BigQuery Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 257 276 385
Rank change year-on-year +19 +109 +11
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 47 69 92
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.45% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.24% 2.37% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 47 57
10th Percentile £195 £368 £417
25th Percentile £313 £413 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £535 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% -10.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £537 £647 £688
90th Percentile £630 £710 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £530 £575
% change year-on-year -5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £78.75
25th Percentile - £46.75 £80.63
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -42.94% +223.81%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £88.13
90th Percentile - - £89.25
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £32.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year +61.54% -61.76% +223.81%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

BigQuery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BigQuery.

BigQuery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

BigQuery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BigQuery.

BigQuery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 9 (19.15%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (14.89%) Apache
3 3 (6.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (2.13%) Magento
1 1 (2.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 43 (91.49%) GCP
2 8 (17.02%) Azure
2 8 (17.02%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.89%) dbt
4 6 (12.77%) Snowflake
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Composer
5 5 (10.64%) Cloud Functions
6 4 (8.51%) AWS
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Run
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
7 3 (6.38%) Entra ID
7 3 (6.38%) Google Analytics
7 3 (6.38%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.26%) CloudBees
8 2 (4.26%) Google Ads
8 2 (4.26%) Google Data Studio
8 2 (4.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (36.17%) Looker
2 11 (23.40%) Tableau
3 8 (17.02%) Power BI
4 4 (8.51%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.38%) Big Data
5 3 (6.38%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Airbyte
7 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (2.13%) Bigtable
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Spanner
7 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.13%) Parquet
7 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (2.13%) RStudio
4 1 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
General
1 10 (21.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Advertising
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Marketing
4 2 (4.26%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Data Engineer
2 11 (23.40%) Analyst
3 8 (17.02%) Data Analyst
4 7 (14.89%) Developer
4 7 (14.89%) GCP Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) GCP Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Developer
6 3 (6.38%) GCP Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Junior
6 3 (6.38%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Junior Data Analyst
6 3 (6.38%) Middleware Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.38%) Senior
7 2 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) GCP Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Kafka
1 4 (8.51%) Node.js
1 4 (8.51%) React
2 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 3 (6.38%) Middleware
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) JSON
3 2 (4.26%) PySpark
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.13%) Django
4 1 (2.13%) Flask
4 1 (2.13%) NumPy
4 1 (2.13%) Pandas
4 1 (2.13%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (2.13%) pytest
4 1 (2.13%) RESTful
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
4 1 (2.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
4 1 (2.13%) Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.13%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Life Science
4 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) Analytics
1 16 (34.04%) Data Pipeline
1 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.79%) ETL
3 12 (25.53%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (21.28%) Data Visualisation
4 10 (21.28%) Visualisation
5 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
6 8 (17.02%) Data Science
6 8 (17.02%) Decision-Making
6 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
7 7 (14.89%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.89%) Data Analysis
7 7 (14.89%) Data Integration
8 6 (12.77%) Data Governance
9 5 (10.64%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (10.64%) Agile
9 5 (10.64%) API Development
9 5 (10.64%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) SQL
2 24 (51.06%) Python
3 10 (21.28%) Java
4 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.26%) R
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) Scala
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
1 5 (10.64%) Terraform
2 2 (4.26%) Grafana
2 2 (4.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (78.72%) Google
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) New Relic
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) Adobe
4 1 (2.13%) Apple
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Criteo
4 1 (2.13%) Databricks
4 1 (2.13%) Informatica
4 1 (2.13%) Okta
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Teradata
4 1 (2.13%) WooCommerce