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 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 407 485 499
Rank change year-on-year +78 +14 -90
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 175 211 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.41% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 2.06% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 157 284
10th Percentile £375 £394 £457
25th Percentile £431 £500 £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 £507 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +1.40% -16.67% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £29.15 £78.75 £22.85
25th Percentile £31.25 £80.63 £24.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +193.10% +45.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £88.13 £32.38
90th Percentile £43.65 £89.25 £33.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.50 - £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 7,287 10,222 17,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 17.85% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,225 7,278 12,532
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £549
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.73% +9.80%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 175 184
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.30 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +27.78% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £79.38 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.25 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +57.14% +45.83%

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 20 May 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 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in the UK

BigQuery
Top 15 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 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
England +89 152 £525 -12.50% 116
London +60 103 £530 -13.11% 72
Work from Home +101 78 £531 -11.58% 70
UK excluding London +60 47 £507 +1.40% 58
North of England +48 26 £507 -1.07% 22
Yorkshire +30 15 £507 -15.50% 10
North West +23 11 £406 -0.91% 11
South East +16 7 £345 -1.43% 16
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% 2
East Midlands - 1 - - 3

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 18 (10.29%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (9.71%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.00%) Oracle Workflow
4 6 (3.43%) Apache
5 3 (1.71%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.71%) Confluence
6 2 (1.14%) nginx
6 2 (1.14%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 154 (88.00%) GCP
2 26 (14.86%) GitHub
3 24 (13.71%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.86%) Google Analytics
4 19 (10.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 17 (9.71%) Azure
5 17 (9.71%) Google Compute Engine
6 15 (8.57%) AWS
7 14 (8.00%) Vertex AI
8 12 (6.86%) Cloud Computing
8 12 (6.86%) Cloud Run
8 12 (6.86%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (6.29%) dbt
10 10 (5.71%) Google Data Studio
11 9 (5.14%) Amazon S3
11 9 (5.14%) Cloud Functions
11 9 (5.14%) Serverless
12 7 (4.00%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 7 (4.00%) Google App Engine
13 6 (3.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) FTP
2 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (25.71%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (18.29%) Big Data
3 24 (13.71%) Power BI
4 23 (13.14%) Data Lake
5 20 (11.43%) Looker
6 19 (10.86%) Tableau
7 16 (9.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (8.57%) Relational Database
9 14 (8.00%) Metadata
10 12 (6.86%) Hadoop
11 11 (6.29%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (4.00%) RDBMS
13 7 (4.00%) Spark SQL
14 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
14 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
15 5 (2.86%) Bigtable
15 5 (2.86%) MongoDB
16 4 (2.29%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (10.86%) Git
2 16 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.86%) JIRA
3 5 (2.86%) Postman
4 2 (1.14%) Liquibase
4 2 (1.14%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.57%) GitLab
5 1 (0.57%) Selenium
5 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.29%) Finance
3 22 (12.57%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 16 (9.14%) Banking
6 13 (7.43%) Retail
7 8 (4.57%) Marketing
8 5 (2.86%) Advertising
8 5 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.14%) Billing
10 2 (1.14%) Czech Language
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Publishing
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Law
11 1 (0.57%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 46 (26.29%) Data Engineer
2 38 (21.71%) Architect
3 31 (17.71%) GCP Engineer
4 30 (17.14%) Analyst
5 20 (11.43%) Data Analyst
6 19 (10.86%) Senior
7 17 (9.71%) GCP Data Engineer
8 15 (8.57%) GCP Architect
9 13 (7.43%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.71%) Developer
10 10 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Java Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
12 7 (4.00%) Data Scientist
13 6 (3.43%) Java Architect
13 6 (3.43%) Performance Analyst
14 5 (2.86%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.00%) Kafka
2 11 (6.29%) Node.js
3 10 (5.71%) CSS
3 10 (5.71%) HTML
4 8 (4.57%) jQuery
5 7 (4.00%) OAuth
5 7 (4.00%) Spring Boot
6 6 (3.43%) .NET
6 6 (3.43%) Pandas
6 6 (3.43%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 5 (2.86%) DOM
7 5 (2.86%) JSON
7 5 (2.86%) RESTful
7 5 (2.86%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.86%) Swagger
8 4 (2.29%) Express.js
8 4 (2.29%) PySpark
9 3 (1.71%) CSS3
9 3 (1.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 7 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.86%) Marketing Technology
4 5 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.29%) Equities
5 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Social Media
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.14%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.14%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.57%) Linux
2 6 (3.43%) Windows
3 5 (2.86%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.29%) Analytics
2 55 (31.43%) ETL
3 53 (30.29%) Data Modelling
4 38 (21.71%) Data Science
4 38 (21.71%) DevOps
5 34 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (19.43%) Machine Learning
6 32 (18.29%) Data Pipeline
7 31 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (17.71%) CI/CD
8 28 (16.00%) Data Engineering
9 25 (14.29%) Agile
10 24 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence
11 22 (12.57%) Computer Science
12 21 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (10.86%) Containerisation
13 19 (10.86%) Data Ingestion
14 18 (10.29%) Identity Access Management
15 17 (9.71%) Migration
16 16 (9.14%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 95 (54.29%) Python
2 87 (49.71%) SQL
3 37 (21.14%) Java
4 14 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.43%) Bash
6 7 (4.00%) Go
7 6 (3.43%) TypeScript
8 5 (2.86%) Scala
9 4 (2.29%) R
10 3 (1.71%) C#
11 2 (1.14%) Groovy
11 2 (1.14%) Rust
11 2 (1.14%) U-SQL
11 2 (1.14%) VBA
12 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 20 (11.43%) Degree
2 16 (9.14%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.86%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.86%) CISSP
5 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.14%) QA
3 2 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (6.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (28.57%) Terraform
2 24 (13.71%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.57%) Ansible
4 2 (1.14%) Ambari
4 2 (1.14%) Oozie
5 1 (0.57%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.57%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 101 (57.71%) Google
2 11 (6.29%) Oracle
3 8 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.43%) Adobe
4 6 (3.43%) Databricks
4 6 (3.43%) Monetate
4 6 (3.43%) Optimizely
5 5 (2.86%) Ensighten
5 5 (2.86%) Omniture
5 5 (2.86%) Tealium
6 3 (1.71%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.71%) Brandwatch
6 3 (1.71%) Facebook
6 3 (1.71%) Hootsuite
6 3 (1.71%) Instagram
6 3 (1.71%) Twitter
6 3 (1.71%) YouTube
7 2 (1.14%) F5
7 2 (1.14%) Splunk
7 2 (1.14%) Symantec