ETL Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 98 158 156
Rank change year-on-year +60 -2 -61
Permanent jobs citing ETL 68 21 40
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.69% 0.62% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 0.68% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 45 14 33
10th Percentile £44,250 £35,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,000 £38,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,750 £64,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,250 £67,625 £79,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,244 3,105 3,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.48% 91.76% 89.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,761 1,382 2,457
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.48% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the Thames Valley

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Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +10 31 £50,000 - 26
Buckinghamshire +32 30 £62,500 - 6
Oxfordshire +26 7 £60,000 +71.43% 10
ETL
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (8.82%) SAP CO
2 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (57.35%) Azure
2 34 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 20 (29.41%) AWS
3 20 (29.41%) GCP
4 13 (19.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (5.88%) dbt
7 4 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (4.41%) Collibra
8 3 (4.41%) Fivetran
8 3 (4.41%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.94%) GitHub
9 2 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.94%) Google Data Studio
10 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.47%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (45.59%) Power BI
3 13 (19.12%) Metadata
4 10 (14.71%) SQL Server
4 10 (14.71%) Tableau
5 8 (11.76%) Data Mining
6 7 (10.29%) Data Lake
7 6 (8.82%) Relational Database
8 5 (7.35%) BigQuery
8 5 (7.35%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (4.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (4.41%) Looker
10 3 (4.41%) MySQL
10 3 (4.41%) SAP BW
10 3 (4.41%) SAP HANA
10 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (2.94%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) ERwin
2 3 (4.41%) PowerDesigner
General
1 32 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 31 (45.59%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (32.35%) Finance
4 15 (22.06%) Marketing
5 12 (17.65%) Law
6 11 (16.18%) Manufacturing
7 6 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.41%) Publishing
8 3 (4.41%) Retail
9 2 (2.94%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.47%) Banking
10 1 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (30.88%) Senior
2 17 (25.00%) Analyst
3 14 (20.59%) Architect
3 14 (20.59%) Data Architect
4 12 (17.65%) Senior Architect
4 12 (17.65%) Senior Data Architect
5 11 (16.18%) Data Engineer
6 10 (14.71%) Developer
7 9 (13.24%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 9 (13.24%) Data Analyst
8 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (10.29%) Business Developer
9 7 (10.29%) Data Manager
9 7 (10.29%) Power BI Developer
10 6 (8.82%) Business Intelligence Specialist
10 6 (8.82%) Financial Analyst
10 6 (8.82%) Power BI Specialist
11 5 (7.35%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (5.88%) Senior Business Manager
12 4 (5.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) SAP CO-PA
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) Hugging Face
2 2 (2.94%) LangChain
2 2 (2.94%) Middleware
2 2 (2.94%) Mongoose
2 2 (2.94%) NumPy
2 2 (2.94%) Pandas
2 2 (2.94%) PySpark
2 2 (2.94%) REST
2 2 (2.94%) scikit-learn
2 2 (2.94%) SOAP
3 1 (1.47%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.47%) LangGraph
3 1 (1.47%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.47%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (1.47%) Snowpark
3 1 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.47%) AI Agents
2 1 (1.47%) Autonomous Agent
2 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
2 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.47%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.47%) Private Cloud
2 1 (1.47%) Sports Betting
2 1 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (55.88%) Data Modelling
2 34 (50.00%) Analytics
2 34 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (45.59%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (41.18%) Data Governance
5 27 (39.71%) Data Integration
6 26 (38.24%) Decision-Making
7 22 (32.35%) AI
7 22 (32.35%) Data Architecture
7 22 (32.35%) Data Engineering
7 22 (32.35%) Roadmaps
8 20 (29.41%) Machine Learning
9 18 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (26.47%) Strategic Roadmap
10 16 (23.53%) Data Science
10 16 (23.53%) Mentoring
11 14 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (20.59%) Customer Insight
11 14 (20.59%) Data Strategy
12 13 (19.12%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 48 (70.59%) SQL
2 31 (45.59%) Python
3 10 (14.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (8.82%) VBA
5 4 (5.88%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.94%) R
7 1 (1.47%) C++
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Degree
2 6 (8.82%) ACCA
2 6 (8.82%) CIMA
3 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.88%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.41%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.41%) PMP
5 3 (4.41%) SAP Certification
6 2 (2.94%) CISSP
6 2 (2.94%) MCSE
6 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.94%) OCP
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (44.12%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.88%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.88%) Terraform
2 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (23.53%) SAP
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.35%) Databricks
3 5 (7.35%) Google
4 4 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.41%) Talend
6 2 (2.94%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.94%) HubSpot
6 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.94%) Oracle
6 2 (2.94%) Zoho
7 1 (1.47%) Foundry
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) Informatica
7 1 (1.47%) Palantir