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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +27
Contract jobs citing ETL 89 63 61
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.91% 3.11% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 3.44% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 46 52
10th Percentile £349 £353 £378
25th Percentile £385 £402 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £472 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.80% -12.28% +4.88%
75th Percentile £469 £575 £694
90th Percentile £565 £658 £699
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% +36.55%

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 2,604 1,831 2,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.10% 90.46% 86.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,152 1,589
10th Percentile £220 £276 £311
25th Percentile £370 £391 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £574 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £686
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 115 258
10th Percentile £17.46 £16.95 £10.99
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.23 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.00 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% +34.14% -36.39%
75th Percentile £69.25 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.25 £52.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

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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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -9 62 £450 -10.00% 47
Merseyside -2 17 £398 -16.32%
Cheshire -28 6 £463 +29.55% 6
Lancashire -12 2 - - 15
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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 6 (6.74%) SAS
2 5 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.62%) Confluence
3 3 (3.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.12%) Maximo
2 1 (1.12%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.96%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) Power Platform
3 16 (17.98%) AWS
4 10 (11.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (10.11%) GCP
6 7 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (7.87%) Serverless
7 5 (5.62%) Power Automate
8 4 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.49%) dbt
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.37%) GitHub
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.25%) PaaS
10 2 (2.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) SQL Server
2 17 (19.10%) Power BI
3 15 (16.85%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
5 6 (6.74%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.62%) Tableau
7 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (3.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.37%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.37%) Metadata
8 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.25%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (2.25%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.25%) Looker
9 2 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.25%) Power Query
9 2 (2.25%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (11.24%) Git
2 8 (8.99%) JIRA
3 2 (2.25%) GitLab
3 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.12%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.12%) Hudson
4 1 (1.12%) MLflow
4 1 (1.12%) Postman
4 1 (1.12%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.12%) SoapUI
4 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 16 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.62%) Law
6 3 (3.37%) Legal
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Banking
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Military
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (26.97%) Data Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) Developer
3 14 (15.73%) Analyst
4 12 (13.48%) Senior
5 8 (8.99%) Lead
5 8 (8.99%) Test Manager
6 7 (7.87%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.62%) Data Scientist
8 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (4.49%) SQL Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Data Migration Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Migration Analyst
11 2 (2.25%) Azure Developer
11 2 (2.25%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.99%) RESTful
2 6 (6.74%) PySpark
3 5 (5.62%) .NET
3 5 (5.62%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.62%) REST
3 5 (5.62%) XGBoost
4 4 (4.49%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.49%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.49%) Pandas
4 4 (4.49%) React
4 4 (4.49%) YAML
5 3 (3.37%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.37%) Middleware
6 2 (2.25%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.25%) LangChain
6 2 (2.25%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.25%) SOAP
6 2 (2.25%) XML
7 1 (1.12%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.12%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.62%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.49%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.25%) Clustering
5 2 (2.25%) CMDB
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) FMCG
6 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.12%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Linux
1 1 (1.12%) Unix
1 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (41.57%) Data Modelling
2 28 (31.46%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (29.21%) Analytics
4 25 (28.09%) Data Engineering
5 22 (24.72%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (23.60%) Validation
7 18 (20.22%) Data Governance
7 18 (20.22%) Data Integration
8 17 (19.10%) CI/CD
9 16 (17.98%) Agile
9 16 (17.98%) Migration
10 15 (16.85%) Decision-Making
10 15 (16.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (15.73%) DevOps
12 13 (14.61%) Data Validation
12 13 (14.61%) Test Strategy
13 12 (13.48%) Data Migration
13 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (12.36%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (57.30%) SQL
2 34 (38.20%) Python
3 6 (6.74%) C#
4 4 (4.49%) Java
5 3 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.37%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.12%) R
7 1 (1.12%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.12%) SHACL
7 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.12%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (12.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.11%) Degree
3 5 (5.62%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (5.62%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (28.09%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.61%) QA
3 10 (11.24%) IFRS
4 8 (8.99%) IFRS 17
5 6 (6.74%) GDPR
6 2 (2.25%) CRD IV
6 2 (2.25%) FINREP
6 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.12%) GRC
7 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.12%) PMO
7 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.74%) Terraform
3 2 (2.25%) Grafana
3 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Databricks
1 9 (10.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.49%) Oracle
3 4 (4.49%) SAP
4 3 (3.37%) Cognos
4 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.25%) BMC
5 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.25%) Google
5 2 (2.25%) IBM
5 2 (2.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.12%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.12%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.12%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.12%) Informatica
6 1 (1.12%) Reuters
6 1 (1.12%) Siebel
6 1 (1.12%) SnapLogic