Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

etl

809 live US technical postings name etl in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 809 postings naming etl that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer51.7%
  2. 2Software Engineer20.4%
  3. 3Data Scientist9.6%
  4. 4Data Analyst6.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.8%
  6. 6AI Engineer2.6%
  7. 7Full-Stack Engineer2.5%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.7%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where etl is named
n = 418
10th
$120k
25th
$143k
Median
$175k
75th
$204k
90th
$237k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote13.7%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA12.5%
  3. 3New York, NY8.9%
  4. 4Washington, DC5.3%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA3.7%
  6. 6Austin, TX2.7%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.5%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.3%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.