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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 47 61
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing ETL 12 25 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.89% 3.49% 1.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 3.77% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 10
10th Percentile £416 £388 £350
25th Percentile £422 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £460 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -16.19%
75th Percentile £506 £538 £492
90th Percentile £563 £598 £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 1,033 664 758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.29% 92.61% 82.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 341 410
10th Percentile £325 £253 £292
25th Percentile £426 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £663 £695 £702
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 266 126 143
10th Percentile £21.29 £12.82 £48.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.60 £64.38
Median hourly rate £65.00 £31.13 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.84% -55.54% +7.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £73.75 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +3.85%

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 12 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (8.33%) Confluence
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
4 3 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (25.00%) dbt
4 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (25.00%) Vertex AI
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Run
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub
5 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (8.33%) OCI
6 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Looker
3 2 (16.67%) Tableau
4 1 (8.33%) Big Data
4 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
4 1 (8.33%) Metadata
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (8.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) BigQuery Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Developer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
3 2 (16.67%) PySpark
3 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js
4 1 (8.33%) REST
4 1 (8.33%) SOAP
4 1 (8.33%) Spring
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
4 1 (8.33%) Web Services
4 1 (8.33%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (58.33%) AI
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 6 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Analytics
5 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 4 (33.33%) Lakehouse
5 4 (33.33%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (25.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (25.00%) Migration
6 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) webMethods