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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 40 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 8 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.60% 1.10% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 1.26% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £413 - £375
25th Percentile £441 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £458 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% +1.67% -2.70%
75th Percentile £513 £461 £513
90th Percentile £571 - £550
London median daily rate £524 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.24% - -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 240 159 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 77.92% 87.85% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 94 123
10th Percentile £413 £237 £247
25th Percentile £481 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.46% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £567
90th Percentile £698 £738 £758
London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile £16.70 - -
25th Percentile £16.87 - £17.25
Median hourly rate £24.65 £15.84 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.62% -18.77% -62.64%
75th Percentile £33.60 £17.45 £71.88
90th Percentile £62.40 £17.98 £73.75
London median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%

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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 16 September 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 16 September 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 - 4 £438 -
Croydon 0 3 £463 +1.09% 2
Merton - 1 £550 -
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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Amazon S3
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon SQS
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) dbt
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Tableau
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
1 6 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Lakehouse
2 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 2 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (25.00%) Data Design
3 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) PMO
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Google