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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 44 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 +29 -11
Permanent jobs citing ETL 69 156 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.24% 5.65% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 6.00% 3.64%
Number of salaries quoted 56 97 100
10th Percentile £54,375 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £65,313 £55,000 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £126,875 £95,000 £125,250
Central London median annual salary £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% +14.29%

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 1,545 2,602 2,915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 94.90% 94.24% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 1,709 2,627
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - +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 8 November 2025.

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 8 (11.59%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (10.14%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.80%) Apache
4 3 (4.35%) Confluence
5 2 (2.90%) Luigi
6 1 (1.45%) IIS
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 46 (66.67%) Azure
2 31 (44.93%) Power Platform
3 23 (33.33%) AWS
4 18 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (21.74%) Snowflake
6 14 (20.29%) GCP
7 9 (13.04%) dbt
7 9 (13.04%) Serverless
8 7 (10.14%) Amazon S3
9 6 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (7.25%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (7.25%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (5.80%) GitHub
12 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (4.35%) Azure Functions
12 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
13 2 (2.90%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (2.90%) Fivetran
13 2 (2.90%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (43.48%) Power BI
2 29 (42.03%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (30.43%) SQL Server
4 18 (26.09%) Data Lake
5 7 (10.14%) Hadoop
5 7 (10.14%) NoSQL
5 7 (10.14%) Power Query
5 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (8.70%) Delta Lake
6 6 (8.70%) Metadata
7 5 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (7.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (7.25%) Tableau
8 4 (5.80%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.80%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.35%) Big Data
9 3 (4.35%) Data Mining
9 3 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Git
2 5 (7.25%) JIRA
3 3 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) ER Studio
4 2 (2.90%) ERwin
4 2 (2.90%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.45%) Deequ
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) NUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Selenium
5 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (50.72%) Finance
2 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
3 18 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (13.04%) Banking
4 9 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (8.70%) Law
7 4 (5.80%) International Banking
7 4 (5.80%) Marketing
8 3 (4.35%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.35%) Legal
8 3 (4.35%) Retail
9 2 (2.90%) Advertising
9 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.90%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.90%) Wearables
10 1 (1.45%) Games
10 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 31 (44.93%) Data Engineer
2 18 (26.09%) Senior
3 15 (21.74%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Architect
4 8 (11.59%) Data Architect
4 8 (11.59%) Developer
4 8 (11.59%) Lead
5 5 (7.25%) Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) GCP Architect
8 2 (2.90%) GCP Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (2.90%) Lead Data Engineer
8 2 (2.90%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) PySpark
2 5 (7.25%) Kafka
3 3 (4.35%) Pandas
3 3 (4.35%) XML
4 2 (2.90%) Django
4 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (2.90%) React
5 1 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.45%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.45%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.45%) LangChain
5 1 (1.45%) NumPy
5 1 (1.45%) pytest
5 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
1 5 (7.25%) Reinsurance
2 4 (5.80%) Credit Risk
2 4 (5.80%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.80%) Market Risk
3 2 (2.90%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.45%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (71.01%) Data Modelling
2 37 (53.62%) Analytics
3 35 (50.72%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (46.38%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (44.93%) Agile
6 27 (39.13%) Data Engineering
7 26 (37.68%) Decision-Making
8 20 (28.99%) Data Governance
8 20 (28.99%) DevOps
9 19 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (26.09%) AI
11 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
11 16 (23.19%) Data Science
11 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (21.74%) Data Architecture
13 11 (15.94%) Data Analytics
14 10 (14.49%) Data Strategy
14 10 (14.49%) Visualisation
15 9 (13.04%) Data Management
15 9 (13.04%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (82.61%) SQL
2 42 (60.87%) Python
3 14 (20.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (15.94%) T-SQL
5 7 (10.14%) Scala
6 3 (4.35%) Java
6 3 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.45%) C#
7 1 (1.45%) C++
7 1 (1.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) Azure Certification
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.80%) SnowPro
4 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.35%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) ISEB
6 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.84%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.80%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (8.70%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) Ansible
2 3 (4.35%) Puppet
3 2 (2.90%) Grafana
3 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.45%) Ambari
4 1 (1.45%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.45%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 27 (39.13%) Databricks
2 25 (36.23%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.70%) Google
3 6 (8.70%) Informatica
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle
5 2 (2.90%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) Dell
6 1 (1.45%) HP
6 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (1.45%) Siebel
6 1 (1.45%) Talend
6 1 (1.45%) Workday