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 350 ETL Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 5781 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 2015:
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 $115,997.
State
The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $115,640.
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 $108,467.
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 | 42.35% |
| Master's Degree | 6.64% |
| Doctoral Degree | 0.24% |
| Other | 1.66% |
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 | 8.48% |
| 3 to 5 years | 48.8% |
| 6 to 8 years | 25.79% |
| 9+ years | 16.93% |
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 (35.56%)
- Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (27.52%)
- Problem Solving (23.59%)
- Management (18.94%)
- Information Technology (11.3%)
- Writing (11.02%)
- Operations (9.89%)
- Quality Assurance (7.99%)
- Scheduling (7.61%)
- Verbal Communication Skills (6.92%)
Defining Skills
A core skill for this occupation, it occurs frequently in job postings.
- Agile Methodology (28.46%)
- Informatica (31.9%)
- Data Analysis (21.42%)
- Business Intelligence (18.92%)
- Computer Science (29.05%)
- Extract Transform Load (ETL) (96.98%)
- Data Modeling (30.5%)
- Data Warehousing (48.73%)
- IBM InfoSphere DataStage (9.27%)
- Data Integration (22.45%)
- Python (Programming Language) (32.37%)
- SQL (Programming Language) (70.01%)
- Scripting (21.28%)
Necessary Skills
A skill that is requested frequently in this occupation but isn’t specific to it.
- Azure Data Factory (6.32%)
- Workflow Management (18.03%)
- Data Lakes (5.6%)
- Application Programming Interface (API) (11.14%)
- JavaScript (Programming Language) (3.56%)
- Git (Version Control System) (7.58%)
- Big Data (10.6%)
- Microsoft Azure (16.15%)
- JIRA (8.14%)
- Test Automation (3.6%)
- Debugging (10.13%)
- Version Control (5.17%)
- Data Processing (6.98%)
- Data Management (8.14%)
- Data Quality (20.58%)
- Data Visualization (4.35%)
- Application Development (8.15%)
- Apache Hadoop (7.11%)
- Scalability (13.23%)
- PL/SQL (13.6%)
- Automation (14.37%)
- Unix Shell (8.85%)
- Amazon Web Services (20.64%)
- Java (Programming Language) (17.09%)
- Performance Tuning (12.31%)
- Business Requirements (12.52%)
- Data Validation (4.26%)
- Data Mapping (5.52%)
- Data Transformation (6.06%)
- Software Development (10.47%)
- Systems Development Life Cycle (9.85%)
- Financial Services (2.72%)
- Code Review (6.04%)
- Unit Testing (9.39%)
- Unix (13.32%)
- Shell Script (8.24%)
- Data Structures (3.61%)
- Power BI (9.13%)
- Dashboard (5.85%)
- Test Planning (5.34%)
- Data Integrity (6.74%)
- Data Migration (7%)
- Data Profiling (7%)
- DevOps (5.43%)
- Data Manipulation (2.25%)
- Relational Databases (11.68%)
- Data Governance (7.7%)
- CI/CD (10.35%)
- Data Engineering (10.56%)
- Data Extraction (5.74%)
- IBM DB2 (5.81%)
- Jenkins (3.84%)
- PySpark (4.28%)
- Development Testing (4.38%)
- Bitbucket (3.46%)
- Reporting Tools (3.54%)
- JSON (4.33%)
- Project Management (11.07%)
- PostgreSQL (5.99%)
- Microsoft SQL Servers (11.38%)
- Windows PowerShell (2.57%)
- Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (8.73%)
- Scrum (Software Development) (10.02%)
- Talend (11.38%)
- Stored Procedure (14.12%)
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (19.48%)
- Transact-SQL (6.27%)
- SQL Server Reporting Services (6.93%)
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) (6.81%)
- Data Ingestion (2.86%)
- Data Pipelines (14.21%)
- Amazon Redshift (5.67%)
- Apache Kafka (4.35%)
- Programming Languages (6.91%)
Distinguishing Skills
A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.
- Ab Initio (Software) (6.32%)
- Informatica Powercenter (6.84%)
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 (38.75%)
- Agile Methodology (34.57%)
- Microsoft Azure (19.62%)
- Data Integration (27.27%)
- Data Warehousing (59.19%)
- IBM InfoSphere DataStage (11.26%)
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (23.67%)
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 Tester
- ETL Datastage Developer
- Talend ETL Developer
- Ab Initio Developer
- ETL Engineer
- 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.
- Data Warehouse Developer
- Informatica Developer
- SQL Developer
- Database Analyst / Developer
- Data Engineer
- Business Intelligence Developer / Architect
- Database Architect
- Oracle Developer
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 (248)
- Syms Strategic Group (138)
- Insight Global (71)
- Deloitte (63)
- Randstad (59)
- Cai (56)
- Diverse Lynx (55)
- Cognizant Technology Solutions (49)
- The Judge Group (46)
- HealthEdge (46)
North Carolina
- Genesis10 (14)
- Randstad (13)
- Insight Global (12)
- Syms Strategic Group (10)
- Motion Recruitment (8)
- Galaxy I Technologies (7)
- TEKsystems (6)
- Strategic Staffing Solutions (6)
- Deloitte (6)
- BCforward (6)
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!
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