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 302 ETL Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 4243 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 $112,479.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $112,305.

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 $102,564.

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	39.45%
Master's Degree	6.76%
Doctoral Degree	0.68%
Other	1.41%

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	7.67%
3 to 5 years	47.76%
6 to 8 years	25.73%
9+ years	18.85%

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 (35.64%)
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (32.24%)
Problem Solving (29.84%)
Management (15.32%)
Information Technology (11.93%)
Operations (11.83%)
Writing (11.57%)
Verbal Communication Skills (8.27%)
Innovation (8.11%)
Analytical Skills (7.97%)

Defining Skills

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

Scripting (26.73%)
SQL (Programming Language) (74.53%)
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (24.86%)
Power BI (10.44%)
Python (Programming Language) (33.75%)
Data Warehousing (51.3%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.27%)
Data Integration (27.96%)
Extract Transform Load (ETL) (98.46%)
Data Modeling (30.69%)
Data Quality (22.46%)
Computer Science (26.83%)
Business Intelligence (21.09%)
Agile Methodology (32.09%)
Workflow Management (25.45%)
Informatica (35.72%)

Necessary Skills

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

Programming Languages (7.4%)
Azure Synapse Analytics (3.89%)
CI/CD (12.78%)
Data Pipelines (18.29%)
Databricks (4.81%)
Data Ingestion (2.89%)
Apache Spark (8.61%)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) (6.38%)
Web Services (7.07%)
Transact-SQL (10.34%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (12.38%)
Talend (11.36%)
Teradata SQL (4.55%)
Test Planning (4.29%)
Stored Procedure (19.88%)
SQL Server Reporting Services (7.14%)
Shell Script (7.9%)
Windows PowerShell (3.44%)
Scrum (Software Development) (12.36%)
Systems Development Life Cycle (9.44%)
Performance Tuning (16.67%)
Oracle Databases (5.17%)
Oracle SQL Developer (8.52%)
PL/SQL (15.13%)
Microsoft SQL Servers (11.1%)
Project Management (10.74%)
PostgreSQL (6.31%)
Unix Shell (10.6%)
JSON (3.77%)
Apache Hadoop (7.4%)
Apache Hive (3.96%)
Scalability (19.07%)
Github (5.46%)
Finance (2.78%)
Data Visualization (5.17%)
Relational Databases (14.47%)
Database Design (10.37%)
Debugging (10.93%)
Linux (5.69%)
Software Development Life Cycle (5.46%)
DevOps (7.99%)
Data Architecture (7.66%)
Data Engineering (10.91%)
Data Extraction (9.16%)
Dataflow (8.18%)
Data Governance (11.01%)
Data Integrity (10.2%)
Data Management (10.01%)
Data Manipulation (4.15%)
Data Transformation (7%)
Data Migration (5.62%)
Data Security (3.39%)
Data Structures (3.34%)
Data Processing (8.56%)
Version Control (8.23%)
Code Review (6.74%)
Dashboard (6.12%)
Business Process (6.69%)
Business Requirements (14.61%)
Unix (14.73%)
Automation (17.39%)
Unit Testing (10.65%)
Microsoft Azure (20.19%)
Big Data (8.59%)
Amazon Web Services (20.73%)
Data Analysis (21.51%)
Software Development (10.2%)
JIRA (7.23%)
Application Programming Interface (API) (13.19%)
Azure DevOps (3.77%)
Java (Programming Language) (10.65%)
Snowflake (Data Warehouse) (17.55%)
Git (Version Control System) (7.87%)
Azure Data Factory (9.01%)
Ab Initio (Software) (6.12%)
Data Lakes (7.83%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

Informatica Powercenter (7.52%)

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 (41.93%)
Agile Methodology (37.67%)
Computer Science (31.49%)
Data Integration (32.82%)
Data Quality (26.36%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage (13.22%)
Python (Programming Language) (39.62%)
Informatica Powercenter (8.83%)

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
Lead ETL Developer
ETL Database Developer
ETL Datastage Developer
SQL/ETL Developer
Talend ETL Developer
Ab Initio Developer
Data Warehouse ETL Developer
Ab Initio 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

Cognizant Technology Solutions (126)
Beacon Hill Staffing Group (112)
GovCIO (102)
The Judge Group (74)
Insight Global (54)
Cai (53)
Deloitte (49)
HealthEdge (48)
Diverse Lynx (41)
Prime Therapeutics (41)

North Carolina

Innova Solutions USA (12)
Collabera (11)
Genesis10 (11)
Motion Recruitment (10)
Innova Corporation Co. Ltd (7)
BCforward (6)
Hays (5)
Infosys (4)
Ihire (4)
Insight Global (4)

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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