ETL Contract Job Trends in South London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 30
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +13
Contract jobs citing ETL 16 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.21% 2.08% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.99% 2.37% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 5
10th Percentile - £436 £435
25th Percentile £456 £453 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +1.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £530 £516
90th Percentile - £572 £559
London median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 169 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 86.97% 88.02% 93.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 109 162
10th Percentile £413 £355 £189
25th Percentile £463 £463 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £649 £767 £638
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 19
10th Percentile £54.42 - £16.28
25th Percentile £54.55 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £61.22 £15.84 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +286.47% -32.60% -49.29%
75th Percentile £66.50 £56.20 £66.57
90th Percentile £67.70 £78.40 £83.75
London median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
% change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

ETL job vacancy trend in South London

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Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing ETL

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Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Croydon -6 12 £463 -2.63% 2
Bromley +1 4 £450 -25.00%
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London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (56.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 11 (68.75%) Amazon S3
2 11 (68.75%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (68.75%) Serverless
3 8 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 8 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 8 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (6.25%) Azure
5 1 (6.25%) Collibra
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (56.25%) Tableau
2 8 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (50.00%) Power BI
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (18.75%) Metadata
3 3 (18.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) ThoughtSpot
5 1 (6.25%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Finance
3 8 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Analyst
2 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Performance Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Security Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Modelling
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
3 8 (50.00%) Cost Management
3 8 (50.00%) Data Extraction
3 8 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (37.50%) Critical Thinking
4 6 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 2 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (12.50%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (6.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) PMO
2 5 (31.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Databricks
1 1 (6.25%) Informatica
1 1 (6.25%) MicroStrategy