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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 66 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +38
Contract jobs citing ETL 90 58 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.85% 2.99% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 3.30% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 45 54
10th Percentile £350 £352 £383
25th Percentile £393 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £468 £538
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -12.93% +7.45%
75th Percentile £473 £575 £688
90th Percentile £578 £659 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £42.88 - -
25th Percentile £54.69 - -
Median hourly rate £68.38 - -
75th Percentile £76.07 - -
90th Percentile £79.33 - -
England median hourly rate £64.92 £62.50 £49.50
% change year-on-year +3.88% +26.26% +24.14%

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 2,663 1,760 2,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 84.33% 90.77% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,658 1,148 1,559
10th Percentile £256 £291 £311
25th Percentile £375 £390 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 112 251
10th Percentile £19.52 £16.37 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.41
Median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.68% +34.64% -34.72%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.40 £51.91
England median hourly rate £38.25 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +17.69% -1.52% -12.00%

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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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -5 63 £450 -10.00% 44
Merseyside -2 17 £398 -16.32% 2
Cheshire -17 6 £463 +29.92% 6
Lancashire -12 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 7 (7.78%) Confluence
2 6 (6.67%) SAS
3 5 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.33%) Apache
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.11%) Maximo
2 1 (1.11%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.56%) Azure
2 18 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.78%) AWS
4 11 (12.22%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (10.00%) GCP
6 7 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
7 6 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.67%) Serverless
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.44%) dbt
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub
9 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.22%) PaaS
10 2 (2.22%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.11%) SQL Server
2 18 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (20.00%) Power BI
3 7 (7.78%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (7.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 5 (5.56%) Tableau
5 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.33%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.33%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.33%) Metadata
6 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.33%) Power Query
7 2 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.22%) Looker
7 2 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.22%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (2.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) JIRA
2 9 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (2.22%) GitLab
3 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.11%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.11%) Hudson
4 1 (1.11%) MLflow
4 1 (1.11%) Postman
4 1 (1.11%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Finance
3 16 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.67%) Law
6 3 (3.33%) Legal
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) Data Engineer
2 21 (23.33%) Developer
3 14 (15.56%) Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Senior
5 8 (8.89%) Lead
5 8 (8.89%) Test Manager
6 7 (7.78%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.56%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.44%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Architect
9 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.44%) SQL Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.33%) Data Migration Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Migration Analyst
10 3 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.89%) RESTful
2 6 (6.67%) PySpark
3 5 (5.56%) .NET
3 5 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.56%) REST
3 5 (5.56%) XGBoost
4 4 (4.44%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.44%) Pandas
4 4 (4.44%) React
4 4 (4.44%) YAML
5 3 (3.33%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.33%) Middleware
6 2 (2.22%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.22%) LangChain
6 2 (2.22%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.22%) SOAP
6 2 (2.22%) XML
7 1 (1.11%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.11%) NLTK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.22%) Clustering
5 2 (2.22%) CMDB
5 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.22%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.11%) FMCG
6 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.11%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.11%) Linux
1 1 (1.11%) Unix
1 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.33%) Data Modelling
2 26 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (27.78%) Analytics
4 23 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (25.56%) Data Engineering
5 21 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (23.33%) Validation
6 19 (21.11%) Data Integration
7 18 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
9 16 (17.78%) Agile
9 16 (17.78%) Migration
10 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 15 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (14.44%) Data Validation
11 13 (14.44%) DevOps
11 13 (14.44%) Test Strategy
12 12 (13.33%) Data Migration
12 12 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (57.78%) SQL
2 33 (36.67%) Python
3 6 (6.67%) C#
4 4 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.44%) Java
4 4 (4.44%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.11%) R
7 1 (1.11%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.11%) SHACL
7 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.11%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (28.89%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.44%) QA
3 10 (11.11%) IFRS
4 8 (8.89%) IFRS 17
5 6 (6.67%) GDPR
6 3 (3.33%) GRC
7 2 (2.22%) CRD IV
7 2 (2.22%) FINREP
7 2 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.11%) PMO
8 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.67%) Terraform
3 2 (2.22%) Grafana
3 2 (2.22%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.22%) SCCM
4 1 (1.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) Databricks
3 5 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.44%) Oracle
4 4 (4.44%) SAP
5 3 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.33%) Cognos
6 2 (2.22%) BMC
6 2 (2.22%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.22%) Google
6 2 (2.22%) IBM
6 2 (2.22%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.11%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.11%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.11%) Informatica
7 1 (1.11%) Reuters
7 1 (1.11%) Siebel
7 1 (1.11%) SnapLogic