ETL Contract Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 71 57
Rank change year-on-year -23 -14 +31
Contract jobs citing ETL 82 54 74
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.19% 2.50% 3.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 2.84% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 40 58
10th Percentile £304 £350 £361
25th Percentile £400 £373 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +1.52% +3.68%
75th Percentile £550 £616 £588
90th Percentile £588 £689 £606
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
England median hourly rate £34.49 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -34.31% +35.48% -40.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,108 1,902 2,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.99% 88.10% 84.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,814 1,228 1,268
10th Percentile £281 £274 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £460 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £671 £675
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 312 123 194
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.75 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.91% -10.16% +4.78%
75th Percentile £74.45 £56.88 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.75 £70.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

ETL job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in the North West over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ETL

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ETL in the North West over the 6 months to 30 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ETL in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Manchester -2 70 £460 -14.42% 24
Merseyside -18 7 £413 -17.50% 6
Cheshire -22 3 £475 +29.08% 3
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (12.20%) Confluence
2 2 (2.44%) SAS
2 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 33 (40.24%) Azure
2 17 (20.73%) Power Platform
3 14 (17.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.20%) AWS
4 10 (12.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (10.98%) Serverless
6 8 (9.76%) Power Automate
7 7 (8.54%) Snowflake
8 6 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (7.32%) Azure AKS
8 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Copilot
9 5 (6.10%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.10%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (6.10%) GCP
9 5 (6.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (6.10%) Vertex AI
10 4 (4.88%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (4.88%) dbt
10 4 (4.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.27%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (20.73%) Power BI
3 14 (17.07%) SQL Server
4 13 (15.85%) Data Lake
5 10 (12.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
7 6 (7.32%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.10%) DataStage
8 5 (6.10%) Metadata
9 4 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (4.88%) Db2
9 4 (4.88%) Power Query
9 4 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (3.66%) Tableau
11 2 (2.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (12.20%) JIRA
2 6 (7.32%) Git
3 2 (2.44%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.22%) Hudson
4 1 (1.22%) Postman
4 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.17%) Finance
3 14 (17.07%) Banking
4 13 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 6 (7.32%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.32%) Retail
7 3 (3.66%) Law
8 2 (2.44%) Legal
8 2 (2.44%) Military
9 1 (1.22%) Automotive
9 1 (1.22%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (25.61%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Data Engineer
3 11 (13.41%) Analyst
4 8 (9.76%) Lead
4 8 (9.76%) Senior
5 5 (6.10%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (6.10%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (6.10%) Senior Developer
5 5 (6.10%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.88%) .NET Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Data Analyst
6 4 (4.88%) Data Manager
6 4 (4.88%) DataStage Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Senior .NET Developer
7 3 (3.66%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Data Migration Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) Data Warehouse Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) PySpark
2 6 (7.32%) .NET
3 5 (6.10%) Langfuse
4 4 (4.88%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.88%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.88%) Pandas
4 4 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.88%) React
4 4 (4.88%) RESTful
4 4 (4.88%) YAML
5 3 (3.66%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.66%) Kafka
5 3 (3.66%) REST
6 2 (2.44%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.44%) Node.js
7 1 (1.22%) JSON
7 1 (1.22%) NumPy
7 1 (1.22%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.22%) SOAP
7 1 (1.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) AI Agents
1 7 (8.54%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.66%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.44%) AS400
4 2 (2.44%) iSeries
4 2 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.22%) FMCG
5 1 (1.22%) NHS
5 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.22%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.88%) Unix
2 1 (1.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (47.56%) Data Modelling
2 30 (36.59%) Analytics
3 28 (34.15%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (30.49%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (30.49%) Migration
5 23 (28.05%) CI/CD
6 20 (24.39%) Data Integration
7 19 (23.17%) Data Migration
8 18 (21.95%) DevOps
8 18 (21.95%) Validation
9 17 (20.73%) Agile
10 16 (19.51%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (18.29%) AI
12 14 (17.07%) Data Analysis
12 14 (17.07%) Data Engineering
12 14 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (14.63%) Performance Tuning
14 11 (13.41%) Data Governance
14 11 (13.41%) ETL Development
15 10 (12.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (74.39%) SQL
2 21 (25.61%) Python
3 6 (7.32%) C#
3 6 (7.32%) T-SQL
4 5 (6.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
5 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.66%) Java
7 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.22%) SHACL
8 1 (1.22%) SPARQL
8 1 (1.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.66%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.44%) Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (42.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.98%) QA
3 7 (8.54%) GDPR
4 4 (4.88%) GRC
5 3 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.44%) IFRS
6 2 (2.44%) IFRS 17
7 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.22%) PMO
7 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.66%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (12.20%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (17.07%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.98%) Salesforce
3 8 (9.76%) Databricks
4 7 (8.54%) IBM
4 7 (8.54%) Oracle
5 5 (6.10%) OpenAI
5 5 (6.10%) SAP
5 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.88%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.88%) Teradata
7 3 (3.66%) Alteryx
7 3 (3.66%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.44%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.44%) Informatica
9 1 (1.22%) EXASOL
9 1 (1.22%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.22%) Siebel