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 464 ETL Developer job postings in North Carolina in the past year and 6625 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 $104,751.

State

The average estimated salary in North Carolina for this career, based on job postings in the past year, is $102,436.

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 $96,328.

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	43.65%
Master's Degree	6.58%
Doctoral Degree	0.33%
Other	1.19%

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	9.14%
3 to 5 years	47.31%
6 to 8 years	28.49%
9+ years	15.06%

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 (34.67%)
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving) (25.92%)
Problem Solving (21.33%)
Management (19.56%)
Information Technology (11.02%)
Writing (10.43%)
Planning (8.89%)
Operations (8.05%)
Scheduling (7.12%)
Interpersonal Communications (6.97%)

Defining Skills

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

Informatica (33.22%)
Agile Methodology (29.28%)
Business Intelligence (19.72%)
Data Integration (21.79%)
Python (Programming Language) (30.68%)
Extract Transform Load (ETL) (98.13%)
Data Modeling (29.14%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage (8.64%)
Computer Science (29%)
Data Warehousing (48.77%)
Data Analysis (21.35%)
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) (18.37%)
SQL (Programming Language) (69.13%)
Informatica Powercenter (7.36%)
Scripting (21.26%)

Necessary Skills

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

Workflow Management (15.69%)
Git (Version Control System) (7.78%)
Amazon Web Services (21.93%)
Java (Programming Language) (17%)
Data Lakes (5.57%)
Business Process (5.86%)
Azure DevOps (3%)
JavaScript (Programming Language) (5.01%)
Automation (12.86%)
Unit Testing (9.39%)
Customer Relationship Management (1.1%)
Test Automation (4.03%)
Software Development (10.86%)
Application Development (7.94%)
Dashboard (5.98%)
Application Programming Interface (API) (9.88%)
Microsoft Azure (18.21%)
Big Data (9.68%)
Business Requirements (15.03%)
Data Integrity (5.31%)
Data Transformation (3.96%)
JIRA (8.05%)
Data Cleansing (3.2%)
Data Extraction (6.31%)
Data Governance (7.76%)
Data Mapping (5.14%)
Data Engineering (9.22%)
IBM DB2 (5.52%)
Software Development Life Cycle (4.7%)
Unix (13.34%)
Data Quality (18.5%)
Data Visualization (3.29%)
Data Management (9.02%)
Relational Databases (12.69%)
Data Migration (6.03%)
DevOps (5.31%)
Version Control (4.08%)
Test Planning (5.57%)
Unix Shell (8.6%)
Scalability (11.84%)
Data Profiling (5.9%)
Debugging (10.64%)
Scrum (Software Development) (7.85%)
Project Management (8.38%)
Microsoft SQL Servers (10.82%)
Performance Tuning (11.41%)
Synapse Citrix (3%)
RESTful API (4.37%)
PL/SQL (14.27%)
Windows PowerShell (2.5%)
Systems Development Life Cycle (8.75%)
Power BI (9.37%)
Apache Kafka (3.58%)
CI/CD (7.73%)
Shell Script (8.06%)
JSON (4.23%)
SQL Server Reporting Services (6.59%)
Tableau (Business Intelligence Software) (8.51%)
Data Pipelines (12.19%)
Extensible Markup Language (XML) (6.95%)
Stored Procedure (13.95%)
Talend (10.62%)
Transact-SQL (7.41%)
Web Services (5.02%)

Distinguishing Skills

A skill that may distinguish a subset of the occupation.

Ab Initio (Software) (5.93%)
Snowflake Schema (2.62%)

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 (47.58%)
Snowflake Schema (3.75%)
Agile Methodology (41.94%)
IBM InfoSphere DataStage (12.38%)
Python (Programming Language) (43.94%)

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
Java Developer
ETL Engineer
Ab Initio Developer
Full Stack 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

Syms Strategic Group (216)
Guidehouse (175)
Beacon Hill Staffing Group (107)
Randstad (106)
Diverse Lynx (74)
Acadia Technologies (54)
Insight Global (53)
Cognizant Technology Solutions (51)
Kforce (48)
Deloitte (47)

North Carolina

Randstad (29)
The Matlen Silver Group (16)
Charlotte, Nc (15)
Syms Strategic Group (15)
Insight Global (11)
ManpowerGroup (11)
Allegis Group (8)
Spectrum (8)
Kforce (8)
Galaxy I Technologies (7)

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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