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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 37 70
Rank change year-on-year -26 +33 -1
Contract jobs citing ETL 21 25 12
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.59% 4.13% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 4.46% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 11
10th Percentile £288 £331 £425
25th Percentile £414 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £431 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.46% -11.54% +2.63%
75th Percentile £525 £482 £550
90th Percentile £534 £538 £613
South West median daily rate £525 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.70 -
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £78.70 -
% change year-on-year -34.93% - -

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 1,032 560 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.24% 92.56% 80.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 300 488
10th Percentile £350 £213 £258
25th Percentile £413 £357 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £592
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 82 203
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £18.87 £48.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% +27.27%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.25 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%

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 13 June 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

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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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (19.05%) GitHub
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (4.76%) OCI
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
7 1 (4.76%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 4 (19.05%) Delta Lake
3 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.76%) Big Data
5 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) GitLab
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Legal
2 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) PySpark
2 2 (9.52%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) Spring
3 1 (4.76%) Swagger
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
3 1 (4.76%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Data Fabric
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
2 10 (47.62%) Analytics
2 10 (47.62%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (38.10%) Data Governance
3 8 (38.10%) Migration
4 7 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 6 (28.57%) Validation
6 5 (23.81%) Architecture Governance
6 5 (23.81%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (19.05%) Agile
7 4 (19.05%) Data Engineering
7 4 (19.05%) Data Mapping
7 4 (19.05%) Data Migration
7 4 (19.05%) Data Privacy
7 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
7 4 (19.05%) Data Validation
7 4 (19.05%) Microservices
7 4 (19.05%) Re-Platforming
7 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) SC Cleared
1 8 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Argo
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Databricks
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Amplitude
3 1 (4.76%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (4.76%) Braze
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) webMethods