BigQuery Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Google BigQuery
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 96 104
Rank change year-on-year -51 +8 +34
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 9 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 1.39% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £263 - £455
25th Percentile £300 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.36% -30.00% -
75th Percentile £498 £400 £575
90th Percentile £500 - -
England median daily rate £548 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +9.50% -6.54% -7.96%

All Database & BI 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 580 216 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.97% 15.78% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 143 224
10th Percentile £350 £300 £307
25th Percentile £413 £411 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £584
90th Percentile £645 £685 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.80 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £16.57 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £18.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +170.83% -55.56% +60.40%
75th Percentile £59.69 £19.00 -
90th Percentile £70.38 - -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -32.54%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 April 2026. 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 -24 5 £494 +41.07% 2
Coventry - 4 £275 -
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) GCP
2 4 (44.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (11.11%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Tableau
2 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (11.11%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Data Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 4 (44.44%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics Specialist
4 2 (22.22%) Real Time Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Apache Beam
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Clustering
2 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (44.44%) Change Data Capture
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Data Ingestion
2 4 (44.44%) GitOps
2 4 (44.44%) Low Latency
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Customer Retention
3 3 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (33.33%) Observability
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Management
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Trend Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Python
3 4 (44.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Anaplan
3 1 (11.11%) SAP