ETL Job Trends in Kent

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 68 54
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 +37
Permanent jobs citing ETL 5 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 0.49% 0.82% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.93% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £91,000 £32,875 £54,000
25th Percentile £122,500 £33,438 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £125,000 £36,250 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +244.83% -40.57% -18.12%
75th Percentile £127,500 £38,438 £65,250
90th Percentile £132,000 £38,625 £72,550
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 843 646 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 82.65% 88.37% 80.94%
Number of salaries quoted 438 213 381
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,100 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £37,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £68,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,350 £67,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +8.49% -3.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Kent

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Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in Kent over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in Kent

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Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Kent region over the 6 months to 3 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
Chatham - 4 £125,000 - 1
ETL
South East

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Migration
3 3 (60.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
5 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 1 (20.00%) ETL Development
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
5 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft