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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 +10
Contract jobs citing ETL 17 23 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.24% 3.16% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 3.41% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 10
10th Percentile £431 £388 £350
25th Percentile £455 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £460 £440
Median % change year-on-year +5.43% +4.55% -7.37%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £492
90th Percentile £550 £598 £613
South West median daily rate £523 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.63% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.18 - -
25th Percentile £22.98 - -
Median hourly rate £24.30 - -
75th Percentile £25.63 - -
90th Percentile £26.42 - -
South West median hourly rate £24.30 £36.00 -
% change year-on-year -32.50% - -

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 1,049 675 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.63% 92.59% 82.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 344 411
10th Percentile £325 £254 £288
25th Percentile £430 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -7.50% -6.54%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £599
90th Percentile £675 £743 £701
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 140 141
10th Percentile £21.27 £12.82 £50.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £65.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -53.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.38 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +4.53%

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 19 September 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 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) GCP
2 6 (35.29%) dbt
3 5 (29.41%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
4 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 4 (23.53%) Vertex AI
5 3 (17.65%) AWS
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Functions
5 3 (17.65%) Cloud Run
6 2 (11.76%) GitHub
6 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.76%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) OCI
7 1 (5.88%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.88%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) BigQuery
1 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 3 (17.65%) Looker
3 3 (17.65%) Tableau
4 1 (5.88%) Big Data
4 1 (5.88%) Metadata
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
2 6 (35.29%) Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) GCP Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) GCP Architect
4 3 (17.65%) BigQuery Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Terraform
2 3 (17.65%) Kafka
3 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) REST
4 1 (5.88%) SOAP
4 1 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (5.88%) Swagger
4 1 (5.88%) Web Services
4 1 (5.88%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Data Modelling
2 11 (64.71%) AI
3 10 (58.82%) Data Engineering
4 9 (52.94%) DevOps
5 8 (47.06%) Validation
6 7 (41.18%) Data Architecture
7 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
8 5 (29.41%) Data Development
8 5 (29.41%) Master Data Management
8 5 (29.41%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (23.53%) Agile
9 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
9 4 (23.53%) Data Integration
9 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (23.53%) Microservices
9 4 (23.53%) Migration
9 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (17.65%) Analytics
10 3 (17.65%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 4 (23.53%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Argo
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.88%) webMethods