ETL Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 193 115 106
Rank change year-on-year -78 -9 +17
Permanent jobs citing ETL 340 895 1,289
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.89% 2.65% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.90% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 250 783 879
10th Percentile £43,929 £39,166 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £50,492
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £91,991 £92,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.31% -6.92% +8.33%

All Process and 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 16,956 30,887 39,758
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 94.19% 91.37% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,744 23,439 27,659
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

ETL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

ETL trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

ETL
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing ETL.

ETL salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing ETL over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

ETL salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 36 (10.59%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (5.59%) Apache
4 12 (3.53%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.94%) SAS
6 7 (2.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.76%) Confluence
8 3 (0.88%) CMS
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.29%) Luigi
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 29 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.18%) Trello
4 3 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.76%) Infor M3
3 4 (1.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.59%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 136 (40.00%) Azure
2 114 (33.53%) Power Platform
3 92 (27.06%) AWS
4 61 (17.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 42 (12.35%) GCP
6 36 (10.59%) Snowflake
7 30 (8.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 28 (8.24%) Serverless
9 24 (7.06%) Power Automate
10 22 (6.47%) Amazon S3
10 22 (6.47%) AWS Lambda
10 22 (6.47%) PaaS
10 22 (6.47%) SaaS
11 20 (5.88%) GitHub
12 18 (5.29%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (4.71%) dbt
14 14 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (4.12%) PowerApps
15 13 (3.82%) IaaS
16 12 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) HTTP
2 2 (0.59%) DHCP
2 2 (0.59%) DNS
2 2 (0.59%) VoIP
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (43.53%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (33.24%) Power BI
3 70 (20.59%) SQL Server
4 64 (18.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 63 (18.53%) Data Lake
6 40 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 37 (10.88%) Big Data
8 34 (10.00%) NoSQL
9 32 (9.41%) Tableau
10 27 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
11 21 (6.18%) Hadoop
12 18 (5.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (5.29%) BigQuery
13 17 (5.00%) Metadata
14 16 (4.71%) Relational Database
15 12 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (3.24%) Delta Lake
16 11 (3.24%) Power Query
17 10 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
17 10 (2.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (4.71%) JIRA
2 15 (4.41%) Git
2 15 (4.41%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 7 (2.06%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (0.59%) ERwin
7 2 (0.59%) GitLab
7 2 (0.59%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (0.59%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.29%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 120 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 115 (33.82%) Finance
3 94 (27.65%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (10.88%) Law
5 32 (9.41%) Banking
6 26 (7.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (7.35%) Marketing
8 17 (5.00%) Games
9 13 (3.82%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.94%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.65%) Legal
11 9 (2.65%) Retail
12 5 (1.47%) Billing
13 4 (1.18%) Advertising
14 3 (0.88%) Environmental Health
14 3 (0.88%) Police
14 3 (0.88%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.59%) Aviation
15 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 117 (34.41%) Data Engineer
2 61 (17.94%) Senior
3 55 (16.18%) Developer
4 39 (11.47%) Analyst
4 39 (11.47%) Senior Data Engineer
5 34 (10.00%) Architect
6 29 (8.53%) Lead
7 23 (6.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 21 (6.18%) Data Manager
9 20 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 19 (5.59%) Data Architect
10 19 (5.59%) ETL Developer
11 16 (4.71%) Power BI Developer
11 16 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
12 13 (3.82%) Python Developer
12 13 (3.82%) SQL Developer
13 12 (3.53%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.24%) Administrator
15 10 (2.94%) Business Developer
15 10 (2.94%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (7.94%) PySpark
2 25 (7.35%) Kafka
3 19 (5.59%) Pandas
4 16 (4.71%) JSON
5 11 (3.24%) .NET
6 7 (2.06%) PyArrow
7 6 (1.76%) NumPy
7 6 (1.76%) RESTful
8 5 (1.47%) Puppeteer
8 5 (1.47%) REST
8 5 (1.47%) Scrapy
9 4 (1.18%) .NET Framework
9 4 (1.18%) SOAP
9 4 (1.18%) Web Services
9 4 (1.18%) XML
10 3 (0.88%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.88%) ARM Templates
10 3 (0.88%) EDI
10 3 (0.88%) SQLAlchemy
10 3 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.35%) Management Information System
2 21 (6.18%) Product Ownership
3 16 (4.71%) Data Structures
4 10 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 10 (2.94%) Social Media
5 8 (2.35%) Algorithms
5 8 (2.35%) Credit Risk
5 8 (2.35%) Market Risk
5 8 (2.35%) NHS
6 7 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.76%) Mobile Games
8 5 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.18%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.88%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.88%) Replication
10 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.59%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.82%) Linux
2 9 (2.65%) Unix
3 4 (1.18%) Windows
4 3 (0.88%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.59%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (44.41%) Business Intelligence
2 148 (43.53%) Analytics
3 121 (35.59%) Data Modelling
4 107 (31.47%) Data Pipeline
5 101 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
6 82 (24.12%) Agile
7 68 (20.00%) Data Engineering
8 66 (19.41%) Decision-Making
9 65 (19.12%) CI/CD
10 62 (18.24%) Visualisation
11 56 (16.47%) Data Science
12 52 (15.29%) Data Visualisation
13 49 (14.41%) Data Integration
14 48 (14.12%) DevOps
15 45 (13.24%) Data Architecture
15 45 (13.24%) Data Management
16 42 (12.35%) Data Governance
16 42 (12.35%) Mentoring
16 42 (12.35%) Migration
17 34 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 242 (71.18%) SQL
2 161 (47.35%) Python
3 44 (12.94%) T-SQL
4 30 (8.82%) Java
5 28 (8.24%) C#
6 25 (7.35%) PowerShell
7 22 (6.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 21 (6.18%) R
9 14 (4.12%) Bash
10 13 (3.82%) Scala
11 10 (2.94%) JavaScript
12 9 (2.65%) Go
13 8 (2.35%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.18%) Bicep
15 3 (0.88%) PHP
15 3 (0.88%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.59%) C++
16 2 (0.59%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.59%) TypeScript
17 1 (0.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 56 (16.47%) Degree
2 20 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (4.12%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.12%) Security Cleared
4 11 (3.24%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.65%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.35%) DBS Check
6 8 (2.35%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.76%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.18%) HND
9 4 (1.18%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.29%) PMP
11 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (22.06%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 18 (5.29%) GDPR
4 10 (2.94%) QA
5 9 (2.65%) PCI DSS
6 7 (2.06%) Basel II
6 7 (2.06%) Basel III
6 7 (2.06%) Dodd-Frank
6 7 (2.06%) IFRS
6 7 (2.06%) IFRS 9
6 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.76%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.76%) GxP
8 3 (0.88%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.59%) Dublin Core
9 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 19 (5.59%) Docker
2 11 (3.24%) HDFS
3 3 (0.88%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.59%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 16 (4.71%) Terraform
3 6 (1.76%) Grafana
3 6 (1.76%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.47%) Ansible
5 2 (0.59%) SCCM
5 2 (0.59%) SCOM
6 1 (0.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 88 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 54 (15.88%) Databricks
3 30 (8.82%) Oracle
4 24 (7.06%) Google
4 24 (7.06%) SAP
5 13 (3.82%) Informatica
5 13 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 10 (2.94%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.76%) Infor
8 5 (1.47%) Teradata
9 4 (1.18%) Xero
9 4 (1.18%) Zoho
10 3 (0.88%) Aderant
10 3 (0.88%) Talend
11 2 (0.59%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.59%) Aruba
11 2 (0.59%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.59%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.59%) QAD
11 2 (0.59%) VMware