Target Operating Model Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Target Operating Model (TOM)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Target Operating Model skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - 80
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Target Operating Model 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.64% - 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.95%
75th Percentile £388 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £475 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +3.26% -16.36% -4.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

Target Operating Model 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 715 698 920
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.02% 82.60% 87.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 360 597
10th Percentile £250 £227 £305
25th Percentile £379 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £645
90th Percentile £735 £719 £713
South West median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 122 126
10th Percentile £13.91 £40.80 £29.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £61.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.26 £60.00
% change year-on-year -62.61% +12.10% -5.11%

Target Operating Model
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Target Operating Model relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Target Operating Model job vacancy trend in Bristol

Target Operating Model
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Target Operating Model.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Target Operating Model

Target Operating Model
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 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) SOC Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) System Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) API Design
1 2 (40.00%) API Integration
1 2 (40.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (40.00%) OCR
1 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (40.00%) Security Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 2 (40.00%) SIEM
1 2 (40.00%) Software Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
1 2 (40.00%) Threat Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) Cilium
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat