ETL Job Trends in Edinburgh

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 +11
Permanent jobs citing ETL 50 16 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.69% 1.45% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 1.50% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 13 8 10
10th Percentile - £45,000 £54,131
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,563 £64,740
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -18.37% +32.72%
75th Percentile £48,750 £82,188 £84,056
90th Percentile £106,000 £89,500 £86,229
Scotland median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.14% -9.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 910 1,065 963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.45% 96.21% 91.80%
Number of salaries quoted 390 405 777
10th Percentile £26,000 £36,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -8.00% +2.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Business Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (8.00%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 38 (76.00%) Azure
2 33 (66.00%) Azure DevOps
2 33 (66.00%) GitHub
3 23 (46.00%) dbt
3 23 (46.00%) Snowflake
4 19 (38.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 18 (36.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (28.00%) Azure Event Grid
6 14 (28.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 14 (28.00%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (28.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 14 (28.00%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (20.00%) Power Platform
7 10 (20.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (52.00%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (28.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 10 (20.00%) Power BI
4 3 (6.00%) Metadata
4 3 (6.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) JIRA
General
1 37 (74.00%) Finance
2 23 (46.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Applications Support
1 14 (28.00%) Senior
2 10 (20.00%) Analyst
2 10 (20.00%) Applications Support Analyst
2 10 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
2 10 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 4 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Support Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) Architect
4 2 (4.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Lead
5 1 (2.00%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Lead Data Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Principal Data Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) JSON
1 14 (28.00%) OAuth
1 14 (28.00%) OAuth2
1 14 (28.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (46.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) Asset Management
1 37 (74.00%) CI/CD
1 37 (74.00%) Coaching
1 37 (74.00%) DevOps
2 35 (70.00%) Analytics
3 33 (66.00%) Test Automation
4 26 (52.00%) Data Modelling
5 23 (46.00%) Agile
6 21 (42.00%) Data Integration
7 19 (38.00%) AI
7 19 (38.00%) Clean Code
7 19 (38.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (38.00%) Migration
7 19 (38.00%) Observability
7 19 (38.00%) Sprint Planning
7 19 (38.00%) Sprint Retrospective
8 18 (36.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 14 (28.00%) Identity Management
9 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (28.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Bicep
1 14 (28.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (28.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) Ab Initio
2 10 (20.00%) Concur
2 10 (20.00%) Oracle
2 10 (20.00%) SAP
3 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) IBM