Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 155 149
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 -11
Permanent jobs citing ETL 951 1,855 2,143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.59% 1.75% 2.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.11% 2.54%
Number of salaries quoted 606 1,307 1,734
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £42,123
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £50,715
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,215 87,709 84,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 90.75% 82.56% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 28,201 60,352 53,527
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £74,258 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Salary trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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
England -40 853 £65,000 - 712
UK excluding London -67 486 £57,000 +3.64% 340
London +14 407 £77,500 +3.33% 450
Work from Home -51 346 £65,000 +8.33% 366
South East -14 131 £50,000 -21.26% 103
North of England -101 122 £60,000 +9.09% 81
Midlands +17 104 £55,000 -3.51% 64
West Midlands +12 72 £55,000 -8.33% 39
Yorkshire +24 57 £62,500 +25.00% 20
North West -132 54 £57,500 - 43
Scotland +12 49 £52,500 -19.23% 20
East of England +35 47 £57,000 +20.00% 15
South West +5 33 £52,500 - 43
East Midlands +37 32 £53,750 +13.16% 25
North East -6 11 £51,000 -28.67% 18
Wales +10 2 £45,112 -13.41% 8
Isle of Man - 1 - -

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 103 (10.83%) Apache Spark
2 71 (7.47%) Apache
3 57 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.42%) SharePoint
5 16 (1.68%) SAS
6 15 (1.58%) Confluence
7 11 (1.16%) Oracle Workflow
8 8 (0.84%) Camunda
9 7 (0.74%) CMS
10 6 (0.63%) Luigi
11 4 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.11%) Appian
13 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.11%) IBM Notes
13 1 (0.11%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.11%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 62 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.42%) SPSS
4 4 (0.42%) Trello
5 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 26 (2.73%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (0.74%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.42%) Infor M3
4 4 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.42%) Sage 1000
4 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.32%) Raiser’s Edge
6 2 (0.21%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.11%) Lorenzo
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.11%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 442 (46.48%) Azure
2 333 (35.02%) AWS
3 320 (33.65%) Power Platform
4 158 (16.61%) Azure Data Factory
4 158 (16.61%) Snowflake
5 149 (15.67%) GCP
6 73 (7.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 70 (7.36%) Serverless
8 62 (6.52%) Amazon S3
9 58 (6.10%) Power Automate
10 46 (4.84%) dbt
11 45 (4.73%) SaaS
12 42 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
14 39 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
15 30 (3.15%) GitHub
15 30 (3.15%) PowerApps
16 25 (2.63%) Azure Functions
17 23 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.53%) HTTP
2 4 (0.42%) Internet
3 3 (0.32%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.11%) SMS
4 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (42.17%) Data Warehouse
2 314 (33.02%) Power BI
3 164 (17.25%) Data Lake
4 157 (16.51%) SQL Server
5 129 (13.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 116 (12.20%) Big Data
7 92 (9.67%) NoSQL
8 88 (9.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 85 (8.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 68 (7.15%) Tableau
11 63 (6.62%) Metadata
12 61 (6.41%) Hadoop
13 53 (5.57%) Relational Database
14 50 (5.26%) Power Query
15 43 (4.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (4.42%) BigQuery
16 42 (4.42%) MySQL
17 39 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
18 29 (3.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 27 (2.84%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 53 (5.57%) Git
2 27 (2.84%) JIRA
3 26 (2.73%) Visual Studio
4 25 (2.63%) Eclipse
5 23 (2.42%) Eclipse RCP
6 20 (2.10%) Jenkins
7 17 (1.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 10 (1.05%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.05%) JUnit
9 6 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.53%) MLflow
11 3 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.32%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.21%) ERwin
12 2 (0.21%) Visual Studio Team System
13 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.11%) Mercurial
13 1 (0.11%) Selenium
13 1 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 283 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 269 (28.29%) Finance
3 233 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (15.56%) Law
5 83 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 74 (7.78%) Marketing
7 51 (5.36%) Banking
8 40 (4.21%) Public Sector
9 35 (3.68%) Legal
9 35 (3.68%) Manufacturing
10 33 (3.47%) Retail
11 18 (1.89%) Advertising
12 13 (1.37%) Games
13 10 (1.05%) Telecoms
14 8 (0.84%) Electronics
14 8 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.84%) Tech for Good
15 7 (0.74%) Billing
15 7 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
16 6 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 302 (31.76%) Data Engineer
2 185 (19.45%) Senior
3 181 (19.03%) Developer
4 140 (14.72%) Lead
5 91 (9.57%) Senior Data Engineer
6 88 (9.25%) Analyst
7 73 (7.68%) Architect
8 62 (6.52%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 62 (6.52%) Software Engineer
9 44 (4.63%) Consultant
10 39 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 38 (4.00%) Data Manager
12 36 (3.79%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 33 (3.47%) Power BI Developer
14 31 (3.26%) Junior
14 31 (3.26%) Lead Data Engineer
14 31 (3.26%) SQL Developer
15 29 (3.05%) ETL Developer
15 29 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
16 27 (2.84%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (9.25%) PySpark
2 66 (6.94%) Kafka
3 37 (3.89%) REST
4 36 (3.79%) HTML
5 35 (3.68%) CSS
6 33 (3.47%) .NET
7 27 (2.84%) Oracle Fusion
8 25 (2.63%) JSON
8 25 (2.63%) Middleware
9 23 (2.42%) JSP
10 22 (2.31%) Pandas
10 22 (2.31%) XML
11 15 (1.58%) React
12 12 (1.26%) SOAP
12 12 (1.26%) Spark Streaming
12 12 (1.26%) Web Services
13 11 (1.16%) RESTful
13 11 (1.16%) Spring
13 11 (1.16%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.05%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.47%) Data Structures
1 71 (7.47%) Management Information System
2 56 (5.89%) Legacy Systems
3 45 (4.73%) Product Ownership
4 30 (3.15%) Algorithms
5 29 (3.05%) Cloud Native
6 16 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.05%) FMCG
10 10 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 10 (1.05%) Replication
10 10 (1.05%) Social Media
11 8 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.74%) Credit Risk
13 6 (0.63%) Data Fabric
13 6 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (0.63%) NHS
14 5 (0.53%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 40 (4.21%) Linux
2 34 (3.58%) Windows
3 13 (1.37%) Unix
4 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (43.53%) Analytics
2 407 (42.80%) Business Intelligence
3 381 (40.06%) Data Modelling
4 313 (32.91%) Data Pipeline
5 291 (30.60%) Data Engineering
6 256 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
7 227 (23.87%) Agile
8 202 (21.24%) Decision-Making
9 198 (20.82%) Visualisation
10 181 (19.03%) Data Governance
11 174 (18.30%) CI/CD
12 155 (16.30%) DevOps
13 142 (14.93%) Data Management
13 142 (14.93%) Mentoring
14 141 (14.83%) Data Architecture
14 141 (14.83%) Data Science
15 140 (14.72%) Migration
16 134 (14.09%) Data Integration
17 131 (13.77%) Machine Learning
18 126 (13.25%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 713 (74.97%) SQL
2 468 (49.21%) Python
3 110 (11.57%) Java
4 88 (9.25%) T-SQL
5 80 (8.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 72 (7.57%) C#
7 45 (4.73%) Scala
8 39 (4.10%) PL/SQL
9 27 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 26 (2.73%) JavaScript
11 23 (2.42%) Ada
11 23 (2.42%) R
11 23 (2.42%) Rust
12 19 (2.00%) Bash
13 10 (1.05%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.74%) SPARQL
15 6 (0.63%) C++
15 6 (0.63%) Go
15 6 (0.63%) PHP
15 6 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 193 (20.29%) Degree
2 72 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 47 (4.94%) Azure Certification
4 36 (3.79%) Security Cleared
5 33 (3.47%) Master's Degree
6 32 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (3.26%) AWS Certification
7 31 (3.26%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.58%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.74%) SnowPro
11 6 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.63%) PhD
11 6 (0.63%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.53%) ACCA
12 5 (0.53%) CIMA
12 5 (0.53%) PMP
13 4 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.21%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (20.61%) Data Quality
2 64 (6.73%) QA
3 55 (5.78%) GDPR
4 42 (4.42%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.42%) Basel II
8 4 (0.42%) Basel III
8 4 (0.42%) Dodd-Frank
8 4 (0.42%) GxP
8 4 (0.42%) IFRS
8 4 (0.42%) IFRS 9
9 3 (0.32%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.21%) Dublin Core
10 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) HL7
11 1 (0.11%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 43 (4.52%) Docker
2 12 (1.26%) HDFS
3 8 (0.84%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (5.99%) Terraform
2 42 (4.42%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.05%) Prometheus
4 8 (0.84%) Grafana
4 8 (0.84%) Oozie
5 5 (0.53%) Ansible
6 4 (0.42%) Kibana
7 3 (0.32%) logstash
8 2 (0.21%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 214 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 166 (17.46%) Databricks
3 103 (10.83%) Oracle
4 64 (6.73%) Google
5 47 (4.94%) Informatica
6 41 (4.31%) SAP
7 33 (3.47%) Salesforce
8 25 (2.63%) Alteryx
9 20 (2.10%) Talend
10 13 (1.37%) Splunk
11 11 (1.16%) IBM
11 11 (1.16%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.84%) Dynatrace
12 8 (0.84%) Palantir
13 7 (0.74%) Cloudera
14 6 (0.63%) Aderant
14 6 (0.63%) Intapp
14 6 (0.63%) StreamSets
15 5 (0.53%) Xero
16 4 (0.42%) Vertica