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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 35 68
Rank change year-on-year -30 +33 +2
Contract jobs citing ETL 20 23 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.56% 4.01% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 4.35% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 12
10th Percentile £288 £328 £425
25th Percentile £414 £400 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £438 £506
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% -13.58% +6.58%
75th Percentile £525 £484 £550
90th Percentile £534 £538 £606
South West median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +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 1,009 529 871
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 78.64% 92.16% 82.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 305 486
10th Percentile £344 £235 £253
25th Percentile £413 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £600
90th Percentile £645 £661 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 79 193
10th Percentile £19.33 £18.51 £40.00
25th Percentile £53.53 £23.73 £45.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £67.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.06% +12.08%
75th Percentile £68.00 £68.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £53.84 £55.00
% change year-on-year +6.81% -2.12% -8.33%

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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 22 May 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 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (5.00%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (5.00%) Big Data
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) GitLab
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Finance
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
2 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (5.00%) GCP Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) PySpark
3 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Data Modelling
2 11 (55.00%) Analytics
3 10 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (40.00%) Data Governance
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
6 6 (30.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (30.00%) Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
7 4 (20.00%) Data Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (20.00%) Data Mapping
7 4 (20.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (20.00%) Data Privacy
7 4 (20.00%) Data Transformation
7 4 (20.00%) Data Validation
7 4 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
7 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (15.00%) Agile
8 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.00%) Scala
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Kibana
2 1 (5.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Databricks
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Amplitude
3 1 (5.00%) Braze
3 1 (5.00%) Google