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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 98 72
Rank change year-on-year -31 -26 +37
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 26 16 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.91% 1.05% 1.97%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.68% 5.35% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 15
10th Percentile £405 £260 £464
25th Percentile £445 £310 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -13.46% +4.00%
75th Percentile £475 £555 £650
90th Percentile - £710 £700
England median daily rate £538 £525 £507
% change year-on-year +2.38% +3.55% -15.50%

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 458 299 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 16.00% 19.61% 17.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 196 183
10th Percentile £350 £325 £365
25th Percentile £413 £385 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -5.09% +0.10%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £594
90th Percentile £638 £618 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £545
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.96% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £17.58 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.76 £11.00
Median hourly rate £29.75 £33.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.15% +145.26% -36.65%
75th Percentile £35.00 £34.46 -
90th Percentile - - £22.35
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.63% -1.21% -36.36%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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
West Yorkshire -13 19 £475 +8.57% 4
South Yorkshire -26 7 £460 -0.54%
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 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 21 (80.77%) GCP
2 10 (38.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (34.62%) Vertex AI
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Run
4 4 (15.38%) Google Gemini
4 4 (15.38%) LangSmith
5 3 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (3.85%) Apigee
7 1 (3.85%) Azure
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.85%) Google Analytics
7 1 (3.85%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Looker
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.54%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (7.69%) Data Mart
3 2 (7.69%) Metadata
3 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.85%) Neo4j
4 1 (3.85%) SQLite
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Data Scientist
3 4 (15.38%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Performance Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Quarkus
2 5 (19.23%) React
3 4 (15.38%) Hugging Face
3 4 (15.38%) PyTorch
3 4 (15.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.85%) CSS
4 1 (3.85%) JSON
4 1 (3.85%) JWT
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) Pandas
4 1 (3.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) AI Agents
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security Posture
2 3 (11.54%) Security Posture
3 2 (7.69%) Clustering
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) AI
2 10 (38.46%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) Machine Learning
3 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
3 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Generative AI
4 8 (30.77%) LLM
5 7 (26.92%) Observability
6 6 (23.08%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Analytics
7 5 (19.23%) API Development
7 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
7 5 (19.23%) Data Science
7 5 (19.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (19.23%) Microservices
7 5 (19.23%) MLOps
7 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 4 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
4 3 (11.54%) Go
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Google
2 4 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.85%) Databricks
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) OneLogin