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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 73 115
Rank change year-on-year -27 +42 +18
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 17 30 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.11% 2.01% 0.096%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.72% 11.67% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 2
10th Percentile £260 £464 £435
25th Percentile £310 £504 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +4.00% -18.03%
75th Percentile £555 £650 £550
90th Percentile £710 £700 £565
England median daily rate £500 £531 £600
% change year-on-year -5.84% -11.50% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 297 257 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.37% 17.23% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 172 156
10th Percentile £314 £375 £322
25th Percentile £385 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £518 £505
Median % change year-on-year -8.02% +2.42% +1.05%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £628
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £13.25 £17.12
25th Percentile - £16.63 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £23.25 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +9.10% +11.63%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £22.68
90th Percentile - £32.25 £25.14
England median hourly rate £42.00 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +15.85% -34.09% +22.66%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -17 12 £463 -11.06% 1
West Yorkshire -20 5 £438 -12.50% 2
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.88%) Apache
3 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Maple
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (94.12%) GCP
2 6 (35.29%) Power Platform
3 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 5 (29.41%) dbt
3 5 (29.41%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (11.76%) CloudBees
4 2 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.88%) AWS
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Contentsquare
5 1 (5.88%) Google Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Looker
1 6 (35.29%) Power BI
1 6 (35.29%) Tableau
2 3 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Bigtable
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) Hazelcast
3 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
3 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Git
2 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 3 (17.65%) Jaeger
3 3 (17.65%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Selenium
4 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
4 1 (5.88%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Data Visualisation Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Engineering Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) GCP Architect
2 2 (11.76%) GCP Data Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Report Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile Test Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) gRPC
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) FMCG
3 1 (5.88%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) ETL
3 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
4 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) Architectural Design
5 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Data Transformation
6 3 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (17.65%) Microservices
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Product Backlog
6 3 (17.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 11 (64.71%) Python
3 9 (52.94%) Java
4 4 (23.53%) Groovy
4 4 (23.53%) Shell Script
5 3 (17.65%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) ANSI SQL
6 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 2 (11.76%) Kotlin
6 2 (11.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Control-M
1 5 (29.41%) Grafana
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) Istio
2 3 (17.65%) Kiali
3 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) AppDynamics
2 3 (17.65%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) xMatters
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) Hotjar
4 1 (5.88%) Optimizely
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle