ETL Contracts in the North of England

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 72 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 +31 0
Contract jobs citing ETL 109 120 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.30% 2.59% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 3.03% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 98 74
10th Percentile £263 £350 £363
25th Percentile £372 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £600 £600
90th Percentile £665 £694 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £88.26 - -
25th Percentile £93.41 - -
Median hourly rate £102.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.60 £48.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +45.57% -19.17% +24.84%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,962 3,958 5,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.68% 85.54% 90.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,906 2,413 3,509
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £559 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 364 203
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.97
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £28.70
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -38.26% +50.08%
75th Percentile £57.17 £45.00 £44.78
90th Percentile £82.01 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for ETL in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. 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
North West -3 67 £475 -9.52% 73
Yorkshire +14 34 £415 -17.00% 35
North East +3 9 £435 +26.09% 22
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (10.09%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.42%) Apache
3 3 (2.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) CICS
4 2 (1.83%) SAS
4 2 (1.83%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.92%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (4.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.44%) AWS
2 30 (27.52%) Azure
3 24 (22.02%) GCP
4 20 (18.35%) Power Platform
5 10 (9.17%) dbt
5 10 (9.17%) Snowflake
6 9 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (6.42%) GitHub
8 5 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.67%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.75%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (2.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.83%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.83%) Power Automate
11 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.83%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (29.36%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (18.35%) Power BI
3 10 (9.17%) BigQuery
4 8 (7.34%) Hadoop
4 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 8 (7.34%) Tableau
5 7 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.42%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.50%) MySQL
6 6 (5.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (4.59%) Flink
7 5 (4.59%) Looker
7 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.67%) Airbyte
8 4 (3.67%) Big Data
8 4 (3.67%) Bigtable
9 3 (2.75%) Data Vault
9 3 (2.75%) Metadata
9 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Git
2 4 (3.67%) ERwin
2 4 (3.67%) JIRA
3 3 (2.75%) ER Studio
3 3 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.83%) Selenium
4 2 (1.83%) SOAtest
4 2 (1.83%) TestRail
4 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.92%) Flyway
5 1 (0.92%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 60 (55.05%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (18.35%) Finance
3 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.42%) Banking
4 7 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Legal
5 6 (5.50%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.50%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (2.75%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.83%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.92%) Automotive
8 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 37 (33.94%) Data Engineer
2 16 (14.68%) Analyst
2 16 (14.68%) Developer
3 15 (13.76%) Architect
4 12 (11.01%) Data Analyst
5 11 (10.09%) Senior
6 9 (8.26%) Migration Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Data Architect
7 7 (6.42%) Data Migration Engineer
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Lead
9 5 (4.59%) SQL Developer
10 4 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Consultant
10 4 (3.67%) Data Migration Expert
10 4 (3.67%) GCP Architect
11 3 (2.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.75%) Data Modeller
12 2 (1.83%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.50%) Kafka
1 6 (5.50%) PySpark
1 6 (5.50%) REST
2 4 (3.67%) OAuth
2 4 (3.67%) OAuth2
2 4 (3.67%) OpenID
2 4 (3.67%) SAML
3 3 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (1.83%) .NET
4 2 (1.83%) J2EE
4 2 (1.83%) JSON
4 2 (1.83%) Web Services
4 2 (1.83%) XML
5 1 (0.92%) ADO
5 1 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.92%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.92%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.92%) Middleware
5 1 (0.92%) Shiny
5 1 (0.92%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.84%) Data Structures
2 13 (11.93%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.83%) Mainframe
4 2 (1.83%) Mobile Payment
4 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.83%) VSAM
5 1 (0.92%) Clustering
5 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.92%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.92%) Insider Threat
5 1 (0.92%) IoT
5 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.92%) NHS
5 1 (0.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Unix
2 1 (0.92%) Windows
2 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.12%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (37.61%) Data Modelling
3 39 (35.78%) Data Pipeline
4 31 (28.44%) Migration
5 26 (23.85%) Analytics
6 25 (22.94%) Data Migration
7 22 (20.18%) Business Intelligence
8 20 (18.35%) Visualisation
9 19 (17.43%) Agile
9 19 (17.43%) Data Engineering
10 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
11 15 (13.76%) Data Governance
12 14 (12.84%) Data Mapping
12 14 (12.84%) Validation
13 13 (11.93%) Data Management
14 12 (11.01%) Data Analysis
14 12 (11.01%) User Acceptance Testing
15 11 (10.09%) Data Design
16 10 (9.17%) Data Integration
17 9 (8.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (61.47%) SQL
2 37 (33.94%) Python
3 11 (10.09%) PL/SQL
4 5 (4.59%) Scala
5 4 (3.67%) SPARQL
6 3 (2.75%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.75%) Java
6 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.83%) ABAP
7 2 (1.83%) COBOL
7 2 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.83%) JCL
7 2 (1.83%) R
7 2 (1.83%) REXX
7 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.92%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 20 (18.35%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.83%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (1.83%) Degree
5 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.77%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.34%) QA
3 3 (2.75%) GDPR
4 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Docker
1 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Terraform
2 8 (7.34%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.92%) Control-M
3 1 (0.92%) Perfmon
3 1 (0.92%) SCOM
3 1 (0.92%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (19.27%) Databricks
2 16 (14.68%) Google
3 15 (13.76%) Oracle
4 13 (11.93%) SAP
5 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
6 8 (7.34%) Informatica
7 6 (5.50%) Talend
8 3 (2.75%) Ab Initio
8 3 (2.75%) IDERA
8 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.83%) Parasoft
10 1 (0.92%) Brio
10 1 (0.92%) New Relic
10 1 (0.92%) Splunk
10 1 (0.92%) VMware