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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 348 386
Rank change year-on-year -11 +38 +71
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 236 136 153
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.56% 0.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.72% 2.96% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 87 105
10th Percentile £413 £314 £377
25th Percentile £463 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £617 £575 £638
90th Percentile £691 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £45.63 - £32.80
25th Percentile £50.50 £51.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +29.63% -52.35%
75th Percentile £58.79 £53.75 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.61 - £48.60
UK median hourly rate £54.25 £52.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +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 6,351 4,595 6,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.14% 19.08% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,319 3,181 4,506
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £421 £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 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 91 138
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -31.73%
75th Percentile £73.88 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £73.25
UK median hourly rate £42.11 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.15% -14.53% -33.33%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +9 178 £550 +7.32% 83
North of England -78 26 £450 -16.67% 20
Yorkshire -55 15 £475 -13.64% 7
North West -32 10 £388 -24.76% 11
Midlands -46 9 £456 -3.95% 4
West Midlands -48 9 £456 - 2
South East -63 5 £700 +64.71% 30
South West -26 4 £538 -17.31% 2
East of England -30 2 £575 +82.54% 6
North East -28 1 £500 -20.00% 2
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 30 (12.71%) Apache Spark
2 27 (11.44%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (10.59%) Apache
4 7 (2.97%) Confluence
5 6 (2.54%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.42%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.12%) BambooHR
2 1 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 176 (74.58%) GCP
2 55 (23.31%) Azure
3 53 (22.46%) AWS
4 46 (19.49%) Snowflake
5 37 (15.68%) Power Platform
6 35 (14.83%) dbt
7 33 (13.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 28 (11.86%) Vertex AI
9 22 (9.32%) Amazon S3
10 20 (8.47%) Cloud Run
11 17 (7.20%) GitHub
12 15 (6.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 15 (6.36%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (5.93%) Cloud Functions
13 14 (5.93%) Collibra
14 13 (5.51%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
15 12 (5.08%) Google Gemini
16 11 (4.66%) Serverless
17 8 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.27%) FTP
2 1 (0.42%) Network Security
2 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (17.80%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (15.68%) Power BI
3 36 (15.25%) Tableau
4 32 (13.56%) Looker
5 30 (12.71%) Data Lake
6 19 (8.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 17 (7.20%) NoSQL
8 16 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (6.36%) Big Data
10 13 (5.51%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (5.51%) Mixpanel
10 13 (5.51%) OLAP
11 12 (5.08%) OLTP
11 12 (5.08%) SQL Server
12 8 (3.39%) Metadata
13 7 (2.97%) Flink
13 7 (2.97%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.97%) Parquet
13 7 (2.97%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.97%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (6.78%) Git
1 16 (6.78%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.93%) GitLab
3 9 (3.81%) JIRA
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 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
5 1 (0.42%) Maven
5 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (22.88%) Finance
2 30 (12.71%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.86%) Retail
4 18 (7.63%) Banking
5 11 (4.66%) Marketing
6 9 (3.81%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.81%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.97%) Games
8 5 (2.12%) Legal
9 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Automotive
10 2 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Billing
11 1 (0.42%) Military
11 1 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (33.90%) Data Engineer
2 46 (19.49%) GCP Engineer
3 40 (16.95%) Senior
4 31 (13.14%) GCP Data Engineer
5 26 (11.02%) Architect
6 24 (10.17%) Lead
7 19 (8.05%) Analyst
8 16 (6.78%) Lead Data Engineer
9 13 (5.51%) Data Architect
9 13 (5.51%) Developer
10 12 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (5.08%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 12 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (5.08%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.66%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 11 (4.66%) Cloud Architect
11 11 (4.66%) Data Scientist
11 11 (4.66%) Principal Data Engineer
11 11 (4.66%) Senior Data Engineer
12 7 (2.97%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.86%) Kafka
2 15 (6.36%) Great Expectations
3 13 (5.51%) Apache Beam
4 12 (5.08%) React
5 10 (4.24%) LangChain
5 10 (4.24%) PyTorch
5 10 (4.24%) REST
6 9 (3.81%) PySpark
7 8 (3.39%) Pandas
7 8 (3.39%) Spring
7 8 (3.39%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.97%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.54%) Node.js
9 6 (2.54%) NumPy
9 6 (2.54%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (2.54%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.12%) Apache Avro
10 5 (2.12%) Quarkus
11 4 (1.69%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.14%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.36%) AI Agents
4 9 (3.81%) Clustering
5 7 (2.97%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.54%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 5 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.27%) 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 (0.42%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.42%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.54%) Windows
2 1 (0.42%) Linux
2 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (48.73%) Analytics
2 87 (36.86%) Data Modelling
3 82 (34.75%) CI/CD
4 72 (30.51%) Data Engineering
5 68 (28.81%) AI
6 65 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
7 63 (26.69%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (25.42%) ETL
8 60 (25.42%) Machine Learning
9 49 (20.76%) DevOps
10 48 (20.34%) Agile
10 48 (20.34%) Infrastructure as Code
11 44 (18.64%) Observability
12 43 (18.22%) Data Governance
13 35 (14.83%) LLM
14 34 (14.41%) Data Science
14 34 (14.41%) Decision-Making
15 33 (13.98%) Data Architecture
16 31 (13.14%) Containerisation
17 29 (12.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (56.78%) SQL
2 118 (50.00%) Python
3 31 (13.14%) Java
4 13 (5.51%) C#
5 11 (4.66%) Go
6 6 (2.54%) PHP
6 6 (2.54%) Scala
7 5 (2.12%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.27%) LookML
9 3 (1.27%) R
10 2 (0.85%) Bash
10 2 (0.85%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.85%) Korn
10 2 (0.85%) Ruby
10 2 (0.85%) VBA
11 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 10 (4.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (1.69%) Degree
4 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
5 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
5 2 (0.85%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.42%) ISEB
6 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (28.81%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.63%) GDPR
3 15 (6.36%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.42%) Basel III
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.42%) ITGC
5 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 33 (13.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (25.85%) Terraform
2 41 (17.37%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.81%) Istio
4 7 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.54%) Argo
6 4 (1.69%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.85%) Ansible
7 2 (0.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 92 (38.98%) Google
2 46 (19.49%) Databricks
3 15 (6.36%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.24%) Oracle
5 8 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.97%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.12%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.12%) Workday
8 3 (1.27%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.27%) Citrix
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
10 1 (0.42%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.42%) Informatica
10 1 (0.42%) MicroStrategy
10 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Talend
10 1 (0.42%) Yardi