Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 134 125
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 +2
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,086 2,672 4,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.11% 2.58% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 2.70% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,478 1,897 2,871
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £99,050 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +9.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,862 98,882 150,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.90% 95.62% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 59,922 58,137 83,321
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,251 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,251
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Salary trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
England +3 1,837 £62,500 -3.85% 477
UK excluding London +10 1,284 £55,000 - 239
Work from Home -4 900 £60,000 -2.44% 277
London +3 722 £72,500 -3.33% 259
North of England +87 399 £55,000 +5.77% 59
South East -25 266 £61,250 +2.08% 41
North West +78 232 £55,000 +5.77% 40
Midlands +18 215 £53,635 +7.27% 56
Scotland +17 175 £60,000 +9.09% 12
West Midlands +15 153 £55,000 +10.70% 33
South West -53 129 £55,000 -18.52% 29
Yorkshire +86 96 £47,500 -3.15% 15
North East +13 71 £64,000 +16.36% 4
East of England -17 66 £55,000 -4.35% 20
East Midlands -2 61 £47,500 -13.64% 23
Wales +8 32 £49,801 +11.50% 8
Northern Ireland +13 4 £85,000 +70.00% 16

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 139 (6.66%) Apache Spark
2 91 (4.36%) Apache
3 69 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.68%) SAS
5 30 (1.44%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.05%) IIS
7 13 (0.62%) Confluence
8 6 (0.29%) Drupal
9 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.24%) WordPress
10 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.096%) Luigi
12 2 (0.096%) Moodle
13 1 (0.048%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.048%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.048%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 122 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.48%) Trello
5 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.048%) InVision
8 1 (0.048%) Sketch
8 1 (0.048%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 31 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.19%) Primavera
4 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.14%) Endur
6 2 (0.096%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.096%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.048%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.048%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.048%) HFM
7 1 (0.048%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.048%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,119 (53.64%) Azure
2 708 (33.94%) AWS
3 642 (30.78%) Power Platform
4 417 (19.99%) GCP
5 264 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 235 (11.27%) Azure DevOps
7 176 (8.44%) Snowflake
8 146 (7.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 100 (4.79%) Serverless
10 89 (4.27%) Amazon S3
11 81 (3.88%) SaaS
12 77 (3.69%) Matillion
13 70 (3.36%) dbt
14 63 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 44 (2.11%) PowerApps
17 42 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
18 38 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
19 37 (1.77%) GitHub
20 34 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.49%) DNS
2 20 (0.96%) HTTP
3 14 (0.67%) Firewall
4 12 (0.58%) Network Security
5 10 (0.48%) DHCP
6 3 (0.14%) VPN
7 2 (0.096%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.096%) SSH
8 1 (0.048%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.048%) 5G
8 1 (0.048%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.048%) FTP
8 1 (0.048%) LAN
8 1 (0.048%) Skype
8 1 (0.048%) SMS
8 1 (0.048%) WAN
8 1 (0.048%) WebEx
8 1 (0.048%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 985 (47.22%) Data Warehouse
2 630 (30.20%) SQL Server
3 625 (29.96%) Power BI
4 429 (20.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 282 (13.52%) BigQuery
6 269 (12.90%) Data Lake
7 223 (10.69%) Looker
8 166 (7.96%) Tableau
9 144 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 140 (6.71%) Big Data
11 134 (6.42%) Relational Database
12 127 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
13 126 (6.04%) NoSQL
14 83 (3.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 80 (3.84%) Metadata
16 75 (3.60%) Data Vault
17 73 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
18 71 (3.40%) Data Mining
19 69 (3.31%) Star Schema
20 67 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (5.90%) Git
2 97 (4.65%) JIRA
3 43 (2.06%) GitLab
4 42 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 34 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.72%) JMeter
7 14 (0.67%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.48%) Selenium
11 8 (0.38%) Mercurial
11 8 (0.38%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.34%) Postman
13 6 (0.29%) Appium
13 6 (0.29%) ERwin
13 6 (0.29%) Spinnaker
13 6 (0.29%) Toad
14 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 577 (27.66%) Finance
2 521 (24.98%) Social Skills
3 465 (22.29%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (8.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 167 (8.01%) Law
6 164 (7.86%) Public Sector
7 148 (7.09%) Legal
7 148 (7.09%) Retail
8 134 (6.42%) Marketing
9 90 (4.31%) Banking
10 79 (3.79%) Billing
11 68 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (1.34%) Financial Institution
13 26 (1.25%) Games
14 24 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.77%) Local Government
18 13 (0.62%) Retail Banking
19 12 (0.58%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 671 (32.17%) Data Engineer
2 323 (15.48%) Senior
3 310 (14.86%) Developer
4 238 (11.41%) Architect
5 234 (11.22%) Lead
6 217 (10.40%) Data Architect
7 147 (7.05%) Analyst
8 145 (6.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 140 (6.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 138 (6.62%) Consultant
11 109 (5.23%) Data Manager
12 98 (4.70%) Software Engineer
13 96 (4.60%) Engineering Manager
14 91 (4.36%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 79 (3.79%) Lead Data Engineer
16 72 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
17 71 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
18 69 (3.31%) Power BI Developer
19 62 (2.97%) Data Analyst
20 61 (2.92%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (6.86%) PySpark
2 70 (3.36%) .NET
3 66 (3.16%) Kafka
4 46 (2.21%) RESTful
5 37 (1.77%) REST
6 35 (1.68%) XML
7 33 (1.58%) Web Services
8 28 (1.34%) JSON
9 27 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
10 25 (1.20%) Pandas
11 22 (1.05%) Apache Beam
11 22 (1.05%) CSS
12 20 (0.96%) ASP.NET
13 19 (0.91%) Middleware
14 18 (0.86%) GraphQL
14 18 (0.86%) SOAP
15 17 (0.81%) JWT
16 16 (0.77%) MDX
17 15 (0.72%) .NET Framework
17 15 (0.72%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 176 (8.44%) Self-Motivation
2 165 (7.91%) Data Structures
3 141 (6.76%) Product Ownership
4 135 (6.47%) Algorithms
5 111 (5.32%) Management Information System
6 90 (4.31%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.21%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 56 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 35 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (1.49%) Taxonomies
11 28 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (1.34%) NHS
12 26 (1.25%) Replication
13 25 (1.20%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.96%) Cyberattack
14 20 (0.96%) Data Fabric
14 20 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (0.81%) IoT
16 14 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.84%) Windows
2 48 (2.30%) Linux
3 24 (1.15%) zOS
4 22 (1.05%) Unix
5 13 (0.62%) Solaris
6 12 (0.58%) CentOS
6 12 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.19%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.048%) VMS
9 1 (0.048%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 786 (37.68%) Business Intelligence
3 666 (31.93%) Analytics
4 639 (30.63%) Data Engineering
5 616 (29.53%) Agile
6 564 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
7 485 (23.25%) Visualisation
8 474 (22.72%) Data Pipeline
9 473 (22.67%) Data Integration
10 424 (20.33%) Machine Learning
11 404 (19.37%) Data Science
12 402 (19.27%) DevOps
13 354 (16.97%) Data Analysis
14 348 (16.68%) CI/CD
15 323 (15.48%) Data Governance
16 303 (14.53%) Data Architecture
17 294 (14.09%) Artificial Intelligence
18 292 (14.00%) Migration
19 290 (13.90%) Data Visualisation
20 280 (13.42%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,349 (64.67%) SQL
2 771 (36.96%) Python
3 302 (14.48%) T-SQL
4 129 (6.18%) Java
5 113 (5.42%) C#
6 78 (3.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 74 (3.55%) R
8 72 (3.45%) Scala
9 65 (3.12%) PowerShell
10 63 (3.02%) JavaScript
11 62 (2.97%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.05%) TypeScript
13 21 (1.01%) VBA
14 18 (0.86%) Go
15 17 (0.81%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.43%) PHP
16 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.38%) Ruby
18 5 (0.24%) C
18 5 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 312 (14.96%) Degree
2 110 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (3.69%) Master's Degree
4 53 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 41 (1.97%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 36 (1.73%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.96%) MBA
10 16 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.53%) PhD
12 9 (0.43%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
12 9 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.29%) IIBA
15 4 (0.19%) CIMA
15 4 (0.19%) CISSP
15 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (22.48%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.44%) GDPR
3 167 (8.01%) QA
4 30 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.29%) PMO
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.19%) NIST
8 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.096%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.096%) SLA
10 1 (0.048%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.048%) ITGC
10 1 (0.048%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (2.06%) Docker
2 33 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.67%) HDFS
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.096%) vSphere
7 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (5.18%) Terraform
2 43 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.62%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Grafana
4 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.14%) Puppet
8 2 (0.096%) Marathon
8 2 (0.096%) Mesos
8 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.096%) MIIS
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.048%) logstash
9 1 (0.048%) Rancher
9 1 (0.048%) SCCM
Vendors
1 493 (23.63%) Microsoft
2 360 (17.26%) Databricks
3 259 (12.42%) Google
4 149 (7.14%) Oracle
5 118 (5.66%) Informatica
6 30 (1.44%) Alteryx
7 27 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 27 (1.29%) SAP
8 20 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 19 (0.91%) IBM
10 15 (0.72%) Cloudera
10 15 (0.72%) NEC
11 13 (0.62%) F5
12 12 (0.58%) Talend
13 11 (0.53%) Splunk
14 10 (0.48%) Adaptive Insights
14 10 (0.48%) Anaplan
14 10 (0.48%) Jedox
14 10 (0.48%) Tagetik
15 8 (0.38%) Facebook