BigQuery Contracts in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BigQuery skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BigQuery over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 407 429
Rank change year-on-year +60 +22 -28
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 47 39 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.84% 1.11% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 50
10th Percentile £179 £346 £398
25th Percentile £395 £400 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £584 £620 £750
90th Percentile £639 £650 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.50 - £23.00
75th Percentile £33.25 - £24.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year -61.76% +193.10% +45.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

BigQuery is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,561 3,510 5,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.64% 15.17% 17.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,816 2,518 3,857
10th Percentile £313 £338 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £580 £594 £586
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 108 131
10th Percentile £13.52 £21.14 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £30.54 £20.75
Median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £60.50 £69.06 £61.08
90th Percentile £74.75 £76.43 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the UK excluding London

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
North of England +48 26 £507 -1.07% 23
Yorkshire +30 15 £507 -15.50% 10
North West +23 11 £406 -0.91% 12
South East +16 7 £345 -1.43% 14
Scotland +45 6 £638 +59.38% 4
Midlands +17 3 £513 +5.13% 6
West Midlands +19 2 £513 +5.13% 3
Wales +14 2 £550 -12.00% 6
East of England - 2 £538 - 2
South West +5 1 £550 +37.50% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 3
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (25.53%) Apache Spark
2 8 (17.02%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (10.64%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (89.36%) GCP
2 12 (25.53%) AWS
3 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 10 (21.28%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (17.02%) Power Platform
5 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
5 7 (14.89%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
5 7 (14.89%) Serverless
6 6 (12.77%) Google Analytics
7 4 (8.51%) GitHub
7 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.51%) Google Data Studio
8 3 (6.38%) Google Sheets
8 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
9 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (4.26%) CloudBees
9 2 (4.26%) Google App Engine
9 2 (4.26%) Google Compute Engine
10 1 (2.13%) Cloud Run
10 1 (2.13%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Data Lake
2 13 (27.66%) Big Data
3 12 (25.53%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (23.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (21.28%) Hadoop
6 8 (17.02%) Power BI
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (14.89%) Metadata
8 6 (12.77%) Tableau
9 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
10 3 (6.38%) Data Vault
10 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
10 3 (6.38%) Spark SQL
11 2 (4.26%) Apache Hive
11 2 (4.26%) Data Hub
11 2 (4.26%) DB2
11 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (4.26%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Git
2 11 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.28%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
4 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (6.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.13%) Automotive
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Publishing
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Analyst
1 12 (25.53%) Data Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.89%) Data Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Performance Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Senior
6 4 (8.51%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) GCP Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Lead
7 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Social Media Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Data Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Developer
8 2 (4.26%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (2.13%) GCP Data Architect
9 1 (2.13%) Power BI Analyst
9 1 (2.13%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Kafka
2 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.38%) CSS
2 3 (6.38%) HTML
2 3 (6.38%) Node.js
2 3 (6.38%) RESTful
3 2 (4.26%) Apache Beam
3 2 (4.26%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) CSS3
4 1 (2.13%) Express.js
4 1 (2.13%) HTML5
4 1 (2.13%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) RxJS
4 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Social Media
2 2 (4.26%) Data Fabric
2 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Replication
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Linux
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) zOS
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Data Modelling
2 19 (40.43%) Analytics
3 17 (36.17%) ETL
4 15 (31.91%) DevOps
5 12 (25.53%) Containerisation
5 12 (25.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (23.40%) Data Engineering
7 10 (21.28%) Data Governance
7 10 (21.28%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
8 9 (19.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (17.02%) Data Analysis
10 7 (14.89%) Data Integration
10 7 (14.89%) Data Science
10 7 (14.89%) High Availability
10 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.89%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (14.89%) Translating Business Requirements
10 7 (14.89%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (74.47%) SQL
2 30 (63.83%) Python
3 9 (19.15%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.38%) Scala
4 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.26%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) MATLAB
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 2 (4.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (63.83%) Google
2 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) Brandwatch
3 3 (6.38%) Facebook
3 3 (6.38%) Hootsuite
3 3 (6.38%) Instagram
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Twitter
3 3 (6.38%) YouTube
4 2 (4.26%) Databricks
4 2 (4.26%) F5
5 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.13%) Informatica
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce