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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -35 +13 +26
Permanent jobs citing ETL 49 76 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.18% 3.94% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 4.09% 3.41%
Number of salaries quoted 32 56 79
10th Percentile - £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £102,500 £98,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £132,250 £108,750 £103,200
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

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 3,332 1,857 2,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 79.96% 96.32% 91.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 1,403 2,357
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £55,000
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 - £122,500 £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 5 June 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 (20.41%) Apache Spark
2 9 (18.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.12%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 29 (59.18%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) AWS
2 16 (32.65%) Power Platform
3 15 (30.61%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (30.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (20.41%) GCP
5 9 (18.37%) dbt
6 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (16.33%) Snowflake
7 5 (10.20%) OCI
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.08%) Prefect
9 2 (4.08%) SaaS
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.04%) Dagster
10 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) Data Lake
2 17 (34.69%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (30.61%) Power BI
4 8 (16.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (14.29%) Tableau
6 6 (12.24%) BigQuery
6 6 (12.24%) Delta Lake
6 6 (12.24%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (12.24%) Looker
6 6 (12.24%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (8.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
8 3 (6.12%) Spark SQL
9 2 (4.08%) Big Data
9 2 (4.08%) Metadata
9 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (4.08%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.04%) OLAP
10 1 (2.04%) OLTP
10 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Git
2 6 (12.24%) MLflow
3 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 26 (53.06%) Finance
2 15 (30.61%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 5 (10.20%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.08%) Advertising
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Front Office
8 1 (2.04%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Data Engineer
2 13 (26.53%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Service Owner
7 4 (8.16%) Business Data Analyst
7 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Architect
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.08%) Gen AI Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) Lead
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Data Science Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Python Data Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.37%) Kafka
2 7 (14.29%) LangChain
2 7 (14.29%) PyTorch
2 7 (14.29%) TensorFlow
3 6 (12.24%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (12.24%) pgvector
3 6 (12.24%) scikit-learn
4 4 (8.16%) PySpark
5 2 (4.08%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) .NET
6 1 (2.04%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) Product Ownership
2 7 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.29%) Reference Data
3 6 (12.24%) Clustering
3 6 (12.24%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) Data Pipeline
2 28 (57.14%) Data Engineering
3 27 (55.10%) Analytics
4 21 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 19 (38.78%) Data Governance
6 18 (36.73%) CI/CD
7 16 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (30.61%) Agile
9 14 (28.57%) DevOps
10 11 (22.45%) AI
10 11 (22.45%) Data Science
11 10 (20.41%) Data Integration
11 10 (20.41%) Generative AI
12 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (18.37%) Data Architecture
12 9 (18.37%) Data Management
12 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
12 9 (18.37%) Validation
13 8 (16.33%) Dimensional Modelling
13 8 (16.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 38 (77.55%) SQL
2 26 (53.06%) Python
3 2 (4.08%) Bicep
3 2 (4.08%) Java
3 2 (4.08%) Scala
3 2 (4.08%) VBA
4 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.04%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 7 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
3 1 (2.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (38.78%) Databricks
2 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.24%) Cloudera
3 6 (12.24%) Dell
3 6 (12.24%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.04%) Confluent
4 1 (2.04%) GoldenSource
4 1 (2.04%) Informatica
4 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.04%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) SAP