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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 133 122
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 +4
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,091 2,684 4,851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.12% 2.59% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.70% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,477 1,895 2,882
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 £98,250 £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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
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 £81,750 £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 3 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 3 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 +6 1,842 £62,500 -4.58% 400
UK excluding London +10 1,283 £55,000 - 208
Work from Home -4 903 £60,000 -3.23% 247
London +5 728 £72,500 -3.33% 200
North of England +85 399 £54,500 +9.00% 52
South East -29 266 £61,250 +2.08% 29
North West +65 231 £55,000 +10.00% 33
Midlands +13 212 £53,635 +7.27% 53
Scotland +8 175 £60,000 +9.09% 8
West Midlands +5 150 £55,000 +11.41% 33
South West -39 131 £55,000 -18.52% 36
Yorkshire +73 97 £47,500 -1.04% 15
North East +17 71 £64,000 +16.36% 4
East of England -18 66 £55,000 -4.35% 18
East Midlands +6 61 £47,500 -13.64% 20
Wales +1 32 £49,801 +11.50% 7
Northern Ireland +18 4 £85,000 +70.00% 8

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
1 144 (6.89%) Apache Spark
2 98 (4.69%) Apache
3 70 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.67%) SAS
5 30 (1.43%) 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 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.57%) 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 32 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.77%) 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 1,118 (53.47%) Azure
2 709 (33.91%) AWS
3 646 (30.89%) Power Platform
4 421 (20.13%) GCP
5 264 (12.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 234 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
7 176 (8.42%) Snowflake
8 145 (6.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 101 (4.83%) Serverless
10 90 (4.30%) Amazon S3
11 81 (3.87%) SaaS
12 77 (3.68%) Matillion
13 71 (3.40%) dbt
14 63 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 44 (2.10%) PowerApps
17 43 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
18 41 (1.96%) GitHub
19 39 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
20 34 (1.63%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.48%) DNS
2 20 (0.96%) HTTP
3 14 (0.67%) Firewall
4 12 (0.57%) 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
1 984 (47.06%) Data Warehouse
2 629 (30.08%) Power BI
2 629 (30.08%) SQL Server
3 430 (20.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 286 (13.68%) BigQuery
5 272 (13.01%) Data Lake
6 227 (10.86%) Looker
7 172 (8.23%) Tableau
8 145 (6.93%) Big Data
8 145 (6.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 136 (6.50%) Relational Database
10 131 (6.26%) NoSQL
11 126 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
12 81 (3.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 78 (3.73%) Metadata
14 74 (3.54%) Data Vault
15 73 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
16 71 (3.40%) Data Mining
16 71 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
17 69 (3.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 123 (5.88%) Git
2 96 (4.59%) JIRA
3 46 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 43 (2.06%) GitLab
5 42 (2.01%) Visual Studio
6 34 (1.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 15 (0.72%) JMeter
8 14 (0.67%) Bitbucket
9 12 (0.57%) CircleCI
10 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
11 10 (0.48%) Selenium
12 8 (0.38%) Mercurial
12 8 (0.38%) SoapUI
13 7 (0.33%) Postman
14 6 (0.29%) Appium
14 6 (0.29%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.29%) Toad
15 5 (0.24%) ERwin
15 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
16 4 (0.19%) ER Studio
General
1 582 (27.83%) Finance
2 523 (25.01%) Social Skills
3 465 (22.24%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 168 (8.03%) Law
6 164 (7.84%) Public Sector
7 152 (7.27%) Retail
8 148 (7.08%) Legal
9 134 (6.41%) Marketing
10 94 (4.50%) Banking
11 79 (3.78%) Billing
12 68 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.24%) Games
15 25 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.00%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.77%) Local Government
19 12 (0.57%) Health Technology
19 12 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 673 (32.19%) Data Engineer
2 325 (15.54%) Senior
3 310 (14.83%) Developer
4 238 (11.38%) Architect
5 234 (11.19%) Lead
6 217 (10.38%) Data Architect
7 148 (7.08%) Analyst
8 147 (7.03%) Senior Data Engineer
9 141 (6.74%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 137 (6.55%) Consultant
11 109 (5.21%) Data Manager
12 98 (4.69%) Software Engineer
13 96 (4.59%) Engineering Manager
14 91 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 78 (3.73%) Lead Data Engineer
16 72 (3.44%) AWS Engineer
17 71 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
18 70 (3.35%) Power BI Developer
19 62 (2.97%) Data Analyst
20 61 (2.92%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (6.89%) PySpark
2 72 (3.44%) Kafka
3 70 (3.35%) .NET
4 45 (2.15%) RESTful
5 37 (1.77%) REST
6 35 (1.67%) XML
7 33 (1.58%) Web Services
8 28 (1.34%) JSON
9 27 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
9 27 (1.29%) Pandas
10 23 (1.10%) 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 (8.42%) Self-Motivation
2 164 (7.84%) Data Structures
3 141 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 135 (6.46%) Algorithms
5 110 (5.26%) Management Information System
6 89 (4.26%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.20%) Public Cloud
8 56 (2.68%) Cloud Native
8 56 (2.68%) Reinsurance
9 35 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (1.48%) Taxonomies
11 28 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (1.34%) NHS
12 26 (1.24%) Replication
13 25 (1.20%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.96%) Cyberattack
14 20 (0.96%) Data Fabric
15 19 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 17 (0.81%) IoT
17 14 (0.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (3.87%) Windows
2 48 (2.30%) Linux
3 24 (1.15%) zOS
4 22 (1.05%) Unix
5 13 (0.62%) Solaris
6 12 (0.57%) CentOS
6 12 (0.57%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.33%) 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
1 923 (44.14%) Data Modelling
2 788 (37.69%) Business Intelligence
3 669 (31.99%) Analytics
4 644 (30.80%) Data Engineering
5 620 (29.65%) Agile
6 566 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
7 489 (23.39%) Visualisation
8 481 (23.00%) Data Pipeline
9 476 (22.76%) Data Integration
10 428 (20.47%) Machine Learning
11 405 (19.37%) Data Science
12 400 (19.13%) DevOps
13 352 (16.83%) Data Analysis
14 351 (16.79%) CI/CD
15 321 (15.35%) Data Governance
16 303 (14.49%) Data Architecture
17 298 (14.25%) Artificial Intelligence
18 295 (14.11%) Data Visualisation
19 292 (13.96%) Migration
20 278 (13.30%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,352 (64.66%) SQL
2 776 (37.11%) Python
3 302 (14.44%) T-SQL
4 129 (6.17%) Java
5 113 (5.40%) C#
6 78 (3.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 74 (3.54%) R
8 73 (3.49%) Scala
9 65 (3.11%) PowerShell
10 63 (3.01%) JavaScript
10 63 (3.01%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.00%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.00%) VBA
12 18 (0.86%) Go
13 17 (0.81%) MATLAB
14 9 (0.43%) PHP
14 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.38%) Ruby
16 5 (0.24%) Bash
16 5 (0.24%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 314 (15.02%) Degree
2 112 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 78 (3.73%) Master's Degree
4 53 (2.53%) Security Cleared
5 40 (1.91%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.87%) SC Cleared
7 36 (1.72%) DBS Check
8 32 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.96%) MBA
10 16 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.53%) PhD
12 10 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 9 (0.43%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
14 7 (0.33%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.29%) IIBA
16 4 (0.19%) CIMA
16 4 (0.19%) CISM
16 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 466 (22.29%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.42%) GDPR
3 167 (7.99%) QA
4 29 (1.39%) 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%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.096%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.096%) SLA
10 1 (0.048%) ITGC
10 1 (0.048%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (2.10%) Docker
2 34 (1.63%) 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
1 112 (5.36%) 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
1 491 (23.48%) Microsoft
2 359 (17.17%) Databricks
3 264 (12.63%) Google
4 149 (7.13%) Oracle
5 117 (5.60%) Informatica
6 30 (1.43%) Alteryx
7 27 (1.29%) Salesforce
7 27 (1.29%) SAP
8 20 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 19 (0.91%) IBM
10 16 (0.77%) NEC
11 15 (0.72%) Cloudera
12 13 (0.62%) F5
13 12 (0.57%) Talend
14 11 (0.53%) Splunk
15 10 (0.48%) Adaptive Insights
15 10 (0.48%) Anaplan
15 10 (0.48%) Jedox
15 10 (0.48%) Tagetik
16 8 (0.38%) Facebook