BigQuery Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Google BigQuery
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 56 83
Rank change year-on-year -19 +27 +41
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 5 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.56% 1.55% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.94% 11.11% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £355 - £455
25th Percentile £363 £725 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £750 £588
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +27.66% -21.67%
75th Percentile £463 £775 £625
90th Percentile £485 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £338 £528 £588
% change year-on-year -36.02% -10.21% -3.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 170 108 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.02% 13.95% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 62 115
10th Percentile £356 £326 £308
25th Percentile £400 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £567 £600
90th Percentile £695 £706 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% +1.95% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £20.83 £16.97
25th Percentile - £24.31 £19.44
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £21.97
90th Percentile - £32.25 £24.86
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +11.63%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Leeds -21 5 £400 -46.67% 2
BigQuery
Yorkshire

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) dbt
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (20.00%) Contentsquare
5 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Bigtable
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Architect
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Data Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (20.00%) LangChain
2 1 (20.00%) LangGraph
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (40.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Data Design
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
3 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) ANSI SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Scala
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Hotjar
2 1 (20.00%) Optimizely