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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 60 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 +23 -7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ETL 48 67 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.15% 2.75% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 3.27% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 51 50
10th Percentile £348 £376 £361
25th Percentile £361 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.11% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £563
90th Percentile £628 £606 £637
England median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,978 2,047 2,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.70% 83.96% 88.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,283 1,224 1,742
10th Percentile £300 £310 £288
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £669 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 147 163
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% +1.03% +60.70%
75th Percentile £52.50 £53.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.90 £64.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +54.55%

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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 27 August 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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DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire -17 21 £360 -38.46% 12
Manchester -26 20 £525 +16.02% 41
Merseyside +6 5 £500 +12.36% 5
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 30
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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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) Apache
2 3 (6.25%) SAS
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.17%) CICS
3 2 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.08%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.08%) SAP HR
2 1 (2.08%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 10 (20.83%) GCP
3 9 (18.75%) IaaS
3 9 (18.75%) OpenShift
3 9 (18.75%) PaaS
3 9 (18.75%) SaaS
4 7 (14.58%) 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%) 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%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.08%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (2.08%) OCI
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%) Hadoop
5 4 (8.33%) Big Data
5 4 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.33%) Delta Lake
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
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%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.17%) Tableau
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
General
1 17 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Finance
3 12 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (10.42%) Legal
5 5 (10.42%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.25%) Automotive
6 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
7 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Developer
1 9 (18.75%) Lead
2 7 (14.58%) Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Data Architect
3 5 (10.42%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Data Migration Expert
4 4 (8.33%) GCP Architect
4 4 (8.33%) GCP Data Architect
5 3 (6.25%) BigQuery Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Cognos Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Consultant
5 3 (6.25%) ETL Architect
6 2 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Migration Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) AngularJS
1 9 (18.75%) Node.js
2 5 (10.42%) PySpark
3 2 (4.17%) J2EE
3 2 (4.17%) JSON
3 2 (4.17%) Kafka
3 2 (4.17%) Web Services
3 2 (4.17%) XML
4 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.08%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) 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 18 (37.50%) Migration
2 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (27.08%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 12 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 11 (22.92%) Data Governance
6 10 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (18.75%) Containerisation
7 9 (18.75%) Observability
8 8 (16.67%) Analytics
8 8 (16.67%) Data Integration
9 7 (14.58%) Data Design
9 7 (14.58%) Data Modelling
9 7 (14.58%) Information Architecture
10 6 (12.50%) Agile
10 6 (12.50%) Data Architecture
11 5 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (10.42%) Data Science
11 5 (10.42%) Project Management
11 5 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) Python
1 19 (39.58%) SQL
2 9 (18.75%) PHP
3 3 (6.25%) Scala
4 2 (4.17%) COBOL
4 2 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (4.17%) JCL
4 2 (4.17%) REXX
5 1 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.08%) Korn
5 1 (2.08%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.08%) MCSA
4 1 (2.08%) MCSE
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.58%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 9 (18.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Oracle
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 9 (18.75%) AppDynamics
3 9 (18.75%) SAP
4 7 (14.58%) Google
5 5 (10.42%) Databricks
6 4 (8.33%) Cognos
6 4 (8.33%) Hitachi
7 3 (6.25%) Ab Initio
7 3 (6.25%) Informatica
8 2 (4.17%) Parasoft
9 1 (2.08%) IBM
9 1 (2.08%) Talend