ETL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 178 152
Rank change year-on-year -36 -26 +12
Permanent jobs citing ETL 508 424 1,294
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.80% 1.59% 1.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 1.75% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 383 290 838
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,067 24,285 56,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.39% 91.28% 84.13%
Number of salaries quoted 28,065 13,812 40,686
10th Percentile £28,957 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.86%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ETL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ETL
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK excluding London

ETL
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
South East -9 142 £62,500 +8.70% 83
North of England -62 117 £62,500 -3.85% 72
Midlands -34 105 £60,000 +11.76% 63
West Midlands -16 84 £60,000 +9.09% 38
East of England -8 61 £62,500 +25.00% 22
North West -30 59 £55,000 -12.00% 43
Yorkshire -71 44 £65,000 -1.89% 20
South West -41 42 £55,000 +4.76% 43
Scotland -12 37 £92,500 +37.04% 14
East Midlands -66 21 £52,500 +8.25% 25
North East -30 14 £51,000 -29.66% 11
Wales -26 5 £60,500 -24.38% 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £50,000 - 9
ETL
UK

ETL
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 52 (10.24%) Apache Airflow
2 36 (7.09%) Apache Spark
3 29 (5.71%) Apache
4 15 (2.95%) SAS
5 12 (2.36%) Confluence
6 11 (2.17%) SharePoint
7 6 (1.18%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 38 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.95%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.77%) SAP CO
2 6 (1.18%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.79%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.39%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.20%) Primavera
5 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 257 (50.59%) Azure
2 158 (31.10%) Power Platform
3 138 (27.17%) AWS
4 101 (19.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 71 (13.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 62 (12.20%) Snowflake
7 57 (11.22%) GCP
8 50 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (8.86%) dbt
10 33 (6.50%) Amazon S3
11 30 (5.91%) GitHub
12 26 (5.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 26 (5.12%) Serverless
13 23 (4.53%) SaaS
14 18 (3.54%) Power Automate
15 15 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
16 14 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
17 11 (2.17%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) Broadband
1 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (35.04%) Data Warehouse
2 152 (29.92%) Power BI
3 80 (15.75%) Data Lake
4 73 (14.37%) SQL Server
5 45 (8.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 44 (8.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (7.68%) Metadata
8 36 (7.09%) Relational Database
9 33 (6.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 29 (5.71%) NoSQL
11 26 (5.12%) BigQuery
11 26 (5.12%) Snowflake Schema
11 26 (5.12%) Tableau
12 25 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (4.72%) MySQL
14 21 (4.13%) Star Schema
15 20 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (3.54%) MongoDB
16 18 (3.54%) Spark SQL
17 15 (2.95%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 37 (7.28%) Git
2 30 (5.91%) JIRA
3 9 (1.77%) IBM UrbanCode
3 9 (1.77%) MLflow
4 4 (0.79%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.39%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.39%) DBeaver
6 2 (0.39%) JMeter
6 2 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.39%) Toad
7 1 (0.20%) GitLab
7 1 (0.20%) LSMW
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) utPLSQL
7 1 (0.20%) Zephyr
General
1 155 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 149 (29.33%) Finance
3 135 (26.57%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.68%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.33%) Banking
6 17 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (3.35%) Law
7 16 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (2.95%) Legal
9 11 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.97%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.98%) Automotive
14 4 (0.79%) Marketing
15 3 (0.59%) Retail
16 2 (0.39%) Advertising
16 2 (0.39%) Games
16 2 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 212 (41.73%) Data Engineer
2 93 (18.31%) Senior
3 60 (11.81%) Lead
4 54 (10.63%) Developer
5 50 (9.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 46 (9.06%) Analyst
7 42 (8.27%) Architect
7 42 (8.27%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (7.09%) Data Architect
9 31 (6.10%) Azure Data Engineer
10 29 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 24 (4.72%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (4.53%) Integration Engineer
13 20 (3.94%) Business Developer
14 19 (3.74%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.74%) Azure Architect
14 19 (3.74%) Azure Data Architect
14 19 (3.74%) Data Analyst
14 19 (3.74%) Data Manager
15 16 (3.15%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (11.22%) PySpark
2 21 (4.13%) Kafka
2 21 (4.13%) REST
3 20 (3.94%) JSON
4 12 (2.36%) OAuth
4 12 (2.36%) OAuth2
5 11 (2.17%) RESTful
6 10 (1.97%) .NET
6 10 (1.97%) SOAP
7 9 (1.77%) LangChain
7 9 (1.77%) PyTorch
7 9 (1.77%) SAP CO-PA
8 8 (1.57%) EDI
8 8 (1.57%) TensorFlow
9 7 (1.38%) ARM Templates
9 7 (1.38%) LlamaIndex
9 7 (1.38%) Pandas
9 7 (1.38%) pgvector
9 7 (1.38%) scikit-learn
9 7 (1.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.68%) Cloud Native
2 22 (4.33%) Management Information System
3 20 (3.94%) Data Structures
4 19 (3.74%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.35%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
7 10 (1.97%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.77%) Clustering
8 9 (1.77%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.38%) Replication
10 6 (1.18%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.59%) Algorithms
13 3 (0.59%) Online Gambling
13 3 (0.59%) Sports Betting
13 3 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.98%) Windows
2 2 (0.39%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (47.24%) Data Modelling
2 222 (43.70%) Analytics
3 201 (39.57%) Business Intelligence
4 199 (39.17%) Data Pipeline
5 184 (36.22%) Data Engineering
6 137 (26.97%) Agile
7 135 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
8 119 (23.43%) Data Governance
9 115 (22.64%) CI/CD
10 110 (21.65%) Decision-Making
11 106 (20.87%) Data Integration
12 97 (19.09%) DevOps
13 81 (15.94%) AI
14 66 (12.99%) Performance Tuning
15 62 (12.20%) Data Architecture
16 59 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (11.42%) Visualisation
18 57 (11.22%) Data Management
18 57 (11.22%) Mentoring
19 55 (10.83%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 381 (75.00%) SQL
2 257 (50.59%) Python
3 32 (6.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 28 (5.51%) T-SQL
5 20 (3.94%) Java
6 15 (2.95%) VBA
7 13 (2.56%) C#
8 12 (2.36%) Bicep
8 12 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.17%) Scala
10 8 (1.57%) Bash
10 8 (1.57%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.18%) Groovy
13 4 (0.79%) R
14 3 (0.59%) C++
15 2 (0.39%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
16 1 (0.20%) PROC SQL
16 1 (0.20%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 51 (10.04%) Degree
2 32 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 19 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (3.35%) SC Cleared
5 12 (2.36%) ACCA
5 12 (2.36%) CIMA
6 8 (1.57%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.38%) CITP
8 5 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.20%) OCP
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (33.07%) Data Quality
2 56 (11.02%) GDPR
3 18 (3.54%) QA
4 12 (2.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 10 (1.97%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.18%) NIST
7 6 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS
9 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (1.77%) Docker
2 6 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (6.89%) Terraform
2 6 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.79%) Grafana
4 2 (0.39%) Control-M
4 2 (0.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 105 (20.67%) Databricks
2 97 (19.09%) Microsoft
3 53 (10.43%) Oracle
4 47 (9.25%) SAP
5 41 (8.07%) Informatica
6 22 (4.33%) Talend
7 19 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 16 (3.15%) Cloudera
9 14 (2.76%) Ab Initio
10 12 (2.36%) Google
11 11 (2.17%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.77%) Red Hat
13 8 (1.57%) IBM
14 7 (1.38%) Dell
14 7 (1.38%) Planon
15 6 (1.18%) Northgate
16 5 (0.98%) Pega
16 5 (0.98%) ServiceNow
17 3 (0.59%) Palantir
17 3 (0.59%) RedGate