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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 87 74
Rank change year-on-year -41 -13 +40
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 21 17 26
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.74% 1.21% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.78% 6.44% 9.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 14
10th Percentile £373 £264 £461
25th Percentile £426 £374 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £464 £514
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% -9.59% -14.42%
75th Percentile - £619 £587
90th Percentile - £703 £700
England median daily rate £525 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.31% -12.92%

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 439 264 285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 15.40% 18.72% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 172 195
10th Percentile £340 £322 £375
25th Percentile £413 £392 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £587 £556 £594
90th Percentile £675 £610 £650
England median daily rate £500 £518 £531
% change year-on-year -3.38% -2.54% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 9
10th Percentile £17.90 - -
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.76 £11.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +145.26% -36.65%
75th Percentile - £34.46 -
90th Percentile £66.20 - £22.35
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.82 £38.50
% change year-on-year +13.46% -9.57% -30.00%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -18 18 £475 +5.56% 4
South Yorkshire -46 3 £325 -30.26% 2
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 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) GCP
2 9 (42.86%) Vertex AI
3 7 (33.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 4 (19.05%) Google Gemini
4 4 (19.05%) LangSmith
5 2 (9.52%) Google Data Studio
5 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 1 (4.76%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.76%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Looker
2 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 2 (9.52%) Data Mart
2 2 (9.52%) Metadata
2 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 2 (9.52%) Semantic Layer
2 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
3 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
3 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Data Scientist
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Looker Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Quarkus
1 5 (23.81%) React
2 4 (19.05%) Hugging Face
2 4 (19.05%) PyTorch
2 4 (19.05%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) AI Agents
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) AI
2 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
2 8 (38.10%) Generative AI
2 8 (38.10%) LLM
2 8 (38.10%) Machine Learning
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 5 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) API Development
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (19.05%) Data Science
5 4 (19.05%) Microservices
5 4 (19.05%) MLOps
5 4 (19.05%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (19.05%) Observability
5 4 (19.05%) Open Source
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (19.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 3 (14.29%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Google
2 4 (19.05%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.76%) OneLogin