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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 59 82
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 +3
Contract jobs citing ETL 83 63 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.97% 3.09% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 3.47% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 44
10th Percentile £337 £351 £365
25th Percentile £385 £403 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £694
90th Percentile £575 £649 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £74.98 - -
25th Percentile £76.07 - -
Median hourly rate £77.88 - -
75th Percentile £79.69 - -
90th Percentile £80.78 - -
England median hourly rate £69.44 £42.50 £50.78
% change year-on-year +63.39% -16.30% +43.04%

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 2,420 1,818 2,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 89.03% 87.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,561 1,097 1,577
10th Percentile £213 £275 £304
25th Percentile £358 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £566 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £658 £675
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 105 226
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.05 £12.62
25th Percentile £22.85 £23.48 £16.02
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.76 £26.20
Median % change year-on-year +41.69% +21.24% -30.15%
75th Percentile £63.40 £55.93 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.00 £79.35 £53.27
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year -21.43% +2.19% -2.14%

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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 25 February 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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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 25 February 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 -10 58 £450 -3.28% 28
Merseyside -3 16 £395 -7.06% 3
Cheshire -33 7 £463 +4.99% 2
Lancashire -17 2 - - 10
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 9 (10.84%) SAS
2 8 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.82%) Apache
3 4 (4.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.20%) Maximo
2 1 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 24 (28.92%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) AWS
3 16 (19.28%) Power Platform
4 10 (12.05%) GCP
5 7 (8.43%) Serverless
6 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.61%) dbt
9 3 (3.61%) GitHub
9 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.61%) PaaS
9 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.61%) SaaS
10 2 (2.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (19.28%) Power BI
3 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (6.02%) Tableau
6 4 (4.82%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Cognos Report Studio
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.61%) Big Data
7 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.61%) Cognos Transformer
7 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.61%) OLAP
7 3 (3.61%) OLAP Cube
8 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) Looker
8 2 (2.41%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.20%) MLflow
3 1 (1.20%) Postman
3 1 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Finance
3 16 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Law
5 4 (4.82%) Retail
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Military
7 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Data Engineer
2 17 (20.48%) Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Analyst
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
5 8 (9.64%) Lead
5 8 (9.64%) Test Manager
6 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.23%) Data Scientist
6 6 (7.23%) Test Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Cognos Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Test Leader
9 2 (2.41%) .NET Developer
9 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse Developer
9 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.41%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) PySpark
1 6 (7.23%) XGBoost
2 5 (6.02%) RESTful
3 4 (4.82%) REST
4 3 (3.61%) .NET
4 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.61%) Middleware
4 3 (3.61%) pytest
4 3 (3.61%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (3.61%) React
4 3 (3.61%) YAML
5 2 (2.41%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.41%) LangChain
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) Pandas
5 2 (2.41%) Playwright
5 2 (2.41%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
1 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.41%) Clustering
3 2 (2.41%) CMDB
3 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.20%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
1 1 (1.20%) Unix
1 1 (1.20%) VMS
1 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.96%) Data Modelling
2 24 (28.92%) Data Engineering
3 23 (27.71%) Analytics
3 23 (27.71%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (26.51%) Data Governance
5 21 (25.30%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (24.10%) Agile
7 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (19.28%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (19.28%) Validation
9 14 (16.87%) Data Integration
10 13 (15.66%) Test Strategy
11 12 (14.46%) CI/CD
11 12 (14.46%) Decision-Making
11 12 (14.46%) DevOps
11 12 (14.46%) Migration
12 11 (13.25%) Data Validation
13 10 (12.05%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.05%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) SQL
2 39 (46.99%) Python
3 4 (4.82%) C#
4 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.61%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.20%) PHP
6 1 (1.20%) R
6 1 (1.20%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.20%) SHACL
6 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.25%) Degree
2 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
3 7 (8.43%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.25%) QA
3 10 (12.05%) IFRS
4 8 (9.64%) IFRS 17
5 4 (4.82%) GDPR
6 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.41%) CRD IV
6 2 (2.41%) FINREP
7 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Grafana
4 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.41%) SCCM
5 1 (1.20%) Control-M
5 1 (1.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Databricks
2 6 (7.23%) Cognos
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.02%) Oracle
3 5 (6.02%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.61%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) BMC
5 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.41%) Google
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.20%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.20%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.20%) Informatica
6 1 (1.20%) Reuters
6 1 (1.20%) Siebel
6 1 (1.20%) SnapLogic