ETL Job Trends in Leeds

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring ETL 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 77 59 66
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +61
Permanent jobs citing ETL 28 28 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 2.10% 2.73% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.08% 3.43%
Number of salaries quoted 22 19 37
10th Percentile £40,200 £45,500 £36,050
25th Percentile £54,121 £56,875 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -16.67% +21.95%
75th Percentile £70,625 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +16.82% +12.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,058 910 1,284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 79.31% 88.69% 92.37%
Number of salaries quoted 696 518 946
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,026 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing ETL

ETL
Salary Histogram in Leeds

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

Salary histogram for ETL in Leeds

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 11 (39.29%) Apache Spark
2 10 (35.71%) Apache
3 4 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (7.14%) Confluence
4 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (25.00%) dbt
3 7 (25.00%) Serverless
4 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 5 (17.86%) SaaS
5 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (10.71%) AWS Step Functions
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub
7 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (7.14%) Power Automate
7 2 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (64.29%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (46.43%) Data Lake
3 11 (39.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (14.29%) Data Vault
5 4 (14.29%) Metadata
5 4 (14.29%) Power BI
5 4 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (10.71%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (10.71%) OLAP
6 3 (10.71%) Tableau
6 3 (10.71%) TIBCO EBX
7 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
7 2 (7.14%) Power Query
7 2 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (3.57%) Looker
8 1 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Git
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 14 (50.00%) Senior
2 12 (42.86%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Data Manager
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Analyst Developer
5 2 (7.14%) ETL Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Insight Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) SQL Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Pandas
2 1 (3.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Taxonomies
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Team
2 2 (7.14%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
2 13 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (39.29%) Data Engineering
3 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (35.71%) CI/CD
4 10 (35.71%) Mentoring
5 9 (32.14%) Analytics
5 9 (32.14%) Data Architecture
5 9 (32.14%) Data Governance
6 8 (28.57%) Data Integration
6 8 (28.57%) Data Science
6 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.00%) Data Management
7 7 (25.00%) Data Security
7 7 (25.00%) Decision-Making
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 24 (85.71%) SQL
2 14 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (17.86%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.71%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Databricks
3 3 (10.71%) Informatica
3 3 (10.71%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.57%) Google