Data Modelling Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Data Modelling
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Data Modelling skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 25 14 22
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 2.63% 2.34% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 2.61% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 14
10th Percentile £306 £428 £450
25th Percentile £441 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -24.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £634 £720
90th Percentile £780 £690 £738
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +5.00% -20.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £79.00 £27.13 -
Median % change year-on-year +191.24% - -
South West median hourly rate £79.00 £27.13 -
% change year-on-year +191.24% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bristol

Data Modelling 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 797 536 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 83.89% 89.63% 83.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 297 527
10th Percentile £325 £207 £300
25th Percentile £403 £351 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £643
90th Percentile £744 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £543
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 62 142
10th Percentile £17.69 £31.40 £33.20
25th Percentile £33.50 £57.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile - £68.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £51.21 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.22% +18.18% -10.57%

Data Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Data Modelling job vacancy trend in Bristol

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Modelling in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Modelling in Bristol

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Modelling.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Data Modelling

Data Modelling
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 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) GitHub
6 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.00%) Delta Lake
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.00%) ClickHouse
5 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) Metadata
5 1 (4.00%) MySQL
5 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Power BI Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Architect
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.00%) CSS
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) CMDB
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) IoT
3 1 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) ETL
3 7 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (24.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (20.00%) Data Transformation
5 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (16.00%) Agile
6 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (16.00%) Data Privacy
6 4 (16.00%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (12.00%) Data Science
7 3 (12.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) SQL
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
2 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) logstash
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.00%) Planview