BigQuery Contracts in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 370 398 476
Rank change year-on-year +28 +78 +15
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 115 144 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.39% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.49% 2.31% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 104 140
10th Percentile £313 £382 £400
25th Percentile £413 £455 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £594
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -10.65% +6.03%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £688
90th Percentile £711 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - £28.45 £78.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.50 £80.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -61.76% +223.81%
75th Percentile £54.75 £42.00 £88.13
90th Percentile £55.35 £46.95 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +61.54% -61.76% +223.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
London +15 76 £525 -1.50% 184
North of England +24 23 £475 +5.56% 21
Yorkshire +15 15 £508 -13.53% 9
North West +15 8 £475 +18.75% 10
Midlands +21 5 £413 -17.50% 6
East of England +32 4 £315 -41.40%
South East +42 3 £425 +23.19% 51
West Midlands +12 3 £350 -30.00% 3
East Midlands +11 2 £475 - 3
South West +46 1 £650 +18.18% 3
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 24 (20.87%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (15.65%) Apache Spark
3 14 (12.17%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Confluence
5 1 (0.87%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.87%) Magento
2 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (86.96%) GCP
2 27 (23.48%) Snowflake
3 24 (20.87%) AWS
3 24 (20.87%) dbt
4 18 (15.65%) Azure
5 16 (13.91%) Power Platform
6 13 (11.30%) GitHub
7 7 (6.09%) Google Analytics
8 6 (5.22%) Google Compute Engine
9 5 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
9 5 (4.35%) Cloud Functions
9 5 (4.35%) Vertex AI
10 4 (3.48%) Collibra
11 3 (2.61%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 3 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.61%) Cloud Run
11 3 (2.61%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (2.61%) Google Tag Manager
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (38.26%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (21.74%) Looker
3 21 (18.26%) Tableau
4 19 (16.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (13.91%) Power BI
6 11 (9.57%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.96%) Flink
7 8 (6.96%) NoSQL
8 7 (6.09%) Hadoop
9 6 (5.22%) Big Data
9 6 (5.22%) Relational Database
10 5 (4.35%) Metadata
11 4 (3.48%) Parquet
12 3 (2.61%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.61%) Apache Hive
12 3 (2.61%) Bigtable
12 3 (2.61%) RDBMS
12 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.61%) Spark SQL
13 2 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) JIRA
2 8 (6.96%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) Git
4 3 (2.61%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.74%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.74%) Postman
5 2 (1.74%) Selenium
5 2 (1.74%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.87%) RStudio
6 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.87%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.65%) Finance
3 16 (13.91%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.96%) Banking
5 7 (6.09%) Marketing
6 5 (4.35%) Retail
7 4 (3.48%) Advertising
8 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.74%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Data Engineer
2 27 (23.48%) Architect
3 18 (15.65%) Analyst
4 16 (13.91%) GCP Engineer
5 15 (13.04%) Data Architect
6 11 (9.57%) Data Analyst
6 11 (9.57%) GCP Architect
6 11 (9.57%) Senior
7 10 (8.70%) GCP Data Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) Lead
9 5 (4.35%) Developer
10 4 (3.48%) AWS Architect
10 4 (3.48%) AWS Data Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Junior
10 4 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.48%) Test Analyst
11 3 (2.61%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) GCP Data Architect
11 3 (2.61%) Python Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.13%) Kafka
2 8 (6.96%) PySpark
3 6 (5.22%) React
4 5 (4.35%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.48%) Apache Avro
5 4 (3.48%) Apache Beam
5 4 (3.48%) gRPC
6 3 (2.61%) FastAPI
6 3 (2.61%) NumPy
6 3 (2.61%) Pandas
6 3 (2.61%) pytest
7 2 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.74%) Great Expectations
7 2 (1.74%) JSON
7 2 (1.74%) Node.js
7 2 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.74%) SOAP
8 1 (0.87%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
8 1 (0.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.96%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.48%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.61%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.61%) PDA
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) Social Media
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.87%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.87%) Derivative
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.87%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Linux
1 2 (1.74%) Unix
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
1 45 (39.13%) ETL
2 39 (33.91%) Analytics
3 38 (33.04%) Data Modelling
4 34 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (27.83%) Data Engineering
6 31 (26.96%) Data Governance
7 28 (24.35%) Visualisation
8 27 (23.48%) CI/CD
9 23 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
10 22 (19.13%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (16.52%) Agile
11 19 (16.52%) Data Integration
11 19 (16.52%) Data Science
12 18 (15.65%) Data Management
13 16 (13.91%) Actionable Insight
13 16 (13.91%) Artificial Intelligence
13 16 (13.91%) Machine Learning
14 15 (13.04%) Data Analytics
14 15 (13.04%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (50.43%) Python
2 56 (48.70%) SQL
3 25 (21.74%) Java
4 13 (11.30%) Scala
5 3 (2.61%) Bash
5 3 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.61%) Groovy
5 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.74%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (1.74%) Go
6 2 (1.74%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.74%) R
6 2 (1.74%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (7.83%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.22%) Degree
4 3 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.74%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.74%) PMP
6 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.83%) QA
3 7 (6.09%) GDPR
4 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.87%) GxP
6 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.87%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (20.00%) Terraform
2 16 (13.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.22%) Grafana
4 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.74%) Control-M
5 2 (1.74%) Istio
5 2 (1.74%) Kiali
6 1 (0.87%) Ansible
6 1 (0.87%) Argo
6 1 (0.87%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 65 (56.52%) Google
2 17 (14.78%) Databricks
3 10 (8.70%) Oracle
4 7 (6.09%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.22%) Informatica
6 4 (3.48%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.48%) Splunk
7 2 (1.74%) Facebook
7 2 (1.74%) IBM
7 2 (1.74%) New Relic
7 2 (1.74%) SAP
7 2 (1.74%) Talend
7 2 (1.74%) xMatters
7 2 (1.74%) YouTube
8 1 (0.87%) Apple
8 1 (0.87%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.87%) Okta
8 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.87%) Teradata
8 1 (0.87%) WooCommerce