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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 130 80
Rank change year-on-year -45 -50 +41
Permanent jobs citing ETL 83 157 254
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.79% 1.66% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 1.85% 3.75%
Number of salaries quoted 73 86 168
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,672 £44,738 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.38% +3.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 £75,625
90th Percentile £78,250 £87,500 £90,580
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

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 8,666 8,497 6,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.37% 89.75% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,589 3,870 5,287
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,667 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -1.59% -0.94%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,100 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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
Yorkshire -17 41 £60,000 +9.09% 142
North West -14 35 £55,000 +0.19% 184
North East -6 7 £51,000 -18.40% 31
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 14 (16.87%) Apache Spark
2 13 (15.66%) Apache
3 7 (8.43%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.20%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.82%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.41%) Markit EDM
3 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.94%) Azure
2 23 (27.71%) AWS
3 20 (24.10%) Power Platform
4 15 (18.07%) SaaS
5 12 (14.46%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (10.84%) GCP
7 8 (9.64%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (9.64%) dbt
7 8 (9.64%) Serverless
8 7 (8.43%) Amazon S3
8 7 (8.43%) GitHub
9 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (6.02%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (4.82%) Snowflake
12 3 (3.61%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
13 2 (2.41%) Boomi
13 2 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (46.99%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (30.12%) Data Lake
3 20 (24.10%) Power BI
4 15 (18.07%) SQL Server
5 13 (15.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (15.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 11 (13.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (12.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (9.64%) Relational Database
9 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
9 7 (8.43%) NoSQL
10 6 (7.23%) Metadata
11 5 (6.02%) Big Data
11 5 (6.02%) Tableau
12 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (4.82%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.82%) MySQL
12 4 (4.82%) OLAP
12 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.61%) Git
4 1 (1.20%) GitLab
4 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.20%) LSMW
General
1 28 (33.73%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Finance
3 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Law
5 4 (4.82%) Tech for Good
6 3 (3.61%) Advertising
7 2 (2.41%) Legal
7 2 (2.41%) Military
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
8 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (45.78%) Data Engineer
2 30 (36.14%) Senior
3 21 (25.30%) Senior Data Engineer
4 12 (14.46%) Analyst
4 12 (14.46%) Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Lead
6 5 (6.02%) Analyst Developer
6 5 (6.02%) Architect
6 5 (6.02%) DBA
6 5 (6.02%) SQL DBA
6 5 (6.02%) SQL Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Applications Support
7 4 (4.82%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Applications Support
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Senior Support Analyst
7 4 (4.82%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.82%) JSON
1 4 (4.82%) XML
2 3 (3.61%) Pandas
2 3 (3.61%) REST
3 2 (2.41%) PySpark
4 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.20%) Kafka
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Clustering
2 3 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Taxonomies
2 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.41%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.20%) EPoS
4 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) VMS
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (44.58%) Data Modelling
2 34 (40.96%) Data Engineering
3 33 (39.76%) Agile
3 33 (39.76%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (32.53%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (30.12%) Analytics
6 23 (27.71%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (26.51%) Mentoring
8 21 (25.30%) Data Integration
9 19 (22.89%) Decision-Making
10 18 (21.69%) CI/CD
11 17 (20.48%) Data Governance
11 17 (20.48%) Data Science
12 14 (16.87%) DevOps
13 13 (15.66%) Coaching
13 13 (15.66%) Data Management
14 12 (14.46%) Clean Code
14 12 (14.46%) Data Architecture
14 12 (14.46%) Migration
15 11 (13.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (84.34%) SQL
2 30 (36.14%) Python
3 12 (14.46%) T-SQL
4 6 (7.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (7.23%) Java
5 1 (1.20%) PHP
5 1 (1.20%) R
5 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.61%) DBS Check
2 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) QA
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (9.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.02%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (22.89%) Databricks
2 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
3 10 (12.05%) Informatica
4 5 (6.02%) Oracle
4 5 (6.02%) Talend
5 4 (4.82%) Northgate
5 4 (4.82%) RedGate
6 3 (3.61%) Google
6 3 (3.61%) TIBCO
7 2 (2.41%) Dell
7 2 (2.41%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.41%) SAP
7 2 (2.41%) SnapLogic
8 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.20%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.20%) Salesforce