BigQuery Contracts in the East of England

Google BigQuery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 110 -
Rank change year-on-year +32 - -
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.43% 0.10% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.05% 1.72% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £506 -
25th Percentile - £516 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.40% - -
75th Percentile £318 £566 -
90th Percentile £320 £579 -
England median daily rate £500 £531 £594
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.65% +6.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 131 116 261
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.97% 6.08% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 75 172
10th Percentile £327 £303 £250
25th Percentile £419 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £631 £552 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 18
10th Percentile £19.84 £16.15 £21.38
25th Percentile £31.64 £22.75 £35.31
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%
75th Percentile £65.63 £33.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £77.38 £34.40 £68.33
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the East of England

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the East of England

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Essex - 4 £315 -
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (100.00%) Apache
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (75.00%) dbt
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) Tableau
2 3 (75.00%) Looker
3 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DBA
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (100.00%) PySpark
1 4 (100.00%) React
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) NumPy
2 3 (75.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Data Security
1 4 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Ingestion
2 3 (75.00%) Data Management
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) DataOps
2 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 3 (75.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow
2 3 (75.00%) Workflow Management
3 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) GDPR
2 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Checkmarx
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace