ETL Contracts in the North West

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring ETL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ETL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 65 95
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 -29
Contract jobs citing ETL 67 73 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.40% 2.65% 1.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 3.07% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 58 50
10th Percentile £358 £370 £300
25th Percentile £413 £444 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £469
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +12.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £575
90th Percentile £671 £694 £658
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
England median hourly rate £78.70 £49.50 £46.82
% change year-on-year +58.99% +5.74% +4.03%

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 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ETL in the North West.

Daily rate trend for ETL in the North West

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ETL in the North West.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 +14 43 £472 -10.19% 27
Cheshire -5 17 £447 -12.35% 13
Merseyside - 5 £500 - 3
Lancashire +4 2 £500 -16.67% 14
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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 4 (5.97%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.99%) CICS
2 2 (2.99%) SAS
2 2 (2.99%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (13.43%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.31%) Azure
2 18 (26.87%) AWS
3 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
4 9 (13.43%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (13.43%) dbt
5 8 (11.94%) GCP
5 8 (11.94%) Snowflake
6 6 (8.96%) GitHub
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.99%) Serverless
10 1 (1.49%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.49%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (17.91%) Power BI
3 7 (10.45%) MySQL
3 7 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.45%) SQL Server
4 6 (8.96%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (8.96%) Hadoop
4 6 (8.96%) Relational Database
4 6 (8.96%) Tableau
5 5 (7.46%) BigQuery
5 5 (7.46%) NoSQL
6 4 (5.97%) Airbyte
6 4 (5.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (4.48%) Big Data
7 3 (4.48%) Bigtable
7 3 (4.48%) Data Vault
7 3 (4.48%) Looker
7 3 (4.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.99%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) ERwin
2 3 (4.48%) ER Studio
2 3 (4.48%) Git
2 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.48%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.99%) JIRA
3 2 (2.99%) Selenium
3 2 (2.99%) SOAtest
4 1 (1.49%) Flyway
4 1 (1.49%) Liquibase
General
1 40 (59.70%) Social Skills
2 16 (23.88%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.42%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.46%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.46%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.97%) Banking
6 4 (5.97%) Legal
7 2 (2.99%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.99%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Automotive
8 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) Data Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Architect
2 9 (13.43%) Migration Engineer
3 8 (11.94%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Data Migration Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Developer
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Data Migration Expert
8 3 (4.48%) Data Modeller
9 2 (2.99%) AWS Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Data Migration Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Lead
9 2 (2.99%) Migration Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) QA Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) REST
2 5 (7.46%) Kafka
2 5 (7.46%) PySpark
3 4 (5.97%) OAuth
3 4 (5.97%) OAuth2
3 4 (5.97%) OpenID
3 4 (5.97%) SAML
4 2 (2.99%) J2EE
4 2 (2.99%) JSON
4 2 (2.99%) Web Services
4 2 (2.99%) XML
5 1 (1.49%) .NET
5 1 (1.49%) ADO
5 1 (1.49%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.49%) Shiny
5 1 (1.49%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (10.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.99%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.99%) Mobile Payment
3 2 (2.99%) VSAM
4 1 (1.49%) Clustering
4 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.49%) Insider Threat
4 1 (1.49%) IoT
4 1 (1.49%) NHS
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Unix
2 1 (1.49%) Windows
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.28%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (38.81%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (37.31%) Data Modelling
4 22 (32.84%) Migration
5 20 (29.85%) Analytics
6 19 (28.36%) Data Migration
7 13 (19.40%) Data Mapping
7 13 (19.40%) Validation
8 12 (17.91%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (17.91%) Data Engineering
8 12 (17.91%) Visualisation
9 10 (14.93%) CI/CD
9 10 (14.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (13.43%) Agile
10 9 (13.43%) Data Design
10 9 (13.43%) Data Integration
11 8 (11.94%) Containerisation
11 8 (11.94%) Digital Twin
11 8 (11.94%) Knowledge Transfer
11 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (65.67%) SQL
2 19 (28.36%) Python
3 11 (16.42%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.97%) SPARQL
5 2 (2.99%) COBOL
5 2 (2.99%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) JCL
5 2 (2.99%) REXX
6 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.49%) R
6 1 (1.49%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.96%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.49%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.97%) Terraform
3 1 (1.49%) Perfmon
3 1 (1.49%) SCOM
3 1 (1.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) Oracle
2 13 (19.40%) Databricks
3 12 (17.91%) Microsoft
4 8 (11.94%) Informatica
5 6 (8.96%) SAP
5 6 (8.96%) Talend
6 3 (4.48%) Ab Initio
6 3 (4.48%) Google
6 3 (4.48%) IDERA
7 2 (2.99%) Brio
7 2 (2.99%) Parasoft
8 1 (1.49%) Splunk
8 1 (1.49%) VMware