Synthetic Data Contract Job Trends in the South West

Synthetic Data
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Synthetic Data in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Synthetic Data over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Synthetic Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.045% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
England median daily rate £550 - £625
% change year-on-year - - +38.89%

All Generic Skills
South West

Synthetic 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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 704 663 915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 31.90% 27.39% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 375 642
10th Percentile £213 £213 £250
25th Percentile £369 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £639 £672 £660
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
England median daily rate £520 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -4.15% -1.36% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 54 60
10th Percentile £6.00 £14.77 £15.16
25th Percentile £15.48 £35.31 £30.16
Median hourly rate £23.50 £70.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.43% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £83.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £46.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.37% +3.78% +50.85%

Synthetic Data
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 Synthetic Data within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Gloucestershire - 1 £550 -
Synthetic Data
England

Synthetic Data
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Edge Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree