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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 67 59
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 +17
Permanent jobs citing ETL 31 69 137
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.02% 4.04% 4.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 4.20% 5.09%
Number of salaries quoted 25 57 83
10th Percentile £58,750 £52,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £52,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £82,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% +25.95% -12.67%
75th Percentile £123,750 £97,500 £78,000
90th Percentile £134,000 £132,000 £92,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £82,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.03% +22.22% -10.18%

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 2,454 1,642 2,693
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 80.51% 96.02% 93.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,782 1,309 1,833
10th Percentile £47,500 £39,450 £42,821
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £122,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -0.68%

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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 20 September 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 6 (19.35%) Apache Spark
2 5 (16.13%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (9.68%) Apache
4 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (3.23%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 18 (58.06%) Azure
2 12 (38.71%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (35.48%) AWS
3 11 (35.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 7 (22.58%) dbt
4 7 (22.58%) GCP
5 6 (19.35%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
6 5 (16.13%) OCI
7 4 (12.90%) Snowflake
8 3 (9.68%) Azure Databricks
8 3 (9.68%) GitHub
8 3 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (9.68%) SaaS
9 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (3.23%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (58.06%) Data Lake
2 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (19.35%) Delta Lake
4 5 (16.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (16.13%) Power BI
5 4 (12.90%) BigQuery
5 4 (12.90%) Spark SQL
5 4 (12.90%) Tableau
6 3 (9.68%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (9.68%) Looker
6 3 (9.68%) Metadata
6 3 (9.68%) Milvus
6 3 (9.68%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.23%) Big Data
8 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.23%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) MLflow
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 22 (70.97%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Banking
5 5 (16.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.45%) Advertising
7 1 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Data Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Senior Data Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Service Owner
4 3 (9.68%) Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Architect
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Data Architect
5 2 (6.45%) Databricks Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Databricks Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Databricks Data Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Electronic Trading C++ Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Electronic Trading Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 4 (12.90%) PySpark
3 3 (9.68%) LangChain
3 3 (9.68%) LlamaIndex
3 3 (9.68%) pgvector
3 3 (9.68%) PyTorch
3 3 (9.68%) scikit-learn
3 3 (9.68%) TensorFlow
3 3 (9.68%) Terraform
4 1 (3.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (48.39%) Product Ownership
2 7 (22.58%) Reference Data
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.68%) Clustering
4 3 (9.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
6 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.23%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (58.06%) Analytics
1 18 (58.06%) Data Engineering
1 18 (58.06%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (41.94%) Data Governance
3 12 (38.71%) Agile
3 12 (38.71%) Data Modelling
4 11 (35.48%) Data Architecture
5 10 (32.26%) CI/CD
5 10 (32.26%) DevOps
6 8 (25.81%) Lakehouse
6 8 (25.81%) Validation
7 7 (22.58%) Data Integration
7 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
8 6 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (19.35%) Business Strategy
8 6 (19.35%) Dimensional Modelling
8 6 (19.35%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (16.13%) AI
9 5 (16.13%) ERP
10 4 (12.90%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) SQL
2 14 (45.16%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) C++
3 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.23%) R
3 1 (3.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) ISTQB
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (9.68%) GDPR
3 2 (6.45%) QA
4 1 (3.23%) SLA
4 1 (3.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Databricks
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
3 3 (9.68%) Cloudera
3 3 (9.68%) Dell
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.23%) Bloomberg
5 1 (3.23%) Confluent
5 1 (3.23%) Informatica
5 1 (3.23%) Refinitiv