BigQuery Contracts in the Midlands

Google BigQuery
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 131 146
Rank change year-on-year -10 +15 +64
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.73% 0.68% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £429 £343
25th Percentile £463 £434 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -20.17%
75th Percentile £488 £484 £494
90th Percentile - £486 £498
England median daily rate £525 £507 £600
% change year-on-year +3.55% -15.50% +4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 410 443 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.47% 16.77% 16.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 314 345
10th Percentile £284 £310 £304
25th Percentile £385 £358 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -11.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £615 £696 £700
England median daily rate £515 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -4.45% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 5
10th Percentile £17.62 £20.63 £16.70
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.37 £24.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £28.22 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +11.74% -27.86%
75th Percentile £33.88 £38.86 £31.04
90th Percentile £35.78 £46.20 £33.46
England median hourly rate £34.58 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.62% -34.09% +35.04%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the Midlands

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the Midlands

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 August 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
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 6
West Midlands -18 1 - - 4
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Anthos
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) dbt
3 1 (33.33%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) SAP