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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 203 141 137
Rank change year-on-year -62 -4 -12
Permanent jobs citing ETL 869 2,063 2,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.57% 2.08% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.43% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 581 1,456 1,857
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -6.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £93,125 £99,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 51,972 84,955 96,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.89% 85.58% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,632 59,894 57,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,002 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,365 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.73% -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 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 16 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 13 May 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 -66 789 £62,500 - 1,121
UK excluding London -84 448 £55,000 - 677
London -19 363 £75,000 +3.45% 648
Work from Home -78 340 £65,000 +8.33% 600
North of England -106 121 £65,000 +18.18% 140
South East -17 115 £50,000 -18.37% 245
Midlands -19 104 £55,000 +2.54% 97
West Midlands -24 72 £55,000 -2.65% 65
Yorkshire +44 62 £65,000 +36.84% 40
North West -119 55 £56,250 +2.27% 84
East of England +19 39 £50,000 +5.26% 61
South West +26 33 £52,000 -5.45% 81
Scotland +5 33 £52,500 -12.50% 41
East Midlands +5 32 £48,500 +2.11% 25
North East -18 4 £67,500 +5.47% 20
Wales +10 3 £80,000 +60.64% 11

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 88 (10.13%) Apache Spark
2 68 (7.83%) Apache
3 59 (6.79%) Apache Airflow
4 23 (2.65%) SAS
5 19 (2.19%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.38%) Confluence
7 10 (1.15%) Luigi
8 9 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.35%) CMS
10 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 65 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.58%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.58%) SPSS
5 4 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.46%) Trello
6 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 30 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.69%) Elite 3E
2 6 (0.69%) Infor M3
3 4 (0.46%) Oracle BPM
3 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.23%) Carpe Diem
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Lorenzo
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 391 (44.99%) Azure
2 281 (32.34%) AWS
3 265 (30.49%) Power Platform
4 158 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 150 (17.26%) Snowflake
6 134 (15.42%) GCP
7 75 (8.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 65 (7.48%) dbt
9 63 (7.25%) Amazon S3
10 58 (6.67%) Serverless
11 51 (5.87%) Power Automate
12 44 (5.06%) SaaS
13 38 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (3.34%) Azure Logic Apps
15 28 (3.22%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (3.11%) PaaS
16 27 (3.11%) PowerApps
17 23 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (2.42%) GitHub
19 19 (2.19%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.58%) HTTP
1 5 (0.58%) Internet
2 3 (0.35%) 5G
3 2 (0.23%) DHCP
3 2 (0.23%) DNS
3 2 (0.23%) VoIP
4 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 372 (42.81%) Data Warehouse
2 261 (30.03%) Power BI
3 167 (19.22%) Data Lake
4 142 (16.34%) SQL Server
5 112 (12.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 93 (10.70%) Big Data
7 83 (9.55%) NoSQL
8 81 (9.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 69 (7.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 68 (7.83%) Tableau
11 60 (6.90%) Metadata
12 53 (6.10%) Hadoop
13 47 (5.41%) BigQuery
14 45 (5.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 44 (5.06%) Relational Database
16 32 (3.68%) MySQL
16 32 (3.68%) Power Query
17 29 (3.34%) Oracle ODI
17 29 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
18 24 (2.76%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 49 (5.64%) Git
2 32 (3.68%) JIRA
3 28 (3.22%) Eclipse
4 26 (2.99%) Eclipse RCP
5 25 (2.88%) Visual Studio
6 15 (1.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 14 (1.61%) Jenkins
8 11 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.81%) MLflow
10 6 (0.69%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.69%) ERwin
11 4 (0.46%) GitLab
11 4 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
12 3 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.23%) JUnit
13 2 (0.23%) Spinnaker
13 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 272 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 225 (25.89%) Finance
3 213 (24.51%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.82%) Law
5 50 (5.75%) Banking
6 45 (5.18%) Marketing
7 39 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 36 (4.14%) Public Sector
9 28 (3.22%) Legal
10 27 (3.11%) Retail
11 24 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.19%) Games
13 12 (1.38%) Advertising
14 11 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 11 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.81%) Billing
16 7 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
17 6 (0.69%) Electronics
18 5 (0.58%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 301 (34.64%) Data Engineer
2 158 (18.18%) Senior
3 143 (16.46%) Developer
4 108 (12.43%) Lead
5 82 (9.44%) Senior Data Engineer
6 74 (8.52%) Architect
7 64 (7.36%) Analyst
8 46 (5.29%) Consultant
9 45 (5.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 45 (5.18%) Software Engineer
10 40 (4.60%) Data Manager
11 38 (4.37%) Data Architect
12 34 (3.91%) Lead Data Engineer
13 30 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 28 (3.22%) Junior
15 25 (2.88%) Power BI Developer
16 24 (2.76%) Data Consultant
16 24 (2.76%) SQL Developer
17 23 (2.65%) Junior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.83%) PySpark
2 45 (5.18%) Kafka
3 34 (3.91%) REST
4 28 (3.22%) Middleware
5 27 (3.11%) HTML
6 26 (2.99%) CSS
6 26 (2.99%) JSON
6 26 (2.99%) JSP
7 25 (2.88%) Oracle Fusion
7 25 (2.88%) Pandas
8 23 (2.65%) XML
9 21 (2.42%) .NET
10 16 (1.84%) Web Services
11 15 (1.73%) React
12 12 (1.38%) SOAP
13 11 (1.27%) GraphQL
13 11 (1.27%) RESTful
14 9 (1.04%) Redux
14 9 (1.04%) TensorFlow
15 8 (0.92%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 71 (8.17%) Data Structures
2 57 (6.56%) Management Information System
3 46 (5.29%) Legacy Systems
4 36 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 26 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 20 (2.30%) Algorithms
7 13 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 10 (1.15%) Credit Risk
9 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.15%) Social Media
10 9 (1.04%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.04%) NHS
11 8 (0.92%) Distributed Computing
11 8 (0.92%) Market Risk
12 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.81%) IoT
12 7 (0.81%) Replication
13 6 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.52%) Linux
2 34 (3.91%) Windows
3 13 (1.50%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.23%) SUSE
6 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (43.50%) Analytics
2 370 (42.58%) Business Intelligence
3 321 (36.94%) Data Modelling
4 290 (33.37%) Data Pipeline
5 260 (29.92%) Data Engineering
6 231 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
7 178 (20.48%) Visualisation
8 173 (19.91%) Agile
9 164 (18.87%) Data Governance
10 158 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 146 (16.80%) Decision-Making
12 139 (16.00%) Data Management
13 127 (14.61%) Data Integration
13 127 (14.61%) DevOps
14 126 (14.50%) Data Architecture
14 126 (14.50%) Data Science
15 123 (14.15%) Migration
16 120 (13.81%) Mentoring
17 119 (13.69%) Data Visualisation
18 112 (12.89%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 641 (73.76%) SQL
2 448 (51.55%) Python
3 90 (10.36%) Java
4 86 (9.90%) T-SQL
5 70 (8.06%) C#
6 55 (6.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 45 (5.18%) Scala
8 44 (5.06%) PL/SQL
9 38 (4.37%) PowerShell
9 38 (4.37%) R
10 23 (2.65%) Ada
10 23 (2.65%) Rust
11 21 (2.42%) JavaScript
12 16 (1.84%) Bash
13 10 (1.15%) MATLAB
14 9 (1.04%) Go
15 8 (0.92%) SPARQL
16 7 (0.81%) PHP
16 7 (0.81%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.58%) C++
Qualifications
1 185 (21.29%) Degree
2 59 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (4.49%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.14%) Security Cleared
5 31 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 31 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 24 (2.76%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.84%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.50%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) Six Sigma Black Belt
12 5 (0.58%) ACCA
12 5 (0.58%) CIMA
12 5 (0.58%) PMP
13 4 (0.46%) HND
13 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 4 (0.46%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (21.98%) Data Quality
2 52 (5.98%) QA
3 50 (5.75%) Accessibility
4 42 (4.83%) GDPR
5 11 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.81%) Basel II
7 7 (0.81%) Basel III
7 7 (0.81%) Dodd-Frank
7 7 (0.81%) IFRS
7 7 (0.81%) IFRS 9
8 6 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.69%) GxP
9 3 (0.35%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.23%) Dublin Core
10 2 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) DICOM
11 1 (0.12%) HL7
11 1 (0.12%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 41 (4.72%) Docker
2 12 (1.38%) HDFS
3 5 (0.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 43 (4.95%) Terraform
2 37 (4.26%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.15%) Grafana
3 10 (1.15%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.81%) Ansible
5 5 (0.58%) Oozie
6 2 (0.23%) SCCM
6 2 (0.23%) SCOM
7 1 (0.12%) Istio
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 179 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 146 (16.80%) Databricks
3 106 (12.20%) Oracle
4 53 (6.10%) Google
5 45 (5.18%) Informatica
6 34 (3.91%) SAP
7 24 (2.76%) Salesforce
8 21 (2.42%) Alteryx
9 17 (1.96%) Red Hat
10 11 (1.27%) Talend
11 9 (1.04%) IBM
12 8 (0.92%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.69%) Aderant
13 6 (0.69%) Infor
14 5 (0.58%) Intapp
14 5 (0.58%) Intel
14 5 (0.58%) Palantir
14 5 (0.58%) StreamSets
14 5 (0.58%) Teradata
14 5 (0.58%) Vertica