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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 76 58
Rank change year-on-year -23 -18 +19
Contract jobs citing ETL 75 55 68
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.98% 2.49% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 2.81% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 53
10th Percentile £306 £349 £377
25th Percentile £413 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £588
90th Percentile £600 £684 £606
England median daily rate £500 £504 £510
% change year-on-year -0.79% -1.18% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - -
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £58.50 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £52.50 £38.75
% change year-on-year -35.29% +35.48% -42.59%

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 3,134 1,959 2,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.73% 88.72% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,825 1,273 1,207
10th Percentile £276 £282 £309
25th Percentile £400 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% -9.30% -
75th Percentile £599 £575 £588
90th Percentile £676 £665 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 124 170
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £10.95
25th Percentile £24.72 £18.87 £16.06
Median hourly rate £45.25 £27.00 £34.61
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -21.98% -1.13%
75th Percentile £72.73 £53.25 £51.91
90th Percentile £85.00 £74.63 £70.90
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%

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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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -1 64 £488 -7.14% 22
Merseyside -19 5 £425 -15.00% 9
Cheshire -24 3 £475 +30.14% 4
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 9 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Odoo
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.67%) Azure
2 19 (25.33%) Power Platform
3 15 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (14.67%) AWS
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (12.00%) Serverless
6 8 (10.67%) Power Automate
6 8 (10.67%) Snowflake
7 6 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 5 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 5 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (6.67%) GCP
8 5 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 5 (6.67%) Vertex AI
9 4 (5.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.33%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (5.33%) dbt
9 4 (5.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.67%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (25.33%) Power BI
3 15 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 15 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (14.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (10.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (8.00%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (6.67%) DataStage
7 5 (6.67%) Metadata
8 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (5.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (5.33%) Db2
8 4 (5.33%) Power Query
8 4 (5.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (4.00%) Tableau
10 2 (2.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) JIRA
2 7 (9.33%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.33%) Hudson
4 1 (1.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (1.33%) Toad
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.33%) Finance
3 15 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (17.33%) Banking
5 8 (10.67%) Manufacturing
5 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
6 7 (9.33%) Retail
7 4 (5.33%) Law
8 2 (2.67%) Legal
8 2 (2.67%) Military
9 1 (1.33%) Automotive
9 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Data Engineer
2 19 (25.33%) Developer
3 10 (13.33%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Analyst
5 5 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (6.67%) Lead
5 5 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 5 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.33%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.33%) DataStage Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Senior .NET Developer
6 4 (5.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Data Manager
7 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse Analyst
7 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) PySpark
2 6 (8.00%) .NET
3 5 (6.67%) Langfuse
4 4 (5.33%) .NET Core
4 4 (5.33%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.33%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.33%) React
4 4 (5.33%) RESTful
4 4 (5.33%) YAML
5 3 (4.00%) Entity Framework
5 3 (4.00%) Kafka
5 3 (4.00%) Pandas
5 3 (4.00%) REST
6 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.67%) Node.js
7 1 (1.33%) JSON
7 1 (1.33%) Spring
7 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) AI Agents
1 7 (9.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.00%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.67%) AS400
5 2 (2.67%) iSeries
5 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) FMCG
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Unix
2 1 (1.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Data Modelling
2 31 (41.33%) Business Intelligence
3 30 (40.00%) Analytics
4 25 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 24 (32.00%) Migration
6 23 (30.67%) CI/CD
7 22 (29.33%) Data Integration
8 18 (24.00%) Agile
8 18 (24.00%) Data Migration
8 18 (24.00%) DevOps
9 15 (20.00%) AI
9 15 (20.00%) Data Engineering
9 15 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (17.33%) Data Analysis
10 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
11 12 (16.00%) Validation
12 10 (13.33%) ETL Development
13 9 (12.00%) Visualisation
14 8 (10.67%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 59 (78.67%) SQL
2 19 (25.33%) Python
3 8 (10.67%) T-SQL
4 6 (8.00%) C#
5 5 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.33%) Shell Script
7 3 (4.00%) Java
8 2 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (49.33%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.00%) QA
3 4 (5.33%) GDPR
3 4 (5.33%) GRC
4 3 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (13.33%) Terraform
2 3 (4.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) Databricks
3 7 (9.33%) IBM
4 6 (8.00%) Teradata
5 5 (6.67%) OpenAI
5 5 (6.67%) Oracle
5 5 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
6 4 (5.33%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.33%) SAP
7 3 (4.00%) Alteryx
7 3 (4.00%) MuleSoft
8 2 (2.67%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.67%) Informatica
9 1 (1.33%) EXASOL
9 1 (1.33%) Guidewire