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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 67 100
Rank change year-on-year -59 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 8 18 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.42% 1.67% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.35% 11.11% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile £333 - £465
25th Percentile £344 £143 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% - +2.46%
75th Percentile £459 £700 -
90th Percentile £476 £723 £633
England median daily rate £525 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +5.53% -9.55% -9.84%

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 341 162 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 17.98% 15.01% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 105 137
10th Percentile £337 £338 £310
25th Percentile £400 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £549 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £745 £658
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £20.83 £16.14
25th Percentile - £24.31 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +32.82% -
75th Percentile - £30.00 £24.37
90th Percentile - £32.25 £25.82
England median hourly rate £54.85 £39.50 £47.70
% change year-on-year +38.86% -17.19% -13.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in Yorkshire

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 2 January 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 -52 5 £450 +6.51%
West Yorkshire -20 3 £350 -46.15% 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) GCP
2 6 (75.00%) Azure
3 5 (62.50%) AWS
4 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (25.00%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (25.00%) Collibra
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Spanner
2 2 (25.00%) DataStage
2 2 (25.00%) DB2
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Looker
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
1 1 (12.50%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) GCP DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (25.00%) LangChain
1 2 (25.00%) LangGraph
1 2 (25.00%) React
1 2 (25.00%) REST
1 2 (25.00%) RESTful
1 2 (25.00%) Spring
1 2 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (25.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
2 1 (12.50%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) AI
3 2 (25.00%) API Development
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Product Backlog
4 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Java
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Google
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Informatica