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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 156 130
Rank change year-on-year +5 -26 -5
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,001 2,190 5,253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.85% 2.35% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.47% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 1,755 2,869
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 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.56% +6.09%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +6.06%

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 89,994 88,841 164,871
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.98% 95.43% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,089 53,798 83,455
10th Percentile £29,500 £33,848 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 June 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 1,773 £62,700 -4.27% 387
UK excluding London +28 1,243 £55,000 - 196
Work from Home +3 859 £60,000 - 236
London 0 691 £75,000 - 200
North of England +106 396 £55,000 - 67
South East -8 258 £61,250 +2.08% 37
North West +90 240 £56,500 +2.73% 43
Midlands -10 212 £55,000 +10.00% 38
Scotland +18 159 £65,000 +13.04% 12
West Midlands -6 156 £57,500 +15.00% 25
South West -6 135 £53,500 -20.74% 25
Yorkshire +68 84 £48,750 -11.36% 16
North East +25 72 £64,000 +16.36% 8
East Midlands -13 54 £47,500 -13.64% 11
East of England -19 53 £47,500 -17.39% 11
Wales +7 30 £49,801 +11.50% 2
Northern Ireland +5 2 £86,250 +102.94% 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
1 132 (6.60%) Apache Spark
2 79 (3.95%) Apache
3 63 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 34 (1.70%) SAS
5 26 (1.30%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.10%) IIS
7 15 (0.75%) 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 (0.100%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.100%) Moodle
12 1 (0.050%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.050%) Documentum
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 114 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (1.50%) 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 25 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 8 (0.40%) 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 (0.100%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.100%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.050%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.050%) HFM
7 1 (0.050%) Magento
7 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.050%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.050%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,106 (55.27%) Azure
2 653 (32.63%) AWS
3 624 (31.18%) Power Platform
4 404 (20.19%) GCP
5 259 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 237 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
7 168 (8.40%) Snowflake
8 165 (8.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 90 (4.50%) SaaS
10 84 (4.20%) Serverless
11 83 (4.15%) Amazon S3
12 75 (3.75%) Matillion
13 65 (3.25%) dbt
14 61 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (2.00%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.90%) GitHub
18 32 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
18 32 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
19 28 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.55%) DNS
2 20 (1.00%) HTTP
3 16 (0.80%) Firewall
4 11 (0.55%) Network Security
5 10 (0.50%) DHCP
6 4 (0.20%) SAN
7 2 (0.100%) LAN
7 2 (0.100%) SSH
7 2 (0.100%) WAN
7 2 (0.100%) Wireless
8 1 (0.050%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.050%) 5G
8 1 (0.050%) FTP
8 1 (0.050%) Skype
8 1 (0.050%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 965 (48.23%) Data Warehouse
2 606 (30.28%) Power BI
3 603 (30.13%) SQL Server
4 411 (20.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 279 (13.94%) BigQuery
6 266 (13.29%) Data Lake
7 225 (11.24%) Looker
8 156 (7.80%) Tableau
9 139 (6.95%) Big Data
10 133 (6.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 124 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 122 (6.10%) NoSQL
13 116 (5.80%) Relational Database
14 85 (4.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 77 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
15 77 (3.85%) Metadata
16 75 (3.75%) Data Mining
17 73 (3.65%) Data Vault
18 72 (3.60%) Star Schema
19 60 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 118 (5.90%) Git
2 100 (5.00%) JIRA
3 42 (2.10%) GitLab
3 42 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.80%) Visual Studio
5 22 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.75%) JMeter
6 15 (0.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 12 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.55%) Selenium
9 10 (0.50%) CircleCI
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
13 4 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 541 (27.04%) Finance
2 519 (25.94%) Social Skills
3 449 (22.44%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (7.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 151 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 150 (7.50%) Retail
7 139 (6.95%) Legal
8 133 (6.65%) Law
9 110 (5.50%) Marketing
10 82 (4.10%) Banking
11 80 (4.00%) Billing
12 55 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.40%) Games
14 26 (1.30%) Financial Institution
15 21 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 18 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
18 14 (0.70%) Local Government
18 14 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (0.60%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 638 (31.88%) Data Engineer
2 318 (15.89%) Senior
3 281 (14.04%) Developer
4 239 (11.94%) Architect
4 239 (11.94%) Lead
5 222 (11.09%) Data Architect
6 147 (7.35%) Senior Data Engineer
7 135 (6.75%) Analyst
7 135 (6.75%) Consultant
8 117 (5.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 113 (5.65%) Data Manager
10 100 (5.00%) Engineering Manager
11 90 (4.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
12 88 (4.40%) Software Engineer
13 84 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
14 69 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
14 69 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
15 62 (3.10%) Data Analyst
16 58 (2.90%) Azure Data Engineer
17 56 (2.80%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.05%) PySpark
2 65 (3.25%) .NET
3 62 (3.10%) Kafka
4 36 (1.80%) RESTful
5 32 (1.60%) REST
6 31 (1.55%) Web Services
7 29 (1.45%) XML
8 25 (1.25%) JSON
9 22 (1.10%) CSS
10 21 (1.05%) Apache Beam
11 19 (0.95%) .NET Framework
11 19 (0.95%) Apache NiFi
11 19 (0.95%) ASP.NET
11 19 (0.95%) SOAP
12 18 (0.90%) Middleware
12 18 (0.90%) Pandas
13 17 (0.85%) HTML
13 17 (0.85%) JWT
14 16 (0.80%) MDX
15 14 (0.70%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 175 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
2 166 (8.30%) Data Structures
3 135 (6.75%) Algorithms
4 130 (6.50%) Product Ownership
5 102 (5.10%) Management Information System
6 87 (4.35%) Onboarding
7 60 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 53 (2.65%) Reinsurance
9 41 (2.05%) Cloud Native
10 35 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.65%) NHS
12 25 (1.25%) Taxonomies
13 24 (1.20%) Client/Server
14 23 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (1.10%) Replication
16 21 (1.05%) Data Fabric
17 20 (1.00%) Cyberattack
17 20 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
18 16 (0.80%) IoT
19 13 (0.65%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.80%) Windows
2 47 (2.35%) 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 10 (0.50%) 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
1 894 (44.68%) Data Modelling
2 754 (37.68%) Business Intelligence
3 660 (32.98%) Analytics
4 638 (31.88%) Data Engineering
5 589 (29.44%) Agile
6 551 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
7 467 (23.34%) Visualisation
8 458 (22.89%) Data Integration
9 454 (22.69%) Data Pipeline
10 394 (19.69%) Machine Learning
11 392 (19.59%) DevOps
12 383 (19.14%) Data Science
13 350 (17.49%) CI/CD
14 324 (16.19%) Data Analysis
15 322 (16.09%) Data Governance
16 302 (15.09%) Migration
17 297 (14.84%) Data Architecture
18 295 (14.74%) Artificial Intelligence
19 294 (14.69%) Data Visualisation
20 282 (14.09%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,289 (64.42%) SQL
2 719 (35.93%) Python
3 273 (13.64%) T-SQL
4 118 (5.90%) Java
5 112 (5.60%) C#
6 78 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 75 (3.75%) R
8 66 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 66 (3.30%) Scala
9 61 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 50 (2.50%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.10%) VBA
12 18 (0.90%) MATLAB
13 17 (0.85%) TypeScript
14 16 (0.80%) Go
15 9 (0.45%) PHP
15 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.40%) Ruby
17 6 (0.30%) Bicep
18 5 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 306 (15.29%) Degree
2 113 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (3.90%) Master's Degree
4 43 (2.15%) Security Cleared
5 40 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 36 (1.80%) DBS Check
7 30 (1.50%) SC Cleared
8 29 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.00%) MBA
10 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
11 9 (0.45%) PhD
12 8 (0.40%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.30%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.30%) IIBA
13 6 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 5 (0.25%) AWS Certification
14 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.20%) CIMA
15 4 (0.20%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 463 (23.14%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.80%) GDPR
3 163 (8.15%) QA
4 29 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.40%) 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 (0.100%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.100%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.100%) SLA
10 1 (0.050%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.050%) ITGC
10 1 (0.050%) NCSC
System Software
1 36 (1.80%) Docker
2 29 (1.45%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.65%) HDFS
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.100%) 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
1 111 (5.55%) Terraform
2 45 (2.25%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.80%) Ansible
4 7 (0.35%) Grafana
5 5 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
5 5 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.100%) Marathon
7 2 (0.100%) Mesos
7 2 (0.100%) MIIS
8 1 (0.050%) FTK
8 1 (0.050%) Kibana
8 1 (0.050%) logstash
8 1 (0.050%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.050%) SCCM
Vendors
1 484 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 344 (17.19%) Databricks
3 260 (12.99%) Google
4 143 (7.15%) Oracle
5 124 (6.20%) Informatica
6 28 (1.40%) Alteryx
7 27 (1.35%) SAP
8 23 (1.15%) Salesforce
9 16 (0.80%) IBM
9 16 (0.80%) MuleSoft
10 15 (0.75%) Cloudera
11 12 (0.60%) F5
12 11 (0.55%) 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
14 9 (0.45%) Talend
15 8 (0.40%) ServiceNow