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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 72 90
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -3
Contract jobs citing ETL 80 53 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.96% 2.53% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.41% 2.86% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 36 42
10th Percentile £358 £366 £355
25th Percentile £387 £405 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £525 £694
90th Percentile £575 £594 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
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 £68.39 £42.50 £51.78
% change year-on-year +60.92% -17.92% +30.26%

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 2,347 1,852 2,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.89% 88.57% 87.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 1,103 1,627
10th Percentile £213 £266 £306
25th Percentile £358 £381 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £571 £588
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 98 217
10th Percentile £16.32 £16.04 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.96 £21.62 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £30.95 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% +3.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.25 £52.13 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.58 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

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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 11 February 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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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 11 February 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 -3 56 £460 -0.54% 30
Merseyside +1 14 £400 -5.88% 1
Cheshire -27 8 £438 -0.68% 6
Lancashire -11 2 - - 16
ETL
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 9 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
1 9 (11.25%) SAS
2 4 (5.00%) Apache
3 3 (3.75%) Confluence
4 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.25%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.25%) Maximo
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) Azure
2 19 (23.75%) AWS
3 18 (22.50%) Power Platform
4 12 (15.00%) GCP
5 6 (7.50%) Serverless
6 5 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.00%) PaaS
7 4 (5.00%) SaaS
8 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (3.75%) dbt
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub
8 3 (3.75%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.75%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.50%) IaaS
9 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.50%) Power BI
2 17 (21.25%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.50%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.50%) Tableau
5 5 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (5.00%) Big Data
6 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Cognos Report Studio
7 3 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.75%) Cognos Transformer
7 3 (3.75%) Looker
7 3 (3.75%) Metadata
7 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.75%) OLAP
7 3 (3.75%) OLAP Cube
8 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 6 (7.50%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.25%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.25%) MLflow
4 1 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Finance
3 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.00%) Law
6 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (22.50%) Data Engineer
2 16 (20.00%) Developer
3 12 (15.00%) Analyst
4 8 (10.00%) Lead
4 8 (10.00%) Senior
5 7 (8.75%) Test Manager
6 6 (7.50%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.50%) Data Scientist
6 6 (7.50%) Test Analyst
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Cognos Developer
8 4 (5.00%) SQL Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.50%) Automation Test Analyst
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Knowledge Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) XGBoost
2 5 (6.25%) PySpark
3 4 (5.00%) RESTful
4 3 (3.75%) Middleware
4 3 (3.75%) Node.js
4 3 (3.75%) pytest
5 2 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.50%) LangChain
5 2 (2.50%) Playwright
5 2 (2.50%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.50%) REST
5 2 (2.50%) XML
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) OAuth
6 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.25%) Pandas
6 1 (1.25%) SOAP
6 1 (1.25%) XSD
6 1 (1.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.50%) Clustering
3 2 (2.50%) CMDB
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.25%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.25%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Linux
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
2 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) Data Modelling
2 25 (31.25%) Data Engineering
2 25 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (30.00%) Analytics
4 23 (28.75%) Business Intelligence
5 21 (26.25%) Data Governance
6 19 (23.75%) Agile
7 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (17.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (17.50%) Validation
10 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
11 12 (15.00%) Data Integration
11 12 (15.00%) Data Science
11 12 (15.00%) Machine Learning
12 11 (13.75%) Actionable Insight
12 11 (13.75%) Test Strategy
13 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 10 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
13 10 (12.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (50.00%) SQL
2 39 (48.75%) Python
3 3 (3.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (3.75%) Java
4 2 (2.50%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.50%) PHP
4 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.50%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) SAS Macro
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) SHACL
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.25%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.50%) Degree
3 6 (7.50%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (23.75%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.25%) IFRS
2 9 (11.25%) QA
3 7 (8.75%) IFRS 17
4 4 (5.00%) GDPR
5 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.50%) CRD IV
5 2 (2.50%) FINREP
6 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.25%) PMO
System Software
1 9 (11.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (3.75%) Terraform
4 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) SCCM
5 1 (1.25%) Control-M
5 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Databricks
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Cognos
4 5 (6.25%) Oracle
4 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.75%) Google
5 3 (3.75%) IBM
6 2 (2.50%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.50%) BMC
6 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.25%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.25%) HubSpot
7 1 (1.25%) Informatica
7 1 (1.25%) Reuters
7 1 (1.25%) Siebel
7 1 (1.25%) SnapLogic