ETL Developer

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

An ETL Developer develops, tests and maintains the process of data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL), a data warehousing process used for pull data out of source systems and load them into a data warehouse solution.

Job Outlook

There were 357 ETL Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 5044 in the United States.

In combination with other careers in the Database Administrator industry, which includes the ETL Developer career, the following graph shows the number of people employed for each year since 2016:

Salary

Many new ETL Developer jobs have salaries estimated to be in the following ranges, based on the requirements and responsibilities listed in job postings from the past year.

National

The average estimated salary in the United States for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $112,069.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $111,298.

Percentiles represent the percentage that is lower than the value. For example, 25% of estimated salaries for ETL Developer postings in the United States in the past year were lower than $102,413.

Education and Experience

Posted ETL Developer jobs typically require the following level of education. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list education requirements.

Education Level	Percentage
Associate's Degree	0%
Bachelor's Degree	39.61%
Master's Degree	7.71%
Doctoral Degree	0.61%
Other	1.43%

Posted ETL Developer jobs typically require the following number of years of experience. The numbers below are based on job postings in the United States from the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Years of Experience	Percentage
0 to 2 years	7.33%
3 to 5 years	43.5%
6 to 8 years	27.47%
9+ years	21.7%

Skills

Below are listings of the most common general and specialized skills ETL Developer positions expect applicants to have as well as the most common skills that distinguish individuals from their peers. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is also listed.

Baseline Skills

A skill that is required across a broad range of occupations, including this one.

Communication (36.6%)
Problem Solving (28.51%)
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (27.36%)
Management (16.69%)
Information Technology (12.69%)
Writing (12.35%)
Operations (12.17%)
Analytical Skills (8.6%)
Quality Assurance (8.09%)
Scheduling (8.07%)

Defining Skills

A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.

Informatica (37.17%)
Business Intelligence (21.75%)
Agile Methodology (29.72%)
Computer Science (26.03%)
Data Analysis (20.77%)
Amazon Web Services (20.63%)
Data Warehousing (52.16%)
Extract Transform Load (ETL) (98.45%)
Data Integration (26.73%)
Data Modeling (31.44%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.64%)
Python (Programming Language) (34.07%)
SQL (Programming Language) (74.06%)
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (25.13%)
Scripting (27.18%)

Necessary Skills

A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.

Data Lakes (7.79%)
Workflow Management (25.08%)
Git (Version Control System) (8.13%)
JavaScript (Programming Language) (3.13%)
Unix (15.28%)
Application Programming Interface (API) (12.02%)
Test Automation (2.1%)
Java (Programming Language) (11.14%)
Data Processing (7.41%)
Software Development (10.28%)
Automation (16.28%)
Application Development (5.81%)
Business Requirements (14.89%)
Amazon S3 (1.29%)
Data Engineering (11.04%)
Unit Testing (9.75%)
JIRA (7.46%)
Data Integrity (9.08%)
Big Data (8.77%)
Data Extraction (9.42%)
Data Validation (4.85%)
Data Quality (22.59%)
Data Cleansing (2.65%)
Microsoft Azure (19.22%)
Dashboard (6.12%)
Code Review (5.71%)
Data Visualization (5.24%)
DevOps (6.93%)
Data Transformation (7.12%)
Data Management (9.99%)
Relational Databases (13.72%)
Version Control (7.22%)
Debugging (10.97%)
Data Mapping (4.3%)
Linux (5.86%)
Data Governance (10.02%)
Data Structures (3.39%)
Data Manipulation (4.37%)
IBM DB2 (4.11%)
Database Design (9.28%)
Financial Services (2.7%)
Data Migration (5.88%)
Apache Hadoop (7.55%)
Finance (2.84%)
Unix Shell (10.57%)
Project Management (11.07%)
Apache Hive (4.14%)
PostgreSQL (6.41%)
Scalability (17.62%)
Microsoft SQL Servers (11.45%)
JSON (3.73%)
Systems Development Life Cycle (9.59%)
Performance Tuning (15.28%)
PL/SQL (15.87%)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) (6.38%)
Windows PowerShell (3.47%)
Power BI (10.66%)
Talend (11.71%)
Scrum (Software Development) (11.09%)
SQL Server Reporting Services (7.32%)
Data Pipelines (18.22%)
Jenkins (3.78%)
Apache Kafka (4.52%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (12.46%)
Test Planning (4.42%)
PySpark (2.87%)
Teradata SQL (4.59%)
Databricks (4.73%)
CI/CD (10.52%)
Stored Procedure (17.6%)
Shell Script (8.15%)
Data Ingestion (2.92%)
Transact-SQL (9.59%)
Apache Spark (8.87%)
Programming Languages (7.51%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

Ab Initio (Software) (5.95%)
Informatica Cloud (3.2%)
Informatica Powercenter (7.46%)

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills. The percentage of job postings that specifically mention each skill is listed.

Informatica (41.66%)
Agile Methodology (33.3%)
Computer Science (29.17%)
Data Integration (29.95%)
Data Warehousing (58.45%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage (13.05%)
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (28.15%)
Informatica Powercenter (8.36%)
Informatica Cloud (3.59%)

Alternative Job Titles

Sometimes employers post jobs with ETL Developer skills but a different job title. Some common alternative job titles include:

ETL Informatica Developer
ETL Tester
Lead ETL Developer
ETL Engineer
Ab Initio Developer
ETL Datastage Developer
ETL Database Developer
SQL/ETL Developer
Talend ETL Developer

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring occupations with similar skills, you may want to research the following job titles. Note that we only list occupations that have at least one corresponding NC State Online and Distance Education program.

Common Employers

Here are the employers that have posted the most ETL Developer jobs in the past year along with how many they have posted.

United States

Beacon Hill Staffing Group (173)
GovCIO (151)
Cognizant Technology Solutions (121)
Cai (104)
The Judge Group (75)
Insight Global (55)
Deloitte (53)
HealthEdge (45)
Diverse Lynx (43)
Prime Therapeutics (41)

North Carolina

Genesis10 (13)
Innova Solutions USA (12)
Motion Recruitment (11)
Randstad (9)
Infosys (8)
Insight Global (7)
Innova Corporation Co. Ltd (6)
Cognizant Technology Solutions (6)
BCforward (6)
Strategic Staffing Solutions (5)

NC State Programs Relevant to this Career

If you are interested in preparing for a career in this field, the following NC State Online and Distance Education programs offer a great place to start!

Data Science Foundations Graduate Certificates

All wages, job posting statistics, employment trend projections, and information about skill desirability on this page represents historical data and does not guarantee future conditions. Data is provided by and downloaded regularly from Lightcast. For more information about how Lightcast gathers data and what it represents, see Lightcast Data: Basic Overview on Lightcast's Knowledge Base website.

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