ETL Job Trends in Scotland

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 119 108
Rank change year-on-year +36 -11 +22
Permanent jobs citing ETL 60 32 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.17% 1.23% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 1.32% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 23 17 38
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,557
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.14% -4.89%
75th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £93,000 £82,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,215 2,417 2,894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.94% 92.78% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 1,015 1,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,318 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,375 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £84,025
UK 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 Scotland

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

ETL job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in Scotland

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Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Edinburgh +28 50 £47,500 -26.92% 6
Glasgow +17 9 £45,000 +12.50% 5
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £60,000 -
ETL
UK

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 10 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.67%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 38 (63.33%) Azure
2 33 (55.00%) Azure DevOps
2 33 (55.00%) GitHub
3 24 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 23 (38.33%) dbt
5 19 (31.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 18 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (25.00%) Power Platform
8 14 (23.33%) Azure Event Grid
8 14 (23.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (23.33%) Azure Monitor
8 14 (23.33%) Azure Service Bus
8 14 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (18.33%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (25.00%) Power BI
3 14 (23.33%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (6.67%) Metadata
4 4 (6.67%) Tableau
5 3 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.67%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (1.67%) QlikView
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (31.67%) JIRA
General
1 40 (66.67%) Finance
2 28 (46.67%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Applications Support
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 10 (16.67%) Applications Support Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
3 10 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Business Systems Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Developer
4 4 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Analyst Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Insight Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Report Analyst
5 3 (5.00%) Report Developer
6 2 (3.33%) Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Insurance Systems Analyst
7 1 (1.67%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.33%) JSON
1 14 (23.33%) OAuth
1 14 (23.33%) OAuth2
1 14 (23.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (38.33%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (65.00%) Analytics
2 37 (61.67%) Asset Management
2 37 (61.67%) CI/CD
2 37 (61.67%) Coaching
2 37 (61.67%) DevOps
3 33 (55.00%) Test Automation
4 27 (45.00%) Data Modelling
5 25 (41.67%) Migration
6 23 (38.33%) Agile
7 22 (36.67%) Data Integration
8 19 (31.67%) AI
8 19 (31.67%) Clean Code
8 19 (31.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (31.67%) Observability
8 19 (31.67%) Sprint Planning
8 19 (31.67%) Sprint Retrospective
9 18 (30.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 16 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (25.00%) Incident Response
12 14 (23.33%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 20 (33.33%) SQL
2 14 (23.33%) Bicep
3 10 (16.67%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (23.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Ab Initio
2 11 (18.33%) Oracle
3 10 (16.67%) Concur
3 10 (16.67%) SAP
4 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.67%) Alteryx
5 4 (6.67%) IBM
6 3 (5.00%) Teradata
7 1 (1.67%) Dataiku