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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 49 75
Rank change year-on-year -5 +26 -10
Permanent jobs citing ETL 77 151 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.11% 5.39% 3.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.55% 5.68% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 61 93 98
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,250 £59,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -9.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £92,500 £82,500 £104,375
90th Percentile £118,750 £97,500 £125,000
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £72,500 £75,150
% change year-on-year +13.79% -3.53% +7.36%

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 1,692 2,658 2,849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 90.29% 94.79% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 1,755 2,572
10th Percentile £40,532 £45,950 £40,275
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 £118,750 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year - +2.74% -2.67%

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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 3 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.49%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.19%) Apache
3 4 (5.19%) Confluence
4 2 (2.60%) Luigi
5 1 (1.30%) IIS
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) Actimize
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 52 (67.53%) Azure
2 39 (50.65%) Power Platform
3 27 (35.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (29.87%) AWS
5 14 (18.18%) Snowflake
6 13 (16.88%) GCP
7 11 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (12.99%) dbt
9 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (10.39%) Serverless
11 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
12 5 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (6.49%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (6.49%) GitHub
13 3 (3.90%) PaaS
13 3 (3.90%) PowerApps
13 3 (3.90%) SaaS
14 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
14 2 (2.60%) Fivetran
14 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (46.75%) Data Warehouse
1 36 (46.75%) Power BI
2 27 (35.06%) SQL Server
3 20 (25.97%) Data Lake
4 10 (12.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (9.09%) Power Query
6 6 (7.79%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (6.49%) Hadoop
7 5 (6.49%) Metadata
7 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
8 4 (5.19%) Delta Lake
8 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (5.19%) Tableau
9 3 (3.90%) Data Mining
9 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.90%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) JIRA
3 2 (2.60%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.60%) ERwin
3 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.30%) Deequ
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) NUnit
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (48.05%) Finance
2 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
3 18 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.69%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (10.39%) Banking
5 8 (10.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (6.49%) International Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Law
7 4 (5.19%) Marketing
8 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.90%) Legal
8 3 (3.90%) Retail
9 2 (2.60%) Advertising
9 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Wearables
10 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (51.95%) Data Engineer
2 24 (31.17%) Senior
3 22 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (10.39%) Lead
5 7 (9.09%) Architect
5 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 7 (9.09%) Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Data Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Consultant
8 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Data Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) GCP Architect
10 2 (2.60%) GCP Consultant
10 2 (2.60%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) PySpark
2 6 (7.79%) Kafka
3 3 (3.90%) Pandas
3 3 (3.90%) XML
4 2 (2.60%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (1.30%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.30%) Django
5 1 (1.30%) Great Expectations
5 1 (1.30%) LangChain
5 1 (1.30%) MDX
5 1 (1.30%) NumPy
5 1 (1.30%) pytest
5 1 (1.30%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.30%) React
5 1 (1.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.19%) Credit Risk
1 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.19%) Market Risk
1 4 (5.19%) Reinsurance
2 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.60%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (63.64%) Data Modelling
2 42 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
3 39 (50.65%) Analytics
4 37 (48.05%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (42.86%) Agile
6 32 (41.56%) Data Engineering
7 29 (37.66%) Decision-Making
8 22 (28.57%) AI
9 21 (27.27%) DevOps
10 20 (25.97%) Data Governance
11 19 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (20.78%) CI/CD
12 16 (20.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (19.48%) Data Science
14 13 (16.88%) Data Architecture
15 10 (12.99%) ETL Development
15 10 (12.99%) Visualisation
16 9 (11.69%) Data Analytics
16 9 (11.69%) Data Strategy
16 9 (11.69%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 67 (87.01%) SQL
2 50 (64.94%) Python
3 17 (22.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (12.99%) T-SQL
5 7 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.49%) Scala
7 2 (2.60%) C#
7 2 (2.60%) Java
8 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (9.09%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.19%) SnowPro
4 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
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 13 (16.88%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Terraform
2 3 (3.90%) Puppet
3 2 (2.60%) Ansible
3 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.30%) Ambari
4 1 (1.30%) Grafana
4 1 (1.30%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 29 (37.66%) Databricks
3 4 (5.19%) Google
3 4 (5.19%) Informatica
3 4 (5.19%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) IBM
5 1 (1.30%) Confluent
5 1 (1.30%) Dell
5 1 (1.30%) HP
5 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) Siebel
5 1 (1.30%) Workday