ETL Job Trends in the City of London

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 79
Rank change year-on-year -27 +9 +14
Permanent jobs citing ETL 60 76 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.47% 3.69% 3.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 3.84% 3.42%
Number of salaries quoted 39 57 82
10th Percentile £60,250 £52,500 £51,825
25th Percentile £63,750 £58,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £85,625 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £105,500 £104,775
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

ETL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,279 1,979 2,925
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.49% 95.97% 91.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,358 1,500 2,446
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,975 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -3.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ETL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

ETL job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 12 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.00%) Apache
4 2 (3.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.67%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 41 (68.33%) Azure
2 26 (43.33%) Power Platform
3 24 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (26.67%) AWS
6 12 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (16.67%) GCP
8 9 (15.00%) dbt
9 8 (13.33%) Snowflake
10 4 (6.67%) GitHub
11 3 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (5.00%) OCI
11 3 (5.00%) PaaS
11 3 (5.00%) Prefect
11 3 (5.00%) SaaS
12 2 (3.33%) Dagster
13 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.67%) Matillion
13 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (41.67%) Data Lake
1 25 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (38.33%) Power BI
3 8 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (13.33%) SQL Server
4 7 (11.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (11.67%) Tableau
5 6 (10.00%) BigQuery
5 6 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 6 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (10.00%) Looker
5 6 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 3 (5.00%) Spark SQL
7 3 (5.00%) SQLite
8 2 (3.33%) ClickHouse
8 2 (3.33%) Flink
8 2 (3.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Git
2 6 (10.00%) MLflow
3 2 (3.33%) JIRA
General
1 27 (45.00%) Finance
2 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (11.67%) Banking
5 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) International Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (48.33%) Data Engineer
2 19 (31.67%) Senior
3 12 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 6 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Service Owner
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Lead
8 2 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.33%) Kafka
2 7 (11.67%) LangChain
2 7 (11.67%) PyTorch
2 7 (11.67%) TensorFlow
3 6 (10.00%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (10.00%) pgvector
3 6 (10.00%) scikit-learn
4 4 (6.67%) PySpark
5 2 (3.33%) REST
6 1 (1.67%) .NET
6 1 (1.67%) JSON
6 1 (1.67%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (11.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.00%) Clustering
3 6 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (55.00%) Data Engineering
3 30 (50.00%) Analytics
4 26 (43.33%) Data Modelling
5 23 (38.33%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (35.00%) CI/CD
7 20 (33.33%) Data Governance
8 19 (31.67%) Agile
8 19 (31.67%) DevOps
9 14 (23.33%) AI
10 12 (20.00%) Data Science
11 10 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 10 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
11 10 (16.67%) Generative AI
12 9 (15.00%) Data Architecture
12 9 (15.00%) Data Management
12 9 (15.00%) Machine Learning
12 9 (15.00%) Use Case
12 9 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 53 (88.33%) SQL
2 38 (63.33%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.33%) Bicep
5 2 (3.33%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) Scala
5 2 (3.33%) VBA
6 1 (1.67%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.67%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.67%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (11.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (11.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (38.33%) Databricks
2 17 (28.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 6 (10.00%) Dell
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle
5 2 (3.33%) Confluent
6 1 (1.67%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.67%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.67%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.67%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) SAP