BigQuery Contracts

Google BigQuery
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 398 478 475
Rank change year-on-year +80 -3 -49
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 180 210 425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.37% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.47% 2.12% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 158 294
10th Percentile £375 £350 £453
25th Percentile £450 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £750
90th Percentile £700 £750 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £485 £600
% change year-on-year +3.81% -19.17% +14.29%
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 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 requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +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 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +62 155 £525 -9.68% 94
London +55 104 £531 -11.58% 57
Work from Home +108 80 £530 -9.79% 55
UK excluding London +44 47 £504 +3.81% 42
North of England +44 29 £507 -1.07% 20
Yorkshire +31 17 £507 -15.50% 6
North West +29 12 £444 +8.23% 13
South East +4 7 £345 - 8
Scotland +40 5 £470 +17.50% 4
Wales +12 2 £550 -12.00% 4
East of England - 2 £538 - 2
Midlands +20 1 £450 -7.69% 3
West Midlands +11 1 £450 -7.69% 1
South West +2 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 23 (12.78%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (8.89%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.89%) Oracle Workflow
4 5 (2.78%) Apache
5 3 (1.67%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.67%) Confluence
6 2 (1.11%) nginx
6 2 (1.11%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 160 (88.89%) GCP
2 30 (16.67%) GitHub
3 21 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 20 (11.11%) Google Analytics
5 19 (10.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 17 (9.44%) Azure
6 17 (9.44%) Google Compute Engine
7 15 (8.33%) Vertex AI
8 14 (7.78%) AWS
9 12 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
9 12 (6.67%) Cloud Run
9 12 (6.67%) dbt
9 12 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.56%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.56%) Serverless
11 9 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
11 9 (5.00%) Google Data Studio
12 8 (4.44%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 7 (3.89%) Cloud Composer
13 7 (3.89%) Google App Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.78%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) FTP
2 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.44%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (17.22%) Big Data
3 23 (12.78%) Data Lake
4 21 (11.67%) Power BI
5 20 (11.11%) Looker
6 19 (10.56%) Tableau
7 16 (8.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 14 (7.78%) Metadata
8 14 (7.78%) Relational Database
9 13 (7.22%) Hadoop
10 11 (6.11%) Spark SQL
11 10 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
12 8 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (3.89%) RDBMS
13 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.33%) MongoDB
15 5 (2.78%) Bigtable
15 5 (2.78%) NoSQL
16 4 (2.22%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (10.56%) Git
2 16 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.00%) JIRA
4 5 (2.78%) Postman
5 2 (1.11%) Liquibase
5 2 (1.11%) 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 (18.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (14.44%) Finance
3 20 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.89%) Banking
6 13 (7.22%) Retail
7 8 (4.44%) Marketing
8 5 (2.78%) Advertising
8 5 (2.78%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.11%) Billing
10 2 (1.11%) Czech Language
10 2 (1.11%) Legal
10 2 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.11%) 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%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 38 (21.11%) Architect
3 33 (18.33%) GCP Engineer
4 28 (15.56%) Analyst
5 20 (11.11%) Senior
6 19 (10.56%) GCP Data Engineer
7 18 (10.00%) Data Analyst
8 15 (8.33%) GCP Architect
9 12 (6.67%) Data Architect
9 12 (6.67%) Developer
10 11 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (4.44%) Java Engineer
12 8 (4.44%) Security Engineer
13 7 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
13 7 (3.89%) Data Scientist
13 7 (3.89%) Senior Data Engineer
14 6 (3.33%) Java Architect
14 6 (3.33%) Lead
14 6 (3.33%) Performance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (8.33%) Kafka
2 11 (6.11%) Node.js
3 10 (5.56%) CSS
3 10 (5.56%) HTML
4 8 (4.44%) jQuery
4 8 (4.44%) PySpark
5 7 (3.89%) OAuth
5 7 (3.89%) Pandas
5 7 (3.89%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.33%) .NET
7 5 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.78%) DOM
7 5 (2.78%) JSON
7 5 (2.78%) RESTful
7 5 (2.78%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.78%) Swagger
7 5 (2.78%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.22%) Express.js
9 3 (1.67%) CSS3
9 3 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 8 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.78%) Marketing Technology
5 5 (2.78%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.22%) Equities
6 4 (2.22%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.67%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.67%) Data Fabric
7 3 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.67%) Social Media
8 2 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.11%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.11%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (5.00%) Linux
2 7 (3.89%) Windows
3 5 (2.78%) Unix
4 3 (1.67%) zOS
5 2 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (33.89%) Analytics
2 56 (31.11%) ETL
3 51 (28.33%) Data Modelling
4 42 (23.33%) DevOps
5 37 (20.56%) Data Science
6 35 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
6 35 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (18.33%) CI/CD
7 33 (18.33%) Machine Learning
8 29 (16.11%) Agile
8 29 (16.11%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (16.11%) Data Engineering
9 24 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (11.67%) Computer Science
10 21 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (10.56%) Containerisation
11 19 (10.56%) Data Ingestion
12 18 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
13 17 (9.44%) Migration
14 15 (8.33%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 93 (51.67%) Python
2 90 (50.00%) SQL
3 39 (21.67%) Java
4 14 (7.78%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.22%) Bash
6 7 (3.89%) Go
7 6 (3.33%) Scala
7 6 (3.33%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.67%) C#
9 2 (1.11%) Groovy
9 2 (1.11%) R
9 2 (1.11%) Rust
9 2 (1.11%) U-SQL
9 2 (1.11%) VBA
10 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.56%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (10.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 19 (10.56%) Degree
2 15 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.78%) CISSP
5 2 (1.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.00%) QA
3 2 (1.11%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (6.11%) Docker
2 2 (1.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (27.78%) Terraform
2 26 (14.44%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.44%) Ansible
4 3 (1.67%) Grafana
4 3 (1.67%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.11%) Ambari
5 2 (1.11%) Oozie
6 1 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 108 (60.00%) Google
2 12 (6.67%) Oracle
3 9 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.89%) Databricks
5 6 (3.33%) Adobe
5 6 (3.33%) Monetate
5 6 (3.33%) Optimizely
6 5 (2.78%) Ensighten
6 5 (2.78%) Omniture
6 5 (2.78%) Tealium
7 3 (1.67%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.67%) Brandwatch
7 3 (1.67%) F5
7 3 (1.67%) Facebook
7 3 (1.67%) Hootsuite
7 3 (1.67%) Instagram
7 3 (1.67%) Twitter
7 3 (1.67%) YouTube
8 2 (1.11%) Symantec
9 1 (0.56%) Ariba