BigQuery Contracts in Scotland

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UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 117 165
Rank change year-on-year +1 +48 -4
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 1 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.061% 0.23% 0.074%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.28% 1.29% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £638 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +59.38% -49.21%
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -4.76% -10.64% -2.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 357 388 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 21.78% 18.11% 21.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 295 447
10th Percentile £290 £316 £400
25th Percentile £409 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -4.18% +1.34%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.38% -3.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile - £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £19.59 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.15% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile - £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £33.81 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -15.49% -31.73% +27.37%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in Scotland

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in Scotland

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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
Edinburgh 0 1 - - 2
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ER Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Architect
1 1 (100.00%) GCP Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google