ETL Job Trends in London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 127 88
Rank change year-on-year +25 -39 +13
Permanent jobs citing ETL 429 360 750
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.22% 2.79% 3.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 2.90% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 293 241 593
10th Percentile £46,050 £46,250 £51,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year - +7.44% -6.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,098 12,402 21,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 83.39% 96.08% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 10,521 7,547 16,086
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,042
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ETL job vacancy trend in London

ETL
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing ETL

ETL
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in London over the 6 months to 18 April 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in London

ETL
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the London region over the 6 months to 18 April 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
Central London -19 73 £77,500 +3.33% 54
West London -6 23 £45,000 -26.53% 4
South London +26 12 £48,975 -47.05% 2
East London - 7 £95,000 - 1
ETL
England

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 92 (21.45%) Apache Airflow
2 70 (16.32%) Apache Spark
3 56 (13.05%) Apache
4 12 (2.80%) Appian
5 4 (0.93%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.70%) Confluence
6 3 (0.70%) Oracle Application Server
6 3 (0.70%) SAS
7 2 (0.47%) IIS
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 8 (1.86%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.70%) FLEXCUBE
2 3 (0.70%) Markit EDM
2 3 (0.70%) Misys Opics
2 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.47%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.47%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.23%) Actimize
4 1 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.23%) Lawson
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 223 (51.98%) Azure
2 132 (30.77%) AWS
3 115 (26.81%) Power Platform
4 76 (17.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 71 (16.55%) GCP
6 57 (13.29%) Amazon S3
6 57 (13.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 56 (13.05%) dbt
8 52 (12.12%) Snowflake
9 36 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (5.13%) Serverless
11 21 (4.90%) GitHub
12 20 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (4.43%) Power Automate
14 17 (3.96%) Amazon Kinesis
14 17 (3.96%) OpenShift
15 13 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
15 13 (3.03%) Fivetran
15 13 (3.03%) Matillion
16 12 (2.80%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.40%) WinSCP
2 5 (1.17%) Broadband
3 1 (0.23%) 4G
3 1 (0.23%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (33.80%) Data Warehouse
2 108 (25.17%) Power BI
3 73 (17.02%) Data Lake
4 67 (15.62%) Tableau
5 62 (14.45%) SQL Server
6 53 (12.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 40 (9.32%) Relational Database
8 39 (9.09%) BigQuery
9 36 (8.39%) Metadata
10 30 (6.99%) Oracle Database
11 28 (6.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 27 (6.29%) Snowflake Schema
13 25 (5.83%) Delta Lake
14 23 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
14 23 (5.36%) Big Data
15 22 (5.13%) Looker
16 20 (4.66%) Apache Iceberg
16 20 (4.66%) PostgreSQL
17 18 (4.20%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (4.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 69 (16.08%) Git
2 30 (6.99%) MLflow
3 21 (4.90%) Postman
4 16 (3.73%) IBM UrbanCode
5 11 (2.56%) JIRA
6 4 (0.93%) Selenium
7 3 (0.70%) GitLab
7 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
8 2 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.47%) JMeter
8 2 (0.47%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.47%) NUnit
8 2 (0.47%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.47%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.47%) TestDirector
8 2 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.23%) ERwin
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.23%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 169 (39.39%) Finance
2 115 (26.81%) Social Skills
3 104 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (10.26%) Banking
5 28 (6.53%) Law
5 28 (6.53%) Legal
6 22 (5.13%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.73%) Marketing
7 16 (3.73%) Public Sector
8 14 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 13 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.80%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.86%) Retail
12 7 (1.63%) Electronics
13 4 (0.93%) Billing
13 4 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.93%) Front Office
14 3 (0.70%) Retail Banking
15 2 (0.47%) Advertising
15 2 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (43.36%) Data Engineer
2 81 (18.88%) Senior
3 63 (14.69%) Analyst
4 49 (11.42%) Senior Data Engineer
5 43 (10.02%) Lead
6 40 (9.32%) Data Analyst
7 31 (7.23%) Architect
8 29 (6.76%) Developer
9 19 (4.43%) AWS Data Engineer
9 19 (4.43%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Data Architect
10 17 (3.96%) Lead Data Engineer
10 17 (3.96%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 16 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
12 15 (3.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 14 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
13 14 (3.26%) Transformation Analyst
14 13 (3.03%) Banking Analyst
14 13 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 12 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.29%) Kafka
2 50 (11.66%) PySpark
3 33 (7.69%) Pandas
3 33 (7.69%) Swagger
4 32 (7.46%) PyTorch
4 32 (7.46%) RESTful
4 32 (7.46%) TensorFlow
5 31 (7.23%) OpenAPI
6 29 (6.76%) scikit-learn
7 25 (5.83%) REST
8 19 (4.43%) LangChain
8 19 (4.43%) NumPy
9 16 (3.73%) LlamaIndex
9 16 (3.73%) pgvector
9 16 (3.73%) pytest
10 15 (3.50%) Web Services
11 13 (3.03%) .NET
11 13 (3.03%) FastAPI
11 13 (3.03%) Flask
11 13 (3.03%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 37 (8.62%) Data Structures
2 32 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 23 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 21 (4.90%) Low-Code
5 18 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (3.96%) Public Cloud
7 16 (3.73%) Clustering
8 14 (3.26%) Management Information System
9 13 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.56%) Algorithms
10 11 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.40%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.17%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.17%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.93%) Anti-Piracy
13 4 (0.93%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.93%) Social Media
14 3 (0.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.40%) Windows
1 6 (1.40%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (58.74%) Analytics
2 239 (55.71%) Data Modelling
3 235 (54.78%) Data Pipeline
4 206 (48.02%) Data Engineering
5 155 (36.13%) Business Intelligence
6 150 (34.97%) CI/CD
7 145 (33.80%) Data Governance
8 137 (31.93%) AI
9 122 (28.44%) Decision-Making
10 91 (21.21%) Data Science
11 90 (20.98%) DevOps
12 85 (19.81%) Agile
13 79 (18.41%) Machine Learning
14 70 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
15 60 (13.99%) Data Architecture
15 60 (13.99%) Validation
15 60 (13.99%) Visualisation
16 59 (13.75%) Data Management
17 52 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 51 (11.89%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 338 (78.79%) SQL
2 292 (68.07%) Python
3 25 (5.83%) Scala
4 23 (5.36%) Java
5 20 (4.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 18 (4.20%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.96%) C#
8 13 (3.03%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.56%) C++
9 11 (2.56%) R
10 10 (2.33%) Bash
11 9 (2.10%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.10%) VBA
12 7 (1.63%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.40%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.47%) Bicep
16 1 (0.23%) Perl
16 1 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 50 (11.66%) Degree
2 26 (6.06%) Security Cleared
3 24 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (4.43%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.63%) AWS Certification
7 7 (1.63%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.93%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.70%) ACCA
10 3 (0.70%) CIMA
11 2 (0.47%) CISSP
11 2 (0.47%) ISEB
11 2 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.47%) MCSE
11 2 (0.47%) OCP
12 1 (0.23%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (35.90%) Data Quality
2 43 (10.02%) GDPR
3 26 (6.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 12 (2.80%) QA
5 11 (2.56%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.63%) HIPAA
6 7 (1.63%) IFRS
7 4 (0.93%) GAAP
8 3 (0.70%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.70%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.47%) GRC
9 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.23%) MiFID
10 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.23%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (6.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (8.39%) Terraform
2 26 (6.06%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.93%) Control-M
4 2 (0.47%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 85 (19.81%) Databricks
2 80 (18.65%) Microsoft
3 57 (13.29%) Oracle
4 25 (5.83%) Informatica
5 22 (5.13%) Talend
6 19 (4.43%) SAP
7 17 (3.96%) Cloudera
7 17 (3.96%) OpenAI
8 16 (3.73%) Dell
8 16 (3.73%) Red Hat
9 12 (2.80%) Automation Anywhere
9 12 (2.80%) UiPath
10 10 (2.33%) Palantir
11 6 (1.40%) Alteryx
11 6 (1.40%) Foundry
11 6 (1.40%) Google
11 6 (1.40%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.93%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.70%) Dataiku
13 3 (0.70%) Hyperion