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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 72 62
Rank change year-on-year -37 -10 +40
Permanent jobs citing ETL 38 72 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.02% 3.82% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.28% 3.99% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 27 51 76
10th Percentile £62,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,250 £55,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +12.78% -5.00%
75th Percentile £119,375 £97,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £133,500 £110,000 £85,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +11.11% -6.90%

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 2,977 1,806 2,526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.20% 95.71% 92.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 1,383 1,998
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,642 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £115,000
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 5 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 (26.32%) Apache Spark
2 8 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (7.89%) Apache
4 1 (2.63%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (13.16%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 23 (60.53%) Azure
2 15 (39.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 14 (36.84%) AWS
4 13 (34.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (28.95%) Power Platform
6 10 (26.32%) dbt
7 9 (23.68%) GCP
8 7 (18.42%) Snowflake
9 6 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (13.16%) OCI
11 3 (7.89%) GitHub
11 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (7.89%) SaaS
12 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (2.63%) Prefect
12 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) Data Lake
2 13 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (26.32%) Power BI
4 9 (23.68%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (18.42%) Delta Lake
5 7 (18.42%) Tableau
6 6 (15.79%) BigQuery
6 6 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (15.79%) Looker
6 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (10.53%) Spark SQL
8 3 (7.89%) Relational Database
9 2 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (5.26%) Metadata
9 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
10 1 (2.63%) Big Data
10 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
10 1 (2.63%) OLTP
10 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) MLflow
3 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 21 (55.26%) Finance
2 12 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 5 (13.16%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Advertising
7 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Data Engineer
2 11 (28.95%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Data Analyst
4 6 (15.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Service Owner
6 4 (10.53%) Business Data Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Data Architect
9 1 (2.63%) Business Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Business Systems Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Governance Analyst
9 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
9 1 (2.63%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Kafka
2 6 (15.79%) LangChain
2 6 (15.79%) LlamaIndex
2 6 (15.79%) pgvector
2 6 (15.79%) PyTorch
2 6 (15.79%) scikit-learn
2 6 (15.79%) TensorFlow
3 5 (13.16%) PySpark
4 2 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
5 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Product Ownership
2 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
3 7 (18.42%) Reference Data
4 6 (15.79%) Clustering
4 6 (15.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (57.89%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (55.26%) Data Engineering
3 19 (50.00%) Analytics
4 16 (42.11%) Data Modelling
5 15 (39.47%) Data Governance
6 13 (34.21%) CI/CD
7 12 (31.58%) Agile
7 12 (31.58%) DevOps
8 11 (28.95%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (26.32%) Data Architecture
10 9 (23.68%) AI
10 9 (23.68%) Data Science
11 8 (21.05%) Data Integration
11 8 (21.05%) Dimensional Modelling
11 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
12 7 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (18.42%) Predictive Modelling
13 6 (15.79%) Presales
13 6 (15.79%) Systems Engineering
13 6 (15.79%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (71.05%) SQL
2 18 (47.37%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Bicep
3 2 (5.26%) R
3 2 (5.26%) Scala
4 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
1 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (26.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (15.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (15.79%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Databricks
2 6 (15.79%) Cloudera
2 6 (15.79%) Dell
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.63%) Confluent
5 1 (2.63%) Informatica
5 1 (2.63%) Refinitiv