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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 79 53
Rank change year-on-year -30 -26 +35
Contract jobs citing ETL 73 48 68
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.83% 2.21% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.49% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 39 50
10th Percentile £304 £348 £374
25th Percentile £400 £359 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -1.55% +1.58%
75th Percentile £550 £549 £588
90th Percentile £600 £593 £617
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £59.38 - -
90th Percentile £67.31 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £43.50 £46.50
% change year-on-year -21.90% -6.45% -32.12%

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 3,315 1,927 1,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.06% 88.64% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,951 1,262 1,167
10th Percentile £297 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £499
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.82% -0.20%
75th Percentile £594 £553 £588
90th Percentile £676 £662 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 127 112
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.51 £16.54
25th Percentile £24.59 £17.41 £26.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.63% +15.21%
75th Percentile £73.25 £52.50 £56.21
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.00 £70.90
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +5 61 £470 -6.00% 26
Cheshire -22 6 £452 +25.56% 3
Merseyside -16 3 £525 +5.00% 5
Lancashire -13 1 - - 6
Cumbria - 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 10 (13.70%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) SAS
2 3 (4.11%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 29 (39.73%) Azure
2 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
3 16 (21.92%) AWS
4 11 (15.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (15.07%) Serverless
5 9 (12.33%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (12.33%) Power Automate
6 8 (10.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (10.96%) Snowflake
7 7 (9.59%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (6.85%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (6.85%) Azure AKS
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (6.85%) Copilot Studio
8 5 (6.85%) GCP
8 5 (6.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (6.85%) PowerApps
8 5 (6.85%) Vertex AI
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (43.84%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (27.40%) Power BI
3 15 (20.55%) Data Lake
4 11 (15.07%) SQL Server
5 10 (13.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (12.33%) Relational Database
7 8 (10.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (9.59%) DataStage
9 6 (8.22%) BigQuery
9 6 (8.22%) Db2
9 6 (8.22%) Metadata
10 5 (6.85%) Power Query
11 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (4.11%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (4.11%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (4.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (4.11%) Tableau
13 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 4 (5.48%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.37%) GitLab
4 1 (1.37%) Hudson
4 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.37%) Toad
General
1 31 (42.47%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.03%) Finance
3 18 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (20.55%) Banking
5 8 (10.96%) Manufacturing
6 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.59%) Retail
7 4 (5.48%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Automotive
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Marketing
8 1 (1.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Data Engineer
1 18 (24.66%) Developer
2 8 (10.96%) Analyst
2 8 (10.96%) Senior
3 5 (6.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (6.85%) DataStage Developer
3 5 (6.85%) Power BI Developer
4 4 (5.48%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (4.11%) Automation Specialist
5 3 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 3 (4.11%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
5 3 (4.11%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Data Manager
5 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
5 3 (4.11%) Lead
5 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) PySpark
2 10 (13.70%) Terraform
3 5 (6.85%) Langfuse
4 3 (4.11%) .NET
4 3 (4.11%) Kafka
5 2 (2.74%) Node.js
5 2 (2.74%) RESTful
6 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.37%) Entity Framework
6 1 (1.37%) JSON
6 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.37%) React
6 1 (1.37%) Spring
6 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) AI Agents
2 6 (8.22%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.74%) AS400
5 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.74%) iSeries
6 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.37%) FMCG
6 1 (1.37%) NHS
6 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.59%) Unix
2 1 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.68%) Data Modelling
2 31 (42.47%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (39.73%) Analytics
4 26 (35.62%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (31.51%) Data Integration
5 23 (31.51%) Migration
6 21 (28.77%) CI/CD
7 19 (26.03%) Agile
7 19 (26.03%) AI
8 17 (23.29%) Data Engineering
8 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (21.92%) Data Migration
9 16 (21.92%) DevOps
10 15 (20.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (20.55%) Validation
11 13 (17.81%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (15.07%) Data Analysis
13 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (12.33%) Data Reconciliation
15 8 (10.96%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 59 (80.82%) SQL
2 20 (27.40%) Python
3 8 (10.96%) T-SQL
4 7 (9.59%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.22%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (4.11%) C#
7 3 (4.11%) Java
8 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.37%) Degree
4 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (56.16%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.59%) QA
3 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 4 (5.48%) GRC
4 3 (4.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.07%) Databricks
3 9 (12.33%) IBM
4 8 (10.96%) Oracle
4 8 (10.96%) Teradata
5 5 (6.85%) OpenAI
5 5 (6.85%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.48%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.48%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.48%) SAP
7 3 (4.11%) Alteryx
7 3 (4.11%) Informatica
7 3 (4.11%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.74%) DocuSign
9 1 (1.37%) EXASOL
9 1 (1.37%) Guidewire