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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 331 367
Rank change year-on-year -27 +36 +97
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 295 184 163
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.66% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.37% 3.61% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 125 95
10th Percentile £400 £339 £363
25th Percentile £456 £456 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £513 £507
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% +1.08% -15.50%
75th Percentile £632 £583 £664
90th Percentile £700 £681 £751
UK median daily rate £538 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.50% - -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £52.40 £37.05 -
25th Percentile £54.13 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% - -
75th Percentile - £62.06 -
90th Percentile - £68.03 -
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +3.64% - -

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 6,751 5,099 5,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.59% 18.17% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,480 3,495 3,986
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £512 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% -6.91% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £663
90th Percentile £713 £750 £813
UK median daily rate £502 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.42% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 72 84
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.67 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.00 £22.30
Median hourly rate £41.36 £42.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +19.99% -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £39.48 £34.47
% change year-on-year +1.77% +14.55% -34.35%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -39 178 £550 +6.02% 329
North of England -58 53 £463 +1.37% 53
Yorkshire -15 28 £455 +1.11% 12
North West -51 18 £500 +5.26% 37
South West -15 17 £500 -4.76% 3
South East -53 16 £463 -11.81% 41
East of England - 9 £788 - 10
North East -33 8 £463 -13.95% 4
Midlands -40 6 £495 -13.91% 14
West Midlands -45 5 £515 - 14
East Midlands -9 1 £350 -39.13%
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 61 (20.68%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (13.56%) Apache
3 39 (13.22%) Apache Spark
4 10 (3.39%) Confluence
5 4 (1.36%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.68%) PowerExchange
7 1 (0.34%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) OpenEdge
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.37%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (2.03%) NetSuite
3 5 (1.69%) Sage X3
4 3 (1.02%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.34%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 242 (82.03%) GCP
2 72 (24.41%) Snowflake
3 70 (23.73%) AWS
4 67 (22.71%) dbt
5 57 (19.32%) Azure
6 36 (12.20%) Power Platform
7 28 (9.49%) GitHub
8 27 (9.15%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 25 (8.47%) Vertex AI
10 24 (8.14%) Cloud Functions
11 22 (7.46%) Cloud Composer
11 22 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (7.12%) Cloud Run
13 18 (6.10%) Amazon S3
13 18 (6.10%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (6.10%) Serverless
14 14 (4.75%) SaaS
15 12 (4.07%) Fivetran
15 12 (4.07%) Google Analytics
16 11 (3.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.03%) Network Security
2 3 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.68%) DNS
3 2 (0.68%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.34%) Intranet
4 1 (0.34%) MPLS
4 1 (0.34%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) tcpdump
4 1 (0.34%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (30.17%) Data Warehouse
2 57 (19.32%) Looker
3 49 (16.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 37 (12.54%) Metadata
5 35 (11.86%) Power BI
6 28 (9.49%) Data Lake
7 23 (7.80%) Tableau
8 18 (6.10%) Flink
8 18 (6.10%) NoSQL
9 17 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (5.42%) Big Data
11 12 (4.07%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.73%) Apache Iceberg
13 10 (3.39%) Data Vault
13 10 (3.39%) Delta Lake
13 10 (3.39%) Relational Database
14 7 (2.37%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (2.37%) Neo4j
14 7 (2.37%) PowerPivot
14 7 (2.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (12.20%) Git
2 16 (5.42%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.41%) JIRA
4 11 (3.73%) GitLab
5 3 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.02%) Gradle
5 3 (1.02%) Maven
6 1 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.34%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.34%) GoCD
6 1 (0.34%) Postman
6 1 (0.34%) Selenium
6 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 71 (24.07%) Finance
2 62 (21.02%) Social Skills
3 39 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (9.15%) Retail
5 22 (7.46%) Marketing
6 20 (6.78%) Banking
7 14 (4.75%) Public Sector
8 10 (3.39%) Billing
9 8 (2.71%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.03%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.69%) Games
11 5 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.69%) Legal
12 4 (1.36%) Publishing
13 3 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Automotive
14 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (32.20%) Data Engineer
2 52 (17.63%) Senior
3 40 (13.56%) GCP Engineer
4 38 (12.88%) Architect
5 28 (9.49%) Analyst
5 28 (9.49%) Developer
6 26 (8.81%) Lead
6 26 (8.81%) Senior Data Engineer
7 23 (7.80%) GCP Data Engineer
8 18 (6.10%) Data Architect
9 17 (5.76%) GCP Architect
10 11 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (3.73%) Python Data Engineer
10 11 (3.73%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) BigQuery Architect
11 10 (3.39%) Lead Data Engineer
11 10 (3.39%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.05%) Data Scientist
13 8 (2.71%) Applications Developer
13 8 (2.71%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (23.05%) Terraform
2 36 (12.20%) Kafka
3 26 (8.81%) PySpark
4 23 (7.80%) REST
5 12 (4.07%) Apache Beam
6 7 (2.37%) Pandas
6 7 (2.37%) PyTorch
6 7 (2.37%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.03%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.03%) JSON
8 5 (1.69%) Langfuse
8 5 (1.69%) React
8 5 (1.69%) Spring
9 4 (1.36%) OAuth
9 4 (1.36%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.36%) TensorFlow
10 3 (1.02%) Jakarta EE
10 3 (1.02%) JSON-LD
10 3 (1.02%) RESTful
10 3 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.85%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.10%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.75%) Clustering
3 14 (4.75%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.07%) AI Agents
5 11 (3.73%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.05%) CMDB
7 9 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (3.05%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.03%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.69%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.69%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.36%) Cloud Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.36%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.36%) Taxonomies
11 3 (1.02%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.02%) Linux
1 3 (1.02%) Unix
2 2 (0.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (52.88%) Analytics
2 124 (42.03%) CI/CD
3 121 (41.02%) Data Pipeline
4 118 (40.00%) Data Modelling
5 114 (38.64%) Data Engineering
6 104 (35.25%) ETL
7 88 (29.83%) AI
8 66 (22.37%) Agile
8 66 (22.37%) Data Governance
9 62 (21.02%) Machine Learning
10 58 (19.66%) Infrastructure as Code
11 57 (19.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (17.97%) DevOps
13 50 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (15.93%) Decision-Making
14 47 (15.93%) Migration
15 45 (15.25%) Data Transformation
16 42 (14.24%) Data Science
17 41 (13.90%) Data Architecture
18 40 (13.56%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 198 (67.12%) SQL
2 153 (51.86%) Python
3 37 (12.54%) Java
4 20 (6.78%) Go
5 15 (5.08%) Scala
6 12 (4.07%) Bash
7 11 (3.73%) LookML
8 10 (3.39%) Shell Script
9 9 (3.05%) R
10 8 (2.71%) JavaScript
10 8 (2.71%) PHP
11 7 (2.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (2.03%) Google Apps Script
13 3 (1.02%) Cypher
13 3 (1.02%) Gremlin
13 3 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.02%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.68%) Korn
14 2 (0.68%) SOQL
14 2 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (9.49%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (2.71%) DV Cleared
4 5 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (1.69%) Degree
5 4 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.34%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (34.24%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.07%) QA
3 11 (3.73%) GDPR
4 7 (2.37%) SLA
5 6 (2.03%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.34%) Basel III
6 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) ITGC
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (12.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 63 (21.36%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.69%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.36%) Grafana
4 3 (1.02%) Control-M
5 2 (0.68%) Ansible
6 1 (0.34%) Argo
6 1 (0.34%) Istio
6 1 (0.34%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 137 (46.44%) Google
2 50 (16.95%) Databricks
3 31 (10.51%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.08%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.39%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.05%) Splunk
7 8 (2.71%) Oracle
8 7 (2.37%) OpenAI
8 7 (2.37%) Remedy
9 6 (2.03%) Informatica
10 5 (1.69%) New Relic
10 5 (1.69%) PagerDuty
10 5 (1.69%) Sage
11 3 (1.02%) Amplitude
11 3 (1.02%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.02%) IBM
11 3 (1.02%) SAP
12 2 (0.68%) Adobe
12 2 (0.68%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.68%) Talend