ETL Development Job Trends in England

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring ETL Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 628 634
Rank change year-on-year +71 +6 +172
Permanent jobs citing ETL Development 41 43 62
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.078% 0.089% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.098% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 40 28 52
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £61,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +5.26% +14.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +7.14% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

ETL Development 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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,481 43,790 44,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 81.29% 90.69% 89.78%
Number of salaries quoted 25,455 21,528 34,408
10th Percentile £28,560 £35,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

ETL Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ETL Development job vacancy trend in England

ETL Development
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ETL Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ETL Development

ETL Development
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL Development in England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL Development in England

ETL Development
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL Development within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +43 18 £85,000 +13.33% 4
East of England - 16 £57,500 - 3
Midlands +19 3 £125,000 +194.12%
West Midlands +31 2 £125,000 +194.12%
South East +29 2 £87,500 +40.00% 2
North of England +15 1 £45,000 -25.31% 1
Yorkshire -17 1 £45,000 -25.62% 1
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
ETL Development
UK

ETL Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (14.63%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.44%) ArcGIS
3 1 (2.44%) GeoServer
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
2 12 (29.27%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (14.63%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) Power Platform
4 5 (12.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.44%) Boomi
6 1 (2.44%) Matillion
6 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (48.78%) Amazon Redshift
2 19 (46.34%) MySQL
3 18 (43.90%) BusinessObjects
4 14 (34.15%) SQL Server
5 13 (31.71%) Data Lake
6 8 (19.51%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (14.63%) Power BI
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.88%) Big Data
8 2 (4.88%) Metadata
9 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (2.44%) GIS
9 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.44%) Pentaho
9 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (14.63%) JIRA
General
1 23 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (46.34%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (31.71%) Finance
4 9 (21.95%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.32%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Front Office
6 1 (2.44%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.44%) Law
6 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Data Engineer
2 17 (41.46%) Developer
3 12 (29.27%) Report Developer
3 12 (29.27%) Senior
3 12 (29.27%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Data Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Head of Engineering
4 3 (7.32%) Power BI Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Power BI Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
6 1 (2.44%) Business Developer
6 1 (2.44%) ETL Developer
6 1 (2.44%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (2.44%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) PySpark
2 2 (4.88%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) MDX
3 1 (2.44%) NumPy
3 1 (2.44%) Pandas
3 1 (2.44%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (100.00%) ETL
2 21 (51.22%) Decision-Making
3 19 (46.34%) Agile
3 19 (46.34%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (41.46%) Data Modelling
5 14 (34.15%) Data Management
5 14 (34.15%) Visualisation
6 12 (29.27%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
8 9 (21.95%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (21.95%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (14.63%) Migration
10 5 (12.20%) Data Ingestion
11 4 (9.76%) Analytics
11 4 (9.76%) Data Migration
11 4 (9.76%) DevOps
11 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (7.32%) Data Transformation
12 3 (7.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 39 (95.12%) SQL
2 21 (51.22%) Python
3 9 (21.95%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Scala
5 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (4.88%) DBS Check
1 2 (4.88%) Degree
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) SAP
2 16 (39.02%) Databricks
3 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.88%) Informatica
5 1 (2.44%) Cognos
5 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle
5 1 (2.44%) Talend