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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 384 457
Rank change year-on-year +31 +73 +32
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 123 154 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.42% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.69% 2.46% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 107 142
10th Percentile £315 £378 £353
25th Percentile £425 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.58% +7.86%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £694
90th Percentile £706 £700 £761
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
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% +193.10%

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 4,579 6,255 8,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.05% 17.01% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,180 4,523 6,036
10th Percentile £363 £350 £375
25th Percentile £424 £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 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 136 159
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £22.94 £20.70 £32.30
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% -33.33% +36.52%
75th Percentile £60.38 £55.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £83.40
UK median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.98% -33.33% +33.33%

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 30 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 30 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 +28 85 £525 -1.04% 84
North of England +7 23 £563 +10.95% 17
Yorkshire +19 16 £575 +13.41% 4
North West +4 6 £515 +16.06% 13
East of England +35 4 £315 -41.40%
Midlands +20 4 £475 +5.56% 10
South East +54 3 £425 +23.19% 8
West Midlands +17 2 - - 4
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 6
South West +44 1 £650 +18.18% 3
North East - 1 £625 -
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 20 (16.26%) Apache Airflow
2 18 (14.63%) Apache Spark
3 13 (10.57%) Apache
4 2 (1.63%) Confluence
5 1 (0.81%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Magento
1 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 110 (89.43%) GCP
2 27 (21.95%) Azure
3 26 (21.14%) AWS
4 24 (19.51%) dbt
5 21 (17.07%) Snowflake
6 20 (16.26%) Power Platform
7 13 (10.57%) GitHub
8 11 (8.94%) Cloud Functions
9 10 (8.13%) Cloud Composer
9 10 (8.13%) Google Compute Engine
10 7 (5.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (4.88%) Collibra
11 6 (4.88%) Google Analytics
12 5 (4.07%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (4.07%) Vertex AI
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.25%) Google Tag Manager
14 3 (2.44%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (35.77%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (21.14%) Looker
3 23 (18.70%) Tableau
4 20 (16.26%) Power BI
5 18 (14.63%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (12.20%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.50%) Big Data
7 8 (6.50%) NoSQL
8 7 (5.69%) Flink
8 7 (5.69%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.88%) Hadoop
10 5 (4.07%) Parquet
10 5 (4.07%) RDBMS
11 4 (3.25%) Metadata
11 4 (3.25%) Power Query
11 4 (3.25%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (3.25%) Star Schema
12 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (2.44%) Apache Hive
12 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (11.38%) JIRA
2 10 (8.13%) Git
3 9 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.44%) ER Studio
4 3 (2.44%) Jaeger
4 3 (2.44%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.63%) Postman
5 2 (1.63%) Selenium
5 2 (1.63%) SoapUI
5 2 (1.63%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) RStudio
6 1 (0.81%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.81%) Terragrunt
General
1 37 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (15.45%) Finance
4 9 (7.32%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Retail
6 6 (4.88%) Marketing
7 4 (3.25%) Advertising
7 4 (3.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.63%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.63%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (27.64%) Data Engineer
2 33 (26.83%) Architect
3 22 (17.89%) GCP Engineer
4 20 (16.26%) Analyst
5 19 (15.45%) Data Architect
6 17 (13.82%) GCP Architect
6 17 (13.82%) Senior
7 14 (11.38%) GCP Data Engineer
8 11 (8.94%) Data Analyst
9 10 (8.13%) Lead
10 8 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (6.50%) GCP Data Architect
11 6 (4.88%) Developer
11 6 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
12 5 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
13 4 (3.25%) Senior Architect
13 4 (3.25%) Senior Data Architect
13 4 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
13 4 (3.25%) Test Analyst
14 3 (2.44%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.33%) Kafka
2 8 (6.50%) PySpark
3 7 (5.69%) React
4 6 (4.88%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.07%) Apache Avro
6 4 (3.25%) .NET
6 4 (3.25%) Apache Beam
7 3 (2.44%) Great Expectations
7 3 (2.44%) NumPy
7 3 (2.44%) Pandas
8 2 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.63%) gRPC
8 2 (1.63%) JSON
8 2 (1.63%) Node.js
8 2 (1.63%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (1.63%) pytest
8 2 (1.63%) SOAP
9 1 (0.81%) Django
9 1 (0.81%) Protocol Buffers
9 1 (0.81%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.13%) Virtual Team
3 8 (6.50%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.44%) PDA
5 2 (1.63%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.81%) Life Science
6 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.81%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.69%) Unix
2 4 (3.25%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Windows
4 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.65%) Data Modelling
2 48 (39.02%) ETL
3 47 (38.21%) Analytics
3 47 (38.21%) Data Pipeline
4 38 (30.89%) CI/CD
5 36 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (26.83%) Data Engineering
7 31 (25.20%) Visualisation
8 29 (23.58%) Data Governance
9 28 (22.76%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (20.33%) Data Integration
11 23 (18.70%) Agile
12 22 (17.89%) Data Visualisation
13 18 (14.63%) Data Analytics
13 18 (14.63%) Data Science
13 18 (14.63%) DevOps
14 17 (13.82%) Decision-Making
15 16 (13.01%) Data Management
16 15 (12.20%) Data Ingestion
17 14 (11.38%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.03%) SQL
2 60 (48.78%) Python
3 27 (21.95%) Java
4 14 (11.38%) Scala
5 7 (5.69%) Shell Script
6 6 (4.88%) Bash
7 4 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.25%) Groovy
8 3 (2.44%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (2.44%) Go
8 3 (2.44%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.81%) LookML
10 1 (0.81%) R
10 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (8.13%) Security Cleared
2 7 (5.69%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.88%) Degree
4 4 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.63%) PMP
7 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (19.51%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.13%) QA
3 9 (7.32%) GDPR
4 3 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.81%) GxP
6 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (12.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (24.39%) Terraform
2 20 (16.26%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.69%) Grafana
4 5 (4.07%) Control-M
5 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.44%) Istio
6 3 (2.44%) Kiali
7 1 (0.81%) Ansible
7 1 (0.81%) Argo
7 1 (0.81%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 72 (58.54%) Google
2 16 (13.01%) Databricks
3 11 (8.94%) Oracle
4 7 (5.69%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.07%) AppDynamics
5 5 (4.07%) Informatica
6 3 (2.44%) Okta
6 3 (2.44%) Splunk
6 3 (2.44%) xMatters
7 2 (1.63%) IBM
7 2 (1.63%) SAP
7 2 (1.63%) Talend
8 1 (0.81%) Apple
8 1 (0.81%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.81%) Criteo
8 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.81%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.81%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.81%) Teradata
8 1 (0.81%) Virgin Media