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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 61 83
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 +11
Contract jobs citing ETL 84 66 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.93% 3.19% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 3.55% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 47 45
10th Percentile £335 £354 £404
25th Percentile £384 £403 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.85% -14.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £469 £575 £694
90th Percentile £578 £656 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £42.85 - -
25th Percentile £54.63 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
75th Percentile £77.88 - -
90th Percentile £80.05 - -
England median hourly rate £67.35 £51.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +30.77% +4.04% +37.02%

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 2,448 1,859 2,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.45% 89.85% 86.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 1,136 1,601
10th Percentile £213 £291 £306
25th Percentile £358 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £586
90th Percentile £650 £659 £675
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 115 265
10th Percentile £17.13 £16.14 £11.00
25th Percentile £23.32 £22.85 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £31.76 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.54% +41.16% -40.00%
75th Percentile £63.69 £59.08 £45.88
90th Percentile £75.94 £79.35 £56.82
England median hourly rate £29.61 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -14.17% +6.15% -7.29%

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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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -11 56 £450 -7.02% 33
Merseyside +1 18 £400 -5.88% 2
Cheshire -25 7 £463 +4.99% 3
Lancashire -16 2 - - 13
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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 8 (9.52%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.14%) SAS
3 4 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (4.76%) Confluence
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.19%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.19%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 29 (34.52%) Azure
2 17 (20.24%) AWS
3 16 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 10 (11.90%) GCP
5 9 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.33%) Serverless
7 6 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (5.95%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.57%) dbt
10 3 (3.57%) GitHub
10 3 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.57%) PaaS
10 3 (3.57%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.57%) SaaS
11 2 (2.38%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) Power BI
2 14 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (11.90%) SQL Server
4 7 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (7.14%) Data Lake
6 5 (5.95%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.95%) Tableau
7 4 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (3.57%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.57%) Metadata
8 3 (3.57%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.38%) Big Data
9 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.38%) Looker
9 2 (2.38%) Neo4j
9 2 (2.38%) Power Query
9 2 (2.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Git
2 8 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (2.38%) GitLab
3 2 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.19%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.19%) MLflow
4 1 (1.19%) Postman
4 1 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.19%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.24%) Finance
3 14 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.76%) Law
5 4 (4.76%) Retail
6 3 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.19%) Banking
7 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.19%) Legal
7 1 (1.19%) Military
7 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Data Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Developer
3 14 (16.67%) Analyst
4 10 (11.90%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) Test Manager
6 7 (8.33%) Data Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) Lead
7 6 (7.14%) Data Scientist
7 6 (7.14%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.95%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Architect
9 4 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Data Migration Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Migration Analyst
10 3 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Test Leader
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Developer
11 2 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) PySpark
2 6 (7.14%) RESTful
2 6 (7.14%) XGBoost
3 5 (5.95%) REST
4 4 (4.76%) .NET
4 4 (4.76%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.76%) Pandas
4 4 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.76%) React
4 4 (4.76%) YAML
5 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.57%) Middleware
6 2 (2.38%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.38%) LangChain
6 2 (2.38%) Node.js
6 2 (2.38%) pytest
6 2 (2.38%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.38%) SOAP
6 2 (2.38%) XML
7 1 (1.19%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.95%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.38%) Clustering
4 2 (2.38%) CMDB
4 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.38%) Data Fabric
4 2 (2.38%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.19%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.19%) Linux
1 1 (1.19%) Unix
1 1 (1.19%) VMS
1 1 (1.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.29%) Data Modelling
2 27 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (30.95%) Data Engineering
4 24 (28.57%) Analytics
5 19 (22.62%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (22.62%) Data Governance
5 19 (22.62%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (21.43%) Validation
7 16 (19.05%) Agile
7 16 (19.05%) Data Integration
8 15 (17.86%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (16.67%) Decision-Making
9 14 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (15.48%) CI/CD
10 13 (15.48%) DevOps
11 12 (14.29%) Test Strategy
12 11 (13.10%) Data Validation
12 11 (13.10%) Migration
13 10 (11.90%) Change Management
13 10 (11.90%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 44 (52.38%) SQL
2 39 (46.43%) Python
3 5 (5.95%) C#
4 3 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.57%) Java
4 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.19%) PHP
6 1 (1.19%) R
6 1 (1.19%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.19%) SHACL
6 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.19%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (11.90%) Degree
1 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (22.62%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.10%) QA
3 10 (11.90%) IFRS
4 8 (9.52%) IFRS 17
5 4 (4.76%) GDPR
6 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.38%) CRD IV
6 2 (2.38%) FINREP
7 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.19%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.14%) Terraform
2 3 (3.57%) Grafana
3 2 (2.38%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (1.19%) Control-M
4 1 (1.19%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) Databricks
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.95%) Oracle
2 5 (5.95%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.57%) Cognos
4 2 (2.38%) BMC
4 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) IBM
4 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.19%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.19%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.19%) Informatica
5 1 (1.19%) Reuters
5 1 (1.19%) SAP
5 1 (1.19%) Siebel
5 1 (1.19%) SnapLogic