BigQuery Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Google BigQuery
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 51 76
Rank change year-on-year -21 +25 -
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 5 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.70% 1.83% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.62% 12.63% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £355 - £435
25th Percentile £363 £725 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £463 £775 £550
90th Percentile £485 - £565
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £750 £588
% change year-on-year -46.67% +27.66% -21.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 138 95 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 19.27% 14.50% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 53 93
10th Percentile £376 £325 £310
25th Percentile £406 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £567 £613
90th Percentile £698 £650 £665
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £19.28 £19.82
25th Percentile - £20.44 £20.38
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% +35.30%
75th Percentile - £26.44 £21.64
90th Percentile - £27.83 £21.84
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in Leeds

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) dbt
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (20.00%) Contentsquare
5 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Bigtable
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Architect
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Data Design
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Hotjar
2 1 (20.00%) Optimizely