ETL Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 153 145
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 -42
Permanent jobs citing ETL 37 47 75
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.74% 1.08% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 1.28% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 30 36 46
10th Percentile £34,000 £38,750 £43,125
25th Percentile £39,544 £46,360 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -18.52% +21.62%
75th Percentile £62,188 £72,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £79,375 £85,000 £84,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,638 3,658 3,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 72.60% 84.34% 91.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,464 1,879 3,024
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +7.49%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,781
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
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 West

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the South West

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Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the South West over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for ETL in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the South West region over the 6 months to 31 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
Bristol +7 21 £47,500 -26.92% 38
Wiltshire +9 6 £36,000 -10.00% 20
Gloucestershire +16 4 £70,000 +43.10% 52
Devon +4 3 £48,975 -30.04% 35
Dorset +1 2 £72,500 +34.88% 26
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (16.22%) Apache
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (35.14%) Power Platform
2 11 (29.73%) Azure
3 8 (21.62%) AWS
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 4 (10.81%) Snowflake
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.11%) dbt
6 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (5.41%) Serverless
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (2.70%) Boomi
7 1 (2.70%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (2.70%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) Power BI
2 9 (24.32%) NoSQL
3 8 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (18.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (13.51%) Looker
5 5 (13.51%) Metadata
5 5 (13.51%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
6 4 (10.81%) MySQL
6 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
6 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (10.81%) Tableau
7 3 (8.11%) OLAP
8 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
8 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
9 1 (2.70%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (2.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Git
2 2 (5.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (32.43%) Finance
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Marketing
4 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
5 5 (13.51%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Electronics
6 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.70%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Data Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Support Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Product Owner
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Data Scientist
6 2 (5.41%) Principal Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Principal Data Architect
6 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Business Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Data Consultant
7 1 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) PySpark
2 4 (10.81%) Kafka
2 4 (10.81%) Pandas
3 2 (5.41%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (5.41%) NumPy
4 1 (2.70%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.70%) Hugging Face
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.41%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Analytics
1 16 (43.24%) Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) Data Modelling
2 14 (37.84%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (35.14%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (27.03%) Data Engineering
5 8 (21.62%) Agile
5 8 (21.62%) Machine Learning
6 7 (18.92%) AI
6 7 (18.92%) Data Integration
6 7 (18.92%) DevOps
6 7 (18.92%) Validation
7 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 5 (13.51%) Data Architecture
7 5 (13.51%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (13.51%) Data Management
7 5 (13.51%) Data Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Migration
7 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) SQL
2 23 (62.16%) Python
3 7 (18.92%) C#
4 2 (5.41%) Groovy
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.41%) Scala
4 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) C++
5 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Databricks
2 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) SAP
4 2 (5.41%) Alteryx
4 2 (5.41%) Oracle
4 2 (5.41%) Palantir
4 2 (5.41%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) BMC
5 1 (2.70%) Foundry
5 1 (2.70%) Google
5 1 (2.70%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.70%) IBM
5 1 (2.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.70%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.70%) Zoho