ETL Job Trends in the South East

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 162 172
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -18
Permanent jobs citing ETL 137 115 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.95% 1.47% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.62% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 107 32 153
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £44,942
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £74,275 £65,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £74,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -6.72%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,400 7,098 13,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 71.91% 90.57% 83.90%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 3,359 9,796
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,719 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +7.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
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 South East

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +27 58 £62,500 +25.00% 13
Buckinghamshire +26 34 £62,500 -9.09% 5
Surrey -9 32 £60,000 +9.09% 4
Hampshire -33 21 £52,500 +5.00% 3
East Sussex 0 20 £85,000 +41.67%
Berkshire +1 18 £53,750 +7.50% 4
Oxfordshire -1 6 £63,750 +49.65% 4
West Sussex - 5 £68,000 - 4
Kent -35 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.57%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.19%) Apache
2 3 (2.19%) SAS
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (16.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.76%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (6.57%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (50.36%) Azure
2 56 (40.88%) Power Platform
3 34 (24.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 24 (17.52%) AWS
5 20 (14.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (9.49%) Snowflake
7 11 (8.03%) GCP
8 7 (5.11%) dbt
9 6 (4.38%) Fivetran
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.92%) Prefect
11 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (2.19%) Serverless
12 2 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.46%) OpenShift
13 1 (0.73%) iPaaS
13 1 (0.73%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (38.69%) Power BI
2 43 (31.39%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (13.14%) Data Lake
4 14 (10.22%) Relational Database
5 12 (8.76%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (7.30%) MongoDB
6 10 (7.30%) NoSQL
7 9 (6.57%) MySQL
8 8 (5.84%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (5.84%) Metadata
8 8 (5.84%) SQL Server
9 5 (3.65%) Data Mining
9 5 (3.65%) RDBMS
10 4 (2.92%) Airbyte
10 4 (2.92%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.92%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.92%) Oracle Database
10 4 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.92%) Tableau
11 3 (2.19%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 18 (13.14%) Git
2 2 (1.46%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) Toad
3 1 (0.73%) utPLSQL
General
1 54 (39.42%) Social Skills
2 51 (37.23%) Finance
3 40 (29.20%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (10.22%) Influencing Skills
5 11 (8.03%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.92%) Legal
8 3 (2.19%) Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.46%) Marketing
10 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 47 (34.31%) Data Engineer
2 22 (16.06%) Architect
3 21 (15.33%) Data Architect
4 20 (14.60%) Lead
5 18 (13.14%) Azure Architect
6 17 (12.41%) Azure Data Architect
7 16 (11.68%) Analyst
8 15 (10.95%) Developer
9 14 (10.22%) Data Analyst
10 12 (8.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 12 (8.76%) Financial Analyst
11 11 (8.03%) Power BI Developer
11 11 (8.03%) Senior
12 10 (7.30%) Business Developer
13 9 (6.57%) Data Manager
13 9 (6.57%) Team Leader
14 8 (5.84%) Azure Data Engineer
14 8 (5.84%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (5.84%) Business Intelligence Specialist
14 8 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) SAP CO-PA
2 4 (2.92%) PySpark
3 3 (2.19%) JSON
3 3 (2.19%) REST
4 2 (1.46%) Node.js
4 2 (1.46%) React
4 2 (1.46%) SOAP
4 2 (1.46%) YAML
5 1 (0.73%) .NET
5 1 (0.73%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.73%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.73%) Kafka
5 1 (0.73%) LangChain
5 1 (0.73%) LangGraph
5 1 (0.73%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.65%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.92%) Replication
3 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.46%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.73%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (0.73%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.73%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (55.47%) Data Modelling
2 58 (42.34%) Analytics
3 57 (41.61%) Business Intelligence
4 52 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
5 48 (35.04%) Data Pipeline
6 45 (32.85%) Data Governance
7 44 (32.12%) Data Engineering
8 38 (27.74%) Decision-Making
9 29 (21.17%) Agile
10 24 (17.52%) Data Security
10 24 (17.52%) Technical Leadership
11 22 (16.06%) Budgeting
11 22 (16.06%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 22 (16.06%) Data Integration
12 21 (15.33%) Performance Tuning
12 21 (15.33%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (14.60%) CI/CD
14 19 (13.87%) AI
15 17 (12.41%) Data Science
16 16 (11.68%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 108 (78.83%) SQL
2 76 (55.47%) Python
3 12 (8.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (8.76%) VBA
4 6 (4.38%) PL/SQL
5 5 (3.65%) Java
6 4 (2.92%) Scala
7 2 (1.46%) C#
8 1 (0.73%) Bash
8 1 (0.73%) C++
8 1 (0.73%) Groovy
8 1 (0.73%) PROC SQL
8 1 (0.73%) R
8 1 (0.73%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (14.60%) Degree
2 12 (8.76%) ACCA
2 12 (8.76%) CIMA
3 5 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.92%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.19%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.19%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) CCA
6 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (39.42%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.73%) NIST
3 1 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.73%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.46%) Terraform
2 1 (0.73%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (25.55%) Databricks
2 30 (21.90%) Microsoft
3 23 (16.79%) SAP
4 21 (15.33%) Oracle
5 20 (14.60%) Informatica
6 5 (3.65%) Google
7 2 (1.46%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.46%) Talend
8 1 (0.73%) Callidus
8 1 (0.73%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.73%) Foundry
8 1 (0.73%) Palantir
8 1 (0.73%) Teradata