ETL Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 50 31
Rank change year-on-year -21 -19 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 2 19 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.25% 3.15% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 3.43% 4.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 17
10th Percentile £466 £348 £368
25th Percentile £472 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £368 £575
Median % change year-on-year +39.27% -36.00% +27.78%
75th Percentile £572 £600 £588
90th Percentile £589 £695 £606
North West median daily rate £460 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -8.00% +3.09% +2.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

ETL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 672 554 411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 85.61% 91.87% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 420 279
10th Percentile £320 £312 £311
25th Percentile £411 £358 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -5.89% -5.00%
75th Percentile £583 £528 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £492 £464 £500
% change year-on-year +6.09% -7.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 21 17
10th Percentile £14.59 - £12.80
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% +14.60%
75th Percentile £85.00 £50.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.30 £70.00 £47.50
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £27.90 £32.50
% change year-on-year +79.20% -14.15% -4.41%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

ETL job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing ETL

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chester - 1 £550 - 2
Warrington - 1 £475 - 2
ETL
North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) EXASOL
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft