BigQuery Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Google BigQuery
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring BigQuery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 117 135
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.12% 0.090% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.77% 0.56% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - - £331
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £340
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +17.65% -45.60%
75th Percentile - - £863
90th Percentile - - £889
South East median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -20.83%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 261 355 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.02% 15.89% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 219 275
10th Percentile £325 £363 £340
25th Percentile £406 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £631
90th Percentile £650 £663 £700
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £545
% change year-on-year -10.00% -8.26% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 10
10th Percentile £13.25 £26.24 £31.68
25th Percentile £15.81 £48.18 £32.30
Median hourly rate £28.03 £61.60 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -54.50% +90.59% +61.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 - £61.00
90th Percentile £42.90 £64.10 £72.72
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £51.59 £50.00
% change year-on-year -37.88% +3.18% +122.22%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the Thames Valley

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £425 -
BigQuery
South East

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Logistics
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle