ETL Job Trends in the West Midlands

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 134 93
Rank change year-on-year +42 -41 +27
Permanent jobs citing ETL 83 65 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.55% 1.60% 2.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.73% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 73 47 92
10th Percentile £42,540 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £41,250 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +13.03% -8.65%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,875 £59,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,380 3,752 3,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.66% 92.12% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,293 1,674 3,044
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,719 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £63,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -6.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ETL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

ETL job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the West Midlands

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Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham +50 43 £60,000 +20.00% 15
Solihull +18 12 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Warwickshire +16 7 £55,000 -6.38% 7
Coventry -2 6 £57,600 -7.84% 2
Shropshire -25 5 £60,000 +9.09% 6
Wolverhampton - 5 £125,000 -
Staffordshire -17 4 £37,500 -31.00% 1
Walsall - 4 £42,500 - 1
Herefordshire - 1 £60,000 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.82%) SAS
2 1 (1.20%) Apache
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 51 (61.45%) Azure
2 25 (30.12%) Power Platform
3 23 (27.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (16.87%) Snowflake
5 12 (14.46%) AWS
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (7.23%) SaaS
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (2.41%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.20%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.20%) dbt
10 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.20%) GCP
10 1 (1.20%) GitHub
10 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.20%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (44.58%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (33.73%) SQL Server
3 25 (30.12%) Power BI
4 14 (16.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 13 (15.66%) Data Lake
5 13 (15.66%) Delta Lake
6 7 (8.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (6.02%) Data Mining
8 4 (4.82%) Parquet
8 4 (4.82%) Pentaho
9 3 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.61%) Metadata
9 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
9 3 (3.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.41%) Power Query
10 2 (2.41%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (2.41%) Tableau
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (1.20%) Looker
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Git
1 3 (3.61%) JIRA
2 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.89%) Finance
3 13 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.84%) Automotive
5 6 (7.23%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (7.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.02%) Banking
7 4 (4.82%) Retail
8 2 (2.41%) Legal
8 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 50 (60.24%) Data Engineer
2 22 (26.51%) Azure Data Engineer
2 22 (26.51%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (19.28%) Senior
3 16 (19.28%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (12.05%) Analyst
5 9 (10.84%) Developer
6 8 (9.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 8 (9.64%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 7 (8.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Lead
7 7 (8.43%) Python Data Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Head of Engineering
9 4 (4.82%) Business Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Power BI Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Analyst Developer
10 3 (3.61%) SQL Developer
11 2 (2.41%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) PySpark
2 6 (7.23%) EDI
3 3 (3.61%) JSON
4 2 (2.41%) Kafka
4 2 (2.41%) Middleware
4 2 (2.41%) XML
5 1 (1.20%) .NET
5 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.20%) ODBC
5 1 (1.20%) React
5 1 (1.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.43%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (7.23%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.83%) Data Engineering
2 41 (49.40%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (44.58%) Business Intelligence
4 31 (37.35%) Data Modelling
5 22 (26.51%) Agile
6 21 (25.30%) Analytics
7 20 (24.10%) Data Integration
8 16 (19.28%) Data Governance
8 16 (19.28%) Visualisation
9 14 (16.87%) Data Visualisation
9 14 (16.87%) Decision-Making
9 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
10 13 (15.66%) Data Architecture
10 13 (15.66%) Data Transformation
11 12 (14.46%) Mentoring
12 10 (12.05%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (12.05%) Data Analysis
12 10 (12.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 62 (74.70%) SQL
2 45 (54.22%) Python
3 12 (14.46%) T-SQL
4 9 (10.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.61%) Bash
5 3 (3.61%) Scala
6 2 (2.41%) C#
6 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) R
6 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.20%) Bicep
7 1 (1.20%) Java
7 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (7.23%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) CITP
3 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
3 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.61%) Terraform
2 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 31 (37.35%) Databricks
2 21 (25.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.02%) Planon
3 5 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 5 (6.02%) Talend
4 4 (4.82%) Oracle
5 3 (3.61%) Cloudera
5 3 (3.61%) Informatica
6 1 (1.20%) BMC
6 1 (1.20%) Denodo
6 1 (1.20%) Foundry
6 1 (1.20%) IBM
6 1 (1.20%) Palantir
6 1 (1.20%) Teradata