Data Development Contract Job Trends in the South West

Data Development
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Data Development 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 124 125 153
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Development 1 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.050% 0.36% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.43% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £445 -
25th Percentile £525 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £638 -
90th Percentile - £678 -
England median daily rate £500 £580 £613
% change year-on-year -13.79% -5.31% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Data Development 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,819 2,078 2,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.23% 84.13% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,200 1,911
10th Percentile £213 £310 £310
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 188 282
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.70 £20.61
25th Percentile £18.87 £41.88 £47.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.26 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.61% +12.10% -5.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -39.40% -7.78% +28.77%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Data Development job vacancy trend in the South West

Data Development
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Data Development

Data Development
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the South West region over the 6 months to 19 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -2 1 £550 +22.22% 1
Data Development
England

Data Development
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP