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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 142 129
Rank change year-on-year -3 -13 -3
Permanent jobs citing ETL 1,997 2,463 5,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 2.57% 3.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 2.69% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,399 1,789 2,822
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%

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 87,130 91,478 160,275
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.04% 95.50% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 60,896 54,580 82,863
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 30 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 30 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 +3 1,760 £62,500 -6.42% 394
UK excluding London +14 1,243 £55,000 - 193
Work from Home -15 869 £60,000 - 214
London -1 686 £75,000 - 211
North of England +78 382 £55,000 - 69
South East -19 258 £60,000 - 30
North West +68 227 £56,500 +2.73% 44
Midlands +1 218 £55,000 +10.00% 33
Scotland +3 169 £62,500 +13.64% 10
West Midlands +4 159 £57,250 +14.50% 27
South West -31 132 £53,500 -20.74% 28
Yorkshire +73 87 £50,000 -4.76% 16
North East +8 68 £64,000 +16.36% 9
East Midlands -17 57 £48,750 -11.36% 6
East of England -47 55 £47,500 -17.39% 16
Wales +8 30 £49,801 +11.50% 5
Northern Ireland +9 1 £85,000 +70.00% 5

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
1 136 (6.81%) Apache Spark
2 87 (4.36%) Apache
3 63 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.55%) SAS
5 29 (1.45%) SharePoint
6 22 (1.10%) IIS
7 13 (0.65%) Confluence
8 6 (0.30%) Drupal
9 5 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.25%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.15%) Luigi
10 3 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.10%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.10%) Moodle
12 1 (0.050%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.050%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.050%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.050%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 112 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (0.50%) Trello
5 9 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.35%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.15%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.050%) InVision
8 1 (0.050%) Sketch
8 1 (0.050%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 25 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.65%) NEC Housing
3 4 (0.20%) Elite 3E
3 4 (0.20%) Primavera
3 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.10%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.050%) Data Workbench
6 1 (0.050%) HFM
6 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.050%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.050%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 1,099 (55.03%) Azure
2 669 (33.50%) AWS
3 615 (30.80%) Power Platform
4 406 (20.33%) GCP
5 253 (12.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 228 (11.42%) Azure DevOps
7 167 (8.36%) Snowflake
8 157 (7.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 88 (4.41%) Serverless
10 87 (4.36%) SaaS
11 80 (4.01%) Amazon S3
12 73 (3.66%) Matillion
13 65 (3.25%) dbt
14 62 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (2.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 40 (2.00%) PowerApps
17 36 (1.80%) GitHub
18 34 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
19 33 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
20 32 (1.60%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.55%) DNS
2 20 (1.00%) HTTP
3 14 (0.70%) Firewall
4 12 (0.60%) Network Security
5 10 (0.50%) DHCP
6 3 (0.15%) VPN
7 2 (0.10%) LAN
7 2 (0.10%) SSH
7 2 (0.10%) WAN
7 2 (0.10%) Wireless
8 1 (0.050%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.050%) 5G
8 1 (0.050%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.050%) FTP
8 1 (0.050%) Skype
8 1 (0.050%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 963 (48.22%) Data Warehouse
2 606 (30.35%) SQL Server
3 600 (30.05%) Power BI
4 413 (20.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 280 (14.02%) BigQuery
6 260 (13.02%) Data Lake
7 224 (11.22%) Looker
8 152 (7.61%) Tableau
9 139 (6.96%) Big Data
10 137 (6.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 120 (6.01%) Relational Database
12 119 (5.96%) NoSQL
13 117 (5.86%) Amazon Redshift
14 84 (4.21%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 75 (3.76%) Metadata
16 73 (3.66%) Data Vault
17 72 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
18 70 (3.51%) Star Schema
19 67 (3.36%) Data Mining
20 62 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 121 (6.06%) Git
2 94 (4.71%) JIRA
3 42 (2.10%) GitLab
3 42 (2.10%) Jenkins
4 39 (1.95%) Visual Studio
5 29 (1.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 15 (0.75%) JMeter
7 13 (0.65%) Bitbucket
7 13 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (0.55%) CircleCI
9 10 (0.50%) Selenium
10 8 (0.40%) Mercurial
10 8 (0.40%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.40%) Spinnaker
11 7 (0.35%) Postman
12 6 (0.30%) Appium
12 6 (0.30%) ERwin
12 6 (0.30%) Toad
13 4 (0.20%) ER Studio
14 3 (0.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 547 (27.39%) Finance
2 510 (25.54%) Social Skills
3 450 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (7.71%) Public Sector
6 150 (7.51%) Law
7 148 (7.41%) Retail
8 144 (7.21%) Legal
9 121 (6.06%) Marketing
10 84 (4.21%) Banking
11 80 (4.01%) Billing
12 60 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.30%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.20%) Games
15 21 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 19 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
18 15 (0.75%) Local Government
19 14 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
20 12 (0.60%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 637 (31.90%) Data Engineer
2 305 (15.27%) Senior
3 289 (14.47%) Developer
4 243 (12.17%) Lead
5 233 (11.67%) Architect
6 218 (10.92%) Data Architect
7 135 (6.76%) Senior Data Engineer
8 134 (6.71%) Analyst
9 133 (6.66%) Consultant
10 125 (6.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 110 (5.51%) Data Manager
12 97 (4.86%) Engineering Manager
13 94 (4.71%) Software Engineer
14 90 (4.51%) Business Intelligence Consultant
15 85 (4.26%) Lead Data Engineer
16 69 (3.46%) AWS Engineer
17 68 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
18 61 (3.05%) Data Analyst
19 59 (2.95%) Azure Data Engineer
19 59 (2.95%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.11%) PySpark
2 63 (3.15%) .NET
2 63 (3.15%) Kafka
3 38 (1.90%) RESTful
4 32 (1.60%) REST
5 30 (1.50%) XML
6 29 (1.45%) Web Services
7 25 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
7 25 (1.25%) JSON
8 22 (1.10%) CSS
9 20 (1.00%) Apache Beam
9 20 (1.00%) ASP.NET
10 19 (0.95%) Pandas
10 19 (0.95%) SOAP
11 18 (0.90%) .NET Framework
11 18 (0.90%) Middleware
12 17 (0.85%) JWT
13 16 (0.80%) MDX
14 15 (0.75%) HTML
15 14 (0.70%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 174 (8.71%) Self-Motivation
2 162 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 138 (6.91%) Algorithms
4 133 (6.66%) Product Ownership
5 104 (5.21%) Management Information System
6 87 (4.36%) Onboarding
7 60 (3.00%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.55%) Reinsurance
9 47 (2.35%) Cloud Native
10 34 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
11 33 (1.65%) NHS
12 30 (1.50%) Taxonomies
13 23 (1.15%) Client/Server
13 23 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.10%) Replication
15 21 (1.05%) Data Fabric
16 20 (1.00%) Cyberattack
16 20 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
17 15 (0.75%) IoT
18 13 (0.65%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 76 (3.81%) Windows
2 48 (2.40%) Linux
3 24 (1.20%) zOS
4 23 (1.15%) Unix
5 13 (0.65%) Solaris
6 12 (0.60%) CentOS
6 12 (0.60%) Ubuntu
7 8 (0.40%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.20%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.050%) Android
9 1 (0.050%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.050%) VMS
9 1 (0.050%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 885 (44.32%) Data Modelling
2 750 (37.56%) Business Intelligence
3 656 (32.85%) Analytics
4 626 (31.35%) Data Engineering
5 594 (29.74%) Agile
6 555 (27.79%) Problem-Solving
7 464 (23.23%) Visualisation
8 456 (22.83%) Data Integration
9 454 (22.73%) Data Pipeline
10 410 (20.53%) Machine Learning
11 386 (19.33%) DevOps
12 380 (19.03%) Data Science
13 352 (17.63%) CI/CD
14 334 (16.73%) Data Analysis
15 317 (15.87%) Data Governance
16 300 (15.02%) Artificial Intelligence
17 293 (14.67%) Data Architecture
18 286 (14.32%) Migration
19 284 (14.22%) Data Visualisation
20 272 (13.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,281 (64.15%) SQL
2 723 (36.20%) Python
3 280 (14.02%) T-SQL
4 125 (6.26%) Java
5 109 (5.46%) C#
6 77 (3.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 70 (3.51%) R
8 68 (3.41%) Scala
9 63 (3.15%) JavaScript
10 62 (3.10%) PowerShell
11 55 (2.75%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.10%) VBA
13 17 (0.85%) Go
13 17 (0.85%) TypeScript
14 14 (0.70%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.45%) PHP
17 8 (0.40%) Ruby
18 5 (0.25%) VB
18 5 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 304 (15.22%) Degree
2 111 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 44 (2.20%) Security Cleared
5 38 (1.90%) Azure Certification
6 35 (1.75%) DBS Check
7 32 (1.60%) SC Cleared
8 30 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (1.00%) MBA
10 15 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (0.50%) PhD
12 9 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.35%) ISTQB
15 6 (0.30%) DV Cleared
15 6 (0.30%) IIBA
16 5 (0.25%) AWS Certification
16 5 (0.25%) PMI Certification
17 4 (0.20%) CIMA
17 4 (0.20%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 462 (23.13%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.81%) GDPR
3 160 (8.01%) QA
4 29 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 14 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 10 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 4 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 4 (0.20%) NIST
8 4 (0.20%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.10%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.10%) SLA
10 1 (0.050%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.050%) ITGC
10 1 (0.050%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (1.90%) Docker
2 31 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.70%) HDFS
5 4 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.10%) vSphere
7 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 110 (5.51%) Terraform
2 46 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 16 (0.80%) Ansible
4 6 (0.30%) Grafana
4 6 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
6 3 (0.15%) Puppet
7 2 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.10%) Marathon
7 2 (0.10%) Mesos
7 2 (0.10%) MIIS
8 1 (0.050%) FTK
8 1 (0.050%) Kibana
8 1 (0.050%) logstash
8 1 (0.050%) SCCM
Vendors
1 481 (24.09%) Microsoft
2 347 (17.38%) Databricks
3 260 (13.02%) Google
4 142 (7.11%) Oracle
5 115 (5.76%) Informatica
6 28 (1.40%) Alteryx
7 26 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 23 (1.15%) SAP
9 19 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 16 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 16 (0.80%) IBM
11 13 (0.65%) F5
11 13 (0.65%) NEC
12 10 (0.50%) Adaptive Insights
12 10 (0.50%) Anaplan
12 10 (0.50%) Jedox
12 10 (0.50%) Splunk
12 10 (0.50%) Tagetik
12 10 (0.50%) Talend
13 8 (0.40%) Cognos