BigQuery Contracts in the West Midlands

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England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 106 136
Rank change year-on-year +12 +30 +31
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 3 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 0.26% 0.13%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 1.66% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £455 -
25th Percentile £300 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% - +19.40%
75th Percentile £400 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £531 £594
% change year-on-year -5.75% -10.65% +6.03%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 211 302 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.69% 15.51% 17.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 232 283
10th Percentile £295 £301 £350
25th Percentile £410 £358 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
75th Percentile £600 £577 £588
90th Percentile £690 £700 £698
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile £15.80 - £24.13
25th Percentile £16.57 - £24.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -
75th Percentile £19.00 - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the West Midlands

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the West Midlands

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham - 2 £350 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Looker
General
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Looker Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Security
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) SAP