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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 134 123
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,093 2,727 4,754
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.13% 2.61% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.72% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,474 1,910 2,885
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,408 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,625 £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 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +3 1,847 £62,500 -3.85% 366
UK excluding London +10 1,281 £55,000 - 178
Work from Home -5 900 £59,250 -3.66% 206
London +4 735 £72,500 -0.68% 193
North of England +94 399 £54,500 +9.00% 55
South East -17 267 £62,500 +4.17% 27
North West +78 233 £55,000 +10.00% 34
Midlands +4 209 £53,000 +6.00% 41
Scotland +10 173 £60,000 +9.09% 9
West Midlands +7 145 £55,000 +11.41% 27
South West -28 132 £54,250 -19.63% 23
Yorkshire +78 97 £47,500 -2.11% 18
North East +18 69 £64,000 +16.36% 5
East of England -17 67 £55,000 -4.35% 15
East Midlands -2 63 £47,500 -13.64% 14
Wales +6 32 £52,101 +16.65% 8
Northern Ireland +20 4 £85,000 +70.00% 3

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
1 145 (6.93%) Apache Spark
2 102 (4.87%) Apache
3 68 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.77%) SAS
5 30 (1.43%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.05%) IIS
7 13 (0.62%) Confluence
8 6 (0.29%) Drupal
9 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.24%) WordPress
10 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.096%) Luigi
12 2 (0.096%) Moodle
13 1 (0.048%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.048%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 122 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.48%) Trello
5 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.048%) InVision
8 1 (0.048%) Sketch
8 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 32 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.19%) Primavera
4 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.14%) Endur
6 2 (0.096%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.096%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.048%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.048%) HFM
7 1 (0.048%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.048%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,114 (53.23%) Azure
2 708 (33.83%) AWS
3 649 (31.01%) Power Platform
4 420 (20.07%) GCP
5 259 (12.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 229 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
7 178 (8.50%) Snowflake
8 144 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (4.83%) Serverless
10 94 (4.49%) Amazon S3
11 79 (3.77%) SaaS
12 78 (3.73%) Matillion
13 71 (3.39%) dbt
14 61 (2.91%) Cloud Computing
15 46 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 45 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
16 45 (2.15%) PowerApps
17 43 (2.05%) GitHub
18 40 (1.91%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (1.58%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.48%) DNS
2 20 (0.96%) HTTP
3 14 (0.67%) Firewall
4 12 (0.57%) Network Security
5 10 (0.48%) DHCP
6 3 (0.14%) VPN
7 2 (0.096%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.096%) SSH
8 1 (0.048%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.048%) 5G
8 1 (0.048%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.048%) FTP
8 1 (0.048%) LAN
8 1 (0.048%) Skype
8 1 (0.048%) SMS
8 1 (0.048%) WAN
8 1 (0.048%) WebEx
8 1 (0.048%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 984 (47.01%) Data Warehouse
2 632 (30.20%) Power BI
3 629 (30.05%) SQL Server
4 431 (20.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 287 (13.71%) BigQuery
6 273 (13.04%) Data Lake
7 229 (10.94%) Looker
8 176 (8.41%) Tableau
9 147 (7.02%) Big Data
10 145 (6.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 138 (6.59%) Relational Database
12 137 (6.55%) NoSQL
13 124 (5.92%) Amazon Redshift
14 81 (3.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 78 (3.73%) Metadata
16 74 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 73 (3.49%) Data Vault
17 73 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
18 71 (3.39%) Data Mining
19 68 (3.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 121 (5.78%) Git
2 96 (4.59%) JIRA
3 49 (2.34%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 39 (1.86%) GitLab
6 34 (1.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 15 (0.72%) JMeter
8 14 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
11 9 (0.43%) Selenium
12 8 (0.38%) Mercurial
12 8 (0.38%) SoapUI
13 7 (0.33%) Postman
14 6 (0.29%) Appium
14 6 (0.29%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.29%) Toad
15 5 (0.24%) ERwin
15 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
16 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 592 (28.28%) Finance
2 521 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 465 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (8.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (8.03%) Law
6 164 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 154 (7.36%) Retail
8 148 (7.07%) Legal
9 136 (6.50%) Marketing
10 100 (4.78%) Banking
11 79 (3.77%) Billing
12 71 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.24%) Games
15 25 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.76%) Local Government
19 12 (0.57%) Retail Banking
20 11 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 668 (31.92%) Data Engineer
2 325 (15.53%) Senior
3 308 (14.72%) Developer
4 242 (11.56%) Architect
5 234 (11.18%) Lead
6 220 (10.51%) Data Architect
7 149 (7.12%) Analyst
8 145 (6.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 143 (6.83%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 137 (6.55%) Consultant
11 109 (5.21%) Data Manager
12 98 (4.68%) Software Engineer
13 96 (4.59%) Engineering Manager
14 91 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 75 (3.58%) Lead Data Engineer
16 72 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
16 72 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
17 71 (3.39%) Power BI Developer
18 63 (3.01%) Data Analyst
19 62 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (6.83%) PySpark
2 78 (3.73%) Kafka
3 70 (3.34%) .NET
4 45 (2.15%) RESTful
5 37 (1.77%) REST
6 35 (1.67%) XML
7 32 (1.53%) Web Services
8 28 (1.34%) JSON
8 28 (1.34%) Pandas
9 27 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
10 24 (1.15%) Apache Beam
11 23 (1.10%) CSS
12 20 (0.96%) ASP.NET
13 19 (0.91%) SOAP
14 18 (0.86%) GraphQL
14 18 (0.86%) Middleware
15 17 (0.81%) JWT
16 16 (0.76%) MDX
17 15 (0.72%) .NET Framework
17 15 (0.72%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 177 (8.46%) Self-Motivation
2 163 (7.79%) Data Structures
3 142 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 133 (6.35%) Algorithms
5 109 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 90 (4.30%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.20%) Public Cloud
8 59 (2.82%) Reinsurance
9 57 (2.72%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (1.48%) Taxonomies
12 29 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.24%) NHS
14 25 (1.19%) Client/Server
14 25 (1.19%) Replication
15 20 (0.96%) Cyberattack
15 20 (0.96%) Data Fabric
16 19 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
17 16 (0.76%) IoT
18 14 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.87%) Windows
2 49 (2.34%) Linux
3 24 (1.15%) zOS
4 23 (1.10%) Unix
5 13 (0.62%) Solaris
6 12 (0.57%) CentOS
6 12 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.19%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.048%) VMS
9 1 (0.048%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 924 (44.15%) Data Modelling
2 787 (37.60%) Business Intelligence
3 669 (31.96%) Analytics
4 642 (30.67%) Data Engineering
5 622 (29.72%) Agile
6 569 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
7 492 (23.51%) Visualisation
8 484 (23.12%) Data Pipeline
9 482 (23.03%) Data Integration
10 428 (20.45%) Machine Learning
11 406 (19.40%) Data Science
12 393 (18.78%) DevOps
13 351 (16.77%) Data Analysis
14 346 (16.53%) CI/CD
15 321 (15.34%) Data Governance
16 304 (14.52%) Data Architecture
17 298 (14.24%) Artificial Intelligence
18 297 (14.19%) Data Visualisation
19 291 (13.90%) Migration
20 281 (13.43%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,355 (64.74%) SQL
2 773 (36.93%) Python
3 301 (14.38%) T-SQL
4 122 (5.83%) Java
5 112 (5.35%) C#
6 77 (3.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 74 (3.54%) R
8 72 (3.44%) Scala
9 64 (3.06%) PowerShell
10 63 (3.01%) JavaScript
10 63 (3.01%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.00%) TypeScript
12 20 (0.96%) VBA
13 18 (0.86%) Go
13 18 (0.86%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.43%) PHP
14 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 7 (0.33%) Ruby
16 6 (0.29%) Bash
17 5 (0.24%) C
Qualifications
1 314 (15.00%) Degree
2 114 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 80 (3.82%) Master's Degree
4 51 (2.44%) Security Cleared
5 40 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 35 (1.67%) DBS Check
8 34 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.96%) MBA
10 16 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.53%) PhD
12 10 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 9 (0.43%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.29%) IIBA
16 4 (0.19%) CIMA
16 4 (0.19%) CISSP
16 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 468 (22.36%) Data Quality
2 174 (8.31%) GDPR
3 167 (7.98%) QA
4 28 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.33%) PMO
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.19%) NIST
8 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.096%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.096%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.096%) SLA
10 1 (0.048%) ITGC
10 1 (0.048%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (2.05%) Docker
2 34 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.67%) HDFS
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.096%) vSphere
7 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (5.16%) Terraform
2 39 (1.86%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.48%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.24%) Grafana
5 5 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.096%) Marathon
8 2 (0.096%) Mesos
8 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.096%) MIIS
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.048%) logstash
9 1 (0.048%) Rancher
9 1 (0.048%) SCCM
Vendors
1 488 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 356 (17.01%) Databricks
3 263 (12.57%) Google
4 148 (7.07%) Oracle
5 119 (5.69%) Informatica
6 29 (1.39%) Alteryx
7 27 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 27 (1.29%) SAP
8 21 (1.00%) IBM
9 19 (0.91%) MuleSoft
10 16 (0.76%) NEC
11 15 (0.72%) Cloudera
12 13 (0.62%) F5
13 11 (0.53%) Splunk
13 11 (0.53%) Talend
14 10 (0.48%) Adaptive Insights
14 10 (0.48%) Anaplan
14 10 (0.48%) Jedox
14 10 (0.48%) Tagetik
15 8 (0.38%) ServiceNow