BigQuery Contracts in Scotland

Google BigQuery
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for BigQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BigQuery over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 162 155
Rank change year-on-year +34 -7 -
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 3 2 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% 0.070% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.76% 0.33% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £638 - £700
25th Percentile £648 - £738
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £676 £400 £800
Median % change year-on-year +69.06% -50.00% -
75th Percentile £710 - -
90th Percentile £724 - £845
UK median daily rate £531 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -7.74% -4.17% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

BigQuery is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 396 606 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.94% 21.23% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 483 383
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +3.33% +12.94%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £563
90th Percentile £663 £685 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in Scotland

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in Scotland

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +43 3 £676 +69.06% 2
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Flink
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Architect
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Conceptual Models
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google