Hybrid/Remote Complex ETL Job Trends

Complex Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Complex ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 433 -
Rank change year-on-year +68 - -
Permanent jobs citing Complex ETL 1 15 0
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.007% 0.087% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.093% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 15 0
10th Percentile - £65,000 -
25th Percentile £132,500 £68,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £135,000 £77,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +74.19% - -
75th Percentile £137,500 £80,000 -
90th Percentile - £89,000 -
UK median annual salary £135,000 £72,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +86.21% +45.00% -32.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Complex 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,580 16,082 18,763
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.75% 92.94% 94.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,665 9,722 15,078
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,074 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,243
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +3.75% -3.61%
75th Percentile £79,157 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Complex ETL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Complex ETL and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Complex ETL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Complex ETL
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Complex ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Complex ETL

Complex ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Paid Search
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet