
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 23 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.69%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Eagle PACE
6 1 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.21%) Magento
6 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 207 (43.67%) Azure
2 162 (34.18%) AWS
3 98 (20.68%) GCP
4 97 (20.46%) Power Platform
5 84 (17.72%) Snowflake
6 62 (13.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 56 (11.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 46 (9.70%) dbt
9 37 (7.81%) Serverless
10 34 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (6.75%) Amazon S3
12 25 (5.27%) GitHub
13 21 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (3.80%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (3.38%) PaaS
16 15 (3.16%) SaaS
17 14 (2.95%) PowerApps
18 13 (2.74%) IaaS
19 11 (2.32%) Amazon EMR
19 11 (2.32%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.69%) Firewall
1 8 (1.69%) VPN
2 3 (0.63%) Internet
3 2 (0.42%) DNS
4 1 (0.21%) FTP
4 1 (0.21%) SSL
4 1 (0.21%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (31.65%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (17.09%) Power BI
3 72 (15.19%) Data Lake
4 64 (13.50%) SQL Server
5 49 (10.34%) BigQuery
6 44 (9.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 43 (9.07%) Metadata
8 41 (8.65%) Big Data
9 35 (7.38%) Tableau
10 30 (6.33%) NoSQL
11 24 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
11 24 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (4.64%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.64%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (4.01%) Delta Lake
14 17 (3.59%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (3.59%) Hadoop
15 15 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
16 13 (2.74%) Looker
17 12 (2.53%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 23 (4.85%) Git
2 22 (4.64%) JIRA
3 15 (3.16%) ERwin
4 7 (1.48%) GitLab
4 7 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.27%) Selenium
6 5 (1.05%) ER Studio
7 4 (0.84%) Liquibase
7 4 (0.84%) LSMW
7 4 (0.84%) Postman
7 4 (0.84%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.42%) MLflow
8 2 (0.42%) PROIV
8 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.21%) GoCD
9 1 (0.21%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.21%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 144 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 135 (28.48%) Finance
3 74 (15.61%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (10.76%) Banking
5 32 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 18 (3.80%) Marketing
7 17 (3.59%) Retail
8 12 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
10 6 (1.27%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.05%) Front Office
11 5 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.84%) General Ledger
12 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 134 (28.27%) Data Engineer
2 85 (17.93%) Architect
3 69 (14.56%) Senior
4 60 (12.66%) Developer
5 56 (11.81%) Data Architect
6 52 (10.97%) Analyst
7 41 (8.65%) Data Analyst
8 36 (7.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
10 27 (5.70%) Lead
11 26 (5.49%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (4.64%) Consultant
13 18 (3.80%) Data Manager
14 15 (3.16%) Business Analyst
15 12 (2.53%) Azure Architect
16 11 (2.32%) Cloud Architect
16 11 (2.32%) Data Business Analyst
16 11 (2.32%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
17 10 (2.11%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (8.65%) PySpark
2 34 (7.17%) Kafka
3 26 (5.49%) XML
4 17 (3.59%) JSON
5 11 (2.32%) RESTful
6 10 (2.11%) Middleware
6 10 (2.11%) REST
7 7 (1.48%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.48%) Pandas
7 7 (1.48%) pytest
8 6 (1.27%) .NET
8 6 (1.27%) HTML
8 6 (1.27%) OAuth
9 5 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (1.05%) ARM Templates
9 5 (1.05%) Great Expectations
9 5 (1.05%) JWT
10 4 (0.84%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.84%) Apache Beam
10 4 (0.84%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.38%) Data Structures
2 27 (5.70%) Cloud Native
3 19 (4.01%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.90%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.48%) Reference Data
9 6 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.05%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.05%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.05%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.84%) Clustering
11 4 (0.84%) Derivative
11 4 (0.84%) Life Science
11 4 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.53%) Linux
2 7 (1.48%) Unix
3 3 (0.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (40.08%) Data Modelling
2 167 (35.23%) Analytics
3 166 (35.02%) Data Pipeline
4 129 (27.22%) Data Governance
5 124 (26.16%) Data Engineering
6 111 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (22.78%) Data Integration
8 107 (22.57%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (20.04%) DevOps
10 92 (19.41%) Migration
11 83 (17.51%) CI/CD
12 81 (17.09%) Agile
13 71 (14.98%) Data Architecture
14 64 (13.50%) Visualisation
15 63 (13.29%) Data Transformation
16 58 (12.24%) Data Science
17 57 (12.03%) Validation
18 55 (11.60%) Data Migration
18 55 (11.60%) Decision-Making
19 54 (11.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 312 (65.82%) SQL
2 215 (45.36%) Python
3 48 (10.13%) Java
4 29 (6.12%) Scala
5 24 (5.06%) C#
5 24 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 24 (5.06%) T-SQL
6 18 (3.80%) PL/SQL
7 14 (2.95%) JavaScript
8 13 (2.74%) R
9 8 (1.69%) Bicep
9 8 (1.69%) Go
9 8 (1.69%) VBA
10 7 (1.48%) PowerShell
11 6 (1.27%) Perl
12 5 (1.05%) ABAP
12 5 (1.05%) C++
13 4 (0.84%) Bash
13 4 (0.84%) C
14 3 (0.63%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 55 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 40 (8.44%) SC Cleared
3 32 (6.75%) Degree
4 18 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.59%) Azure Certification
6 9 (1.90%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.63%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.42%) CISSP
11 2 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.42%) PMP
11 2 (0.42%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.21%) IBM Certification
12 1 (0.21%) ISEB
12 1 (0.21%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (25.32%) Data Quality
2 31 (6.54%) GDPR
3 20 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.22%) QA
4 6 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.05%) SLA
6 4 (0.84%) IFRS
7 3 (0.63%) GAAP
7 3 (0.63%) HL7
7 3 (0.63%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.42%) EMIR
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.42%) MiFID
9 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.21%) Basel III
9 1 (0.21%) GxP
9 1 (0.21%) SEPA
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (6.12%) Docker
2 8 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.21%) NFS
4 1 (0.21%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 45 (9.49%) Terraform
2 32 (6.75%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (1.27%) Control-M
5 5 (1.05%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.84%) Kibana
7 3 (0.63%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.42%) Ansible
8 2 (0.42%) Grafana
8 2 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.42%) logstash
8 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.21%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.21%) Puppet
9 1 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 74 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 73 (15.40%) Databricks
3 54 (11.39%) Google
4 41 (8.65%) Oracle
5 37 (7.81%) Informatica
6 24 (5.06%) SAP
7 16 (3.38%) Talend
8 10 (2.11%) IBM
8 10 (2.11%) Teradata
9 9 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 7 (1.48%) Palantir
11 6 (1.27%) VMware
12 5 (1.05%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.05%) EMC
12 5 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
13 4 (0.84%) MuleSoft
13 4 (0.84%) Sparx
13 4 (0.84%) Splunk
13 4 (0.84%) Workday
14 3 (0.63%) Foundry