Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

etl

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 410 postings naming etl that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Engineer56.3%
  2. 2Software Engineer20%
  3. 3Data Scientist7.3%
  4. 4Data Analyst6.8%
  5. 5AI Engineer2.9%
  6. 6Backend Engineer2.2%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.2%
  8. 8Machine Learning Engineer1.2%

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 = 60
10th
$110k
25th
$120k
Median
$158k
75th
$185k
90th
$221k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote14.1%
  2. 2New York, NY12.4%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA12.4%
  4. 4Washington, DC4.4%
  5. 5Silicon Valley, CA3.9%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.4%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.9%
  8. 8Chicago, IL2.4%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.