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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 72 99
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing ETL 62 53 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.48% 2.45% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.82% 2.82% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 36 30
10th Percentile £340 £374 £407
25th Percentile £363 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -20.00% +7.66%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £694
90th Percentile £555 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
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 £47.36 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +11.42% -29.75% +70.42%

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 2,199 1,877 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.10% 86.94% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,062 1,600
10th Percentile £213 £264 £305
25th Percentile £358 £390 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +0.76%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £600
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 98 155
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £15.85
25th Percentile £21.13 £21.05 £18.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.20 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.45% -20.53% +35.11%
75th Percentile £56.69 £49.80 £46.89
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.89 £64.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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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 31 December 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 31 December 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 -6 46 £463 +5.71% 27
Merseyside -2 8 £400 -5.88% 9
Cheshire -24 6 £347 -23.00% 1
Lancashire -9 2 - - 8
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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 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (12.90%) SAS
2 4 (6.45%) Apache
3 3 (4.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Maximo
1 1 (1.61%) SAP HR
1 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 18 (29.03%) Azure
2 15 (24.19%) AWS
3 13 (20.97%) GCP
3 13 (20.97%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (8.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (8.06%) IaaS
4 5 (8.06%) OpenShift
4 5 (8.06%) PaaS
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
4 5 (8.06%) Serverless
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) Dataform
6 3 (4.84%) dbt
6 3 (4.84%) GitHub
6 3 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.97%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (20.97%) Power BI
2 7 (11.29%) BigQuery
3 6 (9.68%) Data Lake
4 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
4 5 (8.06%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (6.45%) Big Data
5 4 (6.45%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 4 (6.45%) Cognos Report Studio
5 4 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.84%) Cognos Transformer
6 3 (4.84%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.84%) Looker
6 3 (4.84%) Metadata
6 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.84%) OLAP
6 3 (4.84%) OLAP Cube
6 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Git
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 2 (3.23%) GitLab
2 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.61%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.61%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 17 (27.42%) Social Skills
2 14 (22.58%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (20.97%) Finance
4 6 (9.68%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.84%) Law
5 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.84%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Automotive
6 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Data Engineer
2 14 (22.58%) Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Lead
3 7 (11.29%) Senior
4 5 (8.06%) Analyst
4 5 (8.06%) Architect
4 5 (8.06%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.45%) Cognos Developer
5 4 (6.45%) Data Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 4 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) GCP Architect
6 3 (4.84%) GCP Data Architect
6 3 (4.84%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (3.23%) BigQuery Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse Developer
7 2 (3.23%) ETL Architect
7 2 (3.23%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.23%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) Node.js
2 5 (8.06%) AngularJS
2 5 (8.06%) PySpark
3 4 (6.45%) XGBoost
4 3 (4.84%) pytest
5 2 (3.23%) Playwright
5 2 (3.23%) RESTful
5 2 (3.23%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) .NET
6 1 (1.61%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.61%) JWT
6 1 (1.61%) LangChain
6 1 (1.61%) Middleware
6 1 (1.61%) OAuth
6 1 (1.61%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.61%) React
6 1 (1.61%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.61%) XSD
6 1 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.23%) Clustering
3 2 (3.23%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.06%) Linux
1 5 (8.06%) Windows
2 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (38.71%) Data Modelling
2 22 (35.48%) Data Engineering
3 21 (33.87%) Analytics
4 19 (30.65%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (29.03%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (27.42%) Data Governance
7 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (22.58%) Agile
9 11 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (17.74%) Data Integration
10 10 (16.13%) Dashboard Development
11 9 (14.52%) Containerisation
11 9 (14.52%) Data Architecture
11 9 (14.52%) Data Science
11 9 (14.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
12 8 (12.90%) Decision-Making
12 8 (12.90%) DevOps
12 8 (12.90%) Performance Optimisation
12 8 (12.90%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 36 (58.06%) Python
2 31 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (8.06%) PHP
4 3 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.84%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) Scala
5 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.61%) R
6 1 (1.61%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.29%) Degree
3 5 (8.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.06%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (24.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) IFRS
3 3 (4.84%) IFRS 17
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) CRD IV
4 2 (3.23%) FINREP
4 2 (3.23%) GDPR
5 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (16.13%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.29%) Grafana
3 3 (4.84%) Terraform
4 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.61%) Control-M
5 1 (1.61%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Databricks
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle
3 6 (9.68%) Cognos
3 6 (9.68%) Google
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
4 5 (8.06%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.84%) Hitachi
5 3 (4.84%) IBM
6 2 (3.23%) SAP
7 1 (1.61%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.61%) Informatica
7 1 (1.61%) SnapLogic