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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 52 62
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +21
Contract jobs citing ETL 16 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.90% 1.73% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.92% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 14
10th Percentile £418 £350 £433
25th Percentile £463 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £423 £628
90th Percentile £648 £509 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £59.28 - £78.00

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 723 572 815
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 85.66% 89.94% 84.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 312 506
10th Percentile £273 £213 £281
25th Percentile £403 £355 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £649
90th Percentile £750 £706 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 71 116
10th Percentile £15.92 £35.00 £37.50
25th Percentile £24.74 £58.63 £58.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £67.38
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -3.53% +6.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £80.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £84.02
South West median hourly rate £38.94 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.09% +8.33% -2.44%

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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 11 January 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 5 (31.25%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) 2G
1 3 (18.75%) 5G
1 3 (18.75%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (12.50%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle ODI
2 5 (31.25%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 5 (31.25%) Star Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) MySQL
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) DBeaver
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) ETL Tester
3 3 (18.75%) Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Designer
5 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Design Specialist
5 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) JWT
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
2 1 (6.25%) NumPy
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
2 1 (6.25%) Pandas
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
2 2 (12.50%) NB-IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Analytics
2 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Dimensional Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) ITIL
6 3 (18.75%) Release Management
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 2 (12.50%) DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Network Design
7 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) Kibana
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) BMC
3 2 (12.50%) Remedy
4 1 (6.25%) SAP