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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 31 32
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing ETL 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.56% 1.81% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.04% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £413 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% -8.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £567 £461 £525
90th Percentile £624 - £563
London median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - -0.57%

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 240 147 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 76.92% 88.55% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 95 114
10th Percentile £413 £239 £225
25th Percentile £478 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £485
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +5.67% -6.73%
75th Percentile £650 £632 £582
90th Percentile £725 £723 £755
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 6
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £17.71 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £33.60 £17.98 £44.13
Median % change year-on-year +86.87% -59.25% -17.67%
75th Percentile £65.60 - £74.22
90th Percentile - - £76.70
London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £36.65
% change year-on-year +7.44% -17.46% -8.38%

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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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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in South London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in South London

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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 14 October 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
Sutton - 6 £425 -
Merton - 1 £550 - 3
Wandsworth - 1 £625 -
ETL
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 5 (62.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) dbt
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Data Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Data Migration Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
1 7 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Lakehouse
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Data Design
4 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Product Requirements
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) AI
5 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (12.50%) Case Management
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (12.50%) Technology Transformation
6 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google