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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 62 59
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +24
Contract jobs citing ETL 91 65 85
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.71% 3.33% 3.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.26% 3.71% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 52 68
10th Percentile £304 £351 £361
25th Percentile £400 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +13.51%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £602
90th Percentile £588 £670 £694
England median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £38.75 - -
25th Percentile £44.38 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £57.19 - -
90th Percentile £61.13 - -
England median hourly rate £57.25 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +9.05% +8.25% -30.71%

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 2,794 1,753 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.25% 89.76% 85.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,666 1,150 1,440
10th Percentile £300 £300 £307
25th Percentile £400 £391 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £555 £588
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 94 268
10th Percentile £17.13 £13.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £26.83
Median % change year-on-year +72.52% +18.82% -23.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £63.40 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.03 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

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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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -14 66 £460 -8.37% 24
Merseyside -3 16 £398 -20.50% 9
Cheshire -29 7 £463 +3.47% 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 6 (6.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) SAS
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.10%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.96%) Azure
2 19 (20.88%) AWS
3 16 (17.58%) Power Platform
4 13 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 10 (10.99%) Serverless
6 9 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.59%) Azure AKS
8 6 (6.59%) dbt
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (5.49%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.49%) Vertex AI
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (4.40%) SaaS
11 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (3.30%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (19.78%) SQL Server
3 16 (17.58%) Power BI
4 10 (10.99%) Data Lake
5 8 (8.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.59%) Tableau
7 5 (5.49%) BigQuery
8 4 (4.40%) Metadata
8 4 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.30%) DataStage
9 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (3.30%) Power Query
10 2 (2.20%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.20%) DB2
11 1 (1.10%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (1.10%) MySQL
11 1 (1.10%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 7 (7.69%) Git
1 7 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.10%) Hudson
2 1 (1.10%) MLflow
2 1 (1.10%) Postman
2 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.08%) Finance
3 10 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Retail
6 4 (4.40%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Legal
8 1 (1.10%) Automotive
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Data Engineer
3 11 (12.09%) Senior
4 10 (10.99%) Analyst
5 8 (8.79%) Lead
5 8 (8.79%) Test Manager
6 6 (6.59%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.49%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.40%) .NET Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Data Manager
8 4 (4.40%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) SQL Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Data Migration Lead
9 3 (3.30%) Migration Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.09%) PySpark
2 6 (6.59%) .NET
2 6 (6.59%) RESTful
3 5 (5.49%) XGBoost
4 4 (4.40%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.40%) Pandas
4 4 (4.40%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.40%) React
4 4 (4.40%) REST
4 4 (4.40%) YAML
5 3 (3.30%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.30%) Kafka
6 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.20%) Middleware
6 2 (2.20%) Node.js
6 2 (2.20%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.20%) SOAP
7 1 (1.10%) LangChain
7 1 (1.10%) NLTK
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) AI Agents
2 7 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.20%) CMDB
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) FMCG
6 1 (1.10%) NHS
6 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.10%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Unix
2 1 (1.10%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.46%) Data Modelling
2 28 (30.77%) Analytics
3 25 (27.47%) Data Pipeline
4 24 (26.37%) Validation
5 23 (25.27%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (24.18%) CI/CD
7 21 (23.08%) Data Engineering
7 21 (23.08%) Migration
8 20 (21.98%) DevOps
9 18 (19.78%) Data Integration
10 16 (17.58%) Data Governance
11 15 (16.48%) Agile
11 15 (16.48%) Data Migration
11 15 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (15.38%) Machine Learning
12 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (15.38%) Test Strategy
12 14 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (14.29%) Data Validation
14 12 (13.19%) AI
Programming Languages
1 55 (60.44%) SQL
2 28 (30.77%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) C#
3 6 (6.59%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.30%) Java
5 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.10%) SHACL
6 1 (1.10%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.10%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (10.99%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 6 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (34.07%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.29%) QA
3 8 (8.79%) IFRS
3 8 (8.79%) IFRS 17
4 7 (7.69%) GDPR
5 3 (3.30%) GRC
5 3 (3.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.10%) PMO
6 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (10.99%) Terraform
2 4 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Databricks
3 6 (6.59%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.49%) OpenAI
4 5 (5.49%) Oracle
4 5 (5.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.30%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.30%) IBM
5 3 (3.30%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.20%) BMC
6 2 (2.20%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.20%) Informatica
6 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.20%) Teradata
7 1 (1.10%) EXASOL
7 1 (1.10%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.10%) Reuters
7 1 (1.10%) Siebel