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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 62 81
Rank change year-on-year -38 +19 +24
Permanent jobs citing ETL 56 76 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.34% 3.97% 3.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 4.12% 3.28%
Number of salaries quoted 37 57 76
10th Percentile £62,000 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £107,000 £103,875
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 3,360 1,843 2,892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.21% 96.24% 91.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,438 1,393 2,401
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,550 £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 24 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 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (17.86%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
4 2 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (7.14%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.79%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 35 (62.50%) Azure
2 21 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 20 (35.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (33.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (28.57%) AWS
6 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (16.07%) dbt
6 9 (16.07%) GCP
7 7 (12.50%) Snowflake
8 4 (7.14%) GitHub
8 4 (7.14%) OCI
9 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.36%) Prefect
10 2 (3.57%) Dagster
11 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.79%) PaaS
11 1 (1.79%) SaaS
11 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (46.43%) Data Lake
2 23 (41.07%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (32.14%) Power BI
4 8 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (12.50%) Tableau
6 6 (10.71%) BigQuery
6 6 (10.71%) Delta Lake
6 6 (10.71%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (10.71%) Looker
6 6 (10.71%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
7 5 (8.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
8 3 (5.36%) Spark SQL
8 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.57%) Big Data
9 2 (3.57%) ClickHouse
9 2 (3.57%) Flink
9 2 (3.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Git
2 6 (10.71%) MLflow
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 28 (50.00%) Finance
2 16 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.86%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Advertising
6 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.79%) Front Office
6 1 (1.79%) International Banking
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) Senior
3 8 (14.29%) Analyst
3 8 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Business Data Analyst
6 4 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Service Owner
7 3 (5.36%) Architect
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.57%) Data Manager
8 2 (3.57%) Lead
8 2 (3.57%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Kafka
2 7 (12.50%) LangChain
2 7 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 7 (12.50%) TensorFlow
3 6 (10.71%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (10.71%) pgvector
3 6 (10.71%) scikit-learn
4 4 (7.14%) PySpark
5 2 (3.57%) REST
6 1 (1.79%) .NET
6 1 (1.79%) JSON
6 1 (1.79%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (10.71%) Clustering
3 6 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 6 (10.71%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.79%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (58.93%) Data Engineering
1 33 (58.93%) Data Pipeline
2 30 (53.57%) Analytics
3 24 (42.86%) Data Modelling
4 21 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 20 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (33.93%) Data Governance
7 18 (32.14%) Agile
8 16 (28.57%) DevOps
9 14 (25.00%) AI
10 12 (21.43%) Data Science
11 10 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (17.86%) Generative AI
11 10 (17.86%) Validation
12 9 (16.07%) Data Architecture
12 9 (16.07%) Data Management
12 9 (16.07%) Dimensional Modelling
12 9 (16.07%) Machine Learning
12 9 (16.07%) Use Case
13 8 (14.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 48 (85.71%) SQL
2 34 (60.71%) Python
3 2 (3.57%) Bicep
3 2 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (3.57%) Java
3 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.57%) Scala
3 2 (3.57%) VBA
4 1 (1.79%) C#
4 1 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 7 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
3 1 (1.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (5.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.71%) Terraform
2 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (39.29%) Databricks
2 14 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) Cloudera
3 6 (10.71%) Dell
4 5 (8.93%) Oracle
5 2 (3.57%) Confluent
6 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.79%) GoldenSource
6 1 (1.79%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.79%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.79%) SAP