Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Lakes
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 68 72
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.52% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.42% 1.12% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.21%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £600 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +26.32% -17.39% -8.37%

All Database & BI Skills
Bristol

Data Lake 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 109 89 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.11% 12.11% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 67 63
10th Percentile £381 £323 £365
25th Percentile £421 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £605 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £634 £748
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 10
10th Percentile - £56.13 -
25th Percentile £17.17 - £17.50
Median hourly rate £52.67 £65.00 £23.56
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +175.86% -59.74%
75th Percentile £54.70 - £71.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £78.00 £85.00
South West median hourly rate £41.71 £65.00 £28.56
% change year-on-year -35.83% +127.57% -60.87%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Bristol

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Data Lake
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 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (57.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (57.14%) Azure Storage
2 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) OCI
5 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (14.29%) Military
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Swagger
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Data Fabric
3 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (71.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 5 (71.43%) Architecture Governance
2 5 (71.43%) Cost Optimisation
3 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
3 4 (57.14%) RBAC
4 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
4 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 3 (42.86%) Data Security
4 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
5 2 (28.57%) Lakehouse
5 2 (28.57%) Migration
5 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (28.57%) Technology Roadmap
6 1 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (14.29%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Desktop
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Argo
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) webMethods