BigQuery Contracts in the South East

Google BigQuery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 198 209
Rank change year-on-year +42 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 3 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.100% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.73% 1.15% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £290 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £345 £350
Median % change year-on-year +23.19% -1.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £463 £530 £500
90th Percentile £485 £600 £630
England median daily rate £500 £531 £594
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.65% +6.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the South East

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the South East.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the South East

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley - 2 £425 - 10
Buckinghamshire - 2 £425 - 2
Surrey - 1 £500 - 2
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Asana
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) QlikView
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Data Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PMP
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle