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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 69 63
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +29
Permanent jobs citing ETL 37 73 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.01% 3.95% 4.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 4.13% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 26 52 75
10th Percentile £61,875 £52,050 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,250 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £121,563 £97,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £133,750 £114,500 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +14.50% -11.19%

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 2,940 1,768 2,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.46% 95.57% 92.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,363 1,990
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £72,500 £73,875
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -1.86% -1.50%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £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 11 August 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 10 (27.03%) Apache Spark
2 7 (18.92%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (8.11%) Apache
4 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 23 (62.16%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 13 (35.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (29.73%) Power Platform
5 9 (24.32%) dbt
5 9 (24.32%) GCP
6 7 (18.92%) Snowflake
7 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) OCI
9 3 (8.11%) GitHub
9 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (8.11%) SaaS
10 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (2.70%) Prefect
10 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (56.76%) Data Lake
2 12 (32.43%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (27.03%) Power BI
4 8 (21.62%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (18.92%) Delta Lake
5 7 (18.92%) Tableau
6 6 (16.22%) BigQuery
6 6 (16.22%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (16.22%) Looker
6 6 (16.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (10.81%) Spark SQL
8 3 (8.11%) Relational Database
9 2 (5.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (5.41%) Metadata
10 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.70%) ClickHouse
10 1 (2.70%) Data Vault
10 1 (2.70%) DuckDB
10 1 (2.70%) Flink
10 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Git
2 6 (16.22%) MLflow
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 21 (56.76%) Finance
2 12 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.62%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.22%) Banking
5 5 (13.51%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Advertising
7 1 (2.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (35.14%) Data Engineer
2 11 (29.73%) Senior
3 7 (18.92%) Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Data Analyst
4 6 (16.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 6 (16.22%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (13.51%) Service Owner
6 4 (10.81%) Business Data Analyst
7 2 (5.41%) Architect
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Business Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.70%) Developer
8 1 (2.70%) Governance Analyst
8 1 (2.70%) Lead
8 1 (2.70%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) Kafka
2 6 (16.22%) LangChain
2 6 (16.22%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (16.22%) pgvector
2 6 (16.22%) PyTorch
2 6 (16.22%) scikit-learn
2 6 (16.22%) TensorFlow
3 5 (13.51%) PySpark
4 2 (5.41%) REST
5 1 (2.70%) JSON
5 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (40.54%) Product Ownership
2 8 (21.62%) Cloud Native
3 7 (18.92%) Reference Data
4 6 (16.22%) Clustering
4 6 (16.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.70%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (54.05%) Data Engineering
3 19 (51.35%) Analytics
4 15 (40.54%) Data Governance
4 15 (40.54%) Data Modelling
5 12 (32.43%) CI/CD
6 11 (29.73%) Agile
6 11 (29.73%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (29.73%) DevOps
7 10 (27.03%) Data Architecture
8 9 (24.32%) AI
9 8 (21.62%) Data Integration
9 8 (21.62%) Data Science
9 8 (21.62%) Dimensional Modelling
9 8 (21.62%) Machine Learning
10 7 (18.92%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (18.92%) Predictive Modelling
11 6 (16.22%) Knowledge Management
11 6 (16.22%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (16.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 26 (70.27%) SQL
2 17 (45.95%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Bicep
3 2 (5.41%) R
3 2 (5.41%) Scala
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (27.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (16.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (16.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) SLA
3 1 (2.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Databricks
2 6 (16.22%) Cloudera
2 6 (16.22%) Dell
3 5 (13.51%) Oracle
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.70%) Confluent
5 1 (2.70%) Informatica
5 1 (2.70%) Refinitiv