BigQuery Contract Job Trends in the South West

Google BigQuery
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 130 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 +24
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.26% 0.043% 0.032%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.59% 0.32% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +36.36%
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -9.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 316 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.19% 13.72% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 212 284
10th Percentile £310 £388 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £570
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -6.80% +3.64%
75th Percentile £619 £641 £661
90th Percentile £698 £750 £720
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 23
10th Percentile £21.25 £23.63 £14.36
25th Percentile £48.75 £25.26 £22.07
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.56 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year +127.57% -53.97% +9.13%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £78.00
90th Percentile - £40.35 £81.60
England median hourly rate £54.70 £38.00 £47.70
% change year-on-year +43.95% -20.33% -4.61%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the South West

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Bristol - 5 £525 - 3
Gloucestershire - 1 £525 - 1
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Matillion
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 6 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics Manager
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Analytics Manager
1 5 (83.33%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Actionable Insight
1 5 (83.33%) AI
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Change Management
1 5 (83.33%) Data Science
1 5 (83.33%) Matrix Organization
1 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
1 5 (83.33%) Predictive Modelling
1 5 (83.33%) Storytelling
2 1 (16.67%) Data Discovery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google