Data Architecture Contracts in Bristol

Data Architecture
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Data Architecture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Architecture over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 65 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 +21 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Architecture 6 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.06% 1.23% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.48% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 9
10th Percentile £510 £480 £553
25th Percentile £525 £500 £711
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £740
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -29.05% +40.95%
75th Percentile £715 £575 £775
90th Percentile £781 £645 £840
South West median daily rate £555 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +0.91% -15.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £78.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £78.70 - £76.71
% change year-on-year - - -13.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Data Architecture 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 522 879 1,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.39% 82.92% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 482 726
10th Percentile £230 £251 £300
25th Percentile £361 £364 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £571 £600 £638
90th Percentile £662 £687 £719
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 192 212
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £32.50 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.13 £60.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +8.85% +35.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £80.23
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +23.10%

Data Architecture
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Architecture in Bristol

Data Architecture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Architecture in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Data Architecture in Bristol

Data Architecture
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Architecture in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Architecture in Bristol

Data Architecture
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 2 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (33.33%) Data Design
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Management
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) logstash
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft