BigQuery Contracts

Google BigQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 429 498 500
Rank change year-on-year +69 +2 -99
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 155 217 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.36% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.13% 2.00% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 165 290
10th Percentile £399 £367 £452
25th Percentile £452 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £703 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £524 £600
% change year-on-year -4.53% -12.71% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £29.15 £78.75 £25.13
25th Percentile £31.25 £80.63 £25.31
Median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +223.81% -40.54%
75th Percentile £33.75 £88.13 £30.94
90th Percentile £43.65 £89.25 £33.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 - £25.00

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,291 10,869 18,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.71% 18.06% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,183 7,742 12,862
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 181 190
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.00 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -31.73% +67.40% +45.83%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
England +83 140 £535 -7.96% 95
London +55 96 £535 -10.83% 53
Work from Home +93 67 £538 -10.42% 71
UK excluding London +52 38 £500 -4.53% 48
North of England +47 18 £500 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire +27 9 £625 +2.04% 3
North West +25 9 £250 -39.02% 9
South East +6 7 £345 -4.83% 12
Midlands +41 6 £500 - 7
West Midlands +34 5 £500 - 3
Scotland +32 3 £676 +69.06% 4
East of England - 2 £538 - 5
South West +14 1 £550 +37.50% 2
Wales +8 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 4

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.45%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.52%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (3.23%) Apache
5 2 (1.29%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 137 (88.39%) GCP
2 25 (16.13%) GitHub
3 22 (14.19%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.55%) Google Analytics
5 17 (10.97%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 16 (10.32%) Google Compute Engine
7 13 (8.39%) Vertex AI
8 12 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.10%) dbt
10 10 (6.45%) AWS
10 10 (6.45%) Cloud Run
10 10 (6.45%) Snowflake
11 9 (5.81%) Cloud Functions
12 8 (5.16%) Azure
12 8 (5.16%) Google Data Studio
13 6 (3.87%) Adobe Analytics
13 6 (3.87%) Google App Engine
14 4 (2.58%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
15 3 (1.94%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (16.77%) Looker
3 23 (14.84%) Big Data
4 22 (14.19%) Power BI
5 16 (10.32%) Tableau
6 15 (9.68%) Metadata
7 14 (9.03%) Data Lake
7 14 (9.03%) Relational Database
8 10 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (5.81%) NoSQL
10 8 (5.16%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (4.52%) RDBMS
12 6 (3.87%) Spark SQL
13 5 (3.23%) Bigtable
13 5 (3.23%) Hadoop
14 4 (2.58%) Apache Hive
14 4 (2.58%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (1.94%) Geospatial Data
15 3 (1.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (5.16%) Git
2 7 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.23%) Postman
4 3 (1.94%) JIRA
5 2 (1.29%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.29%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.65%) GitLab
General
1 32 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.55%) Finance
3 18 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 15 (9.68%) Retail
5 14 (9.03%) Banking
6 8 (5.16%) Marketing
7 5 (3.23%) Advertising
8 4 (2.58%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.94%) Automotive
9 3 (1.94%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.29%) Billing
10 2 (1.29%) Czech Language
10 2 (1.29%) Legal
10 2 (1.29%) Publishing
11 1 (0.65%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (25.81%) Data Engineer
2 33 (21.29%) Architect
3 28 (18.06%) GCP Engineer
4 23 (14.84%) Analyst
5 18 (11.61%) Senior
6 16 (10.32%) Data Analyst
6 16 (10.32%) Data Architect
6 16 (10.32%) GCP Data Engineer
7 15 (9.68%) GCP Architect
8 9 (5.81%) Data Scientist
9 8 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Developer
9 8 (5.16%) Security Engineer
9 8 (5.16%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.52%) Cloud Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Java Architect
11 6 (3.87%) Java Engineer
11 6 (3.87%) Performance Analyst
12 5 (3.23%) ETL Architect
13 4 (2.58%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.10%) Node.js
2 10 (6.45%) CSS
2 10 (6.45%) HTML
3 7 (4.52%) OAuth
3 7 (4.52%) Spring Boot
4 6 (3.87%) jQuery
4 6 (3.87%) Pandas
4 6 (3.87%) TensorFlow
5 5 (3.23%) .NET
5 5 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.23%) DOM
5 5 (3.23%) JSON
5 5 (3.23%) RESTful
5 5 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 5 (3.23%) Swagger
6 4 (2.58%) Express.js
6 4 (2.58%) Kafka
6 4 (2.58%) PySpark
7 3 (1.94%) HTML5
7 3 (1.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.45%) Management Information System
1 10 (6.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 7 (4.52%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
3 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.58%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.58%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.94%) Equities
5 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.29%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.29%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.65%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.58%) Linux
1 4 (2.58%) Unix
2 3 (1.94%) Windows
3 2 (1.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.55%) Analytics
1 52 (33.55%) Data Modelling
2 43 (27.74%) ETL
3 37 (23.87%) Data Science
4 34 (21.94%) Machine Learning
5 30 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (18.71%) CI/CD
7 28 (18.06%) Data Pipeline
7 28 (18.06%) DevOps
8 27 (17.42%) Data Engineering
9 26 (16.77%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 20 (12.90%) Agile
12 18 (11.61%) Computer Science
13 17 (10.97%) Data Ingestion
13 17 (10.97%) Identity Access Management
13 17 (10.97%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (10.32%) Data Analytics
15 15 (9.68%) Visualisation
16 14 (9.03%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.13%) Python
2 74 (47.74%) SQL
3 24 (15.48%) Java
4 13 (8.39%) Bash
5 12 (7.74%) JavaScript
6 7 (4.52%) Scala
7 6 (3.87%) R
7 6 (3.87%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.94%) C#
8 3 (1.94%) Go
8 3 (1.94%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.29%) Groovy
9 2 (1.29%) LookML
9 2 (1.29%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.29%) U-SQL
9 2 (1.29%) VBA
10 1 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (12.26%) Degree
2 18 (11.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (10.32%) Security Cleared
4 12 (7.74%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.23%) CISSP
6 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.81%) QA
3 2 (1.29%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (27.10%) Terraform
2 21 (13.55%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.16%) Ansible
4 2 (1.29%) Ambari
4 2 (1.29%) Oozie
5 1 (0.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.65%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 88 (56.77%) Google
2 9 (5.81%) Oracle
3 6 (3.87%) Adobe
3 6 (3.87%) Monetate
3 6 (3.87%) Optimizely
4 5 (3.23%) Databricks
4 5 (3.23%) Ensighten
4 5 (3.23%) Omniture
4 5 (3.23%) Tealium
5 4 (2.58%) Informatica
6 3 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.29%) Microsoft
7 2 (1.29%) Splunk
8 1 (0.65%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.65%) Ariba
8 1 (0.65%) Brio
8 1 (0.65%) F5
8 1 (0.65%) New Relic
8 1 (0.65%) Symantec
8 1 (0.65%) webMethods