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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 79 58
Rank change year-on-year -34 -21 +26
Contract jobs citing ETL 69 50 63
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.77% 2.31% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 2.61% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 46
10th Percentile £304 £348 £372
25th Percentile £401 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.71% +0.53%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £585
90th Percentile £600 £600 £603
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.96 - -
Median hourly rate £39.98 - -
75th Percentile £54.38 - -
90th Percentile £63.83 - -
England median hourly rate £33.98 £38.96 £42.50
% change year-on-year -12.80% -8.33% -34.62%

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 3,221 1,916 1,991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 82.57% 88.46% 83.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,843 1,273 1,117
10th Percentile £295 £287 £294
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -7.14% -2.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 132 108
10th Percentile £14.99 £13.54 £16.43
25th Percentile £24.00 £17.30 £29.25
Median hourly rate £46.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.76% -40.84% +28.79%
75th Percentile £71.91 £45.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £67.25 £72.40
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.39%

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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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +1 57 £475 -7.32% 71
Cheshire -14 7 £429 +18.34% 16
Merseyside -19 3 £525 +5.00% 13
Lancashire -19 1 - - 10
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 (13.04%) Confluence
2 3 (4.35%) SAS
2 3 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Apache
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 20 (28.99%) Power Platform
3 14 (20.29%) AWS
4 12 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (14.49%) Serverless
6 9 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (13.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (11.59%) Power Automate
7 8 (11.59%) Snowflake
8 7 (10.14%) GCP
9 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (7.25%) Amazon S3
10 5 (7.25%) Amazon SageMaker
10 5 (7.25%) Azure AKS
10 5 (7.25%) Azure Machine Learning
10 5 (7.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (7.25%) PowerApps
10 5 (7.25%) Vertex AI
11 4 (5.80%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (46.38%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (27.54%) Power BI
3 15 (21.74%) Data Lake
4 10 (14.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (13.04%) BigQuery
6 8 (11.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (11.59%) Metadata
6 8 (11.59%) Relational Database
7 7 (10.14%) DataStage
8 6 (8.70%) Db2
9 5 (7.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
10 4 (5.80%) Power Query
10 4 (5.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (4.35%) Tableau
12 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (2.90%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (4.35%) Git
3 2 (2.90%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) Toad
General
1 29 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (26.09%) Finance
3 16 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (23.19%) Banking
4 8 (11.59%) Manufacturing
5 7 (10.14%) Retail
6 5 (7.25%) Law
6 5 (7.25%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Automotive
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (28.99%) Data Engineer
2 14 (20.29%) Developer
3 8 (11.59%) Analyst
4 6 (8.70%) Senior
5 5 (7.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (7.25%) DataStage Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Data Manager
6 4 (5.80%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.35%) Automation Specialist
7 3 (4.35%) Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
7 3 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.35%) SQL Developer
7 3 (4.35%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.94%) PySpark
2 9 (13.04%) Terraform
3 5 (7.25%) Langfuse
4 2 (2.90%) .NET
4 2 (2.90%) Kafka
5 1 (1.45%) JSON
5 1 (1.45%) Node.js
5 1 (1.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) AI Agents
2 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.80%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.35%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.90%) AS400
5 2 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.90%) iSeries
5 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) NHS
6 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (50.72%) Data Modelling
2 30 (43.48%) Analytics
3 28 (40.58%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
5 21 (30.43%) Data Integration
6 20 (28.99%) AI
6 20 (28.99%) Data Engineering
7 19 (27.54%) Migration
8 17 (24.64%) CI/CD
9 16 (23.19%) Agile
10 15 (21.74%) DevOps
10 15 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (18.84%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (17.39%) Data Migration
12 12 (17.39%) Validation
13 11 (15.94%) Data Governance
14 10 (14.49%) Data Analysis
15 9 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
16 8 (11.59%) Data Reconciliation
Programming Languages
1 58 (84.06%) SQL
2 22 (31.88%) Python
3 8 (11.59%) T-SQL
4 7 (10.14%) Shell Script
5 6 (8.70%) PL/SQL
6 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.90%) C#
7 2 (2.90%) Java
7 2 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) SC Cleared
1 10 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (57.97%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.25%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) GRC
4 2 (2.90%) GDPR
5 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 11 (15.94%) Databricks
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 9 (13.04%) IBM
4 8 (11.59%) Teradata
5 7 (10.14%) Oracle
6 5 (7.25%) OpenAI
7 4 (5.80%) Salesforce
7 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.35%) Alteryx
8 3 (4.35%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.35%) Informatica
8 3 (4.35%) MuleSoft
9 2 (2.90%) DocuSign
10 1 (1.45%) EXASOL
10 1 (1.45%) Google
10 1 (1.45%) Guidewire
10 1 (1.45%) SAP