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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 52 87
Rank change year-on-year -30 +35 -20
Contract jobs citing ETL 48 69 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.24% 2.91% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 3.49% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 51 49
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £363 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £549 £588 £538
90th Percentile £593 £606 £628
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +1.89%

All Process and 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 1,901 1,978 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.75% 83.46% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 1,161 1,686
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £552 £588 £595
90th Percentile £657 £688 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 106 164
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.68 £15.83
25th Percentile £17.34 £28.75 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +59.09%
75th Percentile £48.94 £57.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.68 £70.90 £66.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ETL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ETL 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 15 September 2025.

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 15 September 2025. 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 -22 21 £500 +10.50% 29
Cheshire -20 19 £365 -37.61% 16
Merseyside +8 6 £488 +9.55% 7
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Apache
1 3 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 3 (6.25%) SAS
2 2 (4.17%) CICS
2 2 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (2.08%) SAP HR
2 1 (2.08%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.83%) Azure
1 10 (20.83%) GCP
2 9 (18.75%) IaaS
2 9 (18.75%) OpenShift
2 9 (18.75%) PaaS
2 9 (18.75%) SaaS
3 8 (16.67%) AWS
4 7 (14.58%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (18.75%) Relational Database
3 7 (14.58%) BigQuery
3 7 (14.58%) Power BI
4 5 (10.42%) Big Data
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 4 (8.33%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.25%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Cognos Report Studio
7 2 (4.17%) Cognos Transformer
7 2 (4.17%) DB2
7 2 (4.17%) Metadata
7 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.17%) OLAP
7 2 (4.17%) OLAP Cube
7 2 (4.17%) Power Query
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.17%) Selenium
2 2 (4.17%) SOAtest
3 1 (2.08%) ERwin
3 1 (2.08%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 18 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 11 (22.92%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (10.42%) Legal
5 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.25%) Automotive
7 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
8 2 (4.17%) Banking
8 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
8 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) Lead
2 7 (14.58%) Architect
2 7 (14.58%) Developer
3 6 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Data Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Data Migration Expert
5 4 (8.33%) GCP Architect
5 4 (8.33%) GCP Data Architect
6 3 (6.25%) BigQuery Architect
6 3 (6.25%) Cognos Developer
6 3 (6.25%) Consultant
6 3 (6.25%) ETL Architect
7 2 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Migration Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Test Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 9 (18.75%) Node.js
2 4 (8.33%) PySpark
3 3 (6.25%) pytest
4 2 (4.17%) J2EE
4 2 (4.17%) JSON
4 2 (4.17%) Kafka
4 2 (4.17%) Playwright
4 2 (4.17%) Web Services
4 2 (4.17%) XML
5 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (2.08%) XGBoost
5 1 (2.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.17%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.17%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (4.17%) VSAM
4 1 (2.08%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Linux
1 9 (18.75%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) Migration
2 14 (29.17%) Data Engineering
3 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (22.92%) Data Governance
6 10 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (20.83%) Data Migration
7 9 (18.75%) Agile
7 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.75%) Observability
8 8 (16.67%) Analytics
8 8 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 7 (14.58%) Data Design
9 7 (14.58%) Data Integration
9 7 (14.58%) Information Architecture
10 6 (12.50%) Data Architecture
10 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
10 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (10.42%) Data Science
11 5 (10.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 17 (35.42%) SQL
3 9 (18.75%) PHP
4 3 (6.25%) Scala
5 2 (4.17%) COBOL
5 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.17%) Java
5 2 (4.17%) JCL
5 2 (4.17%) REXX
6 1 (2.08%) Korn
6 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.08%) MCSA
5 1 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (22.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Grafana
3 1 (2.08%) Control-M
3 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) AppDynamics
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.75%) SAP
3 7 (14.58%) Google
4 5 (10.42%) Databricks
5 4 (8.33%) Cognos
5 4 (8.33%) Hitachi
6 3 (6.25%) Informatica
7 2 (4.17%) Ab Initio
7 2 (4.17%) Parasoft
8 1 (2.08%) IBM
8 1 (2.08%) Talend