BigQuery Contracts in Scotland

Google BigQuery
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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 114 159
Rank change year-on-year +1 +45 +3
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 5 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.30% 0.28% 0.074%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 1.58% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile - £296 -
25th Percentile £450 £422 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £638 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.45% +59.38% -48.39%
75th Percentile £475 £688 -
90th Percentile - £715 -
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -5.71% -8.70% -4.17%

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 362 380 574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.06% 17.88% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 288 449
10th Percentile £294 £324 £400
25th Percentile £410 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -3.06% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £639 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.67% -0.73%
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 £34.83 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.94% -30.43% +27.78%

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 21 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 +7 5 £463 -27.45% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (60.00%) Star Schema
3 2 (40.00%) Looker
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata
3 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) ER Studio
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Data Modeller
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) GCP Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 5 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
2 4 (80.00%) Task Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (20.00%) Conceptual Models
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Google