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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 140 126
Rank change year-on-year 0 -14 -2
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,036 2,557 5,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 2.57% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.69% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,431 1,840 2,846
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 £84,125 £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% +9.95%

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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
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% +10.53%

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 20 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 20 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 1,792 £62,500 -6.72% 439
UK excluding London +17 1,256 £55,000 - 264
Work from Home -7 884 £60,000 -2.44% 240
London -5 705 £73,000 -2.67% 240
North of England +75 386 £55,000 +4.76% 65
South East -11 259 £60,000 - 68
North West +60 227 £56,500 +7.62% 40
Midlands 0 219 £55,000 +10.00% 51
Scotland +12 173 £60,000 +7.62% 11
West Midlands +15 157 £56,750 +14.95% 39
South West -42 129 £53,500 -20.74% 33
Yorkshire +77 91 £47,500 -4.08% 20
North East +15 68 £64,000 +16.36% 5
East Midlands -7 60 £47,500 -13.64% 12
East of England -37 59 £47,500 -17.39% 14
Wales +2 32 £49,801 +11.50% 8
Northern Ireland +17 1 £85,000 +70.00% 14

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 (6.73%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.37%) Apache
3 66 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 33 (1.62%) SAS
5 29 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.08%) IIS
7 13 (0.64%) Confluence
8 6 (0.29%) 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 (0.098%) 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
1 114 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.42%) 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 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.64%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.25%) 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 1,112 (54.62%) Azure
2 691 (33.94%) AWS
3 627 (30.80%) Power Platform
4 411 (20.19%) GCP
5 257 (12.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 232 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
7 171 (8.40%) Snowflake
8 151 (7.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 89 (4.37%) Serverless
10 83 (4.08%) Amazon S3
11 81 (3.98%) SaaS
12 74 (3.63%) Matillion
13 67 (3.29%) dbt
14 65 (3.19%) Cloud Computing
15 44 (2.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (2.01%) PowerApps
17 37 (1.82%) GitHub
18 34 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
19 33 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.52%) DNS
2 20 (0.98%) HTTP
3 14 (0.69%) 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
1 974 (47.84%) Data Warehouse
2 615 (30.21%) SQL Server
3 611 (30.01%) Power BI
4 419 (20.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 281 (13.80%) BigQuery
6 264 (12.97%) Data Lake
7 223 (10.95%) Looker
8 158 (7.76%) Tableau
9 142 (6.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 139 (6.83%) Big Data
11 123 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 123 (6.04%) NoSQL
12 122 (5.99%) Relational Database
13 86 (4.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 77 (3.78%) Metadata
15 74 (3.63%) Data Vault
16 73 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
17 71 (3.49%) Data Mining
18 69 (3.39%) Star Schema
19 64 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (5.99%) Git
2 96 (4.72%) JIRA
3 42 (2.06%) GitLab
3 42 (2.06%) Visual Studio
4 41 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 30 (1.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.74%) JMeter
7 13 (0.64%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (0.59%) CircleCI
9 9 (0.44%) Selenium
10 8 (0.39%) Mercurial
10 8 (0.39%) SoapUI
11 7 (0.34%) Postman
11 7 (0.34%) Spinnaker
12 6 (0.29%) Appium
12 6 (0.29%) ERwin
12 6 (0.29%) Toad
13 4 (0.20%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 566 (27.80%) Finance
2 516 (25.34%) Social Skills
3 460 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 159 (7.81%) Law
5 159 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 147 (7.22%) Legal
7 146 (7.17%) Retail
8 125 (6.14%) Marketing
9 87 (4.27%) Banking
10 79 (3.88%) Billing
11 62 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.28%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.18%) Games
14 23 (1.13%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.79%) Local Government
18 13 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (0.64%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 656 (32.22%) Data Engineer
2 314 (15.42%) Senior
3 299 (14.69%) Developer
4 240 (11.79%) Lead
5 231 (11.35%) Architect
6 214 (10.51%) Data Architect
7 140 (6.88%) Senior Data Engineer
8 136 (6.68%) Analyst
9 134 (6.58%) Consultant
10 133 (6.53%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 110 (5.40%) Data Manager
12 97 (4.76%) Engineering Manager
12 97 (4.76%) Software Engineer
13 90 (4.42%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 83 (4.08%) Lead Data Engineer
15 70 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
16 68 (3.34%) Azure Engineer
17 65 (3.19%) Power BI Developer
18 60 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
18 60 (2.95%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (7.32%) PySpark
2 67 (3.29%) .NET
3 61 (3.00%) Kafka
4 41 (2.01%) RESTful
5 33 (1.62%) REST
6 30 (1.47%) Web Services
6 30 (1.47%) XML
7 26 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
8 25 (1.23%) JSON
9 21 (1.03%) Apache Beam
9 21 (1.03%) CSS
10 20 (0.98%) ASP.NET
10 20 (0.98%) Pandas
11 19 (0.93%) SOAP
12 18 (0.88%) Middleware
13 17 (0.83%) JWT
14 16 (0.79%) MDX
15 15 (0.74%) .NET Framework
15 15 (0.74%) GraphQL
16 14 (0.69%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 175 (8.60%) Self-Motivation
2 163 (8.01%) Data Structures
3 137 (6.73%) Algorithms
4 135 (6.63%) Product Ownership
5 108 (5.30%) Management Information System
6 91 (4.47%) Onboarding
7 62 (3.05%) Public Cloud
8 54 (2.65%) Reinsurance
9 51 (2.50%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
11 31 (1.52%) NHS
11 31 (1.52%) Taxonomies
12 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.23%) Replication
13 24 (1.18%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.98%) Cyberattack
14 20 (0.98%) Data Fabric
14 20 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (0.74%) IoT
16 13 (0.64%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 79 (3.88%) Windows
2 47 (2.31%) Linux
3 24 (1.18%) 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
1 913 (44.84%) Data Modelling
2 769 (37.77%) Business Intelligence
3 662 (32.51%) Analytics
4 636 (31.24%) Data Engineering
5 597 (29.32%) Agile
6 561 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
7 479 (23.53%) Visualisation
8 466 (22.89%) Data Pipeline
9 461 (22.64%) Data Integration
10 415 (20.38%) Machine Learning
11 391 (19.20%) DevOps
12 390 (19.16%) Data Science
13 352 (17.29%) CI/CD
14 345 (16.94%) Data Analysis
15 320 (15.72%) Data Governance
16 296 (14.54%) Artificial Intelligence
17 295 (14.49%) Data Architecture
18 291 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
19 290 (14.24%) Migration
20 275 (13.51%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,309 (64.29%) SQL
2 747 (36.69%) Python
3 285 (14.00%) T-SQL
4 127 (6.24%) Java
5 111 (5.45%) C#
6 81 (3.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (3.73%) R
8 69 (3.39%) Scala
9 66 (3.24%) PowerShell
10 60 (2.95%) JavaScript
11 58 (2.85%) PL/SQL
12 23 (1.13%) VBA
13 19 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 18 (0.88%) Go
15 15 (0.74%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.44%) PHP
16 9 (0.44%) Ruby
16 9 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.25%) VB
17 5 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 313 (15.37%) Degree
2 110 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (3.83%) Master's Degree
4 49 (2.41%) Security Cleared
5 41 (2.01%) Azure Certification
6 36 (1.77%) DBS Check
6 36 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 32 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (0.98%) MBA
9 16 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (0.54%) PhD
11 9 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
12 8 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 6 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
13 6 (0.29%) IIBA
13 6 (0.29%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
15 4 (0.20%) CIMA
15 4 (0.20%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 464 (22.79%) Data Quality
2 175 (8.60%) GDPR
3 162 (7.96%) QA
4 28 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.69%) 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 38 (1.87%) Docker
2 32 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.69%) 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
1 109 (5.35%) Terraform
2 43 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 14 (0.69%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Grafana
4 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.25%) 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
1 490 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 360 (17.68%) Databricks
3 257 (12.62%) Google
4 148 (7.27%) Oracle
5 116 (5.70%) Informatica
6 28 (1.38%) Alteryx
7 25 (1.23%) SAP
8 24 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 20 (0.98%) MuleSoft
10 16 (0.79%) Cloudera
10 16 (0.79%) IBM
11 13 (0.64%) F5
11 13 (0.64%) NEC
12 11 (0.54%) Talend
13 10 (0.49%) Adaptive Insights
13 10 (0.49%) Anaplan
13 10 (0.49%) Jedox
13 10 (0.49%) Splunk
13 10 (0.49%) Tagetik
14 8 (0.39%) Cognos