ETL Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 66 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 +17 +57
Permanent jobs citing ETL 30 36 57
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 1.63% 2.51% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.85% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 24 22 49
10th Percentile £40,600 £42,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £54,862 £47,688 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £62,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +16.82% +13.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +25.00% -18.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,473 1,263 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.23% 88.20% 91.56%
Number of salaries quoted 862 625 1,436
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,100 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,000 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

ETL job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

ETL
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in West Yorkshire

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Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Leeds -15 29 £60,000 -4.00% 7
Wakefield -5 1 £65,000 +36.84% 2
ETL
Yorkshire

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 12 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 11 (36.67%) Apache
3 5 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (6.67%) Confluence
4 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) AWS
2 11 (36.67%) Azure
3 8 (26.67%) dbt
4 7 (23.33%) Amazon S3
4 7 (23.33%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (23.33%) Serverless
5 6 (20.00%) GCP
5 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (16.67%) SaaS
7 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (10.00%) GitHub
9 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
9 2 (6.67%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (46.67%) Data Lake
3 12 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (20.00%) Power BI
5 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 5 (16.67%) Tableau
6 4 (13.33%) Data Vault
6 4 (13.33%) Metadata
6 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (10.00%) BigQuery
7 3 (10.00%) OLAP
7 3 (10.00%) TIBCO EBX
8 2 (6.67%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (6.67%) Looker
8 2 (6.67%) Power Query
8 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Git
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Tech for Good
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 15 (50.00%) Senior
2 13 (43.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Lead
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Data Manager
5 3 (10.00%) SQL Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst Developer
6 2 (6.67%) ETL Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Insight Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Informatica Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Report Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Taxonomies
1 3 (10.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 15 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (46.67%) Agile
3 14 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 12 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (36.67%) Analytics
5 11 (36.67%) Data Governance
5 11 (36.67%) DevOps
5 11 (36.67%) Mentoring
6 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 9 (30.00%) Data Architecture
7 9 (30.00%) Data Integration
8 8 (26.67%) Data Science
8 8 (26.67%) Decision-Making
8 8 (26.67%) Migration
8 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (23.33%) Data Management
9 7 (23.33%) Data Migration
9 7 (23.33%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 26 (86.67%) SQL
2 15 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
2 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 3 (10.00%) Informatica
3 3 (10.00%) TIBCO
4 2 (6.67%) Google