BigQuery Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 373 350
Rank change year-on-year +108 -23 +5
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 76 84 289
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.35% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.61% 1.88% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 55 188
10th Percentile £350 £402 £416
25th Percentile £431 £474 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £600 £623
Median % change year-on-year -15.50% -3.61% -1.19%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £775
90th Percentile £688 £790 £838
UK median daily rate £507 £581 £600
% change year-on-year -12.77% -3.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £78.75 -
25th Percentile £46.75 £80.63 -
Median hourly rate £48.50 £85.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.94% - -
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.13 -
90th Percentile - £89.25 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £85.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -61.76% +269.57% +15.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,914 4,470 9,288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.75% 18.72% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 3,273 6,790
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £18.20 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £41.44 £21.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +37.89% +58.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

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

BigQuery
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 12 June 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 11 (14.47%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.95%) Apache
3 3 (3.95%) Apache Solr
4 2 (2.63%) nginx
5 1 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.32%) Confluence
5 1 (1.32%) SAS
5 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 65 (85.53%) GCP
2 16 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 13 (17.11%) Google Analytics
4 11 (14.47%) GitHub
5 7 (9.21%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (7.89%) Adobe Analytics
6 6 (7.89%) dbt
7 5 (6.58%) Azure
7 5 (6.58%) Serverless
7 5 (6.58%) Snowflake
8 4 (5.26%) AWS
8 4 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.26%) Google App Engine
8 4 (5.26%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.95%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
9 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.95%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (2.63%) CloudBees
10 2 (2.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) HTTP
2 1 (1.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (34.21%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (21.05%) Looker
2 16 (21.05%) Power BI
3 13 (17.11%) Data Lake
4 10 (13.16%) Big Data
4 10 (13.16%) Tableau
5 7 (9.21%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (9.21%) Metadata
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.95%) Bigtable
6 3 (3.95%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (3.95%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.95%) MySQL
6 3 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.95%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (9.21%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.58%) JIRA
4 4 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 10 (13.16%) Public Sector
1 10 (13.16%) Retail
2 9 (11.84%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Marketing
6 4 (5.26%) Advertising
7 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.63%) Czech Language
8 2 (2.63%) Publishing
8 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.32%) Billing
9 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (1.32%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (35.53%) Data Engineer
2 16 (21.05%) Analyst
3 15 (19.74%) GCP Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) GCP Data Engineer
5 9 (11.84%) Architect
5 9 (11.84%) Data Analyst
6 7 (9.21%) Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Big Data Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Business Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Business Intelligence Architect
9 2 (2.63%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Data Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.84%) Node.js
2 8 (10.53%) CSS
2 8 (10.53%) HTML
3 7 (9.21%) jQuery
4 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.26%) DOM
4 4 (5.26%) JSON
4 4 (5.26%) Kafka
4 4 (5.26%) PySpark
4 4 (5.26%) RESTful
4 4 (5.26%) Swagger
5 3 (3.95%) .NET
5 3 (3.95%) Express.js
6 2 (2.63%) CSS3
6 2 (2.63%) HTML5
6 2 (2.63%) REST
6 2 (2.63%) RxJS
7 1 (1.32%) Pandas
7 1 (1.32%) React
7 1 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.58%) Management Information System
1 5 (6.58%) Marketing Technology
2 3 (3.95%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.63%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.32%) Replication
4 1 (1.32%) Social Media
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (1.32%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (32.89%) Analytics
1 25 (32.89%) ETL
2 20 (26.32%) Agile
2 20 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
2 20 (26.32%) DevOps
3 17 (22.37%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.37%) Data Engineering
4 15 (19.74%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (18.42%) Data Modelling
6 12 (15.79%) Migration
7 11 (14.47%) Data Science
8 10 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (11.84%) Data Munging
10 8 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
11 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.21%) Visualisation
12 6 (7.89%) Data Analytics
12 6 (7.89%) Data Integration
12 6 (7.89%) Data Migration
12 6 (7.89%) Tag Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (60.53%) SQL
2 34 (44.74%) Python
3 13 (17.11%) Java
4 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.58%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.95%) Go
7 2 (2.63%) C#
7 2 (2.63%) Groovy
7 2 (2.63%) Rust
7 2 (2.63%) Scala
8 1 (1.32%) R
8 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) Degree
4 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (11.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (17.11%) Terraform
2 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.58%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (63.16%) Google
2 6 (7.89%) Adobe
3 5 (6.58%) Monetate
3 5 (6.58%) Optimizely
4 4 (5.26%) Ensighten
4 4 (5.26%) Omniture
4 4 (5.26%) Tealium
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.63%) Symantec
7 1 (1.32%) Amplitude
7 1 (1.32%) Brandwatch
7 1 (1.32%) Databricks
7 1 (1.32%) Facebook
7 1 (1.32%) Hootsuite
7 1 (1.32%) Instagram
7 1 (1.32%) Twitter
7 1 (1.32%) YouTube