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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 136 127
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -2
Permanent jobs citing ETL 2,061 2,605 4,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.08% 2.57% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.69% 3.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 1,854 2,821
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

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 84,809 96,894 150,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.61% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 59,843 56,945 82,179
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,550
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 9 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 9 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 +1 1,813 £62,500 -4.58% 390
UK excluding London +12 1,264 £55,000 - 215
Work from Home -9 894 £60,000 - 238
London +3 718 £72,750 -3.00% 194
North of England +89 392 £54,500 +6.86% 54
South East -35 261 £61,250 +2.08% 23
North West +72 227 £55,000 +7.84% 36
Midlands +4 214 £53,635 +7.27% 66
Scotland +13 174 £60,000 +9.09% 10
West Midlands +8 152 £55,000 +11.41% 42
South West -43 130 £55,000 -18.52% 26
Yorkshire +88 94 £47,500 -2.11% 15
North East +13 71 £64,000 +16.36% 3
East Midlands -2 61 £47,500 -13.64% 24
East of England -20 60 £47,500 -17.39% 15
Wales -2 32 £49,801 +11.50% 9
Northern Ireland +15 3 £85,000 +70.00% 13

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 68 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 35 (1.70%) SAS
5 29 (1.41%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.097%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.097%) Luigi
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 29 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.73%) 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 1,107 (53.71%) Azure
2 700 (33.96%) AWS
3 630 (30.57%) Power Platform
4 412 (19.99%) GCP
5 261 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
6 232 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
7 176 (8.54%) 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 70 (3.40%) dbt
14 63 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
15 45 (2.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 42 (2.04%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
18 37 (1.80%) GitHub
19 35 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
20 34 (1.65%) 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
1 979 (47.50%) Data Warehouse
2 624 (30.28%) SQL Server
3 614 (29.79%) Power BI
4 424 (20.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 281 (13.63%) BigQuery
6 267 (12.95%) Data Lake
7 223 (10.82%) Looker
8 163 (7.91%) Tableau
9 142 (6.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 140 (6.79%) Big Data
11 129 (6.26%) Relational Database
12 125 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
13 123 (5.97%) NoSQL
14 82 (3.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 80 (3.88%) Metadata
16 75 (3.64%) Data Vault
17 73 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
18 72 (3.49%) Data Mining
19 69 (3.35%) Star Schema
20 67 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 123 (5.97%) Git
2 96 (4.66%) JIRA
3 42 (2.04%) GitLab
3 42 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 41 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 32 (1.55%) 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 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
15 4 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 570 (27.66%) Finance
2 516 (25.04%) Social Skills
3 462 (22.42%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (8.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 166 (8.05%) Law
6 164 (7.96%) Public Sector
7 148 (7.18%) Legal
8 146 (7.08%) Retail
9 130 (6.31%) Marketing
10 88 (4.27%) Banking
11 79 (3.83%) Billing
12 64 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
13 27 (1.31%) Financial Institution
14 26 (1.26%) Games
15 22 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
16 21 (1.02%) Manufacturing
17 18 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.78%) Local Government
19 13 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 661 (32.07%) Data Engineer
2 317 (15.38%) Senior
3 305 (14.80%) Developer
4 233 (11.31%) Architect
4 233 (11.31%) Lead
5 215 (10.43%) Data Architect
6 148 (7.18%) Analyst
7 140 (6.79%) Senior Data Engineer
8 136 (6.60%) Consultant
9 135 (6.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 109 (5.29%) Data Manager
11 98 (4.75%) Software Engineer
12 96 (4.66%) Engineering Manager
13 90 (4.37%) Business Intelligence Consultant
14 79 (3.83%) Lead Data Engineer
15 72 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
16 69 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
17 65 (3.15%) Power BI Developer
18 64 (3.11%) Data Analyst
19 59 (2.86%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (7.04%) PySpark
2 69 (3.35%) .NET
3 63 (3.06%) Kafka
4 45 (2.18%) RESTful
5 36 (1.75%) REST
6 34 (1.65%) XML
7 32 (1.55%) Web Services
8 27 (1.31%) Apache NiFi
8 27 (1.31%) JSON
9 23 (1.12%) Pandas
10 22 (1.07%) CSS
11 21 (1.02%) Apache Beam
12 20 (0.97%) ASP.NET
13 19 (0.92%) Middleware
14 17 (0.82%) GraphQL
14 17 (0.82%) JWT
14 17 (0.82%) SOAP
15 16 (0.78%) MDX
16 15 (0.73%) .NET Framework
16 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 80 (3.88%) 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
1 918 (44.54%) Data Modelling
2 775 (37.60%) Business Intelligence
3 661 (32.07%) Analytics
4 634 (30.76%) Data Engineering
5 604 (29.31%) Agile
6 561 (27.22%) Problem-Solving
7 485 (23.53%) Visualisation
8 471 (22.85%) Data Integration
9 468 (22.71%) Data Pipeline
10 420 (20.38%) Machine Learning
11 398 (19.31%) Data Science
12 394 (19.12%) DevOps
13 352 (17.08%) Data Analysis
14 350 (16.98%) CI/CD
15 323 (15.67%) Data Governance
16 299 (14.51%) Data Architecture
17 295 (14.31%) Artificial Intelligence
18 293 (14.22%) Data Visualisation
19 291 (14.12%) Migration
20 280 (13.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 1,329 (64.48%) SQL
2 761 (36.92%) Python
3 295 (14.31%) T-SQL
4 127 (6.16%) Java
5 113 (5.48%) C#
6 78 (3.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 76 (3.69%) R
8 70 (3.40%) Scala
9 66 (3.20%) PowerShell
10 62 (3.01%) JavaScript
11 61 (2.96%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.07%) VBA
13 21 (1.02%) TypeScript
14 18 (0.87%) Go
15 17 (0.82%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.44%) PHP
16 9 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.39%) Ruby
18 5 (0.24%) C
18 5 (0.24%) VB.NET
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
12 9 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 7 (0.34%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.29%) DV Cleared
14 6 (0.29%) IIBA
15 4 (0.19%) CIMA
15 4 (0.19%) CISSP
15 4 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 465 (22.56%) Data Quality
2 176 (8.54%) GDPR
3 166 (8.05%) QA
4 30 (1.46%) 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 33 (1.60%) 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
1 488 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 357 (17.32%) Databricks
3 259 (12.57%) Google
4 150 (7.28%) Oracle
5 115 (5.58%) Informatica
6 29 (1.41%) Alteryx
7 26 (1.26%) Salesforce
7 26 (1.26%) SAP
8 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft
9 17 (0.82%) IBM
10 15 (0.73%) Cloudera
10 15 (0.73%) NEC
11 13 (0.63%) F5
12 12 (0.58%) Talend
13 11 (0.53%) Splunk
14 10 (0.49%) Adaptive Insights
14 10 (0.49%) Anaplan
14 10 (0.49%) Jedox
14 10 (0.49%) Tagetik
15 8 (0.39%) Cognos