ETL Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 57 83
Rank change year-on-year -12 +26 -15
Contract jobs citing ETL 59 85 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.84% 3.06% 2.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 3.63% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 67 54
10th Percentile £350 £360 £275
25th Percentile £400 £409 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £463
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +10.27% -7.50%
75th Percentile £613 £594 £575
90th Percentile £681 £694 £654
England median daily rate £512 £510 £540
% change year-on-year +0.39% -5.56% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £45.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -35.00% +45.21%

All Process and 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 1,840 2,341 2,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.67% 84.18% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 1,427 1,901
10th Percentile £300 £304 £313
25th Percentile £378 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -1.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £588
90th Percentile £666 £675 £675
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 265 150
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.19 £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.88 £30.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -1.77% +26.72%
75th Percentile £60.75 £46.18 £45.90
90th Percentile £81.00 £66.61 £62.09
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for ETL in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for ETL in the North West

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 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
Manchester -3 31 £525 +5.00% 40
Cheshire -13 21 £368 -29.90% 13
Merseyside +9 5 £500 +12.36% 9
Lancashire -3 1 £500 -16.67% 16
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (3.39%) Apache
1 2 (3.39%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.39%) CICS
1 2 (3.39%) SAS
1 2 (3.39%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.69%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Azure
2 15 (25.42%) AWS
3 10 (16.95%) Power Platform
4 7 (11.86%) GCP
5 5 (8.47%) IaaS
5 5 (8.47%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.47%) PaaS
5 5 (8.47%) SaaS
6 4 (6.78%) dbt
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (5.08%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.39%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub
8 2 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.69%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.90%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (16.95%) Power BI
3 8 (13.56%) Relational Database
4 7 (11.86%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.78%) BigQuery
5 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.78%) Tableau
6 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.08%) Big Data
6 3 (5.08%) Delta Lake
7 2 (3.39%) Airbyte
7 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.39%) DB2
7 2 (3.39%) Metadata
7 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.69%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Git
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Selenium
3 2 (3.39%) SOAtest
4 1 (1.69%) ERwin
4 1 (1.69%) Flyway
4 1 (1.69%) Liquibase
4 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (54.24%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.20%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (20.34%) Finance
4 7 (11.86%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (10.17%) Manufacturing
6 5 (8.47%) Legal
7 4 (6.78%) Banking
7 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.39%) Automotive
8 2 (3.39%) General Ledger
8 2 (3.39%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
9 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (27.12%) Data Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Architect
2 9 (15.25%) Migration Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Data Migration Engineer
3 7 (11.86%) Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Lead
5 5 (8.47%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.78%) Data Migration Expert
7 3 (5.08%) Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.08%) Senior
8 2 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Data Migration Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Migration Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Migration Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) SAS Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) PySpark
2 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.47%) Node.js
3 3 (5.08%) Kafka
4 2 (3.39%) J2EE
4 2 (3.39%) JSON
4 2 (3.39%) OAuth
4 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.39%) OpenID
4 2 (3.39%) REST
4 2 (3.39%) SAML
4 2 (3.39%) Web Services
4 2 (3.39%) XML
5 1 (1.69%) ADO
5 1 (1.69%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.69%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.95%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.39%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.39%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.39%) Mobile Payment
2 2 (3.39%) VSAM
3 1 (1.69%) Insider Threat
3 1 (1.69%) IoT
3 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
1 5 (8.47%) Windows
2 2 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.07%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (40.68%) Migration
3 20 (33.90%) Data Migration
4 17 (28.81%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (23.73%) Data Modelling
6 13 (22.03%) Analytics
7 11 (18.64%) Data Engineering
7 11 (18.64%) Validation
8 10 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (16.95%) Data Integration
8 10 (16.95%) Data Mapping
9 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
9 9 (15.25%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (13.56%) Data Governance
10 8 (13.56%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (11.86%) Data Design
11 7 (11.86%) Data Management
11 7 (11.86%) Information Architecture
11 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
12 6 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (54.24%) SQL
2 19 (32.20%) Python
3 10 (16.95%) PL/SQL
4 5 (8.47%) PHP
5 2 (3.39%) COBOL
5 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.39%) Java
5 2 (3.39%) JCL
5 2 (3.39%) REXX
5 2 (3.39%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.69%) Korn
6 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.69%) Scala
6 1 (1.69%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.39%) Degree
3 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) MCSA
4 1 (1.69%) MCSE
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 2 (3.39%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 5 (8.47%) Grafana
3 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (28.81%) Oracle
2 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.86%) SAP
4 5 (8.47%) AppDynamics
4 5 (8.47%) Databricks
4 5 (8.47%) Google
5 4 (6.78%) Informatica
6 3 (5.08%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.39%) Hitachi
7 2 (3.39%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.69%) Cognos
8 1 (1.69%) Splunk
8 1 (1.69%) Talend