ETL Job Trends in Central London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -3
Permanent jobs citing ETL 83 144 122
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 3.52% 4.42% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 4.62% 4.18%
Number of salaries quoted 63 86 114
10th Percentile £44,250 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £56,250 £59,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% +10.34%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £117,000 £97,500 £126,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

ETL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,089 3,116 2,917
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 88.48% 95.64% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,557 1,921 2,592
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
London median annual salary £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ETL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

ETL job vacancy trend in Central London

ETL
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing ETL

ETL
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in Central London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in Central London

ETL
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -5 77 £82,500 +11.86% 40
Camden +2 2 £85,000 -
West End of London - 2 £85,000 -
City of Westminster +16 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £55,000 -
Southwark - 1 - -
ETL
London

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 14 (16.87%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.02%) Apache
4 4 (4.82%) Confluence
5 2 (2.41%) Luigi
6 1 (1.20%) IIS
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Actimize
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.86%) Azure
2 44 (53.01%) Power Platform
3 29 (34.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (30.12%) AWS
5 15 (18.07%) Snowflake
6 14 (16.87%) GCP
7 11 (13.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (13.25%) dbt
8 9 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (6.02%) GitHub
9 5 (6.02%) Serverless
10 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.61%) PaaS
10 3 (3.61%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.61%) SaaS
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.41%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (49.40%) Power BI
2 37 (44.58%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (30.12%) SQL Server
4 22 (26.51%) Data Lake
5 13 (15.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (9.64%) Power Query
7 7 (8.43%) Tableau
8 6 (7.23%) Metadata
8 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (6.02%) BigQuery
9 5 (6.02%) Hadoop
9 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
10 4 (4.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.61%) Data Mining
11 3 (3.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (3.61%) SQLite
11 3 (3.61%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Git
2 6 (7.23%) JIRA
3 2 (2.41%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.41%) ERwin
3 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.41%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.20%) Deequ
4 1 (1.20%) GitLab
4 1 (1.20%) NUnit
4 1 (1.20%) Selenium
4 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (45.78%) Finance
2 31 (37.35%) Social Skills
3 21 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (10.84%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (9.64%) Banking
6 5 (6.02%) International Banking
7 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.61%) Legal
7 3 (3.61%) Marketing
7 3 (3.61%) Retail
8 2 (2.41%) Advertising
8 2 (2.41%) Games
8 2 (2.41%) Law
8 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.41%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Music Industry
9 1 (1.20%) Publishing
9 1 (1.20%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 40 (48.19%) Data Engineer
2 22 (26.51%) Senior
3 20 (24.10%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Lead
5 7 (8.43%) Analyst
5 7 (8.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Architect
6 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Consultant
7 5 (6.02%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.61%) Gen AI Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.41%) GCP Architect
9 2 (2.41%) GCP Data Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.64%) Kafka
2 6 (7.23%) PySpark
3 3 (3.61%) Pandas
3 3 (3.61%) XML
4 2 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.41%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.20%) .NET
5 1 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.20%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.20%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.20%) JSON
5 1 (1.20%) LangChain
5 1 (1.20%) MDX
5 1 (1.20%) NumPy
5 1 (1.20%) pytest
5 1 (1.20%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.20%) REST
5 1 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Credit Risk
1 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
1 4 (4.82%) Market Risk
1 4 (4.82%) Reinsurance
2 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.41%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.41%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.20%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.86%) Data Modelling
2 45 (54.22%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (53.01%) Analytics
3 44 (53.01%) Business Intelligence
4 37 (44.58%) Decision-Making
5 34 (40.96%) Agile
5 34 (40.96%) Data Engineering
6 25 (30.12%) AI
7 24 (28.92%) Data Governance
8 21 (25.30%) DevOps
8 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.48%) CI/CD
10 16 (19.28%) Data Science
11 15 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (15.66%) Data Analytics
12 13 (15.66%) Visualisation
13 11 (13.25%) Data Analysis
13 11 (13.25%) Data Strategy
14 10 (12.05%) Data Management
14 10 (12.05%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 73 (87.95%) SQL
2 58 (69.88%) Python
3 18 (21.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (12.05%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.43%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.23%) Scala
7 4 (4.82%) Java
8 2 (2.41%) C#
8 2 (2.41%) VBA
9 1 (1.20%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.02%) SnowPro
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.41%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) ISEB
6 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.20%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.61%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Puppet
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) Ambari
4 1 (1.20%) Grafana
4 1 (1.20%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.20%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft
2 26 (31.33%) Databricks
3 5 (6.02%) Google
4 4 (4.82%) Informatica
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.20%) Apple
6 1 (1.20%) Confluent
6 1 (1.20%) Dell
6 1 (1.20%) Facebook
6 1 (1.20%) HP
6 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Siebel
6 1 (1.20%) Spotify
6 1 (1.20%) Talend