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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 62 91
Rank change year-on-year -18 +29 -19
Contract jobs citing ETL 53 58 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.39% 2.40% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.86% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 39 41
10th Percentile £330 £378 £350
25th Percentile £361 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -4.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £575
90th Percentile £600 £640 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -

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 1,974 2,025 2,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.88% 83.68% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,108 1,705
10th Percentile £255 £294 £270
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £598
90th Percentile £679 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 113 173
10th Percentile £13.96 £17.32 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £26.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%
75th Percentile £44.78 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £71.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

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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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -12 26 £500 +14.29% 26
Cheshire -14 20 £363 -27.50% 2
Merseyside +6 5 £500 +14.94% 6
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 18
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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 5 (9.43%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.55%) Apache
3 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
3 3 (5.66%) SAS
4 2 (3.77%) CICS
4 2 (3.77%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.89%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.89%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.89%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Power Platform
2 11 (20.75%) Azure
3 10 (18.87%) IaaS
3 10 (18.87%) OpenShift
3 10 (18.87%) PaaS
3 10 (18.87%) SaaS
4 9 (16.98%) AWS
4 9 (16.98%) GCP
5 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.66%) Serverless
5 3 (5.66%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.89%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (22.64%) Power BI
3 10 (18.87%) Relational Database
4 6 (11.32%) BigQuery
5 4 (7.55%) Big Data
5 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
5 4 (7.55%) Delta Lake
5 4 (7.55%) Hadoop
6 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (5.66%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Cognos Report Studio
6 3 (5.66%) Power Query
7 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.77%) Cognos Transformer
7 2 (3.77%) DB2
7 2 (3.77%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.77%) OLAP
7 2 (3.77%) OLAP Cube
8 1 (1.89%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) Selenium
2 2 (3.77%) SOAtest
3 1 (1.89%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Finance
3 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (13.21%) Manufacturing
6 5 (9.43%) Legal
7 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
8 3 (5.66%) Automotive
8 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.77%) Banking
9 2 (3.77%) General Ledger
9 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.89%) Law
10 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Lead
2 8 (15.09%) Data Engineer
2 8 (15.09%) Developer
3 6 (11.32%) Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Data Architect
4 4 (7.55%) Data Migration Expert
4 4 (7.55%) GCP Architect
4 4 (7.55%) GCP Data Architect
5 3 (5.66%) BigQuery Architect
5 3 (5.66%) Cognos Developer
5 3 (5.66%) Consultant
5 3 (5.66%) ETL Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.77%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Data Consultant
6 2 (3.77%) Data Migration Consultant
6 2 (3.77%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (3.77%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Test Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) Node.js
2 10 (18.87%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.55%) PySpark
4 3 (5.66%) pytest
5 2 (3.77%) J2EE
5 2 (3.77%) JSON
5 2 (3.77%) Kafka
5 2 (3.77%) Playwright
5 2 (3.77%) Web Services
5 2 (3.77%) XML
6 1 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.89%) React
6 1 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
6 1 (1.89%) XGBoost
6 1 (1.89%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.21%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.77%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) Mainframe
3 2 (3.77%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (3.77%) VSAM
4 1 (1.89%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.87%) Linux
1 10 (18.87%) Windows
2 2 (3.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Data Engineering
1 16 (30.19%) Data Pipeline
1 16 (30.19%) Migration
1 16 (30.19%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (28.30%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (24.53%) Analytics
4 12 (22.64%) Data Governance
5 10 (18.87%) Data Migration
5 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
5 10 (18.87%) Observability
6 9 (16.98%) Agile
6 9 (16.98%) Containerisation
7 7 (13.21%) AI
7 7 (13.21%) Data Architecture
7 7 (13.21%) Data Design
7 7 (13.21%) Information Architecture
7 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
7 7 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (11.32%) Data Integration
8 6 (11.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) Python
2 20 (37.74%) SQL
3 10 (18.87%) PHP
4 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.66%) Scala
5 2 (3.77%) COBOL
5 2 (3.77%) Java
5 2 (3.77%) JCL
5 2 (3.77%) REXX
5 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.89%) Korn
6 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) MCSA
5 1 (1.89%) MCSE
5 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (22.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 10 (18.87%) Grafana
3 1 (1.89%) Control-M
3 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Oracle
2 10 (18.87%) AppDynamics
3 9 (16.98%) SAP
4 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (11.32%) Databricks
5 6 (11.32%) Google
6 4 (7.55%) Cognos
6 4 (7.55%) Hitachi
7 2 (3.77%) Ab Initio
7 2 (3.77%) Informatica
7 2 (3.77%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.89%) IBM