ETL Job Trends in the North of England

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 128 100
Rank change year-on-year -64 -28 +101
Permanent jobs citing ETL 98 135 364
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.68% 1.99% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 2.09% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 83 102 297
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% +7.05%
75th Percentile £68,188 £78,438 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,888 6,448 12,642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.74% 95.09% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,319 3,637 10,159
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 March 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the North of England

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Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 March 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
North West -25 48 £56,250 +2.27% 45
Yorkshire -61 39 £65,000 - 31
North East -21 11 £49,949 -26.00% 11
ETL
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 13 (13.27%) Apache Airflow
1 13 (13.27%) Apache Spark
2 11 (11.22%) Apache
3 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.04%) Confluence
5 1 (1.02%) IIS
5 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.04%) Markit EDM
2 2 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.02%) Magento
3 1 (1.02%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.02%) Primavera
3 1 (1.02%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.02%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.76%) Azure
2 30 (30.61%) Power Platform
3 25 (25.51%) AWS
4 15 (15.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (12.24%) GCP
6 11 (11.22%) dbt
6 11 (11.22%) SaaS
7 9 (9.18%) Serverless
8 8 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (6.12%) GitHub
10 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
10 6 (6.12%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.08%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
12 3 (3.06%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.06%) IaaS
12 3 (3.06%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (39.80%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (28.57%) Power BI
3 26 (26.53%) SQL Server
4 25 (25.51%) Data Lake
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (13.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (11.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (10.20%) Relational Database
9 8 (8.16%) Metadata
10 7 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (7.14%) Tableau
11 6 (6.12%) BigQuery
12 4 (4.08%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.08%) DB2
12 4 (4.08%) MySQL
12 4 (4.08%) Star Schema
13 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
13 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
13 3 (3.06%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) JIRA
2 3 (3.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (2.04%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) LSMW
4 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 32 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 22 (22.45%) Finance
3 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Legal
5 2 (2.04%) Banking
5 2 (2.04%) Law
5 2 (2.04%) Retail
5 2 (2.04%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.02%) Advertising
6 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Marketing
6 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (43.88%) Data Engineer
2 30 (30.61%) Senior
3 20 (20.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 12 (12.24%) Architect
5 10 (10.20%) Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Database Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Analyst
7 8 (8.16%) DBA
7 8 (8.16%) Lead
8 7 (7.14%) Administrator
8 7 (7.14%) Data Architect
9 6 (6.12%) Applications Support
9 6 (6.12%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Applications Support
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Senior Support Analyst
9 6 (6.12%) Support Analyst
10 5 (5.10%) Data Administrator
11 4 (4.08%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) PySpark
1 6 (6.12%) REST
2 3 (3.06%) JSON
2 3 (3.06%) Kafka
2 3 (3.06%) XML
3 2 (2.04%) .NET
3 2 (2.04%) Pandas
3 2 (2.04%) SOAP
3 2 (2.04%) Web Services
4 1 (1.02%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.02%) Middleware
4 1 (1.02%) Node.js
4 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.02%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Legacy Applications
2 7 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.06%) Clustering
5 3 (3.06%) Low-Code
5 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.06%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.04%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.04%) Replication
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.02%) EPoS
7 1 (1.02%) NHS
7 1 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.04%) VMS
2 1 (1.02%) Linux
2 1 (1.02%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) Data Modelling
2 37 (37.76%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (35.71%) Data Engineering
4 31 (31.63%) Agile
4 31 (31.63%) Analytics
5 25 (25.51%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (21.43%) Mentoring
8 18 (18.37%) CI/CD
8 18 (18.37%) Data Governance
9 17 (17.35%) Data Integration
10 16 (16.33%) Decision-Making
10 16 (16.33%) Migration
11 14 (14.29%) Data Management
12 13 (13.27%) Data Architecture
13 12 (12.24%) AI
13 12 (12.24%) Data Science
13 12 (12.24%) DevOps
14 11 (11.22%) Coaching
14 11 (11.22%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 82 (83.67%) SQL
2 39 (39.80%) Python
3 10 (10.20%) T-SQL
4 9 (9.18%) Java
5 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (1.02%) Groovy
7 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.02%) PHP
7 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (3.06%) Degree
1 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) QA
3 5 (5.10%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Terraform
2 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.33%) Databricks
3 8 (8.16%) Informatica
4 6 (6.12%) Northgate
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle
6 4 (4.08%) Google
7 3 (3.06%) SAP
7 3 (3.06%) Talend
7 3 (3.06%) TIBCO
8 2 (2.04%) Cloudera
8 2 (2.04%) RedGate
8 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.02%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.02%) Dell
9 1 (1.02%) Intapp
9 1 (1.02%) Nintex
9 1 (1.02%) WooCommerce