BigQuery Contracts in the North West

Google BigQuery
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 113 142
Rank change year-on-year -1 +29 +40
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 11 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.50% 0.38% 0.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.49% 2.71% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile - £428 £408
25th Percentile £463 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +5.95% -11.02%
75th Percentile £545 £720 £538
90th Percentile £608 £775 £550
England median daily rate £500 £507 £600
% change year-on-year -1.38% -15.50% +5.45%

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 315 332 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.34% 13.87% 16.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 227 357
10th Percentile £313 £356 £337
25th Percentile £377 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £465 £490
Median % change year-on-year -3.87% -5.10% -3.92%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £612 £610 £675
England median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 16
10th Percentile £21.02 £26.20 £28.55
25th Percentile £21.39 £33.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £46.12 £40.30
Median % change year-on-year -29.53% +14.46% +0.36%
75th Percentile £62.50 £69.00 £55.35
90th Percentile £79.38 £70.58 £64.50
England median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +32.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the North West over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the North West

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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 2 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
Manchester +3 5 £475 -14.61% 15
Merseyside - 4 £500 - 6
Lancashire - 2 £530 - 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) GCP
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Snowflake
3 3 (27.27%) dbt
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Google Ads
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (18.18%) Looker
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Big Data
4 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Automotive
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Advertising
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Data Architect
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) GCP Architect
1 4 (36.36%) GCP Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) BigQuery Architect
2 3 (27.27%) ETL Architect
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ETL
2 5 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Architecture
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Digital Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Data Management
6 1 (9.09%) Data Modelling
6 1 (9.09%) E-Commerce
6 1 (9.09%) ERP
6 1 (9.09%) Information Architecture
6 1 (9.09%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
6 1 (9.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Google
2 4 (36.36%) Hitachi
3 1 (9.09%) Apple
3 1 (9.09%) Criteo
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media