ETL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring ETL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 43 62
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing ETL 25 13 15
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.20% 2.46% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 2.67% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 12
10th Percentile £338 £318 £425
25th Percentile £414 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £525 £438 £556
90th Percentile £549 £565 £597
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 £78.70 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% - -
South West median hourly rate £67.35 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -14.43% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 921 487 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 80.93% 92.06% 82.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 295 500
10th Percentile £310 £213 £257
25th Percentile £400 £355 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.49% +2.85%
75th Percentile £555 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 67 155
10th Percentile £17.69 £32.50 £36.25
25th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +1.63%
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -22.76%

ETL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ETL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

ETL job vacancy trend in Bristol

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Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing ETL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing ETL

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Bristol over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Bristol

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing ETL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing ETL

ETL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 (12.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (4.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) 2G
1 3 (12.00%) 5G
1 3 (12.00%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (8.00%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.00%) Delta Lake
2 4 (16.00%) Star Schema
3 3 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (8.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) DBeaver
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Electronics
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Publishing
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Architect
2 4 (16.00%) Data Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) ETL Tester
3 2 (8.00%) Quality Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Senior
3 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Tester
4 1 (4.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Manager
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) NumPy
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) REST
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (12.00%) Replication
2 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) IoT
2 2 (8.00%) NB-IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Analytics
2 12 (48.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (48.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (28.00%) Data Governance
3 7 (28.00%) Migration
3 7 (28.00%) Validation
4 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.00%) Agile
5 5 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 5 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 5 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.00%) Architecture Governance
6 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (16.00%) Data Mapping
6 4 (16.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (16.00%) Data Validation
6 4 (16.00%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (16.00%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) Scala
3 1 (4.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (16.00%) GDPR
2 4 (16.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Ansible
1 2 (8.00%) Grafana
1 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana
2 1 (4.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Databricks
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) BMC
2 2 (8.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.00%) Remedy
3 1 (4.00%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) SAP