Hybrid/Remote ETL Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 166 118
Rank change year-on-year +6 -48 +1
Permanent jobs citing ETL 304 328 863
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.57% 2.18% 2.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.31% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 231 240 744
10th Percentile £41,925 £44,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 15,902 14,206 30,447
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.00% 94.61% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 11,373 8,375 23,693
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

ETL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing ETL over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

ETL salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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 39 (12.83%) Apache Airflow
2 26 (8.55%) Apache
3 20 (6.58%) Apache Spark
4 10 (3.29%) SharePoint
5 6 (1.97%) SAS
6 5 (1.64%) Confluence
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 22 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (3.29%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
3 4 (1.32%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.99%) Elite 3E
5 2 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.66%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 146 (48.03%) Azure
2 98 (32.24%) Power Platform
3 79 (25.99%) AWS
4 63 (20.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 36 (11.84%) GCP
6 29 (9.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (8.88%) Amazon S3
8 23 (7.57%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (5.59%) dbt
9 17 (5.59%) SaaS
9 17 (5.59%) Serverless
10 13 (4.28%) GitHub
10 13 (4.28%) Snowflake
11 12 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (3.95%) Dagster
11 12 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (3.29%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (2.96%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (2.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.63%) Broadband
2 1 (0.33%) 4G
2 1 (0.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (30.92%) Power BI
2 77 (25.33%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (19.74%) Data Lake
4 43 (14.14%) SQL Server
5 39 (12.83%) Metadata
6 33 (10.86%) Relational Database
7 28 (9.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 22 (7.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (6.58%) Tableau
10 18 (5.92%) Delta Lake
11 17 (5.59%) BigQuery
12 14 (4.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 12 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
13 12 (3.95%) NoSQL
13 12 (3.95%) Oracle Database
14 11 (3.62%) Big Data
14 11 (3.62%) Star Schema
15 10 (3.29%) Power Query
16 9 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (2.96%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 23 (7.57%) Git
2 7 (2.30%) JIRA
3 6 (1.97%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.99%) MLflow
5 2 (0.66%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.33%) Postman
6 1 (0.33%) Toad
6 1 (0.33%) Zephyr
General
1 87 (28.62%) Social Skills
2 86 (28.29%) Finance
3 78 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 21 (6.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (4.61%) Legal
7 13 (4.28%) Retail
8 12 (3.95%) Law
9 10 (3.29%) Banking
10 8 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.64%) Billing
11 5 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.32%) Health Technology
13 3 (0.99%) Automotive
13 3 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.66%) Local Government
14 2 (0.66%) Marketing
14 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 144 (47.37%) Data Engineer
2 70 (23.03%) Senior
3 51 (16.78%) Lead
4 45 (14.80%) Senior Data Engineer
5 32 (10.53%) Developer
6 21 (6.91%) Lead Data Engineer
7 18 (5.92%) Analyst
8 16 (5.26%) Architect
9 14 (4.61%) Data Architect
9 14 (4.61%) Data Manager
10 13 (4.28%) Data Analyst
11 12 (3.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 12 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (3.29%) Consultant
13 9 (2.96%) Administrator
13 9 (2.96%) Team Leader
14 8 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
14 8 (2.63%) Business Developer
15 7 (2.30%) AWS Engineer
15 7 (2.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (11.84%) PySpark
2 32 (10.53%) Kafka
3 9 (2.96%) .NET
3 9 (2.96%) JSON
4 8 (2.63%) Pandas
4 8 (2.63%) REST
5 7 (2.30%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (2.30%) EDI
5 7 (2.30%) Middleware
5 7 (2.30%) RESTful
6 4 (1.32%) Node.js
6 4 (1.32%) NumPy
6 4 (1.32%) React
7 3 (0.99%) OAuth
7 3 (0.99%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.99%) XML
8 2 (0.66%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.66%) CSS
8 2 (0.66%) jQuery
8 2 (0.66%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.89%) Data Structures
2 21 (6.91%) Management Information System
3 16 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 13 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 12 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.63%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.97%) Anti-Piracy
8 6 (1.97%) Cyberattack
8 6 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
8 6 (1.97%) Social Media
9 5 (1.64%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.32%) NHS
11 3 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.99%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.99%) Sports Betting
12 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.66%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (50.99%) Analytics
2 154 (50.66%) Data Engineering
3 153 (50.33%) Data Pipeline
4 145 (47.70%) Data Modelling
5 116 (38.16%) Business Intelligence
6 83 (27.30%) Data Governance
7 81 (26.64%) Agile
8 77 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
9 73 (24.01%) DevOps
10 72 (23.68%) Decision-Making
11 70 (23.03%) CI/CD
12 64 (21.05%) Data Architecture
13 59 (19.41%) Data Integration
14 56 (18.42%) Data Science
15 51 (16.78%) Visualisation
16 48 (15.79%) Data Strategy
17 47 (15.46%) AI
18 42 (13.82%) Validation
19 39 (12.83%) Mentoring
20 35 (11.51%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 194 (63.82%) SQL
2 150 (49.34%) Python
3 27 (8.88%) Scala
4 19 (6.25%) Java
5 15 (4.93%) T-SQL
6 11 (3.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (3.29%) C#
8 9 (2.96%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.63%) Bash
9 8 (2.63%) R
10 7 (2.30%) Bicep
11 6 (1.97%) C++
11 6 (1.97%) Groovy
11 6 (1.97%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.97%) VBA
12 3 (0.99%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.66%) PHP
14 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 45 (14.80%) Degree
2 30 (9.87%) Security Cleared
3 16 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.30%) CITP
6 7 (2.30%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.99%) ACCA
9 3 (0.99%) CIMA
9 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (39.47%) Data Quality
2 34 (11.18%) GDPR
3 8 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.30%) QA
5 5 (1.64%) IFRS
6 4 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.99%) GAAP
8 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.66%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (1.32%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (9.54%) Terraform
2 5 (1.64%) Grafana
3 3 (0.99%) Control-M
3 3 (0.99%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (22.70%) Microsoft
2 65 (21.38%) Databricks
3 32 (10.53%) Oracle
4 17 (5.59%) Informatica
5 16 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 8 (2.63%) SAP
7 7 (2.30%) Planon
7 7 (2.30%) Talend
8 6 (1.97%) Google
9 5 (1.64%) Alteryx
9 5 (1.64%) IBM
10 4 (1.32%) Ab Initio
10 4 (1.32%) Northgate
10 4 (1.32%) Sage
11 3 (0.99%) BMC
11 3 (0.99%) Hyperion
11 3 (0.99%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.66%) Concur
12 2 (0.66%) Foundry
13 1 (0.33%) Pega