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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 355 461
Rank change year-on-year -14 +106 +49
Contract jobs citing BigQuery 178 120 104
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.45% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.37% 2.46% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 67 84
10th Percentile £325 £306 £425
25th Percentile £413 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -13.64% -10.20%
75th Percentile £614 £617 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £485 £550
% change year-on-year +8.25% -11.82% -9.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile £41.48 £55.75 -
25th Percentile £53.06 £56.50 £27.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £59.50 £33.25
90th Percentile £70.63 £60.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £58.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +90.16% -

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 5,285 4,880 5,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.87% 18.36% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,683 3,237 4,279
10th Percentile £325 £351 £356
25th Percentile £413 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £613 £663 £660
90th Percentile £707 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 139
10th Percentile £18.93 £20.82 £18.18
25th Percentile £29.06 £24.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £51.36 £42.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +22.29% -9.05% -16.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.79 £64.45
90th Percentile £84.70 £74.50 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £35.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.20% -24.21% -16.04%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 -7 117 £550 +10.00% 58
North of England -39 36 £444 -6.58% 10
North West -3 26 £431 -1.43% 6
South East -11 8 £525 - 41
South West -12 8 £525 - 4
Yorkshire -47 8 £400 +15.11% 4
North East -9 2 £475 -4.04%
Midlands -47 2 £575 +21.05% 8
West Midlands -39 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £575 - 3
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 27 (15.17%) Apache Airflow
2 21 (11.80%) Apache Spark
3 18 (10.11%) Apache
4 9 (5.06%) Confluence
5 1 (0.56%) CMS
5 1 (0.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 152 (85.39%) GCP
2 50 (28.09%) Azure
3 47 (26.40%) AWS
4 44 (24.72%) Power Platform
5 25 (14.04%) dbt
5 25 (14.04%) GitHub
6 21 (11.80%) Snowflake
7 18 (10.11%) Vertex AI
8 17 (9.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 16 (8.99%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.87%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (7.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 13 (7.30%) Google Analytics
12 11 (6.18%) Collibra
12 11 (6.18%) Google Tag Manager
13 10 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (5.62%) Google Gemini
14 9 (5.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (4.49%) Cloud Run
15 8 (4.49%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.25%) DNS
2 2 (1.12%) FTP
3 1 (0.56%) DSL
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (24.72%) Power BI
2 33 (18.54%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (17.98%) Looker
4 21 (11.80%) Tableau
5 18 (10.11%) Data Lake
6 17 (9.55%) NoSQL
7 16 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
8 13 (7.30%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (5.06%) Big Data
10 9 (5.06%) Mixpanel
10 9 (5.06%) OLAP
10 9 (5.06%) OLTP
11 8 (4.49%) Redis
11 8 (4.49%) Relational Database
12 7 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (3.93%) Metadata
12 7 (3.93%) SQL Server
13 6 (3.37%) MySQL
14 5 (2.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 23 (12.92%) Git
2 22 (12.36%) Jenkins
3 9 (5.06%) JIRA
4 7 (3.93%) GitLab
5 6 (3.37%) MLflow
6 5 (2.81%) Gradle
6 5 (2.81%) Maven
6 5 (2.81%) SonarLint
6 5 (2.81%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 3 (1.69%) Selenium
9 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.12%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.12%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.56%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.56%) GoCD
10 1 (0.56%) Postman
10 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 49 (27.53%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.91%) Finance
3 25 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (11.24%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.99%) Banking
5 16 (8.99%) Retail
6 10 (5.62%) Marketing
7 5 (2.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (2.81%) Publishing
8 4 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.69%) Advertising
9 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.12%) Games
10 2 (1.12%) iGaming
10 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Billing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) Data Engineer
2 41 (23.03%) Analyst
3 33 (18.54%) Senior
4 28 (15.73%) GCP Engineer
5 16 (8.99%) Architect
6 15 (8.43%) Senior Analyst
7 13 (7.30%) Test Analyst
8 12 (6.74%) Data Analyst
9 10 (5.62%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 10 (5.62%) Developer
10 9 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.06%) Senior Test Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) Lead
11 8 (4.49%) Performance Analyst
11 8 (4.49%) Security Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) GCP Architect
12 7 (3.93%) GCP Data Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Principal Data Engineer
12 7 (3.93%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.67%) Kafka
2 12 (6.74%) Spring Boot
3 11 (6.18%) LangChain
4 10 (5.62%) React
5 9 (5.06%) Great Expectations
5 9 (5.06%) Pandas
5 9 (5.06%) PyTorch
6 8 (4.49%) Apache NiFi
6 8 (4.49%) TensorFlow
7 7 (3.93%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.93%) Node.js
7 7 (3.93%) NumPy
7 7 (3.93%) RESTful
7 7 (3.93%) Spring
8 6 (3.37%) GraphQL
9 5 (2.81%) Dropwizard
9 5 (2.81%) J2EE
9 5 (2.81%) Micronaut
9 5 (2.81%) pytest
9 5 (2.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.66%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.49%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.81%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.81%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.25%) Genomics
5 4 (2.25%) Life Science
5 4 (2.25%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.69%) Digital Media
6 3 (1.69%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Clustering
7 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.12%) FMCG
7 2 (1.12%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.30%) Windows
2 3 (1.69%) Android
2 3 (1.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.12%) Linux
4 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (37.08%) Analytics
2 56 (31.46%) AI
3 53 (29.78%) CI/CD
4 52 (29.21%) Agile
4 52 (29.21%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (25.28%) ETL
6 43 (24.16%) Data Modelling
7 40 (22.47%) Machine Learning
8 38 (21.35%) Data Engineering
8 38 (21.35%) Data Pipeline
9 32 (17.98%) DevOps
10 31 (17.42%) Containerisation
11 29 (16.29%) Actionable Insight
11 29 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (14.61%) Data Governance
12 26 (14.61%) Data Science
13 22 (12.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 22 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (12.36%) Test Automation
14 21 (11.80%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 97 (54.49%) SQL
2 82 (46.07%) Python
3 31 (17.42%) Java
4 10 (5.62%) C#
5 8 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.81%) Bash
6 5 (2.81%) Go
6 5 (2.81%) Scala
7 4 (2.25%) Groovy
8 3 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.69%) Objective-C
8 3 (1.69%) Swift
9 2 (1.12%) C++
9 2 (1.12%) LookML
9 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.12%) R
9 2 (1.12%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.56%) HiveQL
10 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (7.30%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.18%) Degree
3 6 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.25%) MCP
6 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.56%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 16 (8.99%) GDPR
2 16 (8.99%) QA
3 11 (6.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.12%) MiFID
4 2 (1.12%) NCSC
4 2 (1.12%) PERC
5 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.56%) Basel III
5 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (18.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (17.98%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.42%) Terraform
3 9 (5.06%) Istio
4 6 (3.37%) Kubeflow
5 5 (2.81%) Argo
6 3 (1.69%) Grafana
7 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.56%) Ansible
8 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 92 (51.69%) Google
2 22 (12.36%) Databricks
3 13 (7.30%) Microsoft
4 12 (6.74%) Oracle
5 5 (2.81%) Gigya
5 5 (2.81%) Splunk
6 4 (2.25%) SAP
7 3 (1.69%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.69%) Facebook
8 2 (1.12%) Informatica
8 2 (1.12%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.56%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.56%) IBM
9 1 (0.56%) Instagram
9 1 (0.56%) PayPal
9 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.56%) TikTok
9 1 (0.56%) YouTube