BigQuery Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 263 364 369
Rank change year-on-year +101 +5 -41
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 78 91 261
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.53% 0.37% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.71% 1.93% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 56 176
10th Percentile £358 £415 £415
25th Percentile £400 £480 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £800
90th Percentile £688 £775 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £85.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.94% +142.86% +133.33%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.13 -
90th Percentile - £89.25 -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,878 4,713 9,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.55% 19.02% 21.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,121 3,444 7,002
10th Percentile £356 £388 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £549
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 79 89
10th Percentile £18.60 £22.16 £19.80
25th Percentile £22.43 £40.00 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +36.84% +48.44%
75th Percentile £62.25 £74.38 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%

BigQuery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BigQuery trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BigQuery.

BigQuery daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BigQuery over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

BigQuery daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BigQuery.

BigQuery hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 8 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (8.97%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.85%) Apache
3 3 (3.85%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.56%) nginx
5 1 (1.28%) Confluence
5 1 (1.28%) SAS
5 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 66 (84.62%) GCP
2 18 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 14 (17.95%) Google Analytics
4 8 (10.26%) dbt
4 8 (10.26%) GitHub
5 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (6.41%) Adobe Analytics
6 5 (6.41%) Azure
6 5 (6.41%) Serverless
7 4 (5.13%) AWS
7 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.13%) Google App Engine
7 4 (5.13%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.85%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
8 3 (3.85%) Google Compute Engine
8 3 (3.85%) Google Tag Manager
9 2 (2.56%) CloudBees
9 2 (2.56%) npm
9 2 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) HTTP
2 1 (1.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (37.18%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (23.08%) Power BI
3 15 (19.23%) Looker
4 13 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 11 (14.10%) Big Data
5 11 (14.10%) Tableau
6 7 (8.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (7.69%) Metadata
8 4 (5.13%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (3.85%) Bigtable
9 3 (3.85%) Cloud Spanner
9 3 (3.85%) MySQL
9 3 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 2 (2.56%) Data Mining
10 2 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (1.28%) Flink
11 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
11 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Git
2 7 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.13%) Postman
4 3 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 10 (12.82%) Finance
1 10 (12.82%) Public Sector
1 10 (12.82%) Retail
2 9 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Banking
4 4 (5.13%) Advertising
4 4 (5.13%) Marketing
5 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Billing
6 2 (2.56%) Czech Language
6 2 (2.56%) Publishing
6 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.28%) Law
7 1 (1.28%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.28%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Data Engineer
2 18 (23.08%) Analyst
3 14 (17.95%) Architect
4 13 (16.67%) GCP Engineer
5 11 (14.10%) Data Analyst
6 10 (12.82%) GCP Data Engineer
7 8 (10.26%) Data Architect
7 8 (10.26%) Senior
8 7 (8.97%) Developer
9 4 (5.13%) ETL Architect
9 4 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.85%) Big Data Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Lead
10 3 (3.85%) Software Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) Business Analyst
11 2 (2.56%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 2 (2.56%) GCP Architect
11 2 (2.56%) GCP Data Architect
11 2 (2.56%) Lead DevOps
11 2 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.54%) Node.js
2 8 (10.26%) CSS
2 8 (10.26%) HTML
3 7 (8.97%) jQuery
4 4 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.13%) DOM
4 4 (5.13%) JSON
4 4 (5.13%) Kafka
4 4 (5.13%) RESTful
4 4 (5.13%) Swagger
5 3 (3.85%) .NET
5 3 (3.85%) Express.js
6 2 (2.56%) CSS3
6 2 (2.56%) HTML5
6 2 (2.56%) REST
6 2 (2.56%) RxJS
7 1 (1.28%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.28%) PySpark
7 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.13%) Marketing Technology
3 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.56%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.28%) Replication
5 1 (1.28%) Social Media
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) ETL
2 25 (32.05%) Analytics
3 21 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (24.36%) Data Modelling
5 18 (23.08%) Agile
5 18 (23.08%) DevOps
6 17 (21.79%) CI/CD
6 17 (21.79%) Data Engineering
7 12 (15.38%) Data Ingestion
7 12 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
7 12 (15.38%) Migration
8 11 (14.10%) Data Science
9 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (11.54%) Data Munging
10 9 (11.54%) Machine Learning
11 8 (10.26%) Visualisation
12 6 (7.69%) Data Analytics
12 6 (7.69%) Data Migration
12 6 (7.69%) Software Engineering
12 6 (7.69%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 43 (55.13%) SQL
2 35 (44.87%) Python
3 13 (16.67%) Java
4 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.85%) Go
7 2 (2.56%) C#
7 2 (2.56%) Groovy
7 2 (2.56%) R
7 2 (2.56%) Rust
7 2 (2.56%) Scala
8 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.85%) Degree
4 2 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.28%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (1.28%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (17.95%) Terraform
2 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (62.82%) Google
2 5 (6.41%) Adobe
2 5 (6.41%) Monetate
2 5 (6.41%) Optimizely
3 4 (5.13%) Ensighten
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.13%) Omniture
3 4 (5.13%) Tealium
4 2 (2.56%) Databricks
4 2 (2.56%) Symantec
5 1 (1.28%) Amplitude
5 1 (1.28%) Ariba
5 1 (1.28%) Brandwatch
5 1 (1.28%) Facebook
5 1 (1.28%) Hootsuite
5 1 (1.28%) Instagram
5 1 (1.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.28%) Splunk
5 1 (1.28%) Twitter
5 1 (1.28%) YouTube