BigQuery Contracts

Google BigQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 406 468
Rank change year-on-year +36 +62 -2
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 167 190 217
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.44% 0.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.96% 2.52% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 123 167
10th Percentile £319 £376 £350
25th Percentile £425 £428 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -15.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £694
90th Percentile £707 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -17.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £31.25 £80.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -61.76% +269.57%
75th Percentile £53.75 £37.88 £88.13
90th Percentile - £45.30 £89.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,649 7,536 9,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 17.46% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,829 5,379 6,750
10th Percentile £356 £350 £372
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £751 £788 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 150 171
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.57 £20.82 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -29.08% +40.47%
75th Percentile £63.94 £53.29 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -40.00% +57.14%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 July 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
England +35 144 £500 -4.31% 1,046
London +40 104 £525 - 642
Work from Home +11 53 £475 -6.31% 502
UK excluding London +28 41 £475 -5.00% 479
North of England +4 25 £515 +1.58% 119
Yorkshire -3 17 £466 -8.09% 41
North West +6 7 £515 +5.64% 65
Scotland +3 5 £463 +105.56% 24
East of England +25 4 £315 -41.40% 40
Midlands +16 4 £475 +5.56% 57
South East +46 3 £425 +6.25% 159
West Midlands +7 2 - - 26
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 28
South West +36 1 £650 +18.18% 58
North East - 1 £625 - 13

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (19.16%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (11.98%) Apache Spark
3 18 (10.78%) Apache
4 3 (1.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.60%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) Maple
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.60%) Magento
1 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 154 (92.22%) GCP
2 43 (25.75%) Azure
3 39 (23.35%) dbt
4 35 (20.96%) AWS
5 31 (18.56%) Power Platform
6 30 (17.96%) Snowflake
7 16 (9.58%) GitHub
8 12 (7.19%) Cloud Composer
8 12 (7.19%) Cloud Functions
9 11 (6.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (6.59%) Vertex AI
10 9 (5.39%) Google Compute Engine
11 8 (4.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (4.19%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (3.59%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.59%) Collibra
14 5 (2.99%) Google Analytics
14 5 (2.99%) Google Tag Manager
15 4 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.60%) DNS
1 1 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (33.53%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (23.35%) Looker
3 32 (19.16%) Tableau
4 31 (18.56%) Power BI
5 21 (12.57%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (8.38%) Data Lake
6 14 (8.38%) NoSQL
7 12 (7.19%) Big Data
8 11 (6.59%) Metadata
9 8 (4.79%) Hadoop
9 8 (4.79%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (4.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.19%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.19%) Star Schema
11 6 (3.59%) Flink
12 5 (2.99%) Parquet
12 5 (2.99%) Power Query
12 5 (2.99%) RDBMS
13 4 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (1.80%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 18 (10.78%) JIRA
2 13 (7.78%) Git
3 11 (6.59%) ER Studio
4 10 (5.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.40%) MLflow
5 4 (2.40%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.80%) ERwin
6 3 (1.80%) Jaeger
6 3 (1.80%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.60%) git-flow
7 1 (0.60%) Postman
7 1 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.60%) Selenium
7 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.60%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.16%) Finance
3 30 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.59%) Marketing
5 9 (5.39%) Banking
6 8 (4.79%) Advertising
6 8 (4.79%) Retail
7 5 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.60%) Law
Job Titles
1 38 (22.75%) Architect
1 38 (22.75%) Data Engineer
2 29 (17.37%) Analyst
3 27 (16.17%) Senior
4 24 (14.37%) Data Architect
5 23 (13.77%) GCP Engineer
6 22 (13.17%) GCP Architect
7 20 (11.98%) Data Analyst
8 13 (7.78%) GCP Data Engineer
8 13 (7.78%) Lead
9 12 (7.19%) Developer
10 11 (6.59%) GCP Data Architect
11 9 (5.39%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.79%) Data Modeller
13 6 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.59%) Senior Architect
13 6 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
14 5 (2.99%) Senior Data Analyst
14 5 (2.99%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.37%) Kafka
2 9 (5.39%) React
3 8 (4.79%) AngularJS
3 8 (4.79%) PySpark
4 6 (3.59%) .NET
5 5 (2.99%) Apache Avro
5 5 (2.99%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.40%) Node.js
7 3 (1.80%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.80%) JSON
7 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.80%) Middleware
7 3 (1.80%) NumPy
7 3 (1.80%) Pandas
8 2 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.20%) gRPC
8 2 (1.20%) pytest
8 2 (1.20%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.20%) RESTful
8 2 (1.20%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.77%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.19%) Data Structures
2 12 (7.19%) Virtual Team
3 6 (3.59%) Digital Media
4 5 (2.99%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.80%) PDA
6 3 (1.80%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.80%) YARA
7 2 (1.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.20%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Life Science
7 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.39%) Unix
2 4 (2.40%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) VMS
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (40.72%) Data Modelling
2 65 (38.92%) Analytics
3 64 (38.32%) ETL
4 56 (33.53%) CI/CD
5 53 (31.74%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (26.95%) Data Engineering
8 42 (25.15%) Data Governance
9 41 (24.55%) Business Intelligence
10 40 (23.95%) Agile
11 38 (22.75%) Visualisation
12 36 (21.56%) Data Integration
13 30 (17.96%) Data Visualisation
14 25 (14.97%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (14.37%) Data Science
15 24 (14.37%) DevOps
16 21 (12.57%) Actionable Insight
17 20 (11.98%) Data Transformation
17 20 (11.98%) Migration
17 20 (11.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (56.29%) SQL
2 83 (49.70%) Python
3 35 (20.96%) Java
4 16 (9.58%) Scala
5 12 (7.19%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.79%) Bash
7 5 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.99%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.40%) Groovy
9 3 (1.80%) Go
10 2 (1.20%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.20%) LookML
11 1 (0.60%) C#
11 1 (0.60%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.60%) Korn
11 1 (0.60%) R
11 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (5.39%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.19%) Degree
3 6 (3.59%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.20%) CISM
7 2 (1.20%) GCIA
7 2 (1.20%) GCIH
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.20%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.20%) PMP
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.37%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.38%) QA
3 12 (7.19%) GDPR
4 4 (2.40%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.20%) GRC
6 2 (1.20%) NIST
6 2 (1.20%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.60%) GxP
7 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.60%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (8.38%) Docker
2 3 (1.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (20.96%) Terraform
2 21 (12.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.99%) Control-M
3 5 (2.99%) Grafana
3 5 (2.99%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.80%) Istio
4 3 (1.80%) Kiali
4 3 (1.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Demisto
5 1 (0.60%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 99 (59.28%) Google
2 18 (10.78%) Databricks
3 14 (8.38%) Oracle
4 13 (7.78%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.59%) Informatica
6 5 (2.99%) Splunk
7 3 (1.80%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.80%) Okta
7 3 (1.80%) Talend
7 3 (1.80%) xMatters
8 2 (1.20%) SAP
9 1 (0.60%) Adobe
9 1 (0.60%) Apple
9 1 (0.60%) Cisco
9 1 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.60%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.60%) Intel
9 1 (0.60%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.60%) Teradata