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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 67 58
Rank change year-on-year -19 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing ETL 92 59 85
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.56% 2.87% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.08% 3.23% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 67
10th Percentile £304 £350 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +10.27%
75th Percentile £539 £613 £594
90th Percentile £589 £681 £694
England median daily rate £500 £505 £510
% change year-on-year -0.89% -1.08% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
England median hourly rate £38.56 £52.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -26.56% +15.38% -35.00%

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 2,991 1,825 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.36% 88.76% 84.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 1,210 1,426
10th Percentile £300 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -8.08% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £585
90th Percentile £675 £665 £675
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 111 267
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.13 £14.72
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.76 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.43% +5.87% -1.77%
75th Percentile £76.00 £61.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.00 £66.61
England median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +85.35% -34.02% +1.65%

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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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -2 71 £460 -12.38% 27
Merseyside -9 12 £400 -20.00% 4
Cheshire -19 7 £463 +25.68% 1
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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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) SAS
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.09%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 37 (40.22%) Azure
2 21 (22.83%) Power Platform
3 14 (15.22%) AWS
4 13 (14.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.87%) Serverless
6 9 (9.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (8.70%) Power Automate
8 7 (7.61%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (7.61%) GCP
9 6 (6.52%) Azure AKS
9 6 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.43%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (5.43%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (5.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (5.43%) Snowflake
10 5 (5.43%) Vertex AI
11 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (4.35%) dbt
11 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
11 4 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (27.17%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (22.83%) Power BI
3 18 (19.57%) SQL Server
4 13 (14.13%) Data Lake
5 10 (10.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (7.61%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.52%) Tableau
8 5 (5.43%) BigQuery
9 4 (4.35%) DataStage
9 4 (4.35%) Metadata
9 4 (4.35%) Power Query
9 4 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 3 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (3.26%) Db2
10 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (2.17%) Data Mining
11 2 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) JIRA
2 7 (7.61%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) Hudson
3 1 (1.09%) MLflow
3 1 (1.09%) Postman
3 1 (1.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.83%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.87%) Banking
5 9 (9.78%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.61%) Retail
7 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.35%) Law
9 3 (3.26%) Legal
10 1 (1.09%) Automotive
10 1 (1.09%) Marketing
10 1 (1.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (21.74%) Developer
2 19 (20.65%) Data Engineer
3 12 (13.04%) Analyst
4 8 (8.70%) Lead
4 8 (8.70%) Senior
5 6 (6.52%) Test Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Power BI Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.43%) Test Manager
7 4 (4.35%) .NET Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Data Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Data Manager
7 4 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) Data Migration Analyst
8 3 (3.26%) DataStage Developer
8 3 (3.26%) Integration Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) PySpark
2 6 (6.52%) .NET
2 6 (6.52%) RESTful
3 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.35%) Pandas
3 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.35%) React
3 4 (4.35%) REST
3 4 (4.35%) YAML
4 3 (3.26%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.26%) Kafka
5 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.17%) Middleware
5 2 (2.17%) Node.js
5 2 (2.17%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.17%) SOAP
5 2 (2.17%) XGBoost
6 1 (1.09%) NetworkX
6 1 (1.09%) NLTK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Data Structures
2 8 (8.70%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.43%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.17%) CMDB
6 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) FMCG
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.09%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Unix
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Data Modelling
2 31 (33.70%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (31.52%) Analytics
4 27 (29.35%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (26.09%) CI/CD
6 23 (25.00%) Migration
7 22 (23.91%) Data Integration
7 22 (23.91%) Validation
8 19 (20.65%) Data Engineering
8 19 (20.65%) DevOps
9 17 (18.48%) Agile
9 17 (18.48%) Data Migration
10 16 (17.39%) AI
10 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (15.22%) Data Analysis
12 14 (15.22%) Data Governance
13 12 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (13.04%) Visualisation
14 11 (11.96%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 62 (67.39%) SQL
2 24 (26.09%) Python
3 6 (6.52%) C#
3 6 (6.52%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.26%) Java
5 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.09%) SHACL
7 1 (1.09%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) Degree
4 4 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.26%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (39.13%) Data Quality
2 11 (11.96%) QA
3 7 (7.61%) GDPR
4 5 (5.43%) IFRS
4 5 (5.43%) IFRS 17
5 4 (4.35%) GRC
6 3 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.09%) PMO
7 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.87%) Terraform
2 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) Salesforce
3 7 (7.61%) Databricks
3 7 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.52%) Oracle
5 5 (5.43%) OpenAI
5 5 (5.43%) SAP
6 4 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 4 (4.35%) IBM
7 3 (3.26%) Alteryx
7 3 (3.26%) MuleSoft
7 3 (3.26%) Teradata
8 2 (2.17%) BMC
8 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.17%) Informatica
8 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.09%) Guidewire
9 1 (1.09%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.09%) Reuters
9 1 (1.09%) Siebel