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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 156 200
Rank change year-on-year +15 +44 +36
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 25 28 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.75% 0.59% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.24% 4.02% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 23 6
10th Percentile £349 £100 £405
25th Percentile £463 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £507 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.48% -1.07% -10.09%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £609
90th Percentile £711 £638 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £581
% change year-on-year -4.76% -9.68% +5.63%

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 590 697 795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.64% 14.81% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 518 568
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £585 £625
90th Percentile £625 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 16
10th Percentile £21.61 £11.00 £32.50
25th Percentile £22.72 £15.69 £37.10
Median hourly rate £25.43 £40.25 £40.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% -1.34% +31.60%
75th Percentile £32.08 £44.74 £63.50
90th Percentile £55.78 £48.44 £65.50
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.39% -33.33% +34.91%

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

BigQuery
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

BigQuery
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 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the North of England

BigQuery
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

BigQuery
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 31 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 +16 18 £563 +10.95% 10
North West +4 6 £515 +16.06% 18
North East - 1 £625 - 2
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 6 (24.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 22 (88.00%) GCP
2 6 (24.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) dbt
3 5 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (16.00%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (8.00%) CloudBees
5 2 (8.00%) Collibra
5 2 (8.00%) Google Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (8.00%) Google Tag Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.00%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (24.00%) Looker
2 4 (16.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (12.00%) Tableau
4 2 (8.00%) Bigtable
4 2 (8.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.00%) Hazelcast
4 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (8.00%) Power BI
4 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
2 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.00%) Jaeger
4 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Marketing
4 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 2 (8.00%) Wholesale Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 3 (12.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) GCP Data Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 1 (4.00%) Administrator
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Engineering Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Report Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) gRPC
2 2 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Unix
2 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Analytics
2 11 (44.00%) Data Engineering
2 11 (44.00%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (44.00%) ETL
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (28.00%) Data Governance
4 7 (28.00%) Data Science
5 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 5 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Architectural Design
6 4 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (16.00%) Performance Optimisation
7 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analytics
7 3 (12.00%) Information Architecture
7 3 (12.00%) Microservices
7 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 3 (12.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) SQL
3 7 (28.00%) Java
3 7 (28.00%) Scala
4 4 (16.00%) Groovy
4 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (12.00%) Bash
6 2 (8.00%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Grafana
2 5 (20.00%) Control-M
2 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Istio
4 3 (12.00%) Kiali
Vendors
1 15 (60.00%) Google
2 6 (24.00%) Databricks
3 5 (20.00%) AppDynamics
4 3 (12.00%) Splunk
4 3 (12.00%) xMatters
5 2 (8.00%) IBM
6 1 (4.00%) Apple
6 1 (4.00%) Criteo
6 1 (4.00%) Hotjar
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media