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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 71 93
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -10
Contract jobs citing ETL 49 46 48
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.03% 1.94% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 2.32% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 36
10th Percentile £313 £366 £350
25th Percentile £358 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £441 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -13.90% -
75th Percentile £533 £528 £625
90th Percentile £578 £585 £694
England median daily rate £500 £508 £530
% change year-on-year -1.48% -4.25% -
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 £41.23 £35.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% -44.44% +47.37%

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 2,120 1,987 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.71% 83.59% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,392 1,080 1,684
10th Percentile £215 £294 £271
25th Percentile £360 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £591
90th Percentile £678 £656 £673
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.05% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 111 168
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.50 £15.75
25th Percentile £19.07 £24.18 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.44 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.41% +14.29% +45.83%
75th Percentile £45.46 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.14 £70.90 £63.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

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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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 -4 29 £500 +14.29% 51
Cheshire -22 12 £355 -25.26% 14
Merseyside +3 5 £475 +9.20% 5
Lancashire - 2 - - 31
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 6 (12.24%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.12%) SAS
3 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (2.04%) SAP HR
1 1 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.04%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Power Platform
2 11 (22.45%) Azure
3 10 (20.41%) IaaS
3 10 (20.41%) OpenShift
3 10 (20.41%) PaaS
3 10 (20.41%) SaaS
4 9 (18.37%) AWS
5 7 (14.29%) GCP
6 5 (10.20%) Serverless
7 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub
8 3 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.08%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) Power BI
2 11 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (20.41%) Relational Database
4 5 (10.20%) BigQuery
4 5 (10.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.16%) Delta Lake
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (6.12%) Big Data
6 3 (6.12%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Cognos Report Studio
6 3 (6.12%) Power Query
7 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.08%) Cognos Transformer
7 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.08%) OLAP
7 2 (4.08%) OLAP Cube
7 2 (4.08%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.04%) ClearCase
3 1 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (22.45%) Finance
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.12%) Automotive
4 3 (6.12%) Manufacturing
4 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.08%) Law
5 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Lead
2 11 (22.45%) Data Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Data Architect
4 4 (8.16%) GCP Architect
4 4 (8.16%) GCP Data Architect
5 3 (6.12%) BigQuery Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Cognos Developer
5 3 (6.12%) ETL Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Test Leader
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Power BI Specialist
7 1 (2.04%) Qlik Sense Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.45%) Node.js
2 10 (20.41%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.12%) PySpark
3 3 (6.12%) pytest
4 2 (4.08%) Playwright
5 1 (2.04%) .NET
5 1 (2.04%) JWT
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) Middleware
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.04%) React
5 1 (2.04%) RESTful
5 1 (2.04%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (2.04%) XGBoost
5 1 (2.04%) XML
5 1 (2.04%) XSD
5 1 (2.04%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Data Fabric
3 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.41%) Linux
1 10 (20.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) Data Engineering
1 17 (34.69%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 13 (26.53%) Analytics
4 12 (24.49%) Containerisation
4 12 (24.49%) Data Governance
4 12 (24.49%) Observability
4 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (16.33%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (16.33%) Agile
5 8 (16.33%) Data Architecture
5 8 (16.33%) Data Integration
6 7 (14.29%) AI
6 7 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 7 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
6 7 (14.29%) DevOps
7 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.24%) Migration
7 6 (12.24%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Python
2 25 (51.02%) SQL
3 10 (20.41%) PHP
4 4 (8.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (6.12%) Scala
6 2 (4.08%) C#
6 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.04%) Java
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) Korn
7 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) MCSA
5 1 (2.04%) MCSE
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 15 (30.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 12 (24.49%) Grafana
3 3 (6.12%) Terraform
4 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.04%) Control-M
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Oracle
2 10 (20.41%) AppDynamics
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.24%) Databricks
5 5 (10.20%) Google
6 4 (8.16%) Cognos
6 4 (8.16%) Hitachi
7 2 (4.08%) IBM
7 2 (4.08%) SAP