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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 39 60
Rank change year-on-year -39 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 9 24 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.66% 3.51% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 3.81% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 10
10th Percentile £416 £381 £350
25th Percentile £422 £417 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £449 £440
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +1.99% -16.19%
75th Percentile £506 £509 £492
90th Percentile £563 £563 £613
South West median daily rate £523 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.63% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.70 -
South West median hourly rate - £57.35 -

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 1,035 630 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.33% 92.24% 82.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 322 411
10th Percentile £325 £250 £288
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £594
90th Percentile £659 £674 £701
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 114 144
10th Percentile £21.30 £12.82 £50.38
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.51 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.58 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +154.15% -63.46% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £74.51 £73.75 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.25 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +147.51% -62.74% +5.23%

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

ETL
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

ETL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 September 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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
2 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Run
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) Vertex AI
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) OCI
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 3 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Looker
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) BigQuery Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (22.22%) GCP Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) PySpark
2 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) SOAP
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Swagger
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Data Fabric
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 3 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 3 (33.33%) Lakehouse
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
4 2 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Argo
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
2 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) webMethods