Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 139 126
Rank change year-on-year -5 -13 -2
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,006 2,506 5,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.95% 2.57% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 2.69% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,805 2,849
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Salary trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -2 1,768 £62,500 -6.72% 441
UK excluding London +16 1,243 £55,000 - 225
Work from Home -16 870 £60,000 -1.23% 238
London +4 693 £75,000 - 233
North of England +76 381 £55,000 +4.76% 73
South East -20 259 £60,000 - 38
North West +75 226 £57,000 +8.57% 46
Midlands +7 217 £55,000 +10.00% 42
Scotland +21 169 £62,500 +13.64% 13
West Midlands +5 157 £56,500 +14.45% 34
South West -35 131 £53,500 -20.74% 32
Yorkshire +68 87 £50,000 - 18
North East +14 68 £64,000 +16.36% 9
East Midlands -5 58 £47,500 -13.64% 8
East of England -46 57 £47,500 -17.39% 18
Wales -4 30 £49,801 +11.50% 6
Northern Ireland +6 1 £85,000 +70.00% 6

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 136 (6.78%) Apache Spark
2 87 (4.34%) Apache
3 64 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 32 (1.60%) SAS
5 29 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.10%) IIS
7 14 (0.70%) Confluence
8 6 (0.30%) Drupal
9 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.15%) Luigi
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.100%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.100%) Moodle
12 1 (0.050%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.050%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 112 (5.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.50%) Trello
5 9 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.050%) InVision
8 1 (0.050%) Sketch
8 1 (0.050%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.20%) Primavera
4 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.100%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.100%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.050%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.050%) HFM
7 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.050%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.050%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,103 (54.99%) Azure
2 674 (33.60%) AWS
3 621 (30.96%) Power Platform
4 407 (20.29%) GCP
5 254 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 230 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
7 169 (8.42%) Snowflake
8 154 (7.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 87 (4.34%) Serverless
10 82 (4.09%) SaaS
11 80 (3.99%) Amazon S3
12 73 (3.64%) Matillion
13 65 (3.24%) dbt
14 64 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
15 44 (2.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (2.04%) PowerApps
17 36 (1.79%) GitHub
18 34 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
20 32 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.55%) DNS
2 20 (1.00%) HTTP
3 14 (0.70%) Firewall
4 12 (0.60%) Network Security
5 10 (0.50%) DHCP
6 3 (0.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.100%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.100%) LAN
7 2 (0.100%) SSH
7 2 (0.100%) WAN
7 2 (0.100%) Wireless
8 1 (0.050%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.050%) 5G
8 1 (0.050%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.050%) FTP
8 1 (0.050%) Skype
8 1 (0.050%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 965 (48.11%) Data Warehouse
2 608 (30.31%) SQL Server
3 605 (30.16%) Power BI
4 416 (20.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 280 (13.96%) BigQuery
6 258 (12.86%) Data Lake
7 224 (11.17%) Looker
8 153 (7.63%) Tableau
9 140 (6.98%) Big Data
10 138 (6.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 121 (6.03%) Relational Database
12 120 (5.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 119 (5.93%) NoSQL
14 84 (4.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 75 (3.74%) Metadata
16 74 (3.69%) Data Vault
17 71 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
18 70 (3.49%) Star Schema
19 68 (3.39%) Data Mining
20 62 (3.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (6.08%) Git
2 96 (4.79%) JIRA
3 42 (2.09%) GitLab
3 42 (2.09%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.04%) Visual Studio
5 30 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.75%) JMeter
7 13 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.50%) Selenium
10 8 (0.40%) Mercurial
10 8 (0.40%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.40%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.35%) Postman
12 6 (0.30%) Appium
12 6 (0.30%) ERwin
12 6 (0.30%) Toad
13 4 (0.20%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 549 (27.37%) Finance
2 513 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 453 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (8.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 156 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.58%) Law
7 145 (7.23%) Legal
7 145 (7.23%) Retail
8 122 (6.08%) Marketing
9 84 (4.19%) Banking
10 79 (3.94%) Billing
11 61 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.20%) Games
14 23 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.80%) Local Government
18 14 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 639 (31.85%) Data Engineer
2 305 (15.20%) Senior
3 291 (14.51%) Developer
4 242 (12.06%) Lead
5 232 (11.57%) Architect
6 217 (10.82%) Data Architect
7 135 (6.73%) Analyst
7 135 (6.73%) Consultant
8 134 (6.68%) Senior Data Engineer
9 128 (6.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 110 (5.48%) Data Manager
11 97 (4.84%) Engineering Manager
12 94 (4.69%) Software Engineer
13 90 (4.49%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 84 (4.19%) Lead Data Engineer
15 70 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
16 69 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
17 62 (3.09%) Power BI Developer
18 61 (3.04%) Azure Data Engineer
18 61 (3.04%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.18%) PySpark
2 63 (3.14%) .NET
3 62 (3.09%) Kafka
4 40 (1.99%) RESTful
5 32 (1.60%) REST
6 30 (1.50%) Web Services
6 30 (1.50%) XML
7 25 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
8 24 (1.20%) JSON
9 22 (1.10%) CSS
10 20 (1.00%) Apache Beam
10 20 (1.00%) ASP.NET
11 19 (0.95%) Pandas
11 19 (0.95%) SOAP
12 18 (0.90%) Middleware
13 17 (0.85%) JWT
14 16 (0.80%) MDX
15 15 (0.75%) .NET Framework
16 14 (0.70%) AngularJS
16 14 (0.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 174 (8.67%) Self-Motivation
2 162 (8.08%) Data Structures
3 137 (6.83%) Algorithms
4 134 (6.68%) Product Ownership
5 106 (5.28%) Management Information System
6 87 (4.34%) Onboarding
7 61 (3.04%) Public Cloud
8 52 (2.59%) Reinsurance
9 47 (2.34%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.65%) NHS
12 30 (1.50%) Taxonomies
13 24 (1.20%) Client/Server
13 24 (1.20%) Replication
14 23 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.05%) Data Fabric
16 20 (1.00%) Cyberattack
16 20 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
17 15 (0.75%) IoT
18 13 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 79 (3.94%) Windows
2 48 (2.39%) Linux
3 24 (1.20%) zOS
4 23 (1.15%) Unix
5 13 (0.65%) Solaris
6 12 (0.60%) CentOS
6 12 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.050%) Android
9 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
9 1 (0.050%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 894 (44.57%) Data Modelling
2 757 (37.74%) Business Intelligence
3 658 (32.80%) Analytics
4 628 (31.31%) Data Engineering
5 593 (29.56%) Agile
6 552 (27.52%) Problem-Solving
7 471 (23.48%) Visualisation
8 456 (22.73%) Data Integration
9 452 (22.53%) Data Pipeline
10 411 (20.49%) Machine Learning
11 392 (19.54%) DevOps
12 382 (19.04%) Data Science
13 352 (17.55%) CI/CD
14 336 (16.75%) Data Analysis
15 317 (15.80%) Data Governance
16 299 (14.91%) Artificial Intelligence
17 293 (14.61%) Data Architecture
18 288 (14.36%) Migration
19 287 (14.31%) Data Visualisation
20 276 (13.76%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,286 (64.11%) SQL
2 728 (36.29%) Python
3 281 (14.01%) T-SQL
4 125 (6.23%) Java
5 110 (5.48%) C#
6 79 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 71 (3.54%) R
8 69 (3.44%) Scala
9 65 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 61 (3.04%) JavaScript
11 57 (2.84%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.10%) VBA
13 18 (0.90%) Go
13 18 (0.90%) TypeScript
14 14 (0.70%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.45%) PHP
16 9 (0.45%) Ruby
17 5 (0.25%) C
17 5 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 310 (15.45%) Degree
2 112 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.79%) Master's Degree
4 45 (2.24%) Security Cleared
5 40 (1.99%) Azure Certification
6 35 (1.74%) DBS Check
7 33 (1.65%) SC Cleared
8 30 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.00%) MBA
10 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.55%) PhD
12 9 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.35%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.30%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.30%) IIBA
16 5 (0.25%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.20%) CIMA
17 4 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 175 (8.72%) GDPR
3 162 (8.08%) QA
4 29 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.20%) NIST
8 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.100%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.100%) SLA
10 1 (0.050%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.050%) ITGC
10 1 (0.050%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (1.94%) Docker
2 32 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.70%) HDFS
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.100%) vSphere
7 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 110 (5.48%) Terraform
2 46 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.30%) Grafana
4 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.100%) Marathon
7 2 (0.100%) Mesos
7 2 (0.100%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.100%) MIIS
8 1 (0.050%) FTK
8 1 (0.050%) Kibana
8 1 (0.050%) logstash
8 1 (0.050%) SCCM
Vendors
1 485 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 349 (17.40%) Databricks
3 260 (12.96%) Google
4 143 (7.13%) Oracle
5 116 (5.78%) Informatica
6 28 (1.40%) Alteryx
7 26 (1.30%) SAP
8 25 (1.25%) Salesforce
9 19 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 16 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 16 (0.80%) IBM
11 13 (0.65%) F5
11 13 (0.65%) NEC
12 10 (0.50%) Adaptive Insights
12 10 (0.50%) Anaplan
12 10 (0.50%) Jedox
12 10 (0.50%) Splunk
12 10 (0.50%) Tagetik
12 10 (0.50%) Talend
13 8 (0.40%) Cognos