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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 151 131
Rank change year-on-year +6 -20 -7
Permanent jobs citing ETL 1,996 2,255 5,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.91% 2.37% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.28% 2.48% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 1,787 2,816
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,125 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

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 87,477 90,991 161,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.84% 95.49% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,023 54,512 83,003
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 31 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 31 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 +7 1,760 £62,500 -6.42% 445
UK excluding London +39 1,240 £55,000 - 229
Work from Home +6 868 £60,000 -2.44% 267
London +3 688 £75,000 - 227
North of England +113 382 £55,000 - 75
South East -1 256 £62,500 +4.17% 42
North West +80 227 £55,750 +1.36% 49
Midlands +10 217 £55,000 +10.00% 43
Scotland +23 168 £62,500 +6.38% 14
West Midlands +4 158 £57,500 +15.00% 36
South West -17 133 £53,500 -20.74% 28
Yorkshire +77 87 £50,000 -4.76% 16
North East +26 68 £64,000 +16.36% 10
East Midlands +6 57 £48,750 -11.36% 7
East of England -11 55 £47,500 -17.39% 17
Wales +3 30 £49,801 +11.50% 6
Northern Ireland +12 1 £85,000 +70.00% 7

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
1 137 (6.86%) Apache Spark
2 86 (4.31%) Apache
3 63 (3.16%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.55%) SAS
5 29 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.10%) IIS
7 14 (0.70%) Confluence
8 6 (0.30%) Drupal
9 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.15%) Luigi
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.10%) Moodle
12 1 (0.050%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.050%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 112 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.50%) Trello
5 9 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.050%) InVision
8 1 (0.050%) Sketch
8 1 (0.050%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 24 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.20%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.20%) Primavera
3 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.10%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.050%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.050%) HFM
6 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.050%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.050%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,100 (55.11%) Azure
2 669 (33.52%) AWS
3 617 (30.91%) Power Platform
4 407 (20.39%) GCP
5 254 (12.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 229 (11.47%) Azure DevOps
7 168 (8.42%) Snowflake
8 157 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 87 (4.36%) SaaS
9 87 (4.36%) Serverless
10 79 (3.96%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.71%) Matillion
12 66 (3.31%) dbt
13 62 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
14 45 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 40 (2.00%) PowerApps
16 37 (1.85%) GitHub
17 33 (1.65%) Amazon Kinesis
17 33 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
18 32 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.55%) DNS
2 20 (1.00%) HTTP
3 14 (0.70%) Firewall
4 12 (0.60%) Network Security
5 10 (0.50%) DHCP
6 3 (0.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.10%) LAN
7 2 (0.10%) SSH
7 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 2 (0.10%) Wireless
8 1 (0.050%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.050%) 5G
8 1 (0.050%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.050%) FTP
8 1 (0.050%) Skype
8 1 (0.050%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 962 (48.20%) Data Warehouse
2 602 (30.16%) Power BI
2 602 (30.16%) SQL Server
3 409 (20.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 280 (14.03%) BigQuery
5 262 (13.13%) Data Lake
6 225 (11.27%) Looker
7 152 (7.62%) Tableau
8 139 (6.96%) Big Data
9 135 (6.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 120 (6.01%) NoSQL
11 118 (5.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 117 (5.86%) Relational Database
13 84 (4.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 76 (3.81%) Metadata
15 73 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
15 73 (3.66%) Data Vault
16 70 (3.51%) Star Schema
17 68 (3.41%) Data Mining
18 62 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 121 (6.06%) Git
2 96 (4.81%) JIRA
3 42 (2.10%) GitLab
3 42 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 26 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.75%) JMeter
7 13 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.50%) Selenium
10 8 (0.40%) Mercurial
10 8 (0.40%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.40%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.35%) Postman
12 6 (0.30%) Appium
12 6 (0.30%) ERwin
12 6 (0.30%) Toad
13 4 (0.20%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.15%) TeamCity
General
1 546 (27.35%) Finance
2 511 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 451 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (8.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 149 (7.46%) Law
7 148 (7.41%) Retail
8 144 (7.21%) Legal
9 120 (6.01%) Marketing
10 84 (4.21%) Banking
11 80 (4.01%) Billing
12 59 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.20%) Games
15 21 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
18 15 (0.75%) Local Government
19 14 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
20 12 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 636 (31.86%) Data Engineer
2 307 (15.38%) Senior
3 289 (14.48%) Developer
4 242 (12.12%) Lead
5 234 (11.72%) Architect
6 219 (10.97%) Data Architect
7 137 (6.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 134 (6.71%) Analyst
9 133 (6.66%) Consultant
10 125 (6.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 110 (5.51%) Data Manager
12 97 (4.86%) Engineering Manager
13 94 (4.71%) Software Engineer
14 90 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 84 (4.21%) Lead Data Engineer
16 69 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
17 68 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
18 62 (3.11%) Data Analyst
19 59 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
19 59 (2.96%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.16%) PySpark
2 64 (3.21%) Kafka
3 63 (3.16%) .NET
4 38 (1.90%) RESTful
5 32 (1.60%) REST
6 31 (1.55%) XML
7 29 (1.45%) Web Services
8 26 (1.30%) JSON
9 24 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
10 22 (1.10%) CSS
11 20 (1.00%) Apache Beam
11 20 (1.00%) ASP.NET
12 19 (0.95%) Pandas
12 19 (0.95%) SOAP
13 18 (0.90%) .NET Framework
13 18 (0.90%) Middleware
14 17 (0.85%) JWT
15 16 (0.80%) HTML
15 16 (0.80%) MDX
16 14 (0.70%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 174 (8.72%) Self-Motivation
2 163 (8.17%) Data Structures
3 138 (6.91%) Algorithms
4 132 (6.61%) Product Ownership
5 104 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 87 (4.36%) Onboarding
7 60 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.56%) Reinsurance
9 46 (2.30%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.65%) NHS
12 29 (1.45%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.15%) Client/Server
13 23 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.10%) Replication
15 21 (1.05%) Data Fabric
16 20 (1.00%) Cyberattack
16 20 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
17 15 (0.75%) IoT
18 13 (0.65%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 75 (3.76%) Windows
2 48 (2.40%) Linux
3 24 (1.20%) zOS
4 23 (1.15%) Unix
5 13 (0.65%) Solaris
6 12 (0.60%) CentOS
6 12 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.050%) Android
9 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
9 1 (0.050%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 887 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 750 (37.58%) Business Intelligence
3 656 (32.87%) Analytics
4 627 (31.41%) Data Engineering
5 596 (29.86%) Agile
6 556 (27.86%) Problem-Solving
7 464 (23.25%) Visualisation
8 457 (22.90%) Data Integration
9 456 (22.85%) Data Pipeline
10 410 (20.54%) Machine Learning
11 387 (19.39%) DevOps
12 381 (19.09%) Data Science
13 352 (17.64%) CI/CD
14 333 (16.68%) Data Analysis
15 318 (15.93%) Data Governance
16 301 (15.08%) Artificial Intelligence
17 295 (14.78%) Data Architecture
18 286 (14.33%) Migration
19 284 (14.23%) Data Visualisation
20 274 (13.73%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,281 (64.18%) SQL
2 724 (36.27%) Python
3 277 (13.88%) T-SQL
4 125 (6.26%) Java
5 109 (5.46%) C#
6 77 (3.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 70 (3.51%) R
8 68 (3.41%) Scala
9 63 (3.16%) JavaScript
10 59 (2.96%) PowerShell
11 53 (2.66%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.10%) VBA
13 17 (0.85%) Go
14 16 (0.80%) TypeScript
15 14 (0.70%) MATLAB
16 10 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.45%) PHP
18 8 (0.40%) Ruby
19 5 (0.25%) C
19 5 (0.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 303 (15.18%) Degree
2 111 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 45 (2.25%) Security Cleared
5 38 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 35 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 30 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.00%) MBA
10 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.50%) PhD
12 9 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
13 7 (0.35%) ISTQB
13 7 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 6 (0.30%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.30%) IIBA
15 5 (0.25%) AWS Certification
15 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
16 4 (0.20%) CIMA
16 4 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (23.30%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.82%) GDPR
3 160 (8.02%) QA
4 29 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.20%) NIST
8 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.10%) SLA
10 1 (0.050%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.050%) ITGC
10 1 (0.050%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (1.95%) Docker
2 30 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.70%) HDFS
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.10%) vSphere
7 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 110 (5.51%) Terraform
2 46 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.30%) Grafana
4 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.10%) Marathon
7 2 (0.10%) Mesos
7 2 (0.10%) MIIS
8 1 (0.050%) FTK
8 1 (0.050%) Kibana
8 1 (0.050%) logstash
8 1 (0.050%) SCCM
Vendors
1 478 (23.95%) Microsoft
2 346 (17.33%) Databricks
3 260 (13.03%) Google
4 142 (7.11%) Oracle
5 116 (5.81%) Informatica
6 28 (1.40%) Alteryx
7 26 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.15%) SAP
9 19 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 16 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 16 (0.80%) IBM
11 13 (0.65%) F5
12 12 (0.60%) NEC
13 10 (0.50%) Adaptive Insights
13 10 (0.50%) Anaplan
13 10 (0.50%) Jedox
13 10 (0.50%) Splunk
13 10 (0.50%) Tagetik
13 10 (0.50%) Talend
14 8 (0.40%) Cognos