BigQuery Contracts in the North of England

Google BigQuery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 167 210
Rank change year-on-year +24 +43 +7
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 23 18 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.38% 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.96% 2.58% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 6
10th Percentile £143 £100 £405
25th Percentile £419 £247 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% -10.09%
75th Percentile £625 £628 £609
90th Percentile £710 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £531 £594
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.65% +6.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 581 698 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.63% 14.64% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 521 612
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% +5.26%
75th Percentile £571 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £688
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 19
10th Percentile £22.72 £11.00 £35.00
25th Percentile £23.30 £14.00 £39.80
Median hourly rate £26.47 £40.25 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.25% -17.86% +78.18%
75th Percentile £33.11 £44.74 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.34 £50.69 £65.20
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +15 15 £508 -13.53% 9
North West +15 8 £475 +18.75% 10
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (78.26%) GCP
2 8 (34.78%) Snowflake
3 5 (21.74%) dbt
4 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.70%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.70%) CloudBees
5 2 (8.70%) Collibra
5 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (4.35%) Google Ads
6 1 (4.35%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (30.43%) Looker
2 2 (8.70%) Hazelcast
2 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) Mixpanel
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) Git
2 2 (8.70%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Marketing
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 2 (8.70%) Wholesale Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Data Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) GCP Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Junior
3 3 (13.04%) Junior Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Junior Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Analytics Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) gRPC
2 2 (8.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) ETL
2 11 (47.83%) Data Engineering
3 10 (43.48%) Analytics
3 10 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (34.78%) Data Governance
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) Data Science
6 5 (21.74%) Data Analysis
6 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
6 5 (21.74%) Decision-Making
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) Data Strategy
7 4 (17.39%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (13.04%) Data Analytics
8 3 (13.04%) Data Management
8 3 (13.04%) DevOps
8 3 (13.04%) ETL Development
8 3 (13.04%) Technical Debt
9 2 (8.70%) Problem Management
9 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) Scala
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) Groovy
6 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.70%) Kotlin
6 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Grafana
2 5 (21.74%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Kubernetes
3 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Control-M
4 2 (8.70%) Istio
4 2 (8.70%) Kiali
Vendors
1 15 (65.22%) Google
2 6 (26.09%) Databricks
3 4 (17.39%) AppDynamics
4 2 (8.70%) IBM
4 2 (8.70%) Splunk
4 2 (8.70%) xMatters
5 1 (4.35%) Apple
5 1 (4.35%) Criteo
5 1 (4.35%) Hotjar
5 1 (4.35%) Virgin Media