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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 51 61
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +3
Permanent jobs citing ETL 79 118 120
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 3.18% 4.55% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 4.77% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 61 71 112
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £59,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £127,250
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,150
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.20% +0.20%

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 2,131 2,476 2,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 85.75% 95.52% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 1,564 2,548
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,000
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 £112,500 £117,500 £113,750
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +2.74% -2.67%

ETL
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 26 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the City of London

ETL
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 12 (15.19%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.06%) Apache
3 4 (5.06%) Confluence
4 2 (2.53%) Luigi
5 1 (1.27%) IIS
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.27%) Actimize
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.82%) Azure
2 40 (50.63%) Power Platform
3 29 (36.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (26.58%) AWS
5 12 (15.19%) GCP
5 12 (15.19%) Snowflake
6 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (12.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (8.86%) dbt
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.33%) GitHub
8 5 (6.33%) Serverless
9 4 (5.06%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (3.80%) PaaS
10 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.80%) SaaS
11 2 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (46.84%) Data Warehouse
1 37 (46.84%) Power BI
2 24 (30.38%) SQL Server
3 22 (27.85%) Data Lake
4 10 (12.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (8.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (8.86%) Power Query
6 6 (7.59%) Metadata
6 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (6.33%) Hadoop
7 5 (6.33%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.33%) Tableau
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.06%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.80%) Delta Lake
9 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.80%) SQLite
9 3 (3.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
2 6 (7.59%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.53%) ERwin
3 2 (2.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.27%) Deequ
4 1 (1.27%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) NUnit
4 1 (1.27%) Selenium
4 1 (1.27%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 38 (48.10%) Finance
2 30 (37.97%) Social Skills
3 18 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (11.39%) Banking
5 9 (11.39%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.06%) International Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Legal
7 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.80%) Retail
8 2 (2.53%) Advertising
8 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.27%) Front Office
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 40 (50.63%) Data Engineer
2 23 (29.11%) Senior
3 21 (26.58%) Senior Data Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) Lead
5 6 (7.59%) Analyst
5 6 (7.59%) Architect
5 6 (7.59%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Developer
6 5 (6.33%) Consultant
6 5 (6.33%) Data Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Gen AI Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Analytics Consultant
9 2 (2.53%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Data Manager
9 2 (2.53%) Data Science Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) GCP Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) Kafka
2 3 (3.80%) PySpark
2 3 (3.80%) XML
3 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.53%) LangChain
3 2 (2.53%) Pandas
3 2 (2.53%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.53%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.27%) .NET
4 1 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.27%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.27%) Great Expectations
4 1 (1.27%) MDX
4 1 (1.27%) NumPy
4 1 (1.27%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.80%) Credit Risk
2 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.80%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.80%) Market Risk
2 3 (3.80%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.53%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.27%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (60.76%) Data Modelling
2 45 (56.96%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (51.90%) Analytics
3 41 (51.90%) Business Intelligence
4 33 (41.77%) Agile
5 32 (40.51%) Data Engineering
5 32 (40.51%) Decision-Making
6 24 (30.38%) AI
6 24 (30.38%) Data Governance
7 18 (22.78%) DevOps
8 17 (21.52%) CI/CD
9 16 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (17.72%) Data Science
11 12 (15.19%) Data Strategy
12 11 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (13.92%) Data Analytics
12 11 (13.92%) Generative AI
13 10 (12.66%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 68 (86.08%) SQL
2 52 (65.82%) Python
3 16 (20.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (11.39%) T-SQL
5 6 (7.59%) PowerShell
5 6 (7.59%) Scala
6 4 (5.06%) Java
7 2 (2.53%) C#
7 2 (2.53%) VBA
8 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) Azure Certification
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.80%) SnowPro
5 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.53%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) ISEB
6 1 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.27%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (20.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) GDPR
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Terraform
2 3 (3.80%) Puppet
3 2 (2.53%) Ansible
3 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.53%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.27%) Ambari
4 1 (1.27%) Grafana
4 1 (1.27%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 35 (44.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (30.38%) Databricks
3 4 (5.06%) Google
3 4 (5.06%) Informatica
3 4 (5.06%) Oracle
4 2 (2.53%) IBM
4 2 (2.53%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.27%) Confluent
5 1 (1.27%) Dell
5 1 (1.27%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.27%) HP
5 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.27%) SAP
5 1 (1.27%) Siebel