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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 22 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.75% 1.52% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 1.82% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 12
10th Percentile £434 £350 £414
25th Percentile £463 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £545
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -26.61% +3.81%
75th Percentile £575 £423 £650
90th Percentile £633 £509 £688
South West median daily rate £520 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -9.57% +9.52% -4.02%

All Process and 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 712 658 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 88.89% 83.40% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 362 578
10th Percentile £224 £225 £300
25th Percentile £384 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £645
90th Percentile £727 £749 £700
South West median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 86 122
10th Percentile £15.18 £35.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £50.63
Median hourly rate £36.22 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.34% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.25 £76.25
90th Percentile £72.63 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -61.31% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 November 2025.

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 7 (31.82%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Snowflake
3 7 (31.82%) Power Platform
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 2 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) 2G
1 3 (13.64%) 5G
1 3 (13.64%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (9.09%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (31.82%) Oracle ODI
3 7 (31.82%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (31.82%) Power BI
3 7 (31.82%) Star Schema
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) DBeaver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) ETL Tester
3 3 (13.64%) Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Designer
5 1 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Design Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Network Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (9.09%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.55%) JWT
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) NumPy
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) IoT
2 2 (9.09%) NB-IoT
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Analytics
2 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 9 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (31.82%) Dimensional Modelling
4 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Change Management
6 3 (13.64%) Data Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.64%) Data Integration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) Release Management
7 2 (9.09%) AI
7 2 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (9.09%) Network Design
7 2 (9.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Databricks
4 2 (9.09%) BMC
4 2 (9.09%) Guidewire
4 2 (9.09%) Remedy
5 1 (4.55%) SAP