BigQuery Contracts in the UK excluding London

Google BigQuery
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 351 389
Rank change year-on-year +49 +38 +52
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 41 46 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.22% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 1.79% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 29
10th Percentile £315 £156 £340
25th Percentile £425 £392 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £504 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +3.81% -19.17%
75th Percentile £611 £578 £615
90th Percentile £668 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,088 2,571 3,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.02% 12.41% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,821 2,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £338
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £560 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 106 109
10th Percentile £18.72 £13.59 £21.80
25th Percentile £22.66 £17.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £30.82 £36.75 £58.59
Median % change year-on-year -16.14% -37.28% +67.40%
75th Percentile £65.62 £60.50 £73.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +33.33%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +15 25 £550 +8.48% 30
Yorkshire +16 18 £563 +10.95% 10
North West +4 6 £515 +16.06% 18
Scotland +5 5 £463 -1.60% 3
East of England +26 4 £315 -41.40% 1
Midlands +16 4 £475 +5.56% 13
South East +41 3 £425 +23.19% 12
West Midlands +14 2 - - 7
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 6
South West +45 1 £650 +18.18% 8
North East - 1 £625 - 2
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (21.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (17.07%) Apache Spark
3 5 (12.20%) Apache
4 2 (4.88%) Confluence
5 1 (2.44%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (87.80%) GCP
2 9 (21.95%) dbt
2 9 (21.95%) Snowflake
3 8 (19.51%) GitHub
4 7 (17.07%) AWS
4 7 (17.07%) Power Platform
5 6 (14.63%) Azure
6 4 (9.76%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (7.32%) Collibra
7 3 (7.32%) Vertex AI
8 2 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (4.88%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.88%) Cloud Functions
8 2 (4.88%) CloudBees
8 2 (4.88%) Google Analytics
8 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.88%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (2.44%) Google Ads
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (36.59%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (26.83%) Looker
3 8 (19.51%) Tableau
4 7 (17.07%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (17.07%) Power BI
5 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (7.32%) Metadata
6 3 (7.32%) Star Schema
7 2 (4.88%) Big Data
7 2 (4.88%) Bigtable
7 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 2 (4.88%) Hadoop
7 2 (4.88%) Hazelcast
7 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.88%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
7 2 (4.88%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 1 (2.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) ER Studio
1 5 (12.20%) Git
1 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 4 (9.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.32%) Jaeger
4 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.20%) Finance
4 4 (9.76%) Banking
5 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) Marketing
6 2 (4.88%) Retail
6 2 (4.88%) Wholesale Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Advertising
7 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (26.83%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) Data Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) GCP Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Senior
5 4 (9.76%) Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Data Analyst
5 4 (9.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (9.76%) Lead
6 3 (7.32%) Data Modeller
6 3 (7.32%) GCP Data Architect
6 3 (7.32%) GCP Data Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) GCP Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Data Modeller
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (41.46%) Kafka
2 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
2 4 (9.76%) PySpark
2 4 (9.76%) React
3 3 (7.32%) NumPy
3 3 (7.32%) Pandas
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
4 2 (4.88%) gRPC
4 2 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Unix
2 3 (7.32%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) Analytics
1 19 (46.34%) Data Pipeline
2 17 (41.46%) Data Engineering
3 16 (39.02%) ETL
3 16 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (36.59%) Data Governance
5 13 (31.71%) CI/CD
5 13 (31.71%) Data Modelling
6 12 (29.27%) Agile
7 11 (26.83%) Data Science
8 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (19.51%) Data Analytics
8 8 (19.51%) Visualisation
9 7 (17.07%) Data Management
9 7 (17.07%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (14.63%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (14.63%) Data Security
10 6 (14.63%) Data Strategy
10 6 (14.63%) DevOps
11 5 (12.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (56.10%) Python
2 20 (48.78%) SQL
3 12 (29.27%) Java
4 9 (21.95%) Shell Script
5 8 (19.51%) Scala
6 4 (9.76%) Groovy
7 3 (7.32%) Bash
8 2 (4.88%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.88%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.88%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.44%) PMP
3 1 (2.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) Data Quality
2 6 (14.63%) GDPR
3 3 (7.32%) QA
4 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (26.83%) Terraform
2 7 (17.07%) Grafana
3 6 (14.63%) Kubernetes
4 5 (12.20%) Control-M
5 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
6 3 (7.32%) Istio
6 3 (7.32%) Kiali
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Google
2 6 (14.63%) Databricks
3 5 (12.20%) AppDynamics
4 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 3 (7.32%) xMatters
5 2 (4.88%) IBM
5 2 (4.88%) Oracle
6 1 (2.44%) Apple
6 1 (2.44%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.44%) Criteo
6 1 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.44%) Hotjar
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.44%) Virgin Media