Big Data Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Big Data
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Big Data skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 74 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing Big Data 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.14% 0.32% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.18% 2.61% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £493 £593
25th Percentile £433 £519 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £575 £663
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% -13.21% +23.26%
75th Percentile £438 £619 £706
90th Percentile - £638 £733
South West median daily rate £450 £668 £659
% change year-on-year -32.58% +1.33% +9.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 85 115 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.66% 12.45% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 72 94
10th Percentile £322 £364 £400
25th Percentile £388 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -3.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £566 £641 £638
90th Percentile £613 £725 £696
South West median daily rate £475 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -8.65% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 4
10th Percentile £60.57 - £52.38
25th Percentile - £17.50 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £20.00 £58.53
Median % change year-on-year +225.00% -65.83% +2.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £85.00 £69.46
90th Percentile £77.75 - £78.57
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +116.67% -60.00% +31.90%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Bristol

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Big Data

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) logstash
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform