BigQuery Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Google BigQuery
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.55% 0.38% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 2.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £464 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +41.07% - -
75th Percentile £500 £400 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £456 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +30.36% -30.00% -

All Database & BI Skills
Birmingham

BigQuery falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 158 85 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.36% 15.95% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 64 96
10th Percentile £325 £107 £303
25th Percentile £405 £393 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -16.05%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £622 £700 £638
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.40%
West Midlands median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +60.40%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in Birmingham

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 4 (80.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (60.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) Lead
2 4 (80.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (60.00%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (60.00%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (40.00%) Real Time Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Apache Beam
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Data Capture
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Data Ingestion
1 4 (80.00%) GitOps
1 4 (80.00%) Low Latency
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) Java
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) SAP