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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 61 88
Rank change year-on-year -18 +27 -5
Contract jobs citing ETL 83 64 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.89% 3.08% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 3.45% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 44 44
10th Percentile £335 £352 £403
25th Percentile £384 £405 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £465 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.31% -15.41% +4.36%
75th Percentile £473 £575 £694
90th Percentile £578 £649 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
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 £50.50
% change year-on-year +60.92% -15.84% +39.79%

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 2,460 1,854 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.71% 89.13% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,570 1,124 1,575
10th Percentile £220 £277 £306
25th Percentile £361 £390 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £662 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 110 246
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.83 £12.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.61 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +28.46% -32.53%
75th Percentile £63.50 £57.68 £45.88
90th Percentile £76.00 £80.87 £53.97
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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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 5 March 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 5 March 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 -13 55 £450 -3.85% 32
Merseyside -3 18 £400 -5.88% 2
Cheshire -24 7 £463 +4.99% 6
Lancashire -14 2 - - 14
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 8 (9.64%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.23%) SAS
3 4 (4.82%) Apache
3 4 (4.82%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.20%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 28 (33.73%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) AWS
3 16 (19.28%) Power Platform
4 10 (12.05%) GCP
5 8 (9.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (8.43%) Serverless
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
10 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.61%) dbt
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub
10 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.61%) PaaS
10 3 (3.61%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.61%) SaaS
11 2 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.28%) Power BI
2 15 (18.07%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (12.05%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.23%) Data Lake
4 6 (7.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (6.02%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (6.02%) Tableau
6 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (3.61%) Big Data
7 3 (3.61%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.41%) Looker
8 2 (2.41%) Metadata
8 2 (2.41%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.41%) Power Query
8 2 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Git
1 8 (9.64%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) GitLab
2 2 (2.41%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) ClearCase
3 1 (1.20%) MLflow
3 1 (1.20%) Postman
3 1 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.20%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (32.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (20.48%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Law
5 4 (4.82%) Retail
6 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Military
7 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Data Engineer
2 15 (18.07%) Developer
3 13 (15.66%) Analyst
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
5 8 (9.64%) Lead
5 8 (9.64%) Test Manager
6 6 (7.23%) Data Analyst
6 6 (7.23%) Data Scientist
6 6 (7.23%) Test Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.82%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Test Leader
9 3 (3.61%) .NET Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Automation Test Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (2.41%) Knowledge Engineer
10 2 (2.41%) Service Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) PySpark
1 6 (7.23%) RESTful
1 6 (7.23%) XGBoost
2 5 (6.02%) REST
3 4 (4.82%) .NET
3 4 (4.82%) AngularJS
3 4 (4.82%) Pandas
3 4 (4.82%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (4.82%) React
3 4 (4.82%) YAML
4 3 (3.61%) .NET Core
4 3 (3.61%) Middleware
4 3 (3.61%) pytest
5 2 (2.41%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.41%) LangChain
5 2 (2.41%) Node.js
5 2 (2.41%) Playwright
5 2 (2.41%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.41%) SOAP
5 2 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (4.82%) Data Structures
1 4 (4.82%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.41%) Clustering
3 2 (2.41%) CMDB
3 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.41%) Data Fabric
3 2 (2.41%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.20%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
1 1 (1.20%) Unix
1 1 (1.20%) VMS
1 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (39.76%) Data Modelling
2 26 (31.33%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (30.12%) Data Engineering
4 23 (27.71%) Analytics
5 19 (22.89%) Data Governance
6 18 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (20.48%) Agile
7 17 (20.48%) Validation
8 16 (19.28%) Data Integration
9 15 (18.07%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (15.66%) CI/CD
11 13 (15.66%) Decision-Making
11 13 (15.66%) DevOps
11 13 (15.66%) Test Strategy
12 11 (13.25%) Data Validation
13 10 (12.05%) Machine Learning
13 10 (12.05%) Migration
13 10 (12.05%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.60%) SQL
2 39 (46.99%) Python
3 5 (6.02%) C#
4 3 (3.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (3.61%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.20%) PHP
6 1 (1.20%) R
6 1 (1.20%) SAS Macro
6 1 (1.20%) SHACL
6 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.20%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.05%) Degree
1 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.23%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.25%) QA
3 10 (12.05%) IFRS
4 8 (9.64%) IFRS 17
5 4 (4.82%) GDPR
6 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.41%) CRD IV
6 2 (2.41%) FINREP
7 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.20%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.23%) Kubernetes
1 6 (7.23%) Terraform
2 3 (3.61%) Grafana
3 2 (2.41%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.41%) SCCM
4 1 (1.20%) Control-M
4 1 (1.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Databricks
2 5 (6.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.02%) Oracle
2 5 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.61%) Cognos
4 2 (2.41%) BMC
4 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.41%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) IBM
4 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.41%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.20%) Ab Initio
5 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.20%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.20%) Informatica
5 1 (1.20%) Reuters
5 1 (1.20%) SAP
5 1 (1.20%) Siebel
5 1 (1.20%) SnapLogic