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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 390 477
Rank change year-on-year +14 +87 -9
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 164 192 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.44% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.95% 2.55% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 126 165
10th Percentile £318 £378 £350
25th Percentile £425 £431 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -14.42% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £694
90th Percentile £685 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
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 5,562 7,516 9,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.49% 17.29% 17.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,784 5,367 6,767
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.19% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £760 £781 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 154 173
10th Percentile £19.42 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.57 £20.82 £32.30
Median hourly rate £34.99 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -30.43% +35.29%
75th Percentile £63.94 £54.03 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.50 £82.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £33.47 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.45% -39.15% +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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +35 142 £500 -4.76% 1,018
London +45 104 £525 - 679
Work from Home 0 51 £475 -6.31% 446
UK excluding London +35 39 £475 -5.00% 410
North of England +19 23 £530 +4.54% 110
Yorkshire -3 15 £521 +2.66% 40
North West +5 7 £515 +5.64% 56
Scotland +3 5 £463 +105.56% 24
East of England +25 4 £315 -41.40% 30
Midlands +11 4 £475 +5.56% 46
South East +40 3 £425 +6.25% 130
West Midlands +5 2 - - 23
East Midlands - 2 £475 - 23
South West +38 1 £650 +18.18% 45
North East - 1 £625 - 14

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 (19.51%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (12.20%) Apache Spark
3 18 (10.98%) Apache
4 4 (2.44%) Confluence
5 1 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.61%) Luigi
Applications
1 10 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.22%) Maple
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.61%) Magento
1 1 (0.61%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 150 (91.46%) GCP
2 43 (26.22%) Azure
3 40 (24.39%) dbt
4 36 (21.95%) AWS
5 30 (18.29%) Power Platform
5 30 (18.29%) Snowflake
6 17 (10.37%) GitHub
7 12 (7.32%) Cloud Composer
7 12 (7.32%) Cloud Functions
8 10 (6.10%) Vertex AI
9 9 (5.49%) Google Compute Engine
9 9 (5.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
12 6 (3.66%) Cloud Run
12 6 (3.66%) Collibra
13 5 (3.05%) Google Analytics
14 4 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.44%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.61%) DNS
1 1 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (34.76%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (23.78%) Looker
3 31 (18.90%) Tableau
4 30 (18.29%) Power BI
5 22 (13.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (8.54%) Data Lake
6 14 (8.54%) NoSQL
7 12 (7.32%) Big Data
8 11 (6.71%) Metadata
9 8 (4.88%) Hadoop
9 8 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 8 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.27%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.27%) Star Schema
11 6 (3.66%) Flink
12 5 (3.05%) Parquet
12 5 (3.05%) Power Query
12 5 (3.05%) RDBMS
13 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (1.83%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (11.59%) JIRA
2 13 (7.93%) Git
3 11 (6.71%) ER Studio
3 11 (6.71%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.44%) MLflow
4 4 (2.44%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.83%) ERwin
5 3 (1.83%) Jaeger
5 3 (1.83%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.22%) Postman
6 2 (1.22%) Selenium
6 2 (1.22%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.61%) git-flow
7 1 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 35 (21.34%) Finance
3 30 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.10%) Marketing
5 8 (4.88%) Advertising
5 8 (4.88%) Banking
6 7 (4.27%) Retail
7 5 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.44%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Automotive
11 1 (0.61%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (23.78%) Data Engineer
2 36 (21.95%) Architect
3 31 (18.90%) Analyst
4 27 (16.46%) Senior
5 23 (14.02%) Data Architect
6 22 (13.41%) GCP Engineer
7 20 (12.20%) Data Analyst
7 20 (12.20%) GCP Architect
8 13 (7.93%) GCP Data Engineer
9 12 (7.32%) Lead
10 11 (6.71%) Developer
11 10 (6.10%) GCP Data Architect
12 9 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
13 8 (4.88%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.88%) Data Modeller
14 7 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (3.66%) Senior Architect
15 6 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
16 5 (3.05%) Senior Data Architect
16 5 (3.05%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (18.29%) Kafka
2 9 (5.49%) React
3 8 (4.88%) AngularJS
3 8 (4.88%) PySpark
4 6 (3.66%) .NET
5 5 (3.05%) Apache Avro
5 5 (3.05%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.44%) Node.js
7 3 (1.83%) Apache Beam
7 3 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.83%) JSON
7 3 (1.83%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.83%) Middleware
7 3 (1.83%) NumPy
7 3 (1.83%) Pandas
8 2 (1.22%) gRPC
8 2 (1.22%) pytest
8 2 (1.22%) RESTful
8 2 (1.22%) SOAP
9 1 (0.61%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 13 (7.93%) Data Structures
3 12 (7.32%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.66%) Digital Media
5 5 (3.05%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.83%) PDA
7 3 (1.83%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.22%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Life Science
8 2 (1.22%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.22%) YARA
9 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.49%) Unix
2 4 (2.44%) Linux
3 2 (1.22%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (42.07%) Data Modelling
2 64 (39.02%) Analytics
3 63 (38.41%) ETL
4 53 (32.32%) CI/CD
4 53 (32.32%) Data Pipeline
5 47 (28.66%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (26.83%) Data Engineering
7 42 (25.61%) Data Governance
8 40 (24.39%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (23.78%) Agile
10 38 (23.17%) Visualisation
11 36 (21.95%) Data Integration
12 30 (18.29%) Data Visualisation
13 24 (14.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (14.63%) Data Science
14 22 (13.41%) DevOps
15 20 (12.20%) Actionable Insight
15 20 (12.20%) Data Transformation
15 20 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (11.59%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 93 (56.71%) SQL
2 81 (49.39%) Python
3 36 (21.95%) Java
4 16 (9.76%) Scala
5 12 (7.32%) Shell Script
6 7 (4.27%) Bash
7 5 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (3.05%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.44%) Groovy
9 3 (1.83%) Go
10 2 (1.22%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.22%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.22%) LookML
11 1 (0.61%) C#
11 1 (0.61%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.61%) Korn
11 1 (0.61%) R
11 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (6.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (4.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.66%) Degree
4 5 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.22%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.22%) PMP
7 1 (0.61%) CISM
7 1 (0.61%) CISSP
7 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.61%) GCIA
7 1 (0.61%) GCIH
7 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.61%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (17.07%) Data Quality
2 13 (7.93%) QA
3 10 (6.10%) GDPR
4 4 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.61%) GRC
7 1 (0.61%) GxP
7 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.61%) NIST
7 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.61%) PMO
7 1 (0.61%) SOC 2
System Software
1 14 (8.54%) Docker
2 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (20.73%) Terraform
2 20 (12.20%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.05%) Control-M
3 5 (3.05%) Grafana
3 5 (3.05%) Kubeflow
4 3 (1.83%) Istio
4 3 (1.83%) Kiali
4 3 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Demisto
5 1 (0.61%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 96 (58.54%) Google
2 17 (10.37%) Databricks
3 15 (9.15%) Oracle
4 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
5 6 (3.66%) Informatica
6 4 (2.44%) Splunk
7 3 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.83%) Okta
7 3 (1.83%) Talend
7 3 (1.83%) xMatters
8 2 (1.22%) SAP
9 1 (0.61%) Adobe
9 1 (0.61%) Apple
9 1 (0.61%) Cisco
9 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.61%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.61%) Intel
9 1 (0.61%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.61%) Teradata
9 1 (0.61%) Virgin Media