BigQuery Contracts

Google BigQuery
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring BigQuery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BigQuery over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 491 478
Rank change year-on-year +74 -13 -38
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 178 212 439
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.38% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.39% 2.17% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 162 300
10th Percentile £375 £350 £452
25th Percentile £431 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% -3.13% -
75th Percentile £638 £692 £750
90th Percentile £698 £750 £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £485 £600
% change year-on-year +3.09% -19.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £80.63 £21.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +269.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £37.88 £88.13 £24.50
90th Percentile £45.30 £89.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £23.00
% change year-on-year - - +53.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,461 9,768 17,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.10% 17.58% 19.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,333 6,925 12,223
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 175 179
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.38
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.35 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%
75th Percentile £54.56 £74.38 £63.30
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -38.54% +62.71% +41.02%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Daily rate trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BigQuery.

Hourly rate trend for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 11 June 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
England +75 154 £525 -12.50% 111
London +33 99 £525 -13.93% 67
Work from Home +93 77 £507 -15.50% 57
UK excluding London +55 51 £500 +3.09% 45
North of England +51 30 £507 -1.07% 20
Yorkshire +19 18 £507 -15.50% 6
North West +22 12 £444 +8.23% 13
South East +13 10 £400 +15.94% 11
Scotland +39 4 £225 -43.75% 4
Wales +17 2 £550 -12.00% 4
Midlands +14 2 £450 -7.69% 3
West Midlands +10 2 £450 -7.69% 1
East of England - 2 £538 - 2
South West +3 1 £550 +37.50% 2

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (12.36%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (8.99%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.93%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.81%) Apache
5 3 (1.69%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.69%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) nginx
6 2 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 158 (88.76%) GCP
2 30 (16.85%) GitHub
3 22 (12.36%) Power Platform
4 20 (11.24%) Google Analytics
4 20 (11.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 19 (10.67%) Azure
6 18 (10.11%) Google Compute Engine
7 15 (8.43%) AWS
8 14 (7.87%) Cloud Computing
8 14 (7.87%) Vertex AI
9 12 (6.74%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (6.18%) Amazon S3
10 11 (6.18%) Cloud Run
10 11 (6.18%) Serverless
11 9 (5.06%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 9 (5.06%) Cloud Functions
11 9 (5.06%) dbt
12 8 (4.49%) Cloud Composer
12 8 (4.49%) Google App Engine
12 8 (4.49%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.81%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) FTP
2 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (21.35%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (16.85%) Big Data
3 23 (12.92%) Data Lake
4 22 (12.36%) Power BI
5 20 (11.24%) Looker
6 18 (10.11%) Tableau
7 17 (9.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (7.87%) Metadata
8 14 (7.87%) Relational Database
9 13 (7.30%) Hadoop
10 11 (6.18%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (6.18%) Spark SQL
11 10 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (5.06%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (3.93%) RDBMS
13 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.37%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.81%) Bigtable
15 5 (2.81%) NoSQL
16 4 (2.25%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 20 (11.24%) Git
2 17 (9.55%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.06%) JIRA
4 5 (2.81%) Postman
5 2 (1.12%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.12%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.56%) Selenium
6 1 (0.56%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 27 (15.17%) Finance
3 19 (10.67%) Public Sector
4 18 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (8.99%) Banking
6 12 (6.74%) Retail
7 9 (5.06%) Marketing
8 5 (2.81%) Advertising
8 5 (2.81%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.12%) Billing
10 2 (1.12%) Czech Language
10 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Publishing
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (28.65%) Data Engineer
2 35 (19.66%) GCP Engineer
3 32 (17.98%) Architect
4 28 (15.73%) Analyst
5 21 (11.80%) Senior
6 19 (10.67%) GCP Data Engineer
7 17 (9.55%) Data Analyst
8 12 (6.74%) Developer
8 12 (6.74%) GCP Architect
8 12 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Java Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Performance Analyst
12 6 (3.37%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (3.37%) Data Architect
12 6 (3.37%) Data Scientist
12 6 (3.37%) Java Architect
12 6 (3.37%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.11%) Kafka
2 11 (6.18%) Node.js
3 10 (5.62%) CSS
3 10 (5.62%) HTML
4 8 (4.49%) jQuery
4 8 (4.49%) PySpark
5 7 (3.93%) OAuth
5 7 (3.93%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.37%) .NET
6 6 (3.37%) Pandas
7 5 (2.81%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.81%) DOM
7 5 (2.81%) JSON
7 5 (2.81%) RESTful
7 5 (2.81%) Swagger
8 4 (2.25%) Express.js
8 4 (2.25%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.25%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.69%) CSS3
9 3 (1.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 8 (4.49%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.37%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (2.81%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.81%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.25%) Equities
6 4 (2.25%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.69%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.69%) Social Media
8 2 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.06%) Linux
2 7 (3.93%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) Unix
4 3 (1.69%) zOS
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (34.83%) Analytics
2 51 (28.65%) ETL
3 46 (25.84%) Data Modelling
4 44 (24.72%) DevOps
5 37 (20.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (20.22%) Data Science
7 35 (19.66%) CI/CD
8 33 (18.54%) Data Pipeline
9 30 (16.85%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (16.85%) Data Engineering
9 30 (16.85%) Machine Learning
10 28 (15.73%) Agile
11 24 (13.48%) Artificial Intelligence
12 21 (11.80%) Containerisation
12 21 (11.80%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (11.24%) Computer Science
14 18 (10.11%) Identity Access Management
14 18 (10.11%) Migration
15 17 (9.55%) Microservices
16 15 (8.43%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 97 (54.49%) Python
2 90 (50.56%) SQL
3 43 (24.16%) Java
4 16 (8.99%) JavaScript
5 15 (8.43%) Bash
6 9 (5.06%) Go
7 8 (4.49%) Scala
8 6 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.25%) Groovy
10 3 (1.69%) C#
10 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.12%) C++
11 2 (1.12%) R
11 2 (1.12%) Rust
11 2 (1.12%) U-SQL
11 2 (1.12%) VBA
12 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 18 (10.11%) Degree
2 15 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.81%) CISSP
5 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.06%) QA
2 8 (4.49%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (6.18%) Docker
2 2 (1.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (29.21%) Terraform
2 28 (15.73%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.49%) Ansible
4 3 (1.69%) Grafana
4 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.12%) Ambari
5 2 (1.12%) Oozie
6 1 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 107 (60.11%) Google
2 12 (6.74%) Oracle
3 9 (5.06%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.93%) Adobe
4 7 (3.93%) Databricks
5 6 (3.37%) Monetate
5 6 (3.37%) Optimizely
6 5 (2.81%) Ensighten
6 5 (2.81%) Omniture
6 5 (2.81%) Tealium
7 3 (1.69%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.69%) Brandwatch
7 3 (1.69%) F5
7 3 (1.69%) Facebook
7 3 (1.69%) Hootsuite
7 3 (1.69%) Instagram
7 3 (1.69%) Twitter
7 3 (1.69%) YouTube
8 2 (1.12%) Symantec
9 1 (0.56%) Ariba