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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 140 127
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,046 2,553 4,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.05% 2.57% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 2.69% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,440 1,832 2,833
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £83,750 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,500 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 18 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 18 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 +2 1,801 £62,500 -6.42% 409
UK excluding London +16 1,259 £55,000 - 240
Work from Home -12 893 £60,000 -1.23% 233
London +1 710 £72,750 -3.00% 221
North of England +83 388 £55,000 +4.76% 62
South East -17 259 £60,000 - 56
North West +71 229 £55,750 +6.19% 39
Midlands +7 219 £55,000 +10.00% 47
Scotland +11 173 £60,000 +7.62% 8
West Midlands +15 157 £56,750 +14.95% 36
South West -40 129 £53,500 -20.74% 31
Yorkshire +80 91 £47,500 -5.00% 18
North East +10 68 £64,000 +16.36% 5
East Midlands +2 60 £47,500 -13.64% 11
East of England -35 59 £47,500 -17.39% 14
Wales +1 32 £49,801 +11.50% 9
Northern Ireland +8 2 £85,000 +70.00% 13

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
1 136 (6.65%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.35%) Apache
3 67 (3.27%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.61%) SAS
5 29 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.08%) IIS
7 13 (0.64%) Confluence
8 6 (0.29%) Drupal
9 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.15%) Luigi
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.098%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.098%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.098%) Moodle
12 1 (0.049%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.049%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 116 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.49%) Trello
5 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.049%) InVision
8 1 (0.049%) Sketch
8 1 (0.049%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 26 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.64%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.20%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.20%) Primavera
4 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.098%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.098%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.098%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.049%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.049%) HFM
7 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.049%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.049%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,116 (54.55%) Azure
2 694 (33.92%) AWS
3 630 (30.79%) Power Platform
4 413 (20.19%) GCP
5 258 (12.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 232 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
7 171 (8.36%) Snowflake
8 153 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 89 (4.35%) Serverless
10 83 (4.06%) Amazon S3
11 82 (4.01%) SaaS
12 75 (3.67%) Matillion
13 68 (3.32%) dbt
14 65 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
15 44 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (2.00%) PowerApps
17 37 (1.81%) GitHub
18 33 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
19 32 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.52%) DNS
2 20 (0.98%) HTTP
3 14 (0.68%) Firewall
4 12 (0.59%) Network Security
5 10 (0.49%) DHCP
6 3 (0.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.098%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.098%) LAN
7 2 (0.098%) SSH
7 2 (0.098%) WAN
7 2 (0.098%) Wireless
8 1 (0.049%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.049%) 5G
8 1 (0.049%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.049%) FTP
8 1 (0.049%) Skype
8 1 (0.049%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 980 (47.90%) Data Warehouse
2 617 (30.16%) SQL Server
3 614 (30.01%) Power BI
4 420 (20.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 281 (13.73%) BigQuery
6 266 (13.00%) Data Lake
7 223 (10.90%) Looker
8 160 (7.82%) Tableau
9 142 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 139 (6.79%) Big Data
11 123 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
11 123 (6.01%) Relational Database
12 122 (5.96%) NoSQL
13 86 (4.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 78 (3.81%) Metadata
15 74 (3.62%) Data Vault
16 73 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
17 71 (3.47%) Data Mining
18 69 (3.37%) Star Schema
19 65 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (5.96%) Git
2 97 (4.74%) JIRA
3 44 (2.15%) Visual Studio
4 42 (2.05%) GitLab
5 40 (1.96%) Jenkins
6 30 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 15 (0.73%) JMeter
8 13 (0.64%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
9 12 (0.59%) CircleCI
10 10 (0.49%) Selenium
11 8 (0.39%) Mercurial
11 8 (0.39%) 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 4 (0.20%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 568 (27.76%) Finance
2 515 (25.17%) Social Skills
3 460 (22.48%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 161 (7.87%) Public Sector
6 160 (7.82%) Law
7 149 (7.28%) Legal
8 146 (7.14%) Retail
9 125 (6.11%) Marketing
10 88 (4.30%) Banking
11 79 (3.86%) Billing
12 62 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 25 (1.22%) Games
15 23 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.78%) Local Government
19 13 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 662 (32.36%) Data Engineer
2 315 (15.40%) Senior
3 301 (14.71%) Developer
4 239 (11.68%) Lead
5 230 (11.24%) Architect
6 213 (10.41%) Data Architect
7 140 (6.84%) Senior Data Engineer
8 137 (6.70%) Analyst
9 135 (6.60%) Consultant
10 134 (6.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 110 (5.38%) Data Manager
12 97 (4.74%) Engineering Manager
12 97 (4.74%) Software Engineer
13 90 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 83 (4.06%) Lead Data Engineer
15 70 (3.42%) AWS Engineer
16 68 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
17 66 (3.23%) Power BI Developer
18 60 (2.93%) Azure Data Engineer
18 60 (2.93%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (7.28%) PySpark
2 68 (3.32%) .NET
3 60 (2.93%) Kafka
4 41 (2.00%) RESTful
5 34 (1.66%) REST
6 31 (1.52%) Web Services
7 30 (1.47%) XML
8 26 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
9 25 (1.22%) JSON
10 21 (1.03%) Apache Beam
10 21 (1.03%) CSS
10 21 (1.03%) Pandas
11 20 (0.98%) ASP.NET
12 19 (0.93%) SOAP
13 18 (0.88%) Middleware
14 17 (0.83%) JWT
15 16 (0.78%) MDX
16 15 (0.73%) .NET Framework
16 15 (0.73%) GraphQL
17 14 (0.68%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 175 (8.55%) Self-Motivation
2 163 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 137 (6.70%) Algorithms
4 136 (6.65%) Product Ownership
5 108 (5.28%) Management Information System
6 91 (4.45%) Onboarding
7 62 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 54 (2.64%) Reinsurance
9 51 (2.49%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (1.52%) NHS
11 31 (1.52%) Taxonomies
12 25 (1.22%) Replication
13 24 (1.17%) Client/Server
13 24 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (0.98%) Cyberattack
14 20 (0.98%) Data Fabric
14 20 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.73%) IoT
16 13 (0.64%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 79 (3.86%) Windows
2 47 (2.30%) Linux
3 24 (1.17%) zOS
4 22 (1.08%) Unix
5 13 (0.64%) Solaris
6 12 (0.59%) CentOS
6 12 (0.59%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.39%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.049%) Android
9 1 (0.049%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.049%) VMS
9 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (44.82%) Data Modelling
2 774 (37.83%) Business Intelligence
3 660 (32.26%) Analytics
4 638 (31.18%) Data Engineering
5 602 (29.42%) Agile
6 562 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
7 481 (23.51%) Visualisation
8 467 (22.83%) Data Pipeline
9 464 (22.68%) Data Integration
10 414 (20.23%) Machine Learning
11 393 (19.21%) DevOps
12 391 (19.11%) Data Science
13 352 (17.20%) CI/CD
14 346 (16.91%) Data Analysis
15 321 (15.69%) Data Governance
16 296 (14.47%) Data Architecture
17 294 (14.37%) Artificial Intelligence
18 293 (14.32%) Data Visualisation
19 292 (14.27%) Migration
20 275 (13.44%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,319 (64.47%) SQL
2 753 (36.80%) Python
3 286 (13.98%) T-SQL
4 126 (6.16%) Java
5 112 (5.47%) C#
6 82 (4.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (3.71%) R
8 68 (3.32%) Scala
9 65 (3.18%) PowerShell
10 60 (2.93%) JavaScript
11 58 (2.83%) PL/SQL
12 23 (1.12%) VBA
13 19 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 17 (0.83%) Go
15 15 (0.73%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.44%) PHP
16 9 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.39%) Ruby
18 5 (0.24%) C
18 5 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 314 (15.35%) Degree
2 110 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 50 (2.44%) Security Cleared
5 41 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 37 (1.81%) SC Cleared
7 36 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.98%) MBA
10 16 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.54%) PhD
12 9 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.34%) AWS Certification
14 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.29%) IIBA
16 5 (0.24%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.20%) CIMA
17 4 (0.20%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 175 (8.55%) GDPR
3 165 (8.06%) QA
4 29 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 10 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 4 (0.20%) NIST
7 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.098%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.098%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.098%) SLA
9 1 (0.049%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.049%) ITGC
9 1 (0.049%) NCSC
9 1 (0.049%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (1.91%) Docker
2 32 (1.56%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.68%) HDFS
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.098%) vSphere
7 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (5.28%) Terraform
2 42 (2.05%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.64%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Grafana
4 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.098%) Marathon
7 2 (0.098%) Mesos
7 2 (0.098%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.098%) MIIS
8 1 (0.049%) FTK
8 1 (0.049%) Kibana
8 1 (0.049%) logstash
8 1 (0.049%) SCCM
Vendors
1 493 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 360 (17.60%) Databricks
3 258 (12.61%) Google
4 149 (7.28%) Oracle
5 116 (5.67%) Informatica
6 29 (1.42%) Alteryx
7 26 (1.27%) SAP
8 25 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 20 (0.98%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.83%) IBM
11 15 (0.73%) Cloudera
12 13 (0.64%) F5
12 13 (0.64%) NEC
13 11 (0.54%) Talend
14 10 (0.49%) Adaptive Insights
14 10 (0.49%) Anaplan
14 10 (0.49%) Jedox
14 10 (0.49%) Splunk
14 10 (0.49%) Tagetik
15 8 (0.39%) Cognos