ETL Job Trends in the Midlands

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 125 132
Rank change year-on-year -35 +7 +11
Permanent jobs citing ETL 108 103 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.84% 2.03% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 2.26% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 92 86 169
10th Percentile £46,104 £40,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,635
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £71,925 £80,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -5.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,379 4,553 9,551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 72.57% 89.70% 81.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,656 2,607 7,160
10th Percentile £29,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,625 £35,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £67,250 £63,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,350 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
West Midlands -20 88 £60,000 +9.09% 30
East Midlands -34 20 £57,000 +17.53% 11
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (8.33%) SAS
2 6 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.63%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 66 (61.11%) Azure
2 43 (39.81%) Power Platform
3 30 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (24.07%) AWS
5 16 (14.81%) Snowflake
6 11 (10.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (6.48%) Power Automate
8 6 (5.56%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.56%) SaaS
9 5 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (4.63%) GCP
10 4 (3.70%) Azure Stack
10 4 (3.70%) Serverless
11 3 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (2.78%) PowerApps
12 2 (1.85%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (1.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.85%) IaaS
12 2 (1.85%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (39.81%) Power BI
2 31 (28.70%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (18.52%) Data Lake
4 19 (17.59%) SQL Server
5 18 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 16 (14.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (9.26%) Delta Lake
7 10 (9.26%) Power Query
8 8 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (6.48%) Pentaho
10 3 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.78%) Metadata
10 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.78%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.93%) Apache Hudi
11 1 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.93%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Git
2 5 (4.63%) JIRA
3 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.93%) Yeoman
General
1 30 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.15%) Finance
3 23 (21.30%) Public Sector
4 19 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (12.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.63%) Automotive
7 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.78%) Law
8 3 (2.78%) Legal
9 2 (1.85%) Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) Local Government
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Marketing
10 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (53.70%) Data Engineer
2 22 (20.37%) Azure Data Engineer
2 22 (20.37%) Azure Engineer
2 22 (20.37%) Senior
3 18 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 15 (13.89%) Lead
5 14 (12.96%) Developer
6 13 (12.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 12 (11.11%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 12 (11.11%) Snowflake Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) Python Data Engineer
8 10 (9.26%) Python Engineer
9 9 (8.33%) Business Developer
10 8 (7.41%) Analyst
10 8 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (6.48%) Administrator
12 6 (5.56%) Power BI Engineer
13 5 (4.63%) Data Manager
13 5 (4.63%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) PySpark
2 8 (7.41%) EDI
3 3 (2.78%) Middleware
4 2 (1.85%) .NET
4 2 (1.85%) REST
5 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.93%) JSON
5 1 (0.93%) Kafka
5 1 (0.93%) ODBC
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.93%) SOAP
5 1 (0.93%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.96%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.63%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.85%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.93%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.93%) Replication
6 1 (0.93%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.37%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 45 (41.67%) Data Modelling
4 39 (36.11%) Data Engineering
5 32 (29.63%) Analytics
6 30 (27.78%) Agile
7 29 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (25.00%) Decision-Making
9 26 (24.07%) Data Integration
10 20 (18.52%) Visualisation
11 18 (16.67%) CI/CD
12 17 (15.74%) Data Visualisation
12 17 (15.74%) Mentoring
13 16 (14.81%) Computer Science
13 16 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (14.81%) CRM
14 15 (13.89%) AI
14 15 (13.89%) Data Transformation
15 14 (12.96%) Data Architecture
15 14 (12.96%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 80 (74.07%) SQL
2 47 (43.52%) Python
3 11 (10.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (7.41%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.56%) Bash
6 3 (2.78%) Scala
6 3 (2.78%) VBA
7 2 (1.85%) C#
7 2 (1.85%) R
8 1 (0.93%) Bicep
8 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (10.19%) Degree
2 7 (6.48%) CITP
3 6 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.63%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.07%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.19%) GDPR
3 3 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.63%) Terraform
2 1 (0.93%) Control-M
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Databricks
2 17 (15.74%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.33%) Oracle
3 9 (8.33%) Talend
4 7 (6.48%) Planon
4 7 (6.48%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.56%) Cloudera
5 6 (5.56%) Informatica
6 5 (4.63%) Google
7 1 (0.93%) BMC
7 1 (0.93%) Denodo
7 1 (0.93%) IBM
7 1 (0.93%) OpenAI