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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 105 76
Rank change year-on-year -15 -29 +42
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 34 16 28
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.17% 1.01% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.49% 5.02% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 13
10th Percentile £365 £259 £501
25th Percentile £406 £303 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £456 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -14.72% +7.00%
75th Percentile £475 £583 £700
90th Percentile £485 £710 -
England median daily rate £534 £506 £507
% change year-on-year +5.43% -0.15% -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 454 319 243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.57% 20.11% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 204 161
10th Percentile £350 £323 £370
25th Percentile £410 £392 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -5.34% +3.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £629 £675 £650
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 3
10th Percentile £17.58 - £20.05
25th Percentile £23.00 - £22.38
Median hourly rate £29.75 - £27.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.05%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £31.25
90th Percentile - - £32.75
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +11.99% -29.91%

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 October 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 October 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 -8 18 £475 +5.56% 12
South Yorkshire -31 16 £460 -0.54% 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 4 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 29 (85.29%) GCP
2 10 (29.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 8 (23.53%) Vertex AI
4 6 (17.65%) Cloud Run
5 4 (11.76%) Google Gemini
5 4 (11.76%) LangSmith
6 3 (8.82%) Collibra
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.94%) Apigee
8 1 (2.94%) Azure
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub
8 1 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.94%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.94%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (2.94%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) Metadata
2 4 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
3 3 (8.82%) Looker
3 3 (8.82%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (5.88%) Data Mart
4 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 2 (5.88%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.94%) MySQL
5 1 (2.94%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.94%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.94%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Publishing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Data Modeller
3 4 (11.76%) Data Scientist
3 4 (11.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Developer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (29.41%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Hugging Face
2 4 (11.76%) PyTorch
2 4 (11.76%) Quarkus
2 4 (11.76%) React
2 4 (11.76%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.94%) CSS
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) JWT
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) OAuth
3 1 (2.94%) Pandas
3 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (14.71%) AI Agents
3 4 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
3 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.82%) Data Fabric
4 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.88%) Clustering
5 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.94%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.94%) Replication
6 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) AI
2 17 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 16 (47.06%) CI/CD
4 14 (41.18%) Machine Learning
5 11 (32.35%) Analytics
6 10 (29.41%) Data Governance
6 10 (29.41%) Data Modelling
6 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (29.41%) Observability
7 9 (26.47%) Agile
7 9 (26.47%) Data Integration
7 9 (26.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (23.53%) Generative AI
8 8 (23.53%) LLM
9 7 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (20.59%) Metadata Management
9 7 (20.59%) Runbook
10 6 (17.65%) DevOps
10 6 (17.65%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) Bash
3 4 (11.76%) Go
3 4 (11.76%) Java
4 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (23.53%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (61.76%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) IBM
4 1 (2.94%) OneLogin
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) SAP