BigQuery Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Google BigQuery
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.49% - 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.71% - 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £475 - -

All Database & BI Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 24 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 8.50% 9.30% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 54
10th Percentile £275 £196 £358
25th Percentile £363 £205 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £257 £515
Median % change year-on-year +60.55% -50.11% -6.36%
75th Percentile £627 £369 £584
90th Percentile £775 £540 £661
Wales median daily rate £425 £275 £500
% change year-on-year +54.55% -45.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £31.60 - -
25th Percentile £47.88 - -
Median hourly rate £80.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £87.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £80.00 - -

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in South Wales

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Cardiff - 2 £475 - 2
BigQuery
Wales

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Beam
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (50.00%) Google