BigQuery Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Google BigQuery
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 66 95
Rank change year-on-year -68 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 7 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.33% 1.10% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.20% 6.54% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £369 - -
25th Percentile £397 £143 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -12.00% +2.88%
75th Percentile £459 £625 £638
90th Percentile £476 £688 -
England median daily rate £525 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% -4.35%

All Database & BI Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 318 153 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.93% 16.89% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 103 143
10th Percentile £337 £300 £320
25th Percentile £425 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% -11.36%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £594
90th Percentile £695 £738 £650
England median daily rate £500 £538 £533
% change year-on-year -6.98% +0.84% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £29.60 - £20.18
25th Percentile £46.25 £26.25 £21.28
Median hourly rate £74.00 £27.50 £23.74
Median % change year-on-year +169.09% +15.83% -
75th Percentile - £31.45 £25.58
90th Percentile - £33.07 £26.30
England median hourly rate £53.25 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +31.48% -4.71% -24.01%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 February 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
South Yorkshire -58 4 £463 +218.97% 1
West Yorkshire -31 3 £388 -38.00% 4
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (28.57%) Collibra
3 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Spanner
1 2 (28.57%) DataStage
1 2 (28.57%) DB2
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Looker
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Data Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Lead
1 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (28.57%) LangChain
1 2 (28.57%) LangGraph
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
1 2 (28.57%) Reference Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) AI
2 2 (28.57%) API Development
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lineage
2 2 (28.57%) ETL
2 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
2 2 (28.57%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) Data Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Groovy
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Informatica
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle