ETL Development Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ETL Development skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 539 531
Rank change year-on-year +51 -8 +162
Permanent jobs citing ETL Development 22 20 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.055% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.062% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 22 10 25
10th Percentile £49,125 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,750 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -11.89% +22.00%
75th Percentile £65,313 £62,438 £71,000
90th Percentile £123,125 £66,125 £73,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.33% +7.14% +16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

ETL Development 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 33,001 32,118 30,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 78.62% 88.87% 88.62%
Number of salaries quoted 18,958 14,487 22,822
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

ETL Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ETL Development relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ETL Development job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ETL Development
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ETL Development.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ETL Development

ETL Development
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL Development in the UK excluding London

ETL Development
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
East of England - 16 £57,500 - 3
Midlands +19 3 £125,000 +194.12%
West Midlands +31 2 £125,000 +194.12%
South East +29 2 £87,500 +40.00% 2
North of England +15 1 £45,000 -25.31% 1
Yorkshire -17 1 £45,000 -25.62% 1
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
ETL Development
UK

ETL Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (27.27%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (13.64%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Boomi
5 1 (4.55%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (72.73%) MySQL
2 15 (68.18%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (68.18%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Pentaho
5 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) JIRA
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 10 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Report Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) SAP BusinessObjects Developer (SAP BO Developer)
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Developer
5 1 (4.55%) ETL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) ETL
2 15 (68.18%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (59.09%) Visualisation
4 11 (50.00%) Data Management
4 11 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (40.91%) Agile
5 9 (40.91%) Data Visualisation
5 9 (40.91%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (18.18%) Data Migration
7 4 (18.18%) DevOps
7 4 (18.18%) Migration
8 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
9 2 (9.09%) Data Strategy
9 2 (9.09%) Event-Driven
9 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) DBS Check
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) SAP
2 4 (18.18%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Informatica
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Cognos
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Talend