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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 66 80
Rank change year-on-year -39 +14 +17
Permanent jobs citing ETL 47 79 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.13% 4.09% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 4.24% 3.38%
Number of salaries quoted 30 59 79
10th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £59,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £107,188 £97,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £132,750 £108,000 £103,200
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +10.71% -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 3,321 1,862 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.16% 96.33% 91.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,397 1,405 2,376
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,850 £41,315
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 2 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 (21.28%) Apache Spark
2 9 (19.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.38%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (10.64%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) Azure
2 16 (34.04%) Power Platform
3 15 (31.91%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (31.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 14 (29.79%) AWS
5 9 (19.15%) GCP
6 8 (17.02%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (17.02%) dbt
7 7 (14.89%) Snowflake
8 5 (10.64%) OCI
9 3 (6.38%) GitHub
9 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.26%) Prefect
11 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (2.13%) Dagster
11 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) Data Lake
2 16 (34.04%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (31.91%) Power BI
4 7 (14.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (14.89%) Tableau
5 6 (12.77%) BigQuery
5 6 (12.77%) Delta Lake
5 6 (12.77%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (12.77%) Looker
5 6 (12.77%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (8.51%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
7 3 (6.38%) Spark SQL
8 2 (4.26%) Big Data
8 2 (4.26%) Metadata
8 2 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.26%) Star Schema
9 1 (2.13%) OLTP
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
2 6 (12.77%) MLflow
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 26 (55.32%) Finance
2 15 (31.91%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Advertising
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) Front Office
7 1 (2.13%) Legal
7 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Data Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) Senior
3 8 (17.02%) Analyst
4 7 (14.89%) Data Analyst
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Service Owner
7 4 (8.51%) Business Data Analyst
7 4 (8.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Gen AI Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Data Science Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Python Data Engineer
9 1 (2.13%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) Kafka
2 7 (14.89%) LangChain
2 7 (14.89%) PyTorch
2 7 (14.89%) TensorFlow
3 6 (12.77%) LlamaIndex
3 6 (12.77%) pgvector
3 6 (12.77%) scikit-learn
4 4 (8.51%) PySpark
5 2 (4.26%) REST
6 1 (2.13%) .NET
6 1 (2.13%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.91%) Product Ownership
2 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 7 (14.89%) Reference Data
3 6 (12.77%) Clustering
3 6 (12.77%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (57.45%) Analytics
2 27 (57.45%) Data Engineering
3 21 (44.68%) Data Modelling
4 18 (38.30%) CI/CD
4 18 (38.30%) Data Governance
5 16 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (31.91%) Agile
7 14 (29.79%) DevOps
8 11 (23.40%) AI
8 11 (23.40%) Data Science
9 10 (21.28%) Generative AI
10 9 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (19.15%) Data Architecture
10 9 (19.15%) Data Integration
10 9 (19.15%) Data Management
10 9 (19.15%) Machine Learning
10 9 (19.15%) Validation
11 8 (17.02%) Dimensional Modelling
11 8 (17.02%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 38 (80.85%) SQL
2 26 (55.32%) Python
3 2 (4.26%) Bicep
3 2 (4.26%) Java
3 2 (4.26%) Scala
3 2 (4.26%) VBA
4 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.79%) Data Quality
2 7 (14.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 7 (14.89%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) SLA
3 1 (2.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (38.30%) Databricks
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.77%) Cloudera
3 6 (12.77%) Dell
3 6 (12.77%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.13%) Confluent
4 1 (2.13%) GoldenSource
4 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.13%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) SAP