BigQuery Contract Job Trends in England

Google BigQuery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring BigQuery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 357 387
Rank change year-on-year -14 +30 +61
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 235 141 170
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.57% 0.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 3.03% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 90 117
10th Percentile £413 £315 £383
25th Percentile £463 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £594 £638
90th Percentile £675 £696 £738
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +7.50% -1.38% -15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £50.31 £51.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +29.63% -52.35%
75th Percentile £58.73 £53.75 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.61 - £48.60
UK median hourly rate £53.50 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +1.90% +61.54% -61.76%

All Database & BI Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,586 4,654 6,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.24% 18.69% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,465 3,238 4,676
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 86 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.05 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -14.53% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.00 £64.31 £53.84
90th Percentile £81.64 £78.10 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.86% -12.50% -31.73%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

BigQuery job vacancy trend in England

BigQuery
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BigQuery in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing BigQuery

BigQuery
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BigQuery in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BigQuery in England

BigQuery
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 June 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
London -8 176 £550 +6.02% 39
North of England -73 26 £475 -10.38% 10
Yorkshire -59 15 £475 -8.74%
North West -43 8 - - 8
West Midlands -53 8 £456 -
Midlands -54 8 £456 -3.95% 1
South East -58 7 £700 +64.71% 20
South West -26 3 £538 -17.31% 1
North East -33 3 £481 -23.00% 2
East of England -35 2 £575 +82.54% 4
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 32 (13.62%) Apache Airflow
2 31 (13.19%) Apache Spark
3 25 (10.64%) Apache
4 7 (2.98%) Confluence
5 6 (2.55%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 12 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.13%) BambooHR
2 3 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 3 (1.28%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (75.74%) GCP
2 58 (24.68%) AWS
3 54 (22.98%) Azure
4 53 (22.55%) Snowflake
5 37 (15.74%) dbt
6 35 (14.89%) Power Platform
7 28 (11.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 27 (11.49%) Vertex AI
9 23 (9.79%) Amazon S3
10 17 (7.23%) Cloud Functions
11 15 (6.38%) Cloud Run
11 15 (6.38%) GitHub
12 14 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (5.96%) Serverless
13 13 (5.53%) Collibra
14 12 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
17 8 (3.40%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) FTP
2 1 (0.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (20.85%) Data Warehouse
2 36 (15.32%) Tableau
3 35 (14.89%) Power BI
4 32 (13.62%) Looker
5 29 (12.34%) Data Lake
6 26 (11.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (7.23%) NoSQL
8 16 (6.81%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (6.38%) Big Data
10 11 (4.68%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (4.68%) Mixpanel
10 11 (4.68%) OLAP
10 11 (4.68%) SQL Server
11 10 (4.26%) Metadata
11 10 (4.26%) OLTP
12 8 (3.40%) Flink
12 8 (3.40%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.98%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.98%) Parquet
13 7 (2.98%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (7.23%) Git
2 10 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 9 (3.83%) GitLab
3 9 (3.83%) JIRA
4 2 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.85%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.85%) ERwin
4 2 (0.85%) MLflow
4 2 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.43%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.43%) Maven
5 1 (0.43%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 58 (24.68%) Finance
2 35 (14.89%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.91%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (10.64%) Retail
5 18 (7.66%) Banking
6 12 (5.11%) Marketing
6 12 (5.11%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 6 (2.55%) Games
9 5 (2.13%) Billing
9 5 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Automotive
10 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Back Office
12 1 (0.43%) Military
12 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (36.17%) Data Engineer
2 40 (17.02%) GCP Engineer
3 38 (16.17%) Senior
4 30 (12.77%) GCP Data Engineer
5 28 (11.91%) Architect
6 23 (9.79%) Lead
7 19 (8.09%) Analyst
8 16 (6.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 14 (5.96%) Data Architect
9 14 (5.96%) Developer
10 13 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (5.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
12 11 (4.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 11 (4.68%) Cloud Architect
12 11 (4.68%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (4.68%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.26%) Data Scientist
13 10 (4.26%) Principal Data Engineer
14 8 (3.40%) Data Analyst
15 7 (2.98%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.91%) Kafka
2 13 (5.53%) Apache Beam
2 13 (5.53%) Great Expectations
3 11 (4.68%) REST
4 10 (4.26%) PySpark
4 10 (4.26%) PyTorch
5 8 (3.40%) Pandas
6 7 (2.98%) React
7 6 (2.55%) NumPy
7 6 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.55%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.13%) Apache Avro
8 5 (2.13%) LangChain
8 5 (2.13%) Quarkus
9 4 (1.70%) LangGraph
9 4 (1.70%) Model Context Protocol
9 4 (1.70%) OAuth
10 3 (1.28%) JSON
10 3 (1.28%) OpenID
10 3 (1.28%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.81%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.83%) Clustering
5 7 (2.98%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.55%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.85%) Life Science
10 2 (0.85%) Podcast
10 2 (0.85%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
11 1 (0.43%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.13%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.64%) Analytics
2 90 (38.30%) Data Modelling
3 82 (34.89%) CI/CD
4 75 (31.91%) Data Engineering
5 73 (31.06%) Data Pipeline
6 67 (28.51%) ETL
7 64 (27.23%) AI
8 61 (25.96%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (25.53%) Machine Learning
10 50 (21.28%) Agile
11 45 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
12 43 (18.30%) Data Governance
12 43 (18.30%) DevOps
13 41 (17.45%) Observability
14 38 (16.17%) Decision-Making
15 35 (14.89%) Data Science
16 34 (14.47%) LLM
17 33 (14.04%) Data Architecture
18 27 (11.49%) Containerisation
19 25 (10.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 139 (59.15%) SQL
2 121 (51.49%) Python
3 32 (13.62%) Java
4 12 (5.11%) Go
5 11 (4.68%) C#
6 6 (2.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (2.55%) PHP
6 6 (2.55%) Scala
7 5 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.28%) Bash
8 3 (1.28%) LookML
9 2 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (0.85%) Korn
9 2 (0.85%) R
9 2 (0.85%) Ruby
9 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.85%) SOQL
9 2 (0.85%) VBA
10 1 (0.43%) Cypher
10 1 (0.43%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 22 (9.36%) Security Cleared
2 13 (5.53%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.13%) DV Cleared
4 4 (1.70%) Degree
5 3 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) ISEB
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.43%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (29.36%) Data Quality
2 17 (7.23%) GDPR
3 14 (5.96%) QA
4 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.43%) ITGC
5 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (13.19%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (25.53%) Terraform
2 39 (16.60%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.98%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.70%) Istio
4 4 (1.70%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.85%) Ansible
5 2 (0.85%) Grafana
6 1 (0.43%) Argo
Vendors
1 86 (36.60%) Google
2 47 (20.00%) Databricks
3 14 (5.96%) Microsoft
4 12 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.40%) Oracle
6 7 (2.98%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.13%) Workday
8 3 (1.28%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.28%) Citrix
8 3 (1.28%) PagerDuty
8 3 (1.28%) Sage
9 2 (0.85%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.43%) Informatica
10 1 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.43%) New Relic
10 1 (0.43%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.43%) Talend