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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 51 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing ETL 27 11 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.68% 1.90% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.22% 2.11% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 6 12
10th Percentile £375 £350 £428
25th Percentile £418 £363 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £538
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £525 £541 £556
90th Percentile £575 £619 £597
South West median daily rate £525 £613 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +36.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £67.35 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +56.00%

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 839 521 865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.40% 90.14% 83.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 288 505
10th Percentile £325 £204 £280
25th Percentile £405 £348 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £688 £695
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £530
% change year-on-year - -0.94% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 65 145
10th Percentile £17.69 £35.00 £36.25
25th Percentile £39.50 £61.25 £49.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +0.81%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.66 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £51.14
% change year-on-year -11.54% +27.11% -16.85%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ETL in Bristol over the 6 months to 18 February 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 4 (14.81%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) Power Platform
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.41%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) 2G
1 3 (11.11%) 5G
1 3 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (7.41%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) Power BI
2 5 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) Star Schema
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle ODI
3 4 (14.81%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (11.11%) Delta Lake
5 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.70%) MySQL
6 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) DBeaver
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
3 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Data Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Quality Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 3 (11.11%) ETL Tester
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Tester
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Power BI Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.70%) JWT
2 1 (3.70%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Node.js
2 1 (3.70%) NumPy
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth
2 1 (3.70%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.70%) Pandas
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) IoT
3 2 (7.41%) NB-IoT
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Analytics
2 14 (51.85%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (37.04%) Data Modelling
4 7 (25.93%) Agile
4 7 (25.93%) CI/CD
4 7 (25.93%) Migration
5 6 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 6 (22.22%) Dimensional Modelling
5 6 (22.22%) Validation
6 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
6 5 (18.52%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (18.52%) Data Privacy
7 4 (14.81%) Data Architecture
7 4 (14.81%) Data Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Re-Platforming
7 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 3 (11.11%) Change Management
8 3 (11.11%) ITIL
8 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Java
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) Scala
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 5 (18.52%) GDPR
3 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Grafana
2 1 (3.70%) Kibana
2 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) logstash
2 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Databricks
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) BMC
3 2 (7.41%) Remedy
4 1 (3.70%) Amplitude
4 1 (3.70%) SAP