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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 618 ETL Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 7733 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 $102,091.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $100,557.

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 $96,047.

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 LevelPercentage
Associate's Degree0.8%
Bachelor's Degree43.64%
Master's Degree5.95%
Doctoral Degree0.3%
Other0.97%

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 ExperiencePercentage
0 to 2 years8.08%
3 to 5 years49.6%
6 to 8 years27.79%
9+ years14.54%

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 (35.39%)
  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (25.38%)
  • Problem Solving (19.76%)
  • Management (18.65%)
  • Writing (11.55%)
  • Information Technology (10.4%)
  • Planning (9.53%)
  • Operations (8.08%)
  • Scheduling (8.06%)
  • Interpersonal Communications (7.69%)

Defining Skills

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

  • Informatica (34.87%)
  • IBM InfoSphere DataStage (8.58%)
  • Data Warehousing (49.16%)
  • SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (19.38%)
  • Scripting (21.67%)
  • Informatica Powercenter (7.63%)
  • Extract Transform Load (ETL) (98.19%)
  • SQL (Programming Language) (69.53%)
  • Data Modeling (27.07%)
  • Agile Methodology (29.22%)
  • Computer Science (27.9%)
  • Python (Programming Language) (30.49%)
  • Data Analysis (21.85%)

Necessary Skills

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

  • Technical Design (4.3%)
  • Scalability (10.72%)
  • Data Mapping (4.55%)
  • Unix Shell (8.74%)
  • PL/SQL (15.02%)
  • Java (Programming Language) (16.26%)
  • Synapse Citrix (2.7%)
  • Teradata SQL (7.52%)
  • Development Testing (4.19%)
  • Automation (13.87%)
  • Data Pipelines (11.33%)
  • Systems Development Life Cycle (9.34%)
  • Relational Databases (12.67%)
  • Performance Tuning (11.54%)
  • DevOps (6.27%)
  • Stored Procedure (15%)
  • Debugging (11.47%)
  • Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (9%)
  • Business Intelligence (20.11%)
  • Azure Data Factory (6.19%)
  • Data Quality (17.32%)
  • Git (Version Control System) (7.6%)
  • Data Engineering (8.67%)
  • Data Profiling (5.71%)
  • Data Management (9.25%)
  • Unit Testing (9.64%)
  • Unix (15.07%)
  • Project Management (8.08%)
  • JIRA (8.02%)
  • Transact-SQL (7.34%)
  • Big Data (9.82%)
  • Amazon Web Services (20.9%)
  • Microsoft Azure (17.83%)
  • Talend (10.18%)
  • Software Development (9.69%)
  • Extensible Markup Language (XML) (6.22%)
  • Data Integration (20.29%)
  • Version Control (4.77%)
  • Workflow Management (15.46%)
  • Finance (3.92%)
  • Power BI (8.51%)
  • SQL Server Reporting Services (6.06%)
  • Software Development Life Cycle (5.27%)
  • Data Cleansing (3.16%)
  • Application Programming Interface (API) (9.94%)
  • Scrum (Software Development) (7.6%)
  • CA Workload Automation Ae (7.8%)
  • Microsoft SQL Servers (11.12%)
  • Test Planning (6.04%)
  • Business Requirements (15.45%)
  • Data Migration (5.35%)
  • C# (Programming Language) (5.32%)
  • Shell Script (9.11%)
  • Code Review (4.63%)
  • Data Governance (6.09%)
  • Application Development (8.5%)
  • RESTful API (4.17%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

  • Snowflake Schema (2.19%)
  • Ab Initio (Software) (5.88%)

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.

  • Data Warehousing (93.66%)
  • Informatica Powercenter (14.53%)

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
  • ETL Engineer
  • Ab Initio Developer
  • Java Developer
  • Talend ETL Developer
  • Full Stack 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

  • Guidehouse (199)
  • Randstad (184)
  • Syms Strategic Group (175)
  • Beacon Hill Staffing Group (101)
  • Acadia Technologies (83)
  • Diverse Lynx (64)
  • Kforce (64)
  • The Matlen Silver Group (59)
  • Lincoln Financial Group (53)
  • Deloitte (53)

North Carolina

  • Randstad (61)
  • Charlotte, Nc (19)
  • The Matlen Silver Group (18)
  • Syms Strategic Group (15)
  • ManpowerGroup (15)
  • Spectrum (12)
  • TEKsystems (11)
  • Matrix Resources (10)
  • Strategic Staffing Solutions (10)
  • Kforce (10)

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!

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.