BigQuery Contract Job Trends in the North West

Google BigQuery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 117 128
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +41
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 27 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.08% 0.28% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.32% 2.08% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 10
10th Percentile £311 - £303
25th Percentile £325 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +28.21%
75th Percentile £588 £480 £538
90th Percentile £688 £522 £569
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59.75 - -
Median hourly rate £64.50 - -
75th Percentile £69.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £77.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% -25.16% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 369 289 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.74% 13.34% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 181 302
10th Percentile £313 £313 £306
25th Percentile £363 £402 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £611
90th Percentile £600 £640 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £57.35 £22.72 -
25th Percentile £60.18 £23.87 £46.18
Median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +192.02% -51.56% -19.23%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £85.40 £66.43 £65.00
England median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the North West

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the North West over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the North West

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BigQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Manchester +3 25 £456 +4.29% 15
Lancashire - 2 £350 - 4
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (7.41%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) GCP
2 13 (48.15%) Azure
3 12 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 10 (37.04%) Google Tag Manager
5 9 (33.33%) Google Analytics
6 6 (22.22%) AWS
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon EventBridge
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (18.52%) Apigee
7 5 (18.52%) AWS Fargate
7 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (18.52%) Datadog
7 5 (18.52%) GitHub
7 5 (18.52%) Loggly
7 5 (18.52%) Route 53
7 5 (18.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (48.15%) Looker
2 12 (44.44%) Power BI
3 6 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (18.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (18.52%) DynamoDB
4 5 (18.52%) MySQL
4 5 (18.52%) RDBMS
4 5 (18.52%) Redis
4 5 (18.52%) Relational Database
5 4 (14.81%) Tableau
6 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) Gradle
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
1 5 (18.52%) Maven
1 5 (18.52%) SonarLint
1 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.70%) Browser DevTools
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (7.41%) Automotive
6 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.70%) Publishing
7 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Architect
2 10 (37.04%) Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) GCP Architect
3 6 (22.22%) Performance Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Java Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Java Technical Architect
4 5 (18.52%) Technical Architect
5 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Data Architect
5 4 (14.81%) GCP Data Architect
6 3 (11.11%) BigQuery Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Performance Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) ETL Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
7 2 (7.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Dropwizard
1 5 (18.52%) J2EE
1 5 (18.52%) JWT
1 5 (18.52%) Micronaut
1 5 (18.52%) RESTful
1 5 (18.52%) Spring Boot
2 4 (14.81%) Celery
3 2 (7.41%) GraphQL
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) Apache Beam
4 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.70%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 5 (18.52%) N-Tier
2 5 (18.52%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Clustering
3 2 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.70%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
1 17 (62.96%) Analytics
2 12 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (40.74%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 10 (37.04%) Data Analysis
5 9 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
5 9 (33.33%) AI
5 9 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
5 9 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (29.63%) Data Privacy
6 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (29.63%) User Experience
6 8 (29.63%) Validation
7 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
7 7 (25.93%) ETL
7 7 (25.93%) Performance Analysis
7 7 (25.93%) Performance Measurement
7 7 (25.93%) Service Design
7 7 (25.93%) Statistical Analysis
7 7 (25.93%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) LookML
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (51.85%) Data Quality
2 9 (33.33%) QA
3 8 (29.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (11.11%) GDPR
5 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.70%) PERC
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) Google
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (18.52%) Gigya
4 3 (11.11%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.70%) Facebook