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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 66 76
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 +29
Permanent jobs citing ETL 38 77 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.95% 4.02% 3.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 4.19% 3.80%
Number of salaries quoted 27 56 77
10th Percentile £62,000 £52,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,188 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £111,875 £101,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £133,500 £108,750 £88,500
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 3,213 1,838 2,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.26% 95.93% 91.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,358 1,416 2,287
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,625 £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 17 July 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 9 (23.68%) 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 10 (26.32%) dbt
5 10 (26.32%) Power Platform
6 9 (23.68%) GCP
7 8 (21.05%) Snowflake
8 7 (18.42%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (13.16%) OCI
10 3 (7.89%) GitHub
10 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (7.89%) SaaS
11 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (2.63%) Prefect
11 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (55.26%) Data Lake
2 12 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (23.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (23.68%) Power BI
4 6 (15.79%) BigQuery
4 6 (15.79%) Delta Lake
4 6 (15.79%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (15.79%) Looker
4 6 (15.79%) Snowflake Schema
4 6 (15.79%) Tableau
5 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (7.89%) Spark SQL
6 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.63%) Big Data
7 1 (2.63%) Flink
7 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.63%) OLAP
7 1 (2.63%) OLTP
7 1 (2.63%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) MLflow
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 21 (55.26%) Finance
2 11 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.42%) Social Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Banking
5 5 (13.16%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Advertising
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 15 (39.47%) 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
7 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Business Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Data Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Governance Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Integration Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.63%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) 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 4 (10.53%) PySpark
4 2 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (2.63%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Product Ownership
2 7 (18.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (18.42%) Reference Data
3 6 (15.79%) Clustering
3 6 (15.79%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Data Pipeline
2 20 (52.63%) Data Engineering
3 18 (47.37%) Analytics
4 15 (39.47%) Data Modelling
5 14 (36.84%) CI/CD
5 14 (36.84%) Data Governance
6 13 (34.21%) DevOps
7 11 (28.95%) Agile
8 10 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (23.68%) Data Architecture
9 9 (23.68%) Data Integration
10 8 (21.05%) AI
10 8 (21.05%) Data Science
10 8 (21.05%) Dimensional Modelling
10 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
11 7 (18.42%) Data Management
11 7 (18.42%) Generative AI
11 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (18.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (73.68%) SQL
2 17 (44.74%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) Bicep
4 1 (2.63%) R
4 1 (2.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (7.89%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
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 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) Databricks
2 6 (15.79%) Cloudera
2 6 (15.79%) Dell
3 5 (13.16%) Oracle
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.63%) Confluent
5 1 (2.63%) GoldenSource
5 1 (2.63%) Informatica
5 1 (2.63%) Refinitiv
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce