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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 180 172
Rank change year-on-year +28 -8 -36
Permanent jobs citing ETL 122 120 130
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.18% 1.34% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 1.52% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 81 46 98
10th Percentile £45,000 £35,625 £43,450
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,313 £44,956
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £65,813
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,458 £87,875
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 8,306 7,897 7,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.19% 88.14% 88.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,952 3,758 5,459
10th Percentile £27,750 £33,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,250 £45,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
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 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 13 January 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 13 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
Thames Valley +60 68 £62,500 +25.00% 42
Berkshire +10 31 £50,000 - 26
Buckinghamshire +32 30 £62,500 - 6
Surrey -12 14 £57,500 - 14
Hampshire +18 13 £65,000 +9.24% 14
East Sussex +2 11 £85,000 +12.17% 9
Oxfordshire +26 7 £60,000 +71.43% 10
Middlesex -9 7 - - 2
Kent -14 5 £125,000 +244.83% 7
West Sussex - 3 £60,000 - 4
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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 4 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.46%) SAS
3 2 (1.64%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.82%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (16.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.92%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) SAP CO
2 2 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (50.82%) Azure
2 56 (45.90%) Power Platform
3 25 (20.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 24 (19.67%) AWS
5 21 (17.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (16.39%) GCP
7 8 (6.56%) SaaS
7 8 (6.56%) Snowflake
8 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.10%) Fivetran
9 4 (3.28%) dbt
10 3 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.46%) Collibra
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.64%) GitHub
11 2 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.64%) Google Data Studio
12 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (43.44%) Power BI
2 52 (42.62%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (17.21%) SQL Server
4 13 (10.66%) Metadata
4 13 (10.66%) Tableau
5 10 (8.20%) Data Lake
6 8 (6.56%) Data Mining
7 7 (5.74%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (4.10%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.10%) Looker
9 5 (4.10%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.46%) MySQL
11 3 (2.46%) SAP BW
11 3 (2.46%) SAP HANA
11 3 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.46%) Star Schema
12 2 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 8 (6.56%) Git
2 3 (2.46%) ERwin
2 3 (2.46%) PowerDesigner
General
1 48 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 42 (34.43%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (26.23%) Finance
4 17 (13.93%) Marketing
5 15 (12.30%) Law
6 11 (9.02%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.92%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.10%) Banking
8 5 (4.10%) Retail
9 4 (3.28%) Automotive
10 3 (2.46%) Publishing
11 2 (1.64%) Advertising
11 2 (1.64%) French Language
11 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (22.13%) Senior
2 24 (19.67%) Architect
2 24 (19.67%) Data Architect
3 19 (15.57%) Analyst
4 17 (13.93%) Data Engineer
4 17 (13.93%) Developer
5 15 (12.30%) Lead
6 12 (9.84%) Senior Architect
6 12 (9.84%) Senior Data Architect
7 11 (9.02%) Data Manager
8 10 (8.20%) Azure Architect
8 10 (8.20%) Azure Data Architect
9 9 (7.38%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 9 (7.38%) Data Analyst
10 8 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 8 (6.56%) Business Intelligence Manager
10 8 (6.56%) Power BI Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Business Developer
11 7 (5.74%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (4.92%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.74%) JSON
1 7 (5.74%) XML
2 6 (4.92%) REST
2 6 (4.92%) SAP CO-PA
2 6 (4.92%) SOAP
3 4 (3.28%) OAuth
3 4 (3.28%) SAML
4 3 (2.46%) PySpark
5 2 (1.64%) .NET
5 2 (1.64%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.64%) LangChain
5 2 (1.64%) Middleware
5 2 (1.64%) Mongoose
5 2 (1.64%) Node.js
5 2 (1.64%) NumPy
5 2 (1.64%) Pandas
5 2 (1.64%) React
5 2 (1.64%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.82%) Kafka
6 1 (0.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.82%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.82%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.82%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.82%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (0.82%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.82%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (0.82%) Sports Betting
4 1 (0.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.46%) Data Modelling
2 61 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (40.98%) Analytics
4 48 (39.34%) Data Engineering
5 47 (38.52%) Data Governance
6 45 (36.89%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (33.61%) Decision-Making
8 39 (31.97%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (26.23%) Data Integration
10 28 (22.95%) AI
10 28 (22.95%) Roadmaps
11 25 (20.49%) Agile
11 25 (20.49%) Machine Learning
12 24 (19.67%) Data Architecture
12 24 (19.67%) Mentoring
13 23 (18.85%) Data Science
13 23 (18.85%) Data Strategy
14 21 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (17.21%) Visualisation
15 18 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 93 (76.23%) SQL
2 60 (49.18%) Python
3 11 (9.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.74%) T-SQL
5 6 (4.92%) VBA
6 2 (1.64%) Bash
6 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.64%) R
7 1 (0.82%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (15.57%) Degree
2 6 (4.92%) ACCA
2 6 (4.92%) CIMA
2 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.28%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.46%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.46%) PMP
4 3 (2.46%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.46%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.64%) CISSP
5 2 (1.64%) MCSE
5 2 (1.64%) OCP
5 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.82%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (40.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.10%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
4 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (4.10%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (3.28%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 21 (17.21%) Databricks
3 16 (13.11%) SAP
4 11 (9.02%) Informatica
5 10 (8.20%) Oracle
6 5 (4.10%) Google
6 5 (4.10%) Talend
7 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.64%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.64%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.64%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.64%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.64%) Zoho
9 1 (0.82%) Foundry
9 1 (0.82%) IBM
9 1 (0.82%) Palantir