Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ETL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ETL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 139 126
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +2
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,061 2,598 4,873
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.08% 2.57% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.69% 3.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 1,846 2,838
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,250 £99,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +6.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

ETL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,917 96,578 150,488
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.59% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,883 56,844 82,330
10th Percentile £29,008 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ETL.

Salary trend for ETL in the UK

ETL
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for ETL in the UK

ETL
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +5 1,813 £62,500 -4.58% 394
UK excluding London +10 1,262 £55,000 - 220
Work from Home -9 894 £60,000 - 231
London +5 720 £72,500 -3.33% 193
North of England +91 390 £55,000 +5.77% 60
South East -21 261 £61,250 +2.08% 26
North West +65 227 £55,000 +5.77% 38
Midlands -1 214 £53,635 +7.27% 64
Scotland +21 174 £60,000 +9.09% 10
West Midlands +6 152 £56,500 +14.45% 42
South West -38 130 £55,000 -18.52% 24
Yorkshire +83 93 £47,500 -2.11% 17
North East +13 70 £64,000 +16.36% 5
East Midlands -2 61 £47,500 -13.64% 22
East of England -22 60 £47,500 -17.39% 13
Wales +1 32 £49,801 +11.50% 9
Northern Ireland +10 3 £85,000 +70.00% 14

