BigQuery Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 384 378
Rank change year-on-year +106 -6 -67
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 70 92 254
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.42% 1.89% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 57 170
10th Percentile £368 £417 £417
25th Percentile £400 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £645 £700 £800
90th Percentile £708 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £528 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -11.16% -1.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £78.75 £25.13
25th Percentile £46.75 £80.63 £25.31
Median hourly rate £48.50 £85.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -42.94% +223.81% -
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.13 £30.94
90th Percentile - £89.25 £33.38
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £25.63
% change year-on-year -61.76% +231.71% +2.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,896 4,858 9,680
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.11% 19.02% 21.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,131 3,542 7,032
10th Percentile £355 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £732
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 84
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £21.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +39.28% +55.57%
75th Percentile £61.50 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £70.25 £85.00 £67.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £43.38
% change year-on-year -32.54% +36.70% +62.27%

BigQuery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BigQuery.

BigQuery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

BigQuery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BigQuery.

BigQuery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (12.86%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.86%) Apache
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.43%) Confluence
4 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 58 (82.86%) GCP
2 19 (27.14%) Power Platform
3 16 (22.86%) Google Analytics
4 8 (11.43%) dbt
4 8 (11.43%) GitHub
5 7 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (5.71%) Google App Engine
7 4 (5.71%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.29%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (4.29%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Azure
9 2 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (2.86%) CloudBees
9 2 (2.86%) npm
9 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 2 (2.86%) Serverless
10 1 (1.43%) AWS
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (41.43%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (27.14%) Power BI
3 18 (25.71%) Looker
4 12 (17.14%) Tableau
5 10 (14.29%) Data Lake
6 6 (8.57%) Big Data
6 6 (8.57%) Metadata
7 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.29%) Bigtable
8 3 (4.29%) Cloud Spanner
8 3 (4.29%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.86%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.43%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.43%) MySQL
10 1 (1.43%) Redis
10 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Postman
2 3 (4.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.29%) JIRA
3 2 (2.86%) Git
General
1 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
1 9 (12.86%) Retail
2 8 (11.43%) Finance
2 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Marketing
4 5 (7.14%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Advertising
6 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Billing
7 2 (2.86%) Czech Language
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Publishing
8 1 (1.43%) Multimedia
8 1 (1.43%) Tech for Good
8 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 16 (22.86%) Analyst
3 11 (15.71%) GCP Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Architect
5 9 (12.86%) Data Analyst
5 9 (12.86%) GCP Data Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Data Architect
6 8 (11.43%) Senior
7 4 (5.71%) Developer
7 4 (5.71%) ETL Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Big Data Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.29%) Lead
8 3 (4.29%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (2.86%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) GCP Architect
9 2 (2.86%) GCP Data Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.86%) Node.js
2 8 (11.43%) CSS
2 8 (11.43%) HTML
3 5 (7.14%) jQuery
4 4 (5.71%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.71%) DOM
4 4 (5.71%) JSON
4 4 (5.71%) RESTful
4 4 (5.71%) Swagger
5 3 (4.29%) .NET
5 3 (4.29%) Express.js
6 2 (2.86%) CSS3
6 2 (2.86%) HTML5
6 2 (2.86%) REST
6 2 (2.86%) RxJS
7 1 (1.43%) PySpark
7 1 (1.43%) React
7 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.43%) Vue
7 1 (1.43%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.71%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (4.29%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.86%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Windows
1 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (37.14%) ETL
2 23 (32.86%) Analytics
3 21 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (27.14%) Data Modelling
5 17 (24.29%) Agile
6 16 (22.86%) Data Engineering
7 15 (21.43%) CI/CD
7 15 (21.43%) DevOps
8 12 (17.14%) Data Science
8 12 (17.14%) Migration
9 11 (15.71%) Data Ingestion
9 11 (15.71%) Data Pipeline
10 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
10 9 (12.86%) Visualisation
11 8 (11.43%) Data Munging
11 8 (11.43%) Decision-Making
12 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
13 6 (8.57%) Data Analytics
13 6 (8.57%) Data Visualisation
13 6 (8.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 40 (57.14%) SQL
2 35 (50.00%) Python
3 10 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.43%) Java
5 5 (7.14%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.71%) R
7 3 (4.29%) Scala
8 2 (2.86%) C#
8 2 (2.86%) Groovy
8 2 (2.86%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.43%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.29%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.43%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.57%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.71%) Terraform
2 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 41 (58.57%) Google
2 5 (7.14%) Adobe
2 5 (7.14%) Monetate
2 5 (7.14%) Optimizely
3 4 (5.71%) Ensighten
3 4 (5.71%) Omniture
3 4 (5.71%) Tealium
4 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.43%) Ariba
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) SAP
5 1 (1.43%) Splunk
5 1 (1.43%) Symantec