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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 63 65
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +31
Contract jobs citing ETL 92 63 73
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.87% 3.25% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 3.60% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 47 59
10th Percentile £319 £355 £355
25th Percentile £393 £406 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £606
90th Percentile £578 £678 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £40.00 - -
25th Percentile £47.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile £74.40 - -
England median hourly rate £59.50 £70.60 £49.50
% change year-on-year -15.72% +42.63% +13.45%

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 2,671 1,750 2,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 83.39% 90.25% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 1,125 1,532
10th Percentile £263 £286 £306
25th Percentile £375 £393 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £591
90th Percentile £653 £665 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 109 246
10th Percentile £20.95 £16.21 £10.95
25th Percentile £25.38 £22.72 £13.36
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £21.56
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% +48.46% -38.41%
75th Percentile £71.91 £60.00 £45.66
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.78 £57.50
England median hourly rate £44.00 £30.45 £35.58
% change year-on-year +44.50% -14.41% -5.13%

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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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -11 67 £450 -4.56% 20
Merseyside -5 15 £395 -18.97% 2
Cheshire -27 7 £463 -19.57% 6
Lancashire -9 1 - - 12
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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 7 (7.61%) SAS
2 6 (6.52%) Confluence
3 4 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.26%) Apache
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.09%) Maximo
2 1 (1.09%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.78%) Azure
2 18 (19.57%) Power Platform
3 15 (16.30%) AWS
4 11 (11.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (9.78%) GCP
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.52%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.43%) Serverless
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (4.35%) dbt
10 3 (3.26%) Copilot Studio
10 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.17%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (2.17%) GitHub
11 2 (2.17%) PaaS
11 2 (2.17%) SaaS
12 1 (1.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.83%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (19.57%) Power BI
2 18 (19.57%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.70%) Tableau
4 7 (7.61%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (6.52%) Metadata
5 6 (6.52%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.35%) DataStage
6 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.26%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.26%) Data Mining
7 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.26%) Power Query
8 2 (2.17%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (2.17%) DB2
8 2 (2.17%) Looker
8 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) JIRA
2 8 (8.70%) Git
3 1 (1.09%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.09%) GitLab
3 1 (1.09%) Hudson
3 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) MLflow
3 1 (1.09%) Postman
3 1 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.09%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.83%) Finance
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.43%) Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Law
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.26%) Retail
7 1 (1.09%) Marketing
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Developer
2 20 (21.74%) Data Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) Analyst
4 11 (11.96%) Senior
5 9 (9.78%) Lead
6 8 (8.70%) Test Manager
7 6 (6.52%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.52%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Test Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Architect
8 5 (5.43%) Data Scientist
9 4 (4.35%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) SQL Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 3 (3.26%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.26%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) RESTful
2 6 (6.52%) PySpark
3 5 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (5.43%) REST
3 5 (5.43%) XGBoost
4 4 (4.35%) .NET
4 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
4 4 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.35%) Pandas
4 4 (4.35%) React
4 4 (4.35%) YAML
5 3 (3.26%) Entity Framework
5 3 (3.26%) Middleware
6 2 (2.17%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.17%) LangChain
6 2 (2.17%) PyTorch
6 2 (2.17%) SOAP
6 2 (2.17%) XML
7 1 (1.09%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.09%) NLTK
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.61%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.43%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.17%) Clustering
6 2 (2.17%) CMDB
6 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) FMCG
7 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.09%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Unix
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (45.65%) Data Modelling
2 28 (30.43%) Analytics
3 25 (27.17%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 22 (23.91%) Data Governance
5 22 (23.91%) Validation
6 20 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
6 20 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (20.65%) Data Integration
7 19 (20.65%) Migration
8 18 (19.57%) Agile
9 17 (18.48%) CI/CD
10 15 (16.30%) Data Migration
10 15 (16.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (15.22%) User Acceptance Testing
12 13 (14.13%) Data Validation
12 13 (14.13%) DevOps
12 13 (14.13%) Test Strategy
13 12 (13.04%) Change Management
13 12 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 54 (58.70%) SQL
2 32 (34.78%) Python
3 5 (5.43%) C#
4 4 (4.35%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.09%) R
7 1 (1.09%) SAS Macro
7 1 (1.09%) SHACL
7 1 (1.09%) SPARQL
7 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.70%) Degree
3 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (32.61%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.13%) QA
3 10 (10.87%) IFRS
4 8 (8.70%) IFRS 17
5 7 (7.61%) GDPR
6 3 (3.26%) GRC
7 2 (2.17%) CRD IV
7 2 (2.17%) FINREP
7 2 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.09%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.09%) PMO
8 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.43%) Terraform
3 2 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.09%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.61%) Databricks
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle
3 6 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.43%) IBM
5 4 (4.35%) SAP
6 3 (3.26%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.26%) Cognos
7 2 (2.17%) BMC
7 2 (2.17%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.17%) Google
7 2 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.17%) Teradata
8 1 (1.09%) Ab Initio
8 1 (1.09%) EXASOL
8 1 (1.09%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.09%) Reuters
8 1 (1.09%) SnapLogic