ETL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 137 (6.65%) Apache Spark
2 89 (4.32%) Apache
3 69 (3.35%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.70%) SAS
5 28 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.07%) IIS
7 13 (0.63%) Confluence
8 6 (0.29%) Drupal
9 5 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.24%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.15%) Luigi
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.097%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.097%) Moodle
12 1 (0.049%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.049%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.049%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 118 (5.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.49%) Trello
5 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.39%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.049%) InVision
8 1 (0.049%) Sketch
8 1 (0.049%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.68%) NEC Housing
3 5 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.19%) Elite 3E
4 4 (0.19%) Primavera
4 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.15%) Endur
6 2 (0.097%) MIS ActiveH
6 2 (0.097%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.049%) Data Workbench
7 1 (0.049%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.049%) HFM
7 1 (0.049%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.049%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.049%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,111 (53.91%) Azure
2 702 (34.06%) AWS
3 626 (30.37%) Power Platform
4 414 (20.09%) GCP
5 260 (12.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 234 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
7 173 (8.39%) Snowflake
8 150 (7.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 95 (4.61%) Serverless
10 87 (4.22%) Amazon S3
11 83 (4.03%) SaaS
12 75 (3.64%) Matillion
13 69 (3.35%) dbt
14 63 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 41 (1.99%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
18 37 (1.80%) GitHub
19 35 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
20 33 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.50%) DNS
2 20 (0.97%) HTTP
3 14 (0.68%) Firewall
4 11 (0.53%) Network Security
5 10 (0.49%) DHCP
6 3 (0.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.097%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.097%) SSH
8 1 (0.049%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.049%) 5G
8 1 (0.049%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.049%) FTP
8 1 (0.049%) LAN
8 1 (0.049%) Skype
8 1 (0.049%) WAN
8 1 (0.049%) WebEx
8 1 (0.049%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 982 (47.65%) Data Warehouse
2 626 (30.37%) SQL Server
3 610 (29.60%) Power BI
4 422 (20.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 281 (13.63%) BigQuery
6 266 (12.91%) Data Lake
7 223 (10.82%) Looker
8 162 (7.86%) Tableau
9 140 (6.79%) Big Data
9 140 (6.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 129 (6.26%) Relational Database
11 125 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
12 123 (5.97%) NoSQL
13 83 (4.03%) Metadata
14 82 (3.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 75 (3.64%) Data Vault
16 73 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
17 72 (3.49%) Data Mining
18 69 (3.35%) Star Schema
19 67 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 122 (5.92%) Git
2 96 (4.66%) JIRA
3 42 (2.04%) GitLab
3 42 (2.04%) Visual Studio
4 41 (1.99%) Jenkins
5 31 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.73%) JMeter
7 13 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.58%) CircleCI
9 11 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
10 10 (0.49%) Selenium
11 8 (0.39%) Mercurial
11 8 (0.39%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.34%) Postman
13 6 (0.29%) Appium
13 6 (0.29%) ERwin
13 6 (0.29%) Spinnaker
13 6 (0.29%) Toad
14 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.19%) TeamCity
General
1 570 (27.66%) Finance
2 520 (25.23%) Social Skills
3 462 (22.42%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (7.96%) Law
5 164 (7.96%) Public Sector
6 148 (7.18%) Legal
7 146 (7.08%) Retail
8 130 (6.31%) Marketing
9 88 (4.27%) Banking
10 79 (3.83%) Billing
11 64 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 26 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 26 (1.26%) Games
13 24 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
15 18 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (0.78%) Local Government
17 13 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 664 (32.22%) Data Engineer
2 318 (15.43%) Senior
3 301 (14.60%) Developer
4 234 (11.35%) Lead
5 232 (11.26%) Architect
6 214 (10.38%) Data Architect
7 145 (7.04%) Analyst
8 141 (6.84%) Senior Data Engineer
9 136 (6.60%) Consultant
10 133 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 110 (5.34%) Data Manager
12 98 (4.75%) Software Engineer
13 96 (4.66%) Engineering Manager
14 90 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 80 (3.88%) Lead Data Engineer
16 72 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
17 71 (3.44%) Azure Engineer
18 64 (3.11%) Power BI Developer
19 63 (3.06%) Data Analyst
20 61 (2.96%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (7.23%) PySpark
2 69 (3.35%) .NET
3 63 (3.06%) Kafka
4 44 (2.13%) RESTful
5 35 (1.70%) REST
6 33 (1.60%) XML
7 32 (1.55%) Web Services
8 27 (1.31%) Apache NiFi
9 26 (1.26%) JSON
10 23 (1.12%) Pandas
11 22 (1.07%) CSS
12 21 (1.02%) Apache Beam
13 20 (0.97%) ASP.NET
14 19 (0.92%) Middleware
15 18 (0.87%) SOAP
16 17 (0.82%) JWT
17 16 (0.78%) GraphQL
17 16 (0.78%) MDX
18 15 (0.73%) .NET Framework
18 15 (0.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 175 (8.49%) Self-Motivation
2 165 (8.01%) Data Structures
3 138 (6.70%) Product Ownership
4 136 (6.60%) Algorithms
5 109 (5.29%) Management Information System
6 90 (4.37%) Onboarding
7 63 (3.06%) Public Cloud
8 54 (2.62%) Cloud Native
8 54 (2.62%) Reinsurance
9 35 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
10 31 (1.50%) Taxonomies
11 30 (1.46%) NHS
12 26 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.26%) Replication
13 24 (1.16%) Client/Server
14 20 (0.97%) Cyberattack
14 20 (0.97%) Data Fabric
14 20 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (0.82%) IoT
16 14 (0.68%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 79 (3.83%) Windows
2 48 (2.33%) Linux
3 24 (1.16%) zOS
4 22 (1.07%) Unix
5 13 (0.63%) Solaris
6 12 (0.58%) CentOS
6 12 (0.58%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.19%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.049%) VMS
9 1 (0.049%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 921 (44.69%) Data Modelling
2 775 (37.60%) Business Intelligence
3 661 (32.07%) Analytics
4 638 (30.96%) Data Engineering
5 602 (29.21%) Agile
6 563 (27.32%) Problem-Solving
7 484 (23.48%) Visualisation
8 471 (22.85%) Data Integration
9 468 (22.71%) Data Pipeline
10 420 (20.38%) Machine Learning
11 399 (19.36%) Data Science
12 396 (19.21%) DevOps
13 353 (17.13%) CI/CD
13 353 (17.13%) Data Analysis
14 324 (15.72%) Data Governance
15 298 (14.46%) Data Architecture
16 295 (14.31%) Artificial Intelligence
17 292 (14.17%) Data Visualisation
17 292 (14.17%) Migration
18 278 (13.49%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,336 (64.82%) SQL
2 761 (36.92%) Python
3 294 (14.26%) T-SQL
4 127 (6.16%) Java
5 113 (5.48%) C#
6 78 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 77 (3.74%) R
8 71 (3.44%) Scala
9 66 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 60 (2.91%) JavaScript
10 60 (2.91%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.07%) VBA
12 21 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 18 (0.87%) Go
14 17 (0.82%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.44%) PHP
15 9 (0.44%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.39%) Ruby
17 5 (0.24%) C
17 5 (0.24%) VB
Qualifications
1 309 (14.99%) Degree
2 109 (5.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 76 (3.69%) Master's Degree
4 52 (2.52%) Security Cleared
5 42 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 39 (1.89%) SC Cleared
7 36 (1.75%) DBS Check
8 33 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (0.97%) MBA
10 16 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (0.53%) PhD
12 9 (0.44%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.44%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.29%) IIBA
16 4 (0.19%) CIMA
16 4 (0.19%) CISSP
16 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 467 (22.66%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.54%) GDPR
3 166 (8.05%) QA
4 28 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.19%) NIST
8 4 (0.19%) PMO
8 4 (0.19%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.097%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.097%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.097%) SLA
10 1 (0.049%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.049%) ITGC
10 1 (0.049%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (2.04%) Docker
2 32 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.68%) HDFS
5 4 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.097%) vSphere
7 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.049%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 108 (5.24%) Terraform
2 44 (2.13%) Kubernetes
3 13 (0.63%) Ansible
4 6 (0.29%) Grafana
4 6 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.097%) Marathon
7 2 (0.097%) Mesos
7 2 (0.097%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.097%) MIIS
8 1 (0.049%) Kibana
8 1 (0.049%) logstash
8 1 (0.049%) Rancher
8 1 (0.049%) SCCM
Vendors
1 491 (23.82%) Microsoft
2 358 (17.37%) Databricks
3 259 (12.57%) Google
4 153 (7.42%) Oracle
5 118 (5.73%) Informatica
6 29 (1.41%) Alteryx
7 27 (1.31%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.26%) SAP
9 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft
10 17 (0.82%) IBM
11 15 (0.73%) Cloudera
12 14 (0.68%) NEC
13 13 (0.63%) F5
14 12 (0.58%) Talend
15 11 (0.53%) Splunk
16 10 (0.49%) Adaptive Insights
16 10 (0.49%) Anaplan
16 10 (0.49%) Jedox
16 10 (0.49%) Tagetik
17 8 (0.39%) Cognos