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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 45 59
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +8
Contract jobs citing ETL 20 22 17
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 1.47% 2.98% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.22% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 18 11
10th Percentile £435 £394 £350
25th Percentile £450 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £528 £547
90th Percentile £540 £595 £613
South West median daily rate £506 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +6.53% -11.63% -6.52%
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 1,043 684 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 76.86% 92.56% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 344 388
10th Percentile £325 £251 £298
25th Percentile £450 £379 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £590
90th Percentile £675 £734 £714
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 151 138
10th Percentile £21.19 £12.82 £48.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £18.87 £64.06
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 £70.00 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +7.57%

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 26 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 (15.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) GCP
2 8 (40.00%) dbt
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
3 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (25.00%) Vertex AI
4 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Functions
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Run
5 3 (15.00%) AWS
6 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.00%) OCI
7 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (25.00%) Power BI
3 4 (20.00%) Looker
3 4 (20.00%) Tableau
4 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (10.00%) Metadata
6 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) GCP Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) GCP Architect
4 4 (20.00%) BigQuery Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Lead
7 1 (5.00%) Power Apps Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
3 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (5.00%) Swagger
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 13 (65.00%) AI
3 12 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 12 (60.00%) DevOps
4 10 (50.00%) Data Architecture
4 10 (50.00%) Validation
5 7 (35.00%) Data Development
5 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (30.00%) Master Data Management
7 5 (25.00%) Agile
7 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Data Validation
7 5 (25.00%) Migration
7 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (20.00%) Analytics
8 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 4 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) IBM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (5.00%) webMethods