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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 83 60
Rank change year-on-year -19 -23 +34
Contract jobs citing ETL 77 53 62
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.93% 2.41% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 2.72% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 42 42
10th Percentile £304 £330 £364
25th Percentile £413 £361 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £464
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +5.12% -2.37%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £569
90th Percentile £638 £600 £599
England median daily rate £500 £508 £515
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.46% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile £70.80 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -37.96%

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 3,297 1,946 2,020
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.80% 88.45% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,868 1,286 1,101
10th Percentile £300 £264 £294
25th Percentile £403 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.66% -4.60%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £663
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 142 110
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.88 £16.48
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £28.75
Median hourly rate £46.80 £25.15 £41.41
Median % change year-on-year +86.10% -39.28% +21.80%
75th Percentile £71.91 £47.12 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £73.66
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%

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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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -5 61 £475 -5.00% 66
Cheshire -14 7 £429 +18.34% 14
Lancashire -20 5 £575 +15.00% 7
Merseyside -12 3 £525 +5.00% 9
Cumbria - 1 - - 1
ETL
England

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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 7 (9.09%) Confluence
2 5 (6.49%) SAS
3 3 (3.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 26 (33.77%) Azure
2 21 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 16 (20.78%) AWS
4 10 (12.99%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (12.99%) Serverless
5 9 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (11.69%) GCP
6 8 (10.39%) Snowflake
7 7 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (7.79%) Power Automate
8 6 (7.79%) PowerApps
8 6 (7.79%) Vertex AI
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon S3
9 5 (6.49%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (6.49%) Azure AKS
9 5 (6.49%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (5.19%) dbt
10 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (44.16%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (24.68%) Power BI
3 16 (20.78%) Data Lake
4 12 (15.58%) BigQuery
5 10 (12.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (11.69%) Metadata
7 8 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (10.39%) Relational Database
8 7 (9.09%) DataStage
9 6 (7.79%) Db2
9 6 (7.79%) Tableau
10 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (5.19%) PowerCenter
10 4 (5.19%) SQL Server
10 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (3.90%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (3.90%) Power Query
11 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (2.60%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 8 (10.39%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Git
3 2 (2.60%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Toad
General
1 28 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (23.38%) Finance
4 15 (19.48%) Banking
5 8 (10.39%) Manufacturing
5 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.09%) Retail
7 4 (5.19%) Law
8 3 (3.90%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Automotive
9 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) Developer
3 9 (11.69%) Analyst
4 8 (10.39%) Data Manager
5 7 (9.09%) Senior
6 5 (6.49%) DataStage Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Test Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Automation Specialist
8 3 (3.90%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Governance Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Governance Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Governance Manager
8 3 (3.90%) Informatica Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) PySpark
2 10 (12.99%) Terraform
3 5 (6.49%) Langfuse
4 2 (2.60%) .NET
4 2 (2.60%) Kafka
4 2 (2.60%) YAML
5 1 (1.30%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) Node.js
5 1 (1.30%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) AI Agents
2 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.90%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.60%) AS400
4 2 (2.60%) iSeries
4 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Clustering
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (49.35%) Data Modelling
2 29 (37.66%) Analytics
3 28 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (35.06%) Business Intelligence
5 24 (31.17%) Data Engineering
6 22 (28.57%) Data Integration
6 22 (28.57%) Migration
7 21 (27.27%) AI
8 19 (24.68%) Agile
8 19 (24.68%) DevOps
9 18 (23.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
11 16 (20.78%) Validation
12 15 (19.48%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (18.18%) Data Governance
14 13 (16.88%) Data Migration
15 12 (15.58%) Data Analysis
15 12 (15.58%) Performance Tuning
16 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
17 8 (10.39%) Data Reconciliation
Programming Languages
1 66 (85.71%) SQL
2 25 (32.47%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 6 (7.79%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.79%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.60%) C#
5 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.60%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) GRC
3 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Databricks
2 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) Oracle
3 9 (11.69%) IBM
4 8 (10.39%) Teradata
5 7 (9.09%) Informatica
6 5 (6.49%) OpenAI
7 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.90%) Alteryx
8 3 (3.90%) Google
8 3 (3.90%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.60%) DocuSign
9 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.30%) EXASOL
10 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
10 1 (1.30%) SAP