Data Strategy Contracts in Bristol

Data Strategy
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 62 91
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 4 12 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 1.14% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.37% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile - £525 £519
25th Percentile £463 £581 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -3.85% +38.67%
75th Percentile £656 £641 £675
90th Percentile £758 £680 £863
South West median daily rate £625 £638 £615
% change year-on-year -1.96% +3.74% +32.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - £66.00
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £26.50 - £66.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Data Strategy 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 493 879 1,117
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 91.81% 83.16% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 484 750
10th Percentile £222 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £567 £602 £631
90th Percentile £657 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 184 220
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £42.51 £45.00 £9.80
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year - +5.69% +36.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.88
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy in Bristol

Data Strategy
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Data Strategy in Bristol

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Strategy in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Strategy in Bristol

Data Strategy
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Matillion
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Development
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (25.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) PLM
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks