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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 77 101
Rank change year-on-year -8 +24 -21
Contract jobs citing ETL 56 44 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.30% 1.93% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 2.28% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 29 29
10th Percentile £319 £391 £350
25th Percentile £358 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £650
90th Percentile £575 £588 £700
England median daily rate £500 £513 £528
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.94% -1.54%
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 £40.50 £42.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year -4.71% -29.75% +68.06%

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 2,154 1,932 2,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.31% 84.74% 88.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,050 1,622
10th Percentile £213 £294 £270
25th Percentile £358 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £564 £575 £600
90th Percentile £667 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 117 156
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.18 £15.88
25th Percentile £19.42 £22.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.80 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -7.14% +48.27%
75th Percentile £48.03 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.06 £70.21 £64.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.14%

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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 1 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 1 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 +4 40 £481 +10.00% 19
Cheshire -19 10 £358 -20.44% 6
Merseyside -4 3 £413 -5.17% 1
Lancashire - 2 - - 14
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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 (14.29%) SAS
2 7 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.14%) Apache
3 4 (7.14%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.79%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Maximo
1 1 (1.79%) SAP HR
1 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.79%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 11 (19.64%) Azure
3 10 (17.86%) AWS
3 10 (17.86%) GCP
3 10 (17.86%) IaaS
3 10 (17.86%) OpenShift
3 10 (17.86%) PaaS
3 10 (17.86%) SaaS
4 5 (8.93%) Serverless
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub
6 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.57%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
1 12 (21.43%) Power BI
2 10 (17.86%) Relational Database
3 7 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 5 (8.93%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.14%) Big Data
5 4 (7.14%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 4 (7.14%) Cognos Report Studio
5 4 (7.14%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (5.36%) Cognos Transformer
6 3 (5.36%) Looker
6 3 (5.36%) Metadata
6 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
6 3 (5.36%) OLAP
6 3 (5.36%) OLAP Cube
6 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (3.57%) GitLab
3 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.79%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.79%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (23.21%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Finance
3 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.36%) Automotive
5 3 (5.36%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.57%) Law
7 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Data Engineer
1 12 (21.43%) Developer
1 12 (21.43%) Lead
2 6 (10.71%) Architect
2 6 (10.71%) Data Architect
3 4 (7.14%) Analyst
3 4 (7.14%) Cognos Developer
3 4 (7.14%) Data Analyst
3 4 (7.14%) GCP Architect
3 4 (7.14%) GCP Data Architect
3 4 (7.14%) Senior
4 3 (5.36%) BigQuery Architect
4 3 (5.36%) ETL Architect
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (3.57%) Test Leader
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (1.79%) Power BI Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (19.64%) Node.js
2 10 (17.86%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.36%) PySpark
3 3 (5.36%) pytest
4 2 (3.57%) Playwright
4 2 (3.57%) RESTful
4 2 (3.57%) XML
5 1 (1.79%) .NET
5 1 (1.79%) JWT
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth
5 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.79%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.79%) React
5 1 (1.79%) REST
5 1 (1.79%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.79%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.79%) XSD
5 1 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (5.36%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Clustering
3 2 (3.57%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.79%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.86%) Linux
1 10 (17.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (39.29%) Data Modelling
2 17 (30.36%) Analytics
2 17 (30.36%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (30.36%) Data Engineering
2 17 (30.36%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
3 14 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 12 (21.43%) Observability
5 11 (19.64%) Data Integration
5 11 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.86%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (17.86%) Dashboard Development
6 10 (17.86%) Data Architecture
7 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.29%) DevOps
7 8 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
8 7 (12.50%) Data Transformation
8 7 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 34 (60.71%) Python
2 27 (48.21%) SQL
3 10 (17.86%) PHP
4 3 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.36%) Scala
5 2 (3.57%) C#
5 2 (3.57%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.79%) R
6 1 (1.79%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Degree
3 5 (8.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.79%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.21%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.57%) CRD IV
2 2 (3.57%) FINREP
2 2 (3.57%) IFRS
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 16 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Kubernetes
2 12 (21.43%) Grafana
3 3 (5.36%) Terraform
4 2 (3.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.79%) Control-M
5 1 (1.79%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Oracle
2 10 (17.86%) AppDynamics
3 7 (12.50%) Databricks
3 7 (12.50%) Google
4 6 (10.71%) Cognos
4 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
5 4 (7.14%) Hitachi
6 3 (5.36%) IBM
7 2 (3.57%) SAP
8 1 (1.79%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.79%) Informatica
8 1 (1.79%) SnapLogic