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

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 51 68
Rank change year-on-year -5 +17 -6
Permanent jobs citing ETL 78 135 110
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.74% 4.97% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 5.21% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 58 84 102
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £56,250 £59,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,750 £81,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -9.23% +16.07%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £118,750 £97,500 £127,250
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% +10.34%

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 1,829 2,591 2,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.68% 95.43% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 1,698 2,463
10th Percentile £42,450 £46,250 £40,300
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +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 27 December 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 11 (14.10%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.13%) Apache
3 4 (5.13%) Confluence
4 2 (2.56%) Luigi
5 1 (1.28%) IIS
5 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.28%) Actimize
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 52 (66.67%) Azure
2 43 (55.13%) Power Platform
3 27 (34.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (26.92%) AWS
5 13 (16.67%) GCP
6 12 (15.38%) Snowflake
7 10 (12.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (12.82%) dbt
8 8 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (7.69%) Serverless
10 5 (6.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (6.41%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (6.41%) GitHub
11 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.85%) PaaS
11 3 (3.85%) PowerApps
11 3 (3.85%) SaaS
12 2 (2.56%) Alation
12 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.56%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (51.28%) Power BI
2 36 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (32.05%) SQL Server
4 20 (25.64%) Data Lake
5 11 (14.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (10.26%) Power Query
7 6 (7.69%) Hadoop
7 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
8 5 (6.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (6.41%) Metadata
8 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (6.41%) Tableau
9 4 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (5.13%) BigQuery
9 4 (5.13%) Delta Lake
9 4 (5.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (3.85%) Big Data
10 3 (3.85%) Data Mining
10 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.85%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 9 (11.54%) Git
2 6 (7.69%) JIRA
3 2 (2.56%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.56%) ERwin
3 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.28%) Deequ
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) NUnit
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 36 (46.15%) Finance
2 30 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 22 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (11.54%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (10.26%) Banking
6 5 (6.41%) International Banking
7 4 (5.13%) Law
8 3 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
8 3 (3.85%) Marketing
8 3 (3.85%) Retail
9 2 (2.56%) Advertising
9 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Wearables
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 38 (48.72%) Data Engineer
2 23 (29.49%) Senior
3 21 (26.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (12.82%) Lead
5 7 (8.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 7 (8.97%) Developer
6 6 (7.69%) Analyst
7 5 (6.41%) Architect
7 5 (6.41%) Consultant
7 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.13%) Data Architect
9 3 (3.85%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.85%) Gen AI Engineer
9 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.56%) Analytics Consultant
10 2 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.56%) Data Scientist
10 2 (2.56%) GCP Architect
10 2 (2.56%) GCP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) Kafka
1 7 (8.97%) PySpark
2 3 (3.85%) Pandas
2 3 (3.85%) XML
3 2 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.28%) .NET
4 1 (1.28%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.28%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.28%) Django
4 1 (1.28%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.28%) LangChain
4 1 (1.28%) MDX
4 1 (1.28%) NumPy
4 1 (1.28%) pytest
4 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.28%) React
4 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Credit Risk
1 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.13%) Market Risk
1 4 (5.13%) Reinsurance
2 3 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.28%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.28%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.10%) Data Modelling
2 43 (55.13%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (53.85%) Analytics
4 41 (52.56%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (44.87%) Agile
6 34 (43.59%) Data Engineering
6 34 (43.59%) Decision-Making
7 23 (29.49%) Data Governance
8 22 (28.21%) AI
9 20 (25.64%) DevOps
10 19 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (21.79%) Data Science
12 16 (20.51%) CI/CD
13 15 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (17.95%) Visualisation
15 12 (15.38%) Data Analytics
16 11 (14.10%) Data Strategy
17 10 (12.82%) Data Architecture
17 10 (12.82%) ETL Development
17 10 (12.82%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 69 (88.46%) SQL
2 54 (69.23%) Python
3 17 (21.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (11.54%) T-SQL
5 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 6 (7.69%) Scala
7 4 (5.13%) Java
8 2 (2.56%) C#
8 2 (2.56%) VBA
9 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.26%) Degree
2 5 (6.41%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.56%) SnowPro
5 1 (1.28%) ISEB
5 1 (1.28%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.28%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.13%) Terraform
2 3 (3.85%) Puppet
3 2 (2.56%) Ansible
3 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.28%) Ambari
4 1 (1.28%) Grafana
4 1 (1.28%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 27 (34.62%) Databricks
3 4 (5.13%) Google
3 4 (5.13%) Informatica
3 4 (5.13%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) IBM
5 1 (1.28%) Confluent
5 1 (1.28%) Dell
5 1 (1.28%) HP
5 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.28%) Siebel