BigQuery Contracts in England

Google BigQuery
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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 391 450
Rank change year-on-year +45 +59 +58
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 150 172 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.46% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.09% 2.62% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 115 150
10th Percentile £319 £385 £350
25th Percentile £436 £441 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.50% +5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £644 £698
90th Percentile £700 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £600
% change year-on-year -1.38% -15.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £32.80 £78.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £35.13 £80.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £40.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -52.35% +269.57%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.13 £88.13
90th Percentile - £48.60 £89.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +61.54% -61.76% +269.57%

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 4,847 6,564 8,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.39% 17.58% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 4,726 5,851
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £813 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.30% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 139 153
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.24 £32.30
Median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -29.08% +49.21%
75th Percentile £61.25 £51.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £71.70 £82.90
UK median hourly rate £34.99 £39.25 £55.70
% change year-on-year -10.85% -29.53% +47.35%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +27 109 £525 - 573
North of England +2 26 £515 +1.58% 99
Yorkshire 0 17 £466 -8.09% 35
North West +2 8 £515 +5.64% 55
East of England +25 4 £315 -41.40% 21
Midlands +10 4 £475 +5.56% 34
South East +33 3 £425 +6.25% 119
West Midlands +11 2 - - 12
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 22
South West +37 1 £650 +18.18% 47
North East - 1 £625 - 9
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 30 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 17 (11.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.33%) Maple
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Magento
1 1 (0.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 138 (92.00%) GCP
2 39 (26.00%) Azure
3 35 (23.33%) dbt
4 33 (22.00%) AWS
5 30 (20.00%) Snowflake
6 28 (18.67%) Power Platform
7 15 (10.00%) GitHub
8 11 (7.33%) Cloud Functions
9 10 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
9 10 (6.67%) Vertex AI
10 9 (6.00%) Google Compute Engine
10 9 (6.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (4.67%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (3.33%) Google Analytics
13 5 (3.33%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.67%) Collibra
14 4 (2.67%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (34.67%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (22.00%) Looker
3 29 (19.33%) Tableau
4 28 (18.67%) Power BI
5 22 (14.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (9.33%) Big Data
6 14 (9.33%) Data Lake
7 13 (8.67%) NoSQL
8 8 (5.33%) Hadoop
8 8 (5.33%) Metadata
9 7 (4.67%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.67%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (4.00%) Flink
11 5 (3.33%) Parquet
11 5 (3.33%) Power Query
11 5 (3.33%) RDBMS
12 4 (2.67%) Star Schema
13 3 (2.00%) Apache Hive
13 3 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (10.67%) JIRA
2 12 (8.00%) Git
3 9 (6.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.00%) ER Studio
5 4 (2.67%) TeamCity
6 3 (2.00%) ERwin
6 3 (2.00%) Jaeger
6 3 (2.00%) MLflow
6 3 (2.00%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.67%) git-flow
7 1 (0.67%) Postman
7 1 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.67%) Selenium
7 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 49 (32.67%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.00%) Finance
3 25 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (6.00%) Banking
4 9 (6.00%) Marketing
5 8 (5.33%) Retail
6 7 (4.67%) Advertising
7 4 (2.67%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.67%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.00%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Automotive
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (25.33%) Architect
2 35 (23.33%) Data Engineer
3 25 (16.67%) Senior
4 24 (16.00%) Analyst
4 24 (16.00%) Data Architect
5 23 (15.33%) GCP Engineer
6 22 (14.67%) GCP Architect
7 17 (11.33%) Data Analyst
8 13 (8.67%) GCP Data Engineer
8 13 (8.67%) Lead
9 11 (7.33%) GCP Data Architect
10 9 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
11 8 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (4.67%) Developer
13 6 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (3.33%) Data Modeller
14 5 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (3.33%) Senior Architect
14 5 (3.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
15 4 (2.67%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.00%) Kafka
2 8 (5.33%) PySpark
3 7 (4.67%) React
4 6 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.33%) Apache Avro
5 5 (3.33%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.67%) .NET
6 4 (2.67%) Pandas
7 3 (2.00%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.00%) NumPy
7 3 (2.00%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.33%) gRPC
8 2 (1.33%) JSON
8 2 (1.33%) Node.js
8 2 (1.33%) pytest
8 2 (1.33%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.33%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.67%) Flask
9 1 (0.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 10 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.33%) Digital Media
5 4 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (2.00%) PDA
7 2 (1.33%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.33%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.67%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.67%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.67%) Unix
2 4 (2.67%) Linux
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
3 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (44.00%) ETL
2 63 (42.00%) Data Modelling
3 60 (40.00%) Analytics
4 53 (35.33%) CI/CD
5 50 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 42 (28.00%) Data Engineering
6 42 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (25.33%) Data Governance
8 37 (24.67%) Agile
8 37 (24.67%) Visualisation
9 36 (24.00%) Data Integration
10 27 (18.00%) Data Visualisation
11 23 (15.33%) Data Science
12 22 (14.67%) Actionable Insight
12 22 (14.67%) Artificial Intelligence
12 22 (14.67%) DevOps
12 22 (14.67%) Machine Learning
13 20 (13.33%) Decision-Making
14 18 (12.00%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 86 (57.33%) SQL
2 74 (49.33%) Python
3 32 (21.33%) Java
4 16 (10.67%) Scala
5 7 (4.67%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.00%) Bash
7 5 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.67%) Groovy
9 3 (2.00%) Go
9 3 (2.00%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.33%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.33%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.67%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.67%) Korn
11 1 (0.67%) LookML
11 1 (0.67%) R
11 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (5.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.67%) Degree
3 5 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.33%) CISSP
5 2 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.33%) PMP
6 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.33%) QA
3 10 (6.67%) GDPR
4 4 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.67%) GxP
6 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (8.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 33 (22.00%) Terraform
2 18 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.33%) Control-M
3 5 (3.33%) Grafana
4 4 (2.67%) Kubeflow
5 3 (2.00%) Istio
5 3 (2.00%) Kiali
6 2 (1.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 88 (58.67%) Google
2 15 (10.00%) Databricks
3 14 (9.33%) Oracle
4 10 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.67%) Informatica
6 3 (2.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.00%) Okta
6 3 (2.00%) Splunk
6 3 (2.00%) Talend
6 3 (2.00%) xMatters
7 2 (1.33%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.33%) SAP
7 2 (1.33%) Teradata
8 1 (0.67%) Apple
8 1 (0.67%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.67%) Criteo
8 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.67%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.67%) WooCommerce