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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 56 83
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 -28
Permanent jobs citing ETL 68 135 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 3.99% 4.68% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 5.02% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 56 81 110
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £61,938 £52,500 £54,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £65,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.95% -12.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £97,500 £78,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,500 £90,000 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £67,500 £75,150
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.18% +11.33%

All Process and 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 1,635 2,688 3,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 95.95% 93.20% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,305 1,832 2,929
10th Percentile £39,670 £42,783 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% +0.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for ETL 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 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for ETL in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 8 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 5 (7.35%) Apache
2 5 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.94%) Luigi
4 1 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.47%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 39 (57.35%) Azure
2 31 (45.59%) Power Platform
3 20 (29.41%) AWS
4 16 (23.53%) Snowflake
5 15 (22.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (14.71%) GCP
7 8 (11.76%) dbt
8 7 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (10.29%) Power Automate
8 7 (10.29%) Serverless
9 5 (7.35%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (5.88%) PowerApps
11 3 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.41%) Fivetran
11 3 (4.41%) Google Analytics
11 3 (4.41%) Zapier
12 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (2.94%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 2 (2.94%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (51.47%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (45.59%) Power BI
3 19 (27.94%) SQL Server
4 15 (22.06%) Data Lake
5 11 (16.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (10.29%) NoSQL
6 7 (10.29%) Power Query
6 7 (10.29%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (7.35%) Data Vault
7 5 (7.35%) Delta Lake
7 5 (7.35%) Hadoop
7 5 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.88%) Data Mining
8 4 (5.88%) Looker
8 4 (5.88%) Metadata
8 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (4.41%) Big Data
9 3 (4.41%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Git
2 4 (5.88%) JIRA
3 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 33 (48.53%) Finance
2 32 (47.06%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Banking
5 7 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (7.35%) Law
7 5 (7.35%) Marketing
8 3 (4.41%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.41%) International Banking
9 2 (2.94%) Retail
9 2 (2.94%) Wearables
10 1 (1.47%) Games
10 1 (1.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (44.12%) Data Engineer
2 21 (30.88%) Senior
3 17 (25.00%) Developer
4 13 (19.12%) Senior Data Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Lead
5 7 (10.29%) Senior Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 6 (8.82%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Data Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Data Manager
9 3 (4.41%) Analyst
9 3 (4.41%) Lead Data Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Systems Manager
10 2 (2.94%) Analytics Developer
10 2 (2.94%) Data Analyst
10 2 (2.94%) Data Scientist
10 2 (2.94%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
10 2 (2.94%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) PySpark
2 4 (5.88%) Kafka
3 3 (4.41%) Pandas
3 3 (4.41%) XML
4 2 (2.94%) Django
4 2 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.94%) React
4 2 (2.94%) Spring
4 2 (2.94%) Spring Batch
4 2 (2.94%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.47%) .NET
5 1 (1.47%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.47%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.47%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.47%) JSON
5 1 (1.47%) NumPy
5 1 (1.47%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.88%) Reinsurance
2 3 (4.41%) Credit Risk
2 3 (4.41%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.41%) Market Risk
2 3 (4.41%) Social Media
3 2 (2.94%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.47%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.47%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
1 3 (4.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (66.18%) Data Modelling
2 30 (44.12%) Agile
2 30 (44.12%) Analytics
2 30 (44.12%) Decision-Making
3 25 (36.76%) Data Engineering
3 25 (36.76%) DevOps
4 24 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (25.00%) Data Architecture
7 16 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (22.06%) Data Governance
8 15 (22.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (20.59%) Data Science
9 14 (20.59%) Data Transformation
10 13 (19.12%) CI/CD
11 12 (17.65%) Visualisation
12 11 (16.18%) Data Visualisation
12 11 (16.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 9 (13.24%) Data Ingestion
14 8 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 61 (89.71%) SQL
2 40 (58.82%) Python
3 16 (23.53%) T-SQL
4 11 (16.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (11.76%) Scala
6 5 (7.35%) Java
7 3 (4.41%) C++
7 3 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) C#
8 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.18%) Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.88%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.94%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) GDPR
3 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 6 (8.82%) Terraform
2 5 (7.35%) Ansible
3 3 (4.41%) Grafana
3 3 (4.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (35.29%) Databricks
2 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.29%) Google
4 6 (8.82%) Salesforce
5 4 (5.88%) Informatica
6 3 (4.41%) Xero
7 2 (2.94%) Oracle
8 1 (1.47%) Amplitude
8 1 (1.47%) SAP
8 1 (1.47%) Talend
8 1 (1.47%) Workday