BigQuery Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Google BigQuery
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 78 111
Rank change year-on-year -30 +33 -
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 2 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.089% 0.42% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.18% 2.86% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £506
25th Percentile £563 - £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £315 £538
Median % change year-on-year +82.54% -41.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £318 £566
90th Percentile - £320 £579
England median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% -10.64%

All Database & BI Skills
East of England

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 in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 170 140 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.60% 14.58% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 89 73
10th Percentile £325 £370 £301
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £560
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 7
10th Percentile £20.45 £19.25 £12.91
25th Percentile £21.75 £26.42 £14.34
Median hourly rate £29.48 £31.64 £15.98
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% +98.00% -75.60%
75th Percentile £54.38 £65.25 £29.88
90th Percentile £82.25 £82.25 £34.10
England median hourly rate £41.71 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.98% -20.39% -31.73%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BigQuery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

BigQuery job vacancy trend in the East of England

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BigQuery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BigQuery within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 May 2026. 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
Essex -14 1 £575 +82.54% 1
Norfolk - 1 - -
BigQuery
England

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Collibra
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) BPMN
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Informatica
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Talend