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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 58 53
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 +24
Permanent jobs citing ETL 22 70 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.83% 4.22% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 4.40% 5.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 57 86
10th Percentile £61,875 £52,300 £42,500
25th Percentile £68,438 £62,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £91,250 £85,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +25.93% -11.56%
75th Percentile £130,000 £97,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £143,250 £132,000 £93,750
Central London median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.94% +25.93% -12.90%

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 2,148 1,591 2,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 81.21% 95.84% 93.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,272 1,737
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +3.45%

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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 8 October 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 2 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (4.55%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 5 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (18.18%) dbt
5 4 (18.18%) OCI
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Databricks
6 3 (13.64%) SaaS
7 2 (9.09%) GCP
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub
7 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (4.55%) Prefect
8 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (18.18%) Delta Lake
4 3 (13.64%) Spark SQL
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.09%) Metadata
5 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Power BI
5 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) ClickHouse
6 1 (4.55%) Data Vault
6 1 (4.55%) DuckDB
6 1 (4.55%) Flink
6 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.55%) OLAP
6 1 (4.55%) OLTP
6 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Investment Banking
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Advertising
6 1 (4.55%) Marketing
6 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Service Owner
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Databricks Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) C++ Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) PySpark
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (27.27%) Reference Data
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (4.55%) Hedge funds
4 1 (4.55%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Analytics
1 11 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 10 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (40.91%) Data Modelling
4 8 (36.36%) Data Governance
4 8 (36.36%) Validation
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Data Architecture
5 7 (31.82%) Data Integration
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) DevOps
6 6 (27.27%) Roadmaps
7 5 (22.73%) Business Strategy
7 5 (22.73%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (18.18%) ERP
8 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (13.64%) Data Transformation
9 3 (13.64%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 3 (13.64%) Dimensional Modelling
9 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
3 1 (4.55%) C++
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) R
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Databricks
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 1 (4.55%) Confluent
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) Refinitiv