Reference Data Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Reference Data
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 74
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.15% - 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.62% - 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile - - £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £419
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.00%
75th Percentile - - £433
90th Percentile - - £439
South West median daily rate £575 - £419
% change year-on-year - - -33.00%

All Generic Skills
Bristol

Reference Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 325 223 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 24.15% 31.41% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 115 93
10th Percentile £299 £278 £143
25th Percentile £419 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £613
90th Percentile £685 £706 £723
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 43 86
10th Percentile £17.58 £6.00 £56.50
25th Percentile £25.88 £13.46 £67.50
Median hourly rate £53.50 £18.87 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +183.52% -73.04% -16.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.80 £79.00 £75.00
South West median hourly rate £28.07 £23.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +19.45% -66.43% -4.11%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Bristol

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Reference Data
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Architect
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Stewardship
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 2 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google