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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 128 129
Rank change year-on-year -52 +1 +1
Permanent jobs citing ETL 1,128 1,582 4,152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.49% 2.66% 2.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.82% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 714 1,278 2,667
10th Percentile £41,650 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,188 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

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 63,410 56,130 135,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.81% 94.41% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 31,055 40,211 76,155
10th Percentile £33,875 £32,500 £33,986
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £52,700 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.47% +0.38% +5.00%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 19 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 23 October 2024. 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 -63 1,051 £65,000 - 320
UK excluding London -73 552 £55,000 - 180
London -36 537 £75,000 - 161
Work from Home -90 389 £72,500 +17.89% 475
North of England -45 198 £55,000 -4.35% 61
South East -31 130 £57,500 -4.17% 29
North West -43 119 £55,000 - 31
Midlands -70 98 £57,500 +15.00% 32
West Midlands -33 87 £57,500 +7.48% 22
South West -39 61 £48,918 -29.56% 15
Yorkshire +9 59 £50,000 -13.04% 13
Scotland -32 38 £52,500 -4.55% 14
North East -27 20 £49,274 -10.41% 18
East of England -63 14 £57,500 -8.00% 19
East Midlands -75 10 £65,000 +30.00% 10
Northern Ireland +30 5 £87,500 +118.75% 5
Wales +20 4 £42,751 -4.38% 6
Isle of Man - 3 £36,000 -
Channel Islands - 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 94 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 72 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (5.14%) Apache
4 46 (4.08%) SAS
5 36 (3.19%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 15 (1.33%) Confluence
8 4 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.35%) Luigi
8 4 (0.35%) nginx
9 3 (0.27%) Appian
10 2 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.089%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.089%) Documentum
11 1 (0.089%) Moodle
Applications
1 84 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (0.98%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.80%) Weka
6 1 (0.089%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
3 13 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) SystmOne
5 5 (0.44%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.35%) Aareon QL
6 4 (0.35%) Dynamics GP
6 4 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
6 4 (0.35%) OPENHousing
6 4 (0.35%) Orchard Housing
7 3 (0.27%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 3 (0.27%) SAP MDM
8 2 (0.18%) Elite 3E
8 2 (0.18%) iTrent
8 2 (0.18%) Magento
8 2 (0.18%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.089%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.089%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 534 (47.34%) Azure
2 403 (35.73%) Power Platform
3 293 (25.98%) AWS
4 186 (16.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 134 (11.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 120 (10.64%) GCP
7 102 (9.04%) Snowflake
8 99 (8.78%) Amazon S3
9 91 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
10 63 (5.59%) SaaS
11 59 (5.23%) Serverless
12 42 (3.72%) dbt
13 35 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (3.01%) GitHub
15 32 (2.84%) Power Automate
15 32 (2.84%) PowerApps
16 31 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (2.75%) OCI
17 22 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
17 22 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.35%) SAN
2 3 (0.27%) DNS
2 3 (0.27%) VPN
3 2 (0.18%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.18%) Firewall
3 2 (0.18%) Internet
4 1 (0.089%) LAN
4 1 (0.089%) Network Security
4 1 (0.089%) SMS
4 1 (0.089%) WAN
4 1 (0.089%) WebEx
4 1 (0.089%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (43.62%) Data Warehouse
2 396 (35.11%) Power BI
3 217 (19.24%) SQL Server
4 194 (17.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 181 (16.05%) Data Lake
6 126 (11.17%) Big Data
7 124 (10.99%) Tableau
8 99 (8.78%) Amazon Redshift
9 98 (8.69%) NoSQL
10 88 (7.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 76 (6.74%) Data Mining
12 65 (5.76%) Azure SQL Database
13 60 (5.32%) BigQuery
14 58 (5.14%) Power Query
15 55 (4.88%) Relational Database
16 53 (4.70%) Amazon QuickSight
17 47 (4.17%) Metadata
18 44 (3.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 37 (3.28%) DynamoDB
20 34 (3.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 72 (6.38%) Git
2 66 (5.85%) JIRA
3 44 (3.90%) Visual Studio
4 40 (3.55%) Jenkins
5 25 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
6 18 (1.60%) SoapUI
7 15 (1.33%) Selenium
8 14 (1.24%) SpecFlow
9 13 (1.15%) GitLab
9 13 (1.15%) NUnit
10 11 (0.98%) Eclipse
11 10 (0.89%) Eclipse RCP
12 8 (0.71%) RStudio
12 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.44%) Postman
13 5 (0.44%) Terragrunt
13 5 (0.44%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 348 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 254 (22.52%) Finance
3 235 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (4.52%) Law
5 47 (4.17%) Retail
6 45 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
7 44 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 31 (2.75%) Marketing
9 28 (2.48%) Banking
10 24 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.86%) Advertising
12 20 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.51%) Legal
14 15 (1.33%) Public Sector
15 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
16 10 (0.89%) Brand Awareness
16 10 (0.89%) Front Office
17 7 (0.62%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.62%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.53%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 361 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 211 (18.71%) Senior
3 205 (18.17%) Developer
4 131 (11.61%) Lead
5 124 (10.99%) Architect
6 99 (8.78%) Data Architect
7 95 (8.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 85 (7.54%) Analyst
9 80 (7.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 55 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
11 50 (4.43%) Azure Data Engineer
12 49 (4.34%) Lead Data Engineer
12 49 (4.34%) SQL Developer
13 46 (4.08%) Data Analyst
14 32 (2.84%) Power BI Developer
15 31 (2.75%) Data Manager
16 30 (2.66%) Cloud Architect
17 29 (2.57%) Python Engineer
18 28 (2.48%) Consultant
19 25 (2.22%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.29%) PySpark
2 60 (5.32%) Kafka
3 49 (4.34%) .NET
4 46 (4.08%) XML
5 45 (3.99%) REST
6 34 (3.01%) JSON
7 31 (2.75%) Web Services
8 30 (2.66%) SOAP
9 28 (2.48%) .NET Framework
10 25 (2.22%) HTML
11 19 (1.68%) CSS
11 19 (1.68%) Node.js
12 18 (1.60%) Middleware
13 16 (1.42%) WSDL
13 16 (1.42%) XML Messaging
13 16 (1.42%) XSD
14 14 (1.24%) Pandas
14 14 (1.24%) React
15 13 (1.15%) NumPy
15 13 (1.15%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (5.85%) Data Structures
2 43 (3.81%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.46%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.75%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 23 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 20 (1.77%) Algorithms
6 20 (1.77%) Life Science
7 19 (1.68%) PropTech
8 16 (1.42%) NHS
8 16 (1.42%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.06%) Replication
9 12 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 10 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (0.71%) Public Cloud
12 8 (0.71%) Reference Data
13 7 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
14 6 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.48%) Linux
2 23 (2.04%) Windows
3 10 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.80%) Unix
5 5 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.35%) Android
7 2 (0.18%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.089%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (46.01%) Business Intelligence
2 461 (40.87%) Data Modelling
3 372 (32.98%) Analytics
4 348 (30.85%) Data Engineering
5 267 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
6 254 (22.52%) Visualisation
7 246 (21.81%) Agile
8 244 (21.63%) Data Pipeline
9 243 (21.54%) DevOps
10 206 (18.26%) Data Visualisation
11 204 (18.09%) Data Integration
12 187 (16.58%) Data Management
13 178 (15.78%) CI/CD
14 159 (14.10%) Migration
15 148 (13.12%) Computer Science
16 147 (13.03%) Machine Learning
17 145 (12.85%) Data Governance
18 144 (12.77%) Data Science
19 137 (12.15%) Data Architecture
20 133 (11.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 769 (68.17%) SQL
2 485 (43.00%) Python
3 125 (11.08%) T-SQL
4 109 (9.66%) C#
5 86 (7.62%) R
6 81 (7.18%) Java
7 64 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 50 (4.43%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.19%) JavaScript
10 34 (3.01%) MATLAB
11 26 (2.30%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.95%) Scala
13 20 (1.77%) VBA
14 19 (1.68%) Bash
15 12 (1.06%) Bicep
16 11 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.98%) VB.NET
17 9 (0.80%) ABAP
18 8 (0.71%) TypeScript
19 5 (0.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 216 (19.15%) Degree
2 81 (7.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (5.23%) Security Cleared
4 51 (4.52%) Master's Degree
5 40 (3.55%) SC Cleared
6 23 (2.04%) DBS Check
7 18 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 16 (1.42%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.24%) ISEB
10 10 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.44%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.27%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 2 (0.18%) OCA
14 2 (0.18%) OCP
14 2 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
14 2 (0.18%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.089%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (20.30%) Data Quality
2 40 (3.55%) Accessibility
3 31 (2.75%) GDPR
4 25 (2.22%) QA
5 9 (0.80%) CDISC
6 6 (0.53%) SLA
7 3 (0.27%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.18%) HL7
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.089%) PMO
System Software
1 41 (3.63%) Docker
2 6 (0.53%) HDFS
3 4 (0.35%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.35%) vSphere
4 1 (0.089%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 65 (5.76%) Terraform
2 39 (3.46%) Kubernetes
3 18 (1.60%) Ansible
4 9 (0.80%) HP ALM
5 7 (0.62%) Grafana
6 6 (0.53%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.35%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.089%) FTK
9 1 (0.089%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 224 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 223 (19.77%) Databricks
3 145 (12.85%) Oracle
4 70 (6.21%) Google
5 61 (5.41%) SAP
6 56 (4.96%) Informatica
7 16 (1.42%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.15%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.89%) Cognos
9 10 (0.89%) HP
9 10 (0.89%) Talend
10 9 (0.80%) BT
10 9 (0.80%) IBM
11 7 (0.62%) Alteryx
11 7 (0.62%) Teradata
12 6 (0.53%) Apple
12 6 (0.53%) Epicor
12 6 (0.53%) OpenText
12 6 (0.53%) Siebel
13 5 (0.44%) MicroStrategy