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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 39 55
Rank change year-on-year -31 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing ETL 13 26 15
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.99% 3.81% 1.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 4.15% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 10
10th Percentile £418 £328 £394
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £498
90th Percentile £570 £568 £613
South West median daily rate £523 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.70 -
South West median hourly rate - £78.70 -

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 1,023 627 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 77.68% 91.80% 82.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 326 438
10th Percentile £325 £235 £260
25th Percentile £425 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -10.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £588
90th Percentile £638 £641 £715
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 102 192
10th Percentile £19.33 £13.27 £43.75
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £55.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £67.13 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.38 £79.80
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £25.15 £65.00
% change year-on-year +128.63% -61.31% -

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 1 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ETL in Bristol

ETL
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 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) AWS
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Run
5 1 (7.69%) OCI
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Stackdriver
5 1 (7.69%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 2 (15.38%) BigQuery
2 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Looker
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.69%) Star Schema
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Military
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Data Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (7.69%) Developer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Architect
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Swagger
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
3 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Data Architecture
1 7 (53.85%) Data Governance
1 7 (53.85%) Migration
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Architecture Governance
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
4 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
4 4 (30.77%) Data Validation
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Event-Driven
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
6 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Argo
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Amplitude
2 1 (7.69%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (7.69%) Braze
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.69%) webMethods