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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 363 459
Rank change year-on-year +20 +96 +57
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 177 164 144
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.50% 0.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.52% 2.73% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 93 118
10th Percentile £338 £400 £371
25th Percentile £451 £456 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.84% -11.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £675 £724
90th Percentile £706 £751 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £39.08 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - £76.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £77.50
75th Percentile £58.75 - £78.75
90th Percentile £66.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 - £77.50
% change year-on-year - - +236.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 5,032 6,005 7,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.09% 18.23% 16.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,464 4,155 4,991
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £666
90th Percentile £750 £825 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £543
% change year-on-year -6.19% -1.84% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 84 140
10th Percentile £21.11 £17.50 £21.00
25th Percentile £29.21 £21.25 £32.32
Median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.08 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +24.29% -36.36% +22.66%

BigQuery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BigQuery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BigQuery 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +19 127 £513 -6.82% 104
North of England -31 36 £466 -8.09% 18
North West +3 19 £475 -13.64% 10
Yorkshire -30 16 £456 -12.26% 7
South East +19 3 £425 +6.25% 56
Midlands -16 2 £575 +9.52% 6
North East -3 1 £625 +26.26% 1
West Midlands -10 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
BigQuery
UK

BigQuery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 36 (20.34%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (11.30%) Apache Spark
3 16 (9.04%) Apache
4 4 (2.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.13%) Maple
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 158 (89.27%) GCP
2 55 (31.07%) Azure
3 51 (28.81%) AWS
4 38 (21.47%) dbt
5 32 (18.08%) Snowflake
6 29 (16.38%) Power Platform
7 23 (12.99%) GitHub
8 14 (7.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (6.78%) Vertex AI
10 9 (5.08%) Cloud Functions
10 9 (5.08%) Serverless
11 8 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (4.52%) Cloud Composer
12 7 (3.95%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (3.95%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (3.95%) Datadog
12 7 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (3.95%) Google Data Studio
12 7 (3.95%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.13%) DNS
2 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (22.60%) Looker
3 29 (16.38%) Power BI
4 27 (15.25%) Tableau
5 25 (14.12%) Amazon Redshift
6 22 (12.43%) NoSQL
7 17 (9.60%) Data Lake
8 16 (9.04%) Big Data
9 13 (7.34%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (6.78%) Relational Database
11 10 (5.65%) RDBMS
12 9 (5.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (3.95%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (3.95%) Metadata
13 7 (3.95%) Redis
14 6 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (3.39%) DynamoDB
14 6 (3.39%) MySQL
15 5 (2.82%) Hadoop
15 5 (2.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (9.60%) Git
1 17 (9.60%) Jenkins
2 16 (9.04%) JIRA
3 6 (3.39%) ER Studio
3 6 (3.39%) MLflow
4 5 (2.82%) Gradle
4 5 (2.82%) Maven
4 5 (2.82%) SonarLint
4 5 (2.82%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.82%) Zephyr
5 3 (1.69%) ERwin
5 3 (1.69%) Jaeger
5 3 (1.69%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.13%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.13%) GitLab
6 2 (1.13%) Selenium
6 2 (1.13%) SoapUI
6 2 (1.13%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.56%) git-flow
7 1 (0.56%) PowerDesigner
General
1 57 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 30 (16.95%) Finance
3 28 (15.82%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.60%) Marketing
5 11 (6.21%) Public Sector
5 11 (6.21%) Retail
6 8 (4.52%) Banking
7 6 (3.39%) Advertising
8 5 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.82%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.69%) Automotive
9 3 (1.69%) Publishing
10 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Games
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (20.90%) Architect
2 32 (18.08%) Analyst
3 31 (17.51%) Senior
4 29 (16.38%) Data Engineer
5 24 (13.56%) GCP Engineer
6 23 (12.99%) Data Architect
7 19 (10.73%) GCP Architect
8 18 (10.17%) Data Analyst
9 13 (7.34%) GCP Data Architect
9 13 (7.34%) Lead
10 11 (6.21%) Developer
11 8 (4.52%) Java Architect
11 8 (4.52%) Product Manager
12 7 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) GCP Data Engineer
12 7 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) Data Modeller
13 5 (2.82%) QA Engineer
13 5 (2.82%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.60%) Kafka
2 7 (3.95%) Great Expectations
3 6 (3.39%) JWT
3 6 (3.39%) RESTful
3 6 (3.39%) Spring Boot
3 6 (3.39%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.82%) Apache Avro
4 5 (2.82%) Dropwizard
4 5 (2.82%) J2EE
4 5 (2.82%) Micronaut
4 5 (2.82%) Pandas
5 4 (2.26%) .NET
5 4 (2.26%) Apache Beam
5 4 (2.26%) Celery
5 4 (2.26%) GraphQL
5 4 (2.26%) gRPC
5 4 (2.26%) Node.js
5 4 (2.26%) React
6 3 (1.69%) JSON
6 3 (1.69%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.21%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.65%) Virtual Team
4 8 (4.52%) Digital Media
5 6 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (3.39%) Marketing Technology
5 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.82%) N-Tier
7 4 (2.26%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.26%) PDA
8 2 (1.13%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.13%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.95%) Unix
2 5 (2.82%) Linux
3 3 (1.69%) Android
3 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (38.98%) Data Modelling
1 69 (38.98%) ETL
2 67 (37.85%) Analytics
3 60 (33.90%) CI/CD
4 52 (29.38%) Agile
5 44 (24.86%) Business Intelligence
6 43 (24.29%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (22.60%) Data Engineering
8 39 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (20.90%) Data Integration
10 36 (20.34%) Visualisation
11 33 (18.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 31 (17.51%) Data Governance
12 31 (17.51%) Data Science
13 29 (16.38%) Machine Learning
14 27 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
15 26 (14.69%) Actionable Insight
16 23 (12.99%) Data Visualisation
16 23 (12.99%) DevOps
16 23 (12.99%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 112 (63.28%) SQL
2 86 (48.59%) Python
3 38 (21.47%) Java
4 12 (6.78%) Scala
5 9 (5.08%) Bash
5 9 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 8 (4.52%) Shell Script
7 6 (3.39%) Go
7 6 (3.39%) Groovy
8 5 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (2.82%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.69%) LookML
9 3 (1.69%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.69%) Swift
9 3 (1.69%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.13%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.13%) C++
10 2 (1.13%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.56%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (6.21%) Security Cleared
2 8 (4.52%) Degree
3 7 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.39%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.69%) CISSP
6 3 (1.69%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (15.82%) Data Quality
2 17 (9.60%) QA
3 8 (4.52%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.95%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (9.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (17.51%) Terraform
2 22 (12.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.52%) Grafana
4 7 (3.95%) Kubeflow
5 5 (2.82%) Control-M
5 5 (2.82%) Istio
6 3 (1.69%) Kiali
7 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) Ansible
Vendors
1 90 (50.85%) Google
2 15 (8.47%) Oracle
3 14 (7.91%) Databricks
4 12 (6.78%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.95%) Informatica
6 5 (2.82%) Gigya
6 5 (2.82%) Splunk
7 4 (2.26%) Hitachi
8 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.69%) Okta
8 3 (1.69%) SAP
8 3 (1.69%) Talend
8 3 (1.69%) Teradata
8 3 (1.69%) xMatters
9 1 (0.56%) Hotjar
9 1 (0.56%) Instagram
9 1 (0.56%) Optimizely
9 1 (0.56%) TikTok
9 1 (0.56%) WooCommerce
9 1 (0.56%) YouTube