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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 63 60
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 +21
Permanent jobs citing ETL 36 74 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.09% 4.16% 4.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 4.34% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 26 54 77
10th Percentile £58,750 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +26.92% -8.77%
75th Percentile £121,563 £97,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £133,750 £125,500 £91,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.03% +26.92% -13.33%

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 2,659 1,704 2,601
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.24% 95.89% 92.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,930 1,335 1,907
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,207
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,441
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.12% -2.08%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £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 1 September 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 9 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 7 (19.44%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (13.89%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.78%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 22 (61.11%) Azure
2 15 (41.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 14 (38.89%) AWS
4 12 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (27.78%) Power Platform
6 9 (25.00%) dbt
6 9 (25.00%) GCP
7 7 (19.44%) Snowflake
8 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (13.89%) OCI
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub
9 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.33%) SaaS
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Databricks
11 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (2.78%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (61.11%) Data Lake
2 12 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (25.00%) Power BI
4 8 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (19.44%) Tableau
6 6 (16.67%) BigQuery
6 6 (16.67%) Delta Lake
6 6 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (16.67%) Looker
6 6 (16.67%) Milvus
6 6 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (11.11%) Spark SQL
8 2 (5.56%) Metadata
8 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.78%) ClickHouse
9 1 (2.78%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.78%) DuckDB
9 1 (2.78%) Flink
9 1 (2.78%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Git
1 6 (16.67%) MLflow
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 23 (63.89%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (13.89%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 11 (30.56%) Senior
3 6 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Data Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Service Owner
5 2 (5.56%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Databricks Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Business Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) QA Analyst
6 1 (2.78%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) Kafka
2 6 (16.67%) LangChain
2 6 (16.67%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (16.67%) pgvector
2 6 (16.67%) PyTorch
2 6 (16.67%) scikit-learn
2 6 (16.67%) TensorFlow
3 4 (11.11%) PySpark
4 3 (8.33%) Terraform
5 1 (2.78%) JSON
5 1 (2.78%) REST
5 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 7 (19.44%) Cloud Native
2 7 (19.44%) Reference Data
3 6 (16.67%) Clustering
3 6 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.78%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) Analytics
1 21 (58.33%) Data Engineering
1 21 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (41.67%) Data Governance
2 15 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 12 (33.33%) Agile
3 12 (33.33%) Data Architecture
4 11 (30.56%) Lakehouse
5 10 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (27.78%) CI/CD
5 10 (27.78%) DevOps
6 8 (22.22%) AI
6 8 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
6 8 (22.22%) Validation
7 7 (19.44%) Data Integration
7 7 (19.44%) Data Science
7 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
7 7 (19.44%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (19.44%) Predictive Modelling
7 7 (19.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) SQL
2 18 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) R
4 1 (2.78%) Bicep
4 1 (2.78%) C++
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (16.67%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (2.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (52.78%) Databricks
2 6 (16.67%) Cloudera
2 6 (16.67%) Dell
3 5 (13.89%) Oracle
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.78%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.78%) Confluent
5 1 (2.78%) Informatica
5 1 (2.78%) Refinitiv