BigQuery Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Data Engineer - BigQuery
England > North East

The median Data Engineer - BigQuery daily rate in the North East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a BigQuery Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.30% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £450 - £800
% change year-on-year - - +30.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 314 243 217
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.73% 87.73% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 108 163
10th Percentile £170 £239 £225
25th Percentile £338 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -15.24%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £572
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 11
10th Percentile £14.20 £25.65 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.88 £43.54 £16.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.28% +42.09% +106.35%
75th Percentile £51.50 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £54.25 £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -38.66% -10.64% +52.93%

BigQuery Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, BigQuery Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring BigQuery Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements

BigQuery Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL