ETL Job Trends in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring ETL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 135 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 -77 +74
Permanent jobs citing ETL 41 73 185
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.65% 1.45% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.59% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 37 43 110
10th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,693 £71,563
90th Percentile £68,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -7.69%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,155 4,593 3,945
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 81.26% 91.15% 87.61%
Number of salaries quoted 2,531 2,248 3,069
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,114 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ETL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

ETL job vacancy trend in the North West

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Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ETL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing ETL

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Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing ETL in the North West over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for ETL in the North West

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Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ETL within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +9 32 £55,000 -5.58% 18
Cheshire -12 5 £55,000 -6.38% 1
Lancashire +10 2 - - 7
Merseyside -17 1 £45,000 -26.53% 9
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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 3 (7.32%) Apache
1 3 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 6 (14.63%) NEC Housing
2 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (31.71%) Power Platform
2 10 (24.39%) Azure
3 9 (21.95%) SaaS
4 7 (17.07%) AWS
5 4 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (9.76%) GCP
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) Boomi
6 2 (4.88%) Dagster
6 2 (4.88%) iPaaS
6 2 (4.88%) Prefect
6 2 (4.88%) Salesforce Einstein
6 2 (4.88%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.44%) dbt
7 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.44%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (31.71%) Power BI
3 10 (24.39%) Data Lake
4 7 (17.07%) NoSQL
5 6 (14.63%) Relational Database
5 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
6 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 4 (9.76%) Big Data
7 4 (9.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (7.32%) MongoDB
8 3 (7.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (4.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.88%) Data Mart
9 2 (4.88%) DB2
9 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
9 2 (4.88%) Neo4j
10 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.44%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (2.44%) GitLab
1 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.44%) LSMW
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (19.51%) Finance
2 7 (17.07%) Law
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
5 2 (4.88%) Military
5 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.44%) Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) Data Engineer
2 15 (36.59%) Senior
3 10 (24.39%) Analyst
4 9 (21.95%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (14.63%) Applications Support
5 6 (14.63%) Applications Support Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Applications Support
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Applications Support Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Senior Support Analyst
5 6 (14.63%) Support Analyst
6 4 (9.76%) Developer
7 3 (7.32%) Python Data Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Python Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Analyst Developer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) JSON
1 4 (9.76%) REST
1 4 (9.76%) XML
2 2 (4.88%) Web Services
3 1 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) Node.js
3 1 (2.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
1 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
1 2 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Code
2 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Linux
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Data Engineering
2 16 (39.02%) Agile
3 15 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (26.83%) Analytics
4 11 (26.83%) Data Modelling
5 9 (21.95%) Data Integration
5 9 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (19.51%) Data Science
7 7 (17.07%) Clean Code
7 7 (17.07%) Coaching
7 7 (17.07%) ITIL
7 7 (17.07%) Logical Data Model
7 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
7 7 (17.07%) Physical Data Model
7 7 (17.07%) SDLC
8 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
8 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
8 6 (14.63%) Housing Management
8 6 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 33 (80.49%) SQL
2 10 (24.39%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.44%) PHP
5 1 (2.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.32%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.88%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Databricks
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (14.63%) Northgate
4 5 (12.20%) Oracle
5 2 (4.88%) Dell
5 2 (4.88%) Informatica
5 2 (4.88%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 2 (4.88%) SnapLogic
6 1 (2.44%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.44%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.44%) Google