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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 353 441
Rank change year-on-year -8 +88 +72
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 199 129 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.50% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.55% 2.68% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 74 88
10th Percentile £325 £311 £421
25th Percentile £425 £337 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £445 £563
Median % change year-on-year +17.98% -20.89% -6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £581 £658
90th Percentile £738 £746 £749
UK median daily rate £505 £445 £575
% change year-on-year +13.43% -22.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £51.00 £55.75 £29.65
25th Percentile £52.31 £56.50 £32.50
Median hourly rate £56.13 £58.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +46.84% -
75th Percentile £62.74 £59.50 £46.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £60.25 £48.55
UK median hourly rate £56.13 £58.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -3.22% +46.84% -

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 5,606 4,819 6,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.12% 18.64% 16.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,901 3,259 4,385
10th Percentile £342 £356 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +0.47% -2.73%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £660
90th Percentile £700 £776 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 156
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £15.74
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.26 £21.64
Median hourly rate £54.75 £40.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -4.71% -25.26%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £61.56
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.25 £77.02
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +43.66% -10.33% -24.01%

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 22 February 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
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 22 February 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 +13 140 £550 +10.00% 61
North of England -48 28 £425 -2.86% 16
North West -12 19 £375 -14.29% 10
Midlands -48 9 £488 +2.63% 3
South West -16 8 £525 - 5
South East -21 8 £525 +5.00% 23
West Midlands -57 8 £456 -1.35% 3
Yorkshire -63 7 £438 -20.45% 3
North East - 2 £475 - 3
East Midlands -28 1 £575 +21.05%
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 29 (14.57%) Apache
2 24 (12.06%) Apache Airflow
2 24 (12.06%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 165 (82.91%) GCP
2 55 (27.64%) Azure
3 53 (26.63%) AWS
3 53 (26.63%) Power Platform
4 26 (13.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 23 (11.56%) Amazon S3
5 23 (11.56%) Snowflake
6 22 (11.06%) dbt
7 19 (9.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (9.05%) GitHub
9 17 (8.54%) Cloud Run
9 17 (8.54%) Collibra
9 17 (8.54%) Vertex AI
10 15 (7.54%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (6.53%) Google Analytics
12 12 (6.03%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (5.53%) Google Gemini
14 10 (5.03%) Cloud Functions
14 10 (5.03%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.01%) FTP
2 3 (1.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.50%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (26.63%) Power BI
2 33 (16.58%) Looker
3 30 (15.08%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (12.56%) Tableau
5 22 (11.06%) Data Lake
6 16 (8.04%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (7.54%) Mixpanel
8 14 (7.04%) OLAP
8 14 (7.04%) OLTP
9 13 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (6.03%) NoSQL
10 12 (6.03%) SQL Server
11 11 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (4.52%) Metadata
13 8 (4.02%) Big Data
14 4 (2.01%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (1.51%) Cloud Spanner
15 3 (1.51%) DB2
15 3 (1.51%) MongoDB
15 3 (1.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (8.54%) Git
1 17 (8.54%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.52%) JIRA
3 8 (4.02%) GitLab
4 4 (2.01%) MLflow
5 2 (1.01%) Spinnaker
5 2 (1.01%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.50%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.50%) Postman
6 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 48 (24.12%) Finance
2 36 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.06%) Banking
5 22 (11.06%) Retail
6 19 (9.55%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.51%) Marketing
7 5 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.51%) Publishing
8 4 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Games
10 2 (1.01%) iGaming
10 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.50%) Automotive
11 1 (0.50%) Back Office
11 1 (0.50%) Billing
11 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (32.16%) Data Engineer
2 43 (21.61%) Analyst
3 35 (17.59%) GCP Engineer
4 34 (17.09%) Senior
5 22 (11.06%) Lead
6 16 (8.04%) Architect
7 14 (7.04%) Data Analyst
7 14 (7.04%) GCP Data Engineer
8 13 (6.53%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (6.53%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (6.03%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 12 (6.03%) Lead Data Engineer
9 12 (6.03%) Principal Data Engineer
10 11 (5.53%) Test Analyst
11 10 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) GCP Architect
12 9 (4.52%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.52%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.02%) Performance Analyst
13 8 (4.02%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (13.57%) Kafka
2 16 (8.04%) Great Expectations
3 13 (6.53%) LangChain
4 12 (6.03%) PyTorch
5 10 (5.03%) React
6 9 (4.52%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.02%) Apache Beam
7 8 (4.02%) Apache NiFi
7 8 (4.02%) Spring
7 8 (4.02%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.52%) NumPy
8 7 (3.52%) Pandas
8 7 (3.52%) TensorFlow
9 6 (3.02%) ADO
9 6 (3.02%) Node.js
9 6 (3.02%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (2.51%) pytest
10 5 (2.51%) REST
11 4 (2.01%) GraphQL
11 4 (2.01%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.52%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.02%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.52%) Clustering
5 6 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.51%) AI Agents
6 5 (2.51%) Life Science
7 4 (2.01%) Genomics
7 4 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.01%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.51%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.01%) Podcast
9 2 (1.01%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.50%) FMCG
10 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.50%) Smart City
10 1 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.53%) Windows
2 1 (0.50%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.71%) Analytics
2 63 (31.66%) Business Intelligence
3 58 (29.15%) CI/CD
4 56 (28.14%) Agile
5 55 (27.64%) AI
6 54 (27.14%) Data Modelling
7 48 (24.12%) ETL
8 45 (22.61%) Data Engineering
9 43 (21.61%) Machine Learning
10 39 (19.60%) Data Governance
10 39 (19.60%) DevOps
11 38 (19.10%) Data Pipeline
12 34 (17.09%) Actionable Insight
12 34 (17.09%) Observability
13 31 (15.58%) Containerisation
14 30 (15.08%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (13.57%) Data Architecture
15 27 (13.57%) Software Engineering
16 26 (13.07%) Data Privacy
16 26 (13.07%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 115 (57.79%) SQL
2 103 (51.76%) Python
3 25 (12.56%) Java
4 15 (7.54%) C#
5 7 (3.52%) Go
6 5 (2.51%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.01%) Bash
7 4 (2.01%) Groovy
7 4 (2.01%) Scala
8 2 (1.01%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.01%) LookML
8 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.01%) R
8 2 (1.01%) Ruby
8 2 (1.01%) VBA
9 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (6.03%) Security Cleared
2 11 (5.53%) Degree
3 6 (3.02%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) ISEB
6 1 (0.50%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (22.11%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.55%) GDPR
3 17 (8.54%) QA
4 11 (5.53%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.01%) MiFID
5 2 (1.01%) NCSC
5 2 (1.01%) PERC
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.50%) Basel III
6 1 (0.50%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 34 (17.09%) Docker
2 3 (1.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 45 (22.61%) Terraform
2 35 (17.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.03%) Istio
4 6 (3.02%) Argo
5 3 (1.51%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.01%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 109 (54.77%) Google
2 29 (14.57%) Databricks
3 16 (8.04%) Microsoft
4 10 (5.03%) Oracle
5 4 (2.01%) SAP
6 3 (1.51%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.51%) Citrix
6 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.51%) Facebook
6 3 (1.51%) Splunk
7 2 (1.01%) Informatica
7 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.01%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.50%) IBM
8 1 (0.50%) Instagram
8 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) TikTok
8 1 (0.50%) Yardi
8 1 (0.50%) YouTube