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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 66 82
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 -3
Permanent jobs citing ETL 77 87 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 2.36% 4.19% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 4.37% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 50 63 88
10th Percentile £58,500 £57,500 £49,625
25th Percentile £66,250 £61,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £75,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +0.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £97,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £99,875 £110,000 £108,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +6.67% +5.26% -5.00%

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 2,732 1,991 2,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 83.88% 96.00% 92.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,916 1,499 2,484
10th Percentile £43,688 £42,500 £41,378
25th Percentile £59,875 £55,000 £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 £97,500
90th Percentile £101,500 £120,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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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 27 March 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 15 (19.48%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (14.29%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.49%) Apache
4 4 (5.19%) Confluence
5 1 (1.30%) IIS
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) Actimize
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 52 (67.53%) Azure
2 40 (51.95%) Power Platform
3 26 (33.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 24 (31.17%) AWS
5 16 (20.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 16 (20.78%) GCP
6 13 (16.88%) Snowflake
7 12 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (14.29%) dbt
9 5 (6.49%) GitHub
9 5 (6.49%) Serverless
10 4 (5.19%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.90%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.90%) PaaS
11 3 (3.90%) SaaS
12 2 (2.60%) Alation
12 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (46.75%) Data Warehouse
1 36 (46.75%) Power BI
2 23 (29.87%) Data Lake
3 15 (19.48%) SQL Server
4 11 (14.29%) Tableau
5 10 (12.99%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (12.99%) BigQuery
6 8 (10.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (7.79%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (7.79%) Looker
8 6 (7.79%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (6.49%) Metadata
10 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
10 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.90%) Hadoop
11 3 (3.90%) Power Query
11 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.90%) SQLite
11 3 (3.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) MLflow
3 5 (6.49%) JIRA
4 2 (2.60%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.60%) ERwin
4 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.60%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.30%) Deequ
5 1 (1.30%) GitLab
5 1 (1.30%) NUnit
5 1 (1.30%) Selenium
5 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (38.96%) Finance
2 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (10.39%) Banking
6 4 (5.19%) Legal
7 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.90%) Retail
8 2 (2.60%) Advertising
8 2 (2.60%) International Banking
8 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.30%) Front Office
9 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (44.16%) Data Engineer
2 21 (27.27%) Senior
3 14 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Architect
5 7 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 7 (9.09%) Lead
6 6 (7.79%) Data Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Gen AI Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Business Data Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Kafka
2 8 (10.39%) LangChain
2 8 (10.39%) PyTorch
2 8 (10.39%) TensorFlow
3 6 (7.79%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (7.79%) pgvector
3 6 (7.79%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.60%) PySpark
4 2 (2.60%) REST
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.30%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.30%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) MDX
5 1 (1.30%) pytest
5 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Clustering
2 6 (7.79%) Public Cloud
3 3 (3.90%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.60%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.30%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) Data Pipeline
2 42 (54.55%) Analytics
3 41 (53.25%) Data Modelling
4 39 (50.65%) Business Intelligence
5 34 (44.16%) Data Engineering
6 26 (33.77%) AI
6 26 (33.77%) Data Governance
7 23 (29.87%) Agile
8 22 (28.57%) Decision-Making
9 21 (27.27%) CI/CD
10 19 (24.68%) DevOps
11 18 (23.38%) Data Science
12 15 (19.48%) Generative AI
12 15 (19.48%) Machine Learning
12 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (18.18%) Data Management
14 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (16.88%) Use Case
15 11 (14.29%) Data Strategy
15 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (84.42%) SQL
2 48 (62.34%) Python
3 10 (12.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.60%) C#
6 2 (2.60%) Java
6 2 (2.60%) Scala
6 2 (2.60%) VBA
7 1 (1.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.90%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) ISEB
6 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.69%) GDPR
3 7 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Terraform
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.30%) Ambari
3 1 (1.30%) Grafana
3 1 (1.30%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.30%) Puppet
3 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 25 (32.47%) Databricks
3 7 (9.09%) Dell
4 6 (7.79%) Cloudera
5 4 (5.19%) Google
5 4 (5.19%) Informatica
5 4 (5.19%) Oracle
6 2 (2.60%) IBM
6 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.30%) Confluent
7 1 (1.30%) GoldenSource
7 1 (1.30%) HP
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.30%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) Siebel