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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 36
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +18
Contract jobs citing ETL 7 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in South London 3.40% 2.56% 3.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 2.88% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £429 £363 £428
25th Percentile £454 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% +3.95% -4.04%
75th Percentile £500 £567 £513
90th Percentile £514 £594 £558
London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -2.78%

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 177 208 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 85.92% 88.89% 86.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 141 155
10th Percentile £288 £238 £188
25th Percentile £444 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £769 £675
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 16
10th Percentile £51.03 - £17.94
25th Percentile £54.55 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £61.22 £73.60 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +175.14% -39.36%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £47.62
90th Percentile £66.62 £81.28 £68.80
London median hourly rate £31.58 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -9.79% +7.69% -13.33%

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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 December 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
Bromley -4 4 £450 -23.40%
Croydon -1 3 £500 +2.56% 5
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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 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (42.86%) Relational Database
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (14.29%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